Media Ecosystems: A Novel Approach for Content-Awareness in Future Networks

Harilaos Koumaras (1) , Daniel Negru (2) , Eugen Borcoci (3) , Vaios Koumaras (4) , Kostas Troulos (4) , Yael Lapid (5) , Evangelos Pallis (6) , Mamadou Sidibé (7) , Antonio Pinto (8) , George Gardikis (1) , Georgios Xilouris (1) , Christian Timmerer (9)

1 NCSR - National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"
2 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
3 Computer Science Department [Bucarest]
4 PCN
5 Optibase
6 Technological Educational Institute of Crete
7 Viotech Comunications [Montigny Le Bretonneux]
8 CRACS INESC - Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems
9 ITEC - Information Technology [Klagenfurt]

This chapter proposes a novel concept towards the deployment of a networked 'Media Ecosystem'. The proposed solution is based on a flexible cooperation between providers, operators, and end-users, finally enabling every user first to access the offered multimedia services in various contexts, and second to share and deliver his own audiovisual content dynamically, seamlessly, and transparently to other users. Towards this goal, the proposed concept provides content-awareness to the network environment, network- and user context-awareness to the service environment, and adapted services/content to the end user for his best service experience possible, taking the role of a consumer and/or producer.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Harilaos Koumaras, Daniel Negru, Eugen Borcoci, Vaios Koumaras, Kostas Troulos, et al.. Media Ecosystems: A Novel Approach for Content-Awareness in Future Networks. Springer. The Future Internet Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 6656, 2011, pp 369-380,, Springer, pp.369-380, 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 978-3-642-20898-0. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-20898-0_26⟩. ⟨hal-00998555⟩