Middleware for Community Coordinated Multimedia

Abstract

Community Coordinated Multimedia (CCM) envisions a novel paradigm that enables the user to consume multiple media through requesting multimedia-intensive Web services via diverse display devices, converged networks, and heterogeneous platforms within a virtual, open and collaborative community. These trends yield new requirements for CCM middleware. This chapter aims to systematically and extensively describe middleware challenges and opportunities to realize the CCM paradigm by reviewing the activities of middleware with respect to four viewpoints, namely mobility-aware, multimedia-driven, service-oriented, and community-coordinated.