Multimedia Cloud Computing

Author

Zhu, Wenwu ; Luo, Chong ; Wang, Jianfeng ; Li, Shipeng

Volume

28

Issue

3

fYear

2011

fDate

5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

69

Abstract

This article introduces the principal concepts of multimedia cloud computing and presents a novel framework. We address multimedia cloud computing from multimedia-aware cloud (media cloud) and cloud-aware multimedia (cloud media) perspectives. First, we present a multimedia-aware cloud, which addresses how a cloud can perform distributed multimedia processing and storage and provide quality of service (QoS) provisioning for multimedia services. To achieve a high QoS for multimedia services, we propose a media-edge cloud (MEC) architecture, in which storage, central processing unit (CPU), and graphics processing unit (GPU) clusters are presented at the edge to provide distributed parallel processing and QoS adaptation for various types of devices.

Keywords

cloud computing; computer graphic equipment; coprocessors; multimedia systems; parallel processing; quality of service; central processing unit; cloud media perspective; cloud-aware multimedia perspective; distributed multimedia processing; distributed parallel processing; graphics processing unit; media cloud perspective; media-edge cloud architecture; multimedia cloud computing; multimedia services; multimedia-aware cloud perspective; quality of service; Cloud computing; Multimedia communication; Quality of service;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1053-5888

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MSP.2011.940269

Filename

5754008