Intelligent Self-Management Home Multimedia Service System

In this paper, a zero-conf networking approach with open source code to multimedia service is developed and a self-managed multimedia service system is presented. The goal of zero-conf networking technique is to enable the automatic configuration of network devices, automatic service recovery, and automatic service conduct without professional operators involved. Zero-conf networks greatly reduce the inconvenience caused by the deployments of networks and services, ease the service access of users and improve the efficiency of multimedia service networks. Zero-conf networking technique not only benefits the promising digital home applications but also the applications on ad hoc networks. In the implemented multimedia service system, users enjoy the simple and effective operational interface to retrieve the multimedia content from network without professional configuration. Experimental results demonstrate that the implemented system has the advantages of (1) easy user interface (2) low system resource requirement (3) high throughout of multimedia services (4) automatic service discovery. Besides, the performance of the Bonjour is also evaluated in various dimensions of server resource and network bandwidth to explore the critical factors of designing a multimedia service on zero-configuration networks.