Design of a Context Aware Multimedia Management System for Home Environments

Author

Mets, K. ; Nelis, J. ; Verslype, D. ; Leroux, P. ; Haerick, W. ; De Turck, Filip ; Develder, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2009

fDate

15-20 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

54

Abstract

We present the design, implementation and performance analysis of a multimedia management system for home environments. It enables comprehensive access and control of media that is distributed over multiple devices. Based on automatic discovery of the media servers and renderers(i.e. audio or display devices) through UPnP, our application integrates all content in a single view (merging content and/or removing duplicate items). The application is tailored to a mobile platform and features a context aware platform to automatically select the nearest display device. Adaptive content filtering can be applied to restrict the list to content supported by this device. Performance measurements on a proof of concept implementation are presented.

Keywords

merging; multimedia systems; ubiquitous computing; UPnP; adaptive content filtering; comprehensive access; context aware design; distributed multiple devices; home environments; media control; media servers discovery; media servers renderers; merging content; mobile platform features; multimedia management system; removing duplicate items; Adaptive filters; Auditory displays; Automatic control; Context awareness; Environmental management; Filtering; Measurement; Merging; Multimedia systems; Performance analysis; QoS; UPnP; context awareness; home networks; multimedia management; service discovery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Computing, Service Computation, Cognitive, Adaptive, Content, Patterns, 2009. COMPUTATIONWORLD '09. Computation World:

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5166-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3862-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ComputationWorld.2009.111

Filename

5359554