Network friendly media security: rationales, solutions, and open issues

Network friendly media security refers to the security technologies that are specifically designed to cope with existing and future multimedia networking infrastructures and technologies so as to ease the deployment and maintain or improve the quality of service performance of multimedia applications. It is especially useful for streaming and mobile multimedia applications where content adaptation is a necessity. In this paper, we analyze the various motivations behind network-friendly security solutions, review some of the most recent approaches, discuss some open issues, and suggest some potential solutions.