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ABSTRACT
Cloud computing is the next generation computing platform that offers many applications to the users in
seamless way and access the resources across the network without any boundary. Multimedia content
management and processing is among the important aspect of the cloud and it brings the advantages of
processing and delivering of Multimedia in the distributed environments. Cloud users are having interest
to access and share the media within the community by using the devices with limited capability. With
current cloud architecture, restrictive multimedia content access and processing within the cloud
community is not possible. To overcome this problem, we propose the private controlled cloud
architecture for the media which stores, processing and delivering the media content to the authenticated
clouders on the go. Also we captured some of the key advantages of this architecture over the existing
methods.
KEYWORDS
Streaming, Media cloud, mobility, Controlled cloud, clouders
1. INTRODUCTION
With the advent of cloud computing, users will have the flexibility to enjoy media content
anywhere in the world and at anytime. The consumer electronic devices influenced by the cloud
technology and deliver the state-of-art services to the users. The user just needs to purchase the
media content, store it in the cloud and the cloud does the rest. The cloud offers scalable,
dynamic resource allocation to the computing environments and abstracts the underlying
complexity.
Multimedia applications occupy the key space in the cloud and require consistent support from
cloud. Processing multimedia content such as Video, Audio, Image requires complex
hardware/software and intensive power requirements. Media applications such as streaming
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from the cloud will act as an alternative for progressive downloads where the user needs to
maintain/store the media content. With the cloud maintaining the purchased data, the users will
have a burst of applications to play with. One such application is the streaming of media from
the cloud. The cloud takes care of processing/ streaming the media content and the end users
dummy client just renders it without the need of any high-end hardware. With all the
complexities hidden in the private cloud, the users of the cloud namely the clouders, just have
to play with the services that the cloud offers them without any hassles.
In the past, it was difficult for users to get on-demand streaming media services with jitter,
reliability, hardware/software processing capabilities and so on. This can be overcome by using
various cloud computing methodologies and services. The server in the cloud will take care of
the media content processing ranging from mixing, trans-coding and unifying streams from
various clouds and so on. The scope of this paper is to managing, controlling and sharing the
media across the community cloud and hence we call our cloud as the “media cloud” and the
way the users get access to the services from the private cloud is called as “clouding”.
In the current trend, multiple companies have started providing content management systems
over the cloud like Amazon EC2[7], Amazon Simple Storage Service, Google Music[8], Apple
Cloud service, streaming media cloud etc[1][5]. Cloud users can stream the media content and
listen the songs anytime with their computers or smart devices. There are also many new
applications coming up over the cloud and one of the interesting applications is the “cloud
drive” introduced by Amazon for music content usage [6].
The objective of this paper is to provide the platform for control and access the media services
with maximum utilization of resources and less user effort without much knowing the
underlying technology and complexity. The remaining of the paper is organized as follows
Section II briefs the related work carried out in this area. In Section III, we describe the
controlled private cloud system architecture, different media cloud services use cases and the
key advantages. Finally Section IV concludes the paper with scope of future work.
2. RELATED WORK
Cloud computing is the emerging computing platform , many research activities are performed
on different sections including platform security[14][15], cloud models[1][5][11], load
Balancing[18][19], resource management[20][21], and extend cloud to home[12].The various
cloud services ,use cases and key measurement metrics are defined in [1][2][5][10]. Private
cloud is a section of the large Public cloud restricted to only a group of users. These users may
range from big organizations to small family circle or communities. This model enables the
companies have more control over the data and environments.
With these private clouds in place, users will have controlled access to data. This we can call it
as the Controlled cloud. What this potentially means is that a super clouder is having an
unrestricted access to the private cloud can set restrictions for other users in the cloud similar to
IT administrators setting permissions for personal computers.
Media cloud is subsection of cloud paradigm, addresses the cloud infrastructure for various
multimedia services, processing requirement and QoS measurement. The article [13] covers the
cloud framework requirements and efficient computing models for multimedia applications.
Authors in [12] proposed the extension of the media sharing and control from home to cloud
computing. Cloud based multimedia services delivery on real time draws attention from many
researchers. Authors in [22] captured the challenges in delivering multimedia services over IP
network. Compare to the existing cloud framework model, our model proposes the following
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features: 1) the system model for controlled private cloud. 2) Analyse key media cloud services
suitable to this model and advantages.
With this private cloud in shape, the clouder can eliminate the use of thumb drives, cables for
media content access in a mobile player. Clouds also eliminate the need to transfer media
content across devices with the availability of single point of access.
1. Application Layer
2. Native Processing Layer - the media core
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3. Platform layer
3.1.1. Application Layer
The application layer is like an Application Factory containing the different applications bought
by the clouder. It manages and maintains the services provided by the installed application. It
uses underlying native layer for computing and data storage. The Clouder accesses the service
through a set of well defined standard API’s.
Some of the core media services such as media streaming, video sharing and access media
content are hosted and managed in the Private Controlled Cloud.
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The Hardware Abstraction Layer has the platform dependent calls abstracted and mapped with
native processing layer functionalities. The function of the native processing layer is not only
limited to the media services as mentioned above. The layer can be further extended to other
application abstraction logic and we leave it to the reader’s imagination.
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3.3.2. Telematics
Telecommunication is possible using Hands Free Modules in the car systems to connect with
other users in the cloud without the need of a third party service provider. Push to talk over
cellular (PoC) and other fleet management systems also become a possibility with the advent of
private clouds. With each user of a private cloud registered to the cloud, both one to one and
multiple communications become possible through the cloud. This provides controlled access
of data amongst the cloud users.
Moreover, other use cases like multi-line, conferencing, dynamic call applications using any of
the different codec’s becomes a possibility within the cloud infrastructure.
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VOIP/VVOIP
Image Editor RTSP/ HTTP
Media Cloud
DLNA VOD
Player/ Recorder
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Private media
cloud
Cloud gateway
Public cloud
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3.5.7. Controllability
This paper provides insight on how the cars can be connected to the cloud. This would provide
a personalized touch to the cars which we use in our daily lives. With technologies and
software coming up, the cars might be controlled from an individual’s home. This will pave
way for more controlled applications in the field of electronics.
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4. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we have analysed the multimedia content data processing and control problem for
the different multimedia cloud applications within the community. We propose the new model,
controlled private cloud architecture for sharing media content to the clouders and some of the
more exciting clouding multimedia applications possible in the near future. As more and more
clouders can join the cloud, media clouding will provide a range of applications in a controlled
environment. We have also discussed some of the extensive use cases and advantages of the
private cloud paving the way for further research and development. This paper will also aid in
further research and enhancement for the current streaming/ networking protocols in place for
the multimedia contents.
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