Mobile Content Delivery Research Articles

Help Wanted 2010

A revolution in delivery methods for news and information has created an urgent need for journalism educators to define critical skills for success in the profession. A content analysis was conducted over three-month periods in 2008 and 2009 for all employment opportunities posted by the top ten American newspaper and broadcast journalism companies. More than fourteen hundred postings were coded to determine the most desirable skills and attributes for job candidates. Researchers identified important changes from year to year, including an increased emphasis on Web/multimedia skills for broadcast newsrooms and the emergence of social media and mobile content delivery as desired skills.

Decoding of Raptor codes on embedded systems

Raptor codes have been proven very suitable for mobile multimedia content delivery. A systematic Raptor code is employed for the application layer Forward Error Correction (FEC), schemes of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) and standard and the IP Datacast over Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) services. Those services run on mobile devices powered by embedded systems. This paper analyzes the performance, energy profile and resource implication of Raptor decoder on a system on a chip (SoC) platform with a soft-core embedded processor. At the heart of the Raptor decoder for binary erasure channel (BEC) is the decoding of the pre-code. The following three methods are used for that task: Belief Propagation (BP), Gaussian Elimination (GE) and the 3GPP inactivation decoding Gaussian elimination (IDGE). The paper analyzes the error correction capability and the complexity of each algorithm on embedded system. Additionally, the paper investigates how the cache size, matrix memory type and organization affect the algorithms under consideration. Finally, a power and energy dissipation analysis for the operation of the three algorithms under consideration is presented.

Any time, anywhere: strategies for mobile content delivery

Internet usage is going inexorably mobile.Morgan Stanley projects that the population of mobile internet users will overtake desktop internet users by 2014 as both categories exceed 1.6 billion users worldwide. Mobile users are also more engaged with content products than desktop users. For example, statistics show that the 30% of users who access Facebook through mobile devices are twice more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.This increased activity is not limited to everyday consumers: in scholarly markets, research from as early as 2005 shows that scientists value the ability to access and read papers on mobile devices. As publishers rush to join the mobile revolution, they are faced with a growing number of mobile platforms that must be supported; problems with authenticating highvalue institution customers; and making their content readable on small form factor devices. This paper will discuss strategies for addressing these challenges.

Virtualised e-Learning on the IRMOS real-time Cloud

This paper presents the real-time virtualised Cloud infrastructure that was developed in the context of the IRMOS European Project. The paper shows how different concepts, such as real-time scheduling, QoS-aware network protocols, and methodologies for stochastic modelling and run-time provisioning were practically combined to provide strong performance guarantees to soft real-time interactive applications in a virtualised environment. The efficiency of the IRMOS Cloud is demonstrated by two real interactive e-Learning applications, an e-Learning mobile content delivery application and a Virtual World e-Learning application.

Managing the Progressive Publishing Company During Market and Technology Transitions

As new media technologies and platforms emerge and take hold in our society, traditional publishers are wondering: What’s in this new content climate for me? The simple answer is: a lot. The digital world, mobile content delivery mechanisms and the public’s increasing comfort—even preference for—a media menu from which they can pick and choose what they want and how they want to receive it, brings exciting and potentially lucrative opportunities. For publishers who understand how to leverage their brand and create authentic, identifiable value in the eyes of the customer, risk can be reduced and new revenue streams built. Here are four best practices to position your publishing company for growth.

Mobile video delivery with HTTP

Expansion in 3G cellular coverage and the emergence of more powerful mobile devices has increased demand for massively scalable mobile video delivery. The rapid adoption of the third screen as a primary screen for video has highlighted inefficiencies in the mobile delivery ecosystem and scalability issues in the mobile delivery infrastructure. This article provides an overview of the current mobile content delivery ecosystem and discusses the expanding role of HTTP-based mobile video delivery. A new class of HTTP-based mobile delivery protocols seeks to address existing quality and scalability issues by simplifying and standardizing mobile video delivery. This article shows how segment-based delivery has enabled HTTP-based live streaming and dynamic bitrate adaptation while increasing scalability through the use of existing CDN infrastructure.

Mobile Technologies from a Telecom Perspective

A brief overview of mobile technologies that enable mobile communications and mobile content delivery with an eye to what that means for libraries is discussed.

Quality of experience management in mobile content delivery systems

This study contributes towards the relatively new but growing discipline of QoE management in content delivery systems. The study focuses on the development of a QoE-based management framework for the construction of QoE models for different types of multimedia contents delivered onto three typical mobile terminals—a mobile phone, PDA and a laptop. A statistical modelling technique is employed which, correlates QoS parameters with estimates of QoE perceptions. These correlations were found to be dependent on terminals and multimedia content types. The application of the framework and prediction models in QoE management strategies are demonstrated using examples. We find that significant resource savings can be achieved with our approach by contrast to conventional QoS solutions.

Issues in Mobile and Cross-platform Content Delivery Report from the first Semantico Online Publishing Symposium

Issues in Mobile and Cross-platform Content Delivery Report from the first Semantico Online Publishing Symposium

MMS를 이용한 암묵적 모바일 컨텐츠 전송 및 제어 기법

대부분의 이동통신 단말기는 사용자 간에 멀티미디어 메시지를 송수신할 수 있도록 MMS를 지원한다. MMS는 다양한 이동통신 단말기에 적합하게 설계되었고 이미 무선 환경에서 효과적으로 동작하고 있으므로 MMS를 이용한 모바일 컨텐츠 제공 방법은 효율적일 수 있다. 그러나 이동통신 사업자가 사용자에게 모바일 컨텐츠를 제공하기 위해 기존의 MMS를 그대로 이용하는 방법은 몇 가지 단점을 가진다. 본 논문은 이를 해결한 데이터 전송 및 제어 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 새로운 프로토콜 설계 없이 기존 MMS 시스템의 일부 소프트웨어적인 수정만으로 사용자들에게 보다 쉽게 모바일 컨텐츠를 제공할 수 있도록 지원하는 장점을 가진다. 또한 이동통신 사업자는 제안된 기법을 통하여 이미 제공한 모바일 컨텐츠를 관리할 수 있기 때문에 모바일 일간 뉴스, 자동 S/W 업그레이드 서비스, 모바일 광고 등 다양한 부가서비스를 제공할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 시뮬레이션을 통해 MMS를 이용하여 이동통신 사업자 스스로 사용자에게 모바일 컨텐츠를 전송하고 제어할 수 있음을 증명하였다. Almost every mobile phone supports MMS to send and receive multimedia messages among users. MMS is suitable for different types of mobile phones and effectively operates in wireless environments. So the mobile content delivery method using MMS can be efficient. However, there would be some problems if a mobile service provider tries to deliver mobile content to subscribers by using the existing MMS. In this paper, we propose an improved data transmission and control scheme for MMS. Our scheme assists mobile service providers to deliver mobile contents easily by modifying the MMS system software. By using our scheme, mobile service providers are able to manage mobile contents stored in mobile devices. Therefore, they can provide various services such as mobile daily news service, automatic software upgrade service, mobile advertising service, etc. We verify the possibility of the proposed scheme through simulation.

SOA-BASED CONTENT DELIVERY MODEL FOR MOBILE INTERNET NAVIGATION

This paper presents a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based content delivery model to facilitate mobile content delivery. The main contribution of this paper is the design and development of an SOA-equipped content delivery system based on a context-driven, access-controlled, profile-favored, and history-maintained (CAPH) model. We embody the generic model-view-controller (MVC) model to support a dynamic content adaptation technique based on mobile users' contextual environments. Self-adaptable presentation objects and modules are modeled as universal Web services resources, so that their interactions are formalized into Web services operations for high interoperability. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed SOA-based model makes it easy to configure and construct a flexible Web content delivery system on the mobile Internet.

Converged Digital TV Services: The Role of Middleware and Future Directions of Interactive Television

The subject of the future of the interactive Television medium has become a topic of great interest to the academic and industrial communities particularly since in the recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the pace of innovation of convergence of digital TV systems and services. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of what we know as digital TV converged services, to present and categorise the digital Television middleware technologies that contributed to it, and to present possible future trends and directions. A new Television era of converged wireless and mobile content delivery, user-authored content, multimodal interaction, intelligent personalisation, smart space awareness, and 3D content sensations is foreseen, creating ambient and immersive experiences.

Personalised mobile learning content delivery: a learner centric approach

This research proposes a context-aware framework that automatically adapts learning content designed for personal computers for mobile learners. The framework is a web application plug-in that captures access patterns and uses the patterns with trained configurations, learner preferences and device profiles to tailor learning content to the learners' needs. Learners can switch devices without losing learning context, and the framework would use Semantic technology to search and make content learners may eventually need available to them. The framework is in line with the surveys recently conducted on mobile learning and uses only proven technologies to guarantee a successful implementation.

Addressing user expectations in mobile content delivery

Multimedia services like television programs and live streaming of mobile videos can be delivered to mobile terminals via different access technologies. The question is - how do users perceive such...

Broadband 2.0 [Internet Access

The Internet is now firmly part of our everyday life. We perform many common tasks online, such as banking, grocery and gift shopping and purchasing travel or cinema tickets. Plus we get a growing portion of our entertainment from online sources: entertainment and social networking. If we are to continue doing more online, our need for bandwidth will increase. It might be very convenient if future Internet access were wireless. Benchmarking against upcoming wireless standards showed these were biased towards small screen mobile content delivery, i.e. they are not attempting to address the challenge of the Broadband 2.0 requirements for delivery of HD services to the home.

The Content Driven Mobile Internet

The development of future mobile networks will be driven, in large part, by content and web based services. In this paper, we examine several performance, scalability and architectural challenges faced by future mobile web applications and how advanced mobile content delivery techniques can address these challenges. We review existing content delivery using a taxonomy that consists of three categories: network scaling, end system acceleration, and content and protocol optimization. While wireline content delivery focuses on network and server scalability, mobile content delivery will likely benefit most from optimizing radio link usage. We also present our ongoing work in this area, which extends the functionality of edge caching to the terminal, uses user interest correlation information to maintain low terminal power consumption and adds a new dimension to radio resource management.