Reality Services Research Articles

Selective Resource Offloading in Cloud-Edge Elastic Optical Networks

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), IoT mobile devices host more computation-intensive and real-time applications, such as face recognition, online gaming, and augmented reality/virtual reality services. This paper mainly addresses the problems of the selective resource offloading in order to achieve resource optimization in cloud-edge elastic optical networks (CE-EONs). We firstly propose two integer linear program (ILP) models to minimize both the end-to-end (E2E) latency and the total number of frequency slots by considering the latency sensitivity, followed by introducing three corresponding heuristic approaches, namely resource priority offloading (RPO), distance priority offloading (DPO), and coordinated distance and resource offloading (DRO). For comparison, we also introduced an existing resource offloading (ERO) approach in CE-EONs. On one hand, simulation results show that the DRO approach greatly approximated to the optimized solutions of ILP models in the static traffic scenario. Meanwhile, the DRO approach achieves the better performance in terms of average E2E latency. On the other hand, the proposed DRO approach can significantly reduce the blocking probability owing to much improved spectrum efficiency and achieves a graceful tradeoff between the computing resources and E2E latency compared to the RPO, DPO, and ERO approaches in the dynamic traffic scenario.

Tackling virtual production

This paper is an attempt to contribute to the discussion on multinational enterprises shifting certain economic activities to special purpose entities abroad for reasons of tax optimisation. The authors argue that a transfer of production to a special purpose entity abroad permitted by tax law is not necessarily a transfer of production in an economic sense. Special purpose vehicles can be involved in production processes from a legal point of view without producing any goods or services in reality – a phenomenon the authors call ‘virtual production’. Thus, simply mirroring the legal transactions in national accounts may result in a distorted representation of economic reality. Unfortunately, the System of National Accounts in its current version as well as other existing guidelines lack clear guidance in order to distinguish virtual from real economic activity in the context of special purpose vehicles. This paper offers a proposal for improvement of existing definitions and concepts.

A mobile multimedia content handoff scheme based on proxy mobile IPv6 for VR/AR

This paper proposes a novel mobile multimedia content handoff scheme for a content delivery network (CDN) based on proxy mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6). PMIPv6 is a network-based mobility management protocol. In PMIPv6, when a mobile node (MN) that is currently receiving content from one domain moves into neighboring domain, it can maintain its existing session seamlessly. However, when the MN moves continuously, the content delivery path may become long, potentially leading to heavy network traffic and degradation of the quality of service (QoS) through delay and jitter. The proposed handoff scheme (PMIPv6-CDN Handoff) selects an optimal content server as a mobile node (MN) moves in a handoff and receives content. This scheme offers several benefits such as routing path optimization and a reduced transmission delay. Therefore, it can be applied to virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) services, which are sensitive to transmission delay.

A Study on Stable Service of Marker based Augmented Reality Using 3D Location Measurement of Beacons

A Study on Stable Service of Marker based Augmented Reality Using 3D Location Measurement of Beacons

Dailiness According to Demand

Thomas Demand's Dailies (2008–) are visual aperçus, yet often they trigger a sense of déjà vu, and this paradoxical combination of the fresh and the familiar is typical of Demand. “The images that come to me,” he tells Alexander Kluge in an extraordinary conversation, “some are very banal, others greatly laden with meaning, but actually they are all things I know.” And we know them too, or think we do. In part, this is because Demand builds his images from prior representations, such as news photos, postcards, and iPhone snaps. Yet this doubling is not performed in the interest of a postmodernist critique of reality as a construct. Demand treats the photographic mediation of the world as a given, and he assumes that we do as well; his project is less to demystify the real than to remodel and reimage it. His art is indicative of a cultural shift in the perceived relation between representations and referents, one in which the old opposition between the indexical and the constructed becomes less relevant. In a world in which almost every image is both photographic and contrived, the indexical aspect of the medium does not automatically trump its other aspects: We no longer assume the truth-value of the photographic image, and we are alert to its fictive capabilities. In this condition a new realism becomes necessary, one that uses artifice to make reality real again—that is, sensible, credible, or simply effective as such. Demand is a key figure in this new art of artifice in the service of reality.

Strategic Framework for Web2 Mobile Marketing

The purpose of this study is to develop and present a strategic framework for mobile Internet marketing in the Web2 environment. The Web2 mobile Internet marketing is characterized by services, such as augmented reality and social network services. Considering the changes in the effects and types of advertisements in the mobile Internet, few studies of mobile advertisements have been conducted thus far in the Web2 environment, including the cloud computing environment. Accordingly, this research aims to identify the relationships between importance and satisfaction and to uncover the characteristics of mobile advertisements through smart phones using the IPA (Importance-performance Analysis) methodology in the Web2 environment. To induce the minimum required characteristics of a mobile advertisement in terms of the importance and satisfaction of IPA, Kano?s model is applied to this analysis. The study also probes the relationships between the overall satisfaction and factors of each dimension of IPA through a regression analysis. As a result, this study presents four types of Web2 mobile Internet marketing strategies. It was also confirmed that the maintenance reinforcement factors of the IPA dimension affect the degree of overall satisfaction. This study has implications for businesses and researchers preparing Web2 mobile services and marketing.

Services Consumption and Garbage Continuum- Developing Research Context

Normally, we may think service does not create any garbage.But in reality service can create enormous amount of garbage. In the service economy the service consumption and garbage continuum is an interesting field of study. This can be conducted at local, national and international level. This paper has been forwarding a broad research-able ideas to researcher for further queries and an indicative article on possible linkages of service business and environmental issues.

Real-Time Human Pose Estimation: A Case Study in Algorithm Design for Smart Camera Networks

Monitoring human activities finds novel applications in smart environment settings. Examples include immersive multimedia and virtual reality, smart buildings and occupancy-based services, assisted living and patient monitoring, and interactive classrooms and teleconferencing. A network of cameras can enable detection and interpretation of human events by utilizing multiple views and collaborative processing. Distributed processing of acquired videos at the source camera facilitates operation of scalable vision networks by avoiding transfer of raw images. This allows for efficient collaboration between the cameras under the communication and latency constraints, as well as being motivated by aiming to preserve the privacy of the network users (no image transfer out of the camera) while offering services in applications such as assisted living or virtual placement. In this paper, collaborative processing and data fusion techniques in a multicamera setting are examined in the context of human pose estimation. Multiple mechanisms for information fusion across the space (multiple views), time, and different feature levels are introduced to meet system constraints and are described through examples.

A Multithreaded Distributed Telerobotic Framework

A reliable real-time client-server telerobotic system that uses a distributed component framework to promote software reusability, ease of extensibility, debugging, and data encapsulation is proposed. .NET remoting is used for automatic handling of the network resources and data transfer while isolating the components from network protocol issues. A client-server transfer of live stereo video provides the operator three-dimensional (3-D) views of the slave scene with augmented reality (AR) framework and services. Overall distributed framework and design independence improves the portability and modularity of the proposed telerobotic system. A multithreaded execution is proposed for streaming of force, command, and for the transfer of live stereo video data. The proposed framework provides a useful integrated software and hardware environment to enhance man-machine interactions using stereo visualization and AR in real-time telerobotic systems