CAELUS: Cloud Architecture for Enabling Mobile Multimedia Services
Abstract
Mobile multimedia services in the cloud represent a complex interplay of challenging issues including computing models, software architecture, scalability, context, mobility, media-centric operations, user and community oriented design. This paper presents ways to efficiently apply the concepts of the emerging cloud computing paradigm in the design, development and delivery of mobile multimedia services. It describes an information systems architecture called CAELUS\label{CAELUS} (Cloud Architecture for Enabling Mobile Multimedia Services) which includes both conceptual models and a concrete software platform. The contributions comprise a design view, platform and abstraction levels that lower the barrier for mobile multimedia services to leverage the clouds.
