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Mobile multimedia : reflecting on dynamic service provision
Date Issued
2010
Date Available
2012-04-17T13:48:05Z
Abstract
Delivering multimedia services to roaming subscribers raises significant challenges for content providers. There are a number of reasons for this; however,the principal difficulties arise from the inherent differences between the nature of mobile computing usage, and that of its static counterpart. The harnessing of appropriate contextual elements pertaining to a mobile subscriber at any given time offers significant opportunities for enhancing and customising service delivery. Dynamic content provision is a case in point. The versatile nature of the mobile subscriber offers opportunities for the delivery of content that is most appropriate to the subscriber's prevailing context, and hence is most likely to be welcomed. To succeed in this endeavour requires an innate understanding of the technologies, the mobile usage paradigm and the application domain in question, such that conflicting demands may be reconciled to the subscriber's benefit. In this paper, multimedia-augmented service provision for mobile subscribers is considered in light of the availability of contextual information. In particular, context-aware pre-caching is advocated as a means of maximising the possibilities for delivering context-aware services to mobile subscribers in scenarios of dynamic contexts.
Sponsorship
Science Foundation Ireland
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
IGI Global
Journal
International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence
Volume
2
Issue
3
Start Page
19
End Page
39
Copyright (Published Version)
Copyright 2008, IGI Global
Subject – LCSH
Mobile computing
Context-aware computing
Multimedia systems
Web versions
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1941-6237
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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