11-09-2014, 02:13 PM
CloudMoV Cloud-based Mobile Social TV
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ABSTRACT
The rapidly increasing power of personal mobile devices is providing much richer contents and social interactions to users on the move. This trend however is throttled by the limited battery lifetime of mobile devices and unstable wireless connectivity, making the highest possible quality of service experienced by mobile users not feasible. The recent cloud computing technology, with its rich resources to compensate for the limitations of mobile devices and connections, can potentially provide an ideal platform to support the desired mobile services. Tough challenges arise on how to effectively exploit cloud resources to facilitate mobile services, especially those with stringent interaction delay requirements. In this paper, we propose the design of a Cloud-based, novel Mobile social TV system.
EXISTING SYSTEM
A number of mobile TV systems have sprung up in recent years, driven by both hardware and software advances in mobile devices. Some early systems bring the living room experience to small screens on the move. But they focus more on barrier clearance in order to realize the convergence of the television network and the mobile network, than exploring the demand of “social” interactions among mobile users
PROPOSED SYSTEM
We propose the design of a Cloud-based, novel Mobile social TV system. The system effectively utilizes both PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-asa- Service) cloud services to offer the living-room experience of video watching to a group of disparate mobile users who can interact socially while sharing the video. To guarantee good streaming quality as experienced by the mobile users with time varying wireless connectivity, we employ a surrogate for each user in the IaaS cloud for video downloading and social exchanges on behalf of the user.
Transcoder
It resides in each surrogate, and is responsible for dynamically deciding how to encode the video stream from the video source in the appropriate format, dimension, and bit rate. Before delivery to the user, the video stream is further encapsulated into a proper transport stream. Each video is exported as MPEG-2 transport streams, which is the de facto standard nowadays to deliver digital video and audio streams over lossy medium.
Social Cloud
Social network is a dynamic virtual organization with inherent trust relationships between friends. This dynamic virtual organization can be created since these social networks reflect real world relationships. It allows users to interact, form connections and share information with one another. This trust can be used as a foundation for information, hardware and services sharing in a Social Cloud
Gateway
The gateway provides authentication services for users to log in to the CloudMoV system, and stores users’ credentials in a permanent table of a MySQL database it has installed. It also stores information of the pool of currently available VMs in the IaaS cloud in another in-memory table. After a user successfully logs in to the system, a VM surrogate will be assigned from the pool to the user. The in-memory table is used to guarantee small query latencies, since the VM pool is updated frequently as the gateway reserves and destroys VM instances according to the current workload. In addition, the gateway also stores each user’s friend list in a plain text file (in XML formats), which is immediately uploaded to the surrogate after it is assigned to the user.
Transcoding mechanism
It resides in each surrogate, and is responsible for dynamically deciding how to encode the video stream from the video source in the appropriate format, dimension, and bit rate. Before delivery to the user, the video stream is further encapsulated into a proper transport stream. Each video is exported as MPEG-2 transport streams, which is the de facto standard nowadays to deliver digital video and audio streams over lossy medium