Context-aware multimedia services provisioning in future Internet using ontology and rules

Abstract

Future Internet is foreseen to fully handle a wide range of multimedia services allowing their access trough diverse computing devices such as laptops, TVs, PDAs and 3G mobile phones interconnected via different wire-line and wireless networking technologies. Such a diversification in the computational context reinforces the need of personalized and adaptive media services towards better end-user experience. However, building context-aware media systems raises a number of challenges related to (i) context representation, management and provisioning (ii) binding context situations to services and (iii) performing context-driven service and content adaptation; and this in a dynamic, scalable and interoperable way. In this paper, we present a future Internet architecture1 that enables automated situation-driven media services' discovery, composition and delivery. The proposed solution relies on a new Home-Box layer among which the context-awareness and adaptation features are distributed.