Model for collaborative and adaptive multimedia content delivery in a collaborative m-learning environment

Abstract

Smart mobile devices are already used for everyday communication between people. They have become ubiquitous devices for receiving and sharing important information, but they poses limited capability of storing and processing multimedia content. Considering that mobile devices will always have these mentioned limitations, the proposed solution is to use collaborative, adaptive multimedia content delivery and the cloud computing technology. In order to gain increased perception of quality of m-learning systems, the proposed model delivers three services for selection, transcoding and authoring multimedia content, which should be hosted by SaaS cloud computing model. The proposed model for collaborative and adaptive multimedia content delivery will provide the mobile learners with cloud-based services. These services will facilitate the delivery of the preferred multimedia content across heterogeneous network to various types of mobile devices that learners are using. The advantage of the proposed framework is proved by using a sample mobile application for our case study, which estimates the operation of the service for multimedia content selection and authoring service.