Multimedia collaboration architecture for the digital home

Abstract

Home Serverplays an important role to manage all home network device.? and multimedia content services in the digital home. Midtimedia collaboration over wireless devices is inhibited by several factors and reqirire.s and advanced sojhare architecture to support bandwidth reservation. QoS, reliahilih.. availabilitv and securih.. Tl7e decision based on a single input and a single secirrif?, agent to serve all the needs of the home iiser.? is to he enhanced to facilito/e midti-modal inputs with mitltiple integrated User Agents working together to facilitate the new generation of dvnamic wireless 1iser.s at home. Citmulated with /he rechnoloa trend of decreasing display sizes and everincreasing array offeatiires available to the user. it is ve'y drfticirh to displyv all the features on the shrinking displays. Display has to be adaptive and conrert sensitive to adapt to the dvnamic needs of the mer. ln thi.? paper, we piesent oiir 1ece1.111 ejforts for ertending the,/irnctionalities oJHome Server in order tu support wire1e.s.s mitltirnedia collahorarion and mitlti-modal contert-sensitive analvsis. We present a enhanced Home Server architectiire that facilitate.^ the e-risting model to be applied to incorporate wireless services and wirele.?s sen.sor networks for digital home atitomation. The plethora of possible inpiits to the digital home infrastructure and the necessiFfor dvnurnic adaptive contextsensitive ozrtprtt atends the new design architectiire to home servers and home nehvorking device.?. Index Terms collaboration, home server, contextsensitive, vZoip, multimedia, multi-modal, wireless.