Personalized service composition for ubiquitous multimedia delivery

Digital multimedia has gained popularity due to the huge success of the Internet. Users acquire and disseminate multimedia information using different types of devices and communication channels. On the other hand, personal devices, such as laptops, PDAs and smart phones, are not only capable of producing and rendering multimedia, but also support associated computing and communication tasks. However, there is a lack of support for ensuring automated, continuous access to multimedia in the presence of dynamicity and heterogeneity. Pervasive computing concepts can be effectively employed to provide anytime anywhere multimedia support to users over heterogeneous wireless environments. We present a novel approach to support adaptive services for multimedia delivery in heterogeneous wireless networks. The service adaptation and composition mechanism exploits middleware tools developed for pervasive information communities of software agents. We also demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed scheme through an intuitive scenario, and present our prototype results.