Cloud for multimedia applications and services over heterogeneous networks ensuring QoE

This paper aims to identify open challenges and propose the future steps towards establishing QoE driven media aware clouds. Cloud computing emerges as technology that allows access to resources over the Internet, transparently and independently of the underlying infrastructure. This study identifies the research challenges that future media-aware cloud computing will need to address. This is important in order to support multimedia services and applications exchange with efficiency, seamlessness and with guaranteed perceived quality across heterogeneous networking technologies, user devices and preferences.