QOE ENHANCED SOCIAL LIVE INTERACTIVE STREAMING

J.Ramya, D. Venkata Subramanian, R.Nedunchellian

Abstract: Globalized live streaming services have got subscribers all around the world. The rapid emergence of the mobile devices has made it a natural aspiration of such users to make social interaction with others who have got involved in the same application. The term Social TV implies the integrated support of the television and the computer technology in order to provide a group viewing experience to the users. The social interactions within the users who use such live streaming service needs to be spontaneous. The cloud computing technology has triggered enormous opportunities to facilitate the mobile live streaming of the multimedia contents with an extended support to interact with the users. The quality of service (QOS), storage and sharing are some of the issues that have to be addressed in order to provide a mobile social television in a cloud environment. The cloud technology effectively handles some of these issues by assigning proxies for the mobile users. These proxies (surrogates) for the users, operates on the base of transcoding mechanism. Also the PAAS and IAAS cloud services are keys in providing such an effective interaction based live streaming.

Keywords: Mobile Social TV, Live Streaming, Quality Of Service, Social Interactions, Cloud Computing.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0305141