Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems, (Paperback)

1 Introduction

1.1 Overview

1.2 Multimedia Streaming and Cloud Computing

1.3 The Essence of this Book

1.4 Characteristics of the Multimedia Streaming Cloud (MSC)

1.4.1 Quality of Experience (QoE) in the MSC Platform

1.4.2 Robustness of the MSC Platform

1.4.3 Function-as-a-Service and Serverless Computing in the MSC Platform

1.5 A Bird-Eye View of the Multimedia Streaming Cloud (MSC)

Platform

References

2 Demystifying Multimedia StreamingWorkflow

2.1 Overview

2.2 Video Streaming Types

2.3 Video Transcoding

2.3.1 Bit Rate

2.3.2 Resolution

2.3.3 Frame Rate

2.3.4 Codec

2.4 Video Delivery

2.4.1 Packaging

2.4.2 Encryption

2.4.3 Streaming Protocols

2.5 Content Delivery Network (CDN)

2.6 Video Playback

2.7 Summary

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3 Multimedia Cloud: Designing a Special-Purpose Cloud platform for

Interactive Multimedia Streaming

3.1 Overview

3.2 Characterizing the Multimedia Streaming Cloud (MSC) Environment

3.2.1 Stakeholders of MSC

3.2.2 Characteristics of Multimedia Streaming Tasks

3.2.3 Uncertainty

3.3 Architecture of the Multimedia Streaming Cloud (MSC) Platform

3.3.1 Object-as-a-Service (OaaS) Abstraction in the MSC Platform

3.3.2 Enabling Object-as-a-Service (OaaS) Abstraction in the MSC Platform

3.3.3 Enabling Live Object Migration

3.3.4 Single Pane of Glass to Objects in MSC

3.4 Summary

References

4 Applications of Multimedia Clouds

4.1 Overview

4.2 Multimedia Streaming Types

4.2.1 On-Demand Multimedia Streaming

4.2.2 Live Multimedia Streaming

4.2.3 Live-to-VOD Streaming

4.2.4 Differences in Processing Live and VOD Streaming

4.3 Basic Services Offered by MSC

4.3.1 Multimedia Content Transcoding

4.3.2 Video Packaging

4.3.3 Analytical Services of Multimedia Streaming

4.4 Advanced Services Offered by MSC

4.4.1 Smart (AI-based) Multimedia Streaming Services

4.4.2 Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) Streaming

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