The Jini architecture for network-centric computing
Communications of the ACM
Supporting Adaptive Multimedia Applications through Open Bindings
CDS '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems
Dynamic Configuration of Resource-Aware Services
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Dynamic resource management and automatic configuration of distributed component systems
COOTS'01 Proceedings of the 6th conference on USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems - Volume 6
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Ubiquitous media aims to provide media services anytime and anywhere. To realize it, one challenge is how to provide customized and dynamic services to a variety of computing devices with different capabilities. This paper presents an architecture, which enables customized delivery of multimedia services. A concept of "capability" is used to abstract the adaptation-related attributes of computing devices. Capability concerns both the static and dynamic attributes of the computing devices, such as display resolution and remaining battery power. These two classes of attributes can be combined to provide complementary information for customized and dynamic media delivery. As a proof of concept, we have developed a prototype implementation, which is characterized by Web services-based architecture, and capability-aware feature. Our initial experiments show the effectiveness of this architecture.