UNIVERSALLY: A Context-Aware Architecture for Multimedia Access in Digital Homes

摘要

The objective of this work is to improve the user's experience when using media resources in a digital home. We consider the use and access of media in any context and particularly in a resource-constrained context such as using mobile terminals through a wireless access. We focus our work on the Digital Living Network Alliance architecture since it knows a high penetration in homes but with only a small amount of users due to the complexity of the architecture. We propose UNIVERSALLY that aims to simplify the complexity of digital home architectures and optimize them. We consider limited terminals and users that are not always aware about setting up their devices. Unnecessary network resources and periodic traffic are avoided when no media resource is in use. The context awareness improves the user's experience by adapting media formats and avoiding the traffic of streaming resources that are not understood by the terminal.