On optimizing scalable video delivery over media aware mobile clouds

The sovereignty of cloud-deployed media applications and services is improbable to be disrupted in the foreseeable future. This paper aims to provide an overview of the most essential technologies utilized by this constantly evolving cloud ecosystem, identify the design principles of a media-aware cloud and present an architectural position based on the research conclusions. An end-to-end quality-aware optimization framework is evaluated, where path selection mechanisms are exploited in conjunction with media optimization in order to support cloud based multimedia delivery in a quality-aware manner. This position intends to be simplistic yet outright enough to be employed for mobile cloud deployment in the upcoming fifth generation network era.