Mediadart: a decentralized framework for sharing multimedia content (draft)

This paper provides an overview of MediaDART, a framework for building online services for distributing and sharing digital media. Inspired by the participative model of Web 2.0, MediaDART relies on a scalable and decentralized architecture that can grow with the contribution of users. The architecture is based on an arbitrary number of nodes interconnected through a p2p network implementing a distributed hash table (DHT). The DHT provides resource storage and parallel resource processing for operations of feature extraction, adaptation and composition. MediaDART adopts application-level multicast based on distribution trees for delivery in streaming and implements algorithms to dynamically replicate resources across the network. The framework allows content description through user-defined tags. Tools for personalized content retrieval based on recommendation algorithms and user profiling are included too. This paper also describes two prototype applications and outlines further work.

@InProceedings{AM08a,
  author       = {Agelli, M. and Murru, O.},
  title        = {Mediadart: a decentralized framework for sharing multimedia content (draft)},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings Of The Sixth International Conference On Creating, Connecting And Collaborating Through Computing},
  pages        = {141--146},
  month        = {january},
  year         = {2008},
  editor       = {IEEE Computer Society},
  publisher    = {IEEE Computer Society},
  note         = {idxproject: MediaDART},
  keywords     = {MediaDART media multimedia delivery retrieval p2p distribution adaptation},
  url          = {https://publications.crs4.it/pubdocs/2008/AM08a},
}