Mobile Cloud based System Architecture for Remote-Resident Multimedia Discovery and Access

Due to realistic barriers (e.g. network heterogeneity, NAT traversal, limited computing/storage, etc), a majority of legacy devices (especially mobile devices) are difficult to discover and access residential services from remote environment. In this paper, we propose a mobile cloud based architecture for enabling remote-resident multimedia service discovery and access. The main considered issues in the paper includes: security, cloud-based storage, cloud-based remote service discovery and control, REST-based lightweight negotiation, etc. Prototype implementation shows availability and efficiency of proposed approaches. Mathematical evaluation proves that proposed solution is capable to reduce transmission cost. The comparison work shows that our proposal could provide better customer services than other existed solutions.