Pervasive multiparty delivery framework for ubiquitous multimedia services

Multimedia services are rapidly growing in interest with the increase of available bandwidth on core and mobile technologies. There is a business opportunity for both adaptability and personalization of services centralized in users and their surrounding environment. Context Awareness requires the network to support mechanisms that are able to get information from the user situation as location, activity, presence, velocity, preferences, surrounding noise, etc., and triggering session modification and network control mechanisms. Context awareness provides a new trend in pervasiveness since it allows a full, but unconscious interaction between users, operators and service providers. This paper presents the results, from simulation and demonstrator implementation, of an architecture that enables context-aware and personalized multiparty multimedia content delivery, independently of the underlying access and transport technologies.