Ubiquitous Multimedia Services in Home-Based Context-Aware Environments

This paper designs an integrated multimedia system which is able to perform intelligent controls on media devices and services in a home-based context-aware environment. In this design, this proposed system functions both of intelligent media content distribution and multimedia convergence mechanisms. Not only local media fils but enormous Internet media streams can be advertised and distributed across multiple HNDs in a home network. Regardless of diverse media sources and formats, people remain the same operational behavior on sharing and playing media content according to UPnP-specific conventions. Real demonstrations with prototypical software implementations manifest that the proposed system is able to offer better user experience for home AV entertainment in residential areas.