Development and Evaluation Mobile Multimedia Cloud Application?

Multimedia on phones is a rapidly growing segment, and almost every mobile user would have a perceived need for a multimedia-based entertainment application. The size of the worldwide mobile video market was comprised of 429 million mobile video users in 2011, projected to grow exponentially to 2.4 billion users by 2016. Smartphones and tablet sales will contribute 440 million new mobile video users during the forecast period. [1]. However, in spite of advances in the capabilities of mobile devices, a gap will continue to exist, and may even widen, with the requirements of rich multimedia applications. Mobile cloud computing can help bridge this gap, providing mobile applications the capabilities of cloud servers and storage together with the benefits of mobile devices and mobile connectivity. Proposed model demonstrates the applicability of emerging cloud computing concepts for mobile multimedia. This model uses cloud for storage and content management of multimedia content (e.g. video data) across various devices like desktop and mobile devices. This paper also compares proposed model with other types of mobile multimedia applications which are not using cloud resources.