This book presents the fundamentals of cloud and media infrastructure, novel technologies that integrate digital media with cloud computing, and real-world applications that exemplify the potential of cloud computing for next-generation digital media. It brings together technologies for media/data communication, elastic media/data storage, security, authentication, cross-network media/data fusion, interdevice media interaction/reaction, data centers, PaaS, SaaS, and more. The book will help readers understand the techniques and applications of cloud computing, the interaction/reaction of mobile devices, and digital media/data processing and communication.

Kuan-Ching Li, Qing Li, Timothy K. Shih

Mobile Multimedia Cloud Computing: An Overview. Resource Optimization for Multimedia Cloud Computing. Supporting Practices in Professional Communities Using Mobile Cloud Services. GPU and Cloud Computing for Two Paradigms of Music Information Retrieval. Video Transcode Scheduling for MPEG-DASH in Cloud Environments. Cloud-Based Intelligent Tutoring Mechanism for Pervasive Learning.Multiple-Query Processing and Optimization Techniques for Multi-Tenant Databases. Large-Scale Correlation-Based Semantic Classification Using MapReduce. Efficient Join Query Processing on the Cloud. Development of a Framework for the Desktop Grid Federation of Game Tree Search Applications. Research on the Scene 3D Reconstruction from Internet Photo Collections Based on Cloud Computing. Pearly User Interfaces for Cloud Computing: First Experience in Health-Care IT. Standardized Multimedia Data in Health-Care Applications. Digital Rights Management in the Cloud. Cloud Computing and Adult Literacy: How Cloud Computing Can Sustain the Promise of Adult Learning. Index.