Mobile Multi-source High Quality Multimedia Delivery Scheme

Increasing amount of multimedia content is being delivered over heterogeneous networks to diverse user types, holding various devices, many of them mobile. Mobile devices such as Smartphone’s and tablets have already become both consumers and sources of multimedia content, but the delivery quality varies widely, especially due to their users' mobility. In order to support increasing the quality of the multimedia content delivered to a growing number of mobile users, this paper introduces a mobile multi-source high quality multimedia delivery scheme (M3QD). M3QD supports efficient high quality multimedia content delivery to mobile users from multiple sources. Both simulations and prototyping-based perceptual tests show how increased user perceived video quality and improved mobility support is achieved when using M3QD in comparison with the case when a single source classic approach is employed. M3QD can be used in various scenarios involving multimedia content distribution between mobile users in leisure parks or around tourist attractions, content exchange between vehicles on urban roads and even information delivery in industrial applications, where content has to be shared between large number or diverse mobile users.