A Web Services Framework Supporting Multimedia Streaming

PhD Thesis Proposal Defence


Title: "A Web Services Framework Supporting Multimedia Streaming"

by

Mr. Gibson Lam


ABSTRACT:

The transfer of streaming data is not well supported by current Web services 
standards. To include multimedia streaming support in the Web services domain, 
this thesis presents a multimedia streaming Web services framework for the 
transfer of streaming multimedia content. First, the framework provides a 
simple method for publishing a description of the multimedia content that is 
input to or output from a multimedia Web service. The description is denoted by 
MPEG-7 metadata and published by an extension to WSDL. Second, two new MEPs and 
their SOAP HTTP bindings are created for the exchange of streaming data between 
two SOAP end points. The implementations of these new MEPs use the MIME 
Multipart/Related structure and MTOM packaging when transferring the multimedia 
packets as SOAP messages. In order to reduce the transfer overhead introduced 
by the packaging method, this thesis examines the use of binary XML in 
compressing the SOAP messages as well as for packaging the binary packet data. 
Experiments show that the proposed framework can achieve a performance 
comparable to a simple HTTP multimedia streaming method.


Date:                   Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Time:                   4:00pm - 6:00pm

Venue:                  Room 5565
                         lifts 27/28

Committee Members:      Dr. David Rossiter (Supervisor)
                         Prof. Andrew Horner (Chairperson)
 			Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung
 			Dr. Wilfred Ng


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