Multimedia aware cloud for mobile device computing

摘要

Techniques for configuring and operating a multimedia aware cloud, particularly configured for mobile device computing, are described herein. In some instances, clusters of servers are organized for general computing, graphic computing and data storage. A load balancing server may be configured to: identify multimedia types currently being processed within the multimedia edge cloud; determine desired quality of service levels for each identified multimedia type; evaluate individual abilities of devices communicating with the multimedia edge cloud; and assess bandwidth of each network over which the multimedia edge cloud communicates with a mobile device. With that information, multimedia data may be adapted accordingly, to result in an acceptable quality of service level when delivered to a specific mobile device. In one example of the techniques, graphic computing server clusters may be configured to process workload using a configuration that includes elements of both parallel and serial computing.

主权项

1. A multimedia edge cloud, comprising:
a cluster of general computing servers; a cluster of graphic computing servers; a cluster of storage servers; and a load balancing server, in communication with the cluster of general computing servers, the cluster of graphic computing servers, and the cluster of storage servers, the load balancing server configured to perform load balancing operations, including:
identifying multimedia types currently being processed within the multimedia edge cloud;determining quality of service levels for at least two multimedia types of the identified multimedia types, wherein a quality of service level of a first identified multimedia type is different than a quality of service level of a second identified multimedia type;evaluating individual abilities of devices communicating with the multimedia edge cloud;assessing bandwidth of a network over which the multimedia edge cloud communicates with a mobile device of the devices;adapting multimedia data according to identified multimedia type, quality of service level, evaluated abilities of the mobile device, and assessed bandwidth of the network;providing the adapted multimedia data to the mobile device currently communicating with the multimedia edge cloud;detecting movement of the mobile device initially in wireless communication with the multimedia edge cloud and subsequently in wireless communication with a second multimedia edge cloud, wherein the multimedia edge cloud is configured for communication with the second multimedia edge cloud; andtransferring at least one of: applications, data, and a profile associated with the mobile device from the multimedia edge cloud to the second multimedia edge cloud.