FIRST@PC MediaX: A service-oriented testbed for realistic media networking experiments

Abstract

As an effort to devise and experiment diverse types of mediaoriented service compositions supported by Future Internet infrastructure, this paper introduces an attempt to build a service-oriented testbed named as FIRST@PC (Future Internet Research on Sustainable Testbed based on PC) MediaX (Media eXperiment). Following the SOA (service oriented architecture) paradigm, FIRST@PC MediaX targets a flexible and cost-effective testing environment where media-oriented service compositions are flexibly realized on top of virtualized computing/networking resources. In this paper we will discuss on-going efforts on designing and building this testbed with several PC-based devices for media acquisition, media processing, display (networked tiled display), and networking. Specially, the preliminary implementation of agent-based software toolkit called as OMX (Open Media eXperiment for service composition) is explained and verified by testing a HD-media service scenario that combines multiple HD videos. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2011.