WhatNOW: A System to Enable Videostream in a Mobile Network

Abstract

Stream of real-time video among mobile phones is expected to play a huge role in near future software. The diversity of industries that may benefit of it and its usefulness are most likely the main reason for that. The purpose of this paper is to show a new concept of content sharing within social networks, where the real time video is streamed among other mobile devices. Typically, the middle is a 3G/UMTS compliant network, with an Internet server acting as a proxy and providing the whole support for the system. The mobile devices interact with this proxy in order to the video to be routed. The approach for this paper is to show how the system will work, its architecture, technical issues like codec and data compression, user interface design and main flow, that includes recording and sharing of online and on demand multimedia content.

Event-Based Mobile Social Networks: Services, Technologies, and Applications

“…popular social network sites, such as Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc.) and developed applications such as MoViE, MobiSNA and WhatNow [80]. However, these systems currently don't fully exploit the services.…”