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ZTE Communications ›› 2012, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (3): 47-54.

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Mobile Cloud for Personalized Any-Media Services

Bhumip Khasnabish   

  1. Standards Development and Industry Relations, ZTE USA Inc., Morristown, NJ, 07960, USA
  • Received:2011-12-05 Online:2012-09-25 Published:2012-09-25
  • About author:Bhumip Khasnabish (b.khasnabish@ieee.org), PhD, AMCPM, is a senior member of the IEEE and an emeritus distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has initiated cloud and data center activities in the IETF and is co-chair of ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF). He is currently a senior director in the Standards Development and Industry Relations Division, ZTE USA. His research interests include next-generation networking, platform and services that use virtualized computing and communication entities, and tighter cross-layer communications. He has worked in the Verizon/GTE next-generation laboratories, Waltham, MA, and in Bell-Northern Research (BNR) Ltd. in Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Khasnabish has published numerous articles, books, and book chapters and has been awarded several patents in his research areas.

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Abstract: In this paper, we define mobile cloud computing and describe how it can be used for delivering advanced any-media services to both nomadic and mobile users. We focus on service delivery that is localized and personalized and suggest that virtualization and tighter cross-layer communication allows for convergence and seamless transition of services. These are also creating new and never-before seen ways of developing and delivering personalized any-media services. We discuss current paradigms for implementing cloud-based any-media services that generate revenue. Future research topics and requirements for evolving network and service elements are also discussed.

Key words: mobile cloud, virtualization, cross-layer communications, any-media service, personalized services, localized services