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In a modern heterogeneous environment, where users use a variety of devices such as smart phones, PDAs, and laptops, and a variety of network connections such as Wireless LAN, and GPRS to connect to the email system, handling of email and attachment messages and ensuring readability becomes an important management challenge. In some cases it is necessary to transcode the multimedia attachment to a format supported by the recipient device, and appropriate for the connection used, in order to allow the recipients to view the multimedia attachment. This transcoding could be done at the sender mail server, the receiver mail server, or at a proxy point in the middle. In addition the message may be addressed to several recipients in the receiver server, each may have different preferences and characterizations. This paper proposes an efficient scheme for handling email messages with multimedia attachments. We describe an architectural and algorithmic framework that allows service maximization to the end users (depending on their devices and connectivity) with minimum cost to the organizations in terms of storage, transcoding, and communication. We also provide a simulation study indicating that the proposed scheme is feasible and results in very efficient solutions.
This work is part of the STRIMM consortium operates under MAGNET program of the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Trade and Industry (www.strimm.org ).
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Dabran, I., Klein, P., Raz, D. (2004). Efficient Management of Multimedia Attachments. In: Vicente, J., Hutchison, D. (eds) Management of Multimedia Networks and Services. MMNS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3271. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30189-9_10
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