Active Media Framework for Network Processing Components

Abstract

This paper presents a framework for building active media content and defining network processing for it. It makes two novel contributions. The first introduces network processing as first-class objects like active media content in the sense that components are introduced as the only constituent of our network processing for components as well as active content. It enablesan active media content to be composed of one or more active media or network processing components and to migrate between these components, which may be running on different computers. It also offered several basic operations for network processing, e.g., carrying, forwarding, duplication, and synchronization. The operations can be treated as active media components; they can be dynamically deployed at local or remote computers through GUI-based manipulations. It therefore allows an end-user to easily and rapidly configure network processing in the same way as if he/she had edited the documents. We constructed a prototype implementation of this infrastructure and its applications.