Multimedia support from cloud computing: A review

In few years, more than 90% of all network traffic will be comprising of multimedia data due to increased usage of mobile devices such as tablets, laptops and mobiles etc. Now the most of the data generated, shared, stored and processed through various sources is multimedia such as data generated by sensor networks, medical records, data from satellite etc. are some examples of such sources. A rich multimedia data requires huge storage and computability capacities. That is not possible because of lower memory, lower computing power and small battery life of mobile devices. This will result into a bad multimedia experience for the mobile users. That's why need of multimedia support from cloud computing has comes into demand. With this support mobile devices can perform heavy multimedia computation and communication even without the need of large storage and computing powers. In this paper, we have taken a review of existing cloud computing environment, its service and deployment models. Along with a review of multimedia cloud computing, its needs and challenges. In last, we have reviewed how an existing general purpose cloud environment can effectively support multimedia computations and communications.