Media Ecosystems: A Novel Approach for Content-Awareness in Future Networks

This chapter proposes a novel concept towards the deployment of a networked ‘Media Ecosystem’. The proposed solution is based on a flexible cooperation between providers, operators, and end-users, finally enabling every user first to access the offered multimedia services in various contexts, and second to share and deliver his own audiovisual content dynamically, seamlessly, and transparently to other users. Towards this goal, the proposed concept provides content-awareness to the network environment, networkand user contextawareness to the service environment, and adapted services/content to the end user for his best service experience possible, taking the role of a consumer and/or producer.