MediaBroker: an architecture for pervasive computing

MediaBroker is a distributed framework designed to support pervasive computing applications. Specifically, the architecture consists of a transport engine and peripheral clients and addresses issues in scalability, data sharing, data transformation and platform heterogeneity. Key features of MediaBroker are a type-aware data transport that is capable of dynamically transforming data en route from source to sinks; an extensible system for describing types of streaming data; and the interaction between the transformation engine and the type system. Details of the MediaBroker architecture and implementation are presented in this paper. Through experimental study, we show reasonable performance for selected streaming media-intensive applications. For example, relative to baseline TCP performance, MediaBroker incurs under 11% latency overhead and achieves roughly 80% of the TCP throughput when streaming items larger than 100 KB across our infrastructure.

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