Scalability Measurement of a Proxy based Personalized Multimedia Repurposing System

Multimedia content repurposing is a new challenge in distributing multimedia systems due to the heterogeneity of client devices and their network connections. This paper addresses the problem of heterogeneity and proposes a solution that uses a series of repurposing proxies in a chain fashion. In order to find the best scalable repurposing service among those proxies, two modified versions of the shortest path selection algorithms have been implemented. The scalability of the services has been measured in terms of user satisfaction. An implemented Java-based prototype as well as computer simulation results shows the viability of our approach

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