Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems - Tapa dura

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Dr. Amini is a researcher in Distributed and Cloud Computing area since 2003. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the director of High Performance Cloud Computing (HPCC) laboratory where several researchers study various dimensions of cloud-based multimedia streaming. Dr. Amini has received NSF CAREER Award to research and develop the notion of Multimedia Cloud systems.

Dr. Xiangbo Li is a software engineer at Twitch. He is working on video transcoding, packaging and delivery. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA. He is a coauthor of 14 academic articles and 4 U.S. patent applications.

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The second generation of cloud computing systems, known as domain-specific clouds, are emerging based on application-specific processors and serverless computing paradigm. As multimedia streaming services are increasingly growing in popularity and diversity, this book is authored to introduce "multimedia clouds" as a domain-specific cloud that operates in the intersection of cloud computing technologies and digital media streaming. The book concentrates on the architectural aspects of multimedia clouds and describes development of high-level abstractions that will mitigate the burden of programmers, cloud architects, and system administrators. Multimedia clouds not only democratize multimedia streaming and add flexibility to the streaming services, they also help stream providers to offer robust and reliable streaming services in a cost- and energy-efficient manner.