Highly Secure Adaptive Mobile Multimedia Streaming Service Phillip Kimpo Jr.

, Adelaida Sophia Marie Lucero, Jonas Fabian Roque Group: Team A, UP Diliman Members: Juan dela Cruz, BS Computer Science Pedro Cruz, BS Industrial Engineering Juana Santos, BS Coumputer Science Department of Computer Science PROJECT OVERVIEW

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The Highly Secure Adaptive Mobile Multimedia Streaming Service (HAMSTER) provides highly secure streaming, sharing, and manag ement of video clips taken using a mobile device. This is accomplished by implementing robust security algorithms in devices with limited computing power and memory, without compromising performance or user satisfaction. The advent of MMS-enabled devices has ushered in a multimedia revolution. We are seeing a shift from old services to the new ones that take advantage of the MMS devices power and exibility. While SMS and voice services are still popular, multimedia (specically video) services are quickly growing in importance and use. However, the management of these videos is laden with problems; mobile devices suffer from limited memory, present video sharing services can use improvement, and security is often an afterthought. HAMSTER addresses these problems by providing users with video albums that they can access anytime, anywhere through a mobile device application and a web application. These albums, along with almost every action within the service, are strongly protected by the HAMSTER cryptosystem. TARGET MARKET (7)

The project embodies the integration of Computer Security with Mobile Computing; more specically, HAMSTER demonstrates how to implement robust security algorithms in devices with limited computing power and memory, without compromising performance or user satisfaction. The project is a pioneering endeavor in the Philippines, and arguably in the whole world. While other multimedia le management systems exist for mobile phones, most do not handle video streams. The services that do unfortunately lack strong security mechanisms. HAMSTER is a service that runs independent of the current mobile technology infrastructure, meaning it can be deployed in 3G (and future) networks, as well as the present one.
Additionally, the project holds great commercial potential. Presently, there is an ongoing (albeit gradual) shift from desktop applications to those entirely housed on the World Wide Web (WWW) and mobile devices. HAMSTER arrives at an opportune time in information technology. Through the service, users can experience virtually innite video storage (depending on their subscription plan); OFWs can share their experiences abroad with their families on a regular basis; companies can use the videos on HAMSTER as an advertising medium; young people can keep video diaries, or vlogs (short for videoblogs); and many more. The possibilities are endless for the service.

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