Cluster Computing

Springer Cluster Computing

Advances in Multimedia-based Cloud-Computing for Healthcare

The combination of multimedia and cloud for healthcare enhances many technical issues for many media-rich applications such as video streaming, serious games, rehabilitation exercise, health sports, e-healthcare and so forth. Some of the issues are: seamless access of medical media content by heterogeneous devices (e.g., mobile phone, laptop, and IPTV), resources capacity demands (e.g., bandwidth, memory, storage, and processors), medical multimedia’s quality of service/Experience/Context ) requirements, and dynamic resource allocation for processing of media content. The goal of this special issue is to bring forward the recent advancements in multimedia on the cloud for health care.