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The rapid evolution of Internet had a big impact on how digital media is being shared and distributed. Nowadays, copyright violation is a major concern, as security issues still exist in video content traffic. Moreover, a heterogeneous environment often increases the need for retransmission of content, so, the bandwidth consumption is larger and creates congestion at the network level and higher energy consumption. In this paper, we try to tackle these problems and introduce SStream, a solution which can be used to deliver multimedia content in an efficient and secured manner. Our solution is based on a new and innovative encryption scheme, Attribute-Based Encryption. SStream protects the digital content by avoiding piracy and enforcing access control. We evaluated our solution and show that the added security layer does not impact the quality of the content.
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We would also like to mention that the research for this paper was done within the MITSU (next generation MultImedia efficienT, Scalable and robUst Delivery) project financed through the Celtic-Plus - EUREKA Programme. The main objective of MITSU is to study and develop the next generation of multimedia streaming systems to be used over wireless networks [17].
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Olteanu, C., Bucicoiu, M., Popa, M. (2016). SStream: An Infrastructure for Streaming Multimedia Content Efficiently and Securely in a Heterogeneous Environment. In: Borangiu, T., Dragoicea, M., Nóvoa, H. (eds) Exploring Services Science. IESS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32689-4_26
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