Start Date:
July of 2010

This 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Specific Targeted Research Projects has the main goal of evolving the mobile Internet architecture for efficient video traffic support. In the near future, it is expected that video traffic will represent the majority of traffic in the near future, requiring that the underlying infrastructure supports the requirements of this kind of traffic, as well as featuring enhancements on all layers of the protocol stack.

MEDIEVAL will set its stand on mobile heterogeneous networks, which represents a challenging communication environment and the one that will be most affected by video as a widespread communication medium. In MEDIEVAL we will develop the technologies that will provide low cost access to video entertainment anytime, anywhere, boosting social networks with multimedia communications. It is the project's vision, mobile video is as simple and cheap to use as current voice and SMS communications.
Key Concepts
 
 

• Coordination between video services and the underlying network services through a new MEDIEVAL interface.
• Exploitation of wireless access technologies in coordination with the video services to optimized video performance under these environments.
• Adaptation of next generation mobile networks to video services through a comprehensive mobility architecture
• Optimization of the video transport itself by means of increased QoE, through the use of network support of caching and P2P video streaming.
• Introduction of multicast mechanisms at different layers to better support broadcast and multicast video services

 
For more information please contact Prof. Dr. Rui Aguiar.