1. END – USER and MARKET RESEARCH PARTNERS
The project will focus on the end-user and the future
user VUB – ETRO
market environment VUB – SMIT
UGent – INTEC-IBCN
* Service providers try to create customer intimacy UGent – MMLab
* The media and telecommunications market is UGent – MICT
increasingly competitive and deregulated KULeuven – CUO
• What business models apply and what is the KULeueven – ICRI
socio-economic viability ? LUC – EDM
• What is the deployment model ?
• How to make it future proof
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CONTENT
On the content side it will be studied which
mechanisms are needed to convert multimedia
MCDP
content to a specific network service platform, Multimedia Content Distributio
and to prevent excessive cost in the production
system of the content provider. The diversity of available networks and ne
platforms and the multitude of available us
Content needs to be enhanced with meta-data data causes new challenges for the content pro
for multiple platforms. The project will look at network service providers.
meta-data frameworks, like i.e. TV-Anytime,
MPEG-7, MPEG-21, RDF, EBU P/Meta, etc. In this context the project will study how th
questions can be answered:
•Which architecture is needed for the mult
distribution system ?
•Which concepts and technologies are ap
•How does the client want to consume the
NETWORKS •Which deployment models are possible f
multimedia content distribution platform ?
A major challenge is to offer such new
services across a variety of networks, both
fixed and mobile
•CATV network, Docsis
•Fixed broadband xDSL
•Mobile GSM, GPRS, UMTS
•W-LAN, Ethernet, WiMax
2.
3. Content creation & repository
Production
Content
Publishing
Generic Generic
content Return
echnolo distribution Channel
y
Content Content
Conversion/Shaping selection
Return channel User
handling profiles
Service PlatformService PlatformService Platform
Specific
Specific Return
Usability Research
Content channel
xDSL UMTS …
