OMUS

Project summary

The project will address four major video issues

1. analysis and optimization of audio/video streaming over 802.11n wireless networks
2. realizing (automatic/dynamic/ scaled) QoS-enabled service delivery (admission controlled) to the home (devices) and videoconference terminals
3. low-complexity audio/video quality assessment and real-time monitoring (including audio-video synchronisation (lipsync), and error-resilient encoding)
4. optimization of video (trans)coding, and adaptative personalized, delivery to terminals.

In the home scenario, some particular challenges arise to deliver video services to popular IP-based devices (PCs, laptops, game consoles) rather than just the classical set-top-boxes. We will investigate the integration and automation of (also policy based) quality reservation mechanisms within home networks such as UPnP QoS v3 (just recently standardized) and policy based admission of video-on-demand requests.

Another important part of the project focuses on new home services and optimized delivery: QoS controlled peer-to-peer services (beyond Bittorent), where the home gateway plays a proxy role for the home, remote access scenarios, and content aggregation. This includes P2P paradigms for video streaming and personalization of the content offer within the home.

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