Future media and content delivery are hot business topics and we foresee a tremendous growth in content which stresses the current models for storing and networking of delivery retrieval as well as uploading the content with regards to volume, quality, mobility, access irrespective of device and time, user profile and personalization issues. The strategic ambition for the Thematic Action Line Future Media and Content Delivery is to develop and experiment with a powerful and open new ICT infrastructure, capable of delivering rich data-intensive storage services that are user friendly, and can be personalized at competitive costs, across different domains, ensuring quality of service/ experience, to end users in various contexts of use.

Media and Mobile Services Lab (MMSL)

MMSL covers in a comprehensive way, the technical user quality of experience, businesses valuation and translation to innovation in the MMS field. The approach includes evaluation test beds at all levels of the media and mobile services ecosystem: from the smart physical layer to contextual and semantic wireless core networks and to application and business viability level.

Open Innovation Platform for Semantic Media

OpenSEM activity aims to improve user access to networked multimedia using the triple synergy of content analysis, user created metadata and social network analysis. The approach includes Summer Schools, benchmarking activities and dissemination of various types of results through a web portal.

Network Solutions and Service Assurance for Content Delivery

This activity will enable and secure media QoE/QoS of content delivery to end-users. The focus is on the mobile backhaul and fixed access part of the networks. The main topics covered are within the area of network operation, maintenance and next generation access networks.

Media and Mobile Services Lab

• User-generated content and services integrating with Internet of Things(IoT) where the mobile acts as a central device
• Integrating IoT into social and business media

Multimedia Content analysis and Processing

• Context and content-aware processing of content
• Sensor data fusion, multimodal data analysis, visualisation

Smart Content Delivery over heterogeneous networks

• New networking paradigms such as information-centric networking, media clouds, infrastructure as a service, and transaction-oriented communication
• Novel access networks