With the deployment of digital broadcasting and broadband IP (Internet protocol) networks in recent years, broadcasting services are expected to change dynamically. However, it is difficult to integrate and exploit the advantages of broadband because of the established systems for broadcasting, which reflect the business and technical requirements of the broadcasting industry. It is essential t...

A research agenda for multimedia networking is presented. The discussion centers around an extended reference model (XRM) that includes networking and multimedia computing devices. The XRM explicitly models the broadband and media processors, the multimedia network and the services and applications network. The interface between these models is given by quality of service and service abstractio...

The effect of structural constriction on molecular mobility is investigated by broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) within three types of molecular arrangements: monomers, oligomers and self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). While disordered monomers exhibit a variety of cooperative and local relaxation processes, the constrained nanodomains of oligomers and highly ordered structure of monolayers...

The integration of wireless local area networks (WLANs) and the high speed wide area network (WAN) using ‘always on’ broadband access that could provide an efficient and cost effective inter-WLAN mobility management requires the current WLAN internetworking protocol enhanced. The Inter Access Point Protocol (IAPP) defines methods for access point coordination over a distribution system to suppo...

Even though broadband high speed Internet service has been always attractive choice to Internet users, its deployment has not been very successful. Until very recently most broadband access providers offer a single quality level and price. We propose a definition of Quality of Service (QoS) in a broadband network, present a measurement of the proposed QoS, and discuss its implementability. Furt...

The communication and networking technologies research subproject includes wireless, networking and broadband wired communication technologies. The wireless technology research focuses on the related advanced technologies of wireless communication and wireless network. In wireless communication part, we shall target at intelligent antenna communication systems, coding, wireless broadband networ...

Currently, broadband networks use a combination of optical and electrical networks to provide broadband access to the customers. The core network is an optical fiber network, but for the access network the operators re-use the existing copper infrastructure. However, this copper section to the customer, called the ’last mile’, introduces a speed bottleneck between the high speed core network an...

Measuring broadband performance on a large scale is important for network diagnostics by providers and users, as well as for public policy. Understanding the various scenarios and users of measuring broadband performance is essential to development of the Large-scale Measurement of Broadband Performance (LMAP) framework, information model, and protocol. This document details two use cases that ...

While bandwidth for Internet access in urban areas is steadily increasing in recent years, some rural areas are still suffering from digital divide. This paper presents a broadband Internet access solution developed by the ADHOCSYS project, which is financed by the European Commission under the FP6 IST strategic objective “Broadband for All”. Aiming at providing reliable Internet access in rura...