Next Generation IPTV Services and Applications through Multimedia Synchronisation

 

Achieving Excellence Through Research & Innovation

SolanoTech strongly believes that research and innovation plays a very important role for technology companies to be successful. This research will examine a range of synchronisation opportunities and challenges for IPTV. The end result will enable the user to select multiple logically and temporally related media streams from disparate sources and have them presented on an end-device in a tightly synchronised manner. This has particular application in the sporting domain. Scenarios to be examined include multiple video streams, audio substitution, video/RSS/ATOM/Twitter feeds. This research is being undertaken at the PEL (Performance Engineering Laboratory) research group at NUI Galway through the IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology) Enterprise Partnership Scheme with SolanoTech as a research partner.

Performance Engineering Laboratory (PEL) @ NUI Galway

The Performance Engineering Laboratory (PEL) Research Group has a significant presence in UCD and DCU with links to other institutions such as NUI Galway, Athlone Institute of Technology, National College of Ireland, Carlow Institute of Technology and Letterkenny Institute of Technology.

The overall group are active in a number of research areas including the evolution of computer and data networks with a particular focus on multimedia. For further details see http://pel.ucd.ie/.

The PEL group at NUI Galway is led by Dr. Hugh Melvin and Dr. Michael Schukat. Research at NUI Galway centres on the following themes - Internet Multimedia, Wireless Network Performance Issues, Optical Networks, Network Security, and Distributed Synchronised Time & Timing, Energy & Environmental Informatics.

Published Papers

  • Beloqui Yuste L, Melvin H, Enhanced IPTV Services through Time Synchronisation, Symposium on Consumer Electronics, Braunschweig, June 2010
  • Melvin H, O Flaithearta P, Shannon J, Beloqui Yuste L, Time Synchronisation at Application Level: Potential Benefits, Challenges and Solutions, Intl. Telecom Synchronisation Forum (ITSF2009), Rome, November 2009
  • Beloqui Yuste L, Melvin H,  Inter-media synchronisation for IPTV: A case study for VLC,, Digital Technologies, Žilina, November 2009