Digital Media

The Digital Media Focus Area looks at how to evolve communication networks to provide seamless ubiquitous access and dynamically adapt to provide end users with customized services. It addresses the infrastructure required to deliver the services and applications of interest to users while supporting demands for ever increased convergence and user convenience. The research themes include:

Intelligent Networks

The Intelligent Networks research theme looks at the continuing evolution of the broadband network to better support new and future services and higher and more flexible bandwidth requirements. That evolution includes improving the efficiency, capacity, and fault tolerance of the network as well as extending the intelligence which has typically been in the peripherals of the network into the network itself. The network is no longer just a communications medium; it is evolving to include content, computing, and storage. The areas of research in this theme include:

Personalized Services

The Personalized Services research theme looks at how to deliver personalized, dynamic, and adaptive services to the end user. Rather than the simple delivery of relatively static content from a single information source to a user at a fixed location, services now need to support dynamically merging content from multiple sources in real-time such that multiple users can simultaneously view and manipulate that content on different devices with different display and computing capabilities. Furthermore, these users may be mobile, switching devices and/or locations during a session. The areas of research in this theme include:

Wireless Systems

The Wireless Systems research theme looks at various aspects of wireless communications as an important access medium for users of Digital Media. Great strides have been made in the capacity and cost effectiveness of wireless systems but there are still many opportunities for significant gains in throughput, robustness, diversity, multi-user support, mobility, etc. Areas of research in this theme include: