NETCOM Research Group

The CONTENT Network of Excellence targets a key area of Information Society Technologies, namely Content Delivery Networks for Home Users, as an integral part of Networked Audio-Visual Systems and Home Platforms.
CONTENT aims to build the European Research Area in this important communication topic by integrating experts into a single group in order to advance the already state-of-the-art and increasing European lead in Content Networks. The overall goal of the CONTENT Network-of-Excellence is to integrate the research efforts of its members to address the technical challenges at different system levels to enable easy-to-install and easy-to-use AV services in and between homes. In particular, the main technical objective will be to boost the potential of European Community Networking by improving Content Distribution infrastructures for the delivery of live (streaming) content and interactive stored content, and by integrating, in an open way, tools and mechanisms that would enable the curation of multimedia assets and their subsequent access for the benefit of the communities of users, producing a set of appropriate services for them, both in the context of the “long tail” or applied to (re-purposed) assets created by traditional broadcasters.