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EPSRC Reference:	GR/M84077/01
Title:	HYSTREAM - APPLYING OPEN HYPERMEDIA TO MULTIMEDIA STREAMS
Principal Investigator:	De Roure, Professor D
Other Investigators:	Moreau, Professor L Hall, Professor Dame W
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Project Partners:	BT
Department:	Electronics and Computer Science
Organisation:	University of Southampton
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 February 2000	Ends:	31 January 2002	Value (£):	105,210
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Multimedia Networks & Distributed Systems
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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This project addresses the application of open hypermedia to temporal media streams, which are set to become a significant part of the multimedia information space as exemplified by internet telephony, radio and TV and interactive TV. Open hypermedia is a powerful approach to navigational hypermedia: it views hypermedia link resolution as a network service used by clients to assist users in finding the appropiate information in the distributed multimedia information space. The model has been applied successfully to multimedia documents including stored temporal media, but there has been little work with streams. This project addresses the link storage, transmission and resolution architecture for both point-to point streams and multicast and it explores the quality of service issues associated with branching media. By exercising prototype systems using emerging internet standards we will gain experience for immediate input to the internet and web standards processes; we will gain experience for immediate input to the internet and Web standards processes; we will also innovate new protocols for hypermedia support within the Open Hypermedia Protocol family. We also take a longer term view by considering connectionless networks, addressing navigation in the context of a 'pervasive computing' environment. This is generic research towards a new open hypermedia model and we aim to provide formal models which will support further research.
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