• Project Data

    European FP7 Project
    The CONVERGENCE project is funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme
    Collaborative Project
    Grant agreement n. FP7-257123



    Coordinator
    CNIT (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni)
    Contact:
    Prof. Nicola Blefari Melazzi
    blefari@uniroma2.it

    Community contribution to the project
    2,989,140 Euro

    Project start date
    1 June 2010

    Project end date
    28 February 2013

Dissemination

Journals

  1. “MPEG-M: Multimedia Service Platform Technologies”

    Panos Kudumakis, Xin Wang, Sergio Martone, Mark Sandler

    Article for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, November 2011

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Conferences and Proceedings

  1. “CONVERGENCE: extending the media concept to include representations of Real World Objects”,

    N. Blefari Melazzi20th Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications.

    The Internet of Things. Pula, Sardinia, Italy, September 2-4, 2009.View & Download

  2. “Self-configuring and IP-enabled Low Rate Wireless PANs based on 6LoWPAN and IEEE 802.15.4”,

    F. Lo Piccolo, D. Battaglino, L. Bracciale, A. Bragagnini, M. Santina Turolla, N. Blefari Melazzi

    IEEE Infocom 2010Demo Session, San Diego, California, March 15-19, 2010.View & Download

  3. “Towards fully self-configured and IP-enabled IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPANs”,

    F. Lo Piccolo, D. Battaglino, L. Bracciale, A. Bragagnini, M. Santina Turolla, N. Blefari Melazzi

    9th IFIP/IEEE Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net’2010), June 23-25, Juan-les-Pins, France.View & Download

  4. “Network-layer solutions for a content-centric Internet“,

    A.Detti, N. Blefari-Melazzi

    21st International Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications(ITWDC), Ponza, Italy, September 6-8, 2010.View & Download

  5. “A Content-Centric, Publish-Subscribe Architecture delivering Mobile Context-Aware Health Services“,

    P. K. Gkonis, C. Z. Patrikakis, A. G. Anadiotis, D. I. Kaklamani, M. T. Andrade, A. Detti, G. Tropea, N. Blefari Melazzi

    Future Network and Mobile Summit 2011, Warsaw, Poland, 15-17 June 2011.View & Download

  6. “On the Potentials of Object Group Localization in the Internet of Things“,

    L. Galluccio, G. Morabito, S. Palazzo

    IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2011, Lucca, Italy, June 20-24, 2011.

  7. “CONET: A Content Centric Inter-Networking Architecture“,

    A. Detti, N. Blefari-Melazzi, S. Salsano, M. Pomposini

    ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2011), August 19, 2011, TORONTO, ON, CANADA. View & Download

  8. “A Concept to Extend the Mobile Interaction Space with a Projected Aura”,

    A. Hang

    Workshop on Mobile and Personal Projection at the 29th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, BC; Canada, May 07-12, 2011.View & Download

  9. “Exploring Semantic Relationships Across Internet Resources”,

    H. Castro, M. T. Andrade, F. Almeida, G. Tropea, N. Blefari Melazzi, L. Chiariglione, A. S. Mousas, D. I. Kaklamani

    7th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP 2011), October 19-21, 2011, Salamanca, Spain

  10. “Caching in information-centric satellite networks”,

    L. Galluccio, G. Morabito, S. Palazzo

    IEEE ICC, June 2012, Ottawa, Canada

 

Talks

  1. A. de Polo: “Presentation of the CONVERGENCE project“, Panel on Content Management and Image Search and Retrieval, 6Sight (www.6Sight.com) Future of Imaging, San José, California, November 15-17, 2010; presentation given also at the 6Sight and Apple meeting in Cupertino, CA
  2. A. de Polo: “Presentation of the CONVERGENCE project“, 6Sight and Apple meeting in Cupertino, CA, November 15-17, 2010
  3. N. Blefari-Melazzi: “CONET – A Content Centric Inter-Networking Architecture: Plans to use FIRE Experimental Facilities“, FIRE research workshop, Future Internet Week, May 16, 2011, Budapest, Hungary
  4. A. Detti: “Position statement by the CONVERGENCE project“, Future Internet Assembly, Session I.1 Information-Centric Networking (ICN), 17-19 May, 2011, Budapest, Hungary
  5. N. Blefari-Melazzi, S. Salsano: “Presentation of the CONVERGENCE trials, of the CONVERGENCE Network and discussion on plans to use the OFELIA Experimental Facility”, Full progress meeting of the OFELIA project, May 26-27, 2011, Heidelberg, Germany
  6. A. de Polo, S.Minelli: “Contribution to IPTC Photo Metadata working group about content licensing schema in the IPTC field and controlled vocabulary. The contribution offered CONVERGENCE’s solutions on how to manage photographic content and how to describe the EXIF part of it”, 55th Jpeg standard Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1, July 11-14, 2011, Berlin, German.
  7. S.Minelli: “Ownership of the original file (image/photo) with a digital license plate”, 55th Jpeg standard Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1, July 11-14, 2011, Berlin, Germany
  8. Carsten Rust: “Smart Card based secure management of digital items in the future internet“, Smart Event 2011, e-Smart Conference, September 21-23, 2011, Sophia Antipolis, France
  9. Charalampos Z. Patrikakis: “On the state of the art and future of streaming media, focusing on personalization and social P2P media”,MMCOM’11 workshop – Keynote speech, December 9th, 2011, Houston, Texas