• 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

Standardization

Contributions to IETF/IRTF

  • “IPv4 and IPv6 Options to support Information Centric Networking“,
    A. Detti, S. Salsano, N. Blefari-Melazzi
    Contribution to IETF, draft-detti-conet-ip-option
    View & Download
  • “Receiver driven trasport protocol for CONET ICN“,
    S. Salsano, M. Cancellieri, A. Detti
    Contribution to IETF, draft-salsano-rditp
    View & Download
  • “Information-Centric Networking Research Group“,
    Contribution has been given by CONVERGENCE (represented by G. Morabito) to the proposal for the creation of the above Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Working Group (WG). Both A. Falk and L. Eggert (previous and current IRTF Chairs) have provided positive feedback. The proposal will be presented at next IETF 81 – Quebec City, Canada. July 24 – 29, 2011. This proposal has been presented also to Cisco’s Stefano Previdi, member of the Internet Research Steering Group, Chair of the Peer-to-Peer Research Group (P2PRG), during a talk by N. Blefari Melazzi.

Contributions to MPEG

  • “Preliminary input contribution for DID extension“,
    Teresa Andrade, Helder Castro, Edoardo Radica, Giuseppe Tropea

    Input document “for information” to INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 96th meeting of March 2011, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • “Proposal to extend MPEG-21 DII with means to support a semantically explicit declaration of relationships between Digital Items“,
    Teresa Andrade, Helder Castro, Leonardo Chiariglione, Aziz Moussas, Giuseppe Tropea

    Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 97th meeting, Torino, July 2011.
    This input document generated two output documents:
    N12246: Requirements for the extension of MPEG 21 DID to support the description of the relational situation of Digital Items
    Helder Castro (INESC Porto), Giuseppe Tropea (CNIT)

    N12147: WD of ISO/IEC 21000-3:2003/Amd.2 Relationship description
    Helder Castro (INESC Porto), Giuseppe Tropea (CNIT)
  • “Proposal for reengineering of MPEG-M reference software“,
    Angelo Difino, Angelo-Christos Anadiotis, Giuseppe Tropea

    Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 97th meeting, Torino, July 2011.
    The content of this input document was introduced into the MPEG-M part 3 working draft
  • “The CONVERGENCE project – A bird’s eye view”
    Leonardo Chiariglione, Stefano Salsano, Giuseppe Tropea
    Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 97th meeting, Torino, July 2011.
    The content of this input document was converted to an Informative Annex to MPEG-M part 1
  • “Proposal for improving MPEG-M base schema”
    Angelo Difino, Giuseppe Tropea

    Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 97th meeting, Torino, July 2011.
    This input document was added as a Normative Annex to MPEG-M part 4:
    N12149: Study of ISO/IEC DIS 23006-4 Elementary services
  • “A demonstration of MPEG-M technologies in Convergence”
    Angelo Difino, Salvatore Signorello
    Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
    The content of this input document was presented in a demonstration session on the Friday plenary
  • “Input contribution on Overlay Technology”
    Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Giuseppe Tropea, Iakovos S. Venieris
    Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
    The content of this input document was taken in consideration to be included in MPEG-M part 4
  • “First step towards unified orchestrator/aggregation environment”
    Angelo-Christos Anadiotis, Angelo Difino, Iakovos S. Venieris
    Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
    The content of this input document was taken in consideration to be included in MPEG-M part 5
  • Proposed PE/ES implementation of MPEG-M part3
    Angelo Difino, Angelo-Christos Anadiotis, Iakovos S. Venieris
    Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
    The content of this input document was taken in consideration to be included in MPEG-M part 3
  • Amendment for DII Digital Item Semantic Relationships
    Giuseppe Tropea, Helder Castro
    Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
    The content of this input document was taken as a starting point for CD of ISO/IEC 21000-3:2003/Amd.2 Relationship description
  • Introducing User Identification in MPEG-M
    Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Leonardo Chiariglione
    Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
    The content of this input document was taken in consideration to be included in MPEG-M part 4