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Workshop by FP6 project DAIDALOS in Heidelberg

Uwe Herzog Eurescom herzog@eurescom.de

At the workshop “Convergence of mobile and broadcast environments” FP6 project DAIDALOS presented its latest results on this subject. The workshop was held at Eurescom in Heidelberg on 19 October and attracted about 40 participants.

In addition to the latest DAIDALOS results, the event also featured views from external experts and discussions with the audience.

In the starting keynote session three renowned speakers presented their views on mobile–broadcast convergence. In the first keynote, Dr. Klaus Illgner from Institut für Rundfunktechnik explained what makes mobile broadcast different from classic broadcast: It brings full mobility, the device is the user’s personal device, it has extended capabilities (storage, applications, communications etc.), and is connected to two networks with complementing capabilities. The work of IETF on DVB was explained in a second keynote by Dr. Bernhard Collini-Nocker, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, who is active in the IETF IPDVB workgroup. In the third keynote, Dr. Demosthenes Ikonomou, Scientific Officer at the European Commission, said that pre-commercial pilots of Mobile Broadcasting show that people are expected to watch 3-15 minutes of mainly news, sports and music TV, mostly while commuting.

Dr. Klaus Illgner, Institut für Rundfunktechnik; Thomas Wächter, T-Systems; Prof. Rui Aguiar, Instituto de Telecomunicacòes Aveiro (from left).

In the next session Prof. Karl Jonas, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, gave an overview on the mobile–broadcast convergence activities in DAIDALOS. This was followed by three presentations that gave more details of the DAIDALOS work, e.g. on “Enabling Multicast Quality of Service in a Beyond 3G environment”, or “Context awareness and personalisation in Broadcast”. In the following session business opportunities from converging mobile and broadcast environments were presented.

Dr. Bernhard Collini-Nocker, Paris Lodron University Salzburg; Simos Menexis, OTEplus; Prof. Karl Jonas, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (from left).

Finally, a panel of high-level experts discussed the question "What will drive convergence?" and how technical trends go together with business logic in the creation of value.

All presentations are available for download on the DAIDALOS website at www.ist-daidalos.org

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