Blog 2017

Originally posted on SDCN: Software Defined Cognitive Networking: UPDATE: The PhD advert is now online at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BGD327/phd-studentship-software-defined-cognitive-networking-for-future-online-video-distribution/ It is also being circulated to relevant mailing lists and social ...

Originally posted on SDCN: Software Defined Cognitive Networking: [Author: Mu] I accepted an invitation from Science Foundation Ireland to conduct a project review for one of its prestigious research programmes. It was a fantastic experience to visit Ireland and see how resilient people are off t...

Originally posted on SDCN: Software Defined Cognitive Networking: [Author: Mu] It has been a great visit to the BBC R&D South Lab in London. The main purpose of the trip is to discuss potential collaborations and an MSc student project on immersive TV with Rajiv (thank you for inviting us!) off t...

Inspired by some interesting discussions with the game team at work, I recently picked up Scott Rogers’ Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design in an attempt to learn how to design an engaging game. There are a lot of fascinating conventions, rule, and forms of thoughts in game design we c...

What is productivity? A solid 8-hour of coding without interruption? Does it matter much if our project is on time or on budget, if we end up building something nobody wants? It would be a waste of human effort, investment, time and individual creativity, wouldn’t it? The Lean Startup by Eric Rie...

I am fortunate to be involved in both communication networks and multimedia community. Following my visit to IEEE IM, I ventured to Hilversum, the Netherlands for ACM TVX, a flagship conference on interactive online TV and immersive experiences. I am a regular attendee of TVX and there are simply...

There are few things that bring as much joy to an academic as receiving an approval email from EPSRC (on Monday morning!). My First Grant proposal Software Defined Cognitive Networking: Intelligent Resource Provisioning For Future Networks (EP/P033202/1) has been assessed through the EPSRC peer r...

The week trip to IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2017) in Lisbon was fantastic. I had the chance to catch up with old friends and colleagues (Edmundo, Marilia, Alberto, etc.) and to meet other enthusiasts in network management, SDN, QoE, 5G, block chain and ...

Congratulations to my MSc student Hussein Ajam, who just had a paper accepted by ACM TVX Work-in-Progress (WiP) track. His work was inspired by a collaboration with Rajiv and Matt at the BBC R&D on prototyping a solution to 1) assist TV producers authoring immersive experience for TV programmes a...

The non-cooperative and unsupervised resource competition between adaptive media applications (such as Youtube and Netflix) leads to significant detrimental quality fluctuations and an unbalanced share of network resources. Therefore, it is essential for content networks to better understand the ...

The EC’s NGI group recently published the final report of their open consultation for next generation Internet. The report identifies seven Technology Areas (TAs), which are believed to have pivotal roles in future Internet. We shouldn’t be surprised to see the TAs being bound by current FP7/H202...

Originally posted on Transforming online learning experience using virtual reality and gamification: Nothing cheers you up more than a new gadget in the middle of a term. Oculus Rift, controllers and earphones (Thank you, Nick!) The 60+mph wind gusts (Storm Doris) nearly took them off my arms in ...

[A piece of work with Hans Stokking from TNO] Cross-device immersive media has been one of my main research topics for many years. To get the “immersion”, we inevitably need a mechanism to orchestrate media playback on different devices. This sounds easy but very often very hard to do in practice...

In the past few months, I have been working with a few colleagues, including Dr Anastasios Bakaoukas and Ewan Armstrong, at Computing on initialising a VR project. The idea is simple: build our new Waterside Campus (due open in 2018) in virtual reality using game development engine so we can all ...

Dr Elena Fedorovskaya (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) and I are organising the Work-in-Progress session of ACM TVX 2017, to be held in the Netherlands this June. The call for paper is now online. What’s ACM? Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scienti...