• 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
    June, 1, 2010

    Project end date
    May, 31, 2013

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Originally conceived as a “network of hosts”, the Internet is evolving into an Internet of services, an Internet of media, an Internet of people and an Internet of “things”. This implies a strategic shift from “host-centric” to “content-centric” and “data-centric” networking.

Against this background, CONVERGENCE proposes to enhance the Internet with a novel, content-centric, publish-subscribe service model, based on the Versatile Digital Item (VDI): a common container for all kind of digital content, derived from the MPEG21 standard.

 

The project successfully passed the final technical review on 10-05-13.