COAST is a specific targeted research project (STREP) within the European Research Programme 7 (FP7)

Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Università di Trento, Italy
LightComm Srl, Italy
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France
France Télécom R&D, France
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
NETvisor Ltd., Hungary
Magyar Telekom, Hungary
NEC Europe Ltd, Germany
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., Poland

February 2008 to January 2011

TV services over the Internet can be provided either exploiting IP multicast functionalities or relying on a pure end-to-end (P2P) approach. The first technique unfortunately, will only work on a network infrastructure controlled by a single broadband operator due to limitations of IP multicast facilities. On the contrary, the P2P approach has been successfully exploited to overcome these limits and can potentially offer a scalable planetary infrastructure. Recently, several P2P-TV systems started to show up, with the last generation offering High Quality TV (P2P-HQTV) systems, providing a ubiquitous access to the service. These same potentialities of P2P-TV systems constitute a worry for network carriers since the traffic they generate may potentially grow without control, causing a degradation of quality of service perceived by Internet users or even the network collapse. Starting from these considerations the NAPA-WINE project, funded by the European Commission within the seventh framework programme, aims at:

NEC will contribute to the NAPA-WINE project on topics related to the network awareness of peer-to-peer applications, using the overlay management and the associated signalling protocols for setting up the peer-to-peer overlay. NEC will also participate in the integration of the software towards the building of a prototype as outcome of the project and to the evaluation of the above mentioned by means of performance evaluation. Furthermore, NEC is leading the standardization within the NAPA-WINE project and is also leader of the dissemination and standardization work package.

E. Leonardi, M. Mellia, A. Horvath, L. Muscariello, S. Niccolini, D. Rossi: Building a Cooperative P2P-TV Application over a Wise Network: the approach of the European FP7 STREP NAPA-WINE. IEEE Communications Magazine. April 2008.

M. Stiemerling, S. Niccolini, S. Kiesel, J. Seedorf: A Network Cooperative Overlay System. IETF P2P-I workshop. May 28th. Cambridge, MA, USA

Please find the complete list of publications here.

Official NAPA-WINE Web Site