The overall objective has been broken down into several research objectives:

• The main research topics related to applications are:
• software architecture for the negotiation between content providers and terminals using dynamic metadata
• object-based, highly scalable wavelet video coding schemes
• new display driver concepts
• The main multimedia network related research topics are:
• new data link, IP and transport protocols supporting mobility and providing QoS for fast moving portable devices in homogeneous and heterogeneous environments;
• QoS-enabled mobile ad hoc networks
• traffic and performance models
• queuing models
• At the level of the physical layer, the following topics are studied:
  • block redundant modulations
  • receiver design, in particular iterative receiver (detection and estimation) and receiver for MIMO (multiple input - multiple output) transmission techniques
  • design of innovative antennas such as smart antennas.