Title of Project: Mobile Multicast Communications
Type: Research
Guide: Dr. Maryam Roshanaei 

In this project computer science student Mark Avenius will prepare a paper for publication in the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. The purpose of this research is to prepare a journal paper in the area of Mobile Multicast Communications (MMC). Dr. Roshanaei will work with the student to write a journal paper from two completed ITU-T X.mmc-1| ISO/IEC 24793 standardrd drafts. The title of the paper is "Mobile Multicast Communications (MMC)": Mobile Multicast Communications (MMC) is used to support a variety of multimedia multicasting services in the IP-based wireless mobile networks as well as the wired fixed networks. The MMC is targeted at the real-time one-to-many multicast services and applications over mobile communications networks. This implies that the MMC will focus on the multicast services rather than the broadcast services, and only the authenticated users could be allowed in the multicast session. The MMC will also consider the one-to-many multicast session, in which a single multicast sender is allowed in the session, rather than the many-to-many multicast services. In addition, the MMC will be targeted at the real-time multicast session rather the reliable multicast session, and the timely delivery of multicast data will be considered as a key factor.