{"id":62,"date":"2026-06-23T13:49:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:49:54","slug":"next-generation-multimedia-and-networking-technologies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/next-generation-multimedia-and-networking-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Next generation multimedia and networking technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NeXt Generation multimedia and network technologies are characterised by being flexible, smart, adaptive, interoperable, reconfigurable, dependable and self-managing. The XGMT research group undertakes high-quality research into various aspects of these exciting and evolving technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Cognitive TV White Space Access Framework (Laurence Dooley, Patrick Wong) \u2013 Nokia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A hybrid similarity measure framework for multimodal medical image registration (Laurence Dooley, Patrick Wong) \u2013 German Aerospace Centre<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scalable base station switching framework for green cellular networks (Laurence Dooley, Adrian Poulton) \u2013 Japanese National Institute of Informatics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inpainting Framework for Virtual View Systems (Patrick Wong, Laurence Dooley) \u2013 Japanese National Institute of Informatics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spectrum Sensing Techniques for Cognitive Radio (Laurence Dooley, Soraya Kouadri)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/stem\/computing-and-communications\/research\/research-groups\/xgmt-group\">Next Generation Multimedia Technologies Research Group<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Group lead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/lsd3\">Prof Laurence Dooley<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NeXt Generation multimedia and network technologies are characterised by being flexible, smart, adaptive, interoperable, reconfigurable, dependable and self-managing. 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