This article presents the European FP7 Network of Excellence “Euro-NF” (Networks of the Future) and reviews its set of activities. Specific attention is paid to the concept of Specific Joint Research Projects (SJRP), a series of small but focused projects, integrating at least three Euro-NF partners and targeting joint seminal work, publications as well as full-size follow-up projects. Further to the description of the SJRP concept, a set of three selected SJRP from different areas are presented in detail with respect to motivation, goal, contents, results, and impact.

Many experts today propose enhancements for the Internet. They claim that the 30-year old concept, originally designed for a handful of military bases and universities, cannot cope with today's challenges of more than a billion of participants, and new features such as VoIP, VoD, IP-TV, videoconferencing etc. Many ideas and concepts to improve the Internet have been proposed. Among the many trends which can be observed is the re-introduction of connection-oriented communication based on flows or streams, like the flow transfer mode (FTM), which has been proposed by van As.

Abstract—In the recent past, evolutionary applications have started to emerge, augmenting or replacing the common and often superannuated entertainment services that find everyday use. IPTV, or, providing television programming over the packetswitched Internet has been one of them; a service expecting to prostrate the simple TV broadcast, and enhance its features, using novel sets of applications, offered within the same infrastructure. This article overviews the IPTV service, analyzing its key-features as a technology, as well as the unique demands they pose. At the same time, it illuminates the wired and wireless network architectures that can facilitate IPTV service delivery, while addressing cost, reliability, and quality of service requirements. Finally, it also discusses of the IPTV issues and research areas that can further help the strong founding of the IPTV service.

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It is difficult to explain the evolution of language because there are no language fossils.

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To dig up some of the most interesting issues of e-health, we asked Professor Raj Muttukrishnan, Co-Editor-in-Chief of ICST’s E-Health transactions about this area.

Access, configuration, monitoring, control and management of remote laboratory instrumentation gained growing interest with the development of the so-called e-Science.