Internet Technology

Internet Technologies and Applications

The research on Internet technologies and applications includes three main areas:

Infrastructure-related issues - broadband technologies, next generation Internet protocols, intelligent routing, quality-of service control, broadcasting and multicasting, multimedia streaming, distributed content caching and routing, intelligent content adaptation.
Internet Security - cryptography, authentication, digital watermarking, secured application protocols, etc.
Internet applications - intelligent bilingual search engines, multiparty video conferencing systems, multimedia streaming systems, Internet for learning systems, etc.

Research Projects

1. Hong Kong IP Multicast Initiative

The Hong Kong IP Multicast Initiative, funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission and private companies with a total budget of HK$8.6M, aims to jumpstart the local IT industry to take advantage of the emerging IP multicast technologies. The goal is to improve the existing system and to incubate new network services and applications to exploit benefits of IP multicast.

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2. Hong Kong School Net

Hong Kong School Net was founded in 1994 to develop innovative Internet services and applications for the education sector. It successfully launched the Hong Kong Cyber Campus in 1998, and developed the Hong Kong Education City in 2000 based on a total funding of over 60 million from the University Grants Council and the Quality Education Fund in Hong Kong.

3. MoLi & ANSeRS Project

MoLi & ANSeRS (formerly Jasmine & ANSeRS) is an intelligent bilingual search engine consisted of two components. MoLi is a software system that provides high-accuracy processing for Chinese texts. ANSeRS automatically processes and assigns a list of keywords, called topic, to a text and indexes web pages according to their topics. Further research aims to enhance the per-formance of M&A, especially its intelligent processing capabilities.

4. Web Caching and Internet Content Adaptation Protocol

ICAP (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol), an open platform for value added services at the edge, was proposed in early 2000 by a group of Internet focused companies that formed the ICAP forum. In this project, we implement the protocol software of ICAP and develop a generic service platform with well-defined and flexible APIs (Application Program Interface) for building applications.

5. Server-less Multimedia Delivery System

We expect that in the future both network bandwidth and client-side hardware capacity will continue to improve. We investigate radical architectures where dedicated multimedia servers and the primary bottleneck in existing systems are completely eliminated. In this server-less architecture, video data are distributed among the nodes, and multiple nodes work together to serve video streaming requests from other nodes.





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	Research Research areasInternet Technologies and Applications Internet Technologies and Applications The research on Internet technologies and applications includes three main areas: Infrastructure-related issues - broadband technologies, next generation Internet protocols, intelligent routing, quality-of service control, broadcasting and multicasting, multimedia streaming, distributed content caching and routing, intelligent content adaptation. Internet Security - cryptography, authentication, digital watermarking, secured application protocols, etc. Internet applications - intelligent bilingual search engines, multiparty video conferencing systems, multimedia streaming systems, Internet for learning systems, etc. Research Projects 1. Hong Kong IP Multicast Initiative The Hong Kong IP Multicast Initiative, funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission and private companies with a total budget of HK$8.6M, aims to jumpstart the local IT industry to take advantage of the emerging IP multicast technologies. The goal is to improve the existing system and to incubate new network services and applications to exploit benefits of IP multicast. 2. Hong Kong School Net Hong Kong School Net was founded in 1994 to develop innovative Internet services and applications for the education sector. It successfully launched the Hong Kong Cyber Campus in 1998, and developed the Hong Kong Education City in 2000 based on a total funding of over 60 million from the University Grants Council and the Quality Education Fund in Hong Kong. 3. MoLi & ANSeRS Project MoLi & ANSeRS (formerly Jasmine & ANSeRS) is an intelligent bilingual search engine consisted of two components. MoLi is a software system that provides high-accuracy processing for Chinese texts. ANSeRS automatically processes and assigns a list of keywords, called topic, to a text and indexes web pages according to their topics. Further research aims to enhance the per-formance of M&A, especially its intelligent processing capabilities. 4. Web Caching and Internet Content Adaptation Protocol ICAP (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol), an open platform for value added services at the edge, was proposed in early 2000 by a group of Internet focused companies that formed the ICAP forum. In this project, we implement the protocol software of ICAP and develop a generic service platform with well-defined and flexible APIs (Application Program Interface) for building applications. 5. Server-less Multimedia Delivery System We expect that in the future both network bandwidth and client-side hardware capacity will continue to improve. We investigate radical architectures where dedicated multimedia servers and the primary bottleneck in existing systems are completely eliminated. In this server-less architecture, video data are distributed among the nodes, and multiple nodes work together to serve video streaming requests from other nodes.