Network media handling addresses the technology needed to represent, manipulate and evaluate media content at receivers, transmitters, and functional units of a multimedia communication system based on IP. The media content considered is primarily text, audio, images and video.

Q2S's research in this area is focused on the following

• Media representation, compression and delivery
• Error protection, resilience and concealment
• Universal Multimedia Access.
• Perceived quality
• One-way, two-way and multi-way communication

A set of Projects addressing network media handling challenges have been initiated.