Mario Montagud
holds a PhD degree in Telecommunications (Cum Laude, 2015) from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV, Spain). His topics of interest include Computer Networks, Interactive and Immersive Media, Synchronization and QoE (Quality of Experience). He is (co-)author of over 50 scientific and teaching publications and has contributed to standardization within the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). He is a member of the Technical Committee of several international conferences, of the Editorial Board of international journals, and Communication Ambassador of ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction). Contact him at [...] or [...]

Pablo Cesar
leads the Distributed and Interactive Systems Group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam. He is involved in standardization activities, such as W3C, The Moving Picture Experts Group, and International Telecommunication Union,and has been active in a number of European projects. He has co-authored over 100 articles (conference papers and journal articles) about multimedia and immersive systems, human-centered multimedia, QoE and social media sharing. Contact him at [...] or [...]

Fernando Boronat
studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) in Spain. After working for several Spanish Telecommunication Companies, in 1996 he moved back to the UPV, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Communications Department and leads the Immersive Interactive Media R&D Group. He has extensive experience in research and both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Communication Networks, Multimedia Systems, Multimedia Protocols and Media Synchronization. He has co-authored several educational books and papers and over 90 research papers inrelevant journals and conferences. He is an IEEE and ACM member and is involved in several private and public research projects and standardization activities. He is also a member of IPCs national and international journals and conferences. Contact him at [...] or [...]

Jack Jansen
is a researcher at Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam. Over the years his areas of interest have gone from computer networks, to distributed systems, to computer languages, to multimedia documents and synchronization, to sensor networks and internet of things. He has co-authored over 40 articles, as well as contributed to standardization activities and large open source projects in variations of these fields. Contact him at [...] or [...]

A unique reference and perfect companion book about the fascinating media synchronization (mediasync) research area

Provides a comprehensive overview of the mediasync research area from complementary perspectives, such as theoretical foundations, available technologies, use cases, standardization efforts and experimental studies

Paves the way for overcoming remaining challenges towards the deployment of next-generation multimedia systems

Includes chapters from the most representative and influential experts in this area