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Pekka Luoma
Senior ResearcherUbiquitous Architectures Team, Helsinki
I joined Nokia Research Center in 1997 to study digital content delivery over unidirectional radio networks and its user applications, such as mobile TV and filecast. This involved prototyping, protocol design, end-to-end system design, standardization (DAVIC, DVB, IETF, 3GPP, DLNA) and cooperation with internal and external partners.
With CELTIC EnComPAs project starting in 2004 I moved from datacast to user-centered design of applications and platforms for the digital home. In EnComPAs our multidisciplinary team used iterative development, prototyping and user testing on an application concept about social sharing of photos and videos. During NRC participation in CELTIC Feel@Home I contributed to application concepts, user testing and system design for family-to-family videoconferencing. I am currently working on architectures for mobile cloud computing in Artemis SOFIA project.
Research Interests
- Cloud computing
- Personal smart spaces
- Network-oriented software architectures
- System aspects of distributed media applications
- User-centered development of applications and platforms
Research Projects
At Digital Media Institute, Tampere University of Technology:
- RACE DIAMOND (Domestic Applications for Multimedia on Demand)
- ACTS DAM (DAVIC Accompanying Measures)
At Nokia Research Center:
- CELTIC EnComPAs (Enabling Community Communications, Platforms and Applications)
- CELTIC FEEL@Home (Full Experience Extended Living @Home)
- ARTEMIS Sofia (Smart Objects for Intelligent Applications)
Other Information
Contributions to Open Source
The initial release of the Linux DVB Demux API was written by me for Nokia Media Terminal. Together with Convergence GmbH it was released as open source and later found its way to mainstream Linux kernel.
Publications
- I.Defee, M. Freynet, P. Luoma and J. Lankinen, "Development of a media server system based on the DAVIC standard". IEEE First Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing. 23-25 June 1997.
- J-P. Luoma, "Internet Access over DVB Networks", M.Sc. Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, 2001.
- P. Belimpasakis, J-P. Luoma and M. Börzsei, "Content Sharing Middleware for Mobile Devices". Proceedings of the First International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications (MOBILWARE 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2008.
- S. Moloney, J-P. Luoma and A. Virolainen, "Domesticating the video call". Demonstration paper at the Tenth Annual International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, Korea, September 2008.
Patents
I am the author or co-author in the following U.S. patents:
I am the author or co-author in the following pending U.S. patents:
