ZTE Communications ›› 2012, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (2): 45-48.

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MMT: The Next-Generation Media Transport Standard

Gerard Fernando   

  1. ZTE USA Inc., 2425, N. Central Expressway, TX 75080, USA
  • Received:2012-02-29 Online:2012-06-25 Published:2012-06-25
  • About author:Gerard Fernando (gerard.fernando@zteusa.com) received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Imperial College, London. He has worked at Philips Research Labs and Sun Microsystems Inc. He is currently working at ZTE Corporation and is focused on standards activities in multimedia transport in ISO/MPEG and in IETF. He has worked on medical imaging, video signal processing, media transport over Internet, digital rights management and video codecs. He has authored several publications and also lead standards activities in ISO/MPEG and in IETF. He has several patents.

Abstract: In this paper, we discuss the development of MPEG media transport (MMT), which is a next-generation media transport standard effort by ISO/MPEG. The architecture and functional areas of MMT are described. The functionality of existing media transport is analyzed to determine whether there is a need for this new media standard. From this analysis, potential areas for standardization in MMT have been identified.

Key words: MPEG, RTP, media transport