Towards Achieving Immersive Holographic-Type Communication

This paper focuses on video streaming over telecommunication networks, taking the important evolution towards network softwarizaton into account. The importance and the opportunities provided by volumetric media delivery will be outlined by means of examples. The most appropriate management platform design for volumetric media delivery and the various challenges and possible approaches will be highlighted next. Finally an overview of research challenges and opportunities will be presented to generate further collaborative research in this area of research.