12th FOKUS
Media Web Symposium

June 24–25, 2025 – Berlin
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Rufael Mekuria

Principal Engineer

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Huawei Technologies (Netherlands)

Dr. Rufael Mekuria is a Principal Engineer within the Wireless Networks Group at Huawei Technologies. As a media delivery researcher, he has been involved with streaming and immersive media for the last 15 years. Currently he is focusing on 5G Advanced based Media delivery, serving as a standards delegate in 3GPP SA4, MPEG, DVB and IETF.

Mekuria is vice chair of the DVB Streaming working group. Rufael holds a Masters/Ingenieur degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computer science.
For his research work on immersive coding he received the IEEE TCSVT Best Paper award in 2020. Before joining Huawei he worked for CWI and Unified Streaming.

Talks

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  • 13:30 - 14:30 | Session 1

    Improving the efficiency of streaming over satellite networks by unequal error protection of mABR streams

    Yuriy Reznik

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    Vice President of Research

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    Brightcove Inc.

    15:00 - 16:00 | Session 2

    Features in 5G-Advanced for enhanced delivery of low latency and high volume media

    Rufael Mekuria

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    Principal Engineer

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    Huawei Technologies (Netherlands)

    16:30 - 18:00 | Session 3

    Spotlight on Volumetric Video: Use Cases, Standards and Implementation

    Ralf Schaefer

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    Vice President Standards Video Lab

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    InterDigital

    XR and wearables: Current state and perspectives on upcoming 5G/6G features

    Emmanuel Thomas

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    Chief Multimedia Technology Expert

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    Xiaomi Technology

    Latest developments of 5G-MAG XR tools

    Nils Duval

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    Software Engineer

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    Motionspell

    Towards XR application awareness in 3GPP networks

    Serhan Gül

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    Senior Researcher

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    Nokia