High Availability Media over QUIC

A 6G Pilots and Trials Through Europe open call 2 project

The HAMoQ project (pronounced as hammock) is an initiative focused on improving real-time collaboration using an emerging, scalable, general content distribution protocol called Media over QUIC (MoQ). The goal is to create a reliable and efficient telepresence application where people can work together on projects and have group discussions, even when they are in different locations.

The project is designed to address a key problem with today’s communication systems. While current tools work well for simple video calls, they often struggle with more complex situations where many people are sharing rich media like 3D video at the same time. Existing network protocols also cannot efficiently  handle situations where a network server fails, which can cause a full session to stop. Our project aims to solve this by developing a solution that works at the application level to keep the connection going even when things go wrong.

A key part of our work is to provide low-overhead, application-layer resiliency on top of MoQ so that connectivity remains stable even with temporary network problems or server failures. We plan to combine this resilient MoQ framework with our MoQ-based immersive telepresence application transmitting volumetric video with our resilient MoQ. Additionally, relying on the L4S technology we will also keep the end-to-end latency low helping to ensure the experience feels real-time. Finally, relying on 6G-PATH’s Experiment Lifecycle Manager, we will set up a system to monitor the technical performance and collect traces that allows us to conduct a post-trial survey to see how our work directly improves the quality of a collaborative session.

Execution time frame: February–October 2026

Contacts:

Felicián Németh - nemeth.felician@tki-office.hu

Tamás Lévai - levai.tamas@tki-office.hu

Bálint György Nagy - nagy.balint@tki-office.hu

István Pelle - pelle.istvan@tki-office.hu