Project Noja started as a research project at the Technical University Ilmenau, Germany in 2001. Until 2007 around 50 undergraduate and graduate students contributed to the project in various ways under the supervision of Alexander Eichhorn and Prof. Winfried Kühnhauser. The old project website hosted at TU Ilmenau is still accessible here.

We designed and implemented simulation tools to investigate transport protocols for different encoding formats and networks. We also designed a middleware platform to support the easy integration of stream delivery into applications. One of the core parts of this work is a Dependency Model that allows programmers to navigate and analyze the dependency relations in modern video encoding formats. We use this to evaluate the impact of packet loss on stream quality and to design scaling as well as unequal error protection mechanisms.

Since 2008 Alexander Eichhorn is affiliated with Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway. Simula actively supports the ongoing developments in Project Noja. We currently port our middleware and protocol implementations to new platforms, such as SymbianOS, and we continue our work on efficient scaling and error-protection schemes.