Mobile and Personal Communications and Systems, including Satellite systems and Service

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Mobile and Personal Communications and Systems,
including Satellite systems and Service
Information DayAthens, 30 November 2000
Demosthenes Ikonomou Demosthenes.Ikonomou_at_cec.eu.i
nt DG Information Society (INFSO), E4
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Outline of the presentation

• What is a Frame-Work Programme
• The structure of the 5th FWP its implementation
  rules
• Trends in wireless communications RD - From FP4
  to FP5
• An example Wireless Home Networks
• Priorities of EU-funded RD in the area mobile
  comms
• Re-configurable Radio Systems and Networks
• 4th Generation Wireless Communications Systems
  (4G)
• Satellite and broadcasting communications RD
• IST Key Action IV.5
• ALs open in the 5th call for proposals
• Other opportunities for funding
• Future calls for proposals (6th, 7th)
• Conclusions

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What is a Framework Program?

• A European Community legislative decision which
  sets out, for the period of application, the
  global objectives of Community RD activities,
  and in particular
• Specific Priorities and Research Themes
• Rules and Procedures for implementation
• General Conditions for participation
• Indicative Budget and Allocation of Resources to
  the various Research Themes

• Workprogramme revisions every year
  (workprogramme available at http//www.cordis.lu)
  
• In the order of 2-3 calls for proposals per year

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The 5th Framework RD Programme Scientific and
Technological Objectives
Four year program (1999 - 2002)

• Contribute to the development and convergence of
  information and communications technologies and
  infrastructures including processing, storage,
  transmission and access to information
• Broaden their applicability and accelerate their
  take up
• Support the emergence of a European Information
  Infrastructure and meeting the needs for
  inter-connectivity and interactivity in a global
  competitive environment

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Main implementation rules of IST

• Provide support to different type of
  projects/actions RTD, demonstrations, SME
  co-operative research, training fellowships,
  exploratory awards, concerted actions,
  accompanying measures, etc.
• Financial condition
• up to 50 of total eligible cost in case of RTD
  projects
• up to 35 of total eligible cost in case of demo
  projects
• up to 100 of additional total eligible costs
  (e.g. concerted actions, accompanying measures)
• Proposals evaluation criteria
• ST excellence and project management plans
• community added value and social objectives
• Economic development and ST prospects

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Main implementation rules of ISTWho can
participate

• At least two EU partners or 1 from EU and 1 from
  an Associated State
• Normal funding conditions/obligations apply for
  consortia partners from
• the EU Member States
• Joint Research Centres (JRC)
• partners from Associated Countries
• Self financing of participation in consortia
  apply for partners from
• Non-Associated European and Mediterranean
  Countries
• Countries with ST agreements with the EU
• International Organisations
• provided that the participation conforms with
  Community interests
• Self financing of participation in consortia
  apply for partners from
• other countries
• provided that the participation conforms with
  Community interests provides substantial added
  value to the programme

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The 5th Framework RD Program Overall structure
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Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme
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KA4 Essential Technologies Infrastructures
Main areas of work
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FP4 vision for mobile personal comms Provide
wireless broadband connectivity to all
environments
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FP5 vision for mobile personal comms A
plethora of solutions
Reconfigurable Radio
Wireless IP Society
Satellite Broadband
S-UMTS
Broadband W-LAN
4th Generation
Bluetooth
DVB-S
Satellite/HAPS
Personal Area Networks
DVB-T
DECT IR
DAB
UMTS
Body LANs
Indoor
Broadband WFA
UMTS
Broadcasting
GPRS/EDGE
Local Area Networks
MBS 60
MWS
GSM
MBS 40
xMDS
Cellular
Wireless Local Loop
Quasi-Cellular
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Current Trends in Wireless CommunicationsEvolutio
n and Adaptability

• Evolution to 3rd Generation and beyond (UMTS,
  MBS, WLAN)
• Integration of different systems (e.g.
  terrestrial/satellite, cordless/cellular/W-LAN,
  etc.)
• Higher end user demands in terms of transmission
  rates QoS
• End user requires technology transparency
• Non harmonised frequency bands (multi-band)
• Ability to reconfigure communications link to
  suit system load, service demand or standard, or
  optimise radio parameters to match radio
  environment and user profile/demand
• Re-configurability, extends from the user
  terminal through and beyond the network
  infrastructures and supporting sub-systems and
  systems

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Current Trends in Wireless CommunicationsChalleng
es

• Complexity
• explosive growth of persons that wish to
  communicate
• proliferation of competing information services
  and access modes
• Cost-performance
• access to information services should be
  affordable and friendly
• introductions of services/content providers apart
  from the classical operators
• Control
• Technological answers to user demands must permit
  to set the required rules and conditions for the
  deployment, operation and use of information
  services
• Consensus
• With the globalisation of markets, the need for
  consensus goes beyond standards to include as
  well technological solutions adaptable to
  different regulatory and application environments

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An example Wireless Home Networks

• The use of wireless communications is now common
  place
• Multimedia devices are becoming portable and
  personal, making wireless connections the natural
  choice (e.g. from desktop PC to portable to PDA,
  tablets, etc.)
• In addition to home computing a large number of
  Home/Small office based services and applications
  can benefit from wireless connectivity (e.g.
  tele-working, home entertainment,
  security/safety, people with special needs)
• Wireless home networks create new opportunities
  for Europes wireless communications industries

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Requirements for wireless home networks

• Wireless broadband services/applications (e.g.
  home entertainment) require the use of diverse
  frequency bands
• New system concepts are required to ensure that
  wireless networks are secure, can be easily
  established, are expandable and can be upgraded,
  are self-organising and can be managed
• Easy to use, robust and reliable home networking
  capabilities are needed for all possible building
  constructions
• Interoperability between wireless home networks
  and public infrastructure is an issue
• Plug Play capability (automatic setting of
  addresses e.g. IPv6)
• Wireless technologies used in the home should not
  add to the cost of consumer electronics devices

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Wireless Home NetworksThe current situation and
future problems

• Currently there is a proliferation (of
  proprietary, standardised and de-facto
  standards) of incompatible systems (e.g. IEEE
  802.11 and its variations, DECT, Hyperlan 1 2)
  nevertheless a harmonised market is necessary
• Spectrum sharing and interference (e.g. from
  other apartments, buildings, etc.) may prove to
  be a big problem especially in the context of
  mass deployment
• Is the spectrum available enough ?
• Is the allocation of specific frequency bands to
  specific standards the way of the future (WTO
  technology neutrality)
• Digital applications transcoding still does not
  fit the requirements of wireless links
• One has also to consider the spectrum
  requirements of RF micro -electronic and
  -mechanical devices (in addition to RF-ID and
  tags)

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Wireless Home NetworksPossible future directions

• The use of infrared as an access can not be
  dismissed
• Infrared demonstrators operating at 200 Mbit/sec
  do exist
• The use of the 60 GHz band may be an option for
  wireless home applications eventhough product
  development will be significantly more expensive
  in the short and medium term
• So far the debate for wireless home networks has
  been mainly focused on the radio access
  technologies and the use of certain spectrum
  bands and it is now expected to shift into system
  concepts (e.g. plug and play)
• Inter-working between public cellular and home
  networks is an important system issue that
  requires further attention
• As far as radio access technologies are
  concerned, space-time techniques and
  ultra-wideband technologies seam to be very
  promising directions for future research

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The Standards Framework
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IST Key Actions IV.5 Mobile and Personal
Communications and systems including satellite
systems and services
The work focuses on the move to an integrated
seamless network that ensures global personal
connectivity and enables access to broadband
wireless multimedia communications and services
by anyone, from anywhere, at any time. The work
in this area will lead to a radical change in the
way today's communication systems and networks
and their associated services, will be designed,
customised, built, integrated and managed. It
will be driven by advanced re-configurable radio
concepts, extending from the terminal to the
network, and permeating terrestrial, satellite,
fixed and wireless.
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Highlights of Work in Place
2nd IST Call (WP 99)
1st IST Call (WP 99)
IV.5.5 Take-up measures

• IV.5.1 Re-configurable Radio
• IV.5.2 Terrestrial Systems Networks
• Integration with Digital Broadcasting
• Broadband Wireless
• UMTS evolution
• Location-based VAS
• IV.5.3 Satellites Networks Services
• S-UMTS
• Broadband Multimedia
• IV.5.4 4th Generation Systems (4G)
• Developing the system concepts for the 4th
  Generation

3rd IST Call (WP 00)
IV.5.2 Terrestrial Systems Networks IV.5.3
Satellites Networks Services
4th IST Call (WP 00)
IV.5.4 4G system network concepts for wireless
communications
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RD investment opportunities in mobile comms at
an EU level

• Need to set-up RD priorities that enable
• pre-competitive, pre-normative and pre-regulatory
  RD
• creation of consensus through contributions to
  standards intensive dissemination and development
  of system concepts

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Re-configurable Radio Systems and Networksthe
concept

• Is it really a new concept ?
• 1970s Software-pre-defined radios at VLF
• 1980s Software-pre-defined HF multimode defence
  radios
• 1990s Software-pre-defined V/UHF commercial
  products
• So, what is new ?
• Re-configurability does not have to be confined
  only in the physical part of the mobile link
• Re-configurabilty in its greater context has
  major implications at the network level
• Future commercial viability in large and high
  growth markets such as personal communications,
  broadcasting and satellite communications
• Value chain shifts away from transport/delivery
  to content

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Re-configurable Radio Systems and Networksin a
mobile communications context

• Today implementation of S/W downloads of apps.
  aiming market differentiation
• in personal communications - SIM cards, Java and
  JavaCard
• in digital television
• Mid-term product development focus will be UMTS
• BS less constraining than MS
• Market discontinuity (from 2nd to 3rd generation)
  potential boost
• Longer term
• A departure from how today standards are
  perceived
• A re-configurable mobile network infrastructure
  is a quite ambitious objective ...

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Re-configurable Radio Systems and Networksthe
issues

• Creating a service network aware terminal
  supporting networks
• It is not restricted to the control of the
  air-interface parameters applications layers
• Terminals self reconfiguration to the
  available network(s), including services
  applications (content) delivery, has also major
  network implications
• Enabling dynamic spectrum management/co-existence
  
• Security challenges (e.g. many security levels)
• Turning the wireless device into a PC (???)
• Implications challenges for many
• Mobile network operator
• Equipment manufacturer
• Applications and content (and shareware)
  provider
• Regulatory standardisation bodies
• Users

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Re-configurable Radio Systems and Networks EC
activities so far

• 1996 ACTS 2nd Call for Proposals (The FIRST
  project)
• May 97 1st European Workshop on Software Radio,
  Brussels
• 1997 ACTS Third Call for Proposals
• June 98 1st International Workshop on Software
  Radio Technologies, Rhodes, Greece
• March 99 1st European Colloquium on
  Re-configurable Radio Systems and Networks,
  London
• 1999 IST 1st Call for Proposals
• NOW Re-configurable radio systems networks
  cluster

Re-configurable radio systems networks
cluster http//www.cordis.lu/ist/ka4/mobile/reco
nfigurability2.htm
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Re-configurable Radio Systems and NetworksWork
in place

• In ACTS (FP4) Five (5) RD projects Overall
  budget 15 Millions Euro, 1,100 Person Months
• Main focus, the development of Enabling
  Technologies for S/W Radio (e.g. ADC/DAC,
  advanced algorithmic work, channelisation, S/W
  libraries, dynamic APIs, adaptive RF, etc.)
• In IST (FP5) Nine (9) RD projects since
  January 2000
• Overall budget 50 Millions Euro, 5,000 Person
  Months for an average duration of 30 months
• Main focus, transceiver design from RF to BB
  processing (incl. apps layers)
• Participation from
• Mobile network operators
• Equipment manufacturers
• Applications and content providers (incl. ISP)
• Software houses
• Academic and research organisations

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Hide the complexity
I want my chosen application to run
seamlesslywherever I am, without interruption,
without intervention, at the lowest possible cost
User
Diversity of applications Ubiquitous access QoS
Controlled best cost
ImpliedFunctionality
Intelligent personality managementAutomated
service discoveryAutomated Service aggregation -
scalable content provisioningQoS versus cost
managementScalable security - Meaningful
billingTechnology Comfort - Intelligent power
management
System architecture to support radio
reconfiguration servicesCapability and resource
negotiationsecure handover between radio access
technologiesIntelligent mode switching decision
processRAT mode detection and monitoringsecure
download of apps, content, system software
Architecturedistributed services
RF TXRX architecture to support multiple
(simultaneous) RATsBaseband architecture
supporting downloadable components/paramsSpectrum
sharing schemes to optimise spectral
efficiencyProcessing-efficient signal processing
algorithmsPower efficient implementation
technologyHigh capacity power source
Technologies
Source IST project TRUST
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Source IST project CAST
Wideband Digital Radio Receiver The ideal S/W
Radio (1/2)
LNA
BPF
DSP
ADC
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BPF
LNA
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Wideband Digital Radio Receiver The ideal S/W
Radio (2/2)
BPF
BPF
LNA
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Wideband RF RX
Wideband A/D
Decimation Rate Adopt
Channelisation De-spreading
Synchronisation
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Burst Formatting
Decoding
Equalization
Deinterleaving
Deinterleaving
Demodulation
User
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Re-configurable radio systems Work in place
Applications M3A (FP4) MOBIVAS
Electromagnetic Spectrum DRIVE
BB
RF
IF
BaseBand Processing
Anti-Aliasing Filter
Channel Selection
Up/Down Conversion
RF Stage
ADC/DAC
Data Streams
Sample Rate Adaptation
FIRST (FP4) SORT (FP4) TRUST CAST
FIRST (FP4) SLATS (FP4) PASTORAL TRUST WIND-FLEX C
AST
SUNBEAM (FP4) SATURN SODERA
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Re-configurable radio networksIST MONASIDRE (3rd
Call under negotiation)

• In a diversified radio environment, develop
  techniques for
• monitoring analysing the statistical
  performance the associated QoS levels provided
  by the network elements
• inter-working with service provider mechanisms
  allowing service providers to dynamically request
  the reservation (release, etc.) of network
  resources
• dynamic network planning (i.e. resource
  management) optimising delivery of services under
  a spectrum limited constraint
• mapping adequately IP network resources to the
  radio resources

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Call 4 - 4G

• To investigate and develop advanced and
  innovative concepts and technologies for
  self-aware, self-organising ad-hoc wireless
  networks
• To develop innovative air interface schemes
  allowing for scalable wireless connectivity
• To assess potential spectrum requirements and
  co-existence issues, including the study of
  strategies and the development of appropriate
  tools allowing a distributed flexible management
  of the spectrum resources

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4G - Network aspects

• To investigate and develop advanced and
  innovative concepts and technologies for
  self-aware, self-organising ad-hoc wireless
  networks
• dynamic topologies
• addressing, bridging, routing
• bandwidth constrained, variable capacity links
• congestion management, resource sharing
  (etiquette)
• limited physical security, energy-constrained
• interaction amongst different protocol layers
• interworking in heterogeneous, hierarchical
  networks
• Evolved mobile IP The IPvW (IP suitable for
  Wireless)
• Adaptive QoS schemes

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Spontaneous Device Networking (self-organising,
ad-hoc)

• Some Issues
• service discovery
• security
• management
• spectrum coexistence

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4G - Radio aspects (and protocol stack
implications)

• To develop innovative air interface schemes
  allowing for scalable wireless connectivity
• Very High bit rate Radio Interface (gt100 Mbits)
  for indoors and outdoors
• Advanced radio architectures New radio
  environments
• Capacity enhancement
• Self-planning
• Dynamic reconfiguration
• Joint optimisation of Source and Channel Coding
  Schemes
• Advanced Antennas and Space Time Processing
• Precision Tracking (of User Devices)

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4G - Spectrum issues

• To assess potential spectrum requirements and
  co-existence issues, including the study of
  strategies and the development of appropriate
  tools allowing a distributed flexible management
  of the spectrum resources
• New Spectrum for existing and future Radio
  Interfaces
• Re-Farming of Military and Broadcasting Spectrum
• Co-existence of/with Licensed Systems
• Spectrum Etiquette for Unlicensed Technologies

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Is it too early to start RD on 4G ?

• Japans MPT already announced that it will
  co-operate with the private sector to set a
  standard for advanced cellular phones, which can
  send/receive moving images instantly
• The group will standardize telecommunication
  protocols and conduct joint experiments, aiming
  to compile a basic plan by the summer of 2001
• Such cell-phones will hit the market as early as
  2007
• The future cell phones are expected to have a
  throughput several hundred times faster than
  current models
• MPT will also set up a special panel inviting
  experts from consumer electronics makers,
  computer S/W developers, telecom firms as well as
  academics.

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Mobile Satellite Systems

• S-UMTS as an alternative seamless access
  platform
• W-CDMA adaptation to S-UMTS and interworking
  capability with T-UMTS, demonstrator
  implementation
• Introduce novel system concepts, using
  multicasting capability of satcoms, and
  optimising usage of adjacent T-S frequency bands
  
• Support of IP with QoS
• EC projects VIRTUOUS, FUTURE, SATIN, BRAHMS
• Tentatively joint work with ESA

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S-UMTS Demonstrator
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Multimedia Satellite Systems

• Interworking with a range of terrestrial options,
  GPRS, W-LANs, based on IP architecture in the
  core network QoS and seamless service delivery
  (Ka band)
• IP multicast adaptation to a GEO context
• Integrated platform for service delivery over a
  range of access networks (middleware)
• Mobility at Ka band
• EC projects BRAHMS, SUITED, GEOCAST

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SUITED
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Broadcasting Satellite Systems

• Targets Next Generation Interactive Broadcasting
  through
• Optimisation of IP transport
• Optimisation of network architectures (caching)
• Development of Interactive terminals building on
  DVB and DVB-RCS to provide standardised upward
  compatibility from transparent to switching
  systems
• EC projects IBIS, MOBILITY, SATIN7

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IBIS
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Mobile-Broadcasting Convergence
Up to 128 Kbits/s uplink Up to 10 Mbits/s downlik

• UMTS convergence with DVB
• Delivery of video and audio to mobile terminals
• Total traffic asymmetry
• Multicasting
• Regulatory boundaries between communications and
  broadcasting become blurred
• Spectrum reallocations needed

GSM (900 or 1800 MHz) UMTS (2000 MHz)
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Action Lines Open in Call 5
Action Lines in the 5th Call should not be seen
in isolation from those called in previous
calls Integration of various radio and network
access technologies contributes to the further
longer term evolution towards 4G and to the
necessity for further evolution of software
re-configurable systems and networks The
subsequent calls (Calls 6 and 7 in 2001) should
thus open the possibility to extend and take
maximum advantage of the work put in place
through the previous calls
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Call 5 - Re-configurable radioDeadline for
receipt of proposals 1700 of 15/1/2001

• Objective To allow the radio network, including
  terminals and base stations to adaptively/automati
  cally adjust to traffic and user requirements
• Re-configurable system, architecture and network
  concepts applied over a range of access
  platforms, and to a range of communications,
  interactive and distributive services
• Key goal study of mechanisms for secure
  software downloading and of open architectures
  enabling the development and coexistence of
  applications operating over integrated/heterogeneo
  us networks
• Impact and requirements on signalling, network
  intelligence and service provision

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Call 5- Take-up Measures
It aims at the development of novel
applications/services that demonstrate the
potential market and societal benefits of future
(soon to become available) wireless
communications technologies.

• In Call 5 particular focus is on
• Multimedia interactive, distributive and
  asymmetric information services over a range of
  terrestrial networks
• Implementation and validation of new business
  scenarios where the benefits of satellite
  communication systems and services can be clearly
  established
• Wireless technologies for evolving and scalable
  systems and networks

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Additional Opportunities Continuous Submission
scheme

• Project Clusters
• VIII.1.1, as Support Measure
• Networks of excellence and working groups
• VIII.1.2, as Thematic Networks

Grants Worshops, Conferences,
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IST 5th call for proposalsOther Action Lines

• IV.2 Computing, Communications and Networks
• IST 2000 - IV.2.1-Distributed systems and
  services provision
• IST 2000 - IV.2.3-Network integration,
  interoperability and interworking
• IV.3 Technologies Engineering for Software,
  Systems Services
• IST 2000 - IV.3.2-Software-Engineering for
  generic end-user services
• IST 2000 - IV.3.3-User-centred interaction and
  functionality design
• IV.7 Peripherals, sub-systems and microsystems
• IST 2000 - IV.7.2-Subsystems
• IV.8 Microelectronics - optoelectronics
• IST 2000 - IV.8.1-Microelectronics design and
  test
• IST 2000 - IV.8.2-Application-specific
  microelectronics
• IST 2000 IV.8.3-Industrial microelectronics
  technologies processes, equipment and materials

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Future Calls for Proposals-WP2001http//www.cordi
s.lu/ist/workprogramme.htm
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IST 6th call for proposals

• IST2001 - IV.5.2 Terrestrial wireless systems and
  networks Objectives To study, develop and
  validate novel terrestrial wireless systems and
  networks including fixed wireless access systems,
  advanced public/private wireless local area
  networks, and interworking mobile/broadcasting
  systems supporting the provision of broadband
  multimedia services for interactive and
  distributive services.
• BUT ALSO
• IST2001 - IV.1.2 Multiservice networks -
  middleware for seamless access to services
• Objectives To allow open seamless access
  to new, affordable, scalable, personalised and
  interactive services over a range of
  heterogeneous access networks (terrestrial and
  satellite, mobile and fixed, wireless and wire
  based, symmetric and asymmetric, public and
  private). Networks should support multiple
  services, and service provision should not be
  limited to specific infrastructures.
• Submissions deadline 15/4/2001 (tentative)

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IST 7th call for proposals (1/2)

• IV.5.1 Reconfigurable radio systems networks
• Key goals are the development of
• Novel techniques and technologies in the area of
  combined DSP/RF design that will lead to the
  realisation of efficient and cost-effective
  adaptive transceivers (terminals as well as base
  stations). The combinations of and trade off
  between dedicated ASIC implementations and
  reconfigurable logic as well as optimised
  algorithmic partitioning are of particular
  interest.
• Open architectures and service/applications
  development environments, enabling the
  co-existence, interoperability, portability and
  adaptation of services, across heterogeneous
  wireless network platforms. Aspects of particular
  relevance are those related to self adaptation to
  traffic load and characteristics, including
  multi-streaming, dynamic bandwidth allocation,
  and spectrum sharing.

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IST 7th call for proposals (2/2)

• IV.5.3 Satellite systems and services
• Key aspects concern
• The technologies and demonstrators based on
  architectures demonstrating a viable evolution
  towards advanced MSS/FSS systems. The work
  relates to integration of satellite key features
  such as broadcasting (e.g. S-DAB or S-DVB),
  optimised support of Internet Protocol including
  voice transmission by IP protocol using satellite
  wideband networks and multicasting, delivery of
  multimedia services through supplemental,
  complementary, or extension strategies with the
  mobile terrestrial networks.
• The development of advanced technologies and
  architectures allowing for introduction of novel
  BSS systems with scalable support of multimedia
  services. The work relates to support of
  broadcasting technologies supporting novel
  interactive multimedia applications, optimised
  multicasting and caching architectures and to the
  associated FCAPS management functions.
  Technologies for dynamic optimisation of spectrum
  and network resources are common objectives.

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Conclusions

• Wireless connectivity becomes the norm
• Explosive growth of M2M
• Spectrum resources will become scarce
• Proliferation of competing information services
  and access networks
• Chaotic development of heterogeneous networks
• Quality of Service, reliability and management of
  integrated networks are the important issue
• Regulatory implications of adaptive
  technologies and converged services
• Standardisation needs also to evolve aiming at
  speed and flexibility
• Research needs also to adapt

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WEB Site calls, mtgs, workshops
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MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SUMMIT Barcelona, Spain,
9-12 September 2001
http//www.mobilesummit2001.org/