"Wireless World Initiative-Ambient
Networks: "Create a pervasive, reliable
communication environment hiding the heterogeneous
infrastructures, supporting the ever-changing needs
of users and services"
The Ambient Networks project will
create the network solutions for mobile and wireless
systems beyond 3G. It will enable scalable and
affordable wireless networking while providing rich
and easy to use communication services for all. It
is geared towards increasing competition and
cooperation in an environment populated by a
multitude of user devices, wireless technologies,
network operators and business actors. Ambient
Networks offers a fundamentally new vision based on
the dynamic composition of networks to avoid adding
to the growing patchwork of extensions to existing
architectures. This will provide access to any
network, including mobile personal networks, through
instant establishment of inter-network agreements.
The project adopts the design paradigm of
horizontally structured mobile systems that offer
common control functions to a wide range of
different applications and air interface
technologies. Such a radical change requires the
definition of new interfaces and a multitude of
standards in key areas of future media- and
context-aware, multi-domain mobile networks.
The project's results comprise a complete, coherent
wireless network solution; an architecture for
self-configuring network components that reduces
deployment and operational costs and a complete
protocol suite for network composition evolved from
IPv6. The results will facilitate incremental market
introduction of new services, and will stimulate
sustainable growth in the European mobile
communications sector. Ambient Networks brings
together a strong industry led consortium of the
leading operators, vendors, SMEs, and research
organisations, with the determination, skills and
critical mass to create cross-industry consensus and
to drive standardisation. The project is defined
over 3 phases. The first will establish the overall
approach and will prove its feasibility. The planned
effort of more than 2000 person months reflects the
strategic and technical ambitions of Ambient
Networks.
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Participant Organization:
TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND |
Country: FINLAND |
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Participant Organization:
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER
ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON |
Country: UNITED KINGDOM |
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Participant Organization:
DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
NOKIA CORPORATION |
Country: FINLAND |
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Participant Organization:
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC |
Country: UNITED KINGDOM |
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Participant Organization:
TELECOM ITALIA SPA |
Country: ITALY |
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Participant Organization:
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES NETWORK SYSTEMS GMBH |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH - TNO |
Country: NETHERLANDS |
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Participant Organization:
TELENOR COMMUNICATION II AS |
Country: NORWAY |
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Participant Organization:
SIEMENS MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS S.P.A. |
Country: ITALY |
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Participant Organization:
DOCOMO COMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES EUROPE
GMBH |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
ALCATEL SEL AG |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE
HOCHSCHULE AACHEN |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
FRANCE TELECOM |
Country: FRANCE |
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Participant Organization:
INESC PORTO - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE
SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES DO PORTO |
Country: PORTUGAL |
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Participant Organization:
BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI
EGYETEM |
Country: HUNGARY |
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Participant Organization:
NATIONAL ICT AUSTRALIA LIMITED |
Country: AUSTRALIA |
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Participant Organization:
MOTOROLA JAPAN LTD. |
Country: JAPAN |
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Participant Organization:
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA |
Country: CANADA |
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Participant Organization:
OY L M ERICSSON AB |
Country: FINLAND |
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Participant Organization:
CONSORZIO FERRARA RICERCHE |
Country: ITALY |
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Participant Organization:
ERICSSON MAGYARORSZAG KOMMUNIKACIOS
RENSZEREK K.F.T. |
Country: HUNGARY |
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Participant Organization:
VODAFONE GROUP SERVICES LIMITED |
Country: UNITED KINGDOM |
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Participant Organization:
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES NETWORK SYSTEMS UK
LIMITED |
Country: UNITED KINGDOM |
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Participant Organization:
ELISA OYJ |
Country: FINLAND |
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Participant Organization:
CRITICAL SOFTWARE SA |
Country: PORTUGAL |
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Participant Organization:
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT OESTERREICH |
Country: AUSTRIA |
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Participant Organization:
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY |
Country: CANADA |
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Participant Organization:
TELIASONERA AKTIEBOLAG |
Country: SWEDEN |
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Participant Organization:
PANASONIC EUROPEAN LABORATORIES GMBH |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA
UNIPERSONAL |
Country: SPAIN |
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Participant Organization:
THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY |
Country: UNITED KINGDOM |
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Participant Organization:
ERICSSON EUROLAB DEUTSCHLAND GMBH |
Country: GERMANY |
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Participant Organization:
SICS, SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
AB |
Country: SWEDEN |
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Participant Organization:
UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA |
Country: SPAIN |
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Participant Organization:
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN |
Country: SWEDEN |
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Participant Organization:
NEC EUROPE LTD. |
Country: UNITED KINGDOM |
