Project
| Title | Grant by | Description | Comnets part |
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CELTIC WINNER+
| Wireless World Initiative New Radio + | EU | The support of broadband services for mobile and wireless applications towards
IMT-Advanced, with excellent user experiences, are key trends for future radio
access technologies (RAT), providing deployment scenarios with reduced
operator’s CAPEX and OPEX. The WINNER+ project addresses these challenges from a
technical, standardisation and regulatory perspective.
Based on the basic system concept, which was developed in the FP6 WINNER and
WINNER II projects, this project will develop, optimise and evaluate a
competitive IMT-Advanced candidate proposal by integrating innovative and
cost-effective additional concepts and functions and providing an evolution path
towards further improved performance of IMT-Advanced. This development is
ongoing in a globally competitive environment. Technology candidate proposals
are expected from Europe, IEEE, China, Japan and Korea. In order to reduce
fragmentation and to ensure a competitive European position in the global
context, this project is mobilising manufacturers and operators in Europe and
the research community for a collaborative research effort. The consortium is
based on the leading role of European companies in the global market on mobile
and wireless communications.
Key technologies and selected concepts will be evaluated and optimised through
prototypes and emulators in order to show the feasibility of the developed radio
interface. The WINNER+ project will contribute essential technical information
to the forthcoming standardisation and regulatory process after WRC 2007 via
well-established channels, significantly increasing the opportunities to exploit
the WINNER+ system concept. |
OMEGA
| hOME Gigabit Access | EU | Gigabit home access networks (HANs) are a pivotal technology to be developed if the EU Vision of the Future Internet is to be realised. Consumers will require such HANs to be simple to install, without any new wires, and easy enough to use so that information services running on the HAN will be 'just another utility,' as, for instance, electricity, water and gas are today. A successful OMEGA project will demonstrate the successful realisation of a gigabit HAN. The OMEGA HAN is centred round the needs of the user: gigabit RF and optical links, combined with more robust wide-area RF and visible-light communications will provide wireless connectivity within and the home and its surroundings. Combined with power-line communications this provides a home 'backbone' 'without new wires.' A technology-independent MAC layer will control this network and provide services as well as connectivity to any number of devices the user wishes to connect to it in any room in a house/apartment, and further, this MAC layer will allow the service to 'follow the user' from device to device. In order to make this vision come true, substantial progress is required in the fields of optical-wireless and RF physical layers, in protocol design, and in systems architectures. For OMEGA, an interdisciplinary team from leading institutes and companies in this broad range of technologies has been assembled. A successful project will have a number of significant outcomes. It will provide a substantial consumer 'pull' for 'next-generation broadband' by enabling the sharing of large-date user-generated content, which will, in turn, raise the expectation for higher data rates. Also, at the same time, a 'push' from service providers will take place, as they see the possibility of delivering new high-bandwidth services to the user throughout the home. OMEGA, together with the next generation of broadband access, will present significant market opportunities for all the European 'actors' in the communications industry, but most importantly empower citizens by offering access to novel 'emotional' experiences or virtual services, while addressing ageing, isolation, and health challenges, and thus making an important contribution to the vision of FP7. |
ROCKET
| Reconfigurable OFDMA-based Cooperative NetworKs Enabled by Agile SpecTrum Use | EU | The project aims at providing a ubiquitous wireless solution to reach bit rates higher than 100Mbps with peak throughputs higher than 1Gbps, based on Reconfigurable OFDMA Cooperative Networks enabled by agile spectrum use (ROCKET). While increasing peak rates is a natural must-do for new standards, we believe in ROCKET that providing homogeneous high rate coverage is equally important as it guarantees a constant user experience over the whole served area and is the key enabler to a higher average spectral efficiency of the system. Those goals are inline with the IMT-Advanced requirements described in [ITU-R M1645] and match the requirements of the IEEE 802.16 Task Group m (TGm) for Advanced Air Interface. In order to guarantee a strong focus and efficiency in the project, we propose to limit the scope of our investigations to two questions which we believe will be at the centre of future IMT-advanced system design: - How can we increase the bandwidth and make the whole system benefit from it? - How can we increase system spectral efficiency and provide ubiquitous high-rate coverage? Those questions are addressed by devising methods for improved spectrum usage, advanced multi-user cooperative transmission and ultra-efficient MAC design. Providing inputs to standardization bodies, generating IPR and conceiving architectures for some of the algorithms on a hardware platform are the ways the project plans to have actual impact. |
OMEGA
| hOME Gigabit Access | EU | Gigabit home access networks (HANs) are a pivotal technology to be developed if the EU Vision of the Future Internet is to be realised. Consumers will require such HANs to be simple to install, without any new wires, and easy enough to use so that information services running on the HAN will be 'just another utility,' as, for instance, electricity, water and gas are today. A successful OMEGA project will demonstrate the successful realisation of a gigabit HAN. The OMEGA HAN is centred round the needs of the user: gigabit RF and optical links, combined with more robust wide-area RF and visible-light communications will provide wireless connectivity within and the home and its surroundings. Combined with power-line communications this provides a home 'backbone' 'without new wires.' A technology-independent MAC layer will control this network and provide services as well as connectivity to any number of devices the user wishes to connect to it in any room in a house/apartment, and further, this MAC layer will allow the service to 'follow the user' from device to device. In order to make this vision come true, substantial progress is required in the fields of optical-wireless and RF physical layers, in protocol design, and in systems architectures. For OMEGA, an interdisciplinary team from leading institutes and companies in this broad range of technologies has been assembled. A successful project will have a number of significant outcomes. It will provide a substantial consumer 'pull' for 'next-generation broadband' by enabling the sharing of large-date user-generated content, which will, in turn, raise the expectation for higher data rates. Also, at the same time, a 'push' from service providers will take place, as they see the possibility of delivering new high-bandwidth services to the user throughout the home. OMEGA, together with the next generation of broadband access, will present significant market opportunities for all the European 'actors' in the communications industry, but most importantly empower citizens by offering access to novel 'emotional' experiences or virtual services, while addressing ageing, isolation, and health challenges, and thus making an important contribution to the vision of FP7. |
ROCKET
| Reconfigurable OFDMA-based Cooperative NetworKs Enabled by Agile SpecTrum Use | EU | The project aims at providing a ubiquitous wireless solution to reach bit rates higher than 100Mbps with peak throughputs higher than 1Gbps, based on Reconfigurable OFDMA Cooperative Networks enabled by agile spectrum use (ROCKET). While increasing peak rates is a natural must-do for new standards, we believe in ROCKET that providing homogeneous high rate coverage is equally important as it guarantees a constant user experience over the whole served area and is the key enabler to a higher average spectral efficiency of the system. Those goals are inline with the IMT-Advanced requirements described in [ITU-R M1645] and match the requirements of the IEEE 802.16 Task Group m (TGm) for Advanced Air Interface. In order to guarantee a strong focus and efficiency in the project, we propose to limit the scope of our investigations to two questions which we believe will be at the centre of future IMT-advanced system design: - How can we increase the bandwidth and make the whole system benefit from it? - How can we increase system spectral efficiency and provide ubiquitous high-rate coverage? Those questions are addressed by devising methods for improved spectrum usage, advanced multi-user cooperative transmission and ultra-efficient MAC design. Providing inputs to standardization bodies, generating IPR and conceiving architectures for some of the algorithms on a hardware platform are the ways the project plans to have actual impact. |
 | OTS 2
OTS Communication in linked traffic information and traffic management systems – extension, implementation and testing of the open OTS standard | Supported by Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology | OTS stands for Open Traffic Systems. Instruments, communication and processes allow an open, standardized communication in linked systems for traffic information and traffic management. | |
WINNER
| Wireless World Initiative NEw Radio | EU
IST-FP6/7 Integrated Project | The key objective of the WINNER project is to develop a totally new concept in radio access. This is built on the recognition that developing disparate systems for different purposes (cellular, WLAN, short-range access etc.) will no longer be sufficient in the future converged Wireless World. This concept will be realised in the ubiquitous radio system concept. more | Leiter des zweitgrößten Arbeitspaketes |
WINNER2
| Wireless World Initiative NEw Radio | EU
IST-FP6/7 Integrated Project | In WINNER 2 setzt ComNets seine erfolgreiche Arbeit fort, um die in WINNER eingebrachten Relais Konzepte im ComNets System Level Simulator zu bewerten und optimieren. | Leiter des größten „Tasks“ („Relaying“) |
Ambient Networks  | | EU IST FP6/7 Integrated Project | Innerhalb des europäischen Ambient Networks Projektes beschäftigt sich ComNets mit der Entwicklung und Bewertung einer Architektur, die es ermöglicht, aus unterschiedlichen verfügbaren Funktechnologien eine oder mehrere Technologien auszuwählen und anschließend zu verwenden. Außerdem wirdder Einsatz von intelligenten Caching Algorithmen zur Verbesserung der Leistungsfähigkeit zukünftiger Netze untersucht. mehr... | Im Rahmen dieser Untersuchungen ist ComNets führend bei der objektorientierten Analyse der erstellten Netzkonzepte. |
MYCAREVENT
http://www.mycarevent.com/
| MobilitY and CollAboRative Work in European Vehicle Emergency NeTworks | EU
IST-FP6/7 Integrated Project | ComNets entwickelt im Rahmen von IST-MYCAREVENT einen Fahrzeug-Kommunikationsgateway und eine Middleware zurUnterstützung der Anwendungsentwicklung. Das Ziel des Projektes ist dieUnterstützung der Automobilclubs, freier Werkstätten und Fahrzeugtypspezifische Dienstleister, sowie der Fahrzeughalter im Falle einer Fahrzeugstörung. Im diesem Rahmen wird auch ein 'Always-Best-Connected' Fahrzeug-Kommunikationsgateway entwickelt. | ComNets ist Workpackage Leader in WP4 (Arbeitspaket mobile Kommunikation) und arbeitet im WP7 (Arbeitspaket mobile Anwendungen). ComNets entwickelte in diesem Projekt ein Fahrzeug- Kommunikationsgateway und zahlreiche Anwendungen auf mobilen Endgeräten, die über das Gateway zum Service Portal verbunden sind. |
ScaleNet
| | EU | Das Projekt ScaleNet stellt ein Systemkonzept bereit, das eine skalierbare,kostengünstige und effiziente Integration unterschiedlicher drahtloser und drahtgebundener Zugangsnetze und -technologien ermöglicht, wobei das Gesamtsystem in allen Teilen auf eine ausreichend hohe Performance ausgelegt sein und alle denkbaren Varianten von Nutzer- und Terminalmobilität unterstützen soll. | ComNets arbeitet in ScaleNet an den Themen Relaykonzepte, flexibler Protokollstapel, flexible und dynamische Spektrumsnutzung, Koexistenz und Spektrumsbedarfsschätzung. |
| 4G Spectrum | | BMBF | Gesamtziel desVorhabens 4G Spectrum ist es, eine neue Methode zur Ermittlung des Spektrumsbedarfs für zukünftige paketvermittelnde Funksysteme zu entwickeln, die Standardisierung dieser Methode bei der ITU voranzutreiben und anschließend durch Ermittlung geeigneter Eingangsparameter und Anwendung dieser Methode den zukünftigen Spektrumsbedarf zu ermitteln. | |
CoCoNet
| Koexistenzregeln für drahtlose, im Spektrum konkurrierende Kommunikationsnetze | DFG SPP AKOM | ImCoCoNet-Vorhaben werden Funksysteme untersucht, die aus unterschiedlichen Standards entstammen und imselben Frequenzband senden.
Trotz der daraus resultierenden wechselseitigen Interferenz der einzelnen Funksysteme soll Multimediaverkehr mit garantierbarer Dienstgüte ermöglicht werden. | (i.) Erweiterung der Adaptivität von Funknetzen auf alle verfügbarenRessourcen (Frequenz, Sendeleistung, Bandbreite, Übertragungsverfahren),(ii.) Protokolle für Netze mit sehr hohen Übertragungsraten, (iii.) Kooperation in homogenen und inhomogenenNetzen und (iv.) unterschiedliche Möglichkeiten der Koordinierung zwischen den Stationen eines Netzes. |
| Fireworks | | EU
IST FP6 STREP | | |
| Dmotion | Entwicklung eines Daten-, Informations- und Strategieverbunds
für die Region Düsseldorf | BMWF | Ziel von Dmotion ist es, einen Daten- und Informationsverbund zwischen Stadt, Land und privaten
Akteuren für ein effektives, strategisches Verkehrsmanagement für den Ballungsraum Düsseldorf aufzubauen. Gleichzeitig wird damit der Anspruch verbunden, die Systemarchitektur als ein verteiltes, herstellergemischtes System auf der Grundlage von Modellen und Kommunikationsstandards
interpretieren und auf andere Ballungsräume übertragen zu können.
Project-Page: www.dmotion.info |
ComNets erarbeitet die methodischen Grundlagen, die für ein koordiniertes
Vorgehen zur Erreichung einer derartigen modellgetriebenen Architektur
erforderlich sind. |
COFDM
| ntegration von COFDM in Mehrantennensysteme und Entwicklung
adaptiver Medienzugriffsprotokolle | DFG SPP TakeOFDM
(Techniken, Algorithmen und Konzepte für zukünftige COFDM Systeme) | Ziel ist die Entwicklung eines Gesamtkonzeptsfür eine adaptive Protokollarchitektur für OFDM-basierteMehrantennensysteme. Neben klassischen Vielfachzugriffsverfahren sollvor allem die Teilnehmertrennung aufgrund der räumlichen Selektivitätdes Funkkanals (SDMA) untersucht werden. In enger Kooperation wird einMedienzugriffsprotokoll für die adaptive Wahl des Vielfachzugriffsentwickelt und spezifiziert. Dabei werden Realisierungsaspekte derdigitalen und analogen Hardware berücksichtigt, um eine realistischeBewertung zukünftiger OFDM-basierter Mobilfunksysteme zu ermöglichen. | |
CoCar
 | | | The next innovation step in automotive technologies in order to support driver safety and traffic management is automotive communications. Currently, the research is focussing on WLAN based communication technologies, but already existing cellular networks and the constantly increasing performance of 3G systems are bringing cellular communication technologies more and more in the fore.
CoCar is a BMBF co-funded project that investigates the feasibility of cellular (3G+) communication technologies for the transmission of telematic information for future cooperative applications in the automotive domain. It is one of three research projects within the AKTIV ("Adaptive and Cooperative Technologies for the Intelligent Traffic") research initiative led by the German automotive industry. CoCar has started in November 2006 and the partners are one mobile operator (Vodafone), two car manufacturers DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen) and one truck manufacturer (MAN).
CoCar will investigate the applicability of current and future cellular communication technologies to support a broad variety of automotive applications, like e.g., road hazard warnings, floating car data, and Remote Diagnostics. Impacts and shortcomings in the 3G network architecture shall be identified. Protocols on application layer and mappings to 3G specific protocols will be analysed, designed, and prototyped. Communication simulations are performed to evaluate the performance of upcoming 3G systems to support these applications and to evaluate the influence of the CoCar traffic load on the network and protocol architecture. | |
UMIC | Cross-Layer Signaling in Adaptive Protocol Stacks to enable Mobile Multi-Homing | DFG | Next generation wireless systems need to offer support for the (optimized) parallel operation in multiple radio modes. The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate an architecture supporting mobile multi-homing including the application driven mode selection. Therefore, a cross-layer signaling architecture that also supports the implementation of cross-layer optimization at the various levels of the protocol stack will be developed. | | |
| UMIC | | DFG | Future ubiquitous mobile environments demand development and deployment of real life mobile services to enable context awareness, optimization of communication and network performance, resource management in limited configuration devices and information access even in infrastructure-less environments. Such networks enable wireless nodes to communicate multi-hop with each other and with servers performing Mobile Web Services. Within this project, the research focus is tilted towards the development a scientific framework to efficiently perform complex in-network distributedcomputations in multi-hop based wireless networks supporting Mobile Web Services. In order to achieve higher valued in-network computations, architectures and protocols for complex Mobile Web Services to perform collaborative computations among the nodes will be developed. The scientific framework introduced in this project will focus on contributing towards the state-of the- art of in-network computation theory for wireless multi-hop based networks. The results are expected to provide efficient solutions to some major issues, such as processing power, battery consumption and network performance. | | |
