Project Status

Finished

Tag Line

Towards Mobile Broadband Multimedia Communications

Objective

European forum for cooperative scientific research, addressing aspects of mobile broadband multimedia communications. Aims exploring and developping new methods, models, techniques, scenarios adn tools for implementation of the fourth generation of mobile communication systems, contributing in the implementation of systems in final phase of standardisation.

Period

May 2001 - Apr. 2005

Founding

COST (European Commission)

Grow Contribution

Development of wideband directional channel models, multi-service traffic models and cellular planning optimisation algorithms. Developmento of an XML structure for definition of reference scenarios for simulation within the MORANS initiative. Edition of the book "Mobile Broadband Multimedia Networks". Chairing of COST273.

Partners

137 institutions (universities, operators, manufacturers, regulators, laboratories, independent laboratories) belonging to 29 countries (mostly European, but also Asiatic and from North America).