Grow Project: FLOWS

Project Status

Finished

Tag Line

Flexible Convergence of Wireless Systems

Objective

demonstrate how multiple systems and services can flexibly converge in a single terminal, enabling the user to be sumltaneously connected to several systems, and enabling the transparent access to several services.

Period

Jan. 2002 - June 2004

Founding

IST Program (European Commission)

Grow Contribution

Leading of the Services Characterisation Work Package. Characterisation of services and definition of channel models for the involved systems. Study, definition and simulation of Common Radio Resource Management algorithms for heterogeneous networks. Definition of concepts of simultaneous use of services, systems and operators.

Partners

Philips Research Laboratories, Universities of Edimburg and York (UK); Instituto Superior Técnico (PT); SIEMENS, University of Kaiserslautern, Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (DE); Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Mobilkom (AT); Telenor (NO).