The Wireless World Initiative (WWI) is a major European research initiative to create the technologies needed for Systems Beyond 3G (B3G) in a cross industry and academia research collaboration. The WWI is a set of 5 coordinated research projects – MobiLife, SPICE, Ambient Networks, WINNER and E2R – partly funded under the European Union’s 6th Framework Programme spanning the communications stack from future wireless air interfaces, through ambient networking, adaptive radio systems, service provisioning frameworks and distributed application architecture.
The initiative represents the collaborative work of over 100 organizations from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, more than 700 researchers and in excess of € 80M of investment thus far. At the end of 2005, the initiative completed the first phase of its projects, framing the conceptual architectures for B3G and advancing enabling technologies. Since the beginning of 2006, the projects entered the second 2-year phase.
The Symposium Agenda contains a Joint Plenary followed by two parallel Workshop Tracks:
Workshop on "Users, Services and Service Platforms" (MobiLife and SPICE)
The workshop is built upon the high-level WWI statements:
User Centricity is a key in WWI
To ensure excellent user experience
To find ways to exploit and deploy technologies such that they give added value to the users (or customers)
Services and applications are the users’ “window” to the underlying layers and technologies.
Users do not see (or should not see) the technologies themselves, but the better user experience and added value they can provide through services and applications
Good services and applications give users better user experience and added value, and enable deployment of new technologies!
MobiLife and SPICE target these issues as follows:
MobiLiferesearches on concepts, technologies and architectures enabling novel applications and services for B3G. This is the final major public event for MobiLife summarising and demonstrating its results from the 28-month project (Sep2004-Dec2006).
SPICE is a 2.5-year project that started in Jan2006. SPICE concentrates on enabling service concepts and technologies from a service platform point of view. This is the first major public event for describing the SPICE concepts and frameworks from its first project year.
Workshop on "Communication Technologies" (Ambient Networks, WINNER and E2R)
The Wireless World, or B3G world, relies on efficient and cost-effective communication infrastructures that can enable applications and services as stated in the high-level WWI statements. This workshop concentrates on the communication infrastructure issues from network, radio and reconfigurability perspectives.
Ambient Networks, WINNER and E2Rare looking at network, radio and reconfigurability aspects in the future communication systems. They entered their second 2-year research phases in Jan2006 and the projects will present new results from their research work.
We are pleased to welcome you to the 3rd WWI Symposium in Helsinki and are looking forward to a fruitful meeting on concepts and technologies for Systems Beyond 3G – the Wireless World!
Agenda
The event agenda is as follows:
08:00
Registration
09:00
Joint Plenary: Opening, WWI overview and Invited Talks
09:00 Opening and WWI Overview
Werner Mohr, Siemens Networks GmbH&Co KG /Chairman of the WWI Steering Board
09:25 Overview of Achievements in WWI
Henrik Abramowicz,Ericsson / Chairman of the WWI Coordination Team
09:45 Invited Presentation / Users and Services as Drivers in the Mobile and Wireless World
Kirsi Valtari, VP Technology, Elisa
10:30 Invited Presentation / European Commission
Rainer Zimmermann, European Commission
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Workshop 1: MobiLife, SPICE
11:30MobiLife Overview and Architecture
Mika Klemettinen, Nokia
Stephan Steglich, Fraunhofer FOKUS
12:15 SPICE Overview and Architecture
Christophe Cordier, France Telecom
Francois Carrez, Alcatel
Workshop 2: AN, WINNER, E2R
11:30 Unified Business Model (UBM): Ecosystem for
Beyond 3G
Pieter Ballon, University of Brussels
12:00 How to Exploit Networks Surrounding You Norbert Niebert, Ericsson
12:30 E2R II System Architecture and Reconfiguration
Management Plane
Zachos Boufidis, University of Athens
13:00
Lunch break
14:00
Workshop 1 (continues): MobiLife
14:00 Introduction
Mika Klemettinen, Nokia
14:05How the Users Perceive the Future
Services and Business Models?
Annakaisa Häyrynen, Elisa
14:25Making it Easy to Manage the User
Environment – Multimodality and Personalisation
at Your Service!
David Bonnefoy, Motorola
14:45Privacy in the Context-Aware World
Johan Hjelm, Ericsson
15:05Context in Your Pocket - the MobiLifeContext
Management Framework and ContextWatcher
Matthias Wagner, Docomo
15:25 Closing Remarks
Mika Klemettinen, Nokia
Workshop 2 (continues): AN, WINNER, E2R
14:00 How to Benefit from Heterogeneous
Technologies Jens Gebert, Alcatel
14:30 Providing Connectivity in a Safe and Secure
Manner
Marcus Brunner, NEC 15:00 Deployment Aspects of New Radio Systems Albena Mihovska, Aalborg University
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Workshop 1 (continues): SPICE
16:00 Introduction
Christophe Cordier, France Telecom
16:05 Intelligent Service Enablers
Herma van Kranenburg, Telematica Instituut
16:25 Best-Configured Communication Environment
Antonio Vitale, Alcatel
16:45 Service Roaming
Josip Zoric, Telenor
17:05 Service Composition
Alberto Baravaglio, Telecom Italia
17:25 Closing Remarks
Christophe Cordier, France Telecom
Workshop 2 (continues): AN, WINNER, E2R
16:00 Novel Flexible Spectrum Use Capabilities of
WINNER Jean-Philippe Kermoal, Nokia
16:30 Cognitive Radio and Networks for Beyond 3G
Developments Didier Bourse, Motorola
17:00 Evolution Paths towards New Radio Systems Eiman Mohyeldin / Ludwig Hiebinger, Siemens Networks
GmbH&Co KG
17:30
End of symposium
Registration
EARLY REGISTRATION FEE EUR 100 VALID UNTIL 10.11.2006!
AFTER 10.11.2006 THE REGISTRATION FEE IS EUR 120!
Registration fee (EUR 100 including VAT 22% from Finland) includes
registration
symposium material
demonstration booth
morning coffee
lunch
afternoon coffee
In case of cancellation, no refunds will be made, but substitute participants are welcome!
Related to lunch, selection of meat (default) / vegetarian lunch will be available; your selection will be checked in the registration confirmation email.
WWI Symposium is being held at Helsingin Messukeskus (the Helsinki Fair Centre) Conference Wing, only 20 minutes by tram or 5 minutes by train (+ 5 minutes walk) from the city centre - visit their website.
The Helsinki Fair Centre Messuaukio 1 FIN-00521 Helsinki Finland Website: www.finnexpo.fi
If you are citizen of a country from where it is necessary to have a visa for visiting Finland, you must obtain a visa before travelling. Please contact your local Finnish Embassy for all relevant visa information.
Accommodation
We have reserved a limited number of rooms for 19.-24.11.2006 (Sun-Fri) from two centrally located hotels with a special WWI Symposium price:
Radisson SAS Plaza Helsinki Mikonkatu 23, 00100 Helsinki
Radisson SAS Royal Hotel Helsinki Runeberginkatu 2, 00100 Helsinki
Reservations:
Block reservation code: WWI06
Availability until 19.10.2006 (19:00 CET) - NEW DEADLINE 31.10.2006!
There are multiple good quality hotels in Helsinki. In case the block reservations become full, you may check the IST 2006 accomodation pages for nearby hotels and their prices.
Please contact the hotels directly and well in advance, since the IST conference running in parallel and the Finnish EU presidency make many hotels full during the fall period.
MobiLife co-oragnised the WWI-MOCCA special session at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2006 Fall on 25-28 September 2006 in Montréal, Canada. The special session consisted of 5 paper presentations from all WWI projects.
The combined SME and demonstration event took place at the Helsinki Fair Centre in Helsinki. The meetings and demonstration facilities were available to demonstration events that took place on the 19 and 20 of September. Both events lasted approximately 5 hours with an average of 30 people attending to the first one and 15 people to the second one.
A separate 2-day demonstration event was held in Italy on 24-25 October 2006.
WWI organised (and thus MobiLife co-organised) a Business Models workshop in Copenhagenin the ICMB 2006 conference (http://asp.cbs.dk/icmb2006/) on 26.-27.06.2006. Also, MobiLife had three formal presentations.
The two-day workshop was organised in the following way:
·26.06.2006: Public track with presentations and key note speeches (open): This day was public and widely open to research and business communities. Different European projects and initiatives presented their work on business models such as E2R II, MOBILIFE, SPICE, AMBIENT NETWORKS II, WINNER II, DAIDALOS and MAGNET.
·27.06.2006: Brainstorming session on B3G Business Models (additional registration required): This day represented a unique occasion to brainstorm on the business models for B3G and interact with the WWI project partners. The brainstorming was facilitated by Mr. Al Lee (Motorola), inventor of Business System Architecture Process (BSAP) methodology. The outcomes included business roles and functions (platform and vendor independent).
MobiLife co-organised a WWI tutorial (workshop-like) in IST Mobile and Wireless Summit 2006 in Myconos, Greece, on 04.06.2006. Altogether, MobiLife had five papers and presentations in the Summit.
MobiLife had a exhibition booth at IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit 2006. The MobiLife booth was visited by many people and a number flyers (project, WPs, etc.), brochures, etc. were distributed. Summit itself was visited by around 700 people.
MobiLife arranged together with the other WWI projects a full-day workshop (co-located with mITF and NICT events on 28.-29.03.2006) in Yokosuka with the following presentations:
User Centric Research Methodologies and Evaluating User Acceptance
Context Management for Future Services
Novel Service Architecture Solutions
The joint 3-day event attracted around 300 registrants mainly from Asia (China, Korea, Japan).
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