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Consorzio Università Industria -
Laboratori di radiocomunicazioni
Italy
Coordinating Partner
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RadioLabs is a non-profit consortium comprising University of Roma Tor
Vergata and its industrial partners, Marconi Selenia Comms S.p.A.,
UNI.COM S.p.A. and Si-I.E.S. S.r.l. As overall coordinator for the
Simplicity project, RadioLabs will use its extensive experience in
European Union funded and co-funded projects to help Simplicity
successfully realize its goals and objectives. Besides project
coordination, RadioLabs will use its expertise in networking and
performance evaluation to ensure that the Simplicity architecture is
compatible with the current state of the art in networking technologies.
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DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH
Germany
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DoCoMo Euro-Labs was established in November 2000 in Munich, Germany,
with a mandate to research and develop mobile communications
technologies that meet the demands of a highly advanced multimedia age.
DoCoMo Euro-Labs will contribute to Simplicity in the area of user
device design & development, prototyping, and user interface usability. |
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University of Lancaster
UK
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The Computing Department at the University of Lancaster (ULAN)
researches all aspects of communications and distributed systems,
focusing in particular on support for multimedia and quality of service
and the problems posed by the increasing levels of heterogeneity
exhibited by mobility/ubiquitous computing. ULAN will contribute to
Simplicity in the areas of distributed systems architectures, ubiquitous
systems design and application design and evaluation. In addition, the
group will use its extensive experience in the development of mobile and
ubiquitous computing to ensure that the Simplicity architecture is
compatible with emerging ideas in these fields. |
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Germany
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The Media Informatics group at the University of Munich (LMU)
specializes in user-oriented aspects of digital media technologies.
The University of Munich is one of the oldest and largest universities
in Germany and offers a broad range of degree programs, including the
recently added Media Informatics program, an interdisciplinary program
combining applied computer science with digital media. Within
Simplicity, LMU will study how user and device profiles can be applied
to the flexible formulation of policies governing automated
configuration selection. |
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Institute of Communication and Computer Systems of the
National Technical University of Athens
Greece
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The Intelligent Communications and Broadband Networks (ICBNet)
Laboratory is one of several educational laboratories at the Institute
of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS). This is a private law
body associated with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(SECE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). The
principal goal of the ICBNet Laboratory is to carry out research and
development in telecommunications systems and techniques. Using its
expertise in simulation studies, the ICBNet Laboratory will lead the
theoretical work and performance studies of the Simplicity project. It
will also apply its expertise in integrating and testing architectural
components to the specification design and implementation of the
Simplicity system. |
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Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Germany
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The Information and Communication Mobile Group at Siemens AG (SAG)
covers the entire spectrum of the mobile telephony business with
handsets, network infrastructure and solutions. The Mobile Phones
division holds the number two position in the European market. Its
products include a wide range of mobile phones and smart phones that
combine the advantages of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) with those
of mobile phones. The Mobile Networks Division is a global leader in the
area of pre-paid services within GSM and also plays a leading role with
UMTS. The Mobile Solutions Division provides end-to-end solutions for
data services over the Mobile Internet, focusing on location-dependent,
value-added services and the infotainment, mobile commerce,
entertainment, Video Streaming and messaging sectors. With this
background, Siemens will focus on the specification and prototyping of
the network-based Broker, contributing to the overall business
scenarios, the system requirements for the broker system and the
specification of the broker architecture.
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Siemens Business Services GmbH & Co. OHG
Germany
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Siemens Business Services (SBS) is an independent company, owned by
Siemens, that offers comprehensive business solutions and services, from
consulting to systems integration through to assuming full
responsibility for entire business processes and management of IT
infrastructures. SBS's contribution to Simplicity will be through
C-LAB, the joint research and development laboratory operated by Siemens
and the Paderborn University that has been part of Siemens Business
Services since 2001. C-LAB will focus on extending the reach of the
Simplicity approach, from telecommunication networks to other proprietary
networks, such as home or domestic networks, by linking them via
standards-based gateway solutions. Additionally, C-LAB will probe the
inclusion of non-computer / consumer electronics devices such as
TV-sets, VCR's and home appliances.
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TriaGnoSys GmbH
Germany
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TriaGnoSys GmbH was founded in March 2002 as a private spin-off from the
German Aerospace Center (DLR). TriaGnoSys develops system concepts and
offers technical consulting services in the area of communications
protocols and the integration of multimedia services, with a particular
strength in the integration of heterogeneous network components. It has
over 25 man-years of experience in the aerospace and communication
networks business, with more than 150 publications. Through close
cooperation with DLR, TriaGnoSys is successfully bridging the gap
between basic and applied research, tackling visionary concepts and
developing business cases to push them towards implementation. Using its
expertise in architecture specification of communication networks,
TriaGnoSys will contribute to the definition of convincing and concrete
user scenarios, in particular an appealing scenario based on an extended
"roaming" concept that will serve European business travelers using
public transport. |
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Telecom Italia Learning Services S.P.A.
Italy
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Telecom Italia is the largest telecommunications group in Italy. Telecom
Italia Learning Services (TILS) is a business unit within Telecom Italia
and a key player on national and international markets for Learning &
Knowledge Management. TILS provides integrated solutions for the
organization, management, creation and sharing of knowledge. On the
Simplicity project, TILS will contribute to usability and to the
definition of a middleware architecture that includes a mobile agent
platform for testing Simplicity’s adaptability to different devices,
networks and user environments. TILS will lead the work package
concerned with "Validation Activity". |
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Technical Research Centre of Finland
Finland
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VTT Electronics is an R&D institute with a staff of over 300 persons and
is part of the Technical Research Centre of Finland, which is one of the
largest non-profit contract research organizations in Europe, employing
over 3000 persons. VTT's highly sophisticated technology expertise,
ranging from electronics to software engineering to user interfaces, is
employed by the electronics, telecommunications, process automation,
mechanical engineering, and instrumentation industries. In Simplicity,
VTT will focus on:
i) middleware solutions that enable discovery of valid
information content and provide seamless access into services; ii) UI
related issues, especially wireless UI's downloading to terminals. VTT
will also contribute to technical integration issues, exploiting its
experience designing and developing embedded software. |
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Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Österreich
Austria
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Siemens Austria (Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Österreich) is a provider
of world-class solutions in electrical engineering, focusing on the areas
of communications and information, components, energy, medicine,
automation engineering, and transport in Austria and eastern and
southeastern Europe. The Program and System Engineering (PSE)
department is the largest SW development organization within the Siemens
group and offers SW engineering services to the Siemens group worldwide.
In Simplicity, the PSE will contribute to the definition of the broker
architecture and the evaluation of the overall system. In addition, PSE
will prototype core functionality of the network-based broker and
investigate integration performance issues in the test-bed. |
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