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SAM (Sustainable Area Management)

Coordinator: Environmental Network Limited (UK)

Call: Sub-Priority Global Change and Ecosystems Instrument: IP

The European Model for Sustainable Area Development & Management (SAM) is an ambitious project that aims to establish an operational, spatially-related model of sustainability that integrates and develops existing knowledge, furthers the understanding of its processes and their implementation and creates new methods, products and policies for sustainable development that can be applied across the whole of the European Union and its accession and candidate states.

The SAM Project is based on state-of-the-art knowledge & practice of methods and tools of Integrated Sustainability Assessment and proposes to develop a model for sustainable development & management that is applicable at all geographic scales. This model utilises existing and develops new, innovative and complementary methods and tools of sustainability assessment, communication and management and processes real-time data that are derived from a network of participating geographic areas and regions. The SAM Model aims to operate across the whole of the enlarging European Union and provides support for spatial planning, policy development and the creation of marketable products. In order to achieve this, the SAM project establishes important 'cross-cutting' links to other thematic areas and activities of the FP6 Programme thus further supporting the transition to a knowledge-based society.

Technotower is Regional Group Coordinator and in this project. And also, Technotower is assigned at socio-cultural studies and Training&Education studies sub-groups.

IPPON (Intelligent Packet Sizing Optimisation for Heterogeneous and Convergent Networks)

Coordinator: Telefonica I+D email: rvc@tid.es

Call: FP6-2004-IST-4 Instrument: STREP

Currently data packet transmission is used for many different networks with diverse nature and for several purposes and applications. Each network where data packets are used, has its own architecture, components, properties, parameters and drawbacks that result in a specific behaviour and efficiency of the system when data packets are transmitted.

The IPPON project addresses the problem of data packets transmission optimisation in wireless networks. The IPPON project will deal with this problem in order to increase the network efficiency and hence QoS.

The aim of this project is to develop a set of algorithms to improve the performance of mobile communication networks. This approach includes research activities regarding 2.5G, 3G and beyond 3G networks in order to provide the users with improved QoS and the possibility of apply to new services and applications.

Depending on the network conditions, the efficiency of the network relies heavily on the size of the data packets transmitted, used window size as well as the limits of the internal timers, and the determination of the appropriate parameters is not a trivial issue and, especially in the case of mobile networks, it depends on many factors. This new set of algorithms will use intelligent mechanisms in order to determine the most appropriate parameter set depending on the different input variables that establish the network conditions. Such solution should produce a flexible algorithm set that is compatible with legacy systems as well as with next generation systems. The optimization of data packets transmission will improve the network efficiency with measurable profits that will serve on one hand to improve current QoS and on the other hand to provide new services that were not applied due to network performance.

Participants' List

Participant Number

Participant Organization

Country

1

Telefónica I+D

Spain

2
Moviquity
Spain

3
TecnoTower Consortium
Turkey

4

Instituto de Telecomunicações

Portugal

5
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Spain

6

University of Siegen

Germany

7
Academy of Business in Dabrowa Gornicza
Poland

8
Brunel University
UK