A common vision of future mobile and wireless technologies published in the "Book of Visions".
Alignment of views on wireless technologies via liaisons with MITF in Japan, the UMTS Forum in Europe, the NGMC Forum in Korea, and the FuTURE project in China.
Regular events with leading experts and decision-makers for exchanging research results and presenting future scenarios and strategies.
Proven record of creating global large-scale research cooperation and facilitating funding.
Consensus-building prior to standardisation and coordinated input to standards bodies.
White papers on leading-edge research topics like Smart antennas, Ad-hoc networks, reconfigurability and Business in the future wireless world
Current research topics
System concepts and high-level architectures
Requirements on future mobile and wireless systems
The role of scenarios for applications and services
Applications and services
Service categorization and service evolution
Cooperative and ambient networks
New approaches to self-organisation in networking
Meshing and multi-hop protocols for relay-based deployment
Wideband channel measurement and modelling
Duplexing, resource allocation and inter-cell coordination
Broadband frequency domain-based air interfaces
Management and control architecture, scalability and stability of reconfigurable systems
Cognitive radio and management of spectrum and radio resources in reconfigurable networks
Business models and sustainability of reconfigurability
Requirements for future service platform architectures
Determining spectrum efficiency and flexible spectrum use
