The mStar software

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CENTRE FOR DISTANCESPANNING TECHNOLOGY
THE MEETINGPLACEEstablished 1994 Bridging
distance inSPACE, TIME AND CULTURE NEW
KNOWLEDGE,INNOVATION andBUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT Advanced research and development on
distance-spanning technology,needs, usage and
effects
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Parties in close collaboration
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FACTS BRIEFLY

• Established 1994 as a RD collaboration centre
  with Luleå university as legal body
• Collaboration agreement between University,
  Ericsson, Frontec, Telia och Teracom
• Sites in Luleå, Skellefteå, Piteå and Boden
• Five (5) employed
• More than eighty (gt80) researchers on contract
• Turnover 38 Mkr
• Drives knowledge building, innovation and
  business development
• RD focused on
• Advanced distance-spanning digital technology
• Needs, user behaviour driving visions/scenarios
• Asset building in society and commercial business

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Overall Strategy
AssetCreation
Innovations New business
GROWING VALUES
NewKnowledge Methods
World ClassR D
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OFFSPRINGS
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Major Strategy Elements

• Enablers Research Areas
• Mobilized Internet
• Interaction Technology and User Behaviour
• New Media new formats and global prosumption
• Generic Needs Driving Scenarios
• Campus
• Thematic Events
• Integrating professionals
• Quality of Life
• Testplace Botnia
• Test Pilots (personal profile, demography DB)
• Infrastrucure (common future)
• Needfinding, Test Evaluation (skills and tools)
• Organisation Processes

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Research Areas - Technology

• Internet och Mobility
• All-IP-solutions for efficient communications
  mobility
• Payload efficiency - address, packet media
  compression
• Network service quality - resource priority
  management
• Context aware service platforms and Integrity
• Generalised architectures for context position
  awarenes
• Integrity solutions for context info
  communication
• New Interactive Digital Media
• Media scaling and quality optimisation on weak
  resources
• Interaction technology - cognitive quality and
  new interactivity
• New media formats entertainment and experience
  formats
• Generalised architectures for Advanced
  applications
• Customer close healthcare
• Strengthened experiences from distributed events
  
• Embedded Internet System
• Internet-capable small, low power units,
  sensors,and their integration in to functional
  systems

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Research Areas Society Economy

• Needfinding
• Methods for early need/demand discovery and
  definition
• Trends in Society
• Cyber Sociology
• Principal solutions for user power and simplicity
• Service introduction and long term adoption
• Supportive environments for interest communities
• eFamily communication patterns of the modern
  family
• eFair advanced environments for thematic events
• Digital Affairs

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Principles of Operation

• Close collaboration
• People from different cultures joining efforts
• Projects typically engaging triple-helix
• University, Business companies and Society
• High profile project co-funding capability
• Typ. 3-10 times single party contribution
• Impact Innovation Generation
• Joining top knowledge from different disciplines
• Managing the creative tension between different
  cultures
• Clear project objectives with room for creativity
• Greenhouse for evaluation and realisation of
  ideas
• Well established IPR principles,
  encouragingexploitation of results
• Global Competence Network
• Researchers, Engineers, Managers, Hackers,
  Businessmen, Jurists, Sponsors,
  Consumers,Artists, Students etc.

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Award winning

• Swedish Innovation Cup
• 1998 Brodnik/Carlsson/Degermark/Pink - The Luleå
  Algorithm
• Best paper award - ACM/SIGCOM
• 1998 Mikael Degermark
• 2 IST-Prizes for new companies
• 1999 Effnet (No1 - Grand IST Price) and 2000
  Marratech (Top10 - IST Price)
• No 1 Swedish researcher
• 2000 Mikael Degermark - Chester Carlsson Prize
  for high performance routing
• No 1 Swedish research project - Ny Teknik
• 2000 Rocco-project (Ericsson, LTU)
• Inventor of the year at Ericsson
• 2001 Krister Svanbro, Ericsson Erisoft for
  Header-compression

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Tangible, concrete Results
Ultra-efficient routing
eMeeting - joining people
High capacity modems
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The Prosperous Test-bed
Test-bed Bothnia

• gt2500 test pilots and gt50 companies/retailers
• Flexible rich infrastructure for various tests
• GSM, GPRS, UMTS, WLAN, DAB/DVB
• Flexible service platforms
• Scenario-driven RD
• Sports, Street-life and more...