ERCIM eMobility Working Group Overview

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ERCIM eMobility Working Group Overview

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ERCIM Working Groups

• Membership
• Working Group (WG) is open to anyone who wishes
  to participate
• WG must have 3 ERCIM members
• Activities
• Workshops
• Project proposals
• ERCIM fellowship program
• Dissemination of information
• Creation of ERCIM WG on eMobility is currently in
  process.

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Objectives of ERCIM eMobility WG

• Seeking influence on international research
  programs
• Develop strategic basic research agenda
• Rather complimentary to eMobility ETP
• More (theoretical) basic research oriented
• Driven by academic partners
• Longer term research
• Not limited by commercial constraints
• Stronger focus on social, environmental interests
  
• Investigation of disruptive technologies
• Develop common project proposals, e.g. NoE, FET,
  STREP, COST

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Tentative ERCIM eMobility WG Members

• ERCIM members
• SARIT, CH
• FNRS/FWO, BE
• FORTH, GR
• NTNU, N
• CWI, NL
• CNR, I

• Non-ERCIM members
• U Coimbra, P
• Tampere UT, FIN
• UC Dublin, IRE
• TNO, NL
• Demokritos U, GR

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Addressed Research Topics

• Applications and Services
• Mobile applications, e.g. eHealth, mobile
  multimedia, mobile learning
• Mobile application support including content
  distribution and adaptation
• Ubiquitous and pervasive computing/communications
  including sensor networks, mobile P2P,
  location-based services, context-aware computing
• Middleware and Security
• Network Architectures and Technologies
• Wireless access networks
• Wireless multi-hop networks
• Experimentation networks
• Protocols
• Mobility issues such as mobility management,
  always best connected, concurrent access, ambient
  networks
• QoS and traffic engineering
• Protocol architectures including cross layer
  protocol design and energy-efficient protocols

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Contact
Chair Torsten Braun, University of
Bern Institute of Computer Science and Applied
Mathematics Neubrückstrasse 10, CH-3012
Bern braun_at_iam.unibe.ch
Deputy Chair Dimitri Konstantas, University of
Geneva Centre Universitaire d'Informatique 24,
rue Général-Dufour, CH-1211 Genève
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General Secretary Markus Wulff, University of
Bern Institute of Computer Science and Applied
Mathematics Neubrückstrasse 10, CH-3012
Bern mwulff_at_iam.unibe.ch
www.iam.unibe.ch/rvs/ercim
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Next Steps

• Submission of application to ERCIM
• Next meeting planned at Malaga (Spain),
  co-located with COST 290 management committee
  meeting, February 14, 2007, www.cost290.org
• Workshop on eMobility, co-located to WWIC 2007,
  Coimbra (Portugal), May 21, 2007,
  wwic2007.dei.uc.pt