Objective The vision of accessing the Internet at any location, when needed, and in the form it is requested remains Utopia, with the still dominant access via cable-based technologies. The promise for this vision to happen is a wireless architecture in which the complete infrastructure collaborates to form the paradigm of an all wireless Internet.The results of WIP will enable new business models and new applications, which will have considerable impact on everyone's daily life in private or business. In comparison to the current development of the Internet, the necessary steps towards such an architecture is not simply adding necessary functionality, but a complete paradigm shift of all details of the current Internet architecture.The objective of the WIP project is to design, implement, and experimentally validate an all-wireless interconnection architecture based on advanced wireless transmission techniques, mesh networking, cross-layer optimization, and mechanisms for seamless mobility. Such a wireless network must be self-organizing to maximize the network capacity and capabilities. The project will develop a suitable measurement methodology and set up experimental prototypes to validate the proposed concepts.To achieve the vision of the Radio Internet, WIP will adopt a disruptive approach with respect to the current Internet: to rethink the overall architecture with wireless networks as the central technology and develop a new interconnection architecture founded on the principle of all-wireless networks with some isolated wired long-haul links.By defining new topology and routing schemes, designing simple interconnection rules, elaborating new performance objectives, providing seamless mobility, and designing self-configuring and self-healing mechanisms, a large number of wireless access networks can be dynamically interconnected to provide wide coverage with a large capacity and ubiquity. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternettransport layernatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicstopologyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile networksocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness modelsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technology Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2004-2.4.5 - Mobile and Wireless Systems and Platforms Beyond 3G Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator UNIVERSITE PARIS VI PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE Address 4 place jussieu 75252 Paris cedex 05 France See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 6th km charilaou-thermi road Thermi-thessaloniki See on map Links Website Opens in new window CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 3, rue michel-ange Paris cedex 16 See on map CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Parc mediterrani de tecnologia, avinguda del canal olimpic 08860 Castelldefels See on map INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 46 avenue felix viallet 38031 Grenoble cedex 1 See on map INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Avenida de rovisco pais Lisboa See on map Links Website Opens in new window SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Wittelsbacherplatz 2 80333 Muenchen See on map SWISSCOM AG Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Alte tiefenaustrasse 6, worblaufen 3050 Bern See on map THOMSON France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Quai alphonse le gallo 46 92100 Boulogne billancourt See on map UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1 France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 621 avenue centrale - domaine universitaire 38400 Saint martin d'heres See on map
