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Interacting Wireless Grids: Cooperative
Approaches for Mobile Users Coordinator: Marcos Katz and Markku Kiviranta and Kyösti Rautiola, e-mail: marcos.katz (at) vtt.fi; markku.kiviranta (at) vtt.fi; kyosti.rautiola (at) vtt.fi Involved countries: Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey |
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Abstract |
| The main objective of the INGRID project is to carry out innovative applied research in the field of cooperative wireless networks, complemented by validating field tests and prototype development of future cooperative services. The underlying concept of the project is that mobile devices form a wireless cooperative grid using wireless short-range links in addition to their cellular communication systems to share and combine resources, services and capabilities. It is increasingly evident that typical wireless scenarios like home, office and public environments increasingly fulfil the necessary key preconditions for mobile device cooperation. Indeed, the proliferation of smart mobile terminals, as well as communications-enabled digital computing devices such as office and home appliances, triggers the need and possibility for potential cooperation around every mobile device, regardless of its location. Furthermore, the predisposition of users to cooperate across communications networks, targeting personal and common benefits, is more and more evident through the increasingly proliferation of social software services. As preliminary results indicate, the centralized-distributed hybrid access architecture considered in this project has great potential to tackle many of the key challenges identified for future wireless networks and services. Through the INGRID project, we will provide evidence that each cooperating entity achieves better services with less energy consumption and less involved costs, and achieves higher spectral efficiency than existing cellular- or short-range based non-cooperative solutions. In fact, the direct beneficiaries of these advantages are the users themselves, as a result of their participating in such a structure. Furthermore, since the approach proposed relies also on the other players in the wireless communication chain, such as network operators and service providers, these parties will also gain benefit from such cooperation. For instance, an operator may increase its market penetration significantly, as it will be able to offer advanced context dependent and high performance services which would not be possible to provide in an autonomous (non-cooperative) fashion. Moreover, manufacturers will also be able to produce cooperation-enabled mobile devices with attractive features and advanced communicational capabilities, leading to higher device production. |