Femto

=Building the Quality Network for Wireless and Mobile Services= answering the Verdikt call for BIP: Energy, .... Future Internet, Infrastructure, ...

Intro: Growth of mobile data, PAD and other devices, need 700 MHz BW....

Partners
Femtoforum: Nexia, DSL Partner, ICT Norway, Movation, CWI Norway, FFI, (Studiemøtet)

Financial support: (or contributing personal costs) NetworkNorway, Telenor, Netcom,... Ubiquisys, Altibox, ....

Supported by: NPT

Challenges

 * Research challenges

WPs for Femtocell
WP2 - Coverage (coverage & capacity!!) objective: providing high bandwidth with minimum network cost throughout Norway; proposing a frequency vs technology allocation based on theoretical analysis and practical measurements.
 * theoretical analysis (of what??)
 * practical measurements
 * stress testing
 * research challenges:

WP3 - Security & Authentication
 * pass through,
 * "virtuell fixed network operator"
 * non-encrypted information flow

WP4 - Quality Networks
 * Cognitive systems
 * Quality of Service
 * control service

WP5 - Business models
 * customer subscription versus provision from
 * macro network costs versus femto costs, OPEX and CAPEX
 * eksempel: FFI as femto provider
 * børs versus management

WP6 - Pilot
 * konseptutvikling (bidrag fra FFI/Trondheim samarbeid - GNU software radio, Stig Frode, Torbjørn...)
 * pilot market analysis

WP7 - Exploitation and Dissemination
 * International partnership, Net!Works

Budget

 * 4 MNOK med 40% støtte av Forksningsrådet(?)
 * (6 MNOK totalbudget) for å dekke 3 x 800 kNOK = 2.4 MNOK for Dr. Grad

Finansering
 * 20% arbeidskraft fra 4 bedrifter = 0.8 PY = 1.3 MNOK
 * 6 bedrifter til å støtte PhD utdannele med 100 kNOK/år i 3 år = 1.8 MNOK
 * (evtl. støtte fra UNIK 30% av PhD)
 * missing: 2.9 MNOK (with UNIK help missing 1 MNOK?)

Action: (first draft by Monday 31. January)
 * Josef - 1 page intro, focus, etc  (executvie summary)
 * Mushfiq - WPs, research challenges
 * Josef - Budget