Due to the need of supporting diversified services with vastly expanded use of wireless access, the Future Internet will set the networks under stress for resources. This motivates the quest for efficiency, through technologies that achieve: (i) higher utilization of resources; (ii) lower transmission powers and energy consumption (decisions with “green” footprint); (iii) reductions in the total cost of ownership. OneFIT proposes a solution that achieves these targets, and thus, creates important value-adding opportunities for the user and the wireless industry.

The main goal of the FARAMIR project is to research and develop techniques for increasing the radio environmental and spectral awareness of future wireless systems. The proposed holistic approach starts from the development of spectrum sensing hardware investigating how such functionality could be efficiently integrated to handheld devices. In the next step, we will combine measurements performed at multiple nodes in a cooperative fashion on a network level, not only to identify spectrum opportunities but also to localize any sources of primary transmissions or interference. This information will be fused to a radio environmental map, which provides the basis for system optimisation. Channel allocation, interference avoidance, and protocol parameter configuration are only selected examples for potential optimisation problems. The consortium will take a practical approach and prototype most of the project innovations showing their real-world value in radio resource optimisation.

The End-to-End Efficiency (E3) project is an ambitious FP7 EC Large Scale Integrating Project (IP) aiming at integrating cognitive wireless systems in the Beyond 3G (B3G) world, evolving current heterogeneous wireless system infrastructures into an integrated, scalable and efficiently managed B3G cognitive system framework. The key objective of the E3 project is to design, develop, prototype and showcase solutions to guarantee interoperability, flexibility and scalability between existing legacy and future wireless systems, manage the overall system complexity, and ensure convergence across access technologies, business domains, regulatory domains and geographical regions.

NEWCOM++ is the acronym of a Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications, funded by Call 1 of the VII Framework Program (FP7) under the Objective ICT-2007.1.1: The Network of the Future, mainly in its target direction “Ubiquitous network infrastructure and architectures”.

The objective of the AROMA project is to devise and assess a set of specific resource management strategies and algorithms for both the access and core network parts that guarantee the end-to-end QoS in the context of an all-IP heterogeneous network.

The network of excellence NEWCOM (Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications), active from March 2004 to February 2007, in aims at creating a European network that links in a cooperative way a large number of leading research groups addressing the Strategic Objective "Mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G", a frontier research area of the Priority Thematic Area of IST. 

The End-to-End Reconfigurability (E²R) project aims at bringing the full benefits of the valuable diversity within the Radio Eco-Space, composed of a wide range of systems such as Cellular, Wireless Local Area and Broadcast. The key objective of the E²R project is to devise, develop and trial architectural design of reconfigurable devices and supporting system functions to offer an expanded set of operational choices to the users, applications and service providers, operators, regulators in the context of heterogeneous mobile radio systems.

The objective of the EVEREST project is to devise and assess a set of specific strategies and algorithms for access and core networks, leading to an optimised utilisation of scarcely available radio resources for the support of mixed services with end-to-end QoS mechanisms within heterogeneous networks beyond 3G.

The main objective of the project is the smooth transition from existing wireless systems to new generation ones. CAUTION++ will exploit knowledge and system platform developed under the framework of CAUTION project and extend this to UMTS and systems beyond. The main goal of this project is to design and develop a novel, low cost, flexible, highly efficient and scaleable system able to be utilized by mobile operators to increase the performance of all network segments. The project will face the new deployment and operation challenges posed by new generation systems in contrast to those in existing ones, exploiting the new possibilities to provide enhanced capacity, quality and reduced costs.The goal is not only to monitor UTRA resources, but to have a distributed monitoring of a large number of systems-including WLAN, even from different operators.

The ARROWS project aims at providing advanced Radio Resource Management (RRM) and Quality of Service (QoS) management solutions for the support of integrated voice and data services within the context of the 3G UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA). The project includes packet access, asymmetrical traffic and high bit-rate (up to 2Mbit/s) services for multimedia IP based applications.