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Partners with different characteristics
compose the DEGAS Consortium. Manufacturers, a wireless software
developer, and universities coexist in a project with a common
objective but different exploitations plans. In general, universities
and research institutions provide the technology transfer to the
industrial partners. Industrial partners have the opportunity
of implementing the technology in a test environment in the collaborative
framework of the consortium.
Universities are essential parts
for the consortium, since they will bring in the project and then
significantly expand their know-how in the areas of communication
and information technologies. More specifically, University
of Trento, Technical
University of Denamrk, University
of Pisa and University
of Edinburgh intend to exploit their participation
in the project for exposing their graduate engineers and researchers
in high-level technical work in the areas of Global Computing
(security issues, quantitative analysis, new techniques and models).
Pertinent knowledge will be widely disseminated through publications
in journals and conferences and the participation in trials, conferences
and demonstrations.
Manufacturers
in DEGAS have the opportunity of investing in research activities
with a promising exploitation plan. MOTOROLA
is one of the world's leading providers of wireless telecommunications
systems, including both wireless terminals and radio network infrastructures.
The DEGAS project tackles some of the major issues that service
provision over wireless networks has to take into consideration.
For the wireless communication paradigm to become an effective
enabler of the ubiquitous service provision, it is mandatory to
reach adequate levels of performance and security in service provision.
Approaches that attack the early validation of performance and
security requirements in services which are accessed through wireless
networks can be considered to be the key exploitation, from the
Motorola point of view. For these new network capabilities to
become practically available and exploitable, many questions need
to be answered about what is appropriate and what is not. DEGAS
will help to answer these questions. These answers will result
in a better exploitation of network resources, and will benefit
everyone, from the consumer to business. The possibility of integrating
the design and the validation processes will bring a clear advantage
for Motorola, which more and more is aiming at providing complete
end-to-end solutions to its customers.
The exploitation
of project results will be of primary importance for OMNYS,
a company dealing with applications development in the wireless
sector which seeks to become a service and content provider in
next-generation mobile systems. DEGAS will allow this SME to obtain
the necessary systems knowledge about "Global Computing",
by conducting the project case studies, to propose solutions and
applications adopting the global computing concepts, i.e. the
cooperation of autonomous and mobile entities in dynamic environments.
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