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ANWIRE is a thematic network established mainly by academic institutions from various EU countries acting in two main overlapping research tracks: i) Wireless Internet and ii) Reconfigurability. ANWIRE aims at i) organising and coordinating parallel actions in key research areas of Wireless Internet and Reconfigurability, in order to encompass research activities towards the design of a fully integrated system; and ii) promoting and disseminating Wireless Internet and Reconfigurability solutions, in order to make them available to the research and industrial community.
Wireless Internet aims at changing the way wireless communication networks work, in order to offer new advanced services to the users in the most efficient way. Reconfigurability, on the other hand, has been heralded as potentially offering a pragmatic solution to systems integration and flexible service provision to mobile users.
The coordination activities encompass common efforts and tasks for covering open issues identified in the various specialised areas, relevant to the provision of a coherent integrated framework in next generation systems. The work will be organised in Task Forces, each one of which will focus on a specific thematic area. The selected thematic areas are identified as key enablers for the provision of integrated solutions, based on state-of-the-art and recent projects results. Task forces will have an internal structure with a clear objective, workplan, regular meetings and deliverables, and will be staffed by experts from the members of the thematic network and invited participants. Operation of task forces will rely mostly on partners’ resources, while the requested EU contribution refers exclusively to coordinating them.
Dissemination is considered a key activity in ANWIRE. The dissemination activities encompass the organisation of workshops, conferences, a Web Portal and the offering of specialised courses, in the thematic areas of advanced mobile systems, with focus on Wireless Internet and Reconfigurability. The aim of these events is to act both as vehicles for the exchange of ideas, as well as training and promotion vehicles.