MAGNET Beyond - My Personal Adaptive Global NET and Beyo

The MAGNET Beyond vision is to take the MAGNET vision of personal services
over Personal Networks a step closer to reality. The overall objective is to
*/design, develop, demonstrate and validate the concept of a flexible
Personal Network (PN) that supports resource-efficient, robust, ubiquitous
personal services in a secure, heterogeneous networking environment for
mobile users/*. A PN will support its owner in all his/her private and
professional activities and interactions, without being obtrusive and while
safeguarding the */security/* and */privacy/* of the users and their data.

In PNs, users interact with various companion-, embedded-, or invisible
computers not only in their close vicinity, but potentially anywhere. PNs
are configured in an ad-hoc fashion, as the opportunity and the demand arise
to support a person's private and professional applications. These
applications may run on a user's personal devices, but also on foreign
devices. A PN may operate in both /ad-hoc/ and /infrastructure-based/
networks and will be dynamic and diverse in composition, configuration and
connectivity depending on time, place and circumstances as well as resources
required, and last but not least preferred and/or needed co-operating
partners.

The MAGNET Beyond mission is to make MAGNET happen by enabling commercially
viable PNs that are attractive, affordable and beneficial for end-users in
their everyday life.

The MAGNET Beyond project constitutes a system approach to what is expected
to be one of the most important telecom related growth markets of the
future.

For more information please visit the project homepage here (indsæt link til
http://www.ist-magnet.org/).

Partners:

Aalborg University, Technical University of Denmark, Advanced Communications
Research and Development S.A. (ACORDE), Alcatel Italia s.p.a., Brunel
University, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (CSEM),
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA-LETI), National Institute of
Communications and Technology NICT, Delft University of Technology, FRANCE
TELECOM R&D, Fraunhofer FhG/FOKUS, Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien
Betriebs GmbH (FTW), Institut National des Télécommunications (INT),
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)/ NTUA,
Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Centre (IMEC vzw), INTRACOM S.A. -
Hellenic Telecommunications and Electronics Industry (ICOM), Lund
University, NEC Europe Ltd, Nokia Corporation Oyj, Nokia GmbH, Philips
Consumer Electronics IC Lab, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and
Information Technology (SIMIT), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),
TeliaSonera, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (TID), Universidad de
Cantabria, University of Surrey, University of Rome "TOR VERGATA", Technical
Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile
Communication, University of Kassel