My Personal Adaptive Global NET and Beyond

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