Interoperability Testing at Ericsson in Stockholm

At the end of November Andreas traveled to Ericsson's headquarters at Kista in Stockholm, Sweden to perform an interoperability test for a prototype developed as part of the ONE Project. Parts of the tests went fine, but unfortunately it was not a 100% success.

Just before this interoperability testing it was discovered that a library we used in our prototype wasn't supported on our target platform. This forced us to replace that library with a different library suitable for our target platform, which wasn't easy in such a short time frame.

Another lesson that it is very important to test early & often on the correct platform, instead of assuming that the target platform will behave as a different platform.

Will get back to more details about this prototype in January (such as describing what it is and how it makes life much more convenient)!

Singapore A*Star Colleagues visit HiA

A*Star, Singapore, is one of the world's largest institutes on industrial research, and hosts the Biomedical Research Council (BMRC), the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd (ETPL), the A*STAR Graduate Academy (A*GA) and the Corporate Planning and Administration Division (CPAD). Their activities on, e.g., MPEG4, 3G and UWB/Wireless USB are world-leading, and many of A*Star's contributions are part of key standards.

Prof. Lye Kin Mun and Gavin Ang of the A*Star Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) were visiting us to discuss research and possible future collaborations.

I tried to impress our visitors with the new HiA Campus Grimstad, ready 2009. However, compared to their new "Fusionopolis" with about 1 Miosqm in the first phase, I must admit we are at least one order of magnitude smaller. :-) check: Fusionoplois.com.

IEEE Spring VTC 2007

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference is one of the longest running and important conferences in the wireless community. The 65th event will be the Spring IEEE VTC 2007 in Dublin, April 22-25, 2007. Ram and Frank helped reviewing papers, and we can expect many quality presentations.

WEBIST 2007

The WEBIST 2007 in Barcelona, March 3-6, will have interesting papers on eEducation and mobile devices. Fortunately they invited me to be part of the Program Committee and some of the submitted papers looked very promising.

NFR Seminar on 7th Framework

NFR held an information meeting on the EU 7th Framework on Nov. 16 in Olso. More info about the 7FP can be found here at NFR.

The EU 7th Framework web is here.

Viking Research Lab of Mobile Devices and Applications

Together with our friends at "Mobile Devices" at Aalborg University we are seriously considering of creating a virtual lab for mobile devices and applications research across academic boundaries. We have no idea how that lab could be organized or called, but we love the idea.

Here is our name proposal: "Viking Research Lab on ... " or "Northern Research Lab on ...". I like the Viking name best. Sounds exciting and easy to remember.

Ram - making us a triumphirat

Sept. 2006 - Ram looks quite serious on this photo. And obviously he takes his work seriously. Fortunately he laughs a lot with us and since October we are finally three in our lab. We're still small but gwoing and growing and ... At this rate we would be about 1000 people in 3006 ... if noone would leave the lab.

Ram will look at mobility in service oriented architectures, And we wish him all the luck with this topic. It won't be easy.

Andreas joins

Oct. 2005 - Andreas joins and - voilà - we are a team at Agder Mobility Lab, since a team has at least two persons. Andreas dived immediately into UPNP, XML, SOAP, J2ME. Of course he faces now the usual surprises between specifications and reality, e.g., lack of broad IP support in Bluetooth, ad-hoc network support with only ip to 3 nodes, no WiFi multicast on some mobile devices, non-working media libraries ... a nice nightmare. I hope he survives ...

ONE ... Our first project ... sponsored by Ericsson

Ericsson is interested in all things that deal with mobility and future mobile applications. And so are we.

The "ONE" project 2005-2008 is going to solve all (of course!) challenges when it comes to your mobile phone, multimedia, and access to home networks, locally or remote.

As a warm-up exercise we will implement a full UPNP stack, server, client, and control point for Java enabled phones. If we survive that, we'll be able to access our music, videos, and photos from wherever we are.

Didn't you always wish to be able to do that? :-)

Agder Mobility Lab starts ... hurrah

On July 1st, 2005, Frank started his job as "Prof." for Mobile Communications at Agder University College (HiA). The first thing that came to his mind was "We need a logo and a name"!

Fortunately, Gunnar Tyrsing, an old friend, approved the name "Agder Mobility Lab". If friends don't like your ideas, that's not good for your ideas. :-) The logo was bought over the Internet by a design service which promised to work until I was satisfied. Well, I hope you like it ...