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.