TSSG Attend the ICT Mobile Summit

Waterford, Ireland – June 12, 2009 –TSSG – (Tele)Communication Software and Systems Group, recently attended The ‘ICT Mobile Summit’ conference held in Spain on the 10th-12th June 2009. The 2009 ‘ICT Mobile Summit’ is eighteenth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission which focuses on the challenges of building the ‘Future Internet’, by investigating mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures and the impact of such Future Networks has on the underlying Internet infrastructure.

The ICT Mobile Summit conference regularly attracts over 600 delegates from industry and research to share experiences and research results and to identify future trends, discuss business opportunities and identify opportunities for international research collaboration under the ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7).

The TSSG had the opportunity to participate in a “Putting Mobile Services into context” workshop and to discuss one of its current projects, PERSIST, which is a current key EU FP7 project within the TSSG.

The PERSIST project focuses on ‘Personal Smart Space’, which is associated with the portable devices carried by the user and which moves around with him/her, providing context-aware pervasiveness to the user at all times and places. The Personal Smart Space will cater for the needs of users, adapting to their preferences and learning new ones as these arise. Current trends in the design of pervasive systems have concentrated on the problem of isolated smart spaces (such as smart homes) via a fixed infrastructure. However, the objective of PERSIST is to develop Personal Smart Spaces that provide a minimum set of functionalities which can be extended and enhanced as users encounter other smart spaces during their everyday activities. They will be capable of learning and reasoning about users, their intentions, preferences and context.

“The TSSG is a leading player in Europe in the area of the Future Internet through its funded research programmes and its participation in EU Technology Platforms” says Dr. Willie Donnelly, Director of TSSG, “it successfully established itself as a world leader in communications management with a particular focus on autonomic network and service management, making the TSSG one of the most successful integrated research clusters in the Irish academic domain” .

ICT Mobile Summit
Supported by the European Commission and eMobility, the ICT-MobileSummit's reputation is based on high quality paper sessions that showcase original results in all areas of wireless communications systems and networks, including Mobile and Fixed, Terrestrial and Satellite.
ICT-Mobile Summit 2009 addresses all the challenges of building the Future Internet, based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. The impact of such Future Networks on the underlying Internet infrastructure was the key focus for the 2009 Summit.

The ICT mobile Summit took place 10th -12th June 2009 for more information visit, http://www.ict-mobilesummit.eu/2009/