S-BRAIN #31: ULOOP: User-centric Wireless Local Loop

Presenter: Rute Sofia (SITI, Universidade Lusófona)

Title: ULOOP: User-centric Wireless Local Loop

Abstract: Today’s end-user is connected to the Internet by means of a variety of broadband access technologies that usually do not directly reach the end-user equipment (UE). Rather, this final segment of the local-loop (last mile) is provided by a number of short-range technologies, among which Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) is the de facto solution. The growing popularity of Wi-Fi as a complementary technology to Internet broadband access is not due to its extraordinary technical aspects. Instead, it relates to its low-cost and worldwide availability, to the ease of use, and to the high interoperability that it is capable of sustaining, when interfacing with Internet broadband access technologies. Wi-Fi extends coverage of the most varied technologies (e.g. Fiber-to-the-Home, FTTH, UMTS), be it in enterprise or residential scenarios, allowing Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) to abound. In these new Internet access (Internet connectivity) models, the end-user is one of the key pieces and ceases to simply be a consumer of Internet services (be it connectivity or content), to become an active hop of the connectivity distribution chain. ULOOP is an EU IST FP7 project explores concepts to allow user-centric wireless local-loops to form autonomously. The term user-centric in this context is meant to express a community model that extends the reach of a high debit, multi-access broadband backbone from different perspectives (technical, business model). This talk shall provide an overview on ULOOP, main achievements, and also on how you can become part of the ULHT ULOOP community.

Bio: http://siti.ulusofona.pt/index.php?option=com_content&id=115

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