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The Key Challenges for the E2R project

The main challenges of E2R II will be to develop and demonstrate solutions for interoperability, scalability and flexibility, enabling efficient support of ubiquitous access, pervasive services and dynamic resources management in the radio environment of the future.

To achieve the ambitions of E2R II, the main research areas are identified as follows:

  • Design generic system mechanisms that implement seamless experience management, these mechanisms build on, and are compatible with, legacy system management solutions in a multi-access situation,
  • Evolve the E2R I architecture to implement the seamless experience management structure that spans across domains, thanks to open, standardized protocols for management in multi-access/multi-owner situation,
  • Define a global access and resource management structure extending the E2R architecture, building on, and compatible with legacy solutions in a multi-access/multi-owner situation,
  • Evolve the equipment management methods to include them as part of the E2R architecture, building on, and compatible with, legacy device management solutions in a multi-access situation/multi-operator environment,
  • Introduce and further relevant autonomic computing approaches (self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting) which are used to manage large scale IT networks for reconfigurable equipment,
  • Develop cognition-based mechanisms facilitating efficient access to resources in multi-owner situations,
  • Enable relevant inter-layer communication in a multi-access/multi-owner situation,
  • Implement a partitioning framework for applications/service provisioning and connectivity provisioning,
  • Contribute to regulatory bodies, industry fora and standardization bodies for the development of globally harmonized solutions for reconfigurable terminal and networks,
  • Facilitate active cooperation between end users, operators, service providers and “new comers”, needed to firm up the definition of the most appropriate distribution of intelligence between reconfigurable terminals and networks.
These research areas will drive the definition of system reference models and the distributed demonstration of resource management across multiple wireless/wireline access networks and multiple operators, with support of legacy architectures, thereby enabling seamless and transparent communication across these heterogeneous environments.

The key challenges of E2R II:

  1. Enabling sustainable business development of reconfigurable systems in a multi-access/multi-owner environment,
  2. Enabling end-to-end reconfiguration management and control architecture and devising optimal split of intelligence between network elements and end-user equipment,
  3. Enabling efficiency enhancements for radio resource and spectrum management,
  4. Enabling unified stable, secure and reliable reconfigurable connectivity in a multi-access/multi-owner situation,
  5. Building the European reference prototyping environment for end-to-end reconfigurable systems and solutions.