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 INFORMACIÓN GENERAL

Name:Generic Open Link-Layer API for Unified Media Access - GOLLUM
Duration:2004-09-01 - 2006-12-01
URL:http://www.ist-gollum.org/
Programme:Specifically Targeted Research Project (STREP) co-sponsored by the European Commission under the Information Society Technology (IST) priority within the 6th Framework Programme (FP6)


 INVOLVED COMPANIES

NAMECOUNTRY
RWTH AachenGERMANY
Microsoft Innovation CenterGERMANY
University of CantabriaSPAIN
ST MicroelectronicsITALY
Telefónica I+DSPAIN
Thosiba Research EuropeUNITED KINGDOM
Materna GmbHGERMANY
 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

Solving the complexity and interoperability problem related to the large number of different APIs and methods used for accessing communication interfaces, especially in the embedded domain.

Providing real and useful triggers, handles and APIs for different smart, context sensitive and link/network aware applications; enabling the development of “cognitive applications”.

Solving the abstraction and extendibility problem related to different underlying wireless interfaces and networking technologies.

Designing, developing and in part implementing a solution to hide the embedded communication network problems from the middleware, application and operating system programmers; results will be applicable to, for example, wireless controls, industrial processes, automotive applications, mobile and wireless terminals etc.

Developing a wireless interface description method that can be used as a tool and as a framework for presenting and extending the API support for current and future wireless interfaces.

UC Contribution to the Project

    - Contribution to the definition of a generic Unified Link Layer API (ULLA).

    - Adaptation of the generic ULLA for Wireless Sensor Technology, defining the corresponding extensions associated to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).

    - Developing of a lightweight ULLA for WSN, taking into account the main constraints associated to this kind of devices (sensor nodes), mainly low power consumption and limited memory availability.

    - Implementation of a prototype to test the ULLA functionality in heterogeneous WSNs.

    - Contribution to the definition and implementation of the Link Layer Adapter (LLA) for wireless networks (WLAN).


   
   
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