Motivation

Europe has a dominant role in private mobile radio (PMR) equipment manufacturing – WIDENS will help to maintain the competitiveness of European industry in a global market by setting the technological agenda for the next generation systems, both by carrying scientific studies and by providing a prototype of a fourth generation mobile ad hoc network. In this way public safety, emergency and disaster applications will be enhanced with a high data rate hot spot complementary and interoperable with existing infrastructures (TETRA, Tetrapol…)

The key issues for the project are:

• To propose a global optimization of the System in terms of deployment, scalability and overall efficiency of the communication links (air interface, relaying, security and QoS)
• To allow each Terminode to play the best role depending on its relative position within the network and the requested services.
• To support interoperability with other communication and network systems at the IP layer.
• To satisfy the specific QoS and security emergency services requirements