The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW)

On July 7, 2010, on the occasion of a reception during the International Conference on Web Engineering at Vienna University of Technology, Dietmar Schabus from FTW was honoured with the OCG-Förderpreis 2010 for his diploma thesis "Interpolation of Austrian German and Viennese Dialect/Sociolect in HMM-based Speech Synthesis", written at FTW and the Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology.

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The International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS) aims at research-based innovation that increases the ease of creating, delivering and using geomedia that continue to have dramatic effect on society. At the 10th anniversary event in Kyoto, Peter Fröhlich will serve as symposium co-organizer and program chair.

Cooperative communications is a new emerging technology which promises to sustainably increase the overall capacity of mobile networks. The underlying idea is that the nodes (mobile stations, base stations, sensors) of a wireless network cooperate on the physical layer.

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The software developed within the BACCARDI-IMS-Qos-Implementation-Initiative (BIQINI) and provided as Open Source software under GPL will be presented at the 2nd Open NGN and IMS Testbeds Workshop in Berlin. The software is an extension to the Open Source IMS Core (OSIMS) and offers a policy and charging control function that can be used to enforce quality of service parameters. The software is now called F-PCC what stands for FTW Policy and Charging Control and can be downloaded from here.

• C. Egger, M. Happenhofer, J. Fabini, P. Reichl: BIQINI A Flow-based QoS Enforcement Architecture for NGN Services. Proc. 2nd Open NGN and IMS Testbeds Workshop (ONIT10), Berlin, Germany.

The website of the City of Vienna presents itself in a new version and with new features. Among other things the web contents are read by a computer voice, developed by FTW.

In this interdisciplinary project funded by WWTF (Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds) the basics for "Viennese" and "Austrian" computer voices were investigated. Recordings of Ö1-speaker Stephan Pokorny served as data base for the development of a marketable version. Together with a european consortium FTW developed a commercial version of the voice that was integrated in the website of the City of Vienna by VoiceBusiness.

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During the first “Augmented Human (AH)” International Conference from April 2nd to April 3rd 2010, held in the French ski resort called Megève, Matthias Baldauf, Peter Fröhlich und Siegfried Hutter presented the "Kibitzer"-prototype and achieved a worldwide press coverage. "Kibitzer" is a research prototype that allows the direct exploration of information related to the surroundings using modern sensor and web technologies: purely by looking at a nearby building and by closing the eyes for two seconds the user is provided with suitable information via an ear piece.

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The COMET project AWARE@FTW has started in January 2010 as part of the European CELTIC project AWARE (Aggregation of Wireless Access Resources) together with our partners Alcatel-Lucent/Alcatel-Lucent BellLabs, mobilkom austria and the PRISM lab at Universität Versailles. During the next two years, this application-oriented project aims at exploring technical capabilities and economic opportunities of future dense deployment of base stations (independently of radio technology). The interdisciplinary approach combines the deep expertise of several active research fields at FTW, most notably in the areas of packet-based networking and telecommunication economics. Led by Dr. Peter Reichl, the FTW project team will focus on the aggregation of heterogeneous WLAN access points as well as on licensed-band wireless technology for high density and high capacity coverage, e.g. Femto technology.

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