MAESTRO: Mobile applications & services based on satellite & terrestrial interworking

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 03.0300
• Projekttitel Englisch: MAESTRO: Mobile applications & services based on satellite & terrestrial interworking

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

3G and beyond 3G; satellite and terrestrial network interworking; mobile applications and services

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: 507023

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 6. Frame Research Programme - 1.2 Communications technologies

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

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Abstract (Englisch)

The Mobile Applications & services based on Satellite & Terrestrial interworking project (MAESTRO) aims at studying technical implementations of innovative mobile satellite systems concepts targeting close integration & interworking with 3G and Beyond 3G mobile terrestrial networks.
MAESTRO aims at specifying & validating the most critical services, features, and functions of satellite system architectures, achieving the highest possible degree of integration with terrestrial infrastructures. It aims not only at assessing the satellite systems' technical and economical feasibility, but also at highlighting their competitive assets on the way they complement terrestrial solutions.
To complete these objectives, MAESTRO will value and extend large parts of the IST/FP5 MoDiS and SA TIN contracts results and outcomes, as well as several research activities supported by ESA and CNES, that have significantly contributed to consolidate the overall feasibility of the proposed concepts.
In the frame of the MAESTRO Integrated Project, leading actors of the satellite and cellular industries, media and telecommunications industry operators, as well as SMEs, research institutes and universities will actively co-operate and contribute to the achievement and the promotion of innovative and convergent solutions that will allow toward all Europe:
o The successful and cost effective deployment of 3G multimedia services over mobile networks.
o The reduction of the digital divide between urban and rural areas and also between ,region by ensuring service continuity over heterogeneous GPRS/UMTS networks.
o Evaluate an option that can contribute to the deployment of a dependable infrastructure adapted to public protection and crisis management in full compliance with the ambitions of European Commission in GMES and PPDR for example.

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 03.0300