The Integrated Broadband Mobile System (IBMS) project, sponsored by the German Ministry of Research (BMBF) aims at identifying and prototyping of key components for emerging wireless broadband communication systems. The project encompasses activities in development of new radio front ends, architectures and protocol support. In this talk, after a short survey of the project, we will focus on some aspects of the service and protocol architecture: a concept of a special control and signalling channel (NACCH), a remote socket architecture (ReSoA) as well as ideas leading to stabilization of the wireless hop characteristic (SMPT) will be discussed. Finally an overview of the testbed (under development) will be presented.

About the speaker: Adam Wolisz, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is heading the Telecommunication Networks Group at the Technical University of Berlin, being simultaneously Member of the Senior Board of the Research institute GMD Fokus in Berlin. He is recently on a sabbatical leave at ICSI, Berkeley.