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  WWRF Working Group 2 - “Service Architectures for the Wireless World”

The Service Architecture Working Group (WG2) is a working group within the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). The working group exists to gather inputs and views from industry and academia, to synthesise these views, to influence future visions and research priorities, and to share results across the forum.

Since September 2001, the Working Group 2 has worked in the area of service architectures and service platforms for future wireless systems. The WG2 focuses on the user as the driving force in future communication systems following the approach of WWRF WG1 (Human Perspective). Based on a ubiquitously connected world, WG2 investigates how the user can be provided by future systems with an I-centric service environment. The services addressed by WG2 are settled on top of an all-IP environment, addressing the fulfillment of any user demand.

The vision of I-centric communications has been developed to put the individual (“I”) user in the center of all activities a communication system performs. WG2 aims for communication systems, which in the future are able to model each individual, his preferences, and adapt to different situations and resources in time. The developed Reference Model for I-centric communications addresses the individual user, interacting with the objects of their personal communication space.

The reference model for I-centric communications follows a top-down approach starting with the introduction of individual communication spaces and services. It is common understanding that Icentric services have to support ambient-awareness, personalization, and adaptability. WG2 investigates how future service architectures can provide these features supporting all involved parties of the business chain.
   
WG2 Mailing List: wg2@wireless-world-research.org
WG2 Mailing List Archive: lists.eurescom.de (set filter to "WG2")
Chair: Dr. Stefan Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany, arbanowski@fokus.fraunhofer.de
Vice Chair: Dr. Wofgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany, kellerer@docomolab-euro.com