Networking for Communications Challenged Communities:  Architecture, Test Beds and Innovative Alliances (N4C) 

Starting in May 2008, N4C is a 36 month research project in the Seventh Framework Programme (www.cordis.lu/fp7). In cooperation between users in Swedish Lapland and Kocevje region in Slovenian mountain and partners in eight countries,  the project will design and experiment with an architecture, infrastructure and applications in field trials and build two test beds.

 

N4C aims at develop and test a broadband network with use of Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) and evolve a test bed for applications in challenged areas in

• Swedish Lapland

• Kocevje region in Slovenian mountain

Carry out application tests on

• Animal tracking (reindeers)

• Hikers PDA

• Meteorological data

Partners are:

• Luleå University of Technology (LTU) Coordinator

• Albentia Systems, S.A., (ALBENTIA), Spain

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain

• Intel Corporation, Ireland

• The Provost Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elisabeth Near Dublin, (Trinity College Dublin, TCD), Ireland

• Norut IT, Norway

• ITTI Ltd. Poznan, Poland

• Instituto Pedro Nunes, (IPN), Portugal  

• MEIS storitve za okolje d.o.o. (MEIS), Slovenia

• Tannak AB, Jokkmokk, Sweden

• Power Lake AB, (PLAB), Sweden

• Folly Consulting Ltd., UK

Power Lake AB is responsible for developing the business plan for N4C Test Bed and work package leader for Dissemination.