CROWN (Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks) is funded under FET-Open scheme within the Seventh Farmework Programme, consisting of six partners co-ordinated by Queen's University of Belfast, working towards the realistic implementation of Cognitive Radios for better, more spectrally and financially efficient wireless communications. This interdisciplinary project will take a significant step forward towards the new communication paradigms and experimental facilities for future mobile networks. Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWN) is a three year (May 2009 to April 2012) pan European Consortium project.
The main purpose of the CROWN project is to understand the technical issues of Cognitive Radios, through a proof of concept demonstrator. CROWN is a Framework Program 7 (FP7) Future Enabling Technologies (FET) programme. Such programmes are classified as High Technical Risk but with High Potential reward.
The Consortium partners are:
- Queens University Belfast (QUB) (United Kingdom (UK), Co-ordinator)
- Athens Information Technology (AIT) (Greece, Technical Lead)
- Eurecom Institute – Graduate University (France)
- Darmstadt University of Technology (DUT) (Germany)
- Infineon (France)
- QinetiQ (UK)
- Office of Communications (Ofcom) (UK – Advisor – Dr William Web)
- Institute for Inforcomm Research (I2R) (Singapore – Advisor – Dr Ying-Chang Liang)