Cognitive radio and cooperative networks is still in its infancy and Europe can be considered to be currently level with its major competitors in the USA and Far East. However, this situation is only short-term unless European industry undertakes a concerted research effort on these new disruptive technology paradigms

Partners involved are active members of various standardisation organisations (that include IEEE 1900.6, Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), Femto forum, and the ETSI EMTEL Working group) and are capable and committed to place the key project outcomes in these relevant standards

C2POWER tangible outputs includes demonstrators for energy efficient short-range cooperation, and vertical handovers; where the aim is to reduce the power consumption at the mobile device by up to 50%

Reduction in energy consumption together with the lowering of the “radio pollution” through energy-aware and more effective radio resource usage will help facilitate more sustainable ICTs in Europe, aligned with the vision set forth by the Lisbon agenda.