Applied Research and Development

The purpose of the Applied Research and Development Program is to apply research results to the implementation of telecommunications technologies that users encounter, or will encounter, in daily life. The applied research and development program consists of two types of activity:

1) Proof-of-Concept projects which are designed to take what we believe are solutions to telecommunication accessibility problems and test and refine them as a proof-of-concept for use by both industry and consumer organizations and...

2) Pre-Standards Research development projects which are aimed at carrying out research which would support various standards activities.

Pre-Standards Research Projects include:

• Creating a tool for evaluating digital video products, compression techniques, and transmission techniques to see if they can support mobile voice, video, and data through single wireless transmission
• Examining the accessibility of interactive voice response systems
• Creating a signal specification and test method to determine whether or not a transmission mechanism could support