EXODUS (Experiments On the Deployment of UMTS)
The EXODUS Project is a key activity taking DECT forward within the framework of the ACTS programme. A number of papers have been published based on work from EXODUS, including this one from Italtel and this one from the official ACTS site, and one presented at ISS97

"DECT as a UMTS Access Technology" by Arik Elberse, Teltec, (Ireland)
Published at the ACTS Telecommunication Summit, Granada, Spain, Nov. 27-29th 1996.
This paper proposes DECT as a fully featured and capable UMTS Access Technology. It explains how the features and extensive standardisation of DECT can be leveraged to allow DECT to provide UMTS services through its seamless integration and interworking with future wired and wireless networks. This approach would avoid the unnecessary and undesirable evolutionary path which involves multi-technology Core Networks and multiple incompatible handsets and terminals. It would thus allow the existing and future investments in GSM (through its already standardised interworking to DECT) and DECT-only mobile networks to be maintained. The paper builds on work undertaken as part of the ACTS EXODUS project.

"IN Evolution to support Mobility in DECT Access Network" by Roberta Gobbi, presented at the recent ISS '97 Congress (Toronto, Sept. 21-26). This paper outlines the EXODUS project's activities in achieving a suitable transition from CTM towards UMTS with a set of UMTS services to be implemented in the second phase field trials.

A variety of internet-based services using mobile terminals was demonstrated by the EXODUS project, using DECT as the radio access technology, at the IS&N Conference in May 1997 in Turin, Italy - 4th International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks,

COBUCO (COrdless BUsiness COmmunication system)
The COBUCO project aims to design, develop and experiment with an UMTS demonstrator system using state-of-the-art DECT and ATM technology and offering cordless and fixed multimedia and multirate services to the private business environment.
"Developing UMTS Mobility Procedures over DECT and ATM Technologies",
I.I.Manolessos, J.G.Markoulidakis, G.L.Lyberopoulos, E.D.Sykas, M.E.Theologou

Mobile Audio Visual Terminal, MAVT
This project has been working towards the development of the product concept embodied in its title, with work from the project feeding into the MPEG4 standardisation activity.   A DECT-based demonstrator has been built to implement the compression technology and demonstrate feasibility.
Official project summary
The QMC description

TSUNAMI I and II
Smart antennas - demonstration of the smart antenna, SDMA, system concept using DECT technology as a testbed
Project summary

Austria
Vienna Technical University
DECT testbed constructed and theoretical work undertaken relating to performance under delay spread conditions.

Denmark
Centre for Personkommunikation, CPK, Aalborg
DECT testbed, used primarily for investigations into time dispersion and propagation pathloss in order to make a general coverage prediction model for DECT deployment. Another area of research is antenna configurations and diversity techniques for base stations.

Tampere University of Technology
DECT based LAN testbed, based around the Olivetti NET3 product

VTT
DECT Multimedia Testbed, September 1996
A platform integrating DECT and IN for multimedia application experimentation.

France
ISEP, Institut Supérieur d'Electronique de Paris
Research using the DECT NET3 cordless LAN product

Germany
Aachen University
Overview of DECT at COMNETS
Have developed a simulation tool for capacity evaluation
Related work summary

"DECT Suitability for PCS and WLL", 1996
Capacity calculations for the use of DECT for PCS and WLL applications.
DECT, used for inter-robot communication project

Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
A range of diploma student projects, including data transmission, burst mode controller implementation, test systems

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, IIS
Wireless Multimedia Network based on DECT

IMST, Institut fur Mobil- und Satellitenfunktechnik GmbH, Kamp-Lintfort
Work on DECT has included a comparison of DECT and PHS for public access

Ulm  University
DECT LANs

University of Limerick
DECT protocol stack development with Linux interface
The objective of this project is to develop a DECT protocol stack that interfaces with the Linux operating system and then to investigate the performance of this DECT stack.   The project will be based around the National Semiconductor PC Development Kit and the TS 1220 DECT Protocol Analyser.  The National Semiconductor Kit includes and ISA Development Board which supports the Physical and MAC Layers of DECT.  Initially, a simplified model of the DECT Layer will be implemented (C/C++) and this will have the capability to communicate with the DECT MAC and Physical Layers on the National Semiconductor Board.  Later, a more complex DLC Layer will be developed to take Error Correction into account.  Further development may follow . The Development will be primarily concerned with the C-Plane of the DLC Layer.

Italy
CSELT, Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecmunicazioni SpA
A wide range of DECT activities
eg integrated basestation antenna
Quarterly technical reports available

UK
Bradford University, UK
Working for British Telecom, using their DECT simulator to investigate a range of novel applications for DECT

Leeds University, UK
Resource management and channel allocation, including comparison of DECT algorithms

Microsystems Engineering Ltd, UK
Echo control for DECT

Queen Mary College, London, UK
DECT used as a testbed for a mobile audio-video terminal, MAVT - see above

Virginia Tech
DECT Implementation in PCS, T. Ivan Lai, April 1997