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SUMMARY OF IP RELATED PROJECTS

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ISSUE DATE: March 2002 Disclaimer: The descriptions provided herein are those of the proponents and do not necessarily imply any contractual agreement with the European Commission.

Table of Contents

BRAIN (Broadband Radio Access for IP based Networks) ...............................................3 Main Objectives..............................................................................................................3 Technical Approach........................................................................................................3 Key Issues......................................................................................................................4 Expected Impact.............................................................................................................4

DRiVE (Dynamic Radio for IP-Services in Vehicular Environments)................................5 Main Objectives..............................................................................................................5 Technical Approach........................................................................................................6 Key Issues......................................................................................................................6 Expected Impact.............................................................................................................6

Moby Dick (Mobility and Differentiated Services in a Future IP Network)........................7 Main Objectives..............................................................................................................7 Technical Approach........................................................................................................7 Key issues......................................................................................................................7 Expected Impact.............................................................................................................8

SUITED (Multi-Segment System for Broadband Ubiquitous Access to Internet Services and Demonstrator) ...............................................................................................................9

Main Objectives..............................................................................................................9 Technical Approach......................................................................................................10 Key Issues....................................................................................................................10 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................10

WINE GLASS (Wireless IP Network as a Generic Platform for Location Aware Service Support)..............................................................................................................................11

Main Objectives............................................................................................................11 Technical Approach......................................................................................................11 Key Issues....................................................................................................................11 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................12

6INIT (IPv6 INternet IniTiative)...........................................................................................13 Main Objectives............................................................................................................13 Technical Approach......................................................................................................13 Key issues....................................................................................................................13 Expected impact...........................................................................................................13

6WINIT (IPv6 Wireless Internet Initiative) .........................................................................15 Main Objectives............................................................................................................15 Technical Approach......................................................................................................15 Key issues....................................................................................................................16 Expected impact...........................................................................................................16

LONG (Laboratories over Next Generation Networks) ....................................................17 Main objectives.............................................................................................................17 Technical Approach......................................................................................................17 Key issues....................................................................................................................18 Expected impact...........................................................................................................18

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SEQUIN (SErvice QUality across Independently managed Networks)...........................19 Main Objectives............................................................................................................19 Technical Approach......................................................................................................19 Key issues....................................................................................................................19 Expected impact...........................................................................................................19

WINE (Wireless Internet Networks)...................................................................................21 Main Objectives............................................................................................................21 Technical Approach......................................................................................................21 Key Issues....................................................................................................................21 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................22

AQUILA (Adaptive resource control for QoS Using an IP-based Layered Architecture)23 Main Objectives............................................................................................................23 Technical Approach......................................................................................................23 Key Issues....................................................................................................................23 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................24

GCAP (Global Communication Architecture and Protocols for new QoS services over IPv6 networks)....................................................................................................................25

Main Objectives............................................................................................................25 Technical Approach......................................................................................................25

NETGATE (Advanced Network Adapter for the new Generation of mobile and IP based Networks)............................................................................................................................27

Main Objectives............................................................................................................27 Technical Approach......................................................................................................27 Key Issues....................................................................................................................27 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................27

GEOCAST (Multicast Over Geostationary EHF Satellites) ..............................................29 Main Objectives............................................................................................................29 Technical Approach......................................................................................................29 Key Issues....................................................................................................................29 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................30

MIND (Mobile IP based Network Developments)..............................................................31 Main Objectives............................................................................................................31 Technical Approach......................................................................................................31 Key Issues....................................................................................................................32 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................32

EVOLUTE (seamlEss multimedia serVices Over alL IP-based infrastrUcTurEs)...........33 Main Objectives............................................................................................................33 Technical Approach......................................................................................................33 Key Issues....................................................................................................................33 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................34

NGN-LAB (Next Generation Networks Laboratory) .........................................................36 Main Objectives............................................................................................................36 Technical Approach......................................................................................................36 Key issues....................................................................................................................37 Expected impact...........................................................................................................37

6LINK - IPv6 Projects Linkage Cluster..............................................................................38 Main Objectives............................................................................................................38 Technical Approach......................................................................................................38

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Key Issues....................................................................................................................38 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................38

Euro6IX (European IPv6 Internet Exchanges Backbone) ................................................40 Main Objectives............................................................................................................40 Technical Approach......................................................................................................40 Key Issues....................................................................................................................41 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................41

6NET (Large-scale International IPv6 Pilot Network).......................................................42 Main Objectives............................................................................................................42 Technical Approach......................................................................................................42 Key Issues....................................................................................................................42 Expected Impact...........................................................................................................43

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BRAIN (Broadband Radio Access for IP based Networks) Project duration: 15 months IST Action Lines: IV.5.2 "Terrestrial wireless systems and networks" Clusters: Wireless IP, Radio Access, Mobile services and applications

Main Objectives • To facilitate the development of seamless access to existing and emerging IP-based broadband

applications and services for mobile users in global markets. • To propose an open architecture for wireless broadband Internet access, which will allow an

evolution from fixed Internet, emerging wireless/mobile Internet specifications and UMTS/GSM. • To facilitate new business opportunities for operators, service providers and content providers to

offer high-speed (up to 20 Mbps) services complementary to existing mobile services. • To contribute actively to global standardisation bodies in the necessary timescales to impact

significantly the international standardisation.

Technical Approach

BRAIN provides a broadband extension of cellular systems as GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS up to 20 Mbps for hot spot applications. The BRAIN access network will be based on end-to-end IP for all real time and non real time services in public and private (corporate), licensed and unlicensed networks. The IP based core network connects all involved radio access schemes of the BRAIN architecture in a flexible manner. BRAIN will be applied in pico-cells as in-building and home cells and in urban and suburban cells. However, in the urban and suburban cells no full coverage is envisaged from the beginning. In these areas BRAIN will provide coverage, e.g., in hot spots as campus areas, conference centres, railway stations and airports. Full coverage with reduced data rates is being provided by GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS. Therefore, these systems complement each other depending on the different radio environments and service needs.

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For seamless service provision in the entire coverage area mobility functions will be proposed in the BRAIN approach (e.g. horizontal handover) as well as vertical handover between different access networks, e.g., UMTS including the negotiations of data rate and QoS. The figure shows the BRAIN vision of a fully IP-based communications network. It includes existing (GSM) and emerging networks, such as UMTS. BRAIN is a broadband extension to these; its radio interface, based on HIPERLAN Type 2 as the physical layer, provides the high speed, hot-spot, coverage with data rates up to 20 Mbps for the user. BRAIN also provides the required architecture to take IP all the way down to the base stations. The figure shows the integration of future and emerging technologies, including fixed-mobile convergence. BRAIN will therefore propose a wide range of integrated services across all these platforms using IP. The BRAIN architecture will include signalling, mobility management, QoS

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etc. through the extension and analysis of IP protocols and the definition of the HIPERLAN Type 2 convergence layer for IP. The MAC layer of HIPERLAN Type 2 may be adapted to the needs of IP traffic if changes are necessary for an efficient use of the spectrum. The support of QoS in IP based mobile networks is an important issue of research in the BRAIN architecture. All traffic, including voice, is packet based.

Key Issues • To define service scenarios based on user requirements and enabled by existing and future

technologies. • To identify the special requirements, including Quality of Service, of existing and evolving IP

services and applications in different wireless mobile environments. • To investigate, define and specify mechanisms for service scalability and application adaptation to

support different radio access networks and environments. • To define local and global mobility management in IP based networks. • To design and specify mechanisms and protocols to support end-to-end QoS in a seamless

manner. • To define mechanisms for inter-working between BRAIN and the core network. • To define requirements for a broadband air interface to support a data rate capacity of about 20

Mbps per cell which the users can share dynamically. • To evaluate the potential of HIPERLAN Type 2 in order to support the required QoS in an IP-

based cellular network and identify the necessary enhancements on the physical layer, the data link control layer, and higher layers.

• To analyse the enhancements by means of link and system simulation. • To assess the implementation complexity. • To contribute actively to standardisation bodies and forums including ETSI, IETF and others

relevant bodies. • To disseminate results through major conferences, journals and through the Internet. • To arrange a BRAIN workshop to promote BRAIN concepts as the core concept of mobile

broadband multimedia.

Expected Impact

A new service creation platform is expected that brings the concept of Quality of Service up to the application and to the mobile user. For that purpose the access network requirements are specified. In addition current air-interfaces in conjunction with mobile IP technology are evaluated and their inter-working will be defined. The broadband air interface of the BRAIN radio access for IP-based networks as a complement to 2nd/3rd generation systems will be defined improved and validated. The increasing demand for broadband data services requires the engagement of adaptive transmission techniques and the optimisation of the air interface for IP-based packet traffic. The results of BRAIN will be presented on international conferences, in journals and in a workshop organised by the project. A major part of the dissemination of results will be contributions of BRAIN concepts and results to the international standardisation process. It is expected to influence these standards significantly.

List of participants Nokia Corporation France Telecom CNET INRIA NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. Siemens AG Sony International (Europe) GmbH T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft GmbH Agora Systems S.A. Ericsson Radio Systems AB British Telecommunications PLC King's College London

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Contact Josef Urban Siemens AG ICN CA CTO 7 Hofmannstrasse 51 D-81359 Munich Germany Tel.: +49-89-722-24138 Fax: +49-89-722-44958 E-mail: josef.urban@icn.siemens.de

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DRiVE (Dynamic Radio for IP-Services in Vehicular Environments) Project Duration: 24 month IST Action Lines: IV.5.2 –"Terrestrial Wireless Systems and Networks" Clusters: Wireless IP, Location Technologies, Mobile Services and Applications

Main Objectives

The citizens’ expectation for cost efficient provision of existing and emerging mobile multimedia services for information, education, and entertainment is faced with the reality of scarce radio resources. This discrepancy is especially true for the delivery of high-quality services to highly mobile environments such as cars, buses, and trains. The overall objective of the DRiVE project is to enable spectrum-efficient high-quality wireless IP in a heterogeneous multi-radio environment to deliver in-vehicle multimedia services, which ensure universally available access to information and support for education and entertainment.

To achieve this objective the DRIVE project addresses the convergence of cellular and broadcast networks to lay the foundation for innovative IP-based multimedia services.

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Technical Approach

To reach these challenging objectives DRiVE is divided in four work packages: • WP1 (dynamic radio aspects): develops methods for dynamic frequency allocation and for co-

existence of different radio technologies (GSM, GPRS, UMTS, DAB, DVB-T) in one frequency band to increase the total spectrum efficiency and reach.

• WP2 (IP-infrastructure): realises an IPv6-based mobile infrastructure that ensures the optimised inter-working of cellular and broadcast networks. The IP-infrastructure will provide support for asymmetric communication, for uni-, multi-, and broadcast, for quality of service and for continuous service in case of hand-over.

• WP3 (services, implementation, and trials): develops adaptive services for a multi-radio vehicular environment, integrates the key concepts of DRiVE developed in WP1&2 to demonstrate them and validate the benefits by user trials and field test.

• WP4 (project management and dissemination): manages the project and co-ordinates the dissemination of the results, e.g. contribution to standardisation activities.

Key Issues • Inter-working of different radio systems (GSM, GPRS, UMTS, DAB, DVB-T) in a common

frequency range with dynamic spectrum allocation. • Co-operation between network elements and applications in an adaptive manner.

Expected Impact • Specifications for the co-operation of cellular and broadcast networks in a common frequency

range with dynamic spectrum allocation. • Estimate for the increase of overall spectrum-efficiency by using dynamic radio systems. • IP-based mobile infrastructure that ensures optimised inter-working of radio networks for spectrum

efficient provision of high quality multimedia services. • Multimedia services for multi-radio vehicular environments. • Demonstrations of key concepts of DRiVE and validation of the benefits of the technology by user

trials and field tests. • Influence on ongoing standardisation using the consortium member’s presence in the

corresponding bodies 3GPP, ETSI, IETF, ITU.

List of participants Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland Ericsson Mobile Data Design BBC Bertelsmann Bosch RWTH-Aachen DaimlerChrysler Heinrich-Hertz Institut Berlin Nokia University of Bonn Tecsi Teracom VCON Vodafone

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Contact Ralf Tönjes Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH Ericsson Allee 1 D-52134 Herzogenrath Germany Tel: +49 2407 575 7812 Fax: +49 2407 575 400 E-mail: Ralf.Toenjes@ericsson.com URL: www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~drive

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Moby Dick (Mobility and Differentiated Services in a Future IP Network) Project duration: 36 months IST Action Lines: IV.5.2: “Terrestrial Wireless Systems and Networks” Clusters: Wireless IP, Mobile services and applications

Main Objectives • To facilitate the development of seamless access to existing and emerging IP-based applications. • To propose an architecture for wireless Internet access by developing new mechanisms for

seamless hand-over, QoS support after and during hand-over, AAA, and charging. • To facilitate new business opportunities for operators, manufacturers, services providers, and

content providers for wireless, access, and backbone technology and services. • To contribute actively to standardisation bodies, such as Internet Engineering Task Force and

Internet Research Task Force.

Technical Approach

In order to continue to evolve 3rd Generation mobile and wireless infrastructure towards the Internet - targeting IST 2000 IV 5.2 "Terrestrial Wireless System and Networks", the project Moby Dick will define, implement, and evaluate an IPv6-based mobility-enabled end-to-end QoS architecture starting from the current IETF's QoS models, Mobile-IPv6, and AAA framework. A representative set of interactive and distributed multimedia applications will serve to derive system requirements for the verification, validation, and demonstration of the Moby Dick architecture in a testbed comprising UMTS, 802.11 Wireless LANs and Ethernet. In case the existing applications or the underlying architectures do not provide what is required, the necessary modification will be undertaken.

Key issues • Definition of a common architecture integrating QoS, IPv6 mobility, and AAA (out of the separate

architectural approaches for each component currently provided by the IETF) with respect to wireless issues.

• Implementation and evaluation of an IPv6-based end-to-end technological approach to fulfil the requirements of present and future mobile communication services.

• Implementation and evaluation of QoS models (e.g. Differentiated Services) in highly dynamic and heterogeneous network topologies (understanding of QoS models is normally restricted to relatively static environments).

• Definition of a suitable charging concept, which would enable permanent mobile IP, based services on a large scale (a strong requirement related to AAA, but currently not a topic within the IETF).

• Trans-European trial to test the implementation by using SOKRATES-ERASMUS exchange students as test-users.

• Actively participate in IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) AAAArch (Authentication, Authorisation, and Accounting Architecture) working group, and monitor in particular ETSI, 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), MWIF (Mobile Wireless Internet Forum), IEEE (in particular 802.11).

• Follow and actively influence ongoing relevant IETF standardisation activities in particular in the working groups.

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The evaluation of the implementation will be done in a distributed trial, which will take place for six months.

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Expected Impact

The architecture is expected to support mobile IP end-to-end communication with QoS, seamless hand-over and all necessary AAA and charging mechanisms to satisfy the user and the network operator.

The implementation will be validated in a six months real environment field trial. The results will be presented in conferences, journals, and workshops. A major part of the dissemination will be the contribution to the standardisation bodies, IETF and IRTF, with a significant influence.

List of partners T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft mbH Berkom NEC Network Development Laboratories University of Madrid Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich/Switzerland University of Stuttgart GMD Fokus Portugal Telecom Inovacao Centre de Recherche de Motorola Alcatel SEL AG University of Cracow

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Contact person Hans Joachim Einsiedler T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft mbH Berkom, Goslarer 35, D-10589 Berlin, Phone (+49-30) 34 97 35 18, FAX (49 30) 34 97 35 19, E-mail: Hans.Einsiedler@telekom.de

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SUITED (Multi-Segment System for Broadband Ubiquitous Access to Internet Services and Demonstrator) Project duration: 30 months IST Action Lines: IV.5.3, IV.5.1, IV.2.3 Clusters: Wireless IP, Radio Access, User requirements for QoS specification of multimedia terminals

Main Objectives

The convergence of mobile and Internet Protocol (IP) based technologies is now the major driving force behind the research and development of future mobile technologies, services and applications. The SUITED project aims to make a significant contribution towards the understanding and development of IP based mobile networks consisting of both satellite and terrestrial (UMTS, GPRS, W-LAN) components. This integrated system is termed the Global Mobile Broadband System (GMBS). The goals of the project will be achieved through theoretical analysis, where issues including, network architecture, Quality of Service and Mobility Management will be addressed, and experimental work. The project will conclude with a comprehensive series of trials, using an integrated test-bed comprising of a prototype multi-segment infrastructure and a prototype multi-mode mobile terminal, capable of operating seamlessly with both satellite and terrestrial networks. Navigation capabilities will be integrated into the user terminal in order to enhance the performance of personal communication services and physical layer functions.

The project objectives can be summarised as follows: • To define the network architecture with related performance evaluation for the provision of mobile

Internet services over complementary satellite and terrestrial components • To demonstrate the ability to provide QoS sensitive mobile services (e.g. QoS measured in terms

of bandwidth availability, delay, packet loss, etc.) on advanced Internet scenarios • To develop prototypal, multi-segment user terminals (car, large vehicles and portable versions) • To develop a prototypal multi-segment network infrastructure capable of operating with the above

mentioned terminals, based on the available Internet network upgraded to cope with the mobility, multi-segment and guaranteed QoS scenario

• To demonstrate and qualify the service with an extensive trial campaign involving complementary satellite and wireless terrestrial components, inter-working with an Internet segment, upgraded to provide support QoS and Mobility

• To integrate navigation capabilities, at terminal level, to improve relevant capabilities and offered services

• To expand / further exploit the results of the related ACTS projects: SECOMS/ABATE, ASSET and ACCORD

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Technical Approach

System & Service Requirements activity will define the context in which the GMBS will operate and specifies the requirements the Internet services, the regulatory bodies, and the Internet market, impose onto the GMBS. This activity is devoted to a preliminary identification of service and system requirements, including service typology, user population estimates (strictly related to the service tariff), required aggregate capacity, as well as network and element requirements.

GMBS definition activity will define its capabilities and evaluate its performance. QoS sensitive services to be deployed on the Internet will be considered, and the network architecture will be consequently defined around the provision of such services to the mobile user. The requirement and design of the inter-segment mobility management system will be specified and formally validated. The most critical capabilities related to the inter-working between the Internet and the GMBS for the support of QoS sensitive, mobile services will be investigated. The GMBS terminal Specification and Design will be performed using, as far as possible, taking into account the existing standards and system parameters.

Equipment Development is devoted to the design, implementation and integration of the elements (IP based network infrastructure and terminals) for the system demonstrator, adopting the specifications worked out in the framework of WPG 3000. In particular the representative Internet sub-network will be developed upgrading the existing routers with the most promising protocols for the IP mobility and QoS support.

Trials will be performed in open, rural, suburban, urban and indoor environments. In particular transition between the above mentioned environments will be experimented. Comprehensive evaluation of the trials' results will be carried out, with the target to work out optimal signalling procedures and triggering for handover and access selection. The evaluation and definition of optimised procedures for both personal and terminal mobility will be based on the findings of the trials, amongst which, procedures such as automatic communication segment selection, segment handover and location updating will be included.

Key Issues • Definition and validation of the main concepts of a wireless communication infrastructure, the Global

Mobile Broadband System, which will be composed by a diversified set of segments to cover any possible user environment, rural/urban/in-door,

• Definition of the synergies between the Internet logical network and the GMBS physical network for an optimal provision of mobile, QoS guarantee, Internet services

• Design and prototyping of families of multi-mode terminals for the GMBS network infrastructure

Expected Impact • System and service requirements for the GMBS as part of the new generation broadband mobile

Internet • Optimisation of the existing IETF standards for the mobile terrestrial and satellite business users • Definition of the GMBS network architecture and performance evaluation from a service and network

perspective • Prototype of the multi-mode terminals including both a satellite section and wireless terrestrial

components • Processing of the results of the validation campaign qualifying the GMBS performance against the

required Internet QoS

List of participants Siemens AG Osterreich SmartMove Duetsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt TTI Norte S.L. Alenia Aerospazio Consorzio di Ricerca sulle Telecomunicazioni Etnoteam S.p.A. Space Software Italia Telital S.p.A. Universitá di Perugia Universitá di Roma I La Sapienza Universitá di Roma II Tor Vergata University of Bradford

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Contact Giacinto Losquadro Space Division - Network Engineering Unit Alenia Aerospazio Via Bona 85 00156 Rome Italy Tel: +39-06-4151-485, secr. ext: 498 Fax: +39-06-4151-297 E-mail: g.losquadro@roma.alespazio.it URL: www.alespazio.it/eurosk/eurosk.htm

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WINE GLASS (Wireless IP Network as a Generic Platform for Location Aware Service Support) Project duration: 24 months IST Action Lines: IV.5.2 "Terrestrial wireless systems and networks" Clusters: Wireless IP, Mobile Services and Application

Main Objectives

This Project aims to contribute to the technical innovation and EU policies of the Community by exploiting the potential of IP-based wireless mobile multimedia networking with UMTS and WLANs. The objective of the Project is to exploit enhanced and/or new IP-based techniques to support mobility and soft-guaranteed QoS in a wireless Internet architecture incorporating UMTS and WLANs, and to explore their potential in enabling location- and QoS-aware application services for wireless mobile users. By its completion, the Project will have developed a wireless Internet testbed incorporating an IP backbone, UTRAN access to IP-based core network, and WLAN access to intranets, as a means to investigate, develop, test, integrate, validate and evaluate such innovative techniques and applications. Currently proposed techniques, such as Mobile-IP, IntServ, DiffServ, H.323, etc., are either non-scaleable or immature. As a result of this Project, more advanced techniques, together with ideas of their enabled location- and QoS-aware application services, should be submitted to 3GPP, SMG and IETF as contributions in UMTS and mobile multimedia Internet respectively.

Technical Approach

This Project will exploit the potential of IP-based wireless mobile multimedia networking in both public and business contexts, by means of UMTS and WLAN respectively. The wireless Internet testbed will be constructed around an IP backbone, which could as well be the Internet. The UMTS environment will be composed of IP-based UMTS core network with emulated W-CDMA-based UTRAN access. The WLAN environment will be made up of intranets with commercial WLAN access.

With this testbed, support of mobility and soft-guaranteed QoS will be investigated at the IP level in both the contexts of the IP backbone and IP-based UMTS core network. The Project will also address such support in the UMTS W-CDMA FDD mode. Besides, also investigated will be the associated issues that may arise in the inter-working of mobility and QoS between UMTS, WLAN and the IP backbone.

Location- and QoS-aware application services will be conceived to exploit the support of mobility and soft-guaranteed QoS offered by the underlying wireless Internet architecture. Specifically, session/call control, possibly based on SIP/RTSP or H.323, will be enhanced to incorporate capability negotiation and location information functionality.

This Project will be realised in two phases. Phase 1 technical activities will concentrate on technical requirements and expected results for the Project; hardware and software development and integration requirements for the wireless Internet testbed; assessment of intermediate research results with respect to mobility support in the wireless Internet architecture and location-aware application services. Technical activities in Project phase 2 will include final integration of the wireless Internet testbed; assessment of final research results with respect to support of mobility and soft-guaranteed QoS in the wireless Internet architecture, as well as location- and QoS-aware application services.

During the Project, feedback from continuous technical assessments to technical development will take place as frequently and as timely as necessary to ensure high quality of the Project results. In dissemination of its results, this Project will contribute to 3GPP, SMG and IETF and participate in relevant IST concertation and clustering.

Key Issues • Integration of wireless access networks (UTRAN and WLAN) and the IP-based backbone in a

convergent scenario involving a variety of service contexts. • Definition of service schemes suited for location-aware applications in an integrated wireless-IP

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Expected Impact

The 1999 IST Workprogramme identifies clearly the basic innovation paths for mobile and wireless communication. They can be summarised in the need of: • developing service control tools able to guarantee that personal and mobility services can be used

in a seamless way, within a variety of environments and under the established location-dependent service profiles;

• improving the technical basis for a convergent configuration of the wireless platforms, based on a complete integration of the advanced radio access systems with the IP-based networks;

• identifying and evaluating new service support architectures, offering the necessary quality of service levels (e.g. delay, integrity) within the performance levels guaranteed by the underlying network platforms.

The WINE GLASS Project aims at contributing to the construction of the above perspective through the implementation of real configurations and services and the emulation of real-time environments. Two levels of investigation will particularly be addressed, namely the Wireless IP Network integration and the relevant service support functions.

Besides, contribution to standard bodies (3GPP, SMG and IETF) and pertinent publications constitutes the foreseen exploitation of Project results to the Telecommunication and IT communities.

List of participants CSELT S.p.A. Alcatel SEL AG CISCO UK Ltd. IHP IMST GmbH Motorola Ltd. Motorola S.A. Philips B.V. UPC

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Contact Ermanno Berruto Mobile Division – Systems and Services CSELT S.p.A. Via G. Reiss Romoli 274 10148 Torino Italy Tel: +39 011 228 5038 Fax: +39 011 228 7056 E-mail: ermanno.berruto@cselt.it

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6INIT (IPv6 INternet IniTiative) Duration: 16 months Action line: “Network integration, interoperability and interworking” Clusters:

Main Objectives

The objective of the 6INIT project is to validate the introduction of the NEW INTERNET in Europe based on the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), which offers a solution for current problems in space address limitation, quality of service, mobility and security. The 6INIT project will lead to the set-up of a first European operational platform providing customers with native IPv6 access points and native IPv6 services. 6INIT is a co-ordinated initiative of the major European Telecom companies, equipment manufacturers, solutions / software providers and research labs that will lead to provide production IPv6 transit service to facilitate high quality, high performance, and operationally robust and secure IPv6 networks in view of wider deployment of European E-commerce and convergence.

Technical Approach

The primary works of the 6INIT project will be to: - deploy an operational Trans-European IPv6 packet delivery service - provide a set of multimedia services including: IP telephony and videophony, multimedia web services - develop operational procedures for IPv6 networks and for IPv4 to IPv6 network and application migration - promote early IPv6-ready application testing and deployment - develop Access Devices which allow seamless IPv4-V6 transition, differentiated services and VPN services.

Key issues

The key issues addressed in this project are: • Definition of fixed network architecture for next generation networks to provision seamless IP

services with security and QoS • Integration of IPv6 protocol suites to next generation networks • Assess the technology that allows the rapid deployment of services and protocols for chosen

architecture and application • Implement a testbed with available and prototype products to demonstrate the technologies with

selected applications and validate the exploitability of new technologies. • Bring awareness of these new technologies and applications, and their possible impact on the

user community

Expected impact

The expected result should be the validation of the New Internet based on IPv6, demonstrating the crucial benefits of the IPv6 features including quality of service (QoS) and Security.

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List of Participants Contact Ericsson Telebit A/S British Telecommunications plc Industrieanlangen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH Intracom S.A., Hellenic Telecommunications and Electronics Industry Nordic Financial Products Ab Oy Netmedia Finland Ab T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft mbH - Leistungszentrum Berkom TELSCOM A.G THOMSON-CSF DETEXIS SA Telia AB University of Southampton

DK UK D EL FIN FIN D CH F S UK

Latif LADID Ericsson Telebit A/S Fabrikvej 11 8260 Aarhus ( Viby.J ) Denmark Tel: + 45 86 28 81 76 Fax: + 45 86 28 81 86 e-mail: latif.ladid@tbit.dk

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6WINIT (IPv6 Wireless Internet Initiative) Duration: 24 months Action line: “End-to-End Application Experiments” Clusters:

Main Objectives

The principal objectives of the 6WINIT project are the following: 1. To validate the introduction of the NEW MOBILE WIRELESS INTERNET in Europe - based on

a combination of the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and the new wireless protocols (GPRS and UMTS/3GPP).

2. To validate the integration of the protocol suites in (1) into real applications by running complete application testbeds.

3. To ensure that the implementations of (1) are generic, and not specific to a particular supplier or operator.

4. To ensure that the validation applications of (2) are not too tied to specific choice of applications.

5. To ensure that the international perspective is maintained.

We aim to choose as applications some generic, but important ones. In addition we wish to consider a specific domain in depth for some applications testbeds, and have settled on the Healthcare and Business applications.

We intend to avoid being tied to specific operators or suppliers, by ensuring that our applications work with different networks. Moreover, by including international partners from Asia Pacific and North America, we hope to avoid being too insular in our approach considering the international dimension of the technologies involved.

Technical Approach

In this project, our primary focus will be on application areas where wireless access is important. We will establish IPv6 Testbeds, which will allow us to: • Define operational procedures for IPv6-2/3G networks, for IPv4 - IPv6 network and application

integration; • Establish mechanisms to aid in the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 technology; • Investigate the problems in providing a Trans-European operational IPv6-2/3G mobile wireless

packet delivery service; • Provide a set of applications and services including: Healthcare, 3G IPv6 telephony and

multimedia wireless services; • Promote early IPv6-3G ready application testing and deployment; • Implement Access Devices (3G handsets) and edge devices in the network components that allow

such services; • Provide a testbed environment, so that applications from other Framework or National

programmes can be deployed experimentally and evaluated in a widely distributed environment; • Provide feed back on our results to Standards bodies in the Internet, Wireless and Healthcare

communities.

We will set up a true systems project, in which all the above can be investigated – though we will obtain as many components as possible from other projects, and to use basic communication networks established from other sources. We would also expect the testbed to be also available to others projects.

We will be using as generic applications the following: the Road Warrior, multimedia services, streaming media services, wireless connectivity to a weather station, and mobile e-commerce.

We will be using as clinical testbeds four hospital sites in Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. The clinical applications include: mobile access to patient information, tele-consultation of vital data from ambulances, mobile care for patients in the community after surgery, and clinical education.

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Key issues

The key issues addressed in this project are: • Definition of fixed-mobile network architecture for next generation networks to provision seamless

IP services with security and QoS • Integration of IPv6 protocol suites to next generation mobile network • Assess the technology that allows the rapid deployment of services and protocols for chosen

architecture and application • Implement a testbed with available and prototype products to demonstrate the technologies with

selected applications and validate the exploitability of new technologies. • Bring awareness of these new technologies and applications, and their possible impact on the

user community

Expected impact

The major impact of 6WINIT is in strengthening the leading role of Europe in both IPv6 and Mobile technologies deployment by providing the pre-commercial pilot network implementation and operating with involvement of real users, operators and service providers.

Addressing the health care sector application, the project brings together technologists and application domain experts, that should lead to better quality of life.

Contribution to standards both in wide area networked systems and in the emerging communication architecture

List of Participants Contact University College London 6WIND S.A. Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza Im. Stanislawa W Krakowie British Telecommunications plc Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Ericsson Radio Systems AB Ericsson Telebit A/S T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft GmbH Technical Research Centre of Finland Telscom A.G. Universität Stuttgart Ericsson Sp. z o.o. Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft GmbH Universität Bremen University of Southampton

UK F PL UK D S DK D SF CH D PL D D UK

Peter Kirstein

University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT London United Kingdom Tel: + 44 20/76-79-72-86 Fax: + 44 20/73-87-13-97 e-mail: Kirstein@cs.ucl.ac.uk

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LONG (Laboratories over Next Generation Networks) Duration: 24 months Action line: “Testbeds for advanced networking and application experiments” Clusters:

Main objectives

LONG aims to foresee and solve problems related to the design, configuration and deployment of Next Generation Telecommunication networks specially when new services and applications are carried out across them.

The new version of the IP protocol, IPv6, will become an integral part of these Next Generation networks. In addition to this, the proliferation of new high bandwidth and asymmetric access technologies, like ADSL and CATV, will also shape the network design of these Next Generation Networks. On the other side, applications must be aware of the advanced services provided by the networks and protocols, and must take into account the impact of the underlying network. LONG aims at gaining an in-depth knowledge in the design and deployment of IPv4/IPv6 transition scenarios, as well as in the operational inter-working when heterogeneous access (ADSL, CATV, ISDN) and transport (IP/ATM, IP/SDH, IP/WDM) technologies are in place. The integration of IPv6 with advanced network services will be validated in LONG.

On the other hand, LONG focuses on extending the framework of applications, so that they benefit from the services provided by these Next Generation networks. In order to achieve these goals, LONG faces the following objectives: • To deploy a Next Generation testbed. • To adapt and validate a representative set of applications to the Next Generation Network

scenarios. • To perform trials and experiments. • To develop guidelines for migration of networks and applications and disseminate results.

Technical Approach

The LONG objectives will be fulfilled by a set of distinct Workpackages.

Network Design and Deployment will ensure that a high performance testbed is in place. The testbed will connect the partners using the pan European research network infrastructure and will incorporate IPv4/IPv6 migration scenarios and advanced services like QoS, multicast, mobility or security. LONG will identify and select the mechanisms to provide these scenarios and services. The incorporation of a mixture of different access (ADSL, CATV, ISDN) and transport technologies (IP/ATM, IP/SDH, IP/WDM) will be one of the design goals. Collaborative Work Environment will adapt and validate representative applications to the next generation network scenarios, e.g. ISABEL, standard services, MBONE applications, etc. The interoperability with the IPv4 versions will be preserved. Prior to the adaptation, the network and service requirements for the Next Generation applications will be established. System Exploitation, Trials and Evaluation will perform trials and experiments over the platform deployed making use of the adapted applications. These trials will help to fine tune the design and to elaborate recommendations. These recommendations will be produced in the corresponding Work Packages taking as input the trials and experiments performed. LONG will produce recommendations related to: IPv4/IPv6 transition, IPv6 and advanced services integration, the inter-working of heterogeneous access scenarios and the adaptation of applications to the Next Generation networks. The dissemination of results will be made in the relevant fora by the Dissemination and Implementation workpackage. The Project Management will guarantee the correct progress of the work.

The project plans to co-ordinate and exchange experience and results with other relevant projects in the area. Candidates are 6INIT, ARMSTRONG and GCAP.

UC3M

PTIN

TED

UPM

TID

UEV

UPC

MBS

6Bone

ISDN

ATM

International connectivity of LONG

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Key issues

IPv6 is being seriously considered as a real fact for Next Generation Networks, which are going to be developed. It includes some new advanced mechanisms such as autoconfiguration, security, QoS, better multicast support and mobility. The main point is that every IPv6 node has these mechanisms ready to activate by default, so that developing such services will be easier and more cost effective since no additional software needs to be installed in any node.

The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 involves a period in which some mechanisms are needed to guarantee the connectivity among IPv4/IPv6 clients and IPv4/IPv6 servers throughout IPv4/IPv6 networks. The IPv4-IPv6 Transition mechanisms are being defined and developed to guarantee the interaction of IPv4 and IPv6 nodes and networks.

LONG aims at studying and testing all these key issues. Since all participants have some know-how and experience with IPv6 and some of them have experience with Transition Mechanisms the first step is setting up an IPv6 platform where the main mechanisms will be studied. Also the new advanced IPv6 network services will be studied and tested, especially QoS and multicast. The IPv4-IPv6 migration of applications is planned at two levels: • To adapt a set of applications from IPv4 to IPv6. • To really migrate/deploy applications to use the advanced services provided by the IPv6 stack.

One of the applications, which are going to be migrated to IPv6, is ISABEL (http://isabel.dit.upm.es), which is a tele-conference, and tele-meeting application that has been successfully used with IPv4. The idea is not only to adapt the application but study how these real time applications can be improved with the advanced IPv6 properties.

Once ISABEL is migrated to IPv6, LONG participants expect not only to do internal project tests and tele-meetings but also to distribute public events to some sites not participating in the LONG project (from other IST project members for instance).

Expected impact

Today many people are aware of present IPv4 Internet and IPv4 networks problems and limitations but are not aware of the stability and maturity level that IPv6 has reached.

In this way, LONG will provide an IPv6 platform among participants and documents related to IPv4-IPv6 migration and IPv6 new advanced network services usage. Also some experiences related to IPv6 in new advanced network technologies (ADSL, CATV, ISDN) will be documented.

But the most visible impact of LONG project will be the distribution of public workshops and conferences using an IPv6 network platform and an advanced real time IPv6 application. This will be the most effective way to show the real status of the IPv6 environment and will produce a lot of experience in the new real time services which could be the "killer-applications" of Next generation Networks.

List of Participants Contact Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo S.A. Unipersonal E Ericsson Telebit A/S DK Portugal Telecom Inovação, S.A. P Universidad Carlos III de Madrid E Universidad Politecnica de Madrid E Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya E Universidade de Evora P

Carlos Ralli Ucendo

Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo C/ Emilio Vargas, 6 28043 Madrid Spain Tel: + 34 91/337-45-63 Fax: + 34 91/337-43-52 e-mail: ralli@tid.es

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SEQUIN (SErvice QUality across Independently managed Networks) Duration: 15 months Action line: “Testbeds for advanced networking and application experiments” Cluster:

Main Objectives

The objective of SEQUIN is to define and implement an end-to-end approach to Quality of Service that will operate across multiple management domains and will exploit a combination of IP and ATM technology.

SEQUIN will ensure that researchers across Europe have access to networking facilities that can be tailored to the requirements of individual groups and which will offer predictable and stable quality across multiple underlying management domains and networking technologies.

Technical Approach

Project SEQUIN consist of five work packages (WP): • WP1 will ensure a smooth and effective project management and includes all activities related to

the project management, such as financial management, project administration functions as well as the co-ordination with the EC. This work package also includes external relations for the effective dissemination of the results of the project.

• WP2 will, as a first step in the project work, provide for a definition of Quality of Service which is independent of the underlying networking technology. The work package will include a definition of an end-to-end service that can be implemented in a multi-management domain environment and across Europe.

• In parallel to WP2, WP3 will define a test bed environment that can be used to implement and test end-to-end Quality of Service across multiple underlying technologies and management domains.

• The main activity of the project is WP5. This work package will create an operational test network interconnecting the participating national research networks according to the plans set out in WP3, and making use of the current (June 2000) pan-European research infrastructure, TEN-155. A Virtual Private Network will be established and an appropriate set of tests will be carried out to determine the feasibility of the Quality of Service definition as defined in WP2.

• WP4 will set out proposals for dissemination of the results including plans for the broader implementation of the Quality of Service approaches pioneered in SEQUIN. It will recommend the parameterisation for the different underlying technologies and will address the operational as well as the technology lessons learned during the test phase.

Key issues • Ability to provide predictable and guaranteed Quality of Service services over IP. • The range and type of QoS that should be implemented. • Capability of hardware to support these services. • Manageability from a user perspective.

Expected impact

Implementation of one, or possibly two, types of IP based QoS within GÉANT and the connected networks.

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List of Participants Contact Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe Limited

UK

Groupe D'intérêt Public Réseau National de Télécommunications pour la Technologie, l'enseignement et la Recherche

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INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare I SWITCH-Teleinformatikdienste Fuer Lehre Und Forschung

CH

The JNT Association UK Verein Zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes - DFN-Verein

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Dai Davies

Delivery of Advanced Network Technology To Europe Francis House, 112 Hills Road CB2 1PQ Cambridge United Kingdom

Tel: + 44 1223/30-29-92 Fax: + 44 1223/30-30-05 e-mail: Dai.Davies@dante.org.uk

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WINE (Wireless Internet Networks) Duration: 24 months IST Action Lines: IV1.1, IV2.3, IV2.4, IV5.2, IV5.4 Clusters: Radio Access, Wireless IP, Next Generation Networks

Main Objectives

WINE´s main aim is to build fully IPv6-based globally optimised wireless Internet environment with QoS awareness. To reach this, WINE will have sub-tasks heading to the main aim. First, we aim to implement three testbeds with simulation models dedicated for specific environments and current IPv4/v6 implementations. Second, we aim for solid theoretical understanding of wireless Internet environments. This knowledge will be verified and based on practical tests on testbeds and simulation models and large scale research networks. Based on previous results we aim to implement true wireless Internet solution that is as far as possible radio link independent. We are building wireless IP adaptation layer, that is configurable so that it can be optimised for different platforms and links. Above the layer objective is to implement wireless Internet protocol fully compatible to current Internet world.

Technical Approach

Our study shall be done with three complementary approaches. First, we study theoretical issues in wireless IP with protocols, queuing models etc. Second, large simulations and case studies over research networks are done to verify theoretical results and to gain extra information on large-scale network environment. Third, we are implementing our results into different underlying communication hardware platforms. The test radio links shall include Bluetooth, HiperLAN-2 and IEEE802.11. These three very different platforms shall be our official testbed environment. Moreover during the project some partners might use their existing complementary networks to test developed protocols, for these extra tests we are not applying EU funding.

WINE is divided into four work packages that comply with our approach providing clear continuity of work and natural overlapping of certain tasks. Project main line in administration and technical management is done in WP1. The specification workpackage (2) will provide basis of the work starting from current knowledge of the consortium and other research world and continuing to specification of wireless Internet architecture and testbed environments. Testbed implementation workpackage (3) will be implementing three testbeds and implementations of TCP/IPv4 and TCP/IPv6. In parallel of testbed environment implementation, network simulation models we will be produced. Extensive performance tests and analysis for implemented testbeds will be conducted. Based on performance analysis we will update our simulation models. Finally, in the workpackage four we will implement our results into globally optimised end-to-end wireless Internet network solution including most of the required system components. We will validate our solution in three different testbeds implemented in workpackage three. Finally we intend to finalise our specification and produce contributions for relevant standardisation organisations such as ETSI and IETF

Key Issues • Development and research on true, transparent Wireless Internet Connectivity. This is to be

verified with actual prototype systems • Global end-to-end transmission optimisation • The transmission is based from the start existing Internet philosophy and namely IPv6 protocols,

not to WATM (i.e. IP-over-ATM solutions) • Build wireless and cellular IP-networks • Development of an adaptation layer to allow the transparent IP services provision over different

air-interfaces. • Three very different platforms will be used to demonstrate the results; Bluetooth, HiperLAN-2 and

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Expected Impact

End-to-end optimisation with the wireless TCP/IP traffic taking into account all aspects of broadband wireless communication, networking research, radio channel information, and wireless protocol knowledge to collaborative R&D. New protocols at network and link layers to improve throughput and reduce latency of the wireless link, keeping transparency with upper layer protocols will be proposed. Other encapsulation schemes will be investigated in order to make the transmission of IP traffic more efficient by not transmitting unnecessary IP header fields in each packet (such an approach may also find use in the design of fast packet switching and routing). Several Internet drafts will be submitted to IETF for identified wireless IP improvements based on measurements and simulation results, and Request for Comments if Internet drafts are accepted.

List of partners Technical Research Centre of Finland Philips S.p.A. – Italy UNIVERSITA' DI ROMA "LA SAPIENZA" ALLIANCE QUALITE LOGICIEL COGEFO CEFRIEL Intracom S.A., Advanced Communications R&D The Queen's University of Belfast

FIN I I F I GR E UK

Contact person Petri Mähönen Technical Research Centre of Finland Kaitovaeylae 1 90571 Oulu Finland Tel: +358 8 5512493 Fax: +358 8 5512320 e-mail: petri.mahonen@oulu.fi

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AQUILA (Adaptive resource control for QoS Using an IP-based Layered Architecture) Duration: 36 months IST Action Lines: IV.2.3, IV.2.4 Clusters: Internet Infrastructure, Premium IP

Main Objectives • To enable dynamic end-to-end QoS provisioning in IP networks for QoS sensitive applications. • To continuously analyse customer requirements and market situations and to create applicable

business plans. • To design a cost-effective, scalable and backward compatible QoS architecture enhancing the

Differentiated Services architecture with dynamic resource and admission control. • To enable migration to and deployment of QoS-enabled networks. • To develop a novel resource control layer extending Bandwidth Broker functionality • To implement prototypes of the QoS architecture as well as QoS based end user services • To provide a toolkit for migration of end user applications to QoS • To create tools for QoS monitoring and management. • To develop and integrate a distributed QoS measurement infrastructure • To validate the architecture in testbeds and user trials. • To contribute to standardisation bodies like IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), ITU

(International Telecoms Union), OMG (Open Management Group). • To keep the project open for new concepts and recent developments

Technical Approach

The AQUILA project aims to define, implement and evaluate a new enhanced architecture for Quality of Service provision over IP networks using as basis existing approaches to QoS specified for the Internet. The achieved technical solutions will be verified within testbeds and trials involving end users. The trials will include QoS-supported multimedia services. The proposal mainly contributes to the objectives of Key Action IV.2.3 (Network integration, interoperability and interworking). Additionally, it covers some of the objectives of Key Action IV.2.4 (Technologies for network management and service-level interworking). The use of the world-wide accepted Internet Protocol (IP) enables the seamless interconnection of multiple heterogeneous networks and components. On the other hand, IP was not designed to support QoS. In this sense, the requirements of advanced multimedia telecommunication services are not completely fulfilled. In this context, the proposal will design and develop a service-independent QoS architecture providing an extra layer for resource control. It aims to ensure migration from existing networks and interoperability between heterogeneous networks. In principle this architecture can be used by any IP application as it provides several options for QoS support. The proposed architecture will be cost-effective, efficient, scalable and backward compatible for the provisioning of QoS in IP networks. The project is structured into 3 workpackage groups (WPG) and 9 technical workpackages. WPG "system architecture and traffic issues" deals with requirement analysis, specification, traffic studies and engineering. WPG 2 "prototype implementation" develops prototype systems for service and resource control, applications and user services, test utilities. WPG 3 "integration and trial" deals with system and network integration, trials/measurements and exploitation/business models.

Key Issues

The current Internet architecture is not designed to support QoS per se and there exist different approaches for providing QoS over IP-based networks. Due to the different underlying mechanisms of these approaches and the complexity of end-to-end QoS, there is currently no solution suitable for global operation. In particular, management of these QoS mechanisms and the provisioning of inter-domain QoS are open issues. The most important approaches are the following: • Optimised IP traffic over ATM (e.g. MPOA, IP Switching). • Integrated Services (IntServ). • Differentiated Services (DiffServ).

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• Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS). • QoS Routing. • Bandwidth over-provisioning.

Most of the above-mentioned technical solutions on how to bring QoS into IP networks are still under discussion. Some of them are divergent, while some are complementary. No integrated scaleable solutions are available right now. Furthermore, management and interoperability aspects of the mentioned approaches are currently treated poorly.

There is a strong need to make new technical features accessible to users in a customer friendly manner. Technical details should be hidden to the user. This is of growing importance since more and more new applications will include QoS sensitive components. For the wide range of traditional applications, we need customer-friendly ways to use them properly with the new network QoS interfaces.

Expected Impact

The well-known challenge for this project is to provide reliable Quality of Service (QoS) by using current IP technologies. The new architecture to be developed by this project shall provide a similar degree of interoperability for heterogeneous networks as current IP, but on the higher layer of resource control for IP networks. The project will take up and further develop some promising new concepts that came up recently (and very rapidly) and were applied in the US prototype networks for “Internet2”. Europe currently needs more activities towards future IP networks. The proposed project aims at providing a significant European research contribution to this area. The proposed project will contribute in three different aspects. Technically, the project will focus on a highly scalable architecture that can be introduced by relatively small migration steps on top of existing infrastructure, using results from other European research projects. Economically, the project focuses on commercial usage of the network by high numbers of end-users (mainly private persons and small or medium enterprises) in contrast to the US-approach of an academic research network. Methodically, the project faces the problem of aiming at a rapidly moving target, and therefore provides mechanisms for dynamic fine-adjustment of some project objectives during its execution.

List of partners Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Bertelsmann Media Systems Gmbh Coritel - Consorzio Di Ricerca Sulle Telecomunicazioni Helsinki Telephone Corporation National Technical University Of Athens Politechnika Warszawska Q Systems Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft Mbh T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft Mbh Technische Universitaet Dresden Telekom Austria Ag Telekomunikacja Polska S.A.

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Contact person Bert F. Koch Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Hofmannstr. 51 81359 Munich Germany Tel: +49 89 722 22465 Fax: +49 89 722 41920 e-mail: Berthold.Koch@icn.siemens.de

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GCAP (Global Communication Architecture and Protocols for new QoS services over IPv6 networks) Duration: 24 months IST Action Lines: Clusters:

Main Objectives

The objectives of the project are: • To define and evaluate a new end-to-end multicast transport protocol and a new end-to-end

multimedia multicast transport protocol for supporting dedicated or specialised applications having guaranteed QoS requirements.

• To define and evaluate a new integrated global multinetwork end-to-end architecture for supporting innovative multimedia and co-operative applications needing guaranteed Quality of Service.

• To propose a design approach to rapidly deploy and use such new protocols, which will be developed on top of the new QoS architecture based on IPv6 and DiffServ, by means of an active network based technology.

• To illustrate the feasibility and evaluate the potential of the advocated approach by conducting two experiments using the national research networks and their European interconnection.

Technical Approach

A new Transport layer for the Internet next generation will be designed and implemented, being the work conducted across different items. Two protocols, designed as two building blocks, a multimedia protocol and a multicast protocol, will be specified and implemented. These protocols will have different capabilities in terms of QoS, i.e. of reliability and synchronisation. They will be consistent with the IETF and the IRTF to which we will participate. The multicast protocol will allow the management of groups of users, and will provide the mechanisms needed to guarantee the selected QoS parameters to the groups of users; the multimedia multicast protocol will be made flexible by defining a set of parameters allowing the application user to select the monomedia reliability and the multimedia synchronisation that will be enforced by the layer.

An active network approach to be able to run the two previous protocols written in Java in IPv6 environments will be selected. The aim is to produce a software environment that will be able to support the automatic remote loading and the automatic remote execution of these two protocols for deployment. These results will be integrated into a new advanced end-to-end multinetwork transport layer. For this, GCAP will: first carefully analyse the QoS parameters defining the different interconnected networks; second define the mapping of the designed protocols to the DiffServ services of the IP layer; third define a transport API, extending and compatible with TCP and UDP.

Two demonstrations will be provided: one on the multimedia mechanisms and one on the multicast service. They will be conducted on an European testbed using the corresponding national research networks and their European interconnection. The obtained results will be evaluated and analysed: the protocols themselves and their mechanisms, the active support environment including code design and execution, and the large scale deployment and behaviour.

List of partners Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique Alcatel Space Industries Ericsson Telebit A/S Gmd - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik Gmbh Telekom Austria Ag Thomson Csf Detexis Sa Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie University Of Lancaster

F F DK D A F E F UK

Contact person Michel Diaz Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (Delegation Midi-Pyrenees) 7, avenue du Colonel Roche 31077 Toulouse France Tel: +33 5 6133625 Fax: +33 5 61336411 e-mail: diaz@laas.fr

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NETGATE (Advanced Network Adapter for the new Generation of mobile and IP based Networks) Duration: 24 months IST Action Lines: IV.2.3 Clusters: Next Generation Networks

Main Objectives To design and develop a novel, low cost, flexible, highly efficient and scaleable system able to operate as a high performance protocol gateway, which will bridge the 'compatibility' gap between different telecommunication networks such as SS7, IN, ATM, GSM, GPRS and also provide interfaces to IP based networks. To provide instantiations of the NETGATE system as: a GPRS support node combining the SGSN & GGSN functionality and an enhanced VoIP gatekeeper. To assess the migration of telecom operators to the new types of services and networks.

Technical Approach

To provide a high performance protocol execution engine, which will be based on a robust run-time executive, optimised for protocol execution. To provide generic protocol translation modules for inter-working between the different interfaces and resource management techniques based on standard technologies. To integrate different networking protocol stacks and interface with them in live networks. To design and develop a novel, low-cost, flexible, highly efficient and scaleable system able to operate as a high performance protocol gateway, which will bridge the 'compatibility' gap between different telecommunication networks such as SS7, IN, ATM, GSM, GPRS and UMTS.

Key Issues

To provide generic protocol translation models for inter-working between the different interfaces and resource management techniques based on standard technologies. To integrate different networking protocol stacks and interface with them in live networks. To provide instantiations of the NETGATE system as an GPRS support node combining the SGSN & GGSN functionality and an enhanced VoIP gatekeeper. To assess the migration of telecomoperators to the new types of services and networks.

Expected Impact The solution will be able to provide interoperability between wireless platforms (GSM, GPRS, UMTS) and wired platforms (ISDN, ATM, IP as well as an open architecture for future technologies. Moreover NETGATE solution is meant to be fully flexible, as it will provide a single node, which combines different interfaces and makes possible, through the adequate hardware and software components, the inter-working between various telecommunication protocol stacks.

List of partners Alcatel Sel AG Cellurar Operating System of Mobile Communications S.A. (COSMOTE) Intracom S.A., Hellenic Telecommunications and Electronics Industry National Technical University of Athens Portugal Telecom Inovação, SA Solinet GmbH Telecommunications

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Contact person Vassilis Velentzas Solinet GmbH TelecommunicationsMittlerer PFAD 26 70499 Stuttgart Germany Tel: + 49 711 1398 13 0 Fax: + 49 711 1398 13 99 e-mail: V.Velentzas@Solinet.com

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GEOCAST (Multicast Over Geostationary EHF Satellites) Duration: 36 months IST Action Lines: IV.2.3 Clusters: Next Generation Networks

Main Objectives

Due to the satellite evolution, a separate definition of ground and space segments is not any more possible. On-board processing on the one hand, higher frequencies on the other hand, have impacts on the definitions of all segments and all layers of the communications links. The purpose of GEOCAST is then to come up to a better definition of such systems, encompassing building blocks (terminals, gateways, satellite) as well as protocols (network, medium and physical layers) which can match the needs of such multicast systems. The objectives are then to define next generation systems, demonstrate their feasibility and optimise their performance thanks to an emulator realisation, and validate their performance thanks to live experiments, which can only bring the best practice experience necessary for a wide adoption by operators. Successful deployment of such systems can be measured by contributions to normalisation bodies (Internet Engineering Task Force - IETF- and European Telecommunications Standardisation Industry - ETSI), as well by a wide participation from early participants.

Technical Approach

GEOCAST project consists of five work packages (WP):

Work package 1000 is to make an overview on existing systems, protocols, applications, economics and their shortcomings in order to give several reference scenarios. The main objective is to identify the shortcomings of today's multicast protocols over existing or up coming GEO systems in order to highlight their interest from an economic standpoint and to identify key elements of improvement. At the end of the task the following topics should be made it clear: • Multicast are the "killer" applications for the GEO satellite. New systems (comprising space and

ground segments, protocols and applications) are needed to leverage the possibilities of such protocols

• Trends and reference scenarios are identified for a deeper analysis in the following tasks.

The System Design work package (WP2000) is to design the overall system. It comprises: • System segment description and specification (user, space, mission and gateway) leading to a

system and sub system description • Layer by layer protocols optimisation and specification through simulated performance: physical

layer (fade counter measure algorithms), access layer (resources management protocols), network layer (multicast and security management protocols), and services layer (applications, customer care and billing…)

The Demonstrators Specifications work package (WP3000) is to specify the demonstrators, namely: emulator definition and satellite experiment definition. The different components of the emulator will be realised, integrated and tested in WP4000. Finally the WP5000 will validate the Emulator and it will carry out the respective exploitation and promotion.

Key Issues

Develop the market opportunities in Europe for multicasting over future broadband satellite by preparing technical solutions to the existing impediments.

Address the issues regarding the limitations of multicast: what are the limitations of existing solutions, what are the impediments that are raised by the use of a wireless satellite link, what are the possible investigations/improvements?

Propose building blocks and systems that can contribute to a better optimisation of multicasting over geostationary satellite (seamless interworking and best utilisation of the satellite position). This

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encompasses protocols, applications, on-board payload, modems and EDI management. The building blocks should be simulated in order to estimate their performance.

Validate the solutions by specifying, realising and demonstrating an end-to-end emulator of the different layers which are impacted in several chosen typical system scenarios.

Expected Impact

GEOCAST shall enable innovative technologies be explored in order to address current short-falls in multicast protocols. In particular, these protocols shall be reviewed and developed taking into account other constraints which are not usually considered at an early development phase: • Radio layer: impact of acute attenuation, proposition of adapted fade mitigation techniques (FMT). • Access layer: impact of an intelligent and efficient resources management set of solutions. • Network layer: security, scalability, operational management impacts constraints on the protocols. • Service layer: study of the impact of applications and related services that shall be provided

through the system to the end-users and service providers.

Contribute to standardisation bodies in order to better take into account the satellite in the GII by proposing the optimised solutions (protocols, systems, building blocks…), which in turn should develop the demand from the operators. The contributions shall be made at ETSI standardisation, at ATM and DVB Forum for multicasting in the layer 2 and at the IETF and IPMI (IP Multicast Initiative) for the IP multicasting at layer 3.

List of partners Università Di Roma "La Sapienza" Softway International The University of Surrey The University Court of The University of Aberdeen Archimedia Ltd. Electronic Automatic Systems S.R.L. Alcatel Espacio SA Alcatel Space Industries Office National D’etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales Newtec CY N. V.

I F UK UK EL I E F F B

Contact person Laurent Roullet Alcatel Space Industries 26 avenue J.F. Champollion 31037 Toulouse France Tel: + 33 534356659 Fax: + 33 534356169 e-mail: laurent.roullet@space.alcatel.fr

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MIND (Mobile IP based Network Developments) Project duration: 18 months IST Action Lines: IV.5.4 Fourth Generation system and network concepts for wireless communications Clusters: Systems beyond 3G

Main Objectives • Overall aim: To facilitate the rapid creation of broadband multimedia services and applications

that are fully supported and customised when accessed by future mobile users from a wide range of wireless access technologies.

• Research areas: To extend the concepts of IP mobile networks. This includes: new network topologies - ad-hoc, self-organising and meshed networks; enhanced support for QoS, ad-hoc networks and self organisation at all layers of HIPERLAN/2; QoS support in IP-based mobile networks; investigation of the spectrum requirements for systems beyond 3G.

• Trials: The project will research the use of WLAN and an IP-based access network as a complement to UMTS for high bandwidth provision in hot spot areas.

• Delivery: To contribute actively to standards bodies and industry forums.

Technical Approach

The technical approach of MIND provides a vision of what shows a path towards 4G. The work will be based on results of the IST project BRAIN. The project will take as a starting point the concept of an IP core, accessed by a variety of technologies. It will develop this vision with business models and user considerations (including scenarios – which will look at the user side of ad-hoc networks). From this the project will derive the requirements on the network and air interface parts of the vision. In addition the project will conduct a trial – practical research – into the use of HIPERLAN/2 and an IP-based access network, using IP QoS and IP mobility management techniques, as a complement to UMTS and as a part of this vision. The project is not concerned with the core IP network and will focus only on those aspects of the problem that specifically relate to mobile. This is why we have the concept of an access network – where different IP QoS protocols could run, for example, and where IP micro-mobility management would be introduced.

IP-basedmicro-mobility

IntServ

IP backboneDiffServIP - macro mobilitymanagement

GlobalInternet

HIPERLAN 2

DHCP WAPOperator’s

Server Farm

BillingSIP

Proxy Server

ISP Server Farm

VHEAAA

UTRANRelease 00

ADSL

SGSN

VerticalHandover

GGSN

GatewayRouter

MobileRouter

AccessRouter

MIND architecture

The project will run a trial of this access network and show HIPERLAN/2 systems running from this network. HIPERLAN/2 has been chosen because it is a candidate system for 4G – it also represents a quantum leap in terms of bandwidth and functionality (dynamic frequency allocation, self configuration, broadcast channels, convergence layers...) than current Wireless LAN systems. Our work is aimed much further than a simple demonstration of Wireless LAN and UMTS hand-over – this has already been achieved by the use of Mobile IP. We are trying to research how a unified UMTS, HIPERLAN/2 and ADSL could essentially offer multimedia services across Europe at low cost, with high flexibility

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and fully convergent with emerging IP services.

Key Issues • To investigate new business models beyond 3G – mapping the value-chain into the functional

entities required for rapid and flexible multimedia service creation and support. • To detail the scenarios that need to be supported by future wireless networks. • To investigate, define and specify suitable mechanisms for authentication, security and

accounting. • To provide support - QoS, mobility management and security - for ad-hoc and self provisioned

sub-networks attached to a fixed IP network. • To investigate the opportunities offered by IPv6 for creating additional functionality. • To develop and design protocols to support fixed-mobile convergence. • To investigate and propose solutions to the complicated inter-related issues of scalability,

performance, signalling load and QoS. • To investigate and propose solutions for dynamic frequency and resource allocation mechanisms

in support of ad-hoc and self provisioned networks. • To investigate the generic support required at the layer2/3 interface for vertical handover and

multi-homing. • To study the spectrum issues raised by the MIND model. • To investigate how the range and performance of HIPERLAN/2 can be increased to make it

suitable for a wider range of scenarios including ad-hoc networks and supporting a full range of user QoS.

• To integrate a trial environment including systems such as WLAN (e.g. HIPERLAN/2), UTRA and IPv6 based core network testbeds.

• To validate and evaluate basic functions and protocols specified by the IST project BRAIN: vertical (at IP layer) and horizontal handover mechanisms and QoS related aspects.

• To contribute actively to standardisation bodies and forums including ETSI, ITU, IETF, and H2GF as needed.

Expected Impact

MIND will develop further the concepts elaborated by the IST project BRAIN and, thus, will show a path towards 4G systems. It will design an access system, which is optimised across application, network, and air interface layer with regard to QoS and mobility management taking into account the requirements of future mobile users. The resulting MIND trials will allow the validation of the concepts and protocols developed in the BRAIN project, including mobile applications exploiting high data rates, QoS negotiation between terminals and the access network, IP handovers, and integration with IP core networks over well-defined interfaces. The main conceptual work of MIND includes investigations of the performance limitations of the current HIPERLAN/2 standard in terms of range and mobility, to reduce the gulf between it and the UTRA air interfaces and investigations of the way in which ad hoc and self organising networks can be supported, including the meshed (multi-hop) case and integration with wired networks. The results of the MIND work will be disseminated through conferences, workshops, journals, and through the Internet. MIND will work to contribute to standards groups for wireless LANs and ad-hoc networks and those efforts looking to harmonize the 5GHz spectrum usage.

List of participants

Contact Siemens AG British Telecommunications plc Agora Systems S.A. Ericsson Radio Systems AB France Télécom SA King’s College London Nokia Corporation NTT DoCoMo, Inc. Sony International (Europe) GmbH T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft mbH University of Madrid Infineon Technologies AG

D BT E S F UK FIN JP D D E D

Werner Mohr ICN N CTO PE, Siemens AG Hofmannstrasse 51 D-81359 Munich Germany Tel: +49 89 722 23958 Fax: + 49 89 722 44958 E-mail: werner.mohr@icn.siemens.de

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EVOLUTE (seamlEss multimedia serVices Over alL IP-based infrastrUcTurEs) Project duration: 24 months Action line: IST 2001 - 4.1.2 Clusters: Systems beyond 3G

Main Objectives • EVOLUTE aims to design, specify and develop an all IP-based network infrastructure that will

offer seamless multimedia services to users who access the network via a variety of different wireless technologies. For their importance in the near to medium term evolution of global mobile telecommunications, two types of wireless technologies have been selected, being the UMTS and the WLANs. EVOLUTE aims to achieve the following goals:

• To design, specify and develop a multilayer mobility management scheme to efficiently handle mobility for different types of services (real-time or non-real-time multimedia traffic) using either network-layer solutions (Mobile IP), or application-layer ones (SIP) along with various IETF micro-mobility approaches (e.g., Cellular IP, HAWAII, IDMP, etc.).

• To design, specify and develop an efficient scheme for transferring context information from a mobile's old access to the new access network in order to enhance the performance of horizontal and vertical handoffs.

• To specify and develop an intelligent service-provisioning environment for mobile users based on SIP.

• To provide fast and secure access to mobile multimedia services using a scalable and robust AAA architecture.

• To define laboratory and field trials for testing the developed all IP-based architecture and prove its efficiency on delivering seamless multimedia services to users that move among heterogeneous networks or change communication media.

• To contribute to the various standardization bodies (IETF, IRTF, 3GPP, ETSI BRAN, 3GIP, IEEE).

Technical Approach

Today two major technological forces drive the telecommunication era: the wireless cellular systems and the Internet. As these forces converge, the demand for new services, increasing bandwidth and ubiquitous connectivity continuously grows. The next-generation mobile systems will be based solely, (or in a large extent), on IP, offering end-user services, including voice telephony over IP networks.

This project will explore some of the trends driving these developments and will investigate their impact on the provisioning of real-time and non-real-time multimedia services, such as mobile telephony or mobile web access in ubiquitous environments. The objective is to offer seamless multimedia services to users who access an all IP-based infrastructure via a variety of different access technologies, meeting the demands of both enterprise and public environments anywhere and anytime. A key role of IP in next-generation mobile systems will be the efficient and cost-effective interworking between overlay networks for the seamless provisioning of current and future applications and services. IP is assumed to act as an adhesive to provide global connectivity, mobility among networks, and a common platform for service provisioning across different types of access networks. EVOLUTE will address and investigate issues such as multilayer mobility management, context transfer capabilities among access networks for seamless handoff performance, deployment of AAA functions for fast access granting, ubiquitous service provisioning and seamless roaming among the different access technologies (indoor/outdoor), so that intelligent and personalized multimedia services will be offered in a smooth and uniform fashion. The all IP-based infrastructure that is envisaged by EVOLUTE is illustrated in Figure 1.

Key Issues • To implement an all IP-based infrastructure, that will incorporate the major indoor and public-

outdoor wireless technologies and will explore their interworking by investigating their impact on the performance of real-time and non-real-time multimedia services.

• To design, specify and develop a multilayer mobility management scheme to efficiently handle

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mobility for different types of services (real-time or non-real-time multimedia traffic). • To enhance the multilayer mobility management architecture with context transfer capabilities

among access networks for seamless handoff performance. • To design a robust and scalable AAA infrastructure for fast access granting to multimedia services

and integrate it with EVOLUTE’s multilayer mobility management architecture. • To deploy SIP-based signaling functionality for supporting the creation, operation and

management of multimedia sessions over heterogeneous networks. • To investigate the impact of different types of mobility (terminal, personal, and service) on the

provisioning of multimedia services following a number of different trial scenarios. • To disseminate the project results within the IST community and relevant industrial fora and

standardization bodies (3GPP, 3GIP, IETF, ETSI BRAN, IPv6 Forum).

- multilayer mobility management- enhanced handoffs- SIP-based service provisioning- scalable AAA infrastructure

EVOLUTE architecture

Expected Impact

EVOLUTE is expected to produce several exploitable results including the following: • Internet technology and interworking in future IP-based overlay networks: EVOLUTE deals

with the challenge of interworking of two overlay technologies/networks in enterprise-indoor and public-outdoor environments. The first one regards an Internet access using WLAN hot-spots for the enterprise environment, while the second one is an All-IP 3G network infrastructure in a public environment. EVOLUTE has been designed to allow transparent user roaming among different wireless technologies to deliver the widest range of services anywhere and cost-effectively for both the user and the network operator.

• Impact on the High-Speed Internet Access: Within the EVOLUTE, WLANs technologies will be used as a complementary technology to 3G. They will offer much higher bandwidth, mobility in a limited (usually indoor) area and will be deployed in densely populated areas. Typical locations where this service will be initially offered include hotels, airports, shopping centers and similar places where the demand for mobile data services is increased.

• New Services in All-IP based infrastructure: EVOLUTE will design, develop, test and evaluate

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packet-based services and applications, which will be offered within the context of All-IP 3G Networking infrastructure. Such applications include AAA services, Multi-layer mobility management services and VoIP applications. The All-IP architectures enable multiple session control of multimedia applications and services, managed quality of service and true access nomadicity. These applications will be important for telecom operators to evaluate new applications for commercial use. Furthermore, EVOLUTE will give the opportunity to the operator to evaluate the performance as well the business scenario of enhanced Internet services using mobile access (WLAN) infrastructure.

• Impact on Standardization Activities: EVOLUTE will have a great impact on the standardization activities. These activities regard the evolution and migration issues towards the All-IP 3G networking architecture, the use of multilayer mobility management schemes in All-IP based architectures and the interworking between overlay wireless networks. Moreover activities in this directions will be accomplished in the 3G.IP initiative. 3G.IP initiative aims to promote a common IP-based wireless system for third generation mobile communications technology to ensure rapid standards development and take up by operators, vendors, and developers. Additionally, the EVOLUTE consortium will make contributions regarding the related WLAN standarisation bodies (ETSI BRAN) as well as the relevant IETF Working Groups (AAA, SEAMOBY, Mobile IP, SIP).

• Impact on mobile Internet using wireless access: Within the context of EVOLUTE, a pair of WLAN technologies (i.e. HIPERLAN/2, IEEE 802.11) will be used, in order to provide wireless access to mobile Internet users. Furthermore, the mobility management strategies will be interworked with AAA schemes giving the ability to the users to evaluate innovative telephony services.

• 3G Migration Scenario: EVOLUTE will design and develop an All-IP 3G networking infrastructure. This is particular important for operators who have acquired 3G licenses, with respect to what strategy will they follow on 3G evolution from Release 99 version towards an All-IP approach leading to reduced cost of maintenance and deployment.

List of participants Contact INTRACOM SA

Motorola

FhG-Fokus

CEFRIEL

Telia

University of Surrey

Alcatel SEL

EL

UK

D

IT

S

UK

D

Tasos Dagiuklas

Development Programmes Dept, INTRACOM SA

Markopoulo Avenue

19002 Athens

Greece

Tel: +30 10 6690084

Fax: +30 10 6860312

E-mail: ntan@intracom.gr

Web page: http://evolute.intranet.gr

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NGN-LAB (Next Generation Networks Laboratory)

Duration: 36 months IST Action line: 7.1.2 Clusters: IPv6

Main Objectives

The overall objective of the distributed Next Generation Networks Laboratory is to be an advanced IP-based network and services environment that enables researchers located around Europe to solve problems using a common platform.

The NGN-LAB may be used to test new network configurations, protocols, applications, conformance tests to standards, so as to guarantee interworking and interoperability in a heterogeneous network environment.

The objectives may be summarised in two points: – provision of a test platform for Next Generation Networks:

• main topics addressed are: IPv6, QoS • two sites (the MULTICOMLAB in Basel, and the EuroDemo Lab in Brussels) are

established, each focussing on different areas of Next Generation Networks with integration and test facilities

• additional topics: mobility, security, access networks, interworking & interoperability, multimedia, wireless technologies

– support of IST and national projects for testing their systems: • applications and test equipment provision, • link to GEANT to test across 2 testbeds in Basel (CH) and Brussels (BE).

Technical Approach

NGN-LAB is making advanced networking available in two interconnected testbeds (Brussels and Basel), to support IST projects to test new technologies such as IP telephony, IP over xDSL, IP over ATM, multimedia, GPRS, etc. The current configuration is shown in the figure below.

The project partners have a broad experience in creating, testing and deploying advanced network technologies. The project will focus on QoS (Diffserv), multimedia and wireless applications, interconnecting various systems/technologies, and IPv4/IPv6 transition.

EurodemoLAN

MCLabLAN

100BaseT

ATM

VUB/ULBBELNET

GEANT

ATM

UNI BASEL

ATM

IPv6 multicast tunnelto UBS

IPv6 Backbone(6BONE)

Brussels – Basel IPv6 link with external connections

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Key issues – extension of existing testbeds in Basel (MULTICOMLAB) and Brussels (EuroDemo Lab) and

setting up of the international native IPv6 link between them, – installation, configuration and testing of the existing IPv6-related:

• solutions: operating systems (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD), • applications (routing, multicast, multimedia, QoS, mobile IP, IP telephony), • technologies (Ethernet, ATM, GPRS, WDM, xDSL).

– participation and creation of IPv6 initiatives, including interoperability events.

Expected impact

The architecture created for the project will enable testing of many new and experimental technologies both in a laboratory environment as well as on the international link. Project participants will gather information about existing IPv6 solutions and create new ones. All the results shall be shared with other NGN-related projects and published. Several actions shall be taken for IPv6 and NGN promotion among business and university environments. List of Participants Contact

Paul Van Binst Université Libre de Bruxelles CP230 Boulevard du Triomphe 1050 Brussels Belgium Tel. +32 2 629 32 11 Fax. +32 2 629 38 16 e-mail: paul.vanbinst@helios.iihe.ac.be URL: http://www.ngnlab.org

ULB VUB CISCO Dimension Data MCLab TELSCOM NEC ResCom

BE BE BE BE CH CH DE IE

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6LINK - IPv6 Projects Linkage Cluster Duration: 36 months Action Line: IST2001 - VIII.1.1 Clustering of Projects Clusters: N/A

Main Objectives

The 6LINK project has three objectives. These are consensus-building on the subject of IPv6 development and deployment, dissemination of consensus agreements on subjects relating to IPv6 development and deployment, and exploitation of consensus agreements to support common trials and IPv6 standards development. The European Commission is actively sponsoring a number of IPv6-related IST projects, and there are other bodies, for example Eurescom, that fund IPv6-related collaborative work. It is the objective of 6LINK to bring representatives of these projects together to identify common experiences and to share knowledge and understanding of the state-of-the-art with regards to IPv6 development and deployment in Europe. The second objective, dissemination, builds upon the consensus and understanding generated by the first objective and seeks to promulgate the agreements and analyses arrived at by the partners to as wide an audience as possible. The third objective is concerned with capitalising on the synergies developed through achievement of the first objective, by providing support to participants developing inputs to standards bodies, by presenting 6LINK participants' submissions at standards meetings, and by identifying opportunities for common trials. The intention is to bring focus and clarity to the development and deployment of IPv6 in Europe, and beyond, in the hope that this will hasten its widespread adoption as the internetworking protocol of choice, and thereby give European industry and society an important advantage in the global information society.

Technical Approach

In order to achieve the objectives set out above, the 6LINK project will adopt a workplan with elements to address the key areas of consensus-building, dissemination and exploitation. The core of the consensus-building work will be a series of workshops, held every four months throughout the project, at which partners will present and discuss the latest developments, both within the represented projects, and from the global IPv6 community. In tandem with the workshops, the project will establish an online resource centre, which will provide public access to 6LINK reports, IPv6-related IST news and developments, and will host a database of IPv6-enabled applications. To further the achievement of this objective, the project will publish books of these reports on an annual basis. In order to best achieve the third objective, exploitation, the 6LINK project will seek to identify opportunities for common trials across projects. 6LINK will monitor standards development activities being undertaken as part of represented projects and will provide services to these projects in the form of presentations at standards meetings, document review and editorial support. The 6LINK project will serve to co-ordinate inputs to standards bodies from all of the represented projects.

Key Issues

The key issues addresses in this project are: • Sharing information between European IPv6 projects • Co-ordinating contributions to standards development organisations • Promoting agreed understanding of the issues for IPv6 deployment in Europe • Disseminating the knowledge generated in European IPv6 projects • Co-ordinating common trials across projects

Expected Impact

The 6LINK project provides the first, and only, forum for IPv6-related IST projects to come together and discuss important issues. Prior to the 6LINK project, collaboration and discussion between

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projects took place informally. 6LINK provides a formal, funded framework for such collaboration, and sets clear objectives for the participants in terms of deliverables. 6LINK will serve to identify and document the important issues for IPv6 development and deployment in Europe. 6LINK provides the first forum for dissemination of developments in the commercial, academic and standards arenas that is focused exclusively on IPv6 technologies.

It is expected that 6LINK will foster an improved understanding throughout the IST community of the most important issues for IPv6 development and deployment. 6LINK will publish 3 books on the subjects deemed most important by the participants in 6LINK workshops. 6LINK will also serve to heighten awareness of the status of IPv6-related standards development, and will help to promote the standards work of participant organisations within the relevant standards bodies.

List of Participants Contact British Telecommunications plc Telscom A.G. T-Systems Nova GmbH University of Southampton Consulintel University College London Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Motorola DANTE TERENA Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

UK CH D UK E UK E F UK NL E

Mat Ford

BTexact Technologies pp HWP276 PO Box 234 Edinburgh Midlothian EH12 9UR Tel: + 44 131-662-9543 Fax: + 44 131-662-9543 e-mail: matthew.ford@bt.com

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Euro6IX (European IPv6 Internet Exchanges Backbone) Project duration: 36 months IST Action Lines: VII.1.2, II.1.3, II.4.2, IV.2.2 Clusters: IPv6, Wireless IP, Mobile Services and Applications

Main Objectives

The first objective of the Euro6IX project is to research an appropriate architecture to design and deploy the first Pan-European non-commercial IPv6 Internet Exchange (IX) Network. It will connect several regional neutral IPv6 Internet Exchange points across Europe, and achieve the same level of robustness and service quality as currently offered by IPv4 Internet Exchange Networks.

The second objective is to use the deployed IPv6 IX infrastructure to research, test and validate IPv6-based applications and services.

As a third objective, the network built within the Euro6IX project will be open to specific user groups (existing and to be created), who will be connecting to the Euro6IX network by means of a variety of access technologies – mobile, xDSL, cable – and internetworking with legacy IPv4 networks and services, to test the performance of future IPv6 networks, and non-commercial native IPv6 advanced services and applications.

The fourth objective of the project will be dissemination, liaison and coordination with clusters, fora, standards organizations (e.g. the IETF and RIPE) and third parties, with particular consideration for interworking and coordination with peer projects, such as GÉANT, 6WINIT, LONG, MIND, 6NET and any other projects related to our work, that might be available during the Euro6IX project lifetime.

Technical Approach

The project will research, design and deploy a native Pan-European IPv6 network, called the Euro6IX test bed. It will include the most advanced services obtainable from present technology and will follow the architecture of the current Internet (based on IPv4). It will consider all the levels needed for the worldwide deployment of the next generation Internet. The infrastructure of Euro6IX will consist of the following different network levels: • IX-level: Regional native IPv6 exchanges. • Backbone-level: Pan-European core network that interconnects the regional exchanges and

creates the highest level in the network hierarchy. • Node-level: Service providers, ISPs and other providers accessing the core network to provide

IPv6 services and end user access. The users will be connected by means of a variety of access technologies, including legacy IPv4 networks and services whenever no IPv6 native links are available or feasible. This level includes a set of academic, research and non-commercial trial users who will use native IPv6 services and generate IPv6 native traffic.

Euro6IX will offer advanced network services, and a repository of IPv6 enabled applications, which have been ported, adapted or enhanced, and made available for trials both within Euro6IX and to third parties.

The native IPv6 traffic will be the result of both, specific and generic applications tuned for IPv6 (e.g., IPv6 enabled Web browsers).

The validation will be performed in a realistic context where the different actors and roles, which exist in the present Internet, are extrapolated to the IPv6 based next generation Internet. This validation will be made through the involvement of existing and new user groups created by the project with the daily use of the network by project partners and through both, internal and public trials and other events.

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Key Issues

The success of the Euro6IX project will be measured against the achievement of: • Provision of efficient interconnectivity and advanced network services, for the complete IPv6

European level Internet. • Involvement of research entities and non-commercial trial users (user groups) in order to validate

the network, advanced services and applications. • Promotion of the IPv6 interests by ISPs and users, standardization bodies and other related

projects.

Torino

Paris

Zurich

Berlin

London

Lisbon

? Stockholm

Madrid

Alcobendas

Murcia

BernBasel

Bretigny

Lannion

Aveiro

Issy

Caen

Southampton

Viby

IPv6 IX

IPv6 Node

Backbone Link

Node to IX Link

? Bratislava/Banská Bystrica

NTT Europe(linked toJapan)

Skanova/Telia(linked to

Stockholm, London, Oslo, Köpenhamn, Malmö, Göteborg

and Vasa)

Torino

Paris

Zurich

Berlin

London

Lisbon

? Stockholm

Madrid

Alcobendas

Murcia

BernBasel

Bretigny

Lannion

Aveiro

Issy

Caen

Southampton

Viby

IPv6 IX

IPv6 Node

Backbone Link

Node to IX Link

? Bratislava/Banská Bystrica

NTT Europe(linked toJapan)

NTT Europe(linked toJapan)

Skanova/Telia(linked to

Stockholm, London, Oslo, Köpenhamn, Malmö, Göteborg

and Vasa)

Skanova/Telia(linked to

Stockholm, London, Oslo, Köpenhamn, Malmö, Göteborg

and Vasa)

Overview of Euro6IX Network

Expected Impact

The goal of the Euro6IX project is to support the rapid introduction of IPv6 in Europe. Indeed we expect to foster a major adoption from all the European Telcos and ISPs.

List of Participants Contact Telefónica I+D Consulintel Telecom Italia Labs Madrid Technical University Telscom Southampton University 6WIND Airtel Vodafone T-Systems Nova GmbH British Telecom Ecija & Asociados Abogados Ericsson Telebit Eurocontrol France Telecom RD novaGnet systems Portugal Telecom Inovação University of Murcia

E E I E CH UK F E D UK E DK B F E P E

Jordi Palet Consulintel San José Artesano, 1 28108 – Alcobendas (Madrid – Spain) Tel: 34 91 151 81 99 Fax: 34 91 151 81 98 Email: jordi.palet@consulintel.es Carlos Ralli TID Emilio Vargas, 6 28043 – Madrid (Spain) Tel: 34 91 337 45 63 Fax: 34 91 337 45 02 Email: ralli@tid.es

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6NET (Large-scale International IPv6 Pilot Network) Project duration: 36 months IST Action Lines: VII.1.2 RN2 “Technology and Application Experiments” Clusters: IPv6

Main Objectives • To build and operate a dedicated international IPv6 network. • To use this network to validate that the demands for the continuous growth of the global Internet can be met

with the new IPv6 technology. • To help European research and industry to play a leading role in defining the next generation of networking

and application technologies that go beyond the current state of the art.

Technical Approach First a stable European infrastructure will rapidly be put in place, and supporting network features will be developed in order that sophisticated applications - that take advantage of IPv6 capabilities - can be validated and demonstrated. Once the pan-European network is operational, the 6NET pilot network will be extended to link also North America and the Asia-Pacific region. In parallel with all these activities, management tools will be selected/developed in the project and integrated into the network operation procedures. The work therefore follows an approach that allows for the incremental integration of new connectivity, network services, applications and management tools into the testbed. The main items of technical work are focused in these 3 broad areas: infrastructure, network services, and application trials. Work in each of these areas follows a cycle of increasing functionality: The IPv6 infrastructure will initially be based on a central core of European cities and be gradually extended within Europe and to North America and the Asia Pacific region. The extension within Europe entails not only the linking of new core locations, but also the pervasion of IPv6 within the NREN networks, and into many University campus environments. Each phase of this growth will be associated with new network operation and management features, and tests of interoperability. Similarly, new network services (IPv6 DNS tree, IPv6 multicast, IPv6 mobility, IPv6-only wireless LAN access, VPN, etc.) and transition strategies/tools will be integrated and tested as they are developed. In parallel with all these activities, management tools will be selected/developed in the project and integrated into the network operation procedures. Finally, the experimentation with applications will begin with IPv6 applications in common use (mail, web, vic, vat, etc.) and lead up to advanced experiments with state of the art IPv6 applications.

Key Issues • To provide and operate a combined fixed/mobile IPv6 pilot network, in order to gain a better understanding of

IPv6 deployment issues, including physical infrastructure, address allocation, registries, routing and DNS operation.

• To operate an international pilot service such that geographically dispersed groups can interwork using native IPv6 facilities.

• To study, implement and validate IPv6/v4 coexistence, migration techniques and transition tools • To exploit the synergy between work being performed on IPv6 by manufacturers such as Cisco, IBM and

Sony, DANTE, European NRENs and Universities. • To develop service support for (for example):

• auto-configuration, and the relationship between auto-configuration and User/Terminal management, multihoming, multicast, performance, and roaming.

• class-of-service (in the form of a ‘Traffic Class’ field compliant with the IETF DiffServ model). • IPSec. • DNS, multicast routing, etc.

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• both intra-domain and inter-domain IPv6 multicast (including interoperability with IPv4 multicast). • interoperability between IPv6 network services and IPv4 network services • mobility (wireless-only LANs in an end-site environment, ranging from 802.11b, Bluetooth and 802.11a,

through to the convergence of mobile and fixed network technologies. • To incorporate, test and demonstrate new applications that will stress the network and be used to evaluate

the benefits to end-users that IPv6 can bring, through the expanded IP addresses, integrated auto-configuration, quality-of-service (QoS), mobility and security. Access to legacy IPv4 applications and content will be included.

Expected Impact The main expected result is the provision and operation of a large-scale (intercontinental) combined fixed/mobile IPv6 pilot network, with the associated management functionality. This will bring a better understanding of IPv6 deployment issues, such as the physical infrastructure, and network service issues such as address allocation, registries, routing and DNS operation. Further achievements will include a study, implementation and validation of IPv6/v4 coexistence, migration techniques and transition tools. State of the art IPv6 applications and access to legacy IPv4 applications and content will be tested. The practical experience gained in deploying emerging technologies in realistic settings will help European research and industry to play a leading role in defining the next generation of networking and application technologies.

List of participants CISCO SYSTEMS NV B Université Libre de Bruxelles B Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe Ltd. UK Trans European Research and Education Networking NL Association Sony International (Europe) GmbH D Compagnie IBM France F NTT Communications Corporation JP Réseau National de Telecommunication pour la F Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche The JNT Association trading as UKERNA UK NORDUnet A/S DK DFN-Verein D SURFnet bv NL SWITCH Telematikdienste für Lehre und Forschung CH Foundation Vienna University Computer Centre A Greek Research and Technology Network GR Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare I University College London UK University of Southampton UK University of Lancaster UK Stichting Telematica Instituut NL Uninett AS N Scientific Computing Ltd Fin Oulu Polytechnic Fin University of Oulu Fin Invenia Innovation AS NL Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster D Fraunhofer Gesellschaft D Computer Technology Institute GR Danmarks Tekniske Universitet DK Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en F Automatique Université Louis Pasteur/LSIIT F

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