Project Data

title:	Exposing Features in IP version Six protocols building Autonomic Networks and Services
duration:	2008/01 - 2010/12
leader:	Rolland Vida
budget:	? € (EC contribution ? €)
homepage:	http://www.efipsans.org/

 

EFIPSANS summary

The project aims at exposing the features in IP version six protocols that can be exploited or extended for the purposes of designing or building autonomic networks and services.

What this means is, a study of the emerging research areas that target desirable user behaviours, terminal behaviours, service mobility, e-mobility, context-aware communications, self-ware, autonomic communication/computing/networking will be carried out, and out of these areas desirable autonomic(self-*) behaviours in diverse environments e.g. end systems, access networks, wireless versus fixed network environments will be captured and specified. Appropriate IPv6 protocol or architectural extensions that enable the implementation of the captured desirable autonomic behaviours will be sought and specified. A selected set of the specified autonomic behaviours will be implemented and demonstrated.

Also, technical reports on the concrete IPv6 feature combination scenarios including any new extensions used to implement the selected set of autonomic behaviours will be presented.

The vision is that, the specified autonomic behaviour specifications, the identified exploitable IPv6 features and new protocol and architectural extensions will one day be standardized in the long run (after the first 3 years of EFIPSANS) i.e. maturing from being drafts to standards.

EFIPSANS consortium

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics (H) (pending)
• Ericsson AB (S)
• Fraunhofer Fokus (D)
• Luxembourg University (LU)
• Telcordia-Poland (PL)
• Waterford Institute of Technology (IR)
• Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (GR)
• Telefónica Móviles España S.A. (E)
• Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China)
• Greek Research & Technology Network S.A. (GR)
• Warsaw University of Technology (PL)
• Velti S.A. (GR)
• Technical University of Berlin (DE)
• Fujitsu Labs of Europe (UK)
• Alcatel-Lucent France (F)

 

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