Ambient Networks for FIND Mobile/DTN group

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Ambient Networks for FIND Mobile/DTN group

• Meeting May 29-30 2007 at Winlab
• Lars Lundgren
• Ericsson Research Stockholm

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Contents

• Context
• Network research in Europe
• AN Project set-up
• Ambient Networks details

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FP7 ICT Work Programme
Draft

• Calls for Proposals in 2007

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FP7 Cooperation Programme
Draft
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Reinforce Europes strongholds
Draft

• Network and service infrastructures
• communication equipment and services, business
  software, security solutions
• Components and embedded systems
• semiconductors, equipment, photonics, plastic
  electronics, integrated micro/nano systems
  embedded systems in vertical markets cars,
  planes, medical, telecom
• A strong academic research community
• in core ICT fields and in other disciplines
  relevant for ICT biotech, materials, cognitive
  sciences

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Challenge 1 Pervasive and trusted network
service infrastructures
Draft

• Network and service infrastructures underpin
  economic progress and the development of our
  societies
• 2 billion mobile terminals in commercial
  operation, 1 billion Internet users, 400 million
  internet enabled devices
• A growing and changing demand
• for increasing user control of content/services
  for networking things - TV/PC/phone/sensors/tag
  s for convergence networksdevicesservices -
  video/audio/data/voice/.
• Current technologies can be, and need to be
  improved significantly
• for scaling up and more flexibility for better
  security, dependability and robustnessfor higher
  performance and more functionality
• Europe is well-positioned industry, technology
  and use
• networks equipment and services, business
  software, middleware, security, home systems

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Challenge 1 Objectives in Calls for Proposals
Draft

• ICT Call 1
• The network of the future
• mobile, broadband spectrum-efficient,
  high-speed managed
• Service software architectures, infrastructures
  engineering
• tools for service development, software design,
  virtualisation
• ICT in support of the networked enterprise
• Inter-enterprise operation and collaboration,
  integrated enterprise
• Secure, dependable and trusted infrastructures
• resilience in networks, trust in services,
  identity, privacy
• Networked media
• multimedia networks, platforms, services
• ICT Call 2
• New Paradigms and experimental facilities
• advanced networking architectures, interconnected
  testbeds
• Critical infrastructure protection
• secure, resilient, always available information
  infrastructures

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Back to where we started
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The FP6 Network Vision
Services and Applications
New air interface
Download channel
DAB
Wireline
DVB
xDSL
IP based core network Networked services
cellular
WLAN

Return channel
GSM
IMT-2000
UMTS
Edge networks
Bluetooth, IR, UWB, Mesh Sensor, M2M, Dust
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Network Challenges in the Wireless World

• Activate the networks surrounding the user!
• Create a secure and comfortable wireless world
  for the users
• Empower the players for competition and
  co-operation
• Support for heterogeneous air-interface and
  service technologies
• Seamless services
• Ease the service provider role
• Modular and scalable functionality
• Self-configuration and Resilience

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Ambient Networks Project phases
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 3
Phase 1
Phase 2
Establishing the
Establishing the
Technology
Work
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Areas
Technology
Work
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Areas
System Synthesis
System Synthesis
Ambient Networks
Ambient Networks
Development
Development
Concept and its
Concept and its
Feasibility
Feasibility
Architecture,
Architecture,
Concepts
Concepts
Architecture
Architecture
Standards
Standards
Architecture Design
Architecture Design
Scalability,
Evolvability
Optimisation for
Feasibility,
Detailed Specification,
Performance
Functions of AN
Technical Development,
Control Space
and Deployment
Performance
Market Dissemination
Business Interfaces
Business Feasibility
Integration across
WWI,
IV
IV
Validation,
Usability/Networks
Usability/Networks
Prototyping
Prototyping
Market
Prototypes
Test Cases
and Validation
and Validation
Dissemination
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Project data

• Project data
• Part of EU 6th FP
• Phase 1 2004-05 completed
• Phase 2 2006-07 ongoing
• Size
• 190 personyears
• 22 M Euro
• 35 partners
• 10 Vendors
• 10 Operators
• 15 Academia
• Coordination Ericsson AB
• Part of WWI

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Partners in the Consortium
Vendors
Academia
Ericsson Alcatel Lucent NEC Nokia Nortel
Siemens Daimler-Chrysler Critical Software, S.A
Swedish Institute of Computer Science Aachen
University Budapest University of Tech and
Ec Fraunhofer FOKUS INESC Porto KTH Royal
Institute of Technology TU Berlin University
College London, EE CS University of
Cantabria Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche University
of Surrey VTT (Finland) AGH University
(Krakow) National ICT Australia University of
Ottawa Concordia University (Montreal)
Operators
British Telecom DoCoMo Elisa Corporation France
Telecom TNO Telefonica ID Telenor TeliaSonera Vod
afone
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Project Collaboration within WWI phase II
System interfaces
Business models
End-to-End Reconfigurability
MobiLife
SPICE
Wireless World Initiative
Ambient Networks II
Winner II
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Research Areas

• Concepts, Architectures
• Multi-Radio Access
• Network Composition and Connectivity
• Mobility and Moving Networks
• Smart Multimedia Routing and Transport
• Context-Aware Networks
• Security
• Network Management

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AN Project Organisation in Phase 1
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Ambient Networks Phase 2 Objectives

• We addresses the engineering of the overall
  solution
• Detailing and verifying the specifications
• Building an integrated, project wide prototype
• Verifying the performance
• Doing system level simulation of key technical
  problems
• We are further evolving the innovations of phase
  1
• Multi-access resource management
• Network composition
• Network context management
• Mobility-triggering framework
• Media overlays
• Security, naming and migration are project-wide
  themes

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Ambient Networks Phase 2 Objectives

• We research some new aspects
• competitive access selection,
• new compensation models for ambient networks
• dynamic internetworking
• policy management
• We continue and intensify the dissemination
  activities

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Ambient Network Work Areas - Organisation
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Dissemination

• Long list of publications in IEEE and other
  conferences (in total gt80 in 2006)
• Produced a book with Wiley (to appear April
  2007)
• IST cluster work chairing the Beyond 3G System
  Architecture cluster
• Organised 2 workshops mobility supporting
  mechanisms and policy based distributed decision
  making
• Contributions to the Mobile Service Platforms
  cluster
• Demonstrations at IST Mobile Summit and IST Event
• WWI Workshops in Yokusuka, Mykonos, Montreal and
  Helsinki
• Euro-India Workshop on Next Generation Wireless
  in Kolkata
• EU-ASIA Workshop in Singapore
• WWRF white paper continued, WG3 heavily
  influenced by Ambient Networks

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The Ambient Networks Idea

• common control functions
• extensibility of control functions
• network composition
• compatibility with different
  connectivity/service infrastructures

Ambient Connectivity
Corporate
2.5G
3G
Fixed
WLAN
LTE
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Ambient Control Space Interfaces
AmbientServiceInterface
Ambient Control Space
AmbientNetworkInterface
AmbientNetworkInterface
AmbientResourceInterface
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The Ambient Networks Architecture
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An Ambient Network
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ACS Architecture
Composition Coordination
Bearer Overlay Management
Compensation INQA
Composition Agreement Neg.
A C S
Flow Mobility Management
Composition Control
configure Onode
To other ANs
Policies etc
ANI
Triggers /Advertisements
Multi-Radio Resource Mgmt
NetworkManagement
Trigger Context Management
Network Attachment
Security Domain Management
Connectivity Mgmt Generic Link Layer
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