Mobility and Differentiated Services in a Future IP Network (MobyDick)
Table of content of the project description:
Introduction
MobyDick is a European Union (EU) project in the 5th Framework of
the IST Program. It is funded for the Swiss partner ETH Zürich,
TIK by the Bundesamt für Bildung und Wissenschaft (BBW) in Bern,
Switzerland. The official project identification is IST-2000-25304
for the EU and 00.0275 for the BBW.
Official Project Pages
http://www.ist-mobydick.org/
Project Overview
In order to continue to evolve 3rd Generation mobile and wireless
infrastructure towards the Internet - targeting IST 2000 key action
line 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.
The evaluation of the implementation will be done in a distributed
trial which will take place for six months.
Project 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.