IST-2000-25394 Moby Dick D0601 Dissemination and Use Plan

Project Moby Dick Public : 01/01-07/01 

IST-2000-25394 Moby Dick 

D0601 

Dissemination and Use Plan 

Contractual Date of Delivery to the CEC: July 2001 

Actual Date of Delivery to the CEC: August 2001 

Author(s): 

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, CH, P04 

Participant(s): 

all partners 

Workpackage: 

WP6 

Est. person months: 3 

Security: 

Public 

Nature: 

Report 

Version: 1.0 

Total number of pages: 40 

Abstract: 

This document summarizes all results of the MobyDick project on dissemination during the first seven 

months of the project. It presents the current state of the publications submitted and accepted as well 

as participation at conferences and presentations. Use plans of each partner for using the expected 

results of the project are stated. This deliverable includes also project clustering activities, mainly in 

the “System beyond 3G”. In addition, relationships to other IST-projects are listed. 

Keyword list: 

Project Clustering, Dissemination, Web-Server, Publications, Conferences, Exploitation, Use Plan.

Dissemination and Use Plan Fifth Framework Project 25394 

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Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zürich, TIK 

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AMENDMENT HISTORY 

Version Date Author Description/Comments 

V 0.1 March 31, 2001 Burkhard Stiller Document initial stage, structure, open issues 

V 0.2 April 5, 2001 Burkhard Stiller Text Updates, Input from Stuttgart Plenary Meeting, content 

V 0.3 June 12, 2001 Burkhard Stiller, Piotr Pacyna ETHZ and Uni of Cracow dissemination strategies 

V 0.4 June 22, 2001 SebaSstian Zander, Jürgen 

Jähnert, B. Stiller edited 

V 0.5 June 30, 2001 Hans Einsiedler, Jose Ignacio 

Moreno, B. Stiller edited 

V 0.6 July 19, 2001 Ahmed Mokhtar, Peter 

Reichl, B. Stiller edited 

V 0.7 July 24, 2001 Amardeo Sarma, Hong-Yon 

Lach, Raymond Knopp, 

B. Stiller edited 

GMD, UniST-RUS, and UniST-IND dissemination strategies 

T-Nova, UC3M dissemination strategies 

Motorola, FTW dissemination strategies, update presentations and 

publications 

NEC and EURECOM dissemination strategy, update Motorola dissemination 

strategy 

V 1.0 July 31, 2001 B. Stiller Final layouting. 

Legal Notices 

The information in this document is subject to change without notice. 

The Members of the MobyDick Consortium make no warranty of any kind with regard to this document, 

including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The 

Members of the MobyDick Consortium shall not be held liable for errors contained herein or direct, indirect, 

special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this 

material. 

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Table of Content 

1 Introduction ............................................................................................................4 

2 Dissemination Plan ...............................................................................................4 

2.1 Public Visibility in the Internet ............................................................................................... 4 

2.1.1 MobyDick Web-site .................................................................................................. 4 

2.1.2 MobyDick Project Data Sheet .................................................................................. 4 

2.1.3 Official Project Presentation .................................................................................... 5 

2.2 Contribution to Standards ..................................................................................................... 5 

2.3 Contribution of Open Source Implementations ..................................................................... 6 

2.4 Cooperation with other Projects ............................................................................................ 6 

2.4.1 BRAIN: Broadband Radio Access for IP-based Networks ....................................... 6 

2.4.2 MIND: Mobile IP-based Network Developments ..................................................... 7 

2.4.3 WINE GLASS: Wireless IP NEtwork as a Generic platform for 

Location Aware Service Support ............................................................................. 7 

2.5 Dissemination of Project Results ..........................................................................................7 

2.5.1 Presentations ...........................................................................................................8 

2.5.2 Publications ............................................................................................................. 8 

3 Use Plan .................................................................................................................9 

3.1 Opportunities ......................................................................................................................... 9 

3.1.1 European Synergy ................................................................................................. 10 

3.1.2 Manufacturer’s View Point ..................................................................................... 10 

3.1.3 Operator’s View Point ............................................................................................ 10 

3.1.4 Universities/Research Center’s View Point ........................................................... 11 

3.2 Individual Partner Strategies ............................................................................................... 11 

3.2.1 T-Nova, Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin, D .................... 11 

3.2.2 NEC Network Development Laboratories, Heidelberg, D ...................................... 12 

3.2.3 University Carlos III of Madrid, UC3M, Madrid, E .................................................. 13 

3.2.4 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, CH ........................................... 13 

3.2.5 Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, D ........................................................................... 13 

3.2.6 GMD Fokus, Berlin, D ............................................................................................ 14 

3.2.7 Portugal Telecom, P .............................................................................................. 15 

3.2.8 Centre de Recherche de Motorola, Paris, F .......................................................... 16 

3.2.9 EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, F ............................................................................ 16 

3.2.10 University of Cracow, PL ..................................................................................... 17 

3.2.11 Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, FTW, Wien, A ........................... 19 

4 Abbreviations .......................................................................................................19 

5 Appendices ..........................................................................................................21 

5.1 Project Presentation ............................................................................................................ 22 

5.2 Project Data Sheet .............................................................................................................. 39 

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1 Introduction 

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This deliverable presents the dissemination plan and use plan for the consortium of the 5th 

Framework IST-2000-25394 project MobyDick (Mobility and Differentiated Services in a 

Future IP Network). 

While the dissemination plan in principle contains material and information, which is 

intended for public use and presentation, the use plan is made publically available as well. 

For that reason the full deliverable D0601 will remain classified as public. 

The document is structured in two major parts. The first part in Section 2 presents and 

discussed the dissemination plan of the project, focussing on public visibility, standards and 

open source contributions, project cooperations, and particular MobyDick research results 

dissemination by presentations and research papers. The second part in Section 3 covers 

the use plan, which the opportunities the MobyDick project is preparing and challenging, 

and the individual strategies each of the project member affiliations is following based on 

work undertaken in MobyDick. 

2 Dissemination Plan 

The strategy of MobyDick to disseminate the project results has several strands. 

• Public visibility in the Internet (URL: http://www.ist-mobydick.org/) 

• Contribution to standards 

• Contribution of open source implementations 

• Cooperation with other projects 

• Presentation of results in terms of papers and other contributions in appropriate groups, 

seminars, and conferences. 

2.1 Public Visibility in the Internet 

Project descriptions and other relevant activities from MobyDick and its partners are 

documented and publicly announced at the MobyDick web-site. In addition, a brief and 

concise project data sheet has been produced, to enable a quick and precise overview of 

MobyDick goals and methods applied. Finally, the project has been and will be presented at 

various opportunities. 

2.1.1 MobyDick Web-site 

The MobyDick web-site is maintained by the MobyDick project management and it is 

located at the coordinator’s premises accessible via the URL http://www.ist-mobydick.org/. 

A current version of the top page screen-shot is depicted in Figure 1. 

The page will include a public sector, where MobyDick news are placed, public deliverables 

are accessible in the future, and results of MobyDick are located. 

2.1.2 MobyDick Project Data Sheet 

The MobyDick project has produced a project information leaflet, which will be accessible 

via the Web site and is included in the annex of this deliverable as well (cf. Section 5.2). It 

covers in a single page the overall information on the objectives and issues MobyDick is 

targeting at. 




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Figure 1: MobyDick’s Public Web-site: Screen-shot 

2.1.3 Official Project Presentation 

The available project presentation on MobyDick’s objectives, work package descriptions, 

timing, scenarios for trials, as well as architectural basics can be accessed at the appendix 

of this document. This document has been prepared to enable interested third parties to 

achieve in a concise and fast manner all necessary information related to the MobyDick 

project. 

2.2 Contribution to Standards 

The development of wireless broadband networks and the support of mobility requires a 

significant number of technical solutions, which will have be standardized due to 

interoperability reasons. The current impact of existing solutions and technology on 

wireless and mobile communications remains small, mainly due to a larger degree of 

complexity than expected. This originates in the problem area of Internet models to be 

settled on top of wireless technology. The basic building blocks available comprise an IPbased 

mobility support in terms of IPv6 driven by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task 

Force). However, any of these Internet standards remain a little on their own and have not 

driven the widespread use in various areas. Therefore, the provision of new standards for 

protocols, architectures, and even sometimes interfaces or Application Programing 

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Standardization bodies relevant to MobyDick include: 

• IETF, in particular 

♦ Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (aaa) 

♦ IP Routing for Wireless/Mobile Hosts (mobileip) 

♦ Context and Micro-mobility Routing (seamoby) 

♦ Differentiated Services (diffserv) 

♦ Robust Header Compression (rohc) 

• MWIF (Mobile Wireless Internet Forum) 

• 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) 

• 3GPP2 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Two) 

2.3 Contribution of Open Source Implementations 

Besides WP4 (an open source implementation of important and enhanced functions for 

major portions of an AAAC server) and WP2 (the open source implementation of Mobile 

IPv6) no further open source software will be developed. In addition, in support of WP1 to 

WP5 on layer 2, a real-time UMTS/TDD (Time Division Duplex) platform is being designed 

with an open-architecture at both hardware and software levels and it will be released 

under a GNU public license. 

2.4 Cooperation with other Projects 

The MobyDick project is funded within the framework of the key action line 4 “Mobile, 

Satellite and Personal Communications” as presented at the URL http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ 

ka4/mobile/index.htm. In this key action line various projects are funded and some of them 

started clustering. MobyDick is one of the projects belonging to the cluster “System beyond 

3G” (cf. URL http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka4/mobile/beyond3g.htm). This cluster in particular 

covers eighteen projects. For the time being three projects are good candidates for cooperation 

with MobyDick, as outlined in the following subsections. 

Beside the participation in the “System beyond 3G” cluster, the project MobyDick plans to 

set-up an IPv6 related sub-cluster. This sub-cluster will cover IP mobility, Quality-of- 

Service, and AAA issues in the framework of the next generation Internet Protocol IPv6. 

2.4.1 BRAIN: Broadband Radio Access for IP-based Networks 

While detailed information are available at the URL http://www.ist-brain.org/, BRAIN’s main 

objectives of the BRAIN project are: 

• To facilitate the development of a 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 for an evolution form fixed Internet, emerging/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 Mbit/s) service complementary to existing mobile 

services. 

• To contribute actively to global standardization bodies in necessary time-scales to 

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2.4.2 MIND: Mobile IP-based Network Developments 

The MIND project is the follow-up project of the BRAIN project and it covers the 

implementation and the evaluation of selected BRAIN results, as well as new conceptual 

work. 

A Web-site is not available for the time being. 

2.4.3 WINE GLASS: Wireless IP NEtwork as a Generic platform for 

Location Aware Service Support 

This project exploits the potential of IP-based wireless mobile multimedia networking in 

public and business contexts, by means of UTRAN and WLAN respectively (cf. URL http:// 

domobili.cselt.it/WineGlass/). The wireless Internet test-bed 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 test-bed, 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 interworking 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/R SP or H.323, will be enhanced to 

incorporate capability negotiation and location information functionality. 

This project will be performed 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 the project 

phase 2 will include the 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 to ensure high quality of the project results. 

2.5 Dissemination of Project Results 

This subsection provides the living part of the Dissemination and Use Plan of the MobyDick 

project. MobyDick-related and originated presentations and publications are listed below 

alphabetically by the first author or presenter. 

As soon as these information have been made explicitly available to the editor of this 

document, which is in the responsibility of every partner’s affiliation separately, they will be 

added in those two categories following a single, standardized format to be followed: 

General Format for Presentations: 

Single Presenter’s Name: Title; Conference/Meeting (and Event’s Name Abbreviation), 

Location (City, Country), Date (Month, Days, Year), Pages and/or Session information, (if 

available), URL (if available). 




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General Format for Papers: 

List of Authors: Title; Conference/Meeting (and Event’s Name Abbreviation), Location (City, 

Country), Date (Month, Days, Year), Pages and/or Session information, (if available), URL 

(if available). 

2.5.1 Presentations 

H. Einsiedler: The MobyDick Project; 4th Concertation Meeting of Mobile/Wireless/Satellite 

IST Projects, Brussels, Belgium, March 13, 2001. URL: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka4/mobile/ 

4concerta.htm. 

H. Einsiedler: The MobyDick Project; Mobility for All-IP Networks - Mobile IP Workshop 

(MAIN 2001), Berlin, Germany, April 26-27, 2001. URL: http://www.eurescom.de/MAIN/ 

WorkshopAgenda.asp. 

P. Christ, J. Jähnert: How will the Internet Survive the Mobility Shock? Mobility for All-IP 

Networks - Mobile IP Workshop (MAIN 2001), Berlin, Germany, April 26-27, 2001. URL: 

http://www.eurescom.de/MAIN/WorkshopAgenda.asp. 

H. Einsiedler, R. L. Aguiar, J. Jähnert, K. Jonas, M. Liebsch, R. Schmitz, P. Pacyna, 

J. Gozdecki, Z. Papir, J. I. Moreno, I. Soto: The MobyDick Project: A Mobile Heterogeneous 

All-IP Architecture; Advanced Technologies, Applications and Market Strategies for 3G 

(ATAMS 2001), Cracow, Poland, June 17-20, 2001, pp. 164-171. 

2.5.2 Publications 

J. I. Moreno, I. Soto, D. Larrabeiti: Signalling in Voice over IP Networks; Informatik/ 

Informatique, Magazine of the Swiss Informatics Society, Vol. 3, 2001, ISSN 1420-6579. 

UPGRADE, the European Online Magazine for the Information Technologies Professional 

Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, URL http://www.upgradecepis.org. 

June 2001. NOVATICA, No. 151, May/June 2001, ISSN: 0211-2124. 

H. Einsiedler, R. L. Aguiar, J. Jähnert, K. Jonas, M. Liebsch, R. Schmitz, P. Pacyna, 

J. Gozdecki, Z. Papir, J. I. Moreno, I. Soto: The MobyDick Project: A Mobile Heterogeneous 

All-IP Architecture; Advanced Technologies, Applications and Market Strategies for 3G 

(ATAMS 2001), Cracow, Poland, June 17-20, 2001, pp. 164-171. 

J. I. Moreno, I. Soto, J. Jähnert, H. J. Einsiedler: MobyDick: A New step towards an “All- 

IPv6” Mobile Communications Architecture; Submitted to the IEEE Personal 

Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Mobile and Wireless Internet: Architectures 

and Protocols. June 2001. 

Hasan, J. Jähnert, S. Zander, B. Stiller: Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, and 

Charging for the Mobile Internet; TIK Report No. 114, Computer Engineering and Networks 

Laboratory TIK, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich, Switzerland, June 2001. 

H. Einsiedler, J. Jähnert, K. Jonas, M. Liebsch, R. Schmitz: Mobility Support for a Future 

Communication Architecture; Mobile Summit 2001, Barcelona, Spain, September 9-12, 

2001. 

Hasan, J. Jähnert, S. Zander, B. Stiller: Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, and 

Charging for the Mobile Internet; Mobile Summit 2001, Barcelona, Spain, September 9-12, 

2001. 

V. Marques, R. Aguiar, F. Fontes, J. Jähnert, H. Einsiedler: Enabling IP QoS in Mobile 

Environments; Mobile Summit 2001, Barcelona, Spain, September 9-12, 2001. 




3 Use Plan 

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This section of the Use Plan contains the descriptions of all MobyDick partner’s plans to 

use the results of the project. It include business aspects as well as academic aspects. The 

material at this stage of Section 3.1 is based on the Technical Annex of MobyDick and 

directly relates the use plan with the motivations the project once was driven by. The project 

is convinced that the market as well as technology context has not changed, there is still an 

emerging need for a solution on the questions posed in the Technical Annex. 

3.1 Opportunities 

The definition, implementation, and evaluation of an IPv6-based mobility-enabled end-toend 

QoS (Quality-of-Service) architecture starting from the IETF’s (Internet Engineering 

Task Force) QoS models, Mobile-IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6), and AAA 

(Authentication Authorization, and Accounting) framework, to be carried out by MobyDick, 

will provide a major contribution to a network technology discipline (that of Terrestrial 

Wireless System and Networks), which has the most profound impact on the socioeconomic 

situation of the general public since it involves both professional and private 

users. This innovative approach, covering layer 2 technology, the only layer 3 protocol of 

interest, IP, and example applications, is driven by trends observed at current wireless 

markets. 

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Considering the market opportunity, the following - nowadays typical - Figure 2 depicts the 

number of Internet connected handsets or mobile hosts. This number will meet the number 

of fixed to the Internet connected hosts in approximately 2003. Therefore, a large potential 

for mobile data communication services is envisioned. 

At the same time more and more mobile and portable hosts will require and eventually have 

integrated interfaces to connect to various kinds of (access-)networks, such as cellular 

networks, WaveLANs and fixed, wired LANs (Local Area Network). In addition to horizontal 

handover mechanisms (roaming in different cells) established in cellular networks, this 

multi-access network situation requires vertical (connection to different type of access 




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networks) handover solutions. To meet these requirements, MobyDick will develop its 

uniform IP-convergence architecture for ubiquitous Internet access: IPv6 and AAA, the key 

ingredients of MobyDick’s approach to mobility, QoS and AAA are extremely well suited to 

provide added value. Both IPv6 and AAA are considered - both at the European level and 

within the IETF - to be a technical necessity for ubiquitous access for the next-generation 

Internet. In addition, IPv6 and AAA a clearly fields where Europe does not lag behind the 

US - both with respect to influence in the relevant standardization bodies and products. In 

addition, the extensions of AAA into the areas of AAAC (covering additionally charging and 

auditing features) will be an important step forward. 

3.1.1 European Synergy 

Involving an international consortium of telecommunication operators, manufacturers, and 

research institutes, complementary in interest and expertise, MobyDick’s solution will 

leverage this development into business opportunities and user benefits at the European 

and international level. While in principle, given the expertise, MobyDick’s IPv6- and AAAbased 

solutions could be developed on a national basis, it is obvious that for reasons of 

presence, weight, consensus, acceptance on an International scale, the project is a clear 

candidate for European and International co-operation. 

3.1.2 Manufacturer’s View Point 

For manufacturers involved in the MobyDick Consortium, exploitation of results of the 

Project offers a key strategic opportunity for the longer-term development of their telecom 

business, beyond UMTS Release 2000, both in Europe and globally. Manufacturers are 

already active in some standardization bodies (such as ITU and ETSI) and MobyDick will 

offer a framework to transform this investment and participation into a substantial 

commercial opportunity on the time frame of 2001 to 2010. In addition, the presence of 

major global players, such as NEC and Motorola will provide greater leverage on bodies 

such as the IETF; it is very doubtful if manufacturers could have significant influence on 

these bodies by acting alone. 

MobyDick manufacturers all supply aspects of fixed and mobile telecommunications 

equipment such as base stations, access, and switching infrastructure, mobile terminal, 

AAA servers, QoS capable equipment. In all these fields MobyDick offers an opportunity to 

build world-wide market share, if the Project achieves its goals. The experience gained in 

this Project will help positioning the partners well to introduce a range of: terminals, access 

infrastructure, and mobile multimedia applications for extended UMTS Release 2000 and 

WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network). 

MobyDick will also offer manufacturers shorter-term exploitation benefits. MobyDick is 

predicated on all-IP and IP applications (Voice-over-IP) and IP network equipment (router 

and server). It will also provide support for UMTS deployment, since MobyDick will 

specifically extend UMTS, and give confidence that some of the deficiencies of UMTS will 

be abolished. This will provide short-term growth in the UMTS market to the benefit of the 

entire European mobile telecommunications industry. 

3.1.3 Operator’s View Point 

For operators MobyDick will offer the opportunity to develop new services. Users are 

becoming used to data rates of 10 Mbit/s on existing and advanced Ethernet, fixed, 

connections - playing videos, games, and holding video conferences. MobyDick will allow 

these services to be offered in a mobile context. In addition, the fixed-mobile convergence 




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offered by using IP over a common core of routers, with three access technologiesrespectively 

Ethernet, IEEE 802.11 and W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple 

Access), will allow operators to offer a common look and feel to services accessed from 

anywhere at anytime. Finally, MobyDick will provide support for new, mobile-aware, 

applications. Thus, when browsers are started they will be given location information and 

users can then be provided with location-relevant information. This will be tested with 

ERASMUS exchange students. During their stay in the foreign university (either in Berlin or 

Stuttgart), students from Madrid can have audio access to lectures inhome university or to 

Web-servers in their home country with specific information. 

Operators will be able to exploit MobyDick to reduce costs for mobile communications. 

Additionally, they will be able to develop cost models and billing mechanisms for mobile IP 

QoS traffic. With the use of AAA architecture, they can set-up secure interconnection for 

business cases. 

3.1.4 Universities/Research Center’s View Point 

Universities will exploit MobyDick through an increase in know-how and ability to support 

the European mobile telecommunications industry. At the conclusion of the Project they will 

be in a strong position to supply technical support and trained engineers to the European 

work force in mobile telecommunications. 

Research Centers within the Consortium will be in a position to support the migration of 

operators from second generation systems to UMTS and MobyDick-based IP architects 

supporting mobile multimedia delivery. They will create competencies to support industrial 

partners and SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprise). Through liaison with bodies, such as 

3GPP, it is expected that early exploitation will be seen in the form of acceleration of the 

introduction of new services, even on updated second (e.g., GPRS, General Packet Radio 

System) and third generation networks. 

The project MobyDick will have a strong impact on further research and education of the 

computer scientist, telecommunications engineer, and electrical engineer of tomorrow. 

3.2 Individual Partner Strategies 

Based on these overall MobyDick-relevant discussion of opportunities and challenges, 

each individual partner of the MobyDick consortium expresses separately and explicitly 

their business or academic use plan. 

3.2.1 T-Nova, Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin, D 

T-Nova is Deutsche Telekom’s research and development unit that focuses on creating, 

developing, testing, and introducing innovative products, services, networks/networkelements 

in the area of telecommunications and information technology. In addition T-Nova 

develops software and information systems for the support of the business process of the 

whole group of companies of Deutsche Telekom AG. T-Nova was founded in spring 1999 in 

order to join all research groups/subsidiaries and to strengthen the innovative potential of 

Deutsche Telekom AG. Beside several centers for the development of software and 

information systems T-Nova has also integrated the well-known research centers 

“Technologiezentrum Darmstadt” and “Deutsche Telekom Berkom”. 

T-Nova have experience in all stages of project development from the management of large 

multi-national R&D projects through identification, definition, and implementation of the 

specific need of the business lines. In the area of mobile wireless communications, the 




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architecture work, as well as the development and implementation of MobyDick 

mechanisms will open new business opportunities for the mobile service provider (T- 

Mobile) and the backbone provider (business unit Data Communication) of Deutsche 

Telekom. 

For the purpose of disseminating the results of the MobyDick project, T-Nova will establish 

strong co-operations with business units inside Deutsche Telekom AG responsible mobile 

wireless communication. It will involve T-Mobile, as the mobile service provider of Deutsche 

Telekom, in the field trial activities of MobyDick. Furthermore, Berkom will disseminate the 

results of MobyDick by workshops and technical papers addressed to standardization 

bodies and conferences. Regularly meetings and workshops are agreed upon to widely 

exchange project information and to influence product developments especially towards T- 

Mobile and the business unit Data Communication. 

3.2.2 NEC Network Development Laboratories, Heidelberg, D 

NEC Corporation with his over 100 years of business experience, global operations, and a 

cutting-edge technology in numerous fields, is a leading provider of Internet solutions. NEC 

has structured its business into three in-house companies, namely NEC Solutions, NEC 

Networks, and NEC Electron Devices. NEC Networks provides Internet solutions to 

customers including network operators, Internet service providers and broadcasters, and is 

the primary internal customer of NEC Europe Ltd. Network Laboratories Heidelberg. The 

mission of our labs is to develop innovative Internet solutions by integrating multimedia and 

mobility for high-quality and truly ubiquitous access to Internet services. Our labs in 

Heidelberg co-operate with labs and research centres in Japan and the USA, bringing 

together and using a vast amount of international expertise in mobility and the Internet. 

Two areas of particular interest to NEC Corporation are Internet and mobility. In each of 

these areas, NEC aims to be the technology leader with its products. Among these range 

core routers of the CX5000 series, edge routers of the IX5000 series, and the CX6800 QoS 

Servers to name a few. For all these products, NEC is one of the few companies with a 

strong strategic focus on IPv6, as shown through the early presence of IPv6 in its product 

range. In addition, NEC is committed to implementing Mobile IP in its products. In the 

mobility area, NEC is the leading provider of W-CDMA equipment and has provided W- 

CDMA equipment and terminals for the world’s first two operational UMTS networks, 

namely the UMTS networks of Manx Telecom (Isle of Man) and NTT DoCoMo in Japan. 

Besides its strong position in the Japanese market, NEC is currently increasing its 

presence in Europe, both in terms of marketing and sales and in research and 

development. NEC is actively promoting its latest technology to increase the speed of 

deployment not only 3G and beyond, but of IPv6 based Internet as well. This will generate 

new business opportunities and jobs in Europe, as shown by Telecom Modus Ltd., a joint 

venture 3G development company established in 1998 between NEC Corporation of Japan 

and ERA Technology Ltd. in the UK. 

With this in mind, NEC business units have from the very beginning shown a strong and 

direct interest in the Moby Dick project. NEC Network Laboratories Heidelberg regularly 

presents results of the Moby Dick project to NEC business units as part of its routine 

dissemination work. Results also flow into internal reports and into overall considerations of 

architecture and strategy within NEC as a whole. Beyond this, software will also be 

transferred to development units in Japan and to Telecom Modus Ltd. in the UK, where 

these results are used as an integral part of their product development. 




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3.2.3 University Carlos III of Madrid, UC3M, Madrid, E 

University Carlos III of Madrid is in charge of higher education and research on technical 

and non-technical areas. The Telematics Department is involved in education and research 

on broadband networks, advanced Internet networking and applications, as well as 

intelligent agents. In this scenario MobyDick project represents one of the most important 

projects in the field of mobility and QoS support. 

Concerning to the dissemination, UC3M has different interests. First, to create a testbed 

with heterogeneous access networks connected by IPv6 QoS aware networks, able to 

demonstrate the mobility of terminals and users as well as QoS support for them in this 

complex environment. UC3M will host one of the two trial sites in which real users 

(SOCRATES-ERASMUS students) will test the MobyDick systems. Feedback from the 

users will be used for the evolution of the distance teaching activities which today are 

performed inside the UC3M. 

Second, UC3M is interested in contributing as much as possible to the future “All-IP” 

network concept by researching and publishing main results of MobyDick in conferences 

and magazines. 

Finally, as an entity of research and teaching, UC3M is interested in improving and evolving 

the state of the art of these technologies, as well as to lead, together with MobyDick 

partners, their evolution in order to be able to transfer this knowledge in our teaching 

activities in the next future. 

3.2.4 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, CH 

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich will work on the support of all design 

and implementation tasks for MobyDick in collaboration with industry partners as well as 

academic research institutions. As being an academic institution by itself, ETH is actively 

involved in the research community of networking, Internet-based communications, and 

economic control mechanisms for traffic management. Therefore, it is expected to publish, 

present, and demonstrate the project as well as its results in journals, conferences, and 

workshops as well as to industrial partners are interesting organizations. Results in the area 

of AAA, AAAC, mobility, and Quality-of-Service (QoS) work in mobile networks will be 

distributed internationally. 

The dissemination strategy of ETH focusses mainly on the integration of research results 

into its main business area: teachings upcoming student generations with up-to-date 

knowledge and experience. Therefore, the developed research results will be used at ETH 

Zürich for teaching innovation, and, whenever possible, for test-bed evaluations in an 

academic production environment. In particular, the technical questions on the Internet, the 

IP protocol, the AAA Architecture, and security issues will be used to teach in graduate 

courses, to provide a modern and up-to-date education of electrical engineering and 

computer science students. In particular, the mobile aspects of the project are in the 

process of stimulating a preparation of a mobile lecture in addition to the stronger focus of 

an existing seminar on “Internet Economics” to mobile business models and technology for 

Internet communications. Finally, the results developed within MobyDick will form the basis 

for future projects proposals in the area of mobile networking. 

3.2.5 Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, D 

Within MobyDick, the University of Stuttgart is represented by two institutions, namely the 

Computing Center RUS and the Institute of Communications Networks and Computer 




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Engineering (IND). Under the acronym HLRS (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart), 

RUS is the first German National super computer center. The HLRS hardware is planned, 

financed, and operated as a public-private company (operated by “hww”) comprising the 

debis Systemhaus, Porsche AG as well as the universities of Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, and 

Heidelberg. RUS is also operating the state of Baden-Württemberg science network and 

the campus network of the University of Stuttgart. IND research activities are concentrated 

on distributed systems and communication networks. 

Within this context and with respect to dissemination, three major fields of interest are to be 

mentioned. RUS has to be prepared for the time the “cellular phone generation” joins the 

university. Wireless and mobile technologies have to be integrated into lessons and 

operative services of a university with about 20000 students dispersed over the city of 

Stuttgart. This requires a network platform integrating wired and wireless as well as mobile 

technologies, including the possibility to roam between networks based on different 

technologies as addressed within MobyDick. From a service point of view, RUS is 

interested especially in the dissemination of MobDick’s AAA results. 

The interests of the IND are twofold: expected results in research area will be published in 

conferences as well as journals and introduced to standardization bodies like the IETF. 

RUS and the IND are highly interested in running the MobyDick field trial to give 

ERASMUS, SOCRATES, and especially IND’s international master students the 

opportunity to gain experience with new network technologies in the context of teaching. 

Here, interests of RUS are focussed on operational and service aspects, e.g., AAA, 

whereas IND is interested in including technologies into their teaching activities. 

Experiments of the MobyDick field trial will also contribute to University of Stuttgart’s 

ongoing “Virtual University Activities”. 

3.2.6 GMD Fokus, Berlin, D 

GMD FOKUS is one of the leading research institutes in Germany. The work of FOKUS 

covers design, specification, implementation and consulting in the following areas: 

advanced network technologies and systems, global heterogeneous networking and 

internet technologies, mobile and broadband wireless communications, testing, 

interoperability and performance evaluation of distributed communication systems, 

interactive multimedia applications, distributed object technology, platforms and services, 

intelligent mobile agent technology and electronic commerce. 

MobyDick is one of important projects being conducted by GMD FOKUS in cooperation 

with other research institutes and partners from the industry. GMD FOKUS will use the 

results of MobyDick to evaluate and improve its ongoing development of an open and 

generic AAA infrastructure for all IP services towards the status of a pre-product. This will 

provide the basis for interested SMEs and for spin-off companies to develop products for 

the Telecommunications and Electronic Market industry. As a research institute GMD 

FOKUS actively participates in the standardization process in international (ISO, ITU-T) 

and industrial consortia (e.g., OMG, TMForum, DAVIC, IETF) and is intending to contribute 

the results and experience gained in the MobyDick project to the standardization process. 

The areas to be addressed are particularly AAA, Mobility and QoS in the future IP network 

where these factors will be instrumental in the success of IP telephony, audio/video 

streaming and other high bandwidth QoS enabled applications for mobile consumers. 

Furthermore, contributions will be made to the IRTF AAAArch group, as MobyDick looks 

very closely at the aspects of Authentication, Authorization and Accounting in all IP 

networks. The access to the network could be over Ethernet, xDSL, ISDN, WLAN or W- 




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CDMA etc. MobyDick offers a unique opportunity for developing and evaluating a generic 

AAA infrastructure for heterogeneous all IP networks. This encompasses the inter-working 

and interoperability of different network technologies. Another benefit is the possibility to 

check the applicability and validity of the architecture being developed within the MobyDick 

project through trials with real-life scenarios. MobyDick is in line with the overall research 

plan of FOKUS concerning an open communication systems infrastructure and advanced 

telecommunication services management. 

The expected research results will improve the excellence of FOKUS through publications, 

workshops and conferences and will also enable it to use these results as a basis for further 

project acquisition (70% of the total FOKUS budget is based on externally funded industrial 

and research projects) and pre-product development. 

3.2.7 Portugal Telecom, P 

Portugal Telecom Inovação, SA (PT Inovação, SA) is the branch for Research and 

Development (R&D) in Telecommunications within the PT group of companies. PT 

Inovação, SA results from the fusion of former CET with the once PT departments Inesctel 

and Marconi Labs, thus embedding a whole spectrum of R&D competence. This fact grants 

PT Inovação, SA the status of biggest Portuguese speaking company in the business of 

innovation and R&D in the Infocommunication area. 

PT Inovação, SA and its parent organization Portugal Telecom, have been the prime 

contractors of the RIA Consortium (Portuguese National Host) in the framework of the 

ACTS programme. Together with the local University, CET was one of the founding parties 

of the Institute of Telecommunications in Aveiro. 

The MobyDick project will allow PT Inovação, SA to contribute in the specification, 

development, demonstration and validation of future “all-IP” network solutions. PT 

Inovação, SA will consolidate and gain knowledge and experience in areas such as IPv6, 

QoS and mobility. PT Inovação, SA will use this knowledge and experience in future 

operation and development of new equipment, services and applications. Demand for IP 

guaranteed QoS is a reality that is being pushed by the observed migration of existing realtime 

services to IP-based networks. On the other hand, mobility (both user and terminal 

mobility) is a key requirement for an increasing number of users. 

Portugal Telecom, is deploying an IP backbone infrastructure that will support several 

emerging and new services. Participation in MobyDick is seen by PT Inovação, SA as a 

strategic positioning to acquire the right knowledge and experience, and participate in the 

development of required tools, methodologies and architecture to deal with the creation of a 

management of those services. 

PT Inovação, SA works also as a consultant and evaluator for PT, for the introduction of 

new equipment and services. The experience and knowledge obtained during project 

execution regarding user equipment, network services, and applications, will allow PT 

Inovação, SA on this task and will open new working areas. Having the know-how and 

experience on how to set up and manage new QoS-enabled mobile IP services will give PT 

Inovação, SA a strategic position to guarantee the PT group success, via innovation, in a 

deregulated telecommunications market. 

PT Inovação, SA is also very interested in publishing and disseminate in conferences, 

magazines and workshops the most relevant outcomes of this participation in the MobyDick 

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3.2.8 Centre de Recherche de Motorola, Paris, F 

One of the strategic goals of Motorola research is ‘Beyond 3G’. Such approach has an 

impact for the next generation communication systems. MobyDick is viewed by Motorola as 

an excellent means to further investigate issues concerning IPv6-based Beyond-3G 

networking. In MobyDick, Motorola is interested in 3 aspects of Beyond-3G networking: 

mobility, QoS, and management. 

Concerning the technology under investigation, mobility, QoS, and management play a 

major role in the framework of MobyDick. 

Mobility is the aspect that Motorola concentrated in the WINE GLASS project, especially in 

the enhancement the IPv6 mobility capability and its integration with security functions. As 

a major player in radio communication technologies, Motorola aims to apply enhanced IPv6 

technologies for the convergence of mobile telecommunications and the Internet to enable 

a seamless mobile Internet, beyond the current capability of mere wireless access to the 

Internet. MobyDick provides a perfect research context that Motorola will leverage to further 

develop the necessary IP mobility capability for systems beyond 3G. 

QoS in the current IP network doesn’t fulfill the requirements of the future applications that 

requires a specified level of service classes to be supported. Motorola is the WP2 leader in 

MobyDick to develop QoS technologies to support mobile nodes. Motorola aims to design 

and implement a consistent, realistic and applicable architecture for the QoS interaction 

between different technologies (W-CDMA and IP) within and between different 

administrative domains in various scenarios. Besides, Motorola will also investigate more 

efficient transport protocol for wireless environments. 

Motorola believes that the architecture of Beyond-3G system should be based on 

administrative domains defined by AAA. Motorola will investigate the interaction and 

integration of support of mobility, QoS, and AAA, to ensure efficient and effective 

operations. 

With respect to added values, Motorola provides research and implementation efforts. 

Motorola expects MobyDick to contribute to standardization of Beyond-3G systems. In 

particular, Motorola would like to help promote relevant Moby Dick results in IETF, WWRF, 

etc. Motorola also believes that it is beneficial to leverage efforts and establish synergy with 

researchers from various universities and industry research centres. Such an experience 

will help move technologies forward together. 

MobyDick will implement a testbed to experiment, understand, validate, and evaluate the 

MobyDick research results. Motorola expects a high quality implementation and integration 

process for the testbed as well as good documentation for the whole process. 

3.2.9 EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, F 

Eurecom’s mobile communications department has research and teaching activities in both 

physical and networking layer aspects of mobile communication systems. Our group is also 

currently active in implementation aspects of 3G radio systems, and one of its main 

activities in this area is the development of a real-time UMTS/TDD platform. This platform is 

being designed with an open-architecture at both hardware and software levels and is 

primarily software-based, i.e. a wide-band software radio. The platform software will be 

released under a GNU public license to promote academic collaboration in the area of 3G 

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Eurecom’s platform will be used and potentially duplicated to varying degrees of complexity 

by the members of the MobyDick consortium. Moreover, certain implementation choices 

related to networking aspects will adopt the architectural models developed in the context 

of MobyDick, namely those related to the interconnection of UMTS/TDD and an all-IPv6 

backbone. 

Being an academic institution, our resources are clearly limited, and thus EURECOM 

cannot hope to develop all aspects of the network infrastructure on top of its platform. It is 

our goal, therefore, to use the development of the other members of the MobyDick 

consortium to augment the scope of our work, during and after the life of MobyDick. The 

intent is to make beneficial use of the open architecture policy to pool resources and 

provide a very complete real-time platform to both our researchers and students as well as 

to other research bodies and educational institutions. 

In terms of research, we are primarily interested in the end-to-end IPv6 architecture 

proposed by MobyDick and the conclusions that can be drawn regarding: 

1 IPv6 and UMTS Quality-of-Service (QoS) mapping 

2 Radio resource optimization for mobile multimedia services 

3 Mobility management 

4 Handover strategies 

5 Security 

6 UMTS/IEEE 802.11 inter-operability 

It is hoped that our openness policy will lead to similar open-architecture projects on top of 

our platform both at the European and national (French) level. This is already the case with 

the following projects funded by the French Ministry of Finance under the label of the RNRT 

(http://www.telecom.gouv.fr): PLATON, ERMITAGES, and @IRS++. 

3.2.10 University of Cracow, PL 

The Department of Telecommunication of the AGH Technical University of Cracow is a 

research and educational centre in telecommunications and information technology. The 

primary focus of the Department is to offer high quality courses on the networking 

technologies and trends in the telecommunications. The courses are structured into 

thematic blocks including radio communication, optical networks, broadband 

communications, multimedia, and encompass numerous aspects such as technology, 

protocols, traffic modelling, network planning, performance evaluation and optimization, 

and others. The courses are delivered to the students of high education in the form of 

lectures, practical courses, laboratory courses and projects. The Department also provides 

individual courses for native and foreign students. 

Therefore, the efforts to disseminate the results of the MobyDick project will concentrate on 

the proliferation of knowledge by means of lectures, conferences, journal papers and 

consultancy. 

The emphasis will be put on the upgrade of the educational process, which is mandatory to 

keep-up the pace and stay competitive in the rapidly evolving telecommunication industry. 

In this area the Department of Telecommunications is planning to upgrade and complement 

the teaching programme, in particular the subjects related to wireless communication, in 

order to exploit the potentials resulting from participation in the Project. 

The Department also considers the introduction of a specialized course on Mobile IP and 

AAA, to enable the students to explore further the challenges of IP in the context of mobility 

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Now, it has become a good tradition of the Department to involve students of the fifth year 

of studies into the activities carried in the Department. There is a common consensus, that 

the problems that are the subject of MobyDick project are excellent problems to be 

followed, and further explored by the students heading for the degree of Master of 

Sciences. MobyDick is considered here as an important source of concepts, a good case 

study with an advanced reference architecture. Study of these problems by students is 

challenging as it requires inter-speciality knowledge of radio network interface (W-CDMA), 

capacity management, operation of the IP protocol over specific link layers, and 

understanding of quality of service issues in packet networks. 

Both lectures and optional courses will be accompanied by practical courses. Several 

techniques are considered, out of which pure theoretical work, simulation or emulation, and 

also experiments in an operational network are considered, depending on the availability of 

the infrastructure. Apportioning of courses into compulsory, optional and master thesis will 

introduce flexibility in the teaching paths. 

A new but quickly growing field of education are the extra-mural studies. This type of 

education has been introduced in response to a strong demand of the companies, willing to 

update and extend the knowledge of telecommunications of the employees. The knowledge 

resulting from participation in the Project supported by the experience gathered during the 

field trial is a much wanted knowledge, that will draw the audience. This kind of 

dissemination will be carried on with care, in order to respect the commitment to protect the 

intellectual property rights of the partners. 

A quickly growing and changing telecom market in Poland has created an increased 

demand for consultancy. Advanced radio communications and Internet access are now the 

driving forces of these changes. The Department of Telecommunications responds to the 

demand by sharing the expertise with the telecom operators. In this field the findings and 

conclusions of MobyDick will contribute to a better understanding of the problems, and will 

help to derive feasible scenarios for the deployment of wireless Internet access and 

wireless services. 

In addition to the mainstream activities, the Department of Telecommunications each year 

holds one or two conferences, that provide the people with an opportunity to share new 

concepts and ideas. The collaborative research work carried in the Project provides a 

valuable seed for such discussions. 

The overall objective of the above-listed activities is to point out a clear view of the feasible 

evolutionary scenarios beyond 3G systems, which are still considered by many as the 

ultimate target of wireless telecommunications industry, with no evolutionary scenarios 

beyond it. 

This combined approach for dissemination shall bring a substantial impact on the 

telecommunication community in Poland as well as in other countries. It shall have the 

effect both in terms of immediate results (e.g., coming from the publication of conference 

papers) and the long-term results (e.g., by means of education). As a result, it will leverage 

of the awareness of the prospective evolution strategies for the telecommunication market. 

At the same time the Department of Telecommunications of the University of Mining and 

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3.2.11 Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, FTW, Wien, A 

Within the Kplus Competence Centers framework of the Austrian government, the 

Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation 

Wien, FTW) provides a unique focal point for telecommunications research in Austria, 

bringing together several university institutes and the research departments of about 15 

industrial partners, including the big players in the Austrian telecommunications market as 

well as a couple of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). The internal structure of FTW, 

composed of three major research areas A (Telecommunication Networks), B (Signal 

Processing) and C (Mobile Networks), shows immediately that mobile networks and UMTS 

are already well-established as a major research focus. In this context, MobyDick is 

considered to be an important project for endorsing and extending the know-how in the 

mentioned research areas A and C. Moreover, as a direct result of FTW’s participation in 

this IST-project, several industry partners in the FTW consortium explicitly have expressed 

great and continuous interest in the research issues related to MobyDick. Therefore, it is 

planned to create a new project (AIDA) within FTW which is devoted mainly to support and 

deepen research in the areas of QoS, migration issues, inter-domain mobility and charging 

for mobile environments. Currently, the preparation phase of AIDA has just started, the 

project begin itself is scheduled for early 2002. 

Dissemination of specific know-how among all FTW partners has always been a leading 

motivation for the close cooperation between academia and industry that forms the core of 

our research center. Our main knowledge dissemination strategy is based on a very short 

feedback-cycle between the FTW and industry via staff members from industrial partners 

that spend a certain amount of their time directly at the center. Moreover, regular full-day 

member tutorials open to all interested industry partners use to include presentations both 

on a survey and in-depth level. Similarly, external seminars and consulting activities provide 

further possibilities for presenting project results to a larger audience. Finally, due to the 

semi-academic environment we live in, lecturing technology of the future to interested 

students and thesis supervision is as well a part of our day-to-day business as publication 

work for international journals and conferences. 

4 Abbreviations 

A 

AAA 

AAAC 

AG 

API 

BRAIN 

CH 

D 

E 

ETSI 

FTW 

F 

FOKUS 

GMD 

Austria 

Authorization, Authentication, and Accounting 

Authorization, Authentication, Accounting, and Charging 

Aktiengesellschaft 

Application Programing Interfaces 

Broadband Radio Access for IP Networks 

Confederation Helvetica, Switzerland 

Germany 

Spain 

European Institute for Standardization 

Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien 

France 

Forschungszentrum für Offene Kommunikationssysteme 

Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung 




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GPRS General Packet Radio System 

GSM Global System for Mobile Communications 

HLRS Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart 

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 

IND Institut für Nachrichtentechnik und Datenverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart 

IP 

Internet Protocol 

IRTF Internet Research Task Force 

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network 

ISO International Organization for Standardization 

IST Information Society Technologies 

ITU International Telecommunications Union 

LAN Local Area Network 

MAIN Mobility for All-IP Networks – Mobile IP 

MobyDick Mobility and Differentiated Service in a Future IP Network 

MWIF Mobile Wireless Internet Forum 

MIND Mobile IP-based Network Developments 

OMG Object Management Group 

P 

Portugal 

PL Poland 

PT Portugal Telecom 

R&D Research and Development 

RNRT French Ministry of Finance 

RUS Rechenzentrum der Universität Stuttgart 

SME Small and Medium Enterprise 

TDD Time Division Duplex 

TMForum Tele-Management Forum 

QoS Quality-of-Service 

UC3M University Carlos III of Madrid 

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System 

URL Uniform Resource Locator 

US United States 

UTRAN UMTS Radio Access Network 

W-CDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access 

WINEGLASSWireless IP Network as a Generic Platform for Location-aware 

Service Support 

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network 

WWRF 

xDSL x Digital Subscriber Loop 

3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project 

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5 Appendices 

The appendix contains two parts. While Section 5.1 contains the current MobyDick project 

presentation in a slide format, Section 5.2 covers the available two-page data sheet, which 

is available for a short and focussed information on MobyDick goals and technical 

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5.1 Project Presentation 



Mobility and Differentiated Services 

in a Future IP Network 

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Project Consortium 

❑ Telecom Companies: 

– T-Nova, Berkom (Germany), Co-ordination 

– Portugal Telecom (Portugal) 

❑ Manufactures: 

– Centre de Recherche de Motorola (France) 

– NEC (United Kingdom/Germany) 

– EURECOM (France) 

❑ Research institute/University 

– Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Switzerland) 

– GMD Fokus (Germany) 

– University Madrid (Spain) 

– University Stuttgart (Germany) 

– Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien FTW (Austria) 

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Objectives of Moby Dick 

❑ Development, implementation and test of end-to-end communication 

components based on the IP next generation (IPv6) 

❑ Support of 

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Project Workpackages 

❑ Workpackage 1: Project Framework (Requirements, 

Applications and System Integration) 

❑ Workpackage 2: Quality of Service 

❑ Workpackage 3: Mobility 

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Detailed Workpackage 

Information (WP1) 

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Detailed Workpackage Information 

(WP2, WP3 and WP4) 

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Detailed Workpackage 

Information (WP5 - WP6) 

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Project Time Period 

01/2001 ? 

WP1 WP1 

WP2 WP2 

WP3 WP3 

WP4 WP4 

WP5 WP5 

WP6 WP6 

WP5 WP5 

WP5 WP5 

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Workpackage Structure 

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Network Structure 

❑ Adaptation of network resources. 

❑ Vertical and horizontal hand-over. 

❑ QoS guarantee. 

❑ AAA and Charging 

DomainA 

W-CDMA 

W-CDMA 

W-CDMA 

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Madrid/Spain 

Trial Scenario 

AAA, Policy and 

Charging Server 

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Detailed Trial Scenario 

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WP2 - QoS 

Backbone: strategies - DiffServ, MPLS, re-routing 

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WP3 - Mobility 

Backbone: - 

Access Part: Mobility Management 

IPv6 Interface of RNC 

Inter-layer signalling, 

Resource management 

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Backbone: - 

Access part: AAAL, AAAH 

Charging concept, 

Authorization for QoS parameter, 

Authentication for resource allocation 

Charging of resources allowed to use 

DB 

Domain D 

WP4 - AAAC 

AAAH 

Backbone 

DB 

Domain A 

DB 

Domain C 

AAAL 

AAAL 

802.11 

Ethernet 

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Role of WP1 - Architecture 

Interfaces to be managed 

WP 3 - WP 4 

• Mobility management (handover management) integrated in AAA Server 

• Resource distribution must be based on Authorisation 

• Charging (Transaction Service in multi provider scenario) 

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5.2 Project Data Sheet 



Mobility and 

Differentiated Services in a 

Future IP Network 

IST-2000-25394 

Project duration: 36 months 

http://www.ist-mobydick.org/ 

Abstract: 

In order to continue to evolve 3rd Generation mobile and wireless infrastructures 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. 

The objectives of the project are split up into the following activities: 

• 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. 

Servers / Brokers 

hand-over 

UMTS 

W ireless LAN 

rem ote 

network 

European IP 

backbone 

National/ 

company/ 

university 

research 

IP n etw ork 

fixed or radio 

access 

network 

mobile terminal 

Ethernet 

Structure of the Trial Network 

Partners: 

T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft mbH Berkom, Germany; NEC Network Development 

Laboratories, Germany/United Kingdom, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, Eidgenössische 

Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland, University of Stuttgart, Germany, GMD Fokus, Germany, 

Portugal Telecom Inovacao, Portugal, Centre de Recherche de Motorola, France, University of Cracow, 

Poland, Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien Beriebs-GmbH, Austria. 

Contact: Hans Joachim Einsiedler, 26 Jul. 01 

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@t-systems.de

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