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

Dissemination and Use Plan Fifth Framework Project 25394
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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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