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

Fifth Framework Project 25394
3 Use Plan
Public
Dissemination and Use Plan
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.
Millions
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1,200
1,000
800
600
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More handsets than PCs connected
to the Internet by the end of 2003 !
Projected PCs
connected to
the Internet
(Dataquest 10/98)
Projected
cellular
subscribers
(Nokia 1999)
Projected Web
handsets
(Nokia 1999)
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Figure 2: Trends in the Device Market
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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