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Annex CeMobility – Strategic Applications AgendaUniversitatea Politehnica Din Bucuresti RomaniaGtd Sistemas De Informacion Sa SpainCoordinatorContact Person: Name: SAHLI, HICHEMTel: +32-2-6292916Fax: +32-2-6292883Organisation: INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM VZWELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING - (VUB-ETRO)KAPELDREEF 753001 LEUVENBELGIUM71. Enterprise next generation Network Vision 2010 (U-2010)Background and ObjectivesFunded under 6th FWP (Sixth Framework Programme)Research area: IST-2005-2.5.12 ICT for Environmental Risk Managementhttp://www.u-2010.eu/Today modern society has reached a high dependability on ubiquitous services and networks. Especially in crisisor emergency situations the availability of these services is crucial. Today governmental and rescue entitycommunication services are characterized by a strong technical compartmentalization. The interworking and theavailability of communication resources cannot be assured in crisis situations.This proposal highlights and deploys concepts to enhance the availability of these services and of the existingnetworks by leveraging redundant communication channels wherever possible and using automatic redirection incase of network failures. In crisis situations rescue teams have to be assembled on the fly. Mobile and ad-hocnetworks are seen as a possible solution for that. Additional research on these networks will be conducted in thisproject to fulfil the requirements of crisis intervention teams.The problem of identification will be resolved using new research results in wireless and ad hoc networks, whereesp. the integration of distributed knowledge of the current network environment (location information, RFIDmessages, recommended trust relations, etc.) into the protocols is a key issue for context adaptable recognition.With IPv6 there already exists a platform for many of the ICT aspects related to crisis scenarios.With Luxembourg as first test bed and the Luxembourg Government as partner in the project, there is an idealpossibility to show the feasibility and usability of the results in a living environment and provide the basis for allEuropean countries. A transfer of the technology through a deployment in Slovenia is planned in the secondphase of the project.The results of this project will not only be usable for governments risk and crisis management but will alsobecome the integral part of enterprise and public networks fulfilling our Next Generation Network Vision forubiquitous Networks in 2010 - "u-2010".Project detailsProject Acronym: U-2010Project Reference: 035003Start Date: 2006-05-01Duration: 36 monthsProject Cost: 6.49 million euroContract Type: Integrated ProjectEnd Date: 2009-04-30Project Status: Execution308