P1651 Technical assessment of fibre only solutions for Telcos´ drop segments in greenfield environments
P1652 Service Oriented Architectures (SoA) for convergent
Service Delivery Platforms
P1653 M2M - Opportunities in new service paradigmsnbsp;
P1654 Mobile Advertisement (M-Ads) – Spam threat or new opportunity?
P1655 Mobile online gaming - from Tetris towards ubiquity?
P1656 Definition of an open and extendible IMS Client Framework
P1657 Future Internet – the operators’ vision
P1551 Applications and services for ADSL2+ and beyond
P1552 Open Source for Next Generation OSS
P1553 The impact of peer-to-peer networking on Internet Service Providers
P1554 WiMAP - WiMAX for Mobile Applications
P1555 Sensor Telcos - new business opportunities
P1556 Using IP Multicast for the efficient distribution of on-demand streaming content
P1557 Fixed Mobile Convergence
P1558 Community Interaction
P1559 VoIP Security
P1401 Service Development in the Home
P1402 TIMES (The Inter-operator IM and Mobile IM service)
P1421 Interconnection of Multimedia Service Networks
P1441 ID Management enabling AAA services
P1442 NEMOGS (New market opportunities by Galileo satellite services)
P1443 TRAWIS (Traffic models for Wireless Services)
P1444 NGN signalling with ENUM
P1445 OSS for NGN - Coordination of Telco Activities
P1446 WiBAN - WiMAX in Backhaul and Access Networks
P1447 BISSLA – Business models and Service Level Agreements in open value chains
P1448 Opportunities offered by Carrier Grade Multipoint Services
P1301 ETRACS (E-commerce trading of connectivity services)
P1302 PROFIT (Potential pRofit Opportunities in the Future ambient InTelligence world)
P1303 ANFINA (Access Networks control Functions and Interfaces in NGN Architectures)
P1304 CENTS (Cost Effective migration to FTTx-Networks for Tomorrow's Services)
P1305 GENIE (GMPLS and MPLS in Enhanced IP Networks)
P1306 BIZCOOL (Business to business interaction with Web Services and ebXML)
P1307 MultiDeli (Multi Devices Service Delivery)
P1308 FRAPESA (Framework for personalisation of services and applications in next generation mobile services)
P1309 Health risk assessment of the effects of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields
P1341 NGN Service Concepts
P1342 Risk management in bandwidth and wholesale services and the issue of bandwidth pricing
P1344 Concepts for generic Telco Application Servers in the various Sub-domains of Telco industries
P1345 Mobile Internet/Instant Messenger - the way to enrich our customers' world
P1346 Potential of the RFID technology for Telecom Operators
P1347 Online Console Gaming on the Web
P1348 SPEED
P1349 TelCo Grid - Business Opportunities for Telecom Operators in the Grid Market
P1350 Multi-application Smart Card Market Opportunities
P1201 ERNIE (Entertainment and new services via DSL)
P1203 The operator's vision on systems beyond 3G
P1204 Mobile Presence
P1205 Identity and ICTs - Analysis and Implications for Service Design
P1206 Broadband Services in the Intelligent Wireless Home
P1207 OPERA (Interoperability of DRM Technologies)
P1208 LOCAWA (Location Awareness)
P1209 XML Web Services
P1241 Cool Town - like architectures and telecom networks
P1242 Web Services Orchestration
P1243 Perspectives and Potentital of ebXML - standards for SMEs
P1244 Homogeneous Infrastructures for Hot Spot scenarios
P1245 EASY (Ethernet based Access networks Studies)
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| Project number and title | Responsibilities | Abstract |
| P1001 PKI Implementation and Test Suites for Selected Applications and Services |
Project Leader: Antti Siltanen, AF Project Supervisor: |
Considering
that Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) are crucial for providing trust over the Internet
and that applications, services and technologies utilising certificates will have an
important position in the future e-commerce infrastructure, EURESCOM started this two year
Project, with the objective to study and pilot major functions of Trusted Services in
order to identify, define and verify (e.g., for completeness and consistency) operational,
technical, regulatory and legal aspects in such detail that the results can be used to
assess the effectiveness, economics and acceptability of Trusted Third Party Services. |
| P1002 TALMUD - Technologies and Architectures for a Leap in Multimedia Database |
Project Leader: Willem Jonker, NL Project Supervisor: |
The combination of broadband networks and Web-technology opens the way to new multimedia information and transaction services such as next generation web hosting, multimedia search engines, and broadband browsers. Handling of multimedia information is a central element in such services and as a result technology for storage, retrieval, and filtering of multimedia information will become a cornerstone for this future generation of services. The Project develops a scaleable architecture for distributed multimedia information storage, retrieval and filtering based on the above technologies that enables the deployment of future Internet services. Based on this architecture a distributed prototype implementation is being developed that validates and tests the architectural concepts. |
| P1003 Exploiting the "Always On" concept |
Project Leader: Erik Bergersen, NT Project Supervisor: |
The
‘Always On’ concept is a powerful one as it represents a potentially major
change in the TelCos approach to network design and provision. The nearest analogy to
‘Always On’ is the home or business LAN, which once you are logged onto will
provide the user with continuous access to e-mail, software updates, etc, without the user
having to make specific requests. |
| P1004 ICE-Commerce (Framework for Interoperable and Customised E-Commerce Solutions) |
Project Leader: Luc Mathan, FT Project Supervisor: |
E-commerce in the US is currently in a huge expansion and the European market represents a natural target for this wave. Whilst this dominance is disturbing, there is still a short window of opportunity for European telecommunication operators to become major e-commerce actors in their respective markets. EURESCOM started this 2 year Project with the objectives to establish a standard for a framework of e-commerce platforms for the purpose of rapid deployment and customisation of e-commerce solutions, and to produce specifications for e-commerce components interoperable across platforms to allow 1) end-to-end e-commerce transactions on a global scale and 2) common exploitation of solutions by e-commerce operators. |
| P1005 JINI & Friends @ Work: Towards secured service access |
Project Leader: José Bonnet, PT Project Supervisor: |
Imagine a networked information society with billions of small, intelligent devices equipped with spontaneous networking capabilities, having access to any information and providing access to any service "on the net". For the purpose of evaluation and advancement of the enabling technologies for this vision of "Ubiquitous Computing", this 18 month Project is aiming at providing the basic technological building blocks that allow EURESCOM Shareholders to take advantage of these technologies, in particular with respect to their secure and safe use in large-scale telecommunication operators' environments. |
| P1006 DISCMAN - Differentiated Services – Network Configuration and Management |
Project Leader: Hans Joachim Einsiedler, DT Project Supervisor: |
Currently the IETF discusses the Differentiated Services (DiffServ). This approach is based on minimum signalling and on agreements between the connected Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Inter-working tests and management issues such as signalling, charging, management and network engineering are undefined and still under discussion. The goal of this Project is to investigate Service Models and Architectures, evaluate existing Differentiated Service implementations (especially interoperation issues) and to assess Traffic Engineering mechanisms such as Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) for their use in the framework of Differentiated Services. With the collected knowledge and experiences, it is possible to provide guidelines on how to set-up multi-provider QoS IP networks and to manage the QoS resources. |
| P1007 Application of Intelligent Techniques to Telecommunications Fraud Detection |
Project Leader: Keith Start, TI Project Supervisor: |
The main focus of this work is the investigation of Artificial Intelligence techniques, such as Neural Networks and Data Mining technologies to the application of the Fraud Detection. This work includes an analysis of existing methodologies and products in this area and a prototyping phase, which attempts to validate such techniques. Customer analysis, such as churn analysis, are also being considered and prototyped. |
| P1008 Inter-operator Interfaces for ensuring end to end IP QoS |
Project Leader: Andrew Kelleher, TI Project Supervisor: |
The telecommunications world has broadly accepted IP as the access technology of the future and is investigating a range of schemes for including Quality of Service (QoS) in IP technology. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is standardising differentiated and integrated service approaches to QoS whilst the Telecommunications Management Forum (TMF) is considering what needs to be done to offer a commercial, telco-quality IP service. Customer perceived QoS is an end-to-end concept. If service is offered across multiple operators then those operators will need to co-operate to ensure customer requirements are met. Inter-domain management processes, interfaces and models are needed to support that co-operation. The details of how IP QoS will be provided and the choices of underlying network technology to support the IP layer are unclear. The inter-domain management implications of different options need to be understood. |
| P1009 AMSTRONG IPv6 Deployment - "A Small Step for IP but a Giant Leap for Mankind" |
Project Leader: André Zehl, DT Project Supervisor: |
The IETF working group IP Next Generation (IPNG) has asked the Internet community to start deployment of IPv6, to gain experiences. Deployment of IPv6 will happen incrementally over time and transition mechanisms and strategies for this are needed. UMTS might decide on using IPv6 to get a sufficiently large address space. UMTS might thus be the first large-scale public IPv6 network. This Project should be seen as an IPv6 deployment trial with a European "production" testbed. Earlier Projects have mainly focused on the experimental 6BONE network. The Project proposes to set up such an environment between major telecommunication companies and Internet Service Providers in Europe. Experiences are to be gained on IPv6 issues in a multi-provider environment. |
| P1010 RealCast - Real Time Services with IP Multicast |
Project Leader: Peter Feil, DT |
In P911 (IP Multicast) the basic IP Multicast have been examined. P913 (Real-time Services on the Internet) evaluated multimedia IP-based applications. Building on the results of P911 and P913 this Project integrates the network capabilities and the requirements from the multimedia applications into useful suggestions for new services demanded by the customers - combining the areas of IP Multicast and QoS provision. This is being tested in trials focusing on solutions for a particular service. Solutions for Reliable Multicast (a special form of QoS support) are examined. An ongoing activity is to keep track of and test the newest developments in the area of IP Multicast routing. QoS routing with Multicast is still a research issue, which is specifically being examined. |
| P1012 FASHION – Flexible Automatic SwitcHed client Independent Optical Networks |
Project Leader: Roberto Clemente, IT Project Supervisor: |
This project supports the recently started standardisation activity of ITU-T on automatic switched optical networks (ASON). As such, it considers the optical transport network (OTN) as a platform supporting different clients. In particular it evaluates the switched approach to provision optical channels (OChs) to the different client layers. The project provides a techno-economic comparison of optical networking solutions, including the comparison of traditional and agile OTNs. Finally, it outlines the evolution path from present networks to ASON |
| P1013 First steps towards UMTS: Mobile IP - A European Testbed |
Project Leader: Maria-Amparo Sanmateu, DT Project Supervisor: |
This project is techno-economically evaluating Mobile IP service implementations through first doing a Market analysis of IP services in the Mobility Context (both wired & wireless access), then developing a European Mobile IP Test-bed which uses the Mobile IP protocol for providing macro-mobility. The conclusion is an evaluation of IP Architectures to provide Mobile IP services in connection with future UMTS complete implementations to be able to recommend implementation strategies for evolution to operators supported by demonstrations. |
| P1014 TWIN - Testing WDM IP Networks |
Project Leader: Francois Tillerot, FT |
The transport of IP based data is becoming ever more important to TelCos, because it represents a quickly growing part of their business. The EURESCOM P918 Project studied the different solutions suggested and available to transport IP based traffic efficiently in a WDM backbone network. This Project takes on board the experimental verification of the findings of P918 by laboratory and field trialing of a few selected architectures. In particular it looks into interoperability in a multi-vendor environment. The Project provides technical guidelines and engineering rules for IP/WDM network integration and deployment. |
| P1015 FREEHANDS – Fibre and Radio Enhanced IntEgration in Heterogeneous Access Networks for Delivery of Broadband Services |
Project Leader: Valerio Palestini, IT Project Supervisor: |
Access systems are progressively attaining compliance to FSAN/ITU standards. TelCos want to exploit access systems to their full potential and deliver broadband services to the customers. Increasing competition and the variety of customer needs require a high level of flexibility from TelCos. Radio solutions have unique advantages in this respect and the integration of wireless and optical technologies holds a great promise. Therefore continuing the work on broadband access networks started in Project BOBAN (P917). P1015 looks into two particular aspects: service delivery on FSAN access platforms – how management systems and OAM procedures can successfully support this and integration of FSAN systems with standard and advanced broadband radio technologies. |
| P1016 MINIT – Mobile and IP network integration testing |
Project Leader: J. Ch. Francis, CH Project Supervisor: |
This Project produces
test suites for new interconnection scenarios also by co-operating with other industry
players. It develops formally specified test specifications for the services and networks
identified take actions towards the test tool suppliers, stimulates new developments and
products based on our identified requirements and validates the test specifications with
prototypes. As Key results it produces new or revised Abstract Test Suites for GSM phase 2+, UMTS, IP and GPRS network evolutions and Implementation guidelines and prototype Executable Test Suites |
| P1041 Customer Loyalty in the Virtual World |
Project Leader: Annakaisa Häyrynen, AF Project Supervisor: |
The "virtual world" context is becoming increasingly important also for TelCos to attract and keep a sound customer base. This Strategic Study helps to clarify the complex interrelationships between players, services, etc. in the area of customer loyalty. This includes the basic concepts of customers, customer loyalty, virtual world in relation to customer loyalty, and business environment. |
| P1042 Access Network Services for Service Providers |
Project Leader: Arto Saikanmäki, AF Project Supervisor: |
Considering the rapid changes the (tele-) communications market, business structures, regulatory environments and the emergence of new network technologies, how will the concept of access services (local loop services) for Service Providers develop in the future? The objective of this Strategic Study is to identify the current status and direction of thinking on the above mentioned issues in Europe, and thus support the strategic work at EURESCOM Shareholders by providing an early view of the strategic, technical and business implications. |
| P1044 Introduction of open source in telecommunication |
Project Leader: Veit Vogel, DT Project Supervisor: |
The "Open Source" software market growth coincides with the growth of the Internet and has become a fact for most business. Even if one may not suspect a business model behind open source, an increasing number of small and big companies adopt this model in some way. This project analyses the phenomenon of "Open Source" from three aspects: business, legal and technical. It evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of the introduction of open source "products" in a telecommunications infrastructure and attempts to answer the question: "What is the business model for telecom operators engaging in open source software?" |
| P1045-GI WOMBAT - Where are the Other Mobile Buddies in my Town? |
Project Leader: Georg Neureiter, DT Project Supervisor: |
Teenagers have discovered a new way of communication: The mobile phone and its associated services. Mobile communication seems to be an intrinsic part of their lifestyle. Although location based wireless services will open a new dimension of mobile communications some technology constraints have to be considered, otherwise it might be difficult that this emerging services will be as much accepted as e.g. SMS. The question for this Study is: Is it feasible to introduce location based services to fulfil the requirements of the high demanding teenager market? |
| P1046 LUPA: Local provision of 3G and 3G+ services |
Project Leader: Josef Noll, NT Project Supervisor: |
European telecommunication companies are spending billions of Euros on 3rd Generation mobile licences. Potential competition may come from new service providers using alternative access technologies such as wireless local loop (WLL), Bluetooth, Hiperlan, DAB and DVB-T. These technologies have the potential to provide 3G, or in general, next generation (NG) type of services. Two potential business scenarios are envisaged: a) the incumbent service provider using alternative access technologies, and b) the existing operator extending his access network capabilities by alternative technologies. The project investigates what impact these alternative wireless access technologies will have upon the envisaged provision of NG-services to customers and, whether the technologies can be exploited by EURESCOM Shareholders. |
| P1047 Personal Nets - defining the concept |
Project Leader:
David Greenop Project Supervisor: |
Personal Nets are a
generic concept for providing an individualised, user-centric solution to the longer-term
integration of all communication and information services. They have been proposed on many
occasions over the last few years. More recently the concept appeared in a variety of
forms at EURESCOM’s FDW2000 workshop. The concept was explored at EURESCOM in P703
(Key Requirements on the Global/European Information Infrastructure) and is currently a
topic of study in EURESCOM in P926 CASPIAN. Many Shareholders have some realisation of this concept within their technology visions. The term Personal Nets is used here in a generic sense to include similar concepts such as advanced IP VPN Services, Virtual Nets, Personal Virtual Environments and MyOwnNets. A key element of these concepts and visions is that Personal Nets maybe destined to become a ubiquitous mass-market phenomenon. This is a feasibility Study, which is about testing the concept of Personal Nets. Depending upon the results and recommendations of this Study there is the possibilities for follow through activities leading to the development of a Personal Net demonstrator or test bed. |