European Commission "Information Society Technologies" (IST), 6th Framework

Ericsson AB, Sweden
OY LM ERICSSON AB, Finland
Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH, Germany
ERICSSON MAGYARORSZAG KOMMUNIKACIOS RENSZEREK K.F.T., Hungary
Alcatel SEL AG, Germany
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES NETWORK SYSTEMS UK Limited, UK
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES NETWORK SYSTEMS GmbH, Germany
NEC EUROPE LTD, Germany
NOKIA CORPORATION, Finland
PANASONIC EUROPEAN LABORATORIES GMBH, Germany
Siemens AG, Germany
SIEMENS MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS S.P.A., Italy
SIEMENS AG Österreich, Austria
DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC, UK
DOCOMO COMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBH, Germany
ELISA CORPORATION, Finland
France Telecom SA, France
NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH - TNO, Netherlands
TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA UNIPERSONAL, Spain
TELENOR COMMUNICATION II AS, Norway
TeliaSonera AB, Sweden
Telecom Italia SPA, Italy
VODAFONE GROUP SERVICES LIMITED, UK
SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER  SCIENCE AB, Sweden
RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE  TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN, Germany
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., Germany
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto, Portugal
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLAN, Sweden
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN, Germany
College London, UK
UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA, Spain
Consorzio Ferrara Ricercha, Italy
The University of Surrey, UK
TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND, Finland
National ICT Australia (University of New South Wales), Australia
University of Ottawa, Canada
Concordia University, Canada
Critical Software, Portugal
Motorola Japan, Japan

January 2004 to December 2007

Ambient Networks (AN) is an integrated project (IP) co-sponsored by the European Commission under the Information Society Technology (IST) priority under the 6th Framework Programme. The project addresses the strategic objective of "Mobile and Wireless Systems Beyond 3G".
The Ambient Networks project will create network solutions for mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G. It will enable scalable and affordable wireless networking while providing rich and easy-to-use communication services for all. It is geared towards increasing competition and cooperation in an environment populated by a multitude of user devices, wireless technologies, network operators, and business actors.
Ambient Networks offers a fundamentally new vision based on the dynamic composition of networks to avoid adding to the growing patchwork of extensions to existing architectures. This will provide access to any network, including mobile personal networks, through instant establishment of inter-network agreements.
The project adopts the design paradigm of horizontally structured mobile systems that offer common control functions to a wide range of different applications and air-interface technologies. Such a radical change requires the definition of new interfaces and a multitude of standards in key areas of future media- and context-aware, multi-domain mobile networks.
The projects' results comprise a complete, coherent wireless network solution; an architecture for self-configuring network components that reduces deployment and operational costs and a complete protocol suite for network composition. The results will facilitate incremental market introduction of new services, and will stimulate sustainable growth in the European mobile communications sector.

NEC is leading the Ambient Networks Management activities with particular focus on Plug-and-Play devices and self-management. Furhter, NEC contributes to the Ambient Networks architecture and its smart multimedia routing and caching functionalities.

B. Ahlgren, M. Brunner, L. Eggert, R. Hancock, S. Schmid, Invariants - A New Design Methodology for Network Architectures, accepted at the SICOMM Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architectures, Portland, August 2004, NLE-PR-2004-21.

S. Schmid, L. Eggert, M. Brunner, J. Quittek, TurfNet: An Architecture for Dynamically Composable Networks, Proceedings of IFIP Workshop for Autonomic communications (WAC 2004), NLE-PR-2004-22

M.Brunner et al., Ambient Networks Management Challenges and Approaches, Proceedings of Mobile-Aware Technologies and Applications 2004 (MATA04), NLE-PR-2004-28

A. Schieder, L. Eggert, N. Papadoglou, F. Pittmann, Components and Concepts of the Ambient Networks Architecture (NLE-PR-2004-64), 12th WWRF Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 4-5, 2004.

J. Nielsen, A. Galis, H. Abrahamsson, B. Ahlgren, M. Brunner, L. Cheng, J. A. Colas, S. Csaba, A. Gonzalez, A. Gunnar, G. Molnar, R. Szabo, Management Architectures and Approaches for Ambient Networks (NLE-PR-2004-65), 12th WWRF meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 4-5, 2004.

F. Hartung, S. Herborn, M. Kampmann, S. Schmid, Smart Multimedia Routing and Adaptation using Service Specific Overlay Networks in the Ambient Networks Framework (NLE-PR-2004-68), 12th WWRF Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 4-5, 2004.

L. Eggert, J. Laganier, M. Liebsch, M. Stiemerling, HIP Resolution and Rendezvous Mechanisms, Workshop on HIP and Related Architectures, Washington, DC, USA, November 6, 2004.

M. Stiemerling, J. Quittek, L. Eggert, Middlebox Traversal of HIP (NLE-PR-2004-56), Workshop on HIP and Related Architectures, Washington, DC, USA, November 6, 2004.

M. Brunner, G. Nunzi, T. Dietz, I. Kazuhiko, Customer-oriented GMPLS Service Management and Resilience Differentiation (NLE-IR-2003-07), eTransactions on Network and Service Management, October 2004.

J. Touch, Y. Wang, V. Pingali, L. Eggert, R. Zhou, G. Finnm, A Global X-Bone for Network Experiments, Infocom 2005, Miami, FL, USA, March 13-17, 2005.

N. Niebert, M. Prytz, A. Schieder, L. Eggert, N. Papadoglou, F. Pittmann, C. Prehofer, Ambient Networks: A Framework for Future Wireless Internetworking, IEEE 61st Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2005 Spring), Stockholm, Sweden, May 30 - June 1, 2005.

S. Schmid, L. Eggert, M. Brunner, J. Quittek, Towards Autonomous Network Domains, 8th IEEE Global Internet Symposium, Miami, FL, USA, March 17-18, 2005.

K. Zimmermann, L. Eggert, M. Brunnner, Self-Management of Wireless Base Stations, International Workshop on Management Issues and Challenges in Mobile Computing (MICMC 2005), Nice, France, May 14, 2005.

B. Ahlgren, L. Eggert, N. Niebert, B. Ohlman, C. Prehofer, M. Smirnov, A Dynamically Extensible Control Space for Next-Generation Networks, 14th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, June 19-23, 2005.

S. Schmid, L. Eggert, M. Brunner, J. Quittek, TurfNet: An Architecture for Dynamically Composable Networks, In Proc. of 1st IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Communications (WAC 2004), LNCS 3457, pp. 94 - 114, Berlin, Germany, October 2004.

S. Schmid, F. Hartung, M. Kampmann, S. Herborn: SMART, Intelligent Multimedia Routing and Adaptation based on Service Specific Overlay Networks, In Proc. of Eurescom Summit 2005, pp. 69-77, Heidelberg, Germany, April 2005.

K. Zimmermann, L. Eggert, M. Brunnner, Self-Management of Wireless Base Stations, IEEE International Workshop on Management Issues and Challenges in Mobile Computing (MICMC 2005), Nice, France, May 14.

N. Niebert, M. Prytz, A. Schieder, L. Eggert, F. Pittmann, N. Papadoglou, C. Prehofer, Ambient Networks: a Framework for Future Wireless Internetworking, IEEE 61st Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2005 Spring), Stockholm, Sweden, May 30 - June 1.

S. Schuetz, M. Brunner, C. Simon, R. Szabo, Z. Lajos Kis, G. Molnar, Self-Configuration for Composable Networks, 14th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, June 19-23.

B. Ahlgren, L. Eggert, N. Niebert, B. Ohlman, C. Prehofer, M. Smirnov, A Dynamically Extensible Control Space for Next- Generation Networks, 14th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Dresden, Germany, June 19-23.

M. Brunner, Requirements for Signaling Protocols, RFC 3726, April 2004.

L.Eggert, M.Liebsch, Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Rendezvous Mechanisms, Internet draft, <draft-eggert-hip-rendezvous-01.txt>, July 2004.

L.Eggert, TCP Abort Timeout Option. Internet draft <draft-eggert-tcpm-tcp-abort-timeout-option-01.txt>, July 2004.

L. Eggert, F. Gont, TCP User Timeout Option, Internet draft, <draft-eggert-gont-tcpm-tcp-uto-option-01.txt>, October 2004.

L. Eggert, J. Laganier: HIP Resolution and Rendezvous Problem Description, Internet draft, <draft-eggert-hiprg-rr-prob-desc-00.txt>, October 2004.

M. Stiemerling, J. Quittek: Problem Statement: HIP operation over Network Address Translators, Internet draft, <draft-stiemerling-hip-nat-03.txt>, February 2005.

J. Laganier, T. Koponen, L. Eggert, Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Registration Extension, Internet draft, <draft-koponen-hip-registration-00.txt>, February 2005.

P. Nikkander, H. Tschofenig, T. Henderson, L. Eggert, J. Laganier, Preferred Alternatives for Tunneling HIP (PATH), Internet draft, <draft-nikander-hip-path-00.txt, February 2005.

J. Laganier, L. Eggert, Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Rendezvous Extensions, Internet draft, <draft-ietf-hip-rvs-02.txt>, June 2005.

L. Eggert, F. Gont, TCP User Timeout Option, Internet draft, <draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-uto-00.txt>, May 2005.

L. Eggert, S. Schuetz, S. Schmid, TCP Extensions for Immediate Retransmissions, Internet draft, <draft-eggert-tcpm-tcp-retransmit-now-02>, June 2005.

Official Ambient Networks site