•  Enable mobile users to enjoy a diverse range of personalized services - seamlessly supported by the underlying technology and transparently provided through a pervasive interface.

•  Fully integrate mobility through open, scalable and seamless integration of a complementary range of heterogeneous network technologies.

•  Enable network and service operators to develop new business activities and provide profitable services in an integrated mobile world.

•  Design, prototype and validate the necessary infrastructure and components for efficient distribution of services over diverse network technologies beyond 3G.

•  Integrate complementary network technologies to provide pervasive and user-centred access to these services.

•  Develop an optimised signalling system for communication and management support in these networks.

•  Demonstrate the results of the work through strong focus on user-centred and scenario-based development of technology.

•  Support the mobility in a new and integrated manner, both at the level of pervasive, personalized applications, and at the network services level. Daidalos will achieve this by extending mobility concepts to technology areas not yet available in mobile form, e.g. DVB-broadcasting and MPEG-21, and by relating application-level concepts such as "personalized user session" to network-related concepts exploited in mobility such as user profiles with Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting, and Auditing (AAAA) information.

•  Integrate a broad range of network technologies in an efficient and scaleable manner. Network technologies considered by Daidalos include fixed and mobile, wired and wireless, support of symmetric and asymmetric traffic, unicast and broadcast, ad-hoc and infrastructure mode networks. Selected technologies aims at completeness, while at the same time being open to future technologies. Specifically, technologies such as Bluetooth, WLAN, W-CDMA, TD-CDMA, Ethernet, DSL and DVB-T will be addressed.

•  Provide the necessary mobility and layer 3-paging (IP paging), routing and discovery, Security, Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting, and Auditing (SA4C), QoS, and Resource Management functionalities for Beyond 3G network and provider configurations - specifically including multi-technology, multi-access and multi-homing scenarios.

•  All work will be strongly aligned with relevant standards, regulation bodies and national research initiatives. At the same time, results from the project will be used to contribute to the development and enhancement of standards when appropriate.

•  Make users and services independence of terminal, location or access technology.

•  Provide transparent and automated selection of appropriate transport and delivery technology.

•  Enable network operators to choose among a diverse set of integrated technologies, depending e.g. on topology constraints.

•  Provide a common Quality of Service architecture integrating different access technologies.

•  Utilise novel mobility-related techniques such as optimisation of access network and interface discovery, efficient handover techniques managed by the network, and network selection based on different parameters.

•  Provide a global security solution for heterogeneous and wireless networks, supporting seamless transition between different networks, and combining different cryptographic techniques and security protocols, which will be designed and tested.

•  Develop a B3G service, control and management infrastructure, improving on results from other IST projects (Moby Dick, Brain, Euro6IX, Youngster, etc) and on current trends in standardisation bodies and forums.

•  Design a common signalling framework covering management, QoS, mobility, security and A4C basing these on IETF (NSIS and SIP workgroups), ETSI (Tiphon) and IST TEQUILA, AQUILA results.

•  Provide a management infrastructure to provide real time management and network resilience, thereby progressing current SNMP and PBM trends and SLS/SLA standards and evolution paths.

•  Design a security framework, avoiding current peer-to-peer and centralized key distribution mechanisms drawbacks, as well as efficient solutions for manet and monet approaches.

•  Integrate unidirectional broadcast links seamlessly into the B3G architecture including reliable and scalable multicast bearer services over terrestrial and satellite broadcast links.

•  Integrate multicast/broadcast services into the B3G architecture, including provisioning of interactive services over broadcast networks.

•  Define a harmonized and standardized framework of broadcast content distribution services (integrating data broadcasting, streaming, and generalized DVB over IP services)

•  Introduce personalization and content scalability support in broadcast services.

•  Develop new and powerful applications that can interact with a wide range of devices in the environment and provide the basis for intelligent context awareness and extended personalisation.

•  Design generic architectures for pervasive systems, and application-level services and mechanisms to facilitate development of pervasive applications.

•  Provide personalization mechanisms with associated user interfaces to provide new functionality in terms of personalized delivery and redirection of information.

•  Enable operators including new entrants to effectively utilise heterogeneous network technologies to provide new classes of ubiquitous services using existing and completely new business models.

•  Empower users to gain ubiquitous and conventional access to new services seamlessly and with less effort, making use of a variety of network technologies that are transparently available in more and more locations.

•  Provide services that are currently seen as separate transparently over federated heterogeneous networks, such as making broadcast services available over non-broadcast technologies.

•  Strengthen the status of European R&D.

•  Enable participating industrial partners to enhance their product portfolio.

•  Impact standards via a large number of the issues addressed standards, in particular IETF (NSIS, MANET, NEMO, IPSEC etc.), ITU-T, 3GPP and IEEE.