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| BeFEMTO > | |||
The BeFEMTO project develops evolved femtocell technologies based on LTE-Advanced (LTE-A). These technologies will enable mobile broadband access at unprecedented levels of performance and efficiency and facilitate the smooth convergence of fixed and wireless broadband services. The project focuses on novel concepts and usage scenarios such as self-organizing and self-optimizing femtocell networks, outdoor relay femtocells as well as mobile femtocells. With its strong industry consortium, BeFEMTO also aims at having a tangible impact on femtocell standardization and regulation.
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| CARMEN > | |||
The CARMEN project develops solutions for providing carrier-grade services over wireless mesh network infrastructures. The targeted approach supports heterogeneous radio technologies and builds upon self-configuration and self-management principles to reduce deployment and operational cost and widen the availability of high-bandwidth, high-quality wireless access even under adverse deployment conditions.
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| CHANGE > | |||
The CHANGE project addresses a central problem of today’s Internet: its size and scope make innovation through the introduction of new core network technologies very difficult. The goal of CHANGE is to reinvigorate innovation on the Internet, in order to better support current services and applications and enable those of tomorrow. The goal is an architecture that combines multiple communicating flow processing platforms to provide innovative end-to-end services to applications. Thus, conventional traffic flows can be processed at varying degrees of granularity, and application-specific virtual network overlays can be constructed, without impacting other network services or traffic.
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| COAST > | |||
The COAST project aims at building a Future Content-Centric Network (FCN) overlay architecture able to intelligently and efficiently link billions of content sources to billions of content consumers, and offer fast content-aware retrieval, delivery and streaming, while meeting network-wide Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in content and services consumption.
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| DEMONS > | |||
The increasing scale of the Internet and the growing heterogeneity of applications and devices, combined with the distributed and cascading nature of operational failures and the widespread diffusion of large-scale, inter-domain, coordinated attacks, call for a novel approach to the design, deployment, and operation of threat monitoring and mitigation infrastructures. The DEMONS project fosters a new, resilient, scalable, and privacy preserving approach to network monitoring and security management through the design of a trustworthy cooperative and intelligent monitoring network.
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The eCoMove project will contribute to the problem of energy efficiency in road transport by applying latest vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology. By creating an integrated solution of systems and tools which will help drivers to eliminate unnecessary fuel consumption and which will help road operators to manage traffic in the most energy-efficient way the project aims to reduce fuel consumption by 20%. This target can be achieved by:
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| Energy-efficient Communications and Management > | |||
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Information and communication technology (ICT) accounts for about two percent of the worldwide energy consumption, which is forecast to increase substantially in the future. NEC Laboratories Europe is playing an active role in reducing ICT's global carbon footprint by its innovative contributions on green communication technologies to research and standardization. The labs focus on advancing technologies for the energy-efficient operation and management of large communication networks, including optical networks and the Internet, mobile radio networks, and data center network infrastructures.
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| FLAVIA > | |||
Wireless networks importance for the Future Internet is raising at a fast pace. However, today's wireless networks are unable to rapidly adapt to evolving contexts and service needs due to their rigid architectural design. NEC Laboratories Europe believe that the wireless Internet’s inability to keep up with innovation directly stems from its reliance on the traditional layer-based Internet abstraction. Especially, the Link Layer interface is far too abstracted from the actual wireless access and coordination needs. The FLAVIA project fosters a paradigm shift towards the Future Wireless Internet: from pre-designed link services to programmable link processors.
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| FLORENCE > | |||
Due to the ageing society the demand for care will increase significantly, leading to high costs and unrealistic manpower demands. Ambient Assisted Living, i.e. using ICT to support elderly people in activities of their daily life, has the potential to alleviate this and keeping elderly independent much longer. The technical advances of the last years have made the robot for domestic usage both feasible and affordable. The Florence project aims at integrating a low-cost mobile robot with an intelligent home environment and to enable the development of care and coaching services for the elderly, including services for social connectedness.
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| INTERSAFE 2 > | |||
The target of the INTERSAFE-2 project is to develop and demonstrate a Cooperative Intersection Safety System (CISS) that is able to significantly reduce injury and fatal accidents at intersections. The innovative CISS combines several advanced technologies such as object recognition, relative localization, cooperative sensor fusion, and vehicular communication. The innovative CISS provides warning and intervention functions which will be shown in three demonstrator vehicles: two passenger cars and one heavy duty vehicle.
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| IoT-A > | |||
IoT-A (Internet-of-Things Architecture), an FP7 ICT project, develops an architectural reference model together with the definition of an initial set of key building blocks. These enable the integration of IoT into the service layer of the Future Internet, and realize a novel resolution infrastructure, as well as a network infrastructure that allows the seamless communication flow between IoT devices and services. Through the implementation of real-life use cases the benefits of the developed architecture will be demonstrated.
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| IoT-I > | |||
The Internet-of-Things Initiative (IoT-I) brings together key actors from all relevant but currently fragmented IoT communities in Europe to work jointly towards a common vision of the Internet of Things. It represents the first serious attempt in building a unified IoT community in Europe, going across boundaries of disparate technology sectors, in order to create a joint European strategic vision of the Internet of Things and aligning this vision with the current developments on the Future Internet. IoT-I is a Coordination and Support Action within the ECs seventh Framework Programme.
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| NAPA-WINE > | |||
The NAPA-WINE project (Network-Aware Peer-to-Peer Application over Wise Network) is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme, aims at: (i) providing a careful analysis of the impact a large deployment of both general P2P-TV and High-Quality P2P services may have on the Internet; (ii) guidelines for P2P-TV developers; and (iii) a road map for Internet service providers (ISPs) to better exploit the network bandwidth by identifying simple and minimum-cost actions that can be taken in the presence of P2P-TV traffic.
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| OFELIA > | |||
The aim of the OFELIA project is to create a unique experimental facility that allows researchers to not only experiment 'on' a test network but to control the network itself precisely and dynamically. To achieve this, the OFELIA facility is based on OpenFlow, a currently emerging networking technology that allows virtualizing and controlling the network environment through secure and standardized interfaces. A set of five islands creates a diverse OpenFlow infrastructure that allows experimentation on multi-layer and multi-technology networks provided by the different islands.
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| ResumeNet > | |||
ResumeNet is an EU FP7 project that will investigate fundamentally new architectural approaches to Internet resilience. Resilience is the ability of the network to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of various faults and challenges to normal operation. The approach is green-field and defines the architecture, design, deployment, and operations of an Internet so that resilience emerges as a fundamental property.
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| SAIL > | |||
The EU IST 7th Framework integrated project SAIL (Scalable & Adaptive Internet solutions) addresses current challenges in Internet scalability and efficiency by developing solutions for information-centric networking, focusing on efficient distribution of named content instead of host-based end-to-end communication and solutions for cloud networking, combining concepts from virtual networking and cloud computing, providing a unified management framework for computing, storage and communication rather than controlling network and computation facilities as separate entities.
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| SENSEI > | |||
In order to realize the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment, heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (WS&AN) have to be integrated into a common framework of global scale and made available to services and applications. This requires appropriate high-level interfaces for accessing context information as well as defining actuation tasks to be executed in the system. To achieve user acceptance for such a system, the consideration of security and privacy aspects has to be an integral part of the system design.
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| SOCIETIES > | |||
The vision of SOCIETIES is to develop a complete, integrated Community Smart Space (CSS), which extends pervasive systems beyond the individual to dynamic communities of users. CSSs will embrace on-line community services, such as Social Networking in order to offer new and powerful ways of working, communicating and socializing. SOCIETIES has 16 partners from 10 countries, among these Industrial Partners, Universities, and Research Centers.
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| TRILOGY > | |||
The aim of the Trilogy project is to develop new solutions for the control architecture of the Internet and remove the known and emerging technical deficiencies while avoiding prejudging commercial and social outcomes for the different players. The focus is the generic control functions of the Internet - the neck of the hour-glass but for control. Our architectural design activities focus on an approach to develop a Future Internet for the next 20+ years. This design is tempered and refined by considering the need for incremental deployment.
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| UniverSelf > | |||
The goal of the UniverSelf project is to consolidate autonomic methods for the future Internet for business-driven, service and network management into a novel Unified Management Framework (UMF) evolving through cognition. This UMF will remove the roadblocks of the original Internet design and of its later patchwork growth; it will seamlessly unite the heterogeneous control and management planes towards a true end-to-end scope by enabling self-organization of the former and empowering the latter with cognition. This will advance the routine management tasks by human administrators to the level of governance of the entire network and service ecosystem.
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| WSAN4CIP > | |||
| <div align=justify>The goal of WSAN4CIP is to advance the technology of Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) beyond the current state of the art, in order to improve the protection of Critical Infrastructures (CIs). By advancing WSAN technology, the project will contribute to networked information and process control systems which are more secure and resilient. The distributed nature of WSANs enables them to survive malicious attacks as well as accidents and operational failures. It makes them dependable in critical situations, when information is needed to prevent further damage to CIs.
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| 3G Network Traffic Engineering > | |
| Mechanisms must be optimised to provide the desired QoS guarantees in future 3G UMTS IP networks, and including interworking with other radio access technologies such as W-LAN and WiMAX. There are essentially two approaches to provide QoS with IP. First, the network can be overprovisioned. Although simple, this is not a practical solution because access network bandwidth is still very expensive as compared to core network bandwidth. Second, one can use a QoS architecture (namely, QoS scheduling in routers combined with proper admission control). This second approach presents important challenges from the traffic engineering side, such as the design of the necessary QoS algorithms and the study of their optimal configuration in order to provide the desired service quality to the different types of traffic (best-effort, conversational, streaming, real-time video). Research in these areas focuses on modelling the networks and QoS algorithms precisely, using the packet-based OPNET traffic modelling tool.
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The need for structural changes in the Internet is becoming increasingly evident. 4WARD, an EU IST 7th Framework project, is combining a set of radical architectural approaches to design inter-operable and complementary families of network architectures. Research focuses on developing novel paradigms for network management for the Future Internet, where management functions are embedded capabilities of the network itself, in order to achieve scalable and robust management systems with low complexity for large-scale, dynamic network environments.
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| Autonomic Network Architecture > | |
The EU IST-FET Project Autonomic Network Architecture (ANA) aims at exploring novel ways of organizing and using networks beyond legacy Internet technology. The ultimate goal is to design and develop a novel network architecture that enables flexible, dynamic, and fully autonomic formation of network nodes as well as whole networks. It will allow dynamic adaptation and re-organisation of the network according to the working, economical and social needs of the users.
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| Ambient Networks > | |
The EU IST Integrated Project Ambient Networks develops architecture and components of the network layer of mobile networks beyond 3G. An Ambient Network is a pervasive, reliable communication environment hiding the heterogeneous infrastructures and supporting the ever changing needs of users and services. The main objective is to make the always-best-connected" dream an affordable reality for billions of users. The main technical goals are dynamic network composeability and network affordability. |
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| DAIDALOS > | |
Daidalos is a scenario-driven EU IST 6th Framework project that will develop a diverse range of personalized services via pervasive interfaces supported seamlessly by the underlying heterogeneous networks with vastly improved mobility management. The networks include ad hoc and moving networks. Having a strong operator focus, particular emphasis is placed on secure solutions that enable charging for existing and new business models, and on the integration of broadcast services and technologies.
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| ENTHRONE > | |
The EU IST Integrated Project ENTHRONE develops an integrated management solution for an audio-visual service distribution chain including content generation, protection, distribution across networks and reception at user terminals. Particularly considered technologies include MPEG-21 and Digital Video Broadcast (DVB). |
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| EuroLabs > | |
The EU IST EuroLabs (European Distributed NGN Laboratories) project provides lab facilities for other IST projects for test activities including interop tests and technology exploration and exploitation with a strong focus on IPv6.
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| FleetNet - Internet on the Road > | |
The FleetNet project has developed a wireless multi-hop ad
hoc network for inter-vehicle communication in order to improve the driver's
and passenger's safety and comfort.
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| GeoNet > | |
The European Commission and the European automotive industry are committed to increase road safety and reduce the number of casualties significantly. The deployment of cooperative communication systems enabling vehicles to communicate with each other and with communication units installed on the roadside will enable vehicles to exchange important information concerning, e.g., road condition, traffic situations, or traffic accidents and will help to achieve this ambitious goal. The underlying technology of these communication systems is based on the widely-spread WLAN systems and specifically tailored for vehicular networks. The GeoNet project has contributed to the development of the communication systems by specifying a geographic addressing and routing protocol with support for IPv6. Also, two fully interoperable reference implementations of this specification have been rendered and may be used by related projects. |
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| INTERMON > | |
Advanced architecture for INTER-domain quality of
service MONitoring, modelling and visualisation
The INTERMON project started in April 2002 in the scope of the European Commission "Information Society Technologies" (IST) 5th Framework programme. The aim of the project was developing a novel scalable inter-domain QoS architecture with integrated monitoring, modelling, simulations and visual data mining components that use a common distributed QoS database. |
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| iNEM4U > | |
iNEM4U (interactive Networked Experiences in Multimedia for You) is a EU FP7 STREP project that aims at researching and developing a networked system that facilitates rich multimedia experiences across technology domains. This project aims at overcoming the limitations of today's multimedia landscape which is characterised by a number of non-interoperable technology domains. The expected results of this project are novel service enablers and new business models for cross-domain multimedia experiences, and an attractive (interactive TV) application that illustrates these innovations. |
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| IPonAir > | |
The BMB+F project IPonAir - Next Generation Wireless
Internet considered a system architecture of several multi hop ad hoc networks
without or with access to the Internet. NEC-E Ltd.'s role within the work
package 'Security and billing' was to specify, validate and implement protocols
that promote participation between unknown parties and/or support charging
and billing for such a system architecture.
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| Internet AS-level Topology Construction & Analysis > | |
In this project, we utilize widely available routing table data and construct from that data set a shortest path matrix and next hop matrix of the AS-level Internet topology. We make this data set available for download once a month. For the data processing and computations NEC provides a high-performance SX-8 vector computer. Based on those matrices we infer a number of AS-level topology characteristics and observe those over time. We will also publish these results on a regular basis.
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| MAGNET Beyond > | |
The vision of the IST Integrated Project MAGNET Beyond was to develop Personal Network Technologies. Personal Networks provide a secure communication sphere for mobile users, comprising personal devices in the Personal Area Network (PAN) environment, as well as devices in other locations like the home or office environment. To realize this vision, MAGNET Beyond examined new technologies, systems, and applications that are at the same time user-centric and secure. MAGNET Beyond developed user-centric business model concepts for secure Personal Networks in multi-network, multi-device, and multi-user environments. MAGNET Beyond had 32 partners from 15 countries, among these Industrial Partners, Universities, and Research Centres.
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| MASA > | |
MASA is a comprehensive end-to-end QoS architecture supporting
user policy-controlled media transmission and processing in heterogeneous
mobile environments. MASA offers easy-to-use QoS interfaces to hide the
complexity of underlying network QoS mechanisms and allows for seamless
handoffs in wireless scenarios.
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The use of packet filter firewalls and Network Address Translators (NATs) is common in the Internet for security or address depletion reasons. But Firewalls and NATs are obstacles to many network applications, e.g. IP telephony, since these applications need dynamic configuration at the firewall/NAT for their peer-to-peer communication. The MIDCOM project provides different IETF-based solutions for Firewall and NAT traversal using MIDCOM and NSIS protocols.
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| Moby Dick > | |
The EU IST project Moby Dick has provided a solution that
integrates QoS, mobility and AAA into a heterogeneous access environment,
using IPv6 and Mobile IPv6 as base technologies. As examples of heterogeneous
access, Ethernet, Wireless LAN and TD-CDMA have been used. Moby Dick provides
seamless services using the flexibility of the Internet, while providing
authentication, security and QoS as known from circuit-switched networks.
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| MobiLife > | |
The EU IST project MobiLife addresses the multi-dimensional diversity in end-user devices, available networks, interaction modes, applications, and services. To deal with this complexity and to reach its strategic goal, the IST MobiLife project researches uses a user-centric approach to examine novell research issues in context-awareness, privacy, trust, adaptation, and semantic interoperability. The usage of these technologies in novel services and applications shall support key scenarios of everyday life. The usability of the MobiLife work is examined with target user in Finland and Italy.
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| MobiVAS > | |
MobiVAS was an IST-project (FP5, Jan 2000
- Nov 2002) partly funded by the European Union. The objective of the project
was the development of an innovative and modular network platform for seamless
and dynamic provision of advanced Value Added Services (VAS) over 3rd Generation
Mobile Telecommunication systems.
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| MOME > | |
The EU IST MOME (Monitoring and Measurement) Coordination Action has offered a platform for knowledge and tool exchange and for coordination of European research activities in the field of IP monitoring and measurement between EU IST projects and other European partners.
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| MUSE > | |
| The Mobile User Service Environment (MUSE) is a Java Service Provisioning Environment particulary focusing on intelligent service mediation. It features a mobile environment that can be personalized with dynamically combinable services.
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Today's networks are larger, faster, and more capable than their predecessors. NEC has developed network management technologies and products for better, more scalable network management systems that fully support new network technologies. These activities were closely coupled with standard contributions to the IETF. NEC has completed activities focussing on DHCPv6, the NetConf protocol and on SNMP MIB modules for remote operations.
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The EU IST Next Generation Networks Laboratories (NGN-Lab)
project provided lab facilities for other IST projects for IPv6 and QoS
tests. Other activities included interop tests and technology exporation
and exploitation with a strong focus on IPv6.
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| OPEN > | |
OPEN (Open Pervasive Environments for migratory iNteractive Services) is a VII Framework EU STREP project, which aims to develop an environment, which provides people with the ability to continue to perform their tasks when they move about and change their interaction device. The main goal of the OPEN project is to provide a general and open migratory service platform solution which will be able to interoperate with existing technologies by (1) adapting and preserving the state of the software application parts dedicated to interacting with end users; (2) supporting mechanisms for logic reconfiguration and (3) adapting network connections and user interfaces. |
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| PRE-DRIVE > | |
PRE-DRIVE C2X prepares field tests for car-to-car and car-to- infrastructure communication, referred to as CAR-2-X communication. As the main objective, the project develops a common European architecture. Based on this architecture, the project (1) develops and verifies prototype communication platforms, (2) prepares test centers and test scenarios, and (3) conduct simulation studies in order to predict the advantageous effect of CAR-2-X communication on road safety and traffic efficiency. |
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| SCE > | |
In today's mobile network operator's environment, services are mainly created and installed as independent subsystem ("silo" approach). As a consequence, each new service needs extensive installation and integration effort. One advantage of 3GPP's "IP Multimedia Subsystem" (IMS) is to provide a common, horizontal control layer that is re-used across a multitude of different services. Modern Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) provide a Service Creation Environment that allow fast development of new services by re-using existing service enablers. |
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The Seamless Multimedia Adaptation research at NEC Heidelberg
has provided new adaptive streaming solutions for audio and video information,
taking into account user preferences, network traffic load monitoring, and
local resource usage.
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This project concentrated on providing an advanced Enterprise SIP Server solution. A basic SIP Server was extended with advanced functions for Quality of service provisioning for SIP-signaled calls, Call Detail Record generation, Access Restriction enforcing, Least Cost Routing, and Firewall control through a MIDCOM protocol.
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| SPICE > | |
SPICE (Service Platform for Innovative Communication Environment) was an Integrated Project within the 6th Framework Program of the European Commission and lasted from January 2006 until July 2008. It addressed the problem of designing, developing and putting into operation efficient and innovative mobile Service creation / execution platforms for networks beyond 3G. The project investigated, prototyped and evaluated an extendable overlay architecture and framework to support, easy and quick creation, test and deployment of intelligent mobile communication and information services. Building on significant advances in IT technologies, the SPICE platform supports multiple heterogeneous execution platforms allowing for new, innovative services to be spread across different operator domains and over different countries, realizing a variety of business models.
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| SWIFT > | |
SWIFT (Secure Widespread Identities for Federated Telecommunications) is
a European Union funded project of the 7th Framework Programme. The
project leverages identity technology as a key to integrate service and
transport infrastructures for the benefit of users and the providers. It
focuses on extending identity functions and federation to the network
while addressing usability and privacy concerns.
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| UbiSec&Sens > | |
UbiSec&Sens project investigated Vehicular, Agriculture, Homeland Security scenarios for wireless sensor networks, where each of them differed on issues, such as scalability, security and reliability, self-healing and robustness. The achieved goal was a successful roll-out and a clearer understanding of the real-world requirements (and limitations) towards the Security Strategy endorsed by the European Council. UbiSec&Sens provided significant input to the field of security and communication research for the European Commission comprehensive program after 2007. |
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