Telematics Group - ENABLE (in Projects)

ENABLE

Staff: Xiaoming Fu, Dieter Hogrefe, Ingo Juchem, Fang-Chun Kuo, Deguang Le, Jun Lei, Niklas Steinleitner, Xiaodong Yang
Project Partners: Telecom Italia, Consulintel, Siemens, IABG, Brunel U., Huawei, U. Murcia, Waterford Institute of Technology

EU FP6 IST funded Specific Targeted Research Project. The goal of ENABLE is to research, develop, test, integrate and evaluate mechanisms and technologies for the deployment of efficient and operational mobility as a service in large scale IPv6 network environments, taking into account also the transition scenario from IPv4.

ENABLE - Enabling efficient and operational mobility and large heterogeneous IP networks

The goal of ENABLE is to research, develop, test, integrate and evaluate mechanisms and technologies for the deployment of efficient and operational mobility as a service in large scale IPv6 network environments, taking into account also the transition scenario from IPv4.

ENABLE will concentrate in the following main areas of work:

enhancement of Mobile IPv6 to enable, in the medium term, the offering of transparent terminal mobility in large operational networks including multiple administrative domains, heterogeneous access technologies and a rapidly growing number of users. This activity will address outstanding Mobile IPv6 issues like service authorization and bootstrapping, interworking with IPv4, coexistence with IPv6 middleboxes (e.g., firewalls) and protocol reliability;
enrichment of the basic mobility service provided by Mobile IPv6 with a set of additional features, enabling the on-demand activation and autoconfiguration of specific ?premium? network features (e.g., multi-homing, QoS, fast handovers) based on the operator policies and customers profiles;
analysis of goals and design principles for the evolution beyond Mobile IPv6 in the long term. This activity will investigate on scalability and performance issues that Mobile IPv6 might raise when the vast majority of Internet nodes will become mobile, introducing the requirement for a highly efficient treatment of traffic generated on the move. Moreover, promising, but not yet fully understood, mobility management alternatives (e.g., Host Identity Protocol) will be assessed, with the objective to identify possible strategies for their smooth deployment starting from an architecture based on Mobile IPv6.

ENABLE will operate in close relation with IETF, IRTF and other relevant standardization fora (e.g., 3GPP), in order to ensure that the solutions developed by the project are in line with the architectural principles devised by the Internet community and can get possibly standardized.

Our team comprises:

In ENABLE we are leading:

WP2: Making Mobile IPv6 environment friendly
A2.1: Firewall traversal
A5.2: Architectural impacts and smooth deployment

We are responsible editor for the following deliverables:

D2.1.1: Initial results on middlebox traversal
D2.1.2: Final results on middlebox traversal
D5.2: Final evaluation of the state of the art mobile IPv6 alternative, analysis of architectural impacts and description of possible deployment strategies

In addition, we are also contributor to the following activities and corresponding deliverables:

WP0: Project management

D0.1 Final project report

WP1: Operational Mobile IPv6 architecture

A1.1 Requirements and scenarios
A1.2 Architecture
D1.1 Requirements, operational scenarios and initial architecture
D1.3 Final operational architecture

WP4: Enabling advanced mobility features

A4.2 Advanced network services
A4.3 Mobility optimizations
D4.2 Service authorization and control for QoS and multihoming
D4.3 Service authorization and control for fast/smart handover

WP5: Emerging mobility approaches

A5.1 Technology assessment
D5.1 Initial evaluation of state of the art Mobile IPv6 alternatives

WP6: Integration and validation

A6.1 Case study
A6.2 Prototyping
A6.3 Network integration and trials
A6.4 Validation and verification
D6.1 Report on case studies and initial prototypes
D6.2 Report on final prototypes, network integration and validation

WP7: Dissemination, clustering/liaison and standardization

A7.1 Dissemination
A7.2 Clustering and liaison
A7.3 Standardization
A7.4 Exploitation
D7.1 Project presentation
D7.2 Plan for using and dissemination knowledge
D7.3 Report on raising public participation and awareness

Contribution to standards:

T. Sanda, X. Fu, S. Jeong, J. Manner, and H. Tschofenig, Applicability Statement of NSIS Protocols in Mobile Environments, Internet draft (draft-ietf-nsis-applicability-mobility-signaling-06.txt), Internet Engineering Task Force, March 2007
S. Thiruvengadam, H. Tschofenig, F. Le, N. Steinleitner, and X. Fu, Mobile IPv6 - NSIS Interaction for Firewall Traversal, Internet draft (draft-thiruvengadam-nsis-mip6-fw-06.txt), Internet Engineering Task Force, March 2007
X. Fu, J. Loughney, and H. Peters, Context Transfer Using GIST, Internet Engineering Task Force, March 2006

Upcoming conferences related to ENABLE:

IEEE Global Internet 2007: submission deadline: 05.02.07, conference: May 11-12, 2007, Anchorage, AK, USA (at INFOCOM'07).
ACM MOBICOM 2007: submission deadline: 02.03.2007, conference: Sept 9-14, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
ACM SIGCOMM 2007: submission deadline: 31.01.07, conference: August 27-31, 2007, Kyoto, Japan
ACM MobiArch 2007: submission deadline: 27.03.07, conference: August 27, 2007, Kyoto, Japan (at SIGCOMM'07)
ACM/IEEE Mobiquitous 2007: submission deadline: 20.03.2007, conference: August 6-10, Philadelphia, PA, USA
IEEE GLOBECOM 2007: submission deadline: 15.03.2007, conference: Nov 26-30, 2007, Washington DC, USA
IEEE ICC 2008: May 19-23, 2008, Beijing, China
IEEE INFOCOM 2008: Apr 13-19, 2008, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
IEEE WCNC 2008: Mar 30-Apr 3, 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Journals related to ENABLE:

References

Publications of this project:

2007

E2T: End-to-End Tunnelling Extension to Mobile IPv6, Xiaoming Fu, Dieter Hogrefe, Deguang Le, and Xiaoyuan Gu, in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, IEEE Communications Society, January 2007.
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2006

A Review of Mobility Support Paradigms for the Internet, Xiaoming Fu, Dieter Hogrefe, Deguang Le, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Volume 8, No. 1, First Quarter, pages 38-51, IEEE, ISSN 1553-877X, 2006.
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2005

Enabling Mobile IPv6 in Operational Environments, Xiaoming Fu, Hannes Tschofenig, Srinath Thiruvengadam, and Wenbing Yao, in: Pascal Lorenz (ed), Proceedings of the 10th IFIP International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC 2005), Colmar, France, pp. 365-372, Imperial College Press, ISBN 1-86094-582-1, August 2005.
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A Review of Mobility Support Paradigms for the Internet, Xiaoming Fu, Dieter Hogrefe, Deguang Le, Technical Report No. IFI-TB-2005-01, Institute for Informatics, University of Göttingen, ISSN 1611-1044, January 2005.
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