Partnerships

Akogrimo is a project funded by the EC under the FP6-IST programme. The project runs from July 2004 until September 2007. The project team comprises 16 European partners. The vision of Akogrimo is a world in which pervasive Grid services meet the needs of fixed, nomadic and mobile citizens, comprising personalized knowledge and semantics.

Cooperation: The collaboration between Akogrimo and Daidalos so far covered joint demonstrations at several events (6-10 Jun 2005 - Global IPv6 Summit in Barcelona/Spain, 15-17 Nov 2006 - Wireless World Research Forum Meeting 17 in Heidelberg/Germany, 21-23 Nov 2006 - IST event 2006 in Helsinki/Finland).

Website: www.akogrimo.org
Akogrimo contact: Dr. Antonio Sánchez Esguevillas, Telefónica I+D
Daidalos contact: Juergen Jaehnert

Car2Car Communication Consortium (C2C CC)

The Car2Car Communication Consortium is a non-profit organisation initiated by European vehicle manufacturers, which is open for suppliers, research organisations and other partners. The Car2Car Communication Consortium is dedicated to the objective of further increasing road traffic safety and efficiency by means of inter-vehicle communications.
The Consortium considers mainly three application areas:

• advanced driver assistance: increasing road safety by reducing the number of accidents as well as reducing the impact in case of non-avoidable accidents
• decentralised floating car data: improving local traffic flow and efficiency of road traffic
• user communications and information services: offering comfort and business applications to driver and passengers.

The first contacts with the C2C CC, mainly with the application group, where the Daidalos scenarios and scenes and the C2C areas have been presented and discussed, showed significant overlap as well as complementary elements in the scenarios envisaged. The two consortia have started to further elaborate both aspects: alternative architectural approaches for services and application (e.g. as fallback) and combining complementary services and application in a user friendly way.

Website: www.car-to-car.org
Car2Car contact: Rudolf Mietzner, Softlab GmbH, Munich
Daidalos contact: Hans-Werner Bitzer

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

ENABLE will concentrate on 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, autoconfiguration, interworking with IPv4, coexistence with IPv6 middle-boxes (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., multihoming, QoS, fast handovers) based on the operator policies and customer's profiles.
• Analysis of goals and design principles for the evolution beyond Mobile IPv6 in the long term. This activity will investigate scalability and performance issues that Mobile IPv6 might raise when the vast majority of Internet nodes will become mobile, introducing the requirements for a highly efficient treatment of traffics generated on the move. Moreover, the 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 and Daidalos are cooperating in the organisation of events and the exchange of information.

Website: www.ist-enable.org
ENABLE contact: Ivano Guardini, Telecom Italia Lab
Daidalos contact: Antonio Skarmeta

ICT Security and Dependability Taskforce

Daidalos has been an active participant in the EU Security and Dependability Task force set up by the SecurIST project. Within this work, Daidalos has contributed to the Mobile and Wireless Security Initiative (WSI) and the Identity and Privacy initiative (IPI), two working groups elaborating the issues and challenges in trust, security and dependability for FP7.
In addition, Daidalos participated in the Joint Workshop on Mobile and Wireless and Security and Dependability communities held in May 2006.
Further information on the workshop

Website: www.securitytaskforce.org
Security Taskforce contact: Jim Clarke, TSSG
Daidalos contact:

IPsphere Forum

The IPsphere Forum’s mission is to deliver an enhanced commercial framework - or business layer - for IP services that preserves the fundamental ubiquity of the Internet’s technical framework and is also capable of supporting a full range of business relationships so that participants have true flexibility in how they add value to upstream service outcomes.

The IPsphere Forum is an international leadership community comprised of members from key sectors of the telecommunications and IT industries. The Forum will set the priorities for, and oversee the progress of, working groups involved with the development and definition of new technologies that will enable IPspheres to be successfully architected and implemented.

Website: http://www.ipsphereforum.org
IPsphere Forum: info@ipsphereforum.org
Daidalos contact: Hans Einsiedler

ITU-T Study Group 17
Security, languages and telecommunication software

ITU-T SG17 is responsible for studies relating to security, the application of open system communications including networking and directory, and for technical languages, the method for their usage and other issues related to the software aspects of telecommunication systems.

Website: www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17
ITU-T contact: tsbsg17@itu.int
Daidalos contact: Amardeo Sarma

PRIME - Privacy and Identity Management for Europe

PRIME aims to develop a working prototype of a privacy-enhancing Identity Management System. To foster market adoption, novel solutions for managing identities will be demonstrated in challenging real-world scenarios, e.g., from Internet Communication, Airline and Airport Passenger Processes, Location-Based Services and Collaborative e-Learning.

PRIME is primarily a research project. The work on prototype development is a means to validate its new scientific and research results.

Prime and Daidalos II collaborate in order to perform an external security audit in Daidalos II.

Website: www.prime-project.eu
PRIME contact: Eric Goderniaux, IBM Business Consulting Services
Daidalos contact: Christian Hauser

UbiSec&Sens
Ubiquitous Sensing and Security in the European Homeland

UbiSec&Sens is a Specific Target Research Project (STReP) in the thematic priority 'Towards a global dependability and security framework' of the EU Framework Programme 6 for Research and Development. 8 partners from industry and academia are involved in the project. The project started in January 2006 and has a duration of 3 years.

Cooperation: Daidalos and UbiSec&Sens are aiming at a joined wireless sensor network demonstrator for vehicular applications feeding road status information into the Daidalos service platform.

Website: www.ist-ubisecsens.org
UbiSec&Sens contact: Uwe Herzog, Eurescom
Daidalos contact: Adam Kapovits, Eurescom

WWRF -
Wireless World Research Forum

The Forum is a global organisation, which was founded in August 2001. Members of the Forum are manufacturers, network operators/service providers, R&D centres, universities as well as small and medium enterprises

The Forum will identify and scope research issues relevant to future mobile and wireless communications, including pre-regulatory impact assessments.

The Forum provides a global platform for discussion of results and the exchange of views to initiate global cooperation towards systems beyond 3G.

Daidalos is making contributions to the WWRF and cooperating with the WWRF in the event.

Website: www.wireless-world-research.org
WWRF contact: Dr. Vinod Kumar, Alcatel-Lucent
Daidalos contact: Amardeo Sarma