DAIDALOS: Designing advanced interfaces for the delivery and administration of location independent optimised personal services

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 03.0141

Key words (English)

Mobility; service personalization; IPv6 infrastructure; signalling

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: 506997

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 6. Frame Research Programme - 1.2 Communications technologies

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
ETH Zürich
Departement für Informationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik
Institut für Technische Informatik und Kommunikationsnetze TIK

Abstract (English)

Mobility has become a central aspect of the lives of European citizens -in business, education, and leisure. Due to rapid technological and societal changes, there has been a bewildering proliferation of technologies and services for mobile users. This has created a complex and confusing communications environment for both users and network operators. Further development of existing technologies, and the addition of new ones in Beyond 3G (B3G) systems, will necessitate a rethinking of fundamental technological issues in order to create user-centred and manageable communication infrastructures for the future. The vision of Daidalos is of a world in which mobile users can enjoy a diverse range of personalized services - seamlessly supported by the underlying technology and transparently provided through a pervasive interface; mobility has been fully established through open, scalable and seamless integration of a complementary range of heterogeneous network technologies; network and service operators are able to develop new business activities and provide profitable services in such an integrated mobile world.
The objective of Daidalos is to develop and demonstrate an open architecture based on a common network protocol (IPv6), that becomes a significant step towards approaching the Daidalos vision. The overall Daidalos objectives are to design, prototype and validate the necessary infrastructure and components for efficient distribution of services over diverse network technologies beyond 3G, to 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, and to demonstrate the results of the work through strong focus on user-centered and scenario-based development of technology.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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