1. Ambient Networks Phase 2 Concept, goals, and status
Martin Johnsson, Ericsson Research Ambient Networks, Work Package Leader, Technical Coordination & Business Models
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2. Network Challenges in the Wireless World
Activate the networks surrounding the user!
Create a secure and comfortable wireless world for the users
Empower the players for competition and co-operation
Support for heterogeneous air-interface and service technologies
Seamless services
Ease the service provider role
Modular and scalable functionality
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3. Requirements posed on Ambient Networks
Heterogeneous Networks Support
Mobility
Composition
Security and Privacy
Backward Compatibility and Migration
Network Robustness and Fault Tolerance
Quality of Service Support
Multi-Domain Support
Accountability
Context Communications
Extensibility of the Network Services Provided
Application Innovation and Usability
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4. The Ambient Networks Idea
Common Control Services
Networks at the edge
Auto-configuration
Scalability
Services
Corporat
Ambient Control Space
Ambient Connectivity
Corporate
Fixed
WLAN
LTE 3G
2.5G
PAN
Personal
VAN
Vehicular
HAN
Home
CAN
Community
Ambient Control Space is the functionality that is required to establish, maintain and release connections, previously popularly called “call control”
Connectivity is the functionality related to the transport of user data
Services will be supported by APIs from the Ambient control space as well from the Connectivity.
Ambient control space and Connectivity are separated and are manifested in different dimensions. The reason for the separation is to increase the flexibility of the overall network
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5. The Ambient Control Space
Multi-Operator Interfaces
Separating Implementation and Business
Ambient Connectivity
Ambient Network Interface
Ambient Service Interface
Ambient Resource Interface
Ambient Control Space
Flow Mgmt. & MRRM
Mobility Mgmt.
Bearer & Overlay Mgmt.
Trigger & Context Mgmt.
Network Mgmt.
Connectivity
Mgmt./ GLL
INQA & SLA
Mgmt.
Composition
Security Domain
Mgmt
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6. Project status, future work
AN Phase 2 has now entered into the concluding period
Finalize ongoing technical activities
Improve overall on quality, consistency, and coherency, throughout the project
Start drafting final report towards EU
Final improvements on prototype for demonstration at WWI workshop in November
Next step for Ericsson is to be part of the 4WARD consortium
A clean slate approach targeting ’Future Internet’
Start next year, and will run for 2 years
Some ~35-40 partners (UNI:s, institutes, vendors, operators)
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