Last update: 9 September 2001
Mobility in a future Internet
Panel Chair: Burkhard Stiller, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland
Summary of Discussion: With the transmission capabilities of todays wireless networking technology the delivery of services to a mobile user becomes an important business model. Although a number of basic principles for supporting mobility in the Internet have been designed and many specific issues have been investigated, it remains an unsolved issue, how an overall service architecture, the Quality-of-Service support, and essential mobility aspects can be integrated efficiently. In particular, the transition from 2nd to 3rd generation mobile systems challenges IP service provision as well as the management of these services.
Therefore, the panel will present briefly, discuss broadly, and may be able to provide ideas and migration pathes for future developments and necessities on mobility in the Internet of tomorrow.
Panel issues, questions, and topics of interest will include:
- What are the protocols going to look like?
- What is the role of ad-hoc networks?
- Which mechanisms provide QoS guarantees for emerging mobile applications?
- How do handovers must perform to be of any use for audio and data?
- What is the role of AAA/AAAArch for mobility?
- How about end-to-end resource availability
- How about security concerns in mobile scenarios?
- Which trends are glooming at the horizon?
Panelists:
- Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, U.S.A.
- Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
- Karl Jonas, FhG FOKUS and Univ. Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany
- Lev Kacnelson, Adrecom, U.S.A.
- Charles E. Perkins, Nokia Research Center, U.S.A.
For further information, please contact the panel chair at stiller@tik.ee.ethz.ch.