EXPLORATORY WORKSHOP
Is Mobile Ad hoc Networking part of the future of mobile networking in Europe?

Hotel Cinque Terre - Monterosso al Mare - La Spezia (Italy)
10/12 October 2002

12 October 2002 - session 7

M. Conti, MobileMAN - an ad hoc network for the citiziens, Italian National Research Council (CNR) - IIT Institute, Italy

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MobileMAN is a Future Emerging Technology (FET) project funded by the European Commission in the framework of the IST program. http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mobileMAN This project investigates the potentialities of the Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANETÕs) paradigm. Specifically, the project aims to define and develop a metropolitan area, self-organizing, and totally wireless network that we call Mobile Metropolitan Ad hoc Network (MobileMAN). The main technical outputs of this proposal can be summarized as follows. i) Development, validation, implementation and testing of the architecture, and related protocols, for configuring and managing a MobileMAN. The research activities cover all layers in the networking hierarchy and combines advanced communications and networking research with basic research. ii) Physical implementation of this architecture for lowers layers (i.e., wireless technologies). This will be done by improving the existing IEEE 802.11 wireless technologies for dealing in bursty access environments as self-organized networks. iii) Integration of applications on top of our self-organized network. iv) Validation of the self-organizing paradigm from the social and economic standpoint.

R. Kantola, Service Discovery Integrated with Routing in Ad Hoc Networks, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

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Service discovery is an open issue in Ad Hoc networks. Due to the lack of fixed infrastucture in an ad hoc network well known approaches such as the Domain Name System of the Internet will not be applicable as such. Service discovery has to work both in case of reactive as well as proactive routing protocols. In looking for the solution for Service discovery we need to study the applicability of the Service Location Protocol and other similar protocols, the DNS and the possibility of integration of service discovery with routing. http://keskus.hut.fi/tutkimus/projects.shtml#comm

I. Stavrakakis, A. Vaios, The Broadway Project : the way to broadband access at 60GHz, University of Athens, Greece

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Broadway is an Information Society Technologies project. It aims at developing a hybrid dual frequency system based on a tight integration of HIPERLAN/2 OFDM high spectrum efficient technology at 5 GHz and an innovative fully ad hoc extension of it at 60 GHz named HIPERSPOT. This concept extends and complements existing 5 GHz broadband wireless LAN systems in the 60 GHz range in order to provide for a new solution to very dense urban deployments and hot spot coverage. This system will support nomadic terminal mobility in conjunction with higher capacity (achieving data rates exceeding 100 Mbps). The main objective is to offload the 5 GHz radio band in dense deployment areas, to exactly focus radio beams and to allow unlicensed and self-organising autonomous operation. Seamless switching between 5 GHz and 60 GHz is supported. Two 60 GHz operation modes are specified yielding 2 device classes: high end (exceeding 100 Mbps) and lower cost. HIPERSPOT is based on HIPERLAN/2 hardware extensions ensuring backward compatibility with 5 GHz WLANs. Five main scenarios of application requiring such extensions of current 5GHz WLAN technologies have been identified. These are the scenarios of vendors' hot spot coverage, public Internet access, high-density residential dwellings and flats deployment, corporate environment and campus environment that have specific functional requirements and physical parameters. The main contribution of Broadway is the research and development of the integrated 5 GHz and 60 GHz QMMIC front end based on hybrid HEMPT technology and the implementation and demonstration of the self-organizing multi hop functionalities. This tight integration between both types of system (5/60 GHz) will result in a wider acceptance and lower cost of both systems through massive silicon reuse. The new radio architecture will inherently provide - by design - backward compatibility with current 5 GHz WLANs (ETSI BRAN HIPERLAN/2) and thus, the innovations coming out of this project will be a driver for standardization and spectrum allocation for the next ETSI BRAN HIPERLAN generations. http://www.ist-broadway.org/