Objective High performance networking with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) is one of the major challenges of the next decade. It mandates very important efforts to provide multimedia and multicast communications to wide area advanced users, because the limited mechanisms of UDP (User Datagram Protocol) and TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) cannot adequately support innovative distributed applications. Furthermore, future architectures will involve heterogeneous networks, as new satellite and terrestrial networks having sophisticated intelligent services. As a consequence, GCAP aims at developing for the future Internet two new end-to-end multicast and multimedia transport protocols, embedded in a new global architecture to provide a guaranteed QoS to advanced Multimedia Multipeer Multi-network applications. In order to rapidly experiment the proposed solutions, an efficient deployment of the communication software will be developed over an industrial IPv6 layer by using a programmable active network based technology.Objectives:The objectives of the project are:- to define and evaluate a new end-to-end multicast transport protocol and a new end-to-end multimedia multicast transport protocol for supporting dedicated or specialised applications having guaranteed QoS requirements;- to define and evaluate a new integrated global multi-network end-to-end architecture for supporting innovative multimedia and cooperative applications needing guaranteed Quality of Service;- to propose a design approach to rapidly deploy and use such new protocols, that will be developed on top of the new QoS architecture based on IPv6 and DiffServ, by means of an active network based technology;- to illustrate the feasibility and evaluate the potential of the advocated approach by conducting two experiments using the national research networks and their European interconnection. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology Programme(s) FP5-IST - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on a "User-friendly information society, 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.2.-4.2.3 - Network integration, interoperability and interworking Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE EU contribution No data Address 3, RUE MICHEL-ANGE 75794 PARIS CEDEX 16 France See on map Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all 6WIND France EU contribution No data Address 1 PLACE CHARLES DE GAULLE, IMMEUBLE CENTRAL GARE 78180 MONTIGNY LE BRETONNEUX See on map Total cost No data ALCATEL SPACE INDUSTRIES France EU contribution No data Address 5 RUE NOEL PONS 92000 NANTERRE See on map Total cost No data CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE Czechia EU contribution No data Address ZIKOVA 4 166 36 PRAHA 6 See on map Total cost No data ERICSSON TELEBIT A/S Denmark EU contribution No data Address SKANDERBORGVEJ 232 8260 VIBY See on map Total cost No data FRAUNHOFER IAF Germany EU contribution No data Address Tullastr. 72 79108 MÜNCHEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TELEKOM AUSTRIA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Austria EU contribution No data Address Lassallestrasse 9 1020 WIEN See on map Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address BAILRIGG LA1 4YW LANCASTER See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID Spain EU contribution No data Address CALLE MADRID 126 28903 GETAFE (MADRID) See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITE PARIS VI PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE France EU contribution No data Address TOUR CENTRALE 21EME ETAGE - 4 PL JUSSIEU 75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 See on map Total cost No data
