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The 6WINIT project will validate the introduction of the NEW MOBILE WIRELES INTERNET in Europe - based on a combination of new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and wireless protocols (GPRS and UMTS/3GPP). This offering will solve current problems of the scarcity in the IP and wireless world of the following: IP addresses, quality of service and security from the IP side and lack of spectrum and bandwidth from the wireless side.
The project will set up and validate one of the first operational IPv6-3G Mobile Internet initiatives, with customers having native IPv6 access points and native IPv6 services in a 3G environment. The project will concentrate on mobile and wireless aspects of the system. It will link into existing IPv6 wired infrastructures, using mainly existing applications for the validation, with emphasis on the clinical and M-Commerce domains. In most cases the applications themselves will not be developed inside the project.

Objectives:
The principal objectives of the 6WINIT project are the following:
To validate the introduction of the NEW MOBILE WIRELESS INTERNET in Europe- based on a combination of the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and the new wireless protocols (GPRS and UMTS/3GPP);
Tovalidate the integration of the protocol suites in (1) into real applications by running complete application testbeds;
To ensure that the implementations of (1) are generic, and not specific to a particular supplier or operator;
To ensure that the validation applications of (2) are not too tied to specific choice of applications;
To ensure that the international perspective is maintained.
We aim choose as applications some generic, but important ones. In addition we wish to consider a specific domain in depth for some applications testbeds, and have settled on the clinical domain.
We intend to avoid being tied to specific operators or suppliers, by ensuring that our applications work with different networks. Moreover, by including international partners from Eastern Asia and North America, we hope to avoid being too insular in our approach, and to be considering the international dimension.

Work description:
In this project, our primary focus will be on application areas where wireless access is important. We will establish IPv6 Testbeds, which will allow us to:
Define operational procedures for IPv6-2-3G networks, for IPv4 - IPv6 network and application integration;
Establish mechanisms to aid in the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 working;
Investigate the problems in providing a Trans-European operational IPv6-2-3G mobile wireless packet delivery service;
Provide a set of applications and services including: Medical, 3G IPv6 telephony and multimedia wireless services;
Promote early IPv6-3G- ready application testing and deployment;
Implement Access Devices (3G handsets) and edge devices in the network components that allow such services;
Provide a testbed environment, so that applications from other Framework or National programmes can be deployed experimentally and evaluated in a widely distributed environment;
Provide feed back on our results to Standards bodies in the Internet, Wireless and Healthcare communities.
We will set up a true systems project, in which all the above can be investigated - though we will obtain as many components as possible from other projects, and to use basic communication networks established from other sources.
We would also expect the testbed to be available to others projects also.
We will be using as generic applications the following: the Road Warrior, multimedia services, streaming media services, wireless connectivity to a weather station, and mobile e-commerce.
We will be using as clinical testbeds four hospital sites in Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. The clinical applications include: mobile access to patient information, tele-consultation of vital data from ambulances, mobile care for patients in the community after surgery, and clinical education.

Milestones:
M6 - The IPv6 components available from outside sources are known. Applications will be decided, and needed modifications known. Early wireless networks for the research partners will be available.
M12 - The 6WINIT network will include Wireless LANs and GPRS in most trial sites. Interconnection of first wireless systems with wired IPv6 infrastructure completed, and versions of applications deployed.
M18 - Applications validation experiments will be advanced with wireless LANs, GPRS and real users.
M24 - Application validation will be complete with some UMTS trials.
he basic network components used in the project were a combination of new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and wireless networks (GPRS, UMTS and WLAN). The project provided an insight into the problems in deploying real applications in the emerging IPv6-enabled wireless-enabled Internet; WLAN, GPRS and a UMTS test cell were used as wireless networks. We carried through complete systems pilots, and identified what components are inadequate in the applications, network facilities, major components and middleware. The project concentrated on mobile and wireless aspects of the system, but it also linked into the existing IPv6 wired infrastructures provided under the 6NET and Euro6IX projects. The technical approach was to take applications from other activities, which were expected to gain from the mobile IPv6 environment.

These applications, which were mainly selected from the clinical health care, multimedia conferencing and streaming, in- and outdoor navigation and home control domains, were ported to work over IPv6. This way we ensured that all the requisite technology was available to allow them to work in a wireless-enabled IPv6 environment. Consequently we were also working on IPv6 enabled components: routers, relays, hand-helds, IPv4 to IPv6 transition mechanisms and other software components required by the applications. Because of the limited capability of the GPRS network, some of the traffic had to be run, in that case, in IPv6/IPv4 encapsulation. We considered also the mechanisms that might be used for transitioning from the IPv4 to the IPv6 world.

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