Ambient Networks

Norbert Niebert is Department Manager, Ericsson Research, Germany.  As a company, Ericsson AB is the project coordinator partner for the Ambient Networks project, and Norbert is the Technical Manager. He has co-authored numerous conference and journal papers on the subject.

• Acknowledgements ix1 Introduction 11.1 The Current Communications Environment 11.2 The Ambient Networking Concept 41.3 The Ambient Networks Project 41.4 How to Read This Book 51.5 Outlook 62 Ambient Networks – The Consequence of Convergence 72.1 Convergence Leading Towards Ambient Networks 72.2 Realization of Convergence 82.3 Converged All-IP Networks 92.4 Network Convergence with the IP Multimedia Subsystem 122.5 Towards Ambient Networks 182.6 Motivation for a New Approach 192.7 Architectural Requirements for Ambient Networks 212.8 Summary 263 The Business Environment for Ambient Networks 273.1 Business Drivers and Benefi ts 273.2 Business Actors 303.3 The AN Business Proposition: The Value Network 333.4 Financial Aspects 373.5 Network Composition – Business View 383.6 Migration Aspects 403.7 Summary 424 Architecture and Components 434.1 Introduction 434.2 The Ambient Network Approach 444.3 The Ambient Control Space Concept 464.4 The Ambient Layer Model 534.5 Summary 645 Security in Ambient Networks 655.1 Introduction 655.2 Security Problem Space in Ambient Networks 675.3 Security Architecture 705.4 Key Problems and Solutions 795.5 Conclusion, Outlook and Further Work 926 Network Composition 936.1 Introduction and Motivation 936.2 Composition Procedures 946.3 Definition of Composition Types 976.4 Conclusions 1057 GANS – Generic Ambient Networks Signalling 1077.1 Introduction 1077.2 State of the Art 1107.3 Protocol Architecture 1147.4 GANS Transport Layer Protocol 1167.5 QoS Signalling Application 1187.6 Conclusions 1248 Multi-Radio Access 1258.1 Introduction 1258.2 Multi Radio Access – Problems and State of the Art 1288.3 The AN Multi-Radio Access Architecture 1338.4 Access Selection 1388.5 Challenging Multi-Radio Access Networking Scenarios 1468.6 Deployment Cost Savings 1518.7 Migration Issues 1548.8 Conclusion, Outlook and Further Work 1549 Ambient Networks Mobility Management 1579.1 Background and Motivation 1579.2 The Framework for Mobility Management 1599.3 Functional Entities 1669.4 Trigger Mechanisms 16910 Overlay Networks for Media Delivery 17710.1 Introduction 17710.2 Why Media Delivery Support in the Network Infrastructure? 17810.3 Media Delivery Architecture 18110.4 Concept Evaluation and Demonstration 19610.5 Conclusion, Outlook and Further Work 20111 ContextWare – Context Awareness in Ambient Networks 20311.1 Introduction 20311.2 Network Context Awareness 20411.3 Context Awareness in Ambient Networks 20611.4 Ambient Networks ContextWare: Architecture and System Design 21111.5 ContextWare Prototypes 22311.6 Conclusions 23012 Towards Ambient Networks Management 23112.1 Introduction 23112.2 Ambient Networks Management Challenges 23412.3 Ambient Networks Management Approaches 23512.4 Conclusions 255References 261Abbreviations 269Index 273

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