MobiArch^?'06 Worskhop Panel

Details about the workshop can be found at: http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~mobiarch/ The workshop agenda can be found here: http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~mobiarch/MobiArch06_Program.pdf

Panel Title: Mobility for the Internet - Closing the Gap between Research and Deployment

The IETF has started working on IP-based mobility protocols very early and made significant accomplishments in the past 10 years. The work has heavily been influenced by the research community with deployment considerations impacting the work only recently. Even though one might imagine that everything has already been solved over such a long period interest in mobility work has received more attention in the past few years. For example, the 3GPP started their work on network layer mobility (with the System Architecture Evolution - SAE), the WiMax^? forum developed a mobility architecture on top of IEEE 802.16e (based [Proxy] Mobile IP), governmental funded research projects investigating future Internet architectures and the rise of municipal broadband networks provided mobility support. With VoIP^? hitting the mainstream market micro-mobility also gained more importance due to the tight real-time requirements.

It became clear that the work on mobility research and standardization is not yet finalized. What needs to be done to see major deployment of mobility protocols in the Internet? The panel members will discuss the remaining challenges for deployment and open issues that need to be solved by the research/standardization community.

Panel Participants

-- HannesTschofenig - 28 Nov 2006