The EFIPSANS project aims at exposing the features in IP version six protocols that can be exploited or extended for the purposes of designing or building autonomic networks and services.
In this project, a study of the emerging research areas that target desirable user behaviours, terminal behaviours, service mobility, e-mobility, context-aware communications, self-aware, autonomic communication/computing/networking will be carried out. Desirable autonomic(self-*) behaviours in diverse environments (e.g. end systems, access networks, wireless and fixed network environments) will be captured and specified.
Appropriate IPv6 protocol or architectural extensions that enable the implementation of the captured desirable autonomic behaviours will be sought and specified. A selected set of the specified autonomic behaviours will be implemented and demonstrated. Also, technical reports on the concrete IPv6 feature combination scenarios including any new extensions used to implement the selected set of autonomic behaviours will be presented. The vision is that, the specified autonomic behaviour specifications, the identified exploitable IPv6 features and new protocol and architectural extensions will one day be standardised in the long run (after the first 3 years of EFIPSANS) i.e. maturing from being drafts to standards.
The project website is located at http://efipsans.org/
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