Daidalos is a scenario-driven EU IST 6 th Framework project that will develop a diverse range of personalized services via pervasive interfaces supported seamlessly by the underlying heterogeneous networks with vastly improved mobility management. The networks include ad hoc and moving networks. Having a strong operator focus, particular emphasis is placed on secure solutions that enable charging for existing and new business models, and on the integration of broadcast services and technologies.

The EU IST Integrated Project ENTHRONE develops an integrated management solution for an audio-visual service distribution chain including content generation, protection, distribution across networks and reception at user terminals. Particularly considered technologies include MPEG-21 and Digital Video Broadcast (DVB).

In this project, we utilize widely available routing table data and construct from that data set a shortest path matrix and next hop matrix of the AS-level Internet topology. We make this data set available for download once a month. For the data processing and computations NEC provides a high-performance SX-8 vector computer. Based on those matrices we infer a number of AS-level topology characteristics and observe those over time. We will also publish these results on a regular basis.

The NAPA-WINE project (Network-Aware Peer-to-Peer Application over Wise Network) is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme, aims at: (i) providing a careful analysis of the impact a large deployment of both general P2P-TV and High-Quality P2P services may have on the Internet; (ii) guidelines for P2P-TV developers; and (iii) a road map for Internet service providers (ISPs) to better exploit the network bandwidth by identifying simple and minimum-cost actions that can be taken in the presence of P2P-TV traffic.

OPEN (Open Pervasive Environments for migratory iNteractive Services) is a VII Framework EU STREP project, which aims to develop an environment, which provides people with the ability to continue to perform their tasks when they move about and change their interaction device. The main goal of the OPEN project is to provide a general and open migratory service platform solution which will be able to interoperate with existing technologies by (1) adapting and preserving the state of the software application parts dedicated to interacting with end users; (2) supporting mechanisms for logic reconfiguration and (3) adapting network connections and user interfaces.

PRE-DRIVE C2X prepares field tests for car-to-car and car-to- infrastructure communication, referred to as CAR-2-X communication. As the main objective, the project develops a common European architecture. Based on this architecture, the project (1) develops and verifies prototype communication platforms, (2) prepares test centers and test scenarios, and (3) conduct simulation studies in order to predict the advantageous effect of CAR-2-X communication on road safety and traffic efficiency.

ResumeNet is a EU FP7 project that will investigate fundamentally new architectural approaches to Internet resilience. Resilience is the ability of the network to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of various faults and challenges to normal operation. The approach is green-field and defines the architecture, design, deployment, and operations of an Internet so that resilience emerges as a fundamental property.

In order to realise the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment, heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (WS&AN) have to be integrated into a common framework of global scale and made available to services and applications. This requires appropriate high-level interfaces for accessing context information as well as defining actuation tasks to be executed in the system. To achieve user acceptance for such a system, the consideration of security and privacy aspects has to be an integral part of the system design.

SWIFT (Secure Widespread Identities for Federated Telecommunications) is a European Union funded project of the 7th Framework Programme. The project leverages identity technology as a key to integrate service and transport infrastructures for the benefit of users and the providers. It focuses on extending identity functions and federation to the network while addressing usability and privacy concerns.

The EU IST Integrated Project Ambient Networks develops architecture and components of the network layer of mobile networks beyond 3G. An Ambient Network is a pervasive, reliable communication environment hiding the heterogeneous infrastructures and supporting the ever changing needs of users and services. The main objective is to make the always-best-connected" dream an affordable reality for billions of users. The main technical goals are dynamic network composeability and network affordability.

The EU IST EuroLabs (European Distributed NGN Laboratories) project provides lab facilities for other IST projects for test activities including interop tests and technology exploration and exploitation with a strong focus on IPv6.

The European Commission and the European automotive industry are committed to increase road safety and reduce the number of casualties significantly. The deployment of cooperative communication systems enabling vehicles to communicate with each other and with communication units installed on the roadside will enable vehicles to exchange important information concerning, e.g., road condition, traffic situations, or traffic accidents and will help to achieve this ambitious goal. The underlying technology of these communication systems is based on the widely-spread WLAN systems and specifically tailored for vehicular networks. The GeoNet project has contributed to the development of the communication systems by specifying a geographic addressing and routing protocol with support for IPv6. Also, two fully interoperable reference implementations of this specification have been rendered and may be used by related projects.

iNEM4U (interactive Networked Experiences in Multimedia for You) is a EU FP7 STREP project that aims at researching and developing a networked system that facilitates rich multimedia experiences across technology domains. This project aims at overcoming the limitations of today's multimedia landscape which is characterised by a number of non-interoperable technology domains. The expected results of this project are novel service enablers and new business models for cross-domain multimedia experiences, and an attractive (interactive TV) application that illustrates these innovations.

The EU IST project MobiLife addresses the multi-dimensional diversity in end-user devices, available networks, interaction modes, applications, and services. To deal with this complexity and to reach its strategic goal, the IST MobiLife project researches uses a user-centric approach to examine novell research issues in context-awareness, privacy, trust, adaptation, and semantic interoperability. The usage of these technologies in novel services and applications shall support key scenarios of everyday life. The usability of the MobiLife work is examined with target user in Finland and Italy.

The EU IST MOME (Monitoring and Measurement) Coordination Action has offered a platform for knowledge and tool exchange and for coordination of European research activities in the field of IP monitoring and measurement between EU IST projects and other European partners.

In today's mobile network operator's environment, services are mainly created and installed as independent subsystem ("silo" approach). As a consequence, each new service needs extensive installation and integration effort. One advantage of 3GPP's "IP Multimedia Subsystem" (IMS) is to provide a common, horizontal control layer that is re-used across a multitude of different services. Modern Service Delivery Platforms (SDP) provide a Service Creation Environment that allow fast development of new services by re-using existing service enablers.