This document discusses standardization aspects of the ULOOP project, which aims to develop a user-centric wireless local loop network. It outlines ULOOP's work related to standardization bodies like IETF, IEEE, 3GPP on topics like trust management, resource management, mobility, and software architecture. Some challenges to standardization are the project timeline, standardization body cycles, and implications of intellectual property rights. The document suggests statistics on other projects, brokerage events, and liaison contacts to help address these challenges.

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ULOOP: Standardization Aspects
Rute Sofia (rute.sofia@ulusofona.pt)
SITI/University Lusófona
EU IST FP7 ULOOP: User-centric Wireless Local Loop
http://uloop.eu

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Motivation
Wi-Fi as the de-facto Internet access technology
 Final hop to the user
User-centric wireless architectures on the rise
 Low-cost, Sharing due to incentives
New opportunities for Internet stakeholders
 New business models
New opportunities for the end-user
 Wider roaming, socially-driven services
Project Details
 STREP, FP7 call 5, objective 1.1.1
 Duration: September 2010-August 2013
 Keywords: Dynamic spectrum management;
cooperative networking; low-cost wireless
architectures; user-centric; trust management;
cooperation incentives
Overview
ULOOP
Node
Resource
Management
Trust
Management
and
Cooperation
Incentives
Mobility
Aspects
Interoperability
Aspects

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Standardization in ULOOP
Trust Mgt
• IETF HOKEY – authentication aspects (status: monitoring)
• IRTF HIPRG - virtual identification (status: working contribution)
Resource
Mgt
• IEEE 802.11 – dynamic spectrum allocation (status: working contribution)
Mobility
Aspects
• IETF DMM – distributed mobility management aspects (status: monitoring)
• IETF MEXT – mobility management solutions (status: working contribution)
• 3GPP ANDSF – interoperability aspects (status: monitoring)
Software
architectu
ral design
• IETF JSON - embedded architecture implications, zeroconf – best practices
(status: monitoring)

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Standardization Concerns
• ULOOP overall specification achieved in M18
• First demo expected on month 25
• Results to be taken to standardization require
specification
Timeliness of results
• IETF /IRTF as the most accessible entities
• IEEE requires a long standardizatio n cycle
• Current access partners in ULOOP are not focused
on resource management
Standardization bodies
cycles
• ULOOP is currently drafting IPRs
• Implications on the timeline to open results
IPRs

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Aspects that May Help
• Where were other ICT projects successful?
• How long was the cycle to provide such results?
• Which partners worked towards the definition of
results
• Which timeframe is reasonable to consider from na
EU ICT project perspective?
Statistics concerning other
projects/activities
• Regular workshops, events, etc to discuss potential
standardization
• Invite main representants of relevant bodies (e.g.
3GPP, relevant groups; IEEE; IETF) to the event
Brokerage events
• Provide project consortiums with specific liaison
contacts to assist in assessing relevancy and maturity
of results
Specific ICT Liaison
contacts for standardization

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Project ULOOP
User-centric Wireless Local Loop
FP7/2007-2013
Project ULOOP has received funding from the
EU IST Seventh Framework Programme
under grant agreement no. 257418
Participants
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, (FR)
COFAC c.r.l./University Lusófona (PT)
Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH (DE)
ARIA S.p.A (IT)
Caixa Mágica Software Lda (PT)
FON Wireless Ltd (UK)
Technische Universität Berlin (DE)
University of Kent (UK)
Université de Genève (CH)
Level7 srlu (IT)
University of Urbino (IT)
Contact
info@uloop.eu
http://www.uloop.eu/
FP7 ULOOP Project group on LinkedIn
#uloopproject on Twitter