Project Implementation

PERIMETER develops and implements protocols and a middleware to address requirements for privacy, security, resilience and transparency. The network selection is carried out based upon a parameter called Quality of Experience (QoE). Analysis of QoE parameters allows the evaluation of network connections by user perceivable preferences (i.e. cost, energy efficiency, security, privacy), in addition to parameters such as Quality of Service factors, the application under use and past history for various networks (provided by other PERIMETER users). Network selection is handled automatically by PERIMETER's QoE management system for generic QoE definition, QoE signalling, and QoE based content adaptation thus creating a single-sign-in like experience for PERIMETER users (as illustrated below).

 

 

The architecture of PERIMETER consists of Terminal Nodes and Support Nodes. The PERIMETER Terminal Nodes are installed on mobile devices which are operated by the user - currently mobile phones and netbooks based upon Google's Android platform are supported. The Support Nodes are physical devices that can act as data sources and gateways and are distributedly connected using a peer-to-peer approach both to other PERIMETER Support Nodes and to other PERIMETER Terminal Nodes. The Support Nodes reside in PERIMETER's state of the art federated QoE testbed between Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland and Technical University of Berlin, Germany while the Terminal Nodes are installed on mobile devices which run on the federated testbed infrastructure. The PERIMETER system is supported by a number of identified applications which also run across the federated testbed and support the verification, and experimental analysis, of the user centric scenario based approach adopted in the PERIMETER project.

Project Key Areas

User Centric, Quality of Experience, Context Aware, Seamless Mobility, Testbeds, Testbed Federation, Experimental Research, Testing, Security, Privacy, Android Development, Future Internet.

Project Details

PERIMETER is funded by the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in ICT area on 'New paradigms and experimental facilities'.

The PERIMETER project is part of the FIREWORK Support Action, an initiative for Future Internet Research and Experimentation.

Project Partners

The list of projects partners are:

-         Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

-         Grupo Corporativo GFI Informatica, Spain

-         Traffix Communication Systems Ltd, Israel

-         Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S., Turkey

-         Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, Italy

-         Fachhochschule Vorarlberg GmBh, Austria

-         Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden

-         Universite de Geneve, Switzerland

-         Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo sa Unipersonal, Spain

-         Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Project Dates

Project Start Date: 1 May 2008

Duration: 36 months

Contact Details

TSSG Project Co-ordinator: Eileen Dillon

PERIMETER website: http://www.ict-perimeter.eu/

TSSG PERIMETER blog: http://perimeter.tssg.org