Project Structure

The project is organised around three technical workpackages, each dedicated to one of the three major technical areas:

• Reachability mechanisms
• Resource control
• Social and commercial control

Reachability

The focus of this work package is on creating flexible and change-proof internetworking functions that provide and manage transparent reachability in a scalable fashion. These functions build communication paths between nodes that address the requirements and extremes of the future Internet while giving different stakeholders the ability to control reachability and transparency on-demand.
Members of this work package are experts on inter-domain routing, policy routing and traffic engineering.

Resource control

The focus of this work package is a unified approach to resource control that is efficient, fair and incentive-compatible. Fairness is defined in economic terms, and the resource control framework encompasses the correct incentive structure to penalise users that behave grossly unfairly. The work package also investigates which resources need controlling throughout the system and creates integrated and flexible resource allocation models.
Members of this work package are experts in congestion control, resource scheduling, control theory, queuing algorithms and the economics of resource control.

Social and commercial control

This work package articulates the principles that drive the technical work in the other two technical workpackages. It analyses and communicates the strategic socio-economic and commercial factors that influence the interplay between the technical internetworking functions, in order to architect an integrated solution that is designed for change. It also assesses whether the objectives are indeed being achieved, both internally, using the project’s own economic, business and public policy expertise and externally, through working collaborations with parallel independent industry initiatives linked to the Trilogy project.
Members of this work package are experts in business strategy, economics and future commercial environments.