EU FP7 STREP

Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
NEC Europe Ltd., UK
Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
Dracotic, Spain
University of Murcia, Spain
IT Aveiro, Portugal
University Stuttgart, Germany
Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium
Portugal Telecom Inovacao SA, Portugal

January 2008 to July 2010

Whereas network infrastructures and services have become ubiquitous, it is still far from easy for a user to gain access to the assets of the digital world. The mobile user most often finds it hard to “connect” to the full range of services and content because he or she does not have the right contract, the right credentials or even device to make the connection.
Now is the time to leverage identity technology as a key to integrate service and transport infrastructures for the benefit of users and the providers, thereby extending identity functions and federation to the network and addressing usability and privacy concerns. The SWIFT goal is to use digital identities as an integration technology; to build a new Identity-driven architecture shaping protocols, business models and use cases centered on identity, privacy and security and empowering the user
to control his data in his devices, operator and services.

NEC's focus is on the overall architecture and conceptual design of this future networks. In particular, the issues of Identity Management integration together with Access Control and privacy in existing network and services architectures (e.g. IMS, 3GPP, etc), adapt mobility protocols to an Identity framework and enhance the system with privacy measures that keep identity information contained and separated between a user's the different personae.

A. Sarma, A. Matos, J. Girao and Rui L. Aguiar: Virtual Identity Framework for Telecom Infrastructures, Elsevier Wireless
Personal Communications, 2008

A. Matos, J. Girao, R. L. Aguiar and F. Armknecht: Dependable Secure Location and Privacy at Link Layer, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2008

J. Girao, A. Matos, S. Sargento and R. L. Aguiar: Preserving privacy in mobile environments with virtual network stacks
In 50th Annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Washington, DC, USA, November 2007. GLOBECOM 2007

Official SWIFT Web Site