Studies to provide an end-to-end IP solution for a Mobile Extranet

The European MOEBIUS project (Mobile Extranet Based Integrated User Services) is developing a platform for remote access to intranet services using mobile access technology and investigating its performance characteristics to demonstrate the advantages for health care, business and residential applications. This paper focuses on the studies that are being done in MOEBIUS on two particular items: (i) the applicability of the transport control protocol (TCP) used in Internet in a wireless environment and (ii) the provisioning of an end-to-end IP solution with the use of Cellular IP for micro-mobility.