COST 290 :: WiQoST Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks

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COST 290 Wi-QoSTTraffic and QoS Management in
Wireless Multimedia Networks

• Yevgeni Koucheryavy
• Tampere University of Technology, FINLAND
• 358 40 771 0619
• yk_at_cs.tut.fi
• http//www.cost290.org

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Outline of the presentation

• History and background
• Objectives
• Organization and Timetable
• Current Activity
• Future

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History

• In accordance to COST 290 website
• COST initiative in Wireless Multimedia Networks
  website became available online on October 7th,
  2002
• January 2003, the first draft of the MoU
  Technical Annex released
• 35 participants from 17 countries contributed
• February 13, 2003, the proposal was presented at
  58th COST-TIST meeting
• oral approval was granted
• June 2003 was announced as expected date for CSO
  approval

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History

• October 21, 2003
• COST initiative was approved by COST-TIST TC
• assigned number is 290
• December 04, 2003
• the COST 290 Action was approved by CSO
• March 10, 2004
• the Action became operational
• budget is assigned
• for 12 countries

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Objectives

• The main objective of the Action is to increase
  the knowledge on future advanced Multiservice
  Wireless Networks (MWNs) and specifically on
  traffic nature and behavior and its impact on
  network architecture, performance and planning.
• Special attention must be given to Quality of
  Service and related aspects in both access
  networks and core networks in the presence of
  mixed multimedia traffic. To accomplish
  this, new analytical tools, software
  implementations and prototypes have to be
  developed and validated.

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Background

• Some roots came out from COST 263
• Quality of Future Internet Services, QofIS, ran
  until November 2003
• contributed to the area of Internet QoS
  architectures, protocols and mechanisms
• and COST 264
• Enabling Networked Multimedia Group
  Communication, ran until September 2002
• contributed to the area of multimedia fixed and
  wireless Internet-based networking
• mixed with new members
• new community

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Relations to exist COST Actions

• 273 and 279
• do relate to the area of traffic engineering and
  QoS control in multimedia-enabled wireless
  networks
• but place special bias on physical layer aspects
  and analytical analysis
• do not concentrate on architectural-technical
  issues and QoS provisioning

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Relations to exist COST Actions

• 285
• focused on computational tools for modeling and
  simulation
• an important complimentary area
• we envisage the possibility of fostering good
  collaboration, particularly in the evolution and
  development of new analytical tools
• 289
• mainly deals with lower layer protocols and
  techniques for adequate capacity and access
  provision

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Timetable

• Started on June 2004, and is scheduled to finish
  on June 2008
• 3 yearly MC meetings
• 1st MTRI, Malta, Gozo, October 2004
• 2nd University Haute Alsace, France, February
  2005
• 3rd Democritos University of Thrace, Greece, May
  2005
• in conjunction with WWIC conference

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Signatories

• 23 countries have signed MoU
• Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus,
  Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
  Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
  Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain,
  Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
• 1 non-EU country participates
• Russia (nomination will be approved by CSO on
  March 2005)
• being signed
• Turkey
• 1 non-EU country expressed interest
• South Korea (ETRI)

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Participating Institutions

• 51 institutions
• 42 Universities
• 4 Research Bodies
• 3 Industry
• 2 Operators
• 82 individuals (subscribed to the mailing list)

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Organization
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Action Management

• Chairman
• Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Institute of Communication
  Engineering, Tampere University of Technology,
  Tampere, FINLAND
• Vice-Chairman
• Giovanni Giambene, Department of Informational
  Engineering, University of Siena, ITALY

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WGs Management

• WG1 Traffic Engineering
• Dr. Dirk Staehle, Department of Distributed
  Systems, Institute of Computer Science,
  University of Wuerzburg, Germany
• WG2 Mobility and Interoperability
• Prof. Francisco Barcelo, Deapartament
  d'Enginyeria Telemàtica, UPC, Spain
• WG3 Network Architecture and Planning
• Prof. Torsten Braun, Institute of Computer
  Science and Applied Mathematics, University of
  Bern, Switzerland
• WG4 Services, regulations, and economic aspects
• Prof. Vasilios Siris, Department of Computer
  Science, University of Crete Institute of
  Computer Science (ICS) Foundation for Research
  and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

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Meetings Participation

• 1st meeting
• 38 participants
• 10 technical documents
• was too busy MC meeting
• 2nd meeting
• 43 participants
• 16 technical documents

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Invited Speakers

• 2nd meeting
• Dr. Andrei Gurtov, Helsinki Institute for
  Information Technology (HIIT), Advanced Research
  Unit, Helsinki, Finland
• Infrastructure support for Host Identity Protocol
• 3rd meeting
• Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz, School of Electrical and
  Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of
  Technology, USA
• TBA

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Conference

• WWIC 2005
• 3rd International Conference on Wired/Wireless
  Internet Communications
• previously held in Boston and Frankfurt (Oder)
• WWIC 2006 will take place in Bern, Switzerland
• WWIC 2007 will take place in Coimbra, Portugal
• Xanthi, May 2005
• co-sponsored by Nokia, Cisco, and others
• collocated with the 3rd MCM
• http//www.wwic2005.org

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Conference Statistics

• Papers submitted
• 120
• Papers accepted
• 36
• Acceptance ratio
• 30
• papers with lowest overall rating accept have
  been accepted
• Fair competition
• 13 papers out of 36 belong to COST 290 community
• 36

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Conference Keynote Speakers

• Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz, School of Electrical and
  Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of
  Technology, USA
• Prof. Michael Smirnov, FOKUS, Germany

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Affiliated Conferences

• 13th IWQoS, Passau, Germany, June 2005
• International Workshop on QoS
• Prof. Hermann De Meer, University of Passau,
  Germany
• 12th ASMTA, Riga, Latvia, June 2005
• International Conference on Analytical and
  Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Applications
• Prof. Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan,
  Wales, UK
• 5th NEW2AN, St.Petersburg, Russia, June 2006
• ITC International Conference on Next Generation
  Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced
  Networking
• Dr. Yevgeni Koucheryavy, TUT, FINLAND

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Liaisons

• COST Programme
• 273, 279, 285, 289
• IST
• NoE E-NEXT, IP B-BONE, IP LIAISON, IP EUQoS, IP
  DIADALOS, NoE Euro-NGI, IP Ambient Networks, NoE
  SatNEx, NoE Kaleidoscope, NoE TARGET, FP5 EMILY,
  MOME IST (Cluster of European Project aimed at
  Monitoring and Measurements)
• ITU
• SG11

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Foreseen Future

• 4th MCM
• October 13-14, 2005
• University of Wuerzburg, Germany
• 5th MCM
• January/February 2006
• TNO Telecom/University of Twente, The Netherlands

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Targets

• Proceed with establishing of the community
• Better structuring
• Better dissemination
• Joint contributions
• papers, reports, etc.
• STSM
• target for the first operational year 2 missions
• nil so far
• target for the second operational year 2-3
  missions
• 1 for sure

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• Thanks for attention!