ITEA Easy Wireless project (EW-VTT) Milla Huusko

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Contents Overview of the project consortium Easy Wireless vision and goals Technical background Major results Work structure Work in Finland Joining the project

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Easy Wireless -project EUREKA/ITEA project ITEA is a project clustering organisation funding from each country (TEKES in Finland) 16 partners from 5 countries Total budget 12 Million € In Finland: Nethawk & VTT

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Partners PartnerCountryProfileAcronym Telefonica Investigacion y DesarrolloSpainIndTELE MoviquitySpainSmeMOV University of CantabriaSpainUniUC Carlos III UniversitySpainUniC3U Thales Communication NetherlandsNetherlandsIndTCNL University of TwenteNetherlandsUniUTWE TNO TelecomNetherlandsIndTNO Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications NetherlandsResWMC VTT ElectronicsFinlandResVTT NethawkFinlandSmeNETH TelevicBelgiumSme/IndTEL Interuniversity MicroElectronics CenterBelgiumResIMEC Thales Communication NorwayNorwayIndTCN Applica ASNorwayResAPP Baseline Communications ASNorwaySmeBC University at KjellerNorwayUniUK

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND EASY WIRELESS Allow seamless roaming between wireless networks while maintaining Quality of Service

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Easy Wireless goals Allow service continuity with managed QoS and adaptive service provisioning for mobile users in heterogeneous networking environment Strengthen the European expertise and competence in this area of communications Pave the way for the interoperability of different networks supporting the transitioning to latest communication technologies

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Technical background Different network technologies are converging in Europe and globally New technologies (hotspots, EDGE, 3G) allow higher data rates enabling new services (VoD, peer-to-peer video, videoconferencing, etc) in wireless networks Multimedia services require guaranteed QoS with high bandwidth and low latency User acceptance for new services depends strongly on the user experienced quality of the service. Future services need to be available wirelessly Services need to be trustworthy and easy to use Service provisioning must meet the user expected quality

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Major results of Easy Wireless Open architecture allowing to realise service continuity with managed QoS in heterogeneous network environments Demonstrators showing the feasibility and performance of the proposed architecture and mechanisms Contributions to networking and communications standards Scientific publications Increase interoperability between different technologies and improve QoS capabilities in wireless protocols

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Work structure WP 1 Business model and system requirements WP 2 End-to-end quality of service WP 3 Mobile service continuity WP 4 Interoperability and concept validation WP 5 Standardisation and dissemination WP 6 Project management

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Work of the Finnish sub-consortium VTT Develop architecture to measure, test and control the end-to-end QoS over heterogeneous networks (including cellular access networks, IP core networks, and wireless hotspots) Qos measurements Co-operation of QoS mechanisms in different networks Congestion control, flow control and scheduling mechanisms QoS-aware transport protocols for multimedia communications Set up demonstration platform with selected network technologies in order to show the performance and feasibility of the architecture Vertical handover between 3G and WLAN while maintaining QoS Real-tíme QoS measurement tool QoS measurements in cooperation with Nethawk Nethawk QoS measurements and analysing methods

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND REAL TIME QoS MONITORING TOOL Monitors the one way end-to-end QoS parameters

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Seamless end-to-end QoS in vertical handover EDGE INTERNET GPRS WLAN 3G NodeB &RNC/Iub SLA seamless QoS roaming WLAN-3G SLA signalling Mapping of QoS classes QoS aware transport protocols Nethawk 3G Analyser

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 3G PLATFORM Provides access for real WCDMA terminals to Core network and Internet. Enables easily the end-to- end service testing in 3G environment. Makes optimisation and enhancements of QoS- mechanism in UTRAN and Core network possible without intruding upon public network. Iub = UMTS interface between radio network controller and base station Gi = Interface between gateway GPRS support node and external network

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Participating in the EW project Funding already approved in Finland for VTT and Nethawk Tekes –funding is 35-50% of the company’s total project costs Next funding period: – Each partner is responsible for it’s own costs Possibility to get extra funding for R&D work, when the topics are in line with the project International contacts IPR can be protected Standardization, the aim is to introduce project results to standardization bodies Gather latest knowledge in end-to-end QoS research New partners are welcome to join the project any time