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Media Ecosystem Deployment Through Ubiquitous Content-Aware
Network Environments
ALICANTE
Coordinator: CNRS
Concertation meeting
Brussels, February 3-4, 2010
ALICANTE
SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME;
THEME: FP7-ICT-2009-4;
Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures;
Strategic objective: ICT 2009.1.5 Networked media & 3D Internet;
Grant agreement for: Large-scale integrating project (IP);
Budget/Funding: 11 107 275 / 7 268 403;
Starting date: 1/03/2010;
Project duration: 3 years;
Web Site: in construction; it will be available: 1/04/2010.
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N°
Beneficiary name
Short name
Country
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CENTRE NATIONAL de la RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE - LaBRI
CNRS-LaBRI
FRANCE
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OPTIBASE LTD
OPTIBASE
ISRAEL
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BEIJING FRANCE TELECOM R&D COMPANY LIMITED
FTB
CHINA
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THOMSON GRASS VALLEY FRANCE SA
THOMSON
FRANCE
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VIOTECH COMMUNICATIONS SARL
VIOTECH
FRANCE
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UNIVERSITAET KLAGENFURT
UNI-KLU
AUSTRIA
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UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI
UPB
ROMANIA
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PORTUGAL TELECOM INOVACAO SA
PTIN
PORTUGAL
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BANDWD LTD
BANDWD
ISRAEL
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TISCALI ITALIA SPA
TISCALI
ITALY
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NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS"
DEMOKRITOS
GREECE
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TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE
TEIC
GREECE
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TDF
TDF
FRANCE
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ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
EPFL
SWITZERLAND
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INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES DO PORTO
INESC PORTO
PORTUGAL
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BSOFT SRL
BSOFT
ITALY
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P.CABLE NET
PCN
GREECE
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ALICANTE concept:
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Provision of Content-Awareness to Network
Environment
Provision of Network- and User ContextAwareness to Service Environment
Adaptation of services and content to the EndUser for his best service experience
ALICANTE objectives:
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Enabling users to efficiently access the offered
multimedia services in various contexts
Enabling users to share and deliver audiovisual
content
ALICANTE solution:
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Deployment of a new networked
‘Media Ecosystem’
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On top of the traditional Network layer,
virtualising the network nodes in two virtual
layers, one for packet processing (CAN layer)
and the other one for content delivery (HomeBox layer)
Full User Environment, seamlessly interacting
with the underlying layers
Flexible Service Environment, based on
cooperation between the traditional SPs and
End-Users (through their HBs)
Two level solution to fully support adaptation
for the multimedia flow delivery over multidomains
Multi-layered monitoring solution at all defined
levels: User, Service, Home-Box, CAN
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ALICANTE solution concerns:
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The User Environment is in direct relation
with
the
End-User
knowing
his
characteristics and interacting with the
Service Environment for an efficient service
provision. It is proposed the creation of a
complete User Profile, gathering all the
information necessary for a service to be
efficiently deployed and accessible ;
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The Service Environment is in charge of
assuring the composition of services and
the delivery of content to End-Users
throughout the network. It is sub-divided in
two parts: the SP/CP-based part and the
Virtual Home-Box layer part. Thanks to this
virtual HB layer, the project can elaborate
Network and Context -Aware Applications
and deliver the necessary inputs to create
Content-Aware Networks. ;
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The Network Environment is physically
composed of nodes in charge of assuring
the transport of packets. It is assumed the
traditional IP network/transport layer and it
is proposed an additional Virtual ContentAware Network (VCAN) layer, instantiating
a Network Environment with Content-Aware
functionalities. The specific components,
proposed by the project, in charge of
instantiating this VCAN are the MediaAware Network Elements (MANE), i.e. the
new CAN routers, and the CAN managers,
along with the interfaces, monitoring and
security features.
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The ALICANTE User Environment
The User Environment is composed of the End-User’s device (s), enriched with specific
functionalities and acting closely and seamlessly with the user’s Home-Box by providing static and
dynamic context-related information.
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The ALICANTE Virtual Home-Box Layer
The logical interconnection of deployed Home-Boxes (through the Connectivity Engine) establishes the socalled “Virtual Home-Box Layer”. The Home-Box has a dual identity: it is owned by the Network Provider as
well as by the End-User, incorporating network functionalities as well as application functionalities.
Therefore, the Home-Box gathers all the necessary information (from the Network side, from the User side,
from the Service/Content side) for providing the best service experience to the End-User.
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The ALICANTE Service Environment
The Service Environment is in charge of assuring all the tasks related to the services. To this end, an
evolution of the Service Environment is proposed including elements coming:
• From the Service/Content Providers exploiting the Service Registry capabilities for: modelling,
assembly, deployment and management of services;
• From the End-Users, who, in ALICANTE, are as well content consumers as content producers
through their Home-Boxes.
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The ALICANTE Virtual CAN Layer
The Virtual CAN layer forms a Content-Aware Network in cooperation with Network-Aware Applications.
It interacts with elements inside the Service Environment i.e. with both HB and SP/CP servers. One or
several CANs with different capabilities can be defined, installed and offered by each domain. Due to
the fact that CAN functions are located in network elements (MANE), one CAN Manager exists for each
IP domain (e.g. Autonomous System).
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The ALICANTE Service/Content Adaptation
The adaptation will be deployed at different points in the delivery:
•at the service creation, during the transport by the CAN routers, and
•at the Home-Box site.
ALICANTE will develop an SVC (layered-multicast) tunnel, inspired by IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels. Within the
CAN layer only scalable media resources – such as Scalable Video Coding – are delivered adopting a
layered-multicast approach which allows the adaptation of scalable media resources by so-called Mediaaware Network Elements (MANEs) concept of distributed adaptation.
At the border to the user, (i.e. the Home-Box), adaptation modules are deployed enabling deviceindependent access to the SVC-encoded content by providing X-to-SVC and SVC-to-X transcoding
functions with X={MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVC, etc.}.
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WP1:
Project Management
WP2:
Overall System Architecture
Definition and Specification
WP4:
Home-Box Layer
WP3:
User
Environment
WP5:
Service & Content
Provider
Environment
WP6:
Content-Aware
Network
Environment
WP7:
Service / Content Adaptation
WP8:
Pilot Integration and Field Trials
WP9:
Dissemination, Standardisation, Exploitation and Training Activities
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ALICANTE Pilot (distributed multi-domain networking environment composed of pilot islands
demonstrators) is the essential solution designed for:
Validation of the project technical results;
First evaluation of the user acceptance, scalability, stability, observability and controllability of the
ALICANTE full solution;
Dissemination of the ALICANTE solution by demonstrations, presentations, etc…;
First integration of the ALICANTE solution in preparation for exploitation.
Objective: technology
integrator/end-to-end validation
Objective: Home-Box
Layer/Multi-Play services
Validation methodology:
[ISO-9646-1]
[ISO-9646-2]
[ISO-9646-7]
Already exploited by
project partners
(THOMSON, TDF,
TISCALI) for validation
of real commercial
applications (MaLigne
TV, DVB-T deployment,
etc…)
Objective: CAN approach
validation based on high
level services scenarios
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Objective: network
performance evaluation
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THANK YOU !
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