Transcript technical summary 2010

Summary of Technical Sessions
Session Chairmen
& Wim van der Bijl
Chairman Technical Programme Committee
Round Table Session: The present
and future of telecommunications
services in Spain
• New traffic patterns are here to stay:
– Exponential network traffic growth
– Interest in symmetric connections
– Mobile data connections are increasing
• Mix of fixed and mobile connections  New competition scenario
• Decoupling between data growth and operator revenues
– So far, operators have struggled to monetize content
– End of “all-you-can-eat” flat rates
– Innovation in business models is needed
• to reduce network costs and increase revenues
• Network neutrality?
– Has there ever been network neutrality?
– Internet neutrality  served “Best-effort”
– In order to manage traffic you have to discriminate
Round Table Session: The present
and future of telecommunications
services in Spain
• Challenges deploying New Generation Networks
– Technical challenges
• Extra signalling load
• Need for off-load techniques
• Spectrum changes would help
– Business and social challenges
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Current model is not sustainable  Business model innovation
“Gray and black areas” not profitable for operators
Possible two-sided business models
Investment-friendly regulation  Regulators are key actors
• A number of forces are shaping the future of telecommunications
industry into 2015
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Industry structure
Usage / services
Access
Business model
Round Table Session: The present
and future of telecommunications
services in Spain
• Customer experience is more important than ever!
– Customers trust other customers
– Social networking spreads opinions
– Operators have to focus on customer experience
• 3 key strategic areas for Telcos
– Enable new services and business models
– Manage and differentiate the customer experience
– Improve operational efficiency and reduce costs
Session 1: A New World for
Services
• Changes in the business model of all players in
the ICT sector will bring changes to the
economic scales of the businesses
• Open systems vs. closed ones may prove to
bring new players in the market and increase the
revenues of all the sectors in the market
• Future Internet advances will bring a large
change in the way of our everyday
communication
Session 2: Should the Access
to NGN be open?
• In new world of converged services
industrialised approach is needed, the suppliers
can offer such tools for network operators,
service providers and application producers
giving them open access to service platforms.
• At the level of FTTH access networks holistic
aproach to cost optimalisation is needed.
Interesting cost calculation model for Ethernet Pto-P network was presented showing the
benefits both for operators and users.
Session 3: New Advanced
Applications
• New advanced applications world is at an early stage
• Technologies, devices, networks, etc. are fundamental in
today’s world but the key source are the persons
• A relevant factor of Programs, Institutions, Universities,
and Telecom Engineer is to attract the best students to
this sector. “Rebeca: a 3D programming language
environment for arising ICT vocations in young students”
is a way to do that.
• Intelligence and Innovation paves the way to Telcos
future.
Session 3: New Advanced
Applications
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Advanced Applications is the driving force for Information Society in general
and for life improvement of impaired elderly and handicapped persons.
“System for automatic assisting living applications” is a reality of this.
Audiovisual and Entertainment are promising areas for accessibility to
digital services and will broaden the scope of everybody preventing social
exclusion. “Monitoring accessibility in digital television” represents a fact of
these possibilities.
Internet of things is already clear and flourishing reality. Industry is a way to
be explored. “RFID Integration in packaging system” for food and
vegetables is a good example of the wide chances of this technology.
Advanced application is one of the driving forces of the way to be followed
and this will be only possible with software and hardware. “GNU Radio: A
new paradigm for Software Defined Radio” presents a way to advance to
the future.
New advanced applications are a testbed for services and sector
convergence and integration.
Session 4: Intelligent Road
Infrastructures (1)
• “Smart cities” become a reality due to the availability of small and
cheap sensors and transducers, but there is still a lot of
standardization to do.
• Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are expensive to implement with
the on-board unit (OBU) as the most expensive component. Re-use
of existing equipment has a small positive cost impact while
combination of applications (recreational) has a huge positive effect.
• GSM/UMTS rollout in tunnels on high-speed railway lines should be
handled according to a formal process whereby roles and
responsibilities are clearly defined amongst the operators and the
railway infrastructure administrations. This leads to a shared
infrastructure implementation.
Session 4: Intelligent Road
Infrastructures (3)
• Creative new ways to implement automated
traffic guidance and signalling systems become
possible (eg using radio beacons)
• As vehicles become more and more complex
and rely on in-car data networks there is a need
to provide formal education on the behaviour of
those network and have appropriate support
tools to facilitate training.
Session 5: Living in the ICT
Age
COMMUNICATIONS ANCIENT AND MODERN:
HOW DOES MODERN ICT FIT INTO THE TRADITION OF PILGRIMAGES,
AN ANCIENT FORM OF COMMUNICATION
With ICT making the world smaller, and the need for physical travel becoming ever
lower as telecommunications systems develop and spread, ICT can be best used
by sites of pilgrimages to benefit their followers, their faith and themselves.
Providing support and information to encourage and help with physical pilgrimages
and providing remote, interactive spiritual connections to the site of pilgrimage and
between pilgrims.
The current role ICT plays in pilgrimage does not threaten the continuation of the
traditional form of pilgrimage
An established site of pilgrimage acts as a foundation from which spiritual based
ICT services can be provided.
Session 5: Living in the ICT
Age
THE JUMP: WHAT IS NEXT?
The jump, is mainly based on the web 2.0 concept and therefore on the interaction
between the subjects and the internet.
Attendind this, the importance of web 2.0 and social media technology on the society
current behaviour and the way the technology has changed the concept of
relationships are changing in our behaviour and environment. It also shows the path
for the next evolution in personal and business communications.
Spontaneous and scattered information generation is the base of our current world
and the principle for the progress in the future.
Session 5: Living in the ICT
Age
SMARTER BUSINESS MODELS FOR SMART LIVING, SMART COMPANIES AND
SMARTER SOCIETIES
We are at unique moment in history when the ICT revolution and its application to
Smart cities can act as a catalyst for improving the real quality of live in urban areas.
Businesses that adopt the described model will be positioned to take an important
part in this revolution.
The Broadband Revolution can be the engine for a new age of genuine growth.
We have defined a unique process for generating business models which create a
virtuous cycle of quality growth.
A win-win-win model: sustained benefits for Enterprise, Society and Government
Session 6: Access networks
for tomorrow
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Josep Segarra (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Spain) presented the
results reached within the SARDANA project, an important multinational
research initiative (Spain, France, Finland, Greece, Portugal and Italy),
regarding the set-up of an all-optical access network utilizing WDM / TDM –
PON techniques.
Fernando Martin Rodriguez (University of Vigo – Spain) approached the
session theme from the opposite end analizing the possibility of adopting
structured cabling also in residential building for carrying voice, data and TV
signals
George Agapiou (OTE Research and Development Dpt. – Greece) came
back on the PON subject proposing a WDM solution to be combined with
wireless nodes in order to provide adequate bandwith to the upcoming
access services.
Ilias Politis (University of Patras - Greece) ended the session illustrating
how to model the provisioning of VASs when they have to be provided over
inter-technology radio access networks
Session 6: Access networks
for tomorrow
In summary the session has evidentiated the deep
interest that academy and industry have to come up
with access networks solutions more than adequate to
support the high speeds made possible, for an example,
by NGN on the long distance.
Session 7: Challenges for the
regulator
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Identity, liberty and accountability in the information society
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Universal Service
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Universal service directive disposed that universal service content will be revisited more than
once due to technological developments and competitive market conditions
The universal service still play an important role in ensuring all citizens social inclusion
Digital Dividend
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Various examples, illustrate how the current policy and regulatory framework with respect to
online accountability has become much more control oriented over the last decade
European policies are incongruous: while reiterating the importance of privacy and data
protection, a monitoring society with universal logging is constructed
Europe is involved in a process of transition to digital terrestrial television aimed to replace all
analogue broadcasting infrastructures for digital ones by year 2012
Public Administrations at the European and national level will play a leading role in deciding
to which services this 'digital dividend' will be granted and at which costs
eHealth
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Consent play an important role in eHealth environments
The use of patient consent keeps growing -> solutions need to be found in order for the
consent to continue to attain its goal: inform and involve the patient
Session 8: The road to next
generation broadband
1) NGA roll-out situation in EU:
– Overview of current NGA rollouts in Europe: Europe
lags behind.
– Commercial challenges are related to evolution of the
business models and the positioning on internet
ecosystem.
– We need:
• clear, stable and predictable framework for NGA
• a collaborative environment between Government and
private agents.
Session 8: The road to next
generation broadband
2) Self-Manageability in context of NGN
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Cognitive networks and self-aware functionalities
introduce a great degree of autonomy.
Self-management techniques facilitate automating
processes based on specific circumstances and
remediation of identified malfunctions with minimum
service interruption.
Self-NET develops self-management features that
alleviate consequences of events (for which the
system would require various invocations of remedy
actions and/or significant human intervention)
Session 8: The road to next
generation broadband
3) Efficient Echo and Parameters estimation.
– Most important impairment with digital communication
is multipath: Multipath can generate Inter-Symbol Interference
(ISI), which is one of the biggest problems in digital
communication systems.
– Proposed method is able to estimate echoes of the
channel even when the ISI is so strong that is
impossible to demodulate the signal. It can be used to
obtain the modulation parameters of multicarrier
modulation systems.
Session 9: QoS Solutions
• Providing differentiated network performance:
– Using converged networks
– QoS evolution with requirements of applications
• Model for QoS based on:
– IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Next Generation
Networks
– “Parameter reconfiguration” in VoIP sessions
– Least Cost Routing based on RTP packets
Session 9: QoS Solutions
• New research field for the new decade:
– Provision of QoS by innovative mechanism called
“Network Coding”
– Mathematical underlying concepts
– Advantages over classic routing strategies
• Techno-Economic Validation
– Challenges for providers of bandwidth
– Content delivery with QoS using less peak-bandwidth
Findings of Poster sessions
• 11 Poster Presenters & Coffee Drinker Audience
• Direct contact between Presenter and Questioners
• Issues: Studies of Antenna Beams, Measurements
of Electromagnetic Field Exposures for the Public
and for Workers, Power Supply lines for Telco
Services, Teaching and Learning Tool as
Computer-Based-Learning
• 11 Posters within 4 coffee breaks; The alternative
would have been 11x25min = 275 min “Sessionpresentations!! Posters are still an important part!
Findings of Poster sessions
Overall conclusions
• Many Questions
– No real answers
• Business model?
• Revenue versus growth?
• Legal questions
– Interesting Reseach Subjects
• Focus on improving life & improving traffic
• New concepts in network technology
• Which technology development will break through?
Future topics
• Flip-Chart “Ideas from FITCE members”:
- All participants are invited to contribute on the
structure of the next Congress due to delivering
an abstract of their idea to be presented:
- European Patent Register at ETSI
- Information Stands from ICT Industry
- Studies about ICT future services impact
- Ensure accessability /rural and/or skilled