ICT COST Action IC 1304 Autonomous Control for

ICT COST Action IC 1304 Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS) ACROSS TF 2 on Cross-layer Qo. E management Progress report – April 2015

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – April 2015 Summary of activities: • 9 telcos held up to now – 4 dedicated to networking and a road map drafting – 4 dedicated to a paper drafting for QCMan 2015 – 1 dedicated to reporting and coordination of the activities • Mailing list created – kindly hosted by University of Maribor (Slovenia) • TF consists of 19 members spreaded across Europe and Israel • 5 active IGs and 1 IG on a stand-by regime 2

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – April 2015 IG 1: A context-based Qo. E monitoring • Leader: Florian Metzger (Univesity of Duisburg-Essen, D) • Number of members: 10 • Focus: User-centric, context-aware Qo. E monitoring & network management • Output: QCMan 2015 paper • Driving force behind creating this IG • Paper drafted in parallel with a road map • Current activities: – working on an extension of this paper for a journal submission • designing a cloud gaming experiment 3

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – April 2015 IG 2: A service-specific Qo. E estimation models for SDN • Leader: No leader appointed so far as this IG is on a stand-by regime – No inputs from other TFs/WGs so far • Focus: a development of Qo. E estimation models for SDN – As this activity is going to be covered by TF 8, we have decided during a joint meeting with TF 8 to close down this IG in TF 2 4

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – April 2015 IG 3: A cross-layer Qo. E management • Leader: Thomas Zinner (Univesity of Wuerzburg, D) • Number of members: 9 • Focus: – A cross-layer SLA/Qo. S management for multi cloud-based services – Application-Network Interaction • Output: None so far (a quite young activity) • Current activity: – Kicked-off during this meeting 5

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – April 2015 IG 4: Time-aware applications, computers and communication systems • • • Leader: Hugh Melvin (NUI Galway, IE) Number of members: 6 Focus: time awareness in SDN Output: None so far (a quite young activity) Current activities: – Drafting a paper for Eu. CNC 2015 showcasing an importance of time awareness for Vo. IP and multimedia apps – Designing an online gaming experiment to showcase an importance of time awareness in this context 6

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – April 2015 IG 6: Qo. E in mobile networks • • • Leader: Ahmed Elmokashfi (Simula Research Lab, NO) Number of members: 7 Focus: Mobile Broadband Performance and Qo. E Output: None so far (a quite young activity) Current activities: – Fine-tuning a scope of this IG • identifying factors that are only relevant to mobile users – Planning to work on a white/position paper in a near future 7

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – April 2015 IG 7: Qo. E management in the context of unified communication and collaboration services • Leader: Jasmina Barakovic Husic (Uni of Sarajevo, Bi. H) • Number of members: 2 • Focus: Qo. E management of unified communication and collaboration services • Output: None so far (a quite young activity) • Current activities: – Designing an experiment on user’s satisfaction with native and Web-based unified communication apps 8

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – April 2015 Cooperations and STSMs: • Cooperation with TF 8 recently established – A joint f 2 f meeting run during this meeting • • 22 participants lively discussions on research topics to be covered by both TFs high correlation between our research interests liaise and run joint f 2 f meetings during regular ACROSS meetings • Planning a couple of STSMs for this year: – Details are currently discussed – How many slots (out of 10 planned for this year) can be allocated to TF 2? 9

ICT COST Action IC 1304 Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS) Thank you for your attention ! Questions ?