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 – October 2015

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 2015 Summary of main facts: • 2 TF 2 telcos held since the last meeting in Wuerzburg – dedicated to check a status of TF 2 activities – Note 1 : 11 TF 2 telcos in total held up to now (regular basis) – Note 2: a couple of telcos also held in TF 2 IGs (ad hoc basis) • TF consists of 21 members spreaded across Europe and Israel – 2 new members since the last meeting in Wuerzburg • 5 active IGs - no change since the last meeting 2

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 2015 IG 1: A context-based Qo. E monitoring • Leader: Florian Metzger (Univesity of Duisburg-Essen, D) • Number of members: 11 • Focus: User-centric, context-aware Qo. E monitoring & network management • Outputs: – QCMan 2015 paper presented by Tobias in Ottawa, Canada • already indexed in IEEE Xplore, authored by 7 IG 1 members – A journal paper dealing with a context monitoring • submitted to Computer Networks (Elsevier) in July – no feedback so far • an extension of the QCMan 2015 paper, authored by 10 IG 1 members 3

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 2015 IG 1: A context-based Qo. E monitoring – STSM (Eirini Liotou, GR->D – Uni of Duisburg-Essen): • STSM leader: Tobias Hossfeld • Topic: Context awareness in mobile networks • Outputs: – A paper dealing with Context Factors in the context of the TCP-based streaming in Mobile networks (an extension of ITC 2015 paper) going to be submitted to Computer Networks (Elsevier) – SI on Traffic and Performance in the Big Data Era – A paper dealing with Context awareness in mobile networks going to be submitted to IEEE ICC 2016 » plan to extend this paper for ITC 2016 – A paper dealing with prospect theory in the context of Qo. E planned for PQS 2016 3

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 2015 IG 1: A context-based Qo. E monitoring – 1 talk going to be given at ETSI STQ workshop (Vienna, Austria) on Telecommunication Quality beyond 2015 by Eirini Liotou on the following topic: • An SDN-based Qo. E-Service for Dynamically Enhancing the Performance of OTT Applications • Current activities: – designing a cloud gaming experiment – working on follow-up activities based on the above mentioned papers 3

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 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: – A paper dealing with Qo. S-based route selection in Healthcare Cloud accepted for publication at CEMA 2015 to be held soon in Bulgaria – authored by Rasa Bruzgiene and her colleagues 5

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 2015 IG 3: A cross-layer Qo. E management – 2 talks going to be given at ETSI STQ workshop (Vienna, Austria) on Telecommunication Quality beyond 2015 by Peter Pocta on the following topics: • Black box analysis of Web. RTC jitter buffer behavior and impact on POLQA predictions – a joint work with NUIG Ireland • Subjective and Objective Assessment of Perceived Audio Quality of Current Digital Audio Broadcasting Systems and Web-Casting Applications – a joint work with TNO, Delft, The Netherlands • Current activities: – initiating some activities 5

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 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 and M 2 M comm. Outputs: – A paper dealing with Time Awareness in SDN presented at Eu. CNC 2015 in Paris by Hugh Melvin – a joint work with Uni. ZA – A paper dealing with Delay issues in Web. RTC submitted to a special issue of Communications journal – no feedback so far, a joint work of NUIG and Uni. ZA 6

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 2015 IG 4: Time-aware applications, computers and communication systems – A paper dealing with an impact of Web. RTC JB strategies on a quality perceived by the end-user submitted to a special issue of Communications journal • no feedback so far, a joint work of NUIG and Uni. ZA – 2 talks going to be given at ETSI STQ workshop (Vienna, Austria) on Telecommunication Quality beyond 2015 by Hugh Melvin on the following topics: • Black-box Delay Testing of Vo. IP Applications – a joint work of NUIG and Uni. ZA • Time synchronization for Qo. E in SDN networks – a joint work of NUIG and Uni. ZA 6

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 2015 IG 4: Time-aware applications, computers and communication systems Current activities: – drafting a paper on Time Awareness in Gaming for ITSF 2015 – designing an SDN experiment to showcase an importance of time awareness in this context – designing an online gaming experiment to showcase an importance of time awareness in this context 6

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 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 Current activities: – working on a survey/position paper on Qo. E in mobile networks • an expected time of submission: end of this year 7

ACROSS TF 2 Progress report – October 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 • Current activities: – drafting a paper on user’s satisfaction with native and Webbased unified communication apps • supposed to be ready at the end of this year 8

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