Joint ITU-T SG 13 and ISO/JTC1/SC 6
Workshop on
“Future Networks Standardization”
(Geneva, Switzerland, 11 June 2012)
Socio-Economic Aware Design of
Future Network Technology
(Y.FNsocioeconomic)
Martin Waldburger,
University of Zurich,
Editor of Y.FNsocioeconomic in
Q21/13,
waldburger@ifi.uzh.ch
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Outline
Socio-economic Awareness
Design Goals and Objectives in Y.3001
Scope of Y.FNsocioeconomic
Proposed Structure
Tussle Evolution: Bandwidth Sharing
Tussle Analysis Meta-method
Conclusions and Recommendation
Q&A
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Socio-economic Awareness (1)
End-users
ISPs
Regulators
ASPs
…
Out-of-network
socio-economic
interactions
Technology choices
(including
investments,
configurations)
Socio-economic
layer
Technology
layer
Network
application
s
Network
protocols
Links
Stakeholders with
varying socioeconomic interests
Routers
Switches
Technology outputs
(connectivity, QoS,
mobility,
security, etc.)
Middle
boxes
Servers
Firewall
s
Technology
components
3G towers
Socio-economic layer is governed by laws of socio-economics,
while technology layer by laws of physics
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Socio-economic Awareness (2)
Traditional engineering goals (technology
design)
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Modularity
Security
Technology will reach multiple stakeholders
Different interpretations of goals
Stakeholders
Different incentives
engage in
Different choices
tussles
Understanding socio-economic aspects
Complete view on ecosystem
Assess technology adoption and longterm success
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various actors
involved in the
Design Goals and Objectives in Y.3001
network ecosystem.
„Future Networks: Objectives and...
Design
to Goals“
reduce life
Objectives
cycle costs in order
Service awareness
Data awareness
for them to be
Environmental awareness
Social and economic awareness deployable and
Design goals
Service diversity
sustainable.
FNs are recommended to be designed to provide a
Functional flexibility
sustainable competition environment for solving
...
appropriate
tussles allow
among the range
of participants in the
Virtualization of resources
ICT/telecommunictaion ecosystem
Data access
Rationale:
Many technologies have
failed toan
be
competition
and
Energy consumption
deployed, flourish, or be sustainable because of
inadequate or inappropriate decisions of the
Service universalization
architect, ...
appropriate
return
Economic incentives
Sufficient attention therefore needs to be paid to
Network management
economic for
and social
aspects
such as economic
all
actors
incentives in designing and implementing the
Mobility
Optimization
Identification
Reliability
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requirements, architecture, and protocol of FNs in
order to provide a sustainable competition
environment to the various participants
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Scope of Y.FNsocioeconomic
Y.3001 lists...
Candidate technologies
But no methods to achieve goals and
objectives
„Socio-Economic Aware Design of
Future Network Technology“
This Recommendation lists methods to achieve socio-economic design goals and
objectives for Future Networks (FNs). When a candidate FN technology is provided,
the methods listed provide a structured approach
•to anticipate at technology design time the socio-economic impact of the technology
taking into account the relevant set of stakeholders, tussles emerging among them,
and the range of available choices,
•to anticipate either a stable and incentives-compatible or an unstable outcome
resulting from deploying the technology,
•to identify potential spillover (unwanted) effects from the technology’s primary
functionality to another functionality,
•and to help design technology for Future Networks that is in-line with the respective
socio-economic design goals and objectives.
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Proposed Structure
Summary
Scope
References
Definitions
Abbreviations and acronyms
Conventions
Introduction
Socio-economic Aware Deployment of Future Network
Technology
Design for Tussle
Technology Deployment Cycle
Tussle Evolution
Tussle Analysis
Stakeholder Identification Methods
Tussle Identification Methods
Tussle Impact and Tussle Evolution Methods
Appendix: Methods Overview
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Tussle concept
Meta-method
Methods to
implement steps
of tussle analysis
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Tussle Evolution: Bandwidth Sharing
interactive
users
p2p users get
disproportionate
bandwidth share
?
?
Functionality: bandwidth sharing
Regulator announces fines due
to VoIP providers‘ complaints
ISPs
ISPs use DPI technology
to degrade quality of
rival VoIP services
Regulator
ASPs
Functionality: VoIP service delivery
Functionality
Stable outcome
Evolves
Initial state
Unstable outcome
Affects
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Tussle outcome
ISP
(neutral entity)
p2p users configure
applications to open
p2p applications
multiple TCP
configured to
connections for the
perform traffic
same session
obfuscation
ISPs throttle
bandwidth of p2p
applications by using
What if ISPs deploy
DPI technology
p2p
congestion exposure
applications
technologies &
motivate multiple
congestion pricing schemes?
TCP connections for
the same session
fair
bandwidth
sharing
Tussle outcome
Stakeholders’
strategies/policies
Stakeholders’
strategies/policies
peer-to-peer
(p2p) users
no
discrimination
interactive
users get
disproportionate
bandwidth share
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Tussle Analysis Meta-method
Functionality I
Functionality II
Step 1: Identify all primary stakeholder roles and their
characteristics for the functionality under investigation
new iteration
spillover
Step 2: Identify tussles among identified stakeholders
tussle tussle tussle
tussle
Step 3: For each tussle assess the impact to each stakeholder
and potential spillovers
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Conclusions and Recommendation
Engineers need to...
Be aware of socio-economic aspects of
technology
Consider socio-economics in technology design
For the goal of...
Long-term success by incentive compatibility
Assessment of adoption potential
Sustainable competition environment
Recommendation Y.FNsocioeconomic
Methods to achieve socio-economic goals,
objectives
Tussle analysis (meta-method)
Several methods to implement tussle analysis
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