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PROJECT IDENTIFICATION
Project acronym:
NOTTS
Project name:
Next generation Over-The-Top multimedia Services
Project number
C2012/2-4
Project Coordinator
(name):
Antonio Cuadra-Sanchez
Email:
acuadra@indra.es
Company
Indra Sistemas, S.A.
Telephone:
+34 983 100 818
KEY INFORMATION
Issue date (initial version):
25th December 2012
Issue date of revised version
15th April 2013
Kick-off meeting (date):
15th May 2013
Start date of Project: (month/year):
05/2013
Provisional Date for the Mid Term Review (month/year):
05/2014
Planned completion date (month/year):
04/2015
Duration (months):
24
CELTIC label approved on (date):
5th December 2012
Effort and budget
Total
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016 and later
Project budget (kEUR)
Effort in Person Years
(PY)
Completion of legal documents
Confirmation Letters signed by all partners
Project Cooperation Agreement approved/ signed
Declaration of Acceptance signed
Project Change Request issued (if any)
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Project Abstract (Project overview - 25 lines max.):
Over-the-top (OTT) high-quality multimedia services, for example TV and music, are increasing in
popularity. The whole telecommunication industry is undergoing a radical change as a result of the
transition to digital content distribution. One trend is that large international players dominate the content
distribution. Recently, actors like HBO and Netflix are entering the OTT market of several European
countries, in a time when there have been significant sales of media terminals to consume this content
(Smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, etc.). This means that both the terminals and the services for delivery
of media over the Internet are available to end users. The evolution of content-based applications as well
as changed user consumption patterns will have a major impact on the networks. However, the current
Internet architectures and business models have not been designed to cope with this massive
deployment of over-the-top services. It is of strategical importance that European actors join forces in
order to survive and thrive in the competition that gets more and more fierce. Otherwise, there is a risk
that Europe falls behind in the media distribution area, which has a huge potential and increasing annual
turnover. Therefore, NOTTS will investigate the technical problems experienced by service providers of
over-the-top multimedia services, propose realistic solutions, and evaluate these solutions in testbeds
and real networks. In order to address OTT technology and the potential new business opportunities
more thoroughly, the project will also look for models where traditional network operators get their share
of the raising OTT business. The project covers the whole ecosystem of media distribution, from scalable
coding, media distribution architectures and workload models, to client monitoring and business model
analysis. Also, the project includes a wide range of industry and academic partners from five countries,
which will guarantee that the project results are disseminated in the scientific communities as well as
exploited in future products, standards, and business models. The final goal of the project is to provide
technological solutions that involve a new business line for all stakeholders, so that as a result of this
project the NOTTS prototype will be provided.
CONSORTIUM OVERVIEW
Company name
(Leading contractor first)
Indra Sistemas, S.A. (IND)
Country
Type *)
Address
Spain
I
Alcatel Lucent (ALU)
Dycec (DYC)
Spain
Spain
I
S
ADTEL Sistemas de
Telecomunicacion S.L.
(ADTEL)
Naudit High Performance
Computing and Networking,
S.L. (NAU)
Acreo (ACR)
Ericsson (EABS)
Alkit Communication (ALK)
Procera Networks (PRO)
Lund University (LTH)
Institut Telecom SudParis
(ITP)
Canal + (CPLUS)
Spain
S
Av. Bruselas 35, 28108 Alcobendas, Madrid,
Spain
c/ María Tubau 9, 28050 Madrid,Spain
Torres Quevedo, 1 28760 Tres Cantos
(Madrid), Spain
Avenida Barcelona, 211 nave 7 Pol. Industrial
El Pla 08750 Molins de Rei (Barcelona), Spain
Spain
S
FPCM – Faraday, 7 28049 Madrid Spain
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden
France
R
I
S
S
U
R
France
T
Vierling Communication
(VGC)
University Paris-Est Creteil
(UPEC)
IP-Label (ILN)
France
S
Electrum 236 16440 Kista
Sweden
Ericsson AB SE-164 80 Stockholm Sweden
Sallarängsbacken 2
Mölndal Sweden
Carl Gustafs väg 46 214 21 Malmö Sweden
BOX 118
221 00 Lund
Sweden
9 rue Charles Fourier 91011 Evry Cedex
France
1, place du spectacle Issy-Les_Moulineaux
France
7, rue Elsa Triolet
78370 Plaisir France
France
U
France
S
Thomson Video Networks
(TVN)
Montimage EURL (MIF)
VTT Technical Research
Centre of Finland (VTT)
France
I
France
Finland
S
R
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122, rue Paul Armangot 94400 Vitry sur Seine
France
90 boulevard National 92250 La-GarenneColombes France
6, rue du Clos Courtel 35517 Cesson
Sévigné France
39 rue Bobillot 75013 Paris
France
Kaitoväylä 1
90570 Oulu
Finland
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PPO-Yhtiöt Oy (PPO)
Videra Oy (VID)
Super Head End Finland Oy
(SHEF)
Institute of Bioorganic
Chemistry, Polish Academy of
Sciences - Poznań
Supercomputing and
Networking Center (PSNC)**
Telekomunikacja Polska (TP)
***
Portugal Telecom Inovaçao
(PTIN)
IT de Aveiro (ITA)
Universidade do Porto (UP)
Finland
Finland
Finland
T
T
S
Poland
R
Ratakatu 1, PL 34 84101 Ylivieska Finland
Elektroniikkatie 2 B 4 krs.90590 Oulu Finland
Tekniikantie 14, Innopoli 202150 Espoo
Finland
Noskowskiego 10 61-704 Poznań Poland
Poland
T
St. Obrzeżna 7 02-691, Warsaw Poland
Portugal
T
Portugal
Portugal
R
U
*) Company Type: I = Industry, T = TelCO, S = SME, R = Research, U = University, A = Administration (public)
**) PSNC is also the operator of Polish National Research and Education Network PIONIER, Operator of Poznań Metropolitan Area
Network POZMAN.
***) R&D center of TP uses the international brand name: Orange Labs Poland
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TABLE OF CONTENT
1
REQUESTED MODIFICATIONS BY REVIEWERS, PAS AND/ OR CG ............................................. 5
1.1
1.2
1.3
2
MODIFICATIONS FROM LAST PROJECT DESCRIPTION (PD) ....................................................... 6
2.1
2.2
2.3
3
REQUESTED MODIFICATIONS BY REVIEWERS, CORE GROUP AND/OR PUBLIC AUTHORITIES ................... 5
SUMMARY OF IMPLEMENTED MODIFICATIONS ...................................................................................... 5
COMMENTS/ REASONS ON MODIFICATIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN CONSIDERED .................................... 5
SUMMARY OF CHANGES .................................................................................................................... 6
REASONS FOR CHANGES ................................................................................................................... 6
CHANGES IN KEY DATA ...................................................................................................................... 6
MAIN FOCUS ........................................................................................................................................ 7
3.1
STATE-OF-THE-ART SITUATION ......................................................................................................... 8
3.2
RATIONALE FOR THE PROJECT ......................................................................................................... 13
3.3
NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN MARKET AND BUSINESS IMPACT *) ............................................................ 14
3.3.1
European impact ................................................................................................................... 14
3.3.2
National impact for <country A> *) .......................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
3.3.3
National impact for <country B> *) .......................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
3.4
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND STRATEGIC RELEVANCE *) ............................................................ 17
3.5
BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE OR BUSINESS PLANS **).............................................................................. 18
3.5.1
European perspective ........................................................................................................... 18
3.5.2
National perspective for <country A> ...................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
3.5.3
National perspective for <country B> ...................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
3.6
RELEVANCE TO CELTIC-PLUS .......................................................................................................... 21
3.7
MAJOR VISIBLE RESULTS, PRODUCTS ............................................................................................... 21
3.8
CONTRIBUTION TO STANDARDS ....................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
3.9
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES AND EXPLOITATION OF RESULTS .............................................................. 23
4
PROJECT AND WORK ORGANISATION ......................................................................................... 31
4.1
PROJECT STRUCTURE ..................................................................................................................... 31
4.2
PROJECT CALENDAR ...................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
4.3
RISK ASSESSMENT.......................................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
4.4
W ORK BREAKDOWN ........................................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
4.4.1
WP 1 ..................................................................................................................................... 35
4.4.2
WP 2 ..................................................................................................................................... 37
4.4.3
WP 3 ..................................................................................................................................... 39
4.4.4
WP 4 ..................................................................................................................................... 39
4.4.5
WP 5 ..................................................................................................................................... 39
4.4.6
Deliverables Overview .......................................................................................................... 61
5
PROJECT MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................ 63
6
DETAILS ON BUDGET AND FUNDING ............................................................................................ 65
6.1
6.2
7
OVERVIEW OF THE CONSORTIUM ................................................................................................. 66
7.1
7.2
7.3
8
DESCRIPTION OF THE CONSORTIUM ................................................................................................. 66
CONTACT DETAILS .......................................................................................................................... 82
CONTACT AND FUNDING INFORMATION BY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES ........................................................ 86
EFFORT AND BUDGET TABLES ...................................................................................................... 87
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
9
BUDGET AND FUNDING SITUATION OF PARTICIPANTS........................................................................ 65
SPECIFICATION OF ADDITIONAL BUDGET (EQUIPMENT, OTHER COSTS) ................................................ 65
EFFORT ALLOCATION PER WORK PACKAGE AND YEAR ....................................................................... 87
TOTAL BUDGET ALLOCATIONS PER PARTNERS .................................................................................. 87
BUDGET FOR EQUIPMENT AND OTHER COSTS ................................................................................... 88
TOTAL BUDGET ALLOCATIONS PER COUNTRY .................................................................................... 88
TOTAL EFFORT ALLOCATIONS PER COUNTRY .................................................................................... 88
APPENDICES ..................................................................................................................................... 89
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REQUESTED MODIFICATIONS BY GOE REVIEWERS, PAS AND/ OR CG
This section must be completed if modifications were requested for a labelled project proposal (CPP). For
running projects and sub sequential PCR submissions this section does not apply.
1.1
Requested modifications by reviewers, Core Group and/or Public Authorities
Summary comment:
The changes that have been made since the original submission are positive, but relatively modest. We
had expected more consideration of the original review comments. The changes were not clearly
indicated or explained as it was requested. The most significant appear to be:
- Addition of partners Canal+ and Videra, which strengthens and helps balance the consortium.
- Expansion of and re-organization of WP7 to include Socio-economic, legal and security aspects.
The project work breakdown and schedule should be reviewed as part of the detailed planning phase if
the project goes ahead. In particular, the project should consider adopting a two-phase plan for WP6
(Demonstrations, Test Beds and Prototyping) so that Phase 1 demonstrators can be used to gather
stakeholder feedback in time to influence the second half of the project.
Comments and requirements from involved Public Authorities:
Spain: The project is very well structured, national and international consortia accordingly. Participation of
universities and Research Centers must be by contract.
Finland: The idea of the project is fine and the potential business impact is quite high. Finnish part of the
consortium is balanced to meet the national requirements.
Sweden: Improved consortium compared with original application. Swedish PA needs to negotiate eligible
costs and financing of project partners in national funding applications.
France: Project with a good technological scope and solid innovation opportunities on a strategic area.
The proposal has been significantly improved with the participation of Canal+, which is likely to ensure
the right economic and technical positioning of the platform. Also, possible synergies with related projects
are clearer and more effort has been allocated to market analysis and opportunities, which is relevant.
1.2
Summary of implemented modifications
In order to strengthen the consortium two main European Telco operator have joined the project:
Telekomunikacja Polska (Orange Labs Poland) and Portugal Telecom Inovaçao.
In addition the Portuguese Consortium has joined the project, let by Portugal Telecom Inovaçao and with
the participation of IT Aveiro and the University of Porto.
Due to new funding conditions one Spanish company has left the consortium (SoftTelecom), but their
leave does not affect at all the development of the project.
In addition WP6 has been restructured so that Phase 1 demonstrators can be used to gather stakeholder
feedback in time to influence the second half of the project, in terms of new deliverables dates and scope:
1.3

D6.2 OTT Demonstrator Phase 1 (M13)

D6.3 OTT Integrated Prototypes and Demonstrator Phase 2 (M24)
Comments/ reasons on modifications that have not been considered
All the modification requested have been considered and included in this PD.
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2.1
MODIFICATIONS FROM LAST PROJECT DESCRIPTION (PD)
Summary of changes
New Start date of Project: 05/2013
Provisional Project Coordinator meanwhile the current one (IND) is active: ALK.
Telekomunikacja Polska (Orange Labs Poland) and the Portuguese Consortium have joined the project,
let by Portugal Telecom Inovaçao and with the participation of IT Aveiro and the University of Porto.
SoftTelecom withdraw the project due to new Spanish funding conditions, but their leave does not affect
at all the development of the project.
2.2
Reasons for changes
The Swedish and Finnish PAs require one company acts as provisional coordinator meanwhile the
coordinator is not active.
According to all stakeholders recommendations, n order to strengthen the consortium two main European
Telco operator have joined the project: Telekomunikacja Polska (Orange Labs Poland) and Portugal
Telecom Inovaçao.
SoftTelecom withdraw the project due to new Spanish funding conditions, but their leave does not affect
at all the development of the project.
2.3
Changes in key data
Main changes in key data deal with the new budget as new companies have joined the consortium.
The withdraw of SoftTelecom does not affect at all the development of the project.
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3
MAIN FOCUS
Increasingly, communication in our society will in the future be performed over the Internet. Media
distribution over the Internet is now growing at a pace that threatens to very soon be charged to the
networks to a degree in which the perceived quality is no longer acceptable. Also, users are switching
from operator controlled IPTV services to uncontrolled over-the-top media applications. The entering of
large, mostly American, media companies into the European market may pose a threat to European
players, which will face an increasingly fierce competition. Also, high-quality delivery platforms increase
the user expectation of quality, equivalent to the quality of traditional broadcast distribution. Further, live
TV, for example during sports events may have a large impact on the traffic volumes in small geographic
areas. A plethora of distribution formats, delivery platforms and methods for protecting material leads to
that many copies of the same material must be prepared and distributed in parallel. Transcoding of
content to different formats requires a lot of energy for both calculation and cooling, which is at odds with
modern standards of energy efficiency and long-term durability. Also, users get connected to the Internet
through different devices (mobile, PCs, HD displays, etc.) and networks (3G/UMTS, ADSL, VDSL, etc.).
Devices and networks can vary a lot in their features and conditions. Hence, each user has a specific
context. This situation produces a very heterogeneous environment where there exists an increasing
demand for customized services.
Therefore, the overall challenge is to find scalable and sustainable solutions for the future of Internetbased media distribution. To meet this challenge, new and cross-disciplinary approaches are required to
optimize the distribution of media data. One approach is to introduce and combine methods for more
effective storage of the data close to the consumer and various types of peer supported distribution
mechanisms. Decisions on when and where data is temporarily stored should be based both on
estimates of expected demand and the final consumer demands on perceived quality. Also, statistical
methods for on-line estimation of consumer demands will be crucial. Harmonization of the format and
copyright protection is also needed to reduce the need for transcoding and parallel distribution of copies.
New business models that give reasonable yield for all players in the value chain are also crucial. Many of
these issues are complex and can in the short term hardly be solved by any single approach.
Consequently, the NOTTS project will investigate a broad range of topics related to over-the-top media
applications for Internet. NOTTS will provide a platform for collaboration between the European actors to
be able to take a share of this revenue. The joint efforts will enable European harmonization of services,
networks and formats for the whole content distribution chain, which today is a complete mess. In
NOTTS, new media distribution architectures, including peer-assisted solutions and local caching, will be
analyzed using real traffic data from our partners. Consumer demand patters will be analyzed and the
impact of new consumption patterns will be investigated. Further, methods for QoE estimation and
monitoring tools will be developed. In order to address OTT technology and the potential new business
opportunities more thoroughly, the project will also investigate models where traditional network operators
get their share of the raising OTT business. Special attention is paid on targeting to integrate the new
solutions to fit in the already existing management systems.
Also, this project proposes to use scalable and robust video coding techniques to deal with heterogeneity.
Moreover, to take more advantage of these techniques, distributed approaches for media delivery will be
considered for distributing contents on the network. Finally, context information will be used to make the
adaptation process possible. NOTTS will provide a scalable and robust video streaming solution for
CDNs able to deliver adapted contents to heterogeneous devices and networks. Thus, these solutions
enable to provide context-aware services and media-aware networks. The main goal is to improve the
Quality of Experience for the users using the resulting streaming platform. Moreover, NOTTS will propose
methods for offering experiences close to the response time in current traditional terrestrial and satellite
video broadcasting.
The final goal is to obtain an integrated solution, which includes all these techniques in order to achieve a
context-aware and media-aware delivery platform. Network awareness for the streaming protocols will
include link characteristics such as the expected or measured packet error rate and latency as well as a
network link’s capability to efficiently provide service to multiple end devices. As mentioned above,
NOTTS will also adapt the streaming parameters according to the current network conditions, such as
bandwidth and latency, for fixed and mobile devices. In summary, the technology developed in this
project to improve OTT solutions will be implemented to construct the NOTTS solution. This solution will
be available in terms of a NOTTS prototype that will be offered as commercial product(s) available for
when the market is mature enough.
To ensure the dissemination and exploitation of the project results, a number of demonstrators will be
developed. The aim is that the project results will be used in future products of our industry partners.
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The following figure shows how NOTTS helps to assure the proper delivery of OTT services across all the
business and technology domains.
Figure 1. NOTTS scope
3.1
State-of-the-art situation *)
Services such as Video-on-Demand and live TV available over broadband IP networks become reality.
Users want to have access to high quality content at any time, wherever they are, on a device that are
available at the moment and in an interactive way. Traditional TV distribution platforms cannot satisfy
these requirements. Delivery over broadband IP networks on the other hand, allows providers to offer
value added services with an opportunity for truly interactive content access. The main challenges in the
design of a large-scale multimedia delivery system over IP include the large volume of data to be
delivered, high transmission rates and service delay sensitivity. In this section, we will describe the stateof-the-art situation for a wide range of topics included in NOTTS.
3.1.1
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a solution that has been successfully used in systems such as World
Wide Web. CDNs offer fast and reliable services by distributing content to cache or edge servers located
close to users. In this way, a CDN improves network performance by maximizing bandwidth and
improving accessibility. Typically CDN includes content-delivery, request-routing, distribution and
accounting infrastructure for a complete service.
Advantages of CDNs for rich multimedia accessible over broadband IP networks seem obvious. However,
there are differences between a CDN used for traditional Web content and a CDN designed specifically
for multimedia content [Csyrnek08a]. CDNs for Web content typically support only straightforward delivery
of low-quality streams. The multimedia CDNs on the other hand, aim at delivery of content with quality
that can compete with traditional broadcast media, and support for sophisticated services. The special
*)
These chapters are particularly important for the funding countries. Describe carefully the advantages for each involved countries
and explain why a public funding would be beneficial.
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consideration required for delivery of digital video and audio content is due to the specific characteristics
of this type of content. The nature of multimedia content affects a number of design decisions such as
CDN topology, number and locations of replica servers, content allocation and distribution. The
multimedia features that are relevant in the context of a CDN can be roughly divided into two groups: 1)
characteristics of multimedia content objects such as typical data volume and encoding techniques, and
2) delivery and content access modes. The former group includes multi-stream and multi-layer encoding.
The latter group includes scalable and adaptive streaming techniques, and non-sequential content access
modes. A consideration is given also to content demand patterns and its influence on CDN resource
requirements. Both groups and their influence on CDN design are presented in [Csyrnek08a].
A CDN can be a dedicated private network or a shared network. The operational model for each type is
necessarily different since a shared network, i.e., CDN offered as a service, does not impose any start-up
costs and allows for more flexibility in resource provisioning. In [Cahill04][Cahill06] the authors present a
CDN model that does not include start-up costs but is based on the assumption that the number of replica
servers needed for content delivery can change as needed, and defines dynamically changing storage
space and bandwidth requirements.
Two examples of a CDN architecture for multimedia content delivery are presented in [Kusmierek07] and
[Csyrnek08b]. iTVP is a system built for IP-based delivery of live TV programming, video-on-demand and
audio-on-demand with interactive access over IP networks. It has a nation-wide range and is designed to
provide service to a high number of concurrent users. iTVP CDN contains the backbone of a two-level
hierarchical system designed for distribution of multimedia content from a content provider to end users.
At the upper level there are a number of cache servers which obtain content from content providers.
These cache servers distribute content to lower level proxy servers. Content cached by proxy servers is
delivered directly to end users by streaming servers. The two level system functions in two manners: as a
CDN and as a caching system. In CDN content distribution is triggered by a content provider and
performed in a “push” mode. In caching system proxy caches are maintained by network providers,
content distribution is triggered by users’ requests and performed in a “pull” mode. A hierarchical caching
system is more efficient in reducing central repository load and network bandwidth usage. For a fixed
amount of resources a two-level system reduces expected network distance to hit requested content and
decreases the bandwidth usage by implementing an application-level multicast distribution, more than a
flat system with the same number of component nodes. In addition to two levels, the entire distribution
system is also divided into a number of regions which cooperate with one another but are managed
independently. In order to ensure efficient CDN operation, a number of mechanisms are in place to
perform functions such as monitoring resource usage and provisioning the system. In addition to services
which are vital for content distribution, iTVP offers also a number of services available to content
providers, which allow them to modify and manage content to make their offer more attractive and to
provide value-added services.
Platon HD TV [Csyrnek11] provides a country–wide platform that hosts applications supporting the entire
lifecycle of HD content, starting with its production to the delivery to end users. The platform comprises a
variety of components for content processing at its different stages and connects them to provide a
complete processing path. There is a long list of potential applications of HD content such as research
results popularization, education, knowledge sharing and dissemination enabled by Platon TV. The group
of end users includes, but is not limited to, universities, research laboratories, medical clinics and schools.
The design of a CDN for such system is challenging due to the scope of operation, content characteristics
and related technological requirements. In principle, the CDN architecture is based on the concept of
content distribution deployed in PIONIER network and used by iTVP. However, high definition content
targeted by the Platon TV imposed some additional requirements.
In [Tran11], the authors propose an architecture named Content Distribution Network for Cloud
Architecture, which is based on the Quality of Experience. More precisely, this approach uses not only the
QoS criteria but also the QoE representing end-users perception to select the most “performant” server in
the cloud, which will be used to transmit de multimedia data to the user.
In [Dykes00], the authors empirically evaluated six server selection algorithms. The study compares two
statistical algorithms, one using median bandwidth and the other median latency, a dynamic probe
algorithm, two hybrid algorithms, and random selection. Differences in performance highlight the degree
of algorithm adaptability and the effect that network upgrades can have on statistical estimators.
3.1.2
QoE in video services
The network characteristic of video streaming services are varying according to type of application (Web
browser or native mobile application) and container (Flash, Silverlight, or HTML 5) used for video
streaming [Rao11]. Another important factor is the span of time taken by buffering process to playback
the video streaming. The percentage of time spent in buffering process of video streaming has greater
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impact on user engagement with content and also the magnitude of impact largely depends on the
content type e.g. live content [Dobrian11].
3.1.3
Source video coding
Source video coding techniques such as Multiple Description Coding (MDC), Scalable Video Coding
(SVC) and Multi-View Video Coding (MVC) can be applied to improve the scalable and robust media
distribution process. These techniques are well suited for situations where the quality and availability of
connections vary over time. Using MDC or SVC in a, for instance, P2P streaming scenario, the
demanding peer can choose the best peers candidate to make the transfer, and ask for different
descriptors or layers in each case. As all information is travelling by using different routes, if one of the
descriptions or layers suffers packet loss or delay, the receiver is still able to decode the video. Next, both
techniques are briefly described.
3.1.3.1
Multiple Description Coding (MDC)
MDC [Wang05][Goyal01][Puri99] is a source coding technique which encodes a signal (this case a
content) into a number of N different sub-bitstreams (N≥2). Each bitstream is called “descriptor”. The
descriptors, which are all independently decodable, are meant to be sent through different network paths
in order to reach a destination. The receiver can make a reproduction of the media when any of the
descriptors is received. The quality of the reproduced media is proportional to the number of received
descriptors. The idea of MDC is to provide error resilience to media streams. Since an arbitrary subset of
descriptors can be used to decode the original stream, network congestion or packet loss, which are
common in best-effort networks such as the Internet, will not interrupt the playback continuity but will only
cause a (temporary) loss of quality. The quality of a stream can be expected to be proportional to data
rate sustained by the receiver. Several MDC approaches can be found working in the pixel-domain or in
the frequency domain. In addition, techniques can work with spatial or temporal information, even
combining
both
obtaining
hybrid
solutions
([Vitali06][Meng06][Shirani00][Anbang07]
[Vaishampyan93][Jiang99][Tang01]).
3.1.3.2
Scalable Video Coding (SVC)
SVC [Franchi05] adapts the video information to the network constrains splitting the images into different
hierarchical layers. These layers represent the quality of the image, so, from the base layer, each
successive layer improves the image quality, getting the full picture quality with the total amount of layers
used. SVC is the name given to an extension of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compression standard.
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC was developed jointly by ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC. These two groups created the
Joint Video Team (JVT) to develop the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard. This system is compatible with
MPEG-4 in its base layer.
Furthermore, the current HEVC draft to be standardized does not provide any scalable encoding
schemes, but the Joint Collaborative Team of ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG (JCT-VC) has just issued
a call for a scalable extension of HEVC with a dead-line for proposal submissions in October 2012. These
proposals will be followed up inside NOTTS and any opportunity to use the work done by this Joint
Collaborative Team will be considered by the relevant partners.
3.1.3.3
Multi-View Video Coding (MVC)
MVC [Vetro07] has recently attracted a lot of research. Compressing multi-view sequences independently
is not efficient since the redundancy between the closer cameras is not exploited. MPEG and VCEG
groups jointly created an ad-hoc group 3DAV [Smolic03], which received several contributions for MultiView coding. A good review on the proposed algorithms can be found in [Survey05]. As an output of this
work, Multi-View Video Coding (MVC) is generated as an amendment to H.264/AVC, exploiting temporal
and inter-view redundancy by interleaving camera views and coding in a hierarchical manner. The multiview video codec based on H.264/AVC exploiting the correlation between cameras in a backward
compatible way is proposed in [Bilen06]. Several prediction structures are proposed with the signalling in
the bitstream. Codec is based on baseline profile and using only P pictures. It showed superior
performance for dense cameras. First version of MVC extension of H.264/AVC was released in and can
be used for some applications such as real time video communication. MVC is one of the first standards
towards formal 3D encoding.
3.1.4
Segmented HTTP-based delivery
Regarding transmission protocols, segmented HTTP-based delivery is the preferred method of many
vendors, e.g., Microsoft Silverlight Smooth Streaming, Adobe® HTTP Dynamic Streaming, and Apple
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). The Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and 3rd Generation Partnership
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Project (3GPP) have also recently moved to support segmented files delivery with their Dynamic Adaptive
Streaming over HTTP (DASH) initiatives.
3.1.4.1
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
HLS [IETF_HLS] delivers audio and video over HTTP from an ordinary web server for playback on phone,
mobile device, and desktop computers. HTTP Live Streaming Protocol supports both live broadcasts and
pre-recorded content (video on demand). The HLS protocol sends a playlist of small segments that are
made available in a variety of bitrates from one or more delivery servers. This allows the playback engine
to switch on a segment-by-segment basis between different bitrates and content delivery networks
(CDN). It helps compensate for some of the network variances and infrastructure failures that might occur
during playback. HLS is now widely used in some of the media streaming server, e.g. Wowza, and it is
already available as a video delivery vehicle on some of the major devices on the market, like the
iPhone/iPad, Sony PlayStation®3, Roku, Android 3.0, and more.
3.1.4.2
Fragmented MP4 (fMP4)
When it comes to adaptive bitrate streaming over HTTP, file format is very important. The fragmented
MP4 (fMP4) file format [MP4], is the basis of IIS Smooth Streaming, Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming,
and two industry streaming standards, meanwhile the streaming solutions based on MPEG-2 Transport
Streams (M2TS) are the basis of proprietary HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) format developed by Apple.
M2TS format has been used for almost two decades. It has been deployed in different broadcast delivery
systems and physical media supporting formats (e.g DVD). However, little has changed. For instance
M2TS still lacks an integrated solution for digital rights management (DRM). The M2TS derivative used by
the proprietary Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol also lacks timed-text or closed-captioning
features such as CEA 708 for ATSC TV or SMPTE Timed Text for fMP4 Common File Format. The fMP4
file format was specifically designed to address the needs of modern streaming to computers, televisions,
and mobile devices. Therefore, fMP4 offers a number of key benefits over M2TS solutions, such as: (1)
Trickplay capabilities (e.g., fast-forward, pause, instant replay), (2) Seamless stream adaptation to local
conditions, (3) Reduced storage requirements, (4) Backwards compatibility with M2TS-based solutions,
and (5) Integrated digital rights management (DRM).
3.1.4.3
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH)
Popular services such as Netflix use MPEG-DASH-like solutions. In fact, Netflix uses a very similar
solution to deliver fragmented MPEG-4 video via HTTP to a large number of streaming customers.
MPEG-DASH [MPEG-DASH] is a developing ISO Standard (ISO/IEC 23009-1) that should be finalized by
early 2012. DASH is a standard for adaptive streaming over HTTP, similar to HLS and FMP4, that has
the potential to replace existing proprietary technologies like Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Adobe
Dynamic Streaming, and Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). A unified standard would be interesting to
content publishers, who could produce one set of files that play on all DASH-compatible devices.
Recently, the official version 1.5 of the HbbTV specification
[HbbTV] introduces support for HTTP
adaptive streaming (based on MPEG-DASH), improving the perceived quality of video presentation on
busy or slow Internet connections. It also enables content providers to protect DASH delivered content
with potentially multiple DRM technologies based on the MPEG CENC specification.
3.1.5
Application Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO)
The goal of Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) [IETF_ALTO] is to provide guidance to
applications, which have to select one or several hosts from a set of candidates that are able to provide a
desired resource. ALTO is a protocol proposed by IETF. ALTO is realized by a client-server protocol.
ALTO clients send queries to ALTO servers, in order to ask for guidance. Hence, ALTO clients need to
know the contact information of ALTO servers, which can provide appropriate guidance for a given
resource consumer. Furthermore, ALTO integrates Internet standards which will help P2P-clients and
CDNs to choose better neighbours and establish better connections among peers in terms of mapping
the overlay topology to the underlying IP network according to a specific goal (topological proximity,
lowest delay, lower hop distance, etc.) [PetersenALTO][Seedorf09][Kiesel09]. ALTO also considers the
needs of BitTorrent, tracker-less P2P, and other applications, such as content delivery networks (CDN).
3.1.6
Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
P2P networks let us share information without centralized components thanks to the cooperation of
peers. These systems have well known advantages in terms of scalability, robustness or fault tolerance.
Their properties must be considered for the design of the new platform to alleviate the load in the core
CDN, thus, allowing end nodes to share popular contents more efficiently, or to optimize some distribution
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processes inside the platform. However, if all users receive and serve data, the probability that one
stream breaks is higher because of the replication rate of the streams. For this reason, source coding
techniques (e.g. MDC and SVC) are suitable to be used in combination with P2P distribution techniques
to face packet loss. The main problem would be the redundancy they introduce. Some relevant projects
using P2P distribution techniques with source coding techniques are: P2PNext and TRILOGY [i2CAT].
3.1.7
Content-Centric Networking (CCN)
The CCN networks approach [Jacobsen] appears with the tremendous proliferation of content distribution
in current networks. Current IP networking structure cares about where the content is. However, users
care about what contents are offered by networks. CCN is a networking architecture that follows the IP’s
engineering principles, but uses named content instead of host identifiers. CCN maintains the simplicity
and scalability of IP but promises better security, delivery efficiency, and disruption tolerance. Contentaware real-time transmission of future media means that the relative importance of each packet towards
increasing the end-to-end utility function should be established. That is, the more important packets
should be better protected (by allocating appropriately network resources) or should be transmitted first in
a scheduling scenario. An outstanding initiative promoting CNN networks is the CCNx project [CCNx].
3.1.8
Traffic monitoring and analysis
One important part in meeting the challenge of over-the-top services is to understand the Internet traffic
characteristics, especially the Internet traffic patterns of residential end users. These users have
generated according to [Cisco] about 80% of the global IP traffic in the years 2010-2011, and they are
expected to have even larger total traffic share in the next few years. Indeed, many research groups have
so far published a large number of internet traffic measurement and analysis results. For example, in an
early study [Fraleigh03] the traffic statistics in the Sprint IP backbone network were investigated regarding
traffic workload, traffic applications, packet delay, TCP flow round trip times etc. The analyses were
based on short-term (one week) traffic measurement results and did not distinguish business and private
consumer traffic. In the work presented in Fukuda05][Cho06] the residential traffic of 7 major Japanese
ISPs were studied based on up to 3 month long traffic data. However, in this investigation only total traffic
volume analyses were carried out. In Maier09, user traffic characteristics of 20,000 residential DSL
customers in an urban area were reported, based on short-term (up to 10 consecutive days) traffic
measurements. They found that HTTP including video-over-HTTP traffic dominated the network (57.6%).
However, the traffic analyzing tool adopted in this work was not well capable of identifying peer-to-peer
(P2P) traffic, hence a large portion of traffic were unclassified. In Kihl10, Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)
customer activities were characterized, based on up to 6 month traffic data for about 2500 end users. In
RiikonenMSc][Pries09] traffic characteristics of wireless networks were reported, which showed that
even for wireless networks P2P file sharing constitutes more than 50% of the total network traffic.
3.1.9
Local Caching
All forecasts of Internet traffic point at a substantial growth over the next few years, and predict that major
parts of this traffic will be related to video and P2P applications, e.g., [Traffic] and [Hasslinger11]. Cellular
networks take on this growth with new radio technologies. The current problem in many cases is,
however, the backhaul which, firstly, must be upgraded for existing transmitter sites (e.g., from E1/T1 to
Ethernet over fibre) and, secondly, must be expanded to cover additional transmitter sites (e.g., due to
cell splits prompted by growing traffic). At the same time operators are faced with flat or declining
revenues per gigabyte of data, cf. e.g., [Wireless] and [Brydon11], hence their budgets for investments in
the backhaul typically are severely restricted. One way of alleviating this situation is to reduce the amount
of data in the backhaul by distributing content locally through, e.g., highly distributed proxy caching,
locality aware peer-to-peer (P2P) and/or combinations thereof, e.g., [Arvidsson11] [Golrezaei11]
[Karagiannis05] [Li07] [LeBlond11].
The potential gain from such schemes is obviously heavily influenced by the geographical locality of
interest; the more similar the interests in an area, the more likely it is that a request can be served from
caches or peers within this area. Geographical locality with respect to university campuses was
considered in, e.g., [Gummadi03] (repeated Kazaa requests throughout a university network), [Zink08]
(repeated YouTube requests throughout a university network and per user), [Duska97] (repeated web
object requests from multiple campuses) and [Lindsey03] (repeated web object requests at different
network access points as well as per user). Moreover, geographical locality with respect to cities was
considered in [Adya02] (requests for web objects following alert messages) and with respect to countries
in, e.g., [Fessant04] (proportion of eDonkey sources in the country with the largest proportion) and
[Koenigstein10] (correlation between Gnutella requests for songs and countries). However, the
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geographical locality of content interest is to a large extent uncharted territory and that this makes it
difficult or even impossible to assess the potential of local off-load solutions.
3.1.10
Meta Networks
In [Rahman10], the authors address the embedding problem within cloud’s backbone of virtual network
with reliability guarantee against substrate link’s failures. To do so, a new heuristic survivable mapping
strategy is proposed. This latter is based on a fast re-routing mechanism and uses a pre-reserved quota
for backup on each physical link. Unfortunately, the proposal does not recover all the virtual links
transiting over the failed substrate link. Moreover, the nodes’ failures are not considered.
In [Yeow10], the authors focused on defining Survivable Virtual Network Embedding (SVNE) ensuring the
reliability for critical nodes by, initially, allocating backup nodes. The problem is formulated as mixed
integer programming and solved using the open-source CBC solver. The main drawback of this approach
consists in not dealing with substrate links’ failures. Besides, synchronization module between critical
nodes and their associated backups is not detailed.
The challenging point in [Yu10] is that physical failures can affect a geographic region and not only one
substrate resource (i.e. link or node). The authors propound a Non- Survivable Virtual Network
Embedding (NSVNE) strategy as well as two SVNE algorithms. The proposed approaches are based on
heuristic. In fact, the two proposed SVNE strategies use NSVNE to instantiate both the requested virtual
network and the backup resources. It is worth noting that the main drawback of the above proposals
consists in not minimizing the physical resource usage.
3.2
Rationale for the project
There is common understanding that the growth of multimedia content distribution over Internet will
remain high. For several years, the amount of video data transmitted over Internet has doubled every
year. It’s forecasted that the same growth rate will continue for several years. This will create need for
developing new technologies for video content delivery. New technologies are needed to be able to
deliver high-quality content to end-users with low cost, and also low energy consumption. Cost and
energy consumption are in essential role in addition to quality, when content owners and broadcasters
make decisions how they will deliver their content in the future.
Over-the-top services have challenges related to technology, quality issues, cost and power consumption.
Currently major players in content delivery are from outside Europe, thus it’s essential for Europe to
invest in the field, and develop technology and services having technological and economic advantages
over competitors.
The main result of the project is to develop a new service architecture including advanced content
distribution methods together with Quality of Experience monitoring and OTT application control. This
enables service providers to develop their OTT services, which provide good video quality with low cost.
The following figure shows the activities that will be carried out in NOTTS. The detailed tasks are
described in chapter 3 PROJECT AND WORK ORGANISATION.
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Figure 2: NOTTS Activities
3.3
3.3.1
National and European market and business impact
European impact
The whole telecommunication industry is undergoing a radical change as a result of the transition to
digital content distribution. One trend is that large international players dominate the content distribution.
Recently, actors like HBO and Netflix are entering the OTT market of several European countries, in a
time when there have been significant sales of media terminals to consume this content (Smart TVs,
tablets, smartphones, etc.). This means that both the terminals and the services for delivery of media over
the Internet are available to end users. It is not an exaggeration to claim that the OTT media market is
going through a rapid change and increase in number of users and number of available services. Another
trend is that small businesses can be successful with the right combination of technology and business
proposals.
The high demands of quality content over the Internet, especially video, make Over-the-Top services an
appealing source of business opportunities. It has been exploited by several actors so far, but the door is
still open for more competitors. However, the challenge implies a controlled QoS and QoE, interoperable
platforms, consumer behavioral changes tracking, collaboration partnerships and more affordable tariffs
to reach and attracts more users.
The entering of large, mostly American, media companies into the European market may pose a threat to
European players, which will face an increasingly fierce competition. In the light of this, there is a need for
European fora for joint development as well as harmonization of business models, distribution formats
and rights management.
NOTTS will play an important role in bringing together European actors from all parts of the media
distribution chain. The results from the project will be new products and services, but maybe more
importantly, a European wide gathering for knowledge transfer and service alignment. Europe needs to
build knowledge and competence, both in terms of technology development and business development,
to continue to provide opportunities for small businesses to be successful, and avoid the risk of being
eaten by the dominant actors, which would result in growth mainly outside Europe.
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Europe has the potential to create a niche in this business development. The goal of NOTTS is to
contribute to this with a combination of technical network solutions and business development. An
expected long-term impact of the project is that more small European businesses enter the world market
to offer attractive OTT services.
Also, the improved knowledge on consumption patterns and customer experience monitoring solutions
are expected to improve the position of European operators when delivering high quality OTT services to
end users.
3.3.2
National impact for Finland
Similar to other European countries, there is a significant trend towards OTT service delivery in Finland
where OTT services from companies such as Netflix and HBO are being launched at the moment of
writing this proposal. The Finnish market is currently shared by big international players and local Finnish
service providers with a tendency for increasing importance of American service providers. The results of
NOTTS project will increase the competitiveness of Finnish playersand open new opportunities for their
internationalization including cooperation possibilities with the other members of NOTTS consortium. In
addition, the NOTTS targets for increased QoE in OTT services and the related measurement methods
support the ongoing efforts of Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) on defining
acceptable quality limits for services delivered over communication networks. The existing contacts
between FICORA and Finnish NOTTS consortium members enable easy cooperation.
The Finnish business impact is discussed in more detail in Section 2.6.
3.3.3
National impact for France
The NOTTS approach will help telecom operators, service providers, tool vendors and system integrators
to offer solutions that take into account new services with an increasing demand of QoS and QoE.
Exploitation of NOTTS tools and methods by French project partners will strengthen the presence of
French companies in this market segment. NOTTS will allow SMEs and large industrial players to provide
innovative and competitive solutions that guarantee OTT services with a guaranteed QoS and QoE.
The NOTTS framework will also provide an innovative solution to develop multimedia services that can be
exploited by French industrials and other organisations when deploying network services over
heterogeneous systems and devices with differing quality and end-users requirements.
In addition, NOTTS results will be evaluated by industrial partners so that the results will be proven
usable and that they introduce high added value from technical, social and economic perspectives.
NOTTS will also serve the national strategic goal to help SMEs to be more competitive. This is made
possible by the fact that four innovative SMEs are involved in the project with important roles in
defining and building the framework. The participation in the consortium of an industrial, TVN, will also
contribute to stimulate strong collaborations with SMEs. In addition, NOTTS will count with the
participation of the main Multimedia Content Provider in France, Canal+.
The NOTTS consortium, that brings together big & small industrial partners with high level research
institutions, will make it possible to achieve the research objectives; but, also to disseminate and convince
other institutions to participate and follow a more integrated and coherent research agenda in the domain.
NOTTS will contribute not only to the development of new areas of research by demonstrating how QoS
and QoE requirements can be the cornerstone in large-scale projects that involve dynamic services
creation and deployment but also by studying the impact of different Business Models applied to OTT
services. The French partners are already involved in national and European research projects that will
benefit from this work.
3.3.4
National impact for Poland
The market for video distribution over the Internet is quickly growing in Poland. Telcos are competing with
cable operators and pure OTT providers. TP expects that results of NOTTS project will provide
competitive advantage for Polish companies in relation to international players which are entering polish
market, like HBO (already present in Poland), or Netflix (not available yet). New solutions provided by
NOTTS, based on open and standard technologies, should improve the quality of experience for
customers and service efficiency for service providers on Polish market.
PSNC, through its long-term commitment to the development and deployment of next generation services
in its broadband network, has developed many innovative applications and products that have been
challenging the market and showing the future of next generation internet ecosystem. These solutions
emerged from the process of continuous transfer of research results into practice, including media sector,
where PSNC has been active for many years. The media industry is changing in Poland, more and more
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content and services delivering on-line, reaching the scale that implies use of CDN solutions. Through
NOTTS, PSNC expects that innovative architectures, caching strategies and service supervision tools will
be developed and will be applied to the existing CDN solution, that will allow the content delivery services
to be more scalable, reliable and competitive in terms of QoE (compared to managed network providers
solutions). This will strengthen the OTT services deployment possibilities and open the market for new
applications to be deployed.
3.3.5
National impact for Portugal
3.3.6
National impact for Spain
The Spanish market related to this proposal is Telcom & Media. The main industry profiles that will benefit
from NOTTS are:

Operators, SP and CDN: Telefónica, Ono, Vodafone, Orange, amongst others

Content and Over the top (OTT) providers: Mediabox, Mediapro, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix,
Whatsup, amongst others
The National Observatory of Telecommunications and Information Society (ONTSI) has prepared the
annual report of digital content in Spain 2011. It’s main objective is to monitor and analyse the
telecommunications sector. In particular the report shows that the digital content industry has had
revenues of 9.125 million Euros in 2010, 14.1% over the previous year, with an average annual growth of
around 25% in the last five years. This implies that the audiovisual sector is the engine of the industry,
with 44% of the total turnover of 2010.
In Spain, the audiovisual content and services sector is undergoing a remarkable process of digitization.
The adoption of new technologies and Internet usage by Industry is changing business models and the
way the society utilize them. In 2011 the 91.5% of the Spaniards consumed some type of digital content,
whether online or with a device connected to the Internet.
On the other hand the report "The Telecom Sector, Information Technology and Digital Contents in Spain
2010. 2011 edition." indicates that the total turnover in 2010 was 104.373 million Euros, 64.586 million
Euros related to the IT sector, and 39.787 million Euros related to the Content sector.
In particular Telecommunication users in Spain are using more and more OTT services, instead of
operators’ walled garden services. These services range from VoIP services (Viber, Tango, etc.) to VoD
services (YouZee, Nubeox, etc.), including also other multimedia applications such as music streaming
(Spotify) or multimedia messages (Whatsapp). Several stakeholders can be interested in measuring the
user’s quality of experience with these services:

Service providers. They want the users to have the best quality of experience, because this will
make the service more profitable (either directly with subscriptions or indirectly with
advertisements).

Network operators. They want the users to have the best quality of experience with OTT services
so that the users will also get the best quality of experience with the network access service they
provide. They can also define agreements with specific OTT service providers to improve the
performance of these services in their network.

Big companies. Some companies are using OTT services (such as VoIP). They need their
employees to have the best quality of experience to improve the efficiency of the costs of these
services that were used previously in more traditional ways (such as plain telephony).

User associations. They are going to protect the users when they find services or networks that
are not providing a good quality of experience.
3.3.7
National impact for Sweden
Sweden is in a good position to benefit from the ongoing trends in the online digital content delivery
market. It has both the high speed Internet subscriber lines to the residential end users, the telecom
vendors, and the industry climate to foster competitive companies offering innovative services and
solutions. All of the above mentioned players are represented in the Swedish NOTTS consortium.
Ericsson, Acreo and LTH have a strong background in analyzing residential broadband traffic, from e.g.
TRAMMS and IPNQSIS projects. Ericsson has the products and the knowledge of what is required from a
global vendor of telecommunication networks and products to stay on top of the current development.
Alkit Communications creates innovative over-the-top video communication services, tailored for
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demanding customers. Procera Networks provides innovative traffic management solutions, which are
located in the core of operator networks all over the globe. The combined knowledge of the Swedish
consortium ensures that the project will produce relevant results with a significant impact in the form of
prototypes, demonstrations and proposed solutions for OTT content delivery.
The Swedish partners have a good knowledge of the market situation in Sweden and Scandinavia
through participation in national projects, like EFRAIM (Eco system for future media distribution). Through
NOTTS, the Swedish partners will be able to make use of the competence gained in national initiatives
and, together with the other NOTTS partners, create European solutions that can compete with the large
American players currently entering the European market. The knowledge built up in NOTTS will be
crucial for making sure that Sweden can compete in the increasingly competitive OTT media market of
today.
3.4
Technological innovation and strategic relevance
The technological innovation fields of NOTTS proposal are related to over-the-top (OTT) delivery of
services. The project is extremely well timed, since the OTT market is undergoing a big change at the
moment, as discussed in the section “European impact”. It is of strategical importance that European
actors join forces in order to survive and thrive in the competition that gets more and fierce. Otherwise,
there is a risk that Europe falls behind in the media distribution area, which has a huge potential and
increasing annual turnover.
NOTTS will provide a platform for collaboration between the European actors to be able to take a share of
this revenue. The strategic importance of NOTTS is threefold. Firstly, the joint efforts will enable
European harmonization of services, networks and formats for the whole content distribution chain, which
today is a complete mess.
Secondly, the NOTTS service platform will provide better control of coding, distribution, energy efficiency,
security and quality monitoring of OTT services. Clearly, this will provide a competitive edge for European
actors in the whole OTT distribution chain.
Thirdly, but not last, the main benefiters of the solutions are the end users. There is a very strong focus
on end users in NOTTS. The analysis of content demand patterns of real end users will provide input to
the design and requirements of the service architecture of the NOTTS platform.
Further, algorithms for monitoring of experienced quality will be integrated in the service platform, in order
to put the end user first. Today, the services mainly rely on the customers calling the customer support
line for complaints, when the service fails to deliver acceptable performance.
The project will progress beyond the state of the art by designing new service architectures, developing
advanced methods for content distribution, and creating technology for Quality of Experience (QoE)
monitoring and control for OTT applications. In the field of methods for content distribution, the innovation
lies in the innovative use of content distribution technologies (CDN, P2P) combined with caching
strategies based on content demand patterns and methods for optimization of energy consumption. For
QoE monitoring and control, new accurate and deployable tools for QoE estimation will be developed and
innovative ways of exploiting quality information for network and application level control operations
proposed. New service architectures taking into account the multitude of different technical and
operational aspects will be designed using the developed results for OTT content distribution and QoE
monitoring and management.
NOTTS will also analyse the current Business Models utilized for OTT Services which are Advertisement
Model, Subscription Based, Free Model and Pay-Per-View, and adapt those solutions to a dynamic
context strongly connected to high QoS and QoE.
The strategic relevance of NOTTS project is high. As over-the-top delivery of services is getting more and
more popular new techniques for optimizing the delivery and maintaining good enough quality to the
users are needed. Until now the focus of European regulators and research efforts has mainly focused on
operator controlled service delivery, but the focus is now clearly shifting towards uncontrolled service
architectures. From a European perspective, it is now essential to gain a good position in the market
where most of the current big players are non-European.
The project consortium has extensive background on the related technology fields and the NOTTS project
will build on top of the results of preceding projects. These projects include ongoing Celtic IPNQSIS and
Celtic Queen projects and already finished Celtic TRAMMS, Celtic EW-2, and Celtic Scalnet projects.
Many of the NOTTS project partners participate IPNQSIS project where the focus is on customer
experience management related operator controlled video delivery. Experience and results gained in
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IPNQSIS will be exploited in NOTTS and adapted to the specifics of OTT delivery. Similar to IPNQSIS,
several NOTTS partners are also involved in QuEEN project which develops QoE estimator agents,
quality based SLAs and operating support systems for service not limited to multimedia services. The
cutting edge research results for QoE estimation from QuEEN project will be utilized in NOTTS.
Furthermore, results for traffic modelling from TRAMMS, for Quality of Service measurement and
management from EW-2 and for scalable video from Scalnet will be utilized as a starting point for NOTTS
work.
3.4.1
Related Research projects
Indra is leading the R&D and innovation project “ADAPTA: Technologies for Digital Content
Customisation and Interaction", whose aim is to develop innovative technological solutions to enable
users of audiovisual media to interact with customised digital content in various scenarios of everyday life.
ADAPTA develops customized digital contents and user interaction with advertising content to provide
users with information and services according to their own interests, facilitating continuous interaction of
users with the system. The uses cases are two ones: Interactive panel located in a high traffic public
space and hotel TV.
As we have described, ADAPTA aim is to enable digital consumers to have a more personalized
experience on content and advertising, meanwhile NOTTS aim is to enable the deployment of new
multimedia content delivery technology with the QoE required by customers.
VTT is the technical coordinator of CELTIC-Plus proposal H2B2VS (HEVC Hybrid Broadcast Broadband
Video Services) lead by Thomson Video Networks from France. H2B2VS aims at investigating the hybrid
distribution of TV programs and services over heterogeneous networks, Broadcast and Broadband
networks, using the future video compression standard: HEVC. Combining new video compression
technology with innovative hybrid transmission technologies it is possible to enable bandwidth demanding
services such as 3D and Ultra HD.
While H2B2VS concentrates on hybrid broadcast/broadband technologies, NOTTS develops technology
for broadband networks, and especially new multimedia content delivery technology enabling desired
QoE for end users. Thus the aims of projects are not overlapping, but they complement each others.
National French project AUSTRAL targets the multimedia content distribution over IP networks. Its
primary goal is to develop a distribution channel for OTT services. However, the Business Models and
economic impact are not the key elements of the proposal, thus NOTTS will complement that areas,
noticing that NOTTS propose a European partnership.
On the other hand Acreo is leading a national Swedish research project, EFRAIM, which deals with media
distribution from the perspective of the main national players. EFRAIM is focused on the specific business
cases of the involved partners, and thus does not overlap with NOTTS. In fact, NOTTS and EFRAIM will
benefit from each other. NOTTS will bring a European perspective to EFRAIM, and EFRAIM will
contribute with specific use cases from the media companies involved, which will be useful for NOTTS.
To sum up, the main issues where NOTTS differentiates from those related projects are clear:

Management of platforms and services over-the-top (OTT)

OTT services architectures

Content distribution networks (CDN)

QoS and QoE Monitoring of multimedia contents offered by OTT providers
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Use case: Monitoring customer experience in multimedia TV OTT services
3.5
3.5.1
Business perspective or business plans **)
European perspective
Referring to the described market situation in section 2.4, NOTTS expects results and long-term effects of
the following groups: Technical solutions and insights, as implemented in integrated demonstrators and
product-oriented prototypes that can serve as a basis for standardization and development of products
and services.
Improved access to OTT services irrespective of location and time. Bottlenecks in the form of availability
at peak traffic, and live broadcasts have been eliminated with smart networking solutions built on caching
in the network.
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Improved OTT services that deliver the right quality at the right time, based on the user requirements and
expectations and the current state of the network. This is implemented by monitoring services and
increased knowledge of user patterns.
3.5.2
National perspective for Finland
The Finnish NOTTS consortium represents different stakeholders in OTT service delivery. All relevant
players starting from content and solution and service providers (SHEF, Videra) to a network operator
(PPO) are included. Increased competitiveness of each of the involved companies is expected as result
of NOTTS project. For the companies at the beginning of delivery chain the main results will be
technology related to the effective and high quality service delivery decreasing the costs of providing
services while enabling high user experience. For the network owners the results are oriented more
towards utilizing new business opportunities related to the change to OTT services. VTT will support all
Finnish commercial members by developing new technology for the same parts of the chain that the
commercial partners are focusing on.
3.5.3
National perspective for France
In the next years, economy and society will be operating on top of networks and infrastructures offering a
universe of services, features, and functions that are combined, utilised, and dissolved in an on-demand
way. This technology is pervasive, since the infrastructures are available anywhere and anytime and
integrate artefacts, people, processes, authorities and businesses, and, thus, society as a whole.
With the adoption of the NOTTS solution, it will be possible to create truly dynamic services with
guaranteed QoS and QoE. Confidence in QoS and QoE requirements for multimedia services will help to
i) satisfy customers’ expectations about end-user perceived services; and, ii) comply with legislation and
market requirements in terms of service availability and quality. This will allow French industry to develop
new applications and services able to interoperate across a wide variety of business domains,
organisations, countries, and which are guaranteed to comply with a set of regulations. CANAL+ will
provide contents, and distribution platforms in order to qualify the solution and elaborate a viable
model.CANAL+ has launched a live OTT offer on PCs, MACs, Xbox, tablet & mobiles 2 years ago using a
wide range of streaming technoqlogies (Microsoft Smooth Streaming technology, HTTP Live Streaming
from Apple ..) It will bring an expertise on the business model of this kind of distribution to the consortium,
and orientate reflexions about QoS & QoE. Monitoring streams on all devices connected represents a
huge challenge for CANAL+, so as local redistribution of OTT streams.
The improvements of OTT service delivery from NOTTS solution will also benefit to ISP with bandwith
consumption optimization. This optimization is a key when you consider that 30% of Internet bandwith in
the US is dedicated to video streaming services (source: Sandvine, Netflix).
3.5.4
National perspective for Poland
PSNC expects that NOTTS will enable broader development of OTT services that rely on delivery of
multimedia assets with QoE assured. Development of CDN infrastructure and integration of NOTTS
solutions will pave the way to high quality service delivery (including improved HD content delivery) and to
provide expected QoE for the Internet users. We expect this will also influence and create new market
potentials in the area of educational videos and delivery of entertainment content. NOTTS will also help
understand user behaviours/request patterns and plan content distribution strategies for optimal resource
usage in terms of CDN structure, distribution of nodes and network management. We expect this will help
to lower the cost of the service provisioning.
TP (Orange Poland) offers OTT-like service on commercial basis, providing live TV and VOD for PC,
tablets and mobile phone users. TP expects that results of NOTTS project (architectures for delaysensitive delivery of high quality content over the Internet, new streaming technologies) will improve the
services offered to customers on commercial basis.
3.5.5
National perspective for Portugal
3.5.6
National perspective for Spain
The market affecting this product is the telecommunications sector, in particular the area of CDN, OTT,
quality assurance and monitoring of services. The main business purpose of the Spanish Consortium in
their participation in NOTTS, is to provide Telefonica, as the main Spanish CDN operator, a new
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generation of comprehensive solutions to monitor the quality of content services offered over the top by
developing monitoring technologies on the quality of service experienced by end users (QoE).
The second objective is to offer monitoring tools to commercial content providers over the top to enable
them to compare the quality of the experience received from service providers.
Indra's participation in the development of traffic monitoring devices that can later be adapted and
deployed in the distribution networks of Telefonica result in subsequent price reductions and better suited
to the monitoring platforms currently deployed.
To sum up, the Spanish Consortium has the perspective of offering the developed OTT QoE
measurement and analysis products to the existing stakeholders in Spain.
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Service providers: in Spain, these providers are mainly related to TV companies (TVE, Mediaset,
Antena3, Canal+).
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Network operators: in Spain, the main network operators are Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange,
Jazztel, Ono, Euskaltel, Telecable and R.
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Big companies: in Spain these companies can be related to Banking (Santander, BBVA…),
Energy (Repsol, Iberdrola…), Infrastructures (Acciona…) or Distribution (El Corte Inglés,
Mercadona…)
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User associations: there are mainly two Internet user associations in Spain: Asociación de
Internautas and Asociación de Usuarios de Internet. There are also some consumer associations
such as OCU and FACUA.
As a result of activities developed, the Spanish Consortium will offer a innovative industrial product that
fulfils the demand of network management solutions for OTT multimedia services. New technologies to
measure the quality of experience of OTT services in CDN that will be applied to the commercial platform
that will be launched in two stages:
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Incorporation of monitoring capabilities with QoE measures in OTT: To incorporate specific
probes and datasources
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Integration of OTT-based IPTV QoS/QoE capabilities in commercial monitoring platform
In addition we detail in deep the value added and the role of each company in the consortium in section
2.10.3 Exploitation Plans.
3.5.7
National perspective for Sweden
The Swedish consortium will be involved in several activities of the project. When it comes to service
architectures for OTT content delivery, Alkit Communications with its range of video communication
services, will be developing optimized service architectures for scalable and dynamic multipoint OTT
delivery.
The end user experience is crucial in multimedia content delivery services, and thus a large focus will be
put on this. Here, Alkit Communications, in collaboration with Acreo and LTH will develop and implement
no reference quality supervision models and dynamic service adaptation and optimization schemes.
When an increasing number of services are delivered over-the-top, the ability to adapt to dynamic
network conditions will be a competitive advantage. The popularization of tablet computers and
smartphones for interpersonal multimedia communication services will increase heterogeneity in terminal
devices and bandwidth, which means that scalable and adaptive content delivery will be increasingly
important.
The main part of the Swedish effort will be dedicated to the OTT content demand patterns, distribution
schemes and caching strategies. Here, the main actor is Ericsson, which will pose the requirements and
also be the main benefiter of the results. Actual content demand patterns from live residential access
networks will be analyzed in order to create models of popularity and locality of content. These models
will provide input to the development and analysis of optimal distribution schemes (P2P, CDN, hybrid,
etc), caching strategies and the actual impact of the content demand patterns on the networks. In this
work, Acreo, LTH and Ericsson will perform the analysis in collaboration, and Procera Networks will tailor
its PacketLogic device in order to achieve optimized traffic measurements for the purpose. Thus, results
from this activity will be improved monitoring capabilities (content recognition, object naming and storing),
improved caching strategies and public reports and papers. The energy consumption of the analyzed
content delivery schemes will be estimated under realistic scenarios, to evaluate the energy impact of the
proposed caching strategies.
In summary, the main outcomes from the project from a Swedish perspective will be:
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Caching strategies for implementation in Ericsson mobile network solutions.
Multipoint video collaboration solutions with improved architectures and integrated quality
monitoring, as a part of Alkit Communications's business portfolio.
Benchmarking and adding functionality of Procera’s products and solutions regarding content
recognition and OTT business intelligence
Extending the Acreo IP traffic database to include information relevant to OTT content delivery
systems, and building up a time series of data for evaluating trends in OTT delivery.
Building up a demonstration capability related to OTT content distribution at the partner
premises
QoE based controlling strategies for adaptive/scalable video services
QoE models for 3D video
Relevance to Celtic-Plus
As defined in the Celtic Purple book, we will see a large growth in multimedia traffic in the coming years,
both user generated and generated by service providers. The content will be accessed on a number of
different terminals, both in the homes and over the mobile networks. This poses a challenge for the
content delivery, to provide content in the optimal format, resolution and from the optimal datacenter or
cache location. NOTTS will target these challenges, regarding e.g. strategies for caching, service
architectures for OTT content delivery, QoE based monitoring and control.
The new architectures for OTT content delivery will contribute to Future Service Platforms development
paradigm. The scalable, efficient and QoE-controlled open environment for multimedia content delivery is
a key factor for future services deployment, that strongly rely on high quality media experience. It is
crucial to provide it in the over-the-top manner, that will support the concept of global service delivery and
enable third-party applications deployment.
In addition NOTTS intends to improve network management by enabling service-aware resource
allocation based on automatic and intelligent mechanisms for differentiated performance with real-time
trouble shooting capabilities. This way NOTTS project will consolidate network management and
operation frameworks to improve the Quality of Experience in Future networks and services in terms of a
self-management environment to manage new heterogeneous networks. The technologies developed
inside NOTTS proposal will optimise the network management processes to assure next generation
services delivered to end customers.
The expected impact of NOTTS will improve European industry in the field of next generation OTT
services and contents, the underlying network management technologies for QoE assurance, as well as
contributions to standardization bodies and fora. This is how NOTTS will contribute to the Celtic
Integrated systems approach. In this endeavour, lab trials, integration work and field tests will be
performed.
3.7
Major visible results, products
The main outcome result of cooperation activities of this project is to develop a prototype that will serve
as a basis for NOTTS commercial products carried out in cooperation with the consortium partners.
Major visible results from NOTTS will be:
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Improved products for OTT video communication
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Improved products for Video distribution
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Improved products for QoE monitoring and management of video distribution
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Improved products for traffic monitoring and management related to OTT distribution
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Cache strategies for implementation in network caches in e.g. cellular networks
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New service offering and products across the business and technology domains
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Definition of service architectures for OTT services, both delay sensitive services and nonsensitive services
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Description of user consumption patterns for OTT services in live access networks
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Description of how the user patterns impact the service architectures
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Solutions for content distribution, including P2P, CDN, and hybrid solutions
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Strategies for content storage and distributed caching
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Solutions for scalable, adaptive content delivery that maximize end-user's QoE
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Control mechanisms and service supervision solutions based on state-of-the art QoE monitoring
methods.
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Standardisation contributions in a wide range of standardization bodies, as explained in the
section on standardization
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Integrated demonstrators of a wide range of concepts, as well as several prototypes
In addition the new and improved products are detailed in section 2.10.3 Exploitation Plans.
It is important to notice that measuring QoS and QoE in multimedia services can be very different if these
services are provided in a dedicated network (where we focused in the IPNQSIS project) or in a
mainstream network, where thousands of concurrent flows carrying different services are received at the
same time. The second possibility is the one that happens whet OTT services are provided. To solve the
scalability problems of this type of measurements we will apply parallel computing techniques.
On the other hand NOTTS project will have access to a Living Lab, which is essential for tuning customer
experience. Within the field of ICT, Living Labs are a fairly new type of environments for innovation and
development where services and technologies are tried out in contexts familiar to the users. Living Labs
typically consist of end-user contexts in which an advanced infrastructure enables implementation of
cutting-edge technology. Living Labs may facilitate research on end-users’ context and technology
acceptance and uptake, as well as end-user co-creation and feedback activities.
Industrial ICT Living Lab initiatives are represented in two organisations: The European Network of Living
Labs with 19 and Living Labs Europe with 20 Living Lab members 1. Living Lab networking initiatives at
IST Events 2004 and 2006 have been supported by the European Commission.
3.8
Contribution to Standards
NOTTS will cover relevant standards and regulations important for the whole system by analysing
available standards and official models, discussing with experts and standardisation bodies or similar
associations. Critical gaps spots and appropriate measures to fill these gaps will be identified as well as
hurdles and implementation risks. The final outcome will be a recommendation report for testing
procedures and its promotion and implementation in cooperation with the relevant bodies and
associations.
NOTTS standardisation strategy:
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Investigation of available standards and identification of opportunities for contributions to
standardisation bodies (some of them already identified below),
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Specification of standardisation objectives, with special focus on standards based interoperability
and adoption through open source quality and best-of-breed implementations,
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Prioritization of standardisation areas, standardisation bodies and standards,
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Formulation of standardisation strategy considering impact, feasibility, costs and effort,
performance, openness, interfaces, regulations, innovation, risks, existing standards applicability,
tailoring standards, development of new standards,
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Identification of project stakeholders. Dissemination and discussion of objectives and strategy with
these stakeholders,
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Alignment of strategy and formulation of implementation plan according to expert advises (including
e.g. resources, action and communication plan, documentation, continuous review),
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Identification of key people within the relevant standardisation bodies to lobby for support for
concepts and contributions,
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Execution of standardisation strategy and implementation plan. Continuous review and alignment.
Some partners in the consortium are key players in the relevant standardisation domains and bodies.
This will enable the project to prepare the grounds in the standardisation working groups and to provide
inputs to the related standards bodies.
Thus, a specific task has been defined for contribution to standards; that is task 7.4. It will be responsible
for a wider standardisation watch, by following and actively using relevant standards defined by
organizations. The NOTTS project will actively participate and create interrelations with ongoing
standardisation activities in the following areas:
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NOTTS will contribute to standardising measurement ontologies in the framework of the ETSI ISG
MOI (Measurement ontologies for IP traffic). The activities related to experienced quality of video
services will be used as input to the VQEG (Video quality experts group), which works tightly
together with ITU-T for standardising methods for QoE measurements for video.
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Some NOTTS partners are members of the ITU-T Sector member, HPAV BoD member, IEEE
P1901, Homegrid and HGI member will promote the standardization of the QoS/QoE solution
indoor. They also will promote the contributions to the Autonomic Communications Forum (ACF),
ETSI AFI and TM Forum.
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NOTTS will promote the standardization of the QoS/QoE solution indoor in the standardisation
bodies of IEEE P1901 and ITU-T G.hn (ITU-T Sector Member), and the industry alliances of
Homeplug Powerline Alliance (BoD member), Homegrid Forum (founding promoter member) and
the Home Gateway Initiative.
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Contribution to the development of objective methods for measuring experienced quality of
multimedia (including TV) services also known as Quality of Experience (QoE), in particular
NOTTS will contribute to the following groups: ITU-T SG12, which is the responsible for
standardization work on the end-to-end transmission performance of terminals and networks; SG 9
is in charge of video/multimedia quality assessment in ITU-T and WP6C in ITU-R. The world-wide
standardization of speech and video quality evaluation is driven forward by these study groups,
taking into account achievements in regional standardization bodies such as ETSI and ATIS
(Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions). The common vision is that a standardized
definition of objective QoE is needed.
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Contributions as technical reports to ITU-T NGN and IPsphere Forum or Internet Drafts to the IETF
working groups (MPLS, CCAMP and PCE, WG) in scope with NOTTS objectives and framework (in
the form of individual submissions or contribution to official WG documents).
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ADTEL through i2CAT will participate in the standardisation of some components of the NOTTS
project within ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC6 WG7 Future Networks. Currently, some participants are actively
involved in this standardisation body as standards documents editors. In addition, i2CAT will
promote the standardisation within MPEG Modern Media Transport. These groups are aligned with
current i2CAT expertise and NOTTS objectives. Moreover, i2CAT as an active member of the ISO
JTC1/SC6 Technical Committee will assure that the overall results reached in the NOTTS project
will be used to feed the discussions on the ISO board.
3.9
Dissemination activities and exploitation of results
In this section, we present the dissemination plan proposed by NOTTS.
The dissemination of the NOTTS project will be carried out following the three main phases of the project.
During the first phase the main purpose will be to create general awareness about project objectives and
expected results and establish links with related initiatives and projects. The dissemination will be focused
on the description of the project’s aims and objectives, the explanation of how to attain them, the
envisaged results and expected benefits. Moreover, related areas of research and the contribution of
NOTTS to these areas will be presented. During this phase, the main dissemination activities will include:
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The project brochure, which will provide an overview of the objectives, approach, consortium
and targeted results, giving particular emphasis to the scale of breakthrough/innovation expected
to be achieved;
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The project website: providing project description, partners profile and expertise, and regular
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information on the project progress;
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Press releases in specialised journals;
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Presentation at meetings and workshops organised either by the CELTIC Initiative or by other
Network Engineering projects.
The second phase (up to milestone n° 2, T0+24) will aim at increasing the market potential of NOTTS and
will be results oriented, which involves the presentation of the tangible/exploitable results of the NOTTS
project. During this phase, the dissemination will be based on presentations, e.g. publications and
presentation in relevant scientific conferences and exhibitions. The NOTTS consortium has already
identified some related conferences and journal that could be exploited for this purpose.
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Publications: Technical papers will be published in several multi-disciplinary conferences, journals
and magazines, in order to promote NOTTS results and promote the visibility. Targeted conferences
are: ACM SIGGCOM, IEEE ICC, INFOCOM, ICNP, NETWORKING, GLOBECOM, WCNC,
SaCoNeT, IWCMC, ISCC and ACM CONEXT. Targeted journals are: IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking, IEEE Transaction on Communication, Computer Networks, IEEE Transaction on
Computers, ACM Transactions on Adaptive and Autonomous Systems, Journal of Network and
Computer Applications, Annals of Telecommunications, WCMC Wiley Journal, IEEE Communication
Letters, IEEE Network Magazine, ACM Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and
Networking and Information System Journal.
Visibility at more general and networking oriented conferences in order to spread the results and to
achieve a dialogue with other European prayers and projects. Some examples would be: Future
Networks and Mobile Summit, Future Internet Assembly, NEM Summit, etc.
Public demonstrations: NOTTS will have a number of demonstrators, including test beds, simulators
and field trials. The presentation of these activities in a large number of delegates will assist to
achieve the dissemination goals of the consortium.
3.9.1
Raising public participation and awareness
Different activities will be addressed to the general Research and Development community (that refers to
the technological, research and academic communities that are active in the area of networks, policymakers, interest groups, media and the public at large, both at the European and national levels) and to
specific target groups (that refers to potential end users that may seek and use the NOTTS models and
tools, e.g., telecom operators, multimedia service providers, networks companies).
In order to disseminate to these different audiences, some selected channels and means will be adopted:
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Electronic dissemination: The main electronic dissemination means will be the NOTTS web site.
It will contain the main information of the project (e.g. objectives, approach, partners, public
deliverables, news and events). Other electronic means include: posting information on the web
sites of the project partners, electronic mailing, submission of articles in electronic newsletters
and journals.
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Face-to-face dissemination: active participation in conference, trade exhibitions, forums, info
days, concertation meetings and workshops. Those events could be used to disseminate the
NOTTS results.
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Printed dissemination: publication of articles in local newspapers, press releases and contribution
in national and Europe-wide newsletters, scientific and business journals.
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Video material: The NOTTS consortium plans to develop a video material to present the results of
the project to a large community. This video could be used by the CELTIC Initiative for
communication towards general public.
3.9.2
Training Activities
One of the main goals of the NOTTS project is to develop a training programme in the context of the
research communities working on traffic modelling, network and service management, monitoring
techniques, QoS and QoE domains. The project includes the organisation of two extended workshops. It
will also include coaching activities such as visits to research laboratories for in-depth practice in state-ofthe-art themes and techniques. This training programme will be performed in the context of co-ordinated
research activities on the topic.
Briefly, the main objectives of the training programme are:
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To train students, researchers, industrial engineers and technical staff.
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To facilitate integration activities through exchanges, summer schools, workshops, and coaching.
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To stimulate innovation by enabling the cross-fertilisation of ideas between different research
communities and teams.
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To help industry, in particular SMEs, to become more competitive and efficient through the
improvement of their activities that rely on NOTTS research domains.
Being complementary to each other, the NOTTS partners will provide their expertise, research
infrastructure and research environment in this collaborative project. Academic partners will contribute to
the teaching and training of researchers and collaborative research. Indeed, these visits will promote the
secondments to different partners. These researchers will be able to present tutorials on their previous
experience obtained from their staying in other research teams, promoting therefore the transfer of
knowledge.
In particular, the project will organise two workshops, in the first and second year, hosted by two different
partners. These workshops will be used, to present the research developed by the teams belonging to the
NOTTS consortium. Thus, they constitute interesting training measures that may be undertaken on a
network-wide basis.
3.9.3
Exploitation Plans
The project partners will exploit the results from this project as follows:
Indra Sistemas, S.A. (IND)
Organisation Type: Industry
Indra covers the entire value chain of IT services and has developed solutions and services for 3 of the
10 largest operators in the world. Indra's offering covers the entire IT services value chain and our
experience encompasses the main domains of the system map for a telecommunication and media
operator.
Then, the results of this project will be disseminated in the Indra Innovation portal and NEO trend forum,
as well as there will be individual presentations targeted to those Business Units of the Telco related to
QoS and QoE management and monitoring (for example OSS - O&M – Quality Management
Departments at Telefonica Group).
Indra is researching on advanced monitoring solutions for public administrations and corporate clients
with the collaboration of enterprises, local SMEs, research centres and academia. These models are
been applied in OMEGA-QUALITY and GRIFOS platforms, as well as TRAMM initiative. Indra will also
disseminate the NOTTS’s project results in these fora inside the European and Latin American Indra
Group communities. In addition, the results of this project will allow developing specific products for OTT
monitoring, such as iTRACKER.
Indra participates in all activities of the project
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Project management of both European project and Spanish consortium
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Scientific coordination of all technical tasks
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Contribution to all workpackages in terms of
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OTT content and service monitoring: multimedia TV, online music, entertainment, etc.
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QoS in CDN (latency, bandwidth, congestion, etc.)
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QoE in OTT services for customer experience management
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SLA verification with content providers
Leading the business plan implementation
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Product integrated into Indra monitoring portfolio
Alcatel-Lucent España (ALU)
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Organisation Type: Industrial
Alcatel-Lucent Spain has a strategic innovative plan to deploy QoE-driven solutions in order to continue
the worldwide leadership in this field. This project will be a very good opportunity to include a user-centric
paradigm within the core of the well-established IPTV deployments. Consequently, thanks to this project
Alcatel-Lucent will have the experience to industrialise and integrate a new generation of IPTV wholechain of solutions that will be then commercialised actively as it happens with the current solutions.
ALU contributes to all activities (but management) in terms of
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Requirements analysis
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OTT Service Architectures
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OTT Content Distribution Schemes (CDN)
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OTT content and service monitoring focusing on multimedia TV.
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QoS in CDN (latency, bandwidth, congestion, etc.)
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QoE in OTT services via CDN
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Demonstrators (provision of Lab facilities)
Dycec (DYC)
Organisation Type: SME
Dycec will enhance its existing QoS hardware probe, giving it capabilities for analyzing OTT content.
Dycec will contribute to the integration of test-bed in order to validate the solution.
Dycec will contribute to NOTTS in the following tasks:
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Project scenarios for NOTTS implementation
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QoE monitoring and service supervision tools (task leader)
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Test bed design and implementation (task leader)
ADTEL Sistemas de Telecomunicacion S.L. (ADTEL)
Organisation Type: SME
ADTEL will contribute to NOTTS
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Definition of scenarios and requirements focusing on robust and scalable video coding
mechanisms and distribution schemes
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Design, implementation and validation of scalable and robust mechanisms such as MDC,
SVC or MPEG-DASH/HLS suitable for the proposed distribution schemes
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Contribute to the design and testing of the distribution scheme, focusing on P2P schemes
using scalable solutions and development of prototypes of OTT services
Naudit High Performance Computing and Networking, S.L. (NAU)
Organisation Type: SME
Naudit aims to develop in this project new network measurement solutions that lets update its product
portfolio to expand its presence in the network management and monitoring market. In this light, Naudit
will develop a probe that allows passive QoS and QoE measurements for OTT services in high speed
networks. For this, Naudit will apply its expertise in the use of desktop supercomputing hardware (based
on manycore and GPU technologies) to compute and analyse the collected network data in commodity
computers.
Naudit will contribute to the following workpackages: OTT Service Architectures, QoE monitoring and
control, and Demonstrations, Test Beds and Prototyping
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Naudit aims to develop new network measurement solutions that lets update its product portfolio to
expand its presence in the network management and monitoring market.
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Naudit will develop a probe that allows passive QoS and QoE measurements for OTT services in high
speed networks.
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Naudit will apply its expertise in the use of desktop supercomputing hardware (based on manycore,
GPU and FPGA technologies) to compute and analyze the collected big amount of network data in
commodity computers.
Acreo AB (ACR)
Organisation Type: Research institute
Acreo has a long and strong history in refining and transferring research results into viable products and
processes in the industry. The NETLAB department at ACREO will exploit the results in NOTTS to
enhance its research activities in the fields of traffic monitoring and QoE monitoring. This involves
research activities and supervision of Master and PhD students. Further, ACREO will exploit the results in
standardisation, specifically in the VQEG (Video Quality Experts Group) and the ETSI MOI (Measurement
ontologies for IP traffic). The data collected in the course of the project will be an important asset for
research and collaborations with industrial and academic partners. The development of an extensive IP
traffic data base and the ways to explore this data base can be seen as a kind of product development in
a research institute context. The knowledge gained from the project will be used for knowledge transfer
activities towards Swedish industry, regarding e.g. business aspects of data collection. This is an
increasingly important question with the changing business landscape of OTT service delivery, where old
business models are no longer applicable. Acreo will extend its current experience in video QoE to also
encompass adaptive and scalable video codecs, as well as in how to use them to optimize the video
quality, based on the current network conditions. How this will be adapted to the emerging 3D video
services will also be considered.
Ericsson AB (EABS)
Organisation type: Industry
Ericsson is a global provider of mobile and fixed networks, multimedia solutions and telecom services.
The results from NOTTS will give input to Ericsson’s work towards providing optimized content delivery in
cellular networks. The measurements and analysis of live data from production networks in NOTTS will
provide models for describing the characteristics of the residential user demand for OTT content. This will
provide input to understand the gains of different caching strategies, and the results will thus be used in
Ericsson’s efforts to provide smarter networks with caching (and other forms of optimization) as a part of
the network solution. Such products will give Ericsson a competitive advantage on the world market were
operators must handle traffic that increase much faster than tariffs.
Further, the outcomes of the project will in the first place give Ericsson Security Research (ESR) a deeper
knowledge of how we can combine capacity and performance improving caching techniques with security
amplifying encryption and data integrity functions. This will give us the capability to contribute to the
development of competitive secure communication products that meet increasing demands on privacy
protection as well as robustness against Cyperattacks. The outcomes will also strengthen our work in
standardization fora.
Procera Networks (PRO)
Organisation type: SME
Procera Networks delivers Intelligent Policy Enforcement (IPE) solutions for network operators, that
leverage industry-leading Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology. The participation in NOTTS will
enable Procera to deepen its knowledge and abilities regarding OTT content distribution. The capabilities
built up in the project will especially be manifested in improved methods for content recognition, naming,
and sorting. Also, methods for taking action based on content demands, such as redirections to local
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caches, will be developed. Through the participation in the project, the collaboration with network vendors
like Ericsson and content providers like Canal Plus, will enable Procera to stay on top of the changing
business landscape and to take a position in the transformed OTT economy.
Intitut Mines Telecom/ Telecom SudParis (ITP)
Organisation Type: Academic
The ITP exploitation efforts will be two-fold. Internally, the aim will be to exploit the NOTTS results in
order to advance relevant research in ITP. The enrichment of the context of existing courses, as for
instance, Traffic Engineering, or the introduction of new topics will also be an objective for ITP. On the
other hand, external exploitation of the results will include efforts for the dissemination of the results in
other fields (such as protocol engineering and telecommunications) and amongst other academic
partners and companies, as well as publication of the results in prestigious conferences. Dissemination of
results in standards organization as ETSI and IETF is also planned.
Canal + (CPLUS)
Organisation Type: TV operator
Canal + Distribution will provide to the consortium a large scale of content and format distribution to
address many devices in order to allow an evaluation of the NOTTS solution in real conditions. The aim
will be to exploit the NOTTS results in monitoring tools in order to improve the quality of existing OTT
services. Furthermore additional services like “PVR in the cloud” or content sharing in the local home
domain could capitalize from the NOTTS results with a better understanding of content distribution and
cache strategies.
Thomson Video Networks (TVN)
Organisation Type: Industrial
The results of the project will be used to strengthen the expertise of Thomson Video Networks in the
domain of HEVC encoding and OTT distribution.
The prototypes developed in the framework of NOTTS will be the basis for the development of new
products matching the requirements identified by the project. Furthermore, business models studied in
WP7 will help TVN to have a better view of the market and, hopefully, to increase TVN’s market share in
OTT market.
The results of the project will be promoted to customers and partners visiting Thomson Video Networks.
Montimage (MIF)
Organisation Type: SME
Montimage is a French SME developing monitoring tools that allow the inspection of security properties in
distributed systems and networks in order to detect key performance indicators, anomalies, security
flaws, misbehaviour, etc. through packet inspection techniques. Montimage will take advantage of the
knowledge and technological innovations created in the NOTTS project to adapt and scale-up these tools
to measure and supervise QoS and QoE parameters of over-the-top multimedia services. Montimage will
also benefit from the self-learning techniques developed within the NOTTS project. They will be used to
improve its tools in order to deal with performance and capacity management in dynamic environments,
paving the way for automated management of media distribution. By extending its tools with these new
features, Montimage will be able to commercialize more competitive monitoring tools and will be able to
target new customers and markets.
ALKIT Communication (ALK)
Organisation Type: SME
Alkit Communication's current business comes from providing communication solutions to the industry,
health care and education sectors. With improved technology and competence about QoS/QoE issues
and scalable over-the-top communication architectures, Alkit will be able to deliver improved services to a
larger range of customers. Moreover, by having better control of the application's performance in different
network conditions, Alkit can explore new business models wherein the company provides a service to
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their customers instead of individual hardware and software components. Alkit will improve existing
products by development of scalable media encodings (e.g. H.264 SVC) and implementation of noreference quality supervision models and dynamic video quality adaptation and optimization mechanisms.
This will enable new applications of Alkit's technology and improve the company's competitiveness.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
Organisation Type: Research
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland aims at expanding its current knowledge in the domain of
network management, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience in particular with respect to over-thetop services. Further knowledge in this domain will support VTT’s position at the leading edge of
QoS/QoE research, and provide opportunities for further cooperation and technology transfer with both
Finnish and European industry players. Also commercialization of results through spin-off companies is
possible.
PPO- Yhtiöt Oy (PPO)
Organisation Type: Telecom
PPO aims to understand better how utilse latest techniques of Quality of Service and Quality of
Experience for network management and over-the-top service delivery for production use. PPO aims to
gain knowledge of integration and commercialization of next generation IPTV services.
Super Head End Finland Oy (SHEF)
Organisation Type: SME
SHEF is looking to gain understanding of Quality of Experince management, architecture and content
management for the next generation over-the-top IPTV services. Aim is to get understanding new
emerging ecosystem and value chains for over-the-top IPTV services.
Videra Oy (VID)
Organisation Type: Telecom Operator
Videra seeks to increase the level of understanding on how to approach Quality of Service and Quality of
Experience of visual communication services, mainly video conferencing, distributed and operated in a
open network as a over-the-top service delivery. Specially Videra is intrested in researching the topic of
analyzing and measuring QoS and QoE in OTT services delivered in unknown networks.
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences - Poznań Supercomputing and
Networking Center (PSNC)
Organisation Type: Research
PSNC will exploit NOTTS results in the fields including content delivery architectures, content caching,
service monitoring and QoE. Through the NOTTS participation PSNC will continue and widen its
international cooperation with leading market providers and research centers and will be able to deliver
improved media delivery services in Poland. We expect that NOTTS results will enable to deploy next
generation media services with managed and monitored QoE, which will be key success factor for the
future OTT developments.
Ip-label (ILN)
Organisation Type: SME
Ip-label is the European leader in QoE monitoring for data, video, telephony and mobile applications. Iplabel provides solutions in cloud mode (Datametrie) and licence mode (Newtest) in both active (probe)
and passive (Real User Monitoring). Active probe give to customer low level informations and especially
troublesoting and diagnostic traces whereas passive monitoring gives a view for 100% of users whatever
the device, the provider, the operating system, the browser and the location. Etimated QoE in passive
abalysis needs accurate informations of the technical end-user context. Your need in term of expectations
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are not the same depending, for example, the kind of network you use (fixe or mobile for example). Those
parameters have to been taken in account and accurately measured. In NOTTS project, ip-label will
specifically work on those aspect, to qualify end-user context for passive QoE measurement.
Lund University (LTH)
Organisation type: Academic
Lund University is one of the major universities in Europe, with education and research in all areas. The
Broadband Communications research group, participating in NOTTS, performs research in close
cooperation with industry. Therefore, the results from the project can be exploited both in academia and
industry. Also, the group will publish papers at high-quality conferences and journals, supervise master
projects within NOTTS, and include the project results in the master courses at the Department of
Electrical and Information Technology.
University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)
Organisation Type: Academic
As an academic partner, this participation in NOTTS project will improve the knowledge and experience
of the researchers, and bringing together experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and
present results on advancing the state-of-the-art and overcoming research on the challenging issues
related to NOTTS topics. The enrichment of the context of existing courses, as for instance, CDN
Multimedia, or the introduction of new topics will also be an objective for UPEC. Additionally, further
research topics can be originated by promoting MsC and Ph.D. candidates and exploiting project results
through its Master courses and its PhD programs as well. On the other hand, external exploitation of the
results will include efforts for the dissemination of the results in prestigious conferences and journals and
also participating in standards organization as IEEE.
Telekomunikacja Polska
Organisation Type: Telco
TP will disseminate project results in the commercial and academic communities. TP team will promote
project results by internal presentations and demos to Orange business units. Being a part of Orange
Labs research community, will also contribute to conference and journal publications, participate in
workshops and demos.
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PROJECT AND WORK ORGANISATION
4.1
Project structure
The proposed WP structure is described in the following figure.
WP1 Project Management
WP3
OTT services
architecture
WP5
QoE Monitoring and Control
WP4
OTT content
distribution
WP2 Requirements
& Scenarios for
NOTTS
WP6 Demonstrations,
Test-bed and
prototyping
WP7 Business models and exploitation of project results
Figure 3. WP structure
The WPs and their respective tasks are briefly described below.
WP1 – Project Management
Administrative and technical management.
WP2 – Requirements and Scenarios for NOTTS
This WP will describe the scenarios to be dealt with in the project, as well as the requirements that will be
deducted from the same
T2.1 – Project scenarios. Here, the scenarios (use cases) to be considered will be described. Also
limitations of the project will be defined.
T2.2 – Requirements. The requirements on services, architecture imposed by the project scenarios will
be summarized here.
WP3 – OTT service architectures
This WP will describe architectures for OTT services.
T3.1 – Architectures for delay sensitive services
T3.2 – Architectures fo adaptive and scalable multimedia services
T3.3 – Architectures fo Multipoint services OTT
WP4 – OTT content distribution
T4.1 - OTT content demand patterns. Analysis of content demand patterns in live networks, and their
implications on network and service design.
T4.2 - Distribution schemes (CDN,P2P, etc). Analysis of different distribution schemes, comparison of
their respective performance under realistic conditions.
T4.3 - Content storage, cache strategies. Strategies for distributed caching of content in networks, close
to the end users.
T4.4 - Energy efficiency analysis. Analysis of energy consumption of different scenarios, architectures,
content demand patterns.
WP5 – QoE monitoring and control
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T5.1 - QoS analysis for QoE modeling. Correlation between QoS and QoE.
T5.2 - QoE monitoring and service supervision tools. Tool development
T5.3 - QoE maintenance and control. Development of control mechanisms for QoE maintenance
WP6- Demonstrations, test beds and prototyping
T6.1 – Test bed design and implementation
T6.2 – Prototypes and Demonstrators of project results
WP7 –Business models and exploitation of project results
T7.1 - Business models and market trends.
T7.2 – Socio-economic, legal and security aspects
T7.3 – Demos and Exploitation of project results
T7.4 – Dissemination and standardization
The following figure summarises the main activities inside NOTTS project.
Requirements,
scope, limits
OTT multimedia
service
architectures
Scenarios
Delay
sensitive
services
OTT content
demand
patterns
QoS analysis
for QoE
modelling
Requirements
Adaptive and
escalable
multimedia
services
Distribution
schemes
(CDN,P2P,
etc)
Multipoint
services OTT
Content
storage,
cache
strategies
QoE
monitoring
and service
supervision
tools
OTT content
distribution
Multimedia QoE
monitoring and
control
QoE Control
Business models
Techno –
economic
analysis
Cost
Optimization
QoE based
SLA
management
Energy
Efficiency
Figure 4. Main activities inside NOTTS project
4.2
Project Calendar
The project calendar should contain a planning of the tasks in the project with the critical dependencies.
The partner should know when he is expected to contribute critical inputs for the project.
The provisional date for the Mid Term Review should be chosen shortly after the half time of the project
duration. It should also allow a meaningful assessment of the project and should therefore include
Milestones and Deliverables that fall near the Mid Term of the project.
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Year 2
Year 1
M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9 M10 M11 M12 M13 M14 M15 M16 M17 M18 M19 M20 M21 M22 M23 M24
M
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Figure 5. Gantt chart of project calendar
4.3
Risk assessment
The project organization defines all required measures to handle risks that may appear during the project
period and mitigate their potential effects. The timeliness of producing results is continuously controlled to
identify and evaluate potential risks. The responsibilities are assigned at project start, and regular
meetings and reporting of TL, WPL, SC and PC at project management level enable development of risk
mitigation plans, should this become necessary. Continuous revision of the risk assessment and
mitigation plans is managed by the SC and PC throughout the project duration. For major achievements,
which are critical for the success of the project, milestones have been already now been defined.
Mayor risks are found in the requirement definition phase in WP2. Open issues will lead to wrong or
missing requirements. To minimize the risk, the work has to be clearly structured, intensively discuss and
review all results.
Regarding monitoring of network traffic, there are a number of ethical principles and national laws to
obey. If these are not obeyed, there is an obvious risk of juridical problems or badwill. This risk, however
is estimated to be low, since the project participants have a long experience from working with monitoring,
and especially since there is a number of partners from the Celtic IPNQSIS and TRAMMS and FP7
projects MOMENT and PRISM, who deal with monitoring and privacy protection.
Other risks can appear in the integration of components from the different partners. In such cases, all the
interfaces should be tested and verifies until a successful integration is achieved. The dissemination and
standardization is prone to different risks e.g. dissentions on the content of the contributions to standards,
in the case of standardization activities; important delays or non availability of the needed resources.
However, if some of these risks are detected, the responsible of the WP7 will schedule an extraordinary
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meeting, making use of the web site to exchange information on the advance of the corresponding
activities.
The risks and their associated contingency plans are summarized in the table below.
Type of risk
Misunderstanding or
unawareness of
requirements
Risk level
Contingency plan
Medium
Close feedback loops between requirements gathering,
usage scenarios and development activities to be able to
quickly identify and correct erroneous or missing
requirements.
Legal issues due to integrity
problems with traffic
monitoring
Medium
Ensure that data from traffic monitoring are free from
personal information as far as possible. Awareness of
relevant legislation in different countries. Ensure informed
consent of users of testbeds.
Subjective QoE studies
skewed by a narrow or non
representative selection of
subjects
Medium
Design subjective studies based on established guidelines
and standards. Complement the results, if possible, by
objective measures.
Unexpected impact of
requirements on the
development of the
customer experience
management system
Medium
Review process to identify impractical requirements and to
prioritize the most useful requirements for inclusion within
the specification and development phase.
Test services and
components of the CEMS
problematic to deploy and
operate in test beds
Medium
Involve partners with experience in previous test bed efforts
and ensure availability of extensible test bed infrastructures.
Problems integrating
components from different
partners
Medium
Operate the different components in identical conditions
controlling then the information that would potentially flow
between monitoring and management components of the
test-bed.
Problems with in
dissemination and/or
standardization activities
Low
Management mechanisms designed to handle this.
4.4
4.4.1
Work breakdown
Work Package List (optional)
Work
Package
number
Work Package title
Type of
activity2
Lead
participant
short name
Person
months3
Start
month4
End
month5
1
Project Management
MGT
IND
49.2
M0
M24
2
Requirements and Scenarios for
NOTTS
RTD
TP
98
M0
M8
2
RTD = Research and technological development; DEM = Demonstration; MGT = Management of the consortium; OTHER = Other
specific activities if applicable in this call, including any activities to prepare for the dissemination and/or exploitation of project
results and coordination activities.
3
The total number of person-months allocated to each Work Package
4
Measured in months from the project start date
Measured in months from the project start date
5
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OTT service architectures
RTD
PSNC
204.3
M3
M23
4
OTT content distribution
RTD
ACR
233.7
M3
M23
5
QoE monitoring and control
RTD
VTT
273.6
M3
M24
6
Demonstrations, test beds and
prototyping
DEM
ALU
279.7
M6
M24
7
Business models and
exploitation of project results
OTHER
ITP
144.1
M0
M24
4.4.2
WP 1
WP1
WP - Title: Project management
WP Start date M06
WP End date M247
Description
This work package aims to the overall project management, and includes the administration and financial
management as well as the technical coordination.
Expected results (deliverables)
At the technical level there are two main trends:

Overall technical planning, ensuring that the objectives and outcomes of the project remain aligned
with worldwide trends and the CELTIC programme objectives.

Daily technical management. Subject to the working plan, and overall technical planning, ensure the
appropriate collaboration between partners, the appropriate information between work packages,
quality control of the deliverables, and monitoring of the technical progresses.
The management will be carried out by IND which will handle the administrative and financial
management, and focus on the overall technical planning, ensuring that the objectives and outcomes of
the project remain aligned with worldwide trends and the CELTIC programme objectives. The main
activities to be carried out in this work package are:


Administrative and financial management

Organisation of Project Management Team

Contacts and relationship with CELTIC

Overall administrative and financial project management

Responsible for submitting contractual documents and deliverables
Technical Coordination

Organisation of Technical Committee

Overall technical planning

Project progress monitoring against foreseen milestones

Quality control

Technical problem monitoring
Annual Audits (carried on per partner basis and may vary from country to country) and quarterly reports.
Each quarter will be delivered
Partners (WP-leader first):
IND, ITP, PSNC
Milestones and delivery dates:
M1.1 Kick-off meeting report
M2
M1.2 Annual CELTIC audit- Year 1 M12
M1.3 Annual CELTIC audit- Year 2 M24
6
7
Measured in months from the project start date
Measured in months from the project start date
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Tasks in this WP:
T1.1 Administrative management, and Technical Coordination
WP1 Partners and role (WPL; TL)
IND (WPL; TL)
ITP
PSNC
Country:
Spain
France
Poland
Effort allocation (PM)
36
7,2
6
Deliverables (D1.x) and milestones (M1.x)
Indicate title or short explanation
D1.1 Periodic report (1st year)
Type (report, software)
Due date
(month/yyyy):
M12
D1.2 Periodic report (2nd year)
Report on project status at
year 2
Report on Kick-off meeting
M24
M1.2 Annual CELTIC audit- Year 1
Report on project
Assessment at MTR
Self
M12
M1.3 Annual CELTIC audit- Year 2
Report on project Self
Assessment at Final Review
M24
M1.1 Kick-off meeting report
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4.4.3
WP 2
WP2
WP - Title: Requirements and Scenarios for NOTTS
WP Start date M08
WP End date M89
Description
This WP forms the basis for the rest of the project. It defines the scenarios to be dealt with in the project,
as well as the requirements that will be deducted from the same.
Expected results (deliverables)
Partners (WP-leader first):
Milestones and delivery dates:
Tasks in this WP:
Task 2.1: Project scenarios (VTT, IND, ALU, DYC, ADTEL, ACR, EABS, ALK, ITP, UPEC, VID, PPO,
NAU, PSNC, TVN, SHEF, MIF, CPLUS, TP)
The use cases and related scenarios directing the work of the project will be defined in this task. Also
limitations of the project will be defined. The scenarios will selected so that wide variety of different kinds
of OTT services are studied, including delay sensitive services, adaptive and scalable multimedia
services, and multipoint OTT services.
Task 2.2: Requirements (VID, IND, ALU, DYC, ADTEL, ACR, EABS, ALK, ITP, UPEC, VTT, PPO, NAU,
PSNC, TVN, SHEF, MIF, CPLUS, TP)
This task defines requirements for the NOTTS system based on the results of T2.1. Each of the selected
use cases and scenarios will be analysed to derive specific requirements on OTT content distribution
techniques and related QoE monitoring and control methods. These requirements will serve as the
starting point for the work packages WP4, and WP5. The work is performed partially in cooperation with
WP3 gathering state-of-the-art information on currently used OTT content distribution architectures.
WP2 Partners and role (WPL; TL)
Country:
CPLUS
CPLUS wil participate in T2.1 & T2.2 with an operator point of view
already involved in OTT content distribution. CPLUS will propose use
cases that represent the technical and commercial challenges to be
studied. These a re related to the Diversity Environment (Multi-Device,
Multi-Format, Multi-OS, and Live Channel broadcast), Content
Redistribution and Storage, and Security.
France
Effort
allocation (PM)
10
NAU
Spain
3
PSNC
PSNC will contribute to T2.1 and T2.2 with the project scenarios for delay
sensitive services and the corresponding requirements on OTT content
distribution techniques.
Poland
3,5
ITP
ITP will contribute to the definition of the scenarios for the QoE monitoring
and multimedia services. The contribution will be on T2.1.
France
7,2
MIF
MIF will participate in the definition of the scenarios and requirements,
focusing on network monitoring and management for optimising OTT
techniques.
France
4,8
TVN
TVN will participate in T2.1 and T2.2 and bring its expertise to the
definition of scenarios & requirements in the context of video encoding
and streaming.
France
2
Naudit will contribute to T2.1 and T2.2.
8
9
Measured in months from the project start date
Measured in months from the project start date
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UPEC
UPEC will work on two use-cases for OTT services. The first use-case is
a content distribution network (CDN) in which end-users select their
content server based on the quality of experience (QoE) provided by each
candidate server. The second use-case is an adaptive, virtualized
network provider performing dynamic network reconfigurations based on
QoE feedbacks and user profiles, to select the most efficient content
provider (e.g. video provider). UPEC participate also in the definition of
the required architectures based on services provided by the proposed
architecture.
France
4
ALK
ALK will participate in T2.1 and T2.2
Sweden
2
ACREO
Acreo will contribute to the specification of uses cases for OTT content
distribution and the derivation of requirements from these. Especially, as
WP leader of WP4, Acreo will act as a bridge from WP2 to WP4, in order
to ensure good communication within the project.
Sweden
1
EABS
EABS will participate in T2.1 and T2.2
Sweden
1
VTT (T2.1L)
VTT will participate the specification of use cases and the requirements
for NOTTS systems. VTT’s special focus is in the requirements for QoE
monitoring and control as VTT leads WP5.
Finland
8
PPO
PPO will contribute to the scenarios and requirements tasks.
Finland
4
SHEF
SHEF will contribute to the scenarios and requirements tasks.
Finland
4
VID (TL2.2)
Definition of use cases (e.g videoconferencing, streaming and digital
signage). Requirements for the defined use cases.
Finland
6
ALU
ALU will participate in WP2 for scenarios and requirements analysis
Spain
5
IND
Indra will contribute to both tasks of this WP2 in terms of definition of the
scenarios and the specification task.
Spain
12
DYCEC
DYC will participate in T2.1 and T2.2
Spain
6
ADTEL
ADTEL will participate in the definition of the scenarios and requirements,
focusing on robust and scalable video coding mechanisms and
distribution schemes.
Spain
6
TP (WP2L)
TP will contribute to T2.1 and T2.2. with telco operators’ view on
scenarios and requirements. TP will propose use-cases that correspond
to technical and business challenges important for telco operator and
OTT services distributor at the same time.
Poland
2
Deliverables (D2.x) and milestones (M2.x)
Indicate title or short explanation
D2.1 Use cases and scenarios
D2.2 Requirements
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WP 3
WP3
WP - Title:
WP Start date
Description
WP End date
Expected results (deliverables)
Partners (WP-leader first):
Milestones and delivery dates:
Tasks in this WP:
WP3 Partners and role (WPL; TL)
Country:
Effort allocation (PM)
Deliverables (D3.x) and milestones (M3.x)
Indicate title or short explanation
Type (report, software)
Due date
(month/yyyy):
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WP 4
WP4
WP - Title:
WP Start date
Description
WP End date
Expected results (deliverables)
Partners (WP-leader first):
Milestones and delivery dates:
Tasks in this WP:
WP4 Partners and role (WPL; TL)
Country:
Effort allocation (PM)
Deliverables (D4.x) and milestones (M4.x)
Indicate title or short explanation
Type (report, software)
Due date
(month/yyyy):
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WP 5
WP5
WP - Title:
WP Start date
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Expected results (deliverables)
Partners (WP-leader first):
Milestones and delivery dates:
Tasks in this WP:
WP5 Partners and role (WPL; TL)
Country:
Effort allocation (PM)
Deliverables (D5.x) and milestones (M5.x)
Indicate title or short explanation
Type (report, software)
Due date
(month/yyyy):
1.1.1
WP 3
WP3
WP - Title: OTT service architectures
WP Start date: M310
WP End date: M2311
Objectives
This WP will describe architectures for OTT services. A review of current situation will be performed as
well as possible scenarios for the future. At a later stage of the project, the results from WP4 and WP5
will be mapped onto the described architectures, to analyze the impact that our results will have on
architecture design.
There are three tasks defined for this WP, each referring to a different aspect of multimedia services, i.e.,
delay sensitivity, scalability and adaptivity, and multipoint operation. The scope of each of these tasks
includes the current state-of-the-art, analysis of the future use case scenarios, and architectural solutions
for services given requirements defined by users' expectations on the one hand, and technical
capabilities (current and future) on the other. One of the goals of the state-of-the-art analysis is to provide
information that combined with the analysis of scenarios defined by WP2 would allow WP2 and WP3 to
cooperatively formulate requirements for content distribution (WP4) and QoE solutions (WP5). The future
scenarios as well as assumptions for consideration of various architectures will be provided by WP2.
The key elements for service architectures consideration in the scope of WP3 are:
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character of services offered, namely high quality real time multimedia delivery,
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over-the-top approach to service delivery, and multipoint operation,
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diversity of resources available including client terminals, access technologies, network capacities.
The work in the respective tasks of the WP will be conducted in parallel with the same milestones
integrating results for all tasks. The contents of these milestones will provide input into the WP3
deliverables.
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Description and expected results
Task 3.1: Architectures for delay sensitive services (TL: PSNC; Participants: IND, ALK, ADTEL,
ALU, UPEC, Naudit, VID, CPLUS, TP)
Users’ expectations impose fairly strict requirements on the latencies for multimedia services. The
expectations of live TV over Internet performance similar to traditional TV broadcast platforms is just one
example. Typically multimedia services should be realized in real or nearly real time. The work in this task
will concentrate on the issue of service delay sensitivity and cover current OTT service architectures with
respect to the ways in which delay requirements are addressed, the delay requirements for the future use
case scenarios and description of the OTT architectural solution that would focus on delay sensitivity
aspect.
Task 3.2: Architectures for adaptive and scalable multimedia services (TL: ADTEL, Participants:
ALK, VTT, PSNC, TVN, ALU, UPEC, VID, PPO, SHEF, ACR, LTH, CPLUS, TP)
Work in task 3.2 will concentrate on adaptivity and scalability aspects of multimedia services. The former
applies to service system capability to adjust to available resources including network (core and access),
storage and computational power, user’s terminal capacity and potentially context and user preferences.
The latter characterizes service ability to scale with an increasing number of users, content types,
sources and resources needed to offer the service.
Task 3.2 will cover analysis of the current OTT solutions with respect to their ability to adapt services
offered and their scalability. Some examples are source coding techniques such as Multiple Description
Coding (MDC), Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and MPEG-DASH. It will examine the future use case
scenarios and their requirements and describe architecture for OTT services that will exhibit the required
adaptivity and scalability.
Task 3.3: Architectures for Multipoint services OTT (TL: ALK, Participants: PSNC, TVN, UPEC,
VID, VTT, PPO, SHEF)
Multipoint service can be defined as a service that offers multiple access points and multiple ways of
accessing the service on the one hand, and provides results in various ways and forms on the other.
More importantly, multipoint service coordinates efforts and aggregates input from various users. Work in
this task will concentrate on the OTT architectures that currently enable such services, requirements
toward service architecture identified based on the future use case analysis and architecture that would
address these requirements.
WP3 Partners and role (WPL; TL)
Country:
PSNC (WPL, TL3.1)
PSNC will lead work in WP3 and in T3.1, where its main contribution
will be. PSNC will describe CDN architectures for delay sensitive
services and participate in the analysis of delay requirements for
scenarios defined by WP2.
Poland
Effort allocation
(PM)
15,5
IND
IND will focus on OTT architectural solutions for QoE assurance in
delay sensitive services.
Spain
16,8
ALK (TL3.3)
ALKIT will focus on algorithms, mechanisms and protocols for
scalable and adaptive audiovisual communication services. This
includes application of scalable video codes (e.g. H.264/SVC) and
receiver-driven bandwidth adaptation for delay-sensitive OTT
services, such as videoconferencing and VoIP, in both point-to-point
and multipoint scenarios.
Sweden
10
ADTEL (TL3.2)
ADTEL will contribute in WP3 in the design, implementation and
validation of scalable and robust mechanisms such as MDC, SVC
Spain
33
In T3.2 PSNC will contribute the description of scalable CDN service
architecture and participate in the analysis of scalability
requirements for scenarios defined by WP2.
In T3.3 PSNC will contribute towards description of architecture for
services that aggregate input from various users.
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and MPEG-DASH suitable for the proposed distribution schemes
(WP4).
UPEC
UPEC will contribute in T3.1, T3.2 and T3.3 as following:
France
18
ALU
ALU will focus on multimedia delivery architectures in tasks T3.1
and T3.2.
Spain
24
TVN
In T3.2 Thomson Video Networks will propose a video system
allowing the encoding/transcoding solution for producing live OTT
services. Thomson Video Networks will implement on this system
the HEVC encoding, the future encoding standard which will
improve the compression efficiency allowing the network capacity
increased by a factor 2
France
28
VTT
VTT will develop adaptive http streaming technologies such as
MPEG-DASH. Integration of adaptive streaming into CDN
architectures will also be studied. Methods for enabling content
creation and transmission from several users, as well as supporting
heterogeneous device base as clients utilizing the content.
Finland
21
PPO
PPO will focus on OTT multimedia delivery architectures from
operator's point of view. Contribution to T3.2.
Finland
11
Naudit
Naudit will work in task T3.1, dealing with the delay impact on OTT
Spain
3
UPEC will work on the design of a holistic OTT service architecture
for a video content provider. For example, UPEC will develop the
architecture of the two use-cases proposed in WP2. In particular, it
will design a QoE-based server selection method, using self-learning
algorithms to maximize user’s QoE. Our work focus on a server
selection layer based on parametric and evolving mechanisms that
simultaneously attempts to acquire new knowledge and to optimize
its decisions based on existing user's feedbacks.
In a second step, UPEC will design an adaptive, virtualized network
architecture able to dynamically reconfigure itself and scale to the
increase of the popularity of a given OTT service considered
multiple constraints (such as sensitive ones). The problem of
efficiently mapping a virtual infrastructure over a wide-area optical
network and guaranteeing the survivability in the event of failures is
primordial. In fact, an efficient instantiation of virtual networks should
guarantee the required QoS and QoE. These requirements are
described in service contract named Service-Level Agreement
(SLA). This latter includes the whole requirements, such as: i)
computational resources, ii) bandwidth, iii) delay, etc. It is worth
noting that communication resources are very critical for real time
application (i.e. streaming). Accordingly, virtual infrastructure
mapping should take into account these requirements in order to
avoid violating SLA. We are dealing with the mapping of virtual
networks within the Cloud’s backbone network into physical network
in an efficient way.
T3.3 With its common multi-profile encoding, Thomson Video
system serves many different consumer devices. With this
approach, this content is encoded once and packaged into multiple
formats and multiple resolutions, allowing the reduction of
processing capacity. This enables a single system to deliver the best
television experience for many consumer devices (mobile phones,
smartphones, tablets, PCs, STB, Connected TV and Satellite
receivers).
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services
SHEF
SHEF will contribute to the T3.2 video content delivery architetures.
Finland
3
VID
Architecture for selected OTT videoconferencing (and streaming)
service. Centralized and distributed (“cloud based”) architectures,
multipoint communications. Streaming (of recorded video) and
digital signage service architectures
ACR
ACR will contribute to T3.2 in the work with scalable video coding.
Finland
6
Sweden
7
LTH
LTH will contribute to T3.2 in the work with scalable video coding
CPLUS
CPLUS will propose the evaluation of current OTT architectures
employed based on different metrics (like delay, QoE, QoE, etc.)
that will provide reference parameters for later improvement and
optimization. For example, measuring Zapping Time or Service
Distribution Delay, so as live dynamicity issues (transitions, real time
storage for a direct access to Catch’up TV, etc.).
Sweden
4
France
4
TP
TP will contribute to T3.1 and T3.2. In T3.1 TP will work on delaysensitive delivery of OTT TV, with special interest on efficient
distribution of live HD content. In T3.2 TP will focus on adaptive
streaming technologies (e.g. MPEG-DASH) for content delivery to
diverse access networks and terminals (PC, smartphone, tablet).
Poland
16
Deliverables (D) and milestones (M)
Indicate title or short explanation
M3.1 Description of current OTT service architectures
Type (report, software)
Due date (m/y):
Report
M4
Report
M7
Report
M12
Report
M23
(input from all tasks in the WP)
M3.2 Use cases, scenarios and requirements impact
on architecture design
D3.1 Description of OTT service architectures and
future scenarios
(this report has input from all tasks in the WP)
D3.2 Analysis of result impact on architecture design
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WP 4
WP4
WP - Title: OTT content distribution
WP Start date: M312
WP End date: M2413
Objectives
This WP will deal with OTT content distribution from a practical systemic perspective. The user and
the usage of OTT serices is in focus. On the one hand, different distribution schemes will be evaluated
regarding performance (T4.2), in order to guarantee a satisfactory user experience. On the other hand,
content demand patterns in existing OTT services will be analyzed and characterized (T4.1). The
availability of detailed data sets on end customer content demand patterns among the partners builds
a foundation upon which the WP can build models for customer behaviour. This approach will enable
us to analyze performance of various distribution schemes under realistic conditions. Suggestions for
content cache strategies, based on the customer demand patterns will be produced in T4.3. The
cache strategies will detail e.g. which objects to cache at different aggregation levels in the network
(data center, local network cache, terminal cache, etc, ). This is an important decision for e.g. mobile
operators where bottlenecks may be found in the mobile backhaul network.
Altogether the first 3 tasks of the WP will provide input to T4.4, in which we will analyze the energy
consumption of all parts of the distribution chain under the conditions outlined in T4.1 – T4.3. The
complex OTT media distribution chain handles increased amounts of traffic and it is clear that the
energy consumption for storage and distribution is increasing. The availability of real data regarding
customer demand patterns will enable the WP to make realistic calculations of energy consumption for
different scenarios. An important parameter in this aspect is the content popularity, since the number
of customers demanding an object is a crucial parameter for deciding where to cache the object, i.e. in
the data center or in a cache close to the users.
The work in the respective tasks of the WP will be integrated, in order to ensure knowledge transfer
between the respective areas of expertise. Several intermediate milestones are planned. These
milestones will summarize work within the task. The contents of these milestones will provide input
into the deliverables of the WP, which will assemble and integrate results from several tasks, as
indicated in the list of deliverables.
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Description and expected results
Task 4.1: OTT content demand patterns (EABS/ACR, LTH, PRO, PSNC, PPO, UPEC, CPLUS,
VTT, TP)
Analysis of content demand patterns in live networks, and their implications on network and service
design.
In order to get reliable statistics on content demand patterns, a part of the work in the task is to
assemble data from live networks. This activity will build upon methods and frameworks established in
the IPNQSIS project, where data was collected simultaneously in Sweden and Finland. New data will
be collected in NOTTS, and the collection and processing methods will be developed to fit in the
NOTTS scope. The data will be collected, post processed and anonymized, so that it may be used for
analysis in the task, without violating integrity or crossing any legal boundaries.
The analysis of the data will focus on creating models for consumption patterns under certain
circumstances, such as user type, access type, service type, etc. The models will provide input to
T4.2, T4.3 and T4.4 regarding the impact on distribution schemes, cache strategies and energy from
the consumption patterns.
Task 4.2: Distribution schemes (CDN,P2P, etc) (VTT, PSNC, IND, ADTEL, ALU, ACR, TVN, UPEC,
MIF, EABS, VID, PPO, SHEF, CPLUS)
Analysis of different distribution schemes, comparison of their respective performance under realistic
conditions.
In order to achieve a reliable, cost-effective and feasible distribution, several existing mechanisms will
be studied. This task will study, which distribution scheme is most suitable for OTT services. The
bottlenecks of current distribution schemes especially in OTT use case are declared. The work will
utilize the work done in T4.1, T4.1, and WP3. Also combining different distribution schemes like P2P
and CDN will be studied, for instance, P2P techniques can be used in the last mile or among the
clients in a local area in order to reduce the load in the CDN core. The main criterions for selecting the
distribution scheme for content distribution are quality of service, reliability and cost.
Input from T4.1.
Task 4.3: Content storage, cache strategies (PSNC, ALU, ACR, EABS, UPEC, VID, CPLUS)
Strategies for distributed caching of content in networks, close to the end users.
The main goal of this task is to define strategies for distributed caching of content close to end users.
The input for this process will come from WP2, WP3 and WP4 tasks: T4.1 and T4.2. First, use cases
and scenarios provided by WP2 and subsequent requirements towards content distribution defined by
WP2 and WP3 will be analyzed with respect to storage and caching. Scenarios and requirements for
various kinds of OTT services will be the starting point for defining caching strategies.
Next the results provided by T4.1 and T4.2, regarding content demand patterns and distribution
schemes for OTT services, will be taken into account. Content demand has great impact on the
effectiveness of caching close to the end users. Hence, the demand patterns identified by T4.1 will be
a valuable input. Caching strategies also depend strongly on the distribution scheme. Different
strategies are optimal for traditional CDN and different for P2P. The proposed caching strategies will
be described in D4.1. At a later stage of the project, the impact of the proposed strategies will be
analyzed and evaluated.
Task 4.4: Energy efficiency analysis (LTH, ACR, MIF)
The analysis and design of energy efficient media distribution and storage systems are complex tasks
that require deep knowledge of network infrastructures, services, and user behaviour patterns.
Therefore, the main goal of this task is to make an attempt to investigate the energy consumption of
different scenarios, architectures, and content demand patterns. We will use inputs from T4.1, T4.2,
T4.3, and available data from other European projects, for example EARTH. We will investigate issues
as energy consumption demands for media content storage, and analyze the energy effects on using
cache servers in the networks. Also, we will analyse the accuracy of existing models, using real data
from our partners. The results will be presented in D4.2.
WP4 Partners and role (WPL; TL)
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ACR (WPL)
Acreo will lead the work in WP4. The main technical activity for Acreo in
the WP is in T4.1, where content demand patterns will be monitored in
live networks. The monitored data will be collected, processed and
analyzed, in order to reveal characteristics of content demand patterns.
Also implications of these patterns on network and service design will be
analyzed. A part of the Acreo effort will also be spent on energy
efficiency related to demand pattern. Here, we will analyze the impact of
demand patterns on different distribution sschemes, and their respective
impact on energy efficiency.
Sweden
12
EABS (TL4.1)
In T4.1 EABS will guide the technical work with requirements for data
collection and post processing, as well as contribute to the analysis and
modelling work to be performed on the acquired data.
Sweden
36
LTH (TL4.4) will focus on tasks 4.1 and 4.4. In 4.1, LTH will contribute
with traffic analysis in collaboration with Acreo. LTH will lead the work in
task 4.4. Also, LTH will supervise master projects in collaboration with
the other Swedish partners.
PRO
Procera will contribute to the monitoring effort by providing expert
knowledge on traffic identification and classification. Advanced
monitoring schemes will be constructed, tailored to the project needs.
Sweden
8
Sweden
6
ALK
Procera will contribute to advanced monitoring schemes will be
constructed.
Sweden
4
VTT (TL4.2)
VTT willl study how different distribution schemes work for OTT
services. Especially CDN and adaptive HTTP streaming technologies
are used as distribution schemes. VTT leads task 4.2. In addition, VTT
participates the data collection for content demand pattern analysis.
Finland
15
PSNC (TL4.3)
PSNC will contribute in tasks T4.1, T4.2 and T4.3. Specifically, the
contribution will include analysis of content demand data and
identification of patterns typical for a CDN, analysis of content
distribution schemes in CDNs, and description of caching strategies in
CDN.
Poland
11
ADTEL
ADTEL will participate in task T4.2 designing, implementing and testing
different distribution schemes.
Spain
33
IND
Indra will contribute to T4.2 in terms of defining the different distribution
schemes to support OTT contents
Spain
23
CPLUS
CPLUS will offer its experience and real metrics that can provide
insights of different key elements for this WP. For example, Storage and
Content Retrieval Techniques, Content Delivery, Content Classification,
Transcoding, System Load, and Delayed TV services. CPLUS will also
work on the evaluation of the different distribution schemes and cache
strategies proposed in T4.2 & T4.3 reliability, quality of service ,
performance, peak load…
ALU
Alcatel-Lucent is working on the development of advance infrastructure
solutions for network service providers to deploy Digital Media Delivery
capability. Suitable Digital Media Delivery Platform would accelerate
time to market for consumer multi-screen environment as well as allow
service providers to offer better video experience for customers.
Advance technology and expertise in Content Delivery Networks are key
to provide high performance video dsitribution as well as faster file
France
12
Spain
32
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download to subscribers.
MIF
The main contribution from Montimage is to adapt their monitoring tool
to perform online analysis and prediction of OTT content demand,
distribution and energy consumption; and also in defining Self
Organising Network type optimisation strategies. Concerning energy
consumption, they will work on how the network resources need to
adapt to usage changes for reducing energy consumption. The work
relates mainly to T4.2 and T4.4.
France
9,6
TVN
In T4.2, Thomson Video Networks will propose video encoding and
adaptive bitrate streaming solution with interfaces to CDN providers,
enabling the distribution of Over The Top Live services.
France
6
UPEC will contribute in T4.1, T4.2 and T4.3 as following:
UPEC will contribute to the analysis and modelling work to be performed
on the acquired data collected in T4.1. UPEC will also develop their own
testbed for a large set of young student population. In a second step,
UPEC will explore the possibilities of various content distribution
schemes, in the context of video streaming. In particular, it will design an
optimal server selection algorithm that takes into account feedbacks
from users, the network state and user profiles. In a third step, it will
design an adaptive, virtualized network architecture able to dynamically
reconfigure itself and scale to the increase of the popularity of a given
OTT service. Also, UPEC will work on the self selected provider with
adaptive mechanisms based on autonomic approaches and the
development of a proactive distributed knowledge scalable plan. This
latter can be used to select the best provider for a given service based
on real time passive and active users feedbacks.
France
10
VID
Distribution of H-264/svc based OTT video conferencing services,
especially access through distributed router cloud. Caching of digital
signage and streaming content
Finland
7
PPO
PPO focuses on Task 4.2. Contribution is to content distribution
schemes.
SHEF
SHEF will contribute to video distribution schemes. Contibution is to task
4.2.
TP
TP will work in T4.1 on OTT content demand patterns, using its
expertise from previous projects related with traffic monitoring.
Finland
6
Finland
3
Poland
10
Deliverables (D) and milestones (M)
Indicate title or short explanation
M4.1 Report on distribution schemes for OTT
content distribution (T4.2)
M4.2 First report on content demand patterns
(T4.1)
D4.1 Caching strategy analysis
Input from T4.1, T4.2, T4.3. Led by T4.3
Type (report, software)
Due date (m/y):
Report
M4
Report
M8
Report
M12
M4.3 Second report on content demand
patterns (T4.1)
M4.4 Framework for energy efficiency analysis
(T4.4)
D4.2 Impact analysis of OTT content
distribution (input from all tasks, led by T4.4)
Report
M16
Report
M18
Report
M23
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WP 5
WP5
WP - Title: QoE monitoring and control
WP Start date: M314
WP End date: M2415
Objectives
Over the top delivery of content sets new challenges related to service quality. This work package
focuses on the issue of Quality of Experience (QoE) for OTT services. The work is structured in three
parts: QoE modelling, tools for QoE monitoring, and QoE maintenance and control.
Description and expected results
Task 5.1: QoS analysis for QoE modelling (UPEC, IND, VTT, VID, PPO, SHEF, ALU, NAU, VGC, MIF,
ITP)
While relationship between objective QoS parameters and subjective QoE is quite well covered in earlier
work for services such as video and audio streaming using traditional streaming methods (e.g. RTP), the
QoE models for OTT services haven’t been so thoroughly studied. This task develops the methods and
models for QoE estimation for NOTTS services.
Task 5.2: QoE monitoring and service supervision tools (DYC, IND, ALU, VTT, VID, PPO, PSNC,
NAU, VGC, MIF, ITP, UPEC)
This task is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of tools for monitoring of OTT
service delivery. This includes both network traffic analysis based tools for QoE monitoring and service
supervision tools based on application/platform level monitoring.
Task 5.3: QoE maintenance and control (VTT, IND, VID, PPO, MIF, UPEC)
Awareness on the performance of service delivery can be used to optimize it on two levels. At the
network level QoE information can be used to perform intelligent network control operations such as
access control or traffic prioritization. If the network is unable to deliver good enough performance,
operations at the application layer can be used to deliver highest possible quality. This task includes the
development of control mechanisms for QoE maintenance both for the network and application layer.
WP5 Partners and role (WPL; TL)
Country:
VTT (WPL, TL)
VTT will lead the work package. In addition, VTT will lead task T5.3
where methods on utilizing information on quality delivered will be
used to perform control actions both at the network and application
level. VTT will also participate tasks for QoE modelling and
monitoring.
Finland
Effort allocation
(PM)
22
VID
QoS analysis of OTT selected video conferencing and streaming
services for QoE modelling. Either video conferencing or digital
signage QoE monitoring and supervision tool development.
Maintenance tools for the solutions.
Finland
13
PPO
PPO will work on QoE monitoring from the network operator’s
perspective.
Finland
12
SHEF
SHEF will contribute to QoE monitoring from IPTV service providers
perspective.
Finland
3
PSNC
PSNC will take part in T5.2 and will design, develop and implement
tools for service supervision that will be based on
application/platform level monitoring parameters. A framework for
service monitoring, along with appropriate interfaces will be defined
and implemented.
Poland
8,5
ALU
Spain
24
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ALU will contribute on QoS analysis for QoE modelling for OTT
related multimedia services
DYC (TL)
DYC will develop their monitoring tool to be able to analyze OTT
content. DYC is willing also to offer their developing software team
for the implementation of any aggregation software that may be
necessary to integrate data generated by other probes.
Spain
31
IND
Indra contributes to all task in this WP5 in terms of QoE Analysis,
QoE supervision requirementes and monitoring issues to feed QoE
control management.
Spain
32,2
NAU
Naudit will participate in tasks T5.1 and T5.2. In T5.1 it will contribute
to the development of methods and models for QoE estimation for
NOTTS services based on measured QoS. In T5.2 it will contribute
to the design, development, and implementation of tools for
monitoring of OTT service delivery.
VGC
VGC will develop the methods and models for QoE estimation for
NOTTS services and implement them in CPE devices.
Spain
23,1
France
16
MIF
MIF will adapt its fuzzy logic methods for the estimating QoE of OTT
services. This, as well as optimization procedures (automated and/or
manual), will be integrated to the MMT monitoring tool.
France
19,2
ITP
ITP contributes to the definition of methods and models for QoS
analysis and QoE modelling. ITP also participates to the
development of monitoring tools.
France
18
UPEC (TL)
UPEC will contribute in T5.1, T5.2 and T5.3 as following:
France
16
France
9
As UPEC’s use cases are relying on an accurate assessment of the
quality of the content perceived by end-users, we will focus on
developing specific QoS/QoE correlation models for OTT services,
and in particular in video services over TCP. A large number of
models have been proposed for videos delivered over RTP/UDP.
One has long considered that TCP is not suitable for multimedia
streaming traffic, especially for video, because of large end-to-end
delay variations and sudden decrease of TCP throughput when it
reaches a congestion state. Today’s Web applications for video
playback are using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as a
transport protocol rather than the RTP/UDP because mostly of video
contents over the internet are not live and users have larger
bandwidth than the video bitrates. Therefore, an increasing number
of video services are based on the HTTP or RTMP protocols, which
rely on the TCP transport protocol. By using the buffering and
retransmission mechanism of TCP, it is possible to eliminate the
effects of packets losses, which improves the visual quality
(eliminates missing data) but introduces buffering issues that must
be taken into account in a QoS/QoE correlation model.
UPEC will also contribute to define a real-time control/command
plan which maintain the global chain treatment based on QoE
feedbacks and the real state of the network.
ILN
ILN will work on new passive approach for end user context
(bandwidth, latency, jitter, device performance…) analysis. In this
task, we will specifically study the behavior of download process
inside the browser regarding slow start strategy used by TCP. The
goal is to provide an estimate of end user available bandwidth
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without filling it completely, being as unintrusive as possible.
Deliverables (D) and milestones (M)
Indicate title or short explanation
M5.1 State of the art in QoE modelling for OTT
services
M5.2 Preliminary design of OTT QoE
monitoring and service supervision tools
M5.3 Preliminary design of OTT QoE
maintenance and control methods
D5.1 QoE models for OTT services
D5.2 Tools for OTT QoE monitoring and
service supervision
D5.3 Methods for OTT QoE maintenance and
control
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M9
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M11
Report
M12
Report
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M21
M22
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WP 6
WP6
WP - Title: Demonstrations, Test Beds and Prototyping
WP Start date: Month16 6
WP End date: Month17 24
Objectives
This WP copes with the Design and Implementation of the Test Beds as well as the build of the
Prototypes and Demonstrators of the project results, corresponding to the OTT Services Architectures
and Content Distribution defined in WP3 and WP4, as well as the integration with the QoE Monitoring
and Control components defined in WP5.
The activities performed as part of this WP are split in two tasks: T6.1 dealing with Test bed design
and implementation and T6.2 dealing with the build of Prototypes and Demonstrations of project
results.
Participants:
ALU, IND, NAU, ADTEL, ALK, VTT, PPO, VGC, UPEC, MIF, VID, TVN, PSNC
Description and expected results
Task 6.1: Test Bed Design and Implementation (DYC, ALU, IND, NAU, VTT, VID, PPO, SHEF,
VGC, UPEC, MIF, TVN, PSNC, CPLUS, TP)
This task serves to the implementation of a functional OTT test-beds that uses the technologies
studied in previous WP’s:

Definition of interfaces between the different components of the system.

Integration of components developed in previous WP’s,

Implementation of testbed components,

Validation of components and equipment to check compliance with expected quality and
stability parameters.

Testing of use cases.
Task 6.2: Prototypes and Demonstrators of project results (ALK, ALU, IND, NAU, ADTEL, ALK,
VTT, VID, PPO, SHEF, UPEC, MIF, TVN, PSNC, CPLUS, TP)
This task will focus at development and building of Prototypes and Demonstrators.
Prototypes and demonstrators will leverage the work performed in previous WP’s to show suitable
OTT architectures for content distribution as well as QoE monitoring and control.
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ALU (WPL)
ALU will take part in tasks T6.1 and T6.2. In T6.1 it will contribute in
the testbed design and implementation for OTT service delivery. In
T6.2 it will work on the development of prototypes and
demonstarators dealing with multimedia content distribution.
Spain
Effort allocation
(PM)
40
IND
Indra will participate in both tasks for testbed design and
management of the prototypes and demosntrators.
Spain
27,6
NAU
Naudit will take part in tasks T6.1 and T6.2. In T6.1 it will contribute
in the testbed design and implementation, defining interfaces with
the implemented monitoring tools, and validating such monitoring
tools in use cases. In T6.2 it will work on the development of
prototypes for QoE monitoring in OTT services.
Spain
15
DYC (TL6.1)
DYCEC is task leader. He will focus mainly in the development and
integration of test beds.
Spain
20,7
ADTEL
ADTEL is focusing on development of prototypes and demostrators
of OTT services.
Spain
14
ALK (TL6.2) is focusing on development of prototypes and
demostrators of OTT services.
VID
Test Bed Design and implementation of selected OTT video
conferencing and digital signage solutions developed in previous
WPs, use case testing. Prototyping and demonstrations of vid conf
and digital signage solutions.
Sweden
6
Finland
12
VTT
VTT will participate in design and development of Finnish
demonstrator. A prototype for demonstrating projects results will be
build and used for demonstrations as well as for making tests with
real users.
Finland
16
PPO
PPO will participate
demonstrations.
Finland
16
SHEF
SHEF will participate to test bed design, implementation and
demonstrations.
Finland
6
VGC
VGC will create a test bench representing the last mile to integrate,
validate and run test on NOTTS components developed by partners
and applicable in CPE equipment.
France
8
UPEC
UPEC will be involved in T6.1 and T6.2 based on their use cases
which are relying on an accurate assessment of the quality of the
content perceived by end-users. The demonstrator will focus on
developing specific QoS/QoE correlation models for OTT services,
and in particular in video services over TCP. The whole testbed wil
integrate the CDN architecture proposal, the self learning
virtualization meta layers and the proposed knowledge plan.
France
4
MIF
MIF will integrate its monitoring and optimisation tools to the NOTTS
demonstrator.
France
4,8
WP6 Partners and role (WPL; TL)
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ILN
ILN participates in all tasks.
France
15
CPLUS
CPLUS will bring its expertise in order to provide content,
distribution platforms, and assist in the implementation of test beds
that will permit the experimentation and measurement of key
performance indicators.
France
12
TVN
TVN will contribute as described hereafter to WP6
France
5
PSNC
PSNC will be involved in T6.1 and T6.2 to design and develop
testbed components that will implement caching strategies, content
distribution schemes and will integrate them with other testbed
components. PSNC will also integrate service supervision tools
developed in T5.2 with the testbed. The prototypes and
demonstrators will be the result to be presented.
Poland
21,5
TP
TP will contribute to T6.1 and T6.2. It will work on testbed design,
providing its expertise as network and service operator. TP will
develop and evaluate prototypes of NOTTS project in the testbed
facilities, covering end-to-end chain of OTT TV services (with
content preparation, service platform, content delivery, access
network, end device).
Poland
24
T6.1 – Test bed design and implementation: TVN will contribute to
the definition of the interfaces, to the integration and validation of
our convergent video system with the NOTTS system.
T6.2 – Prototypes and demonstrators : TVN will participate to the
demonstrations dealing with OTT content distribution and which will
use the TVN equipment developed in the other WPs.
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Deliverables (D) and milestones (M)
Indicate title or short explanation
D6.1.1 Definition of interfaces (T6.1)
M6.1 Integration of tools and test-bed
implementation (T6.1)
D6.1.2 Integration of tools and test-bed
implementation (T6.1)
Type (report, software)
Due date (m/y):
Report
Report&SW
M11
M21
Report&SW
M24
D6.2 OTT Demonstrator Phase 1 (T6.2)
M6.2 Specification of Prototypes (T6.2)
D6.3 OTT Integrated Prototypes and
Demonstrator Phase 2 (T6.2)
Report&SW
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Report&SW
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M21
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1.1.5
WP 7
WP7
WP - Business models and exploitation of project results
WP Start date: M018
WP End date: M2419
Objectives
This WP deals with the exploitation of projects results, their dissemination and standardisation. These
are crucial issues since they will ensure the lasting impact of the achievements expected from the
project. It is important to both address the existing standards and contribute to the on-going
development of new ones. In order to make the project objectives, proposals and results widely known
to the general public, academic communities and stakeholders (telecom operators, service providers,
etc.), a significant number of dissemination activities will be planned, specified and performed. Also
relations with related projects will be considered within this WP. As the number of actors involved in
media distribution is increasing, the complexity and competition increases. The roles of the actors vary,
as many are trying to get a piece of the revenue. It is no longer easy to define companies just as
“operators” anymore, as the operators may also provide their own CDN. In some constellations, the
internet transit providers join forces with a CDN, but in others, the transit provider is bypassed by the
content providers that join forces with CDN. The revenue from advertising is increasing, while transit
prices are decreasing, creating new economic conditions for the actors. This WP will analyze the
current economy and roles concerning the media distribution over the internet. Business models of the
actors will be investigated, and scenarios for the future will be created.
The issues of rights and security are closely related to the business models and the available services.
It is of paramount importance that the content owners have basic trust in the security solutions
deployed by content providers and CDNs. This is the very foundation on which digital media distribution
is built. In this task, the current situation will be described regarding rights management, security
mechanisms to protect these rights. The cost of deployment is also tightly bound to the distribution
model, security mechanisms, and the customer base that may be reached.
The WP leader will be supported by the industrial partners (Indra, ALU, Ericsson, Thomson Video
Networks, PPO, Alkit, Montimage, CPLUS, Procera, Naudit, Dycec, SHEF and Videra) to assess the
project results in terms of their technical and economical feasibility, and relevance and by the academic
partners (Acreo, VTT, ITP , PSNC, ADTEL) for the support of dissemination activities. Both industrial
and academic partners will participate in the design of scenarios leading to the development of
business models for the proposed OTT services.
Description and expected results
T7.1: Business models and market trends (TVN, ITP, CPLUS, PPO, PSNC, VID, SHEF, MIF, VTT,
TP)
This task has as main objective the design and description of business models associated with OTT
media delivery. Scenarios for the future will be elaborated and proposed by the industrials partners in
order to provide general business model for different OTT services. They will be discussed by the
partners and included in the exploitation plans. As a reference, we will consider the main business
models used in the OTT context which are:
•
Revenue from advertisements
In this case, OTT providers obtain revenue by including advertisement in the content delivered. An
example of this scheme is presented by Hulu, offering ad-supported on-demand video [hulu12].
•
Subscription based
The perception that content on the Internet is always free [NYT07], have a negative impact on this type
of model. However, users are willing to pay if the delivery content has high quality standards. We see
players like Netflix [OBI10] where users pay a monthly fee to access a huge amount of multimedia
content.
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No fees, free model
In this scenario operators provide OTT services for free with high QoE. The point is to attract more
subscribers, increasing customer satisfaction and reducing churn rates.
•
Pay-per-view
In this scenario the subscriber pays for each video session with high QoS. In this case the only source
of revenue is what the user pays. However, by creating partnerships with content providers, operators
can generate revenue as well. They will pay the operator for delivery of their content with high QoS to
Pay-per-view users.
The common denominator of the afore mentioned approaches is centered on high quality of Experience
and about solving technical challenges like Diversity Environment (multiple devices, diverse multimedia
formats and Operating systems, etc.), Content Management and Delivery among other factors. Thus, in
this task all those elements will be analyzed to provide and propose adapted Business models for OTT
Services.
T7.2: Socio-economic, legal and security aspects (ALU, IND, NAU, DYC, ITP, TVN, EABS, LTH,
VGC, VTT)
This task will examine current and future trends for the socio-economic patterns associated to OTT
services connected to different Business Cases. The main goal is to link Internet social behavior with
different Business Models. It will permit a better understanding of the commercial approaches to take
into account when deploying OTT services.
In this task, we are also concerned with legal and security issues. It will consider Digital Rights
Management Systems (DRM) analysis. DRM allows limiting the usage of digital content in authorized
platforms only thus making it necessary for OTT services. Security elements like encryption, policies,
confidentiality, and key managements are also to be studied as well as QoE (Quality of Experience)
based on SLA (Service Level Agreement) management. It will also investigate solutions for content
protection, which requires adequate security mechanisms that do not have negative impact on service
performance.
This task will also analyze the techno economic factors that influence the cost for service deployment.
In addition the QoE based SLA management issues will be included in this task.
T7.3: Demos and Exploitation of project results (VTT, IND, ALU, NAU, DYC, ADTEL, CPLUS, PPO,
PSNC, VID, SHEF, MIF, ITP, TP)
The exploitation strategy will be designed taking into account the market potential and the viability of
the resulting technology, i.e. information that will be collected regarding the results and achievements of
the project. This will be applied to an appropriate competitive strategy analysis framework to identify
possible roots and routes for exploitation of NOTTS. Furthermore, feasibility studies will be conducted,
and relevant models for resource and risk management will be deployed.
The project website, presentation leaflets and posters serve as a means for continuous dissemination
of information about the project for public awareness as well as internally for the project participants.
The website is intended to remain as a permanent information source on the project and its results
even after the project ends. The hosting of the site will be organised with this aim in mind. The project
Consortium will also be provided with effective digital communication tools to facilitate easy exchange
of information and cutting down of manual information handling to support the internal Consortium RTD
communications.
In addition the consortium will deal with external stakeholders to take into account broader perspectives
and encourage exploitation.
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T7.4: Dissemination and standardization (ITP, all participant partners)
The dissemination activities include the development of dissemination material (leaflets, posters, bulletins
and handouts, etc.), the creation of an interactive web site, the organisation of conferences, workshops
and even press-conferences, the publication of papers, journals and articles and the organisation of
special forums for debate and consensus between the industry, the users and the rest e.g. stakeholders.
In particular, we plan to organize two workshops to disseminate the results of the project. The workshops
will be planned for the first and second year of the project and they will be open both to members of the
project and to invited participants.
For ensuring a successful dissemination policy, specific dissemination plans will be worked out first at 6
months and then every 12 months, aiming to plan the next year project dissemination activities in the
following year and to report the already performed actions.
The initial project task will be the design of the NOTTS image and “branding” (logos, etc). A detailed
calendar of events will be created and updated yearly, containing all relevant international and national
conferences, exhibitions and events. Based on this, articles will be submitted for publication as soon as
some initial results are ready.
This activity will be also responsible for exploiting material generated from the plateform and to organise
its dissemination to other target groups and to a wider audience.
This project will develop a pro-active strategy for both integrating existing standards and for standardising
results from NOTTS. Participation is planned on targeted standards bodies and forums in order to
accomplish the goals of the project and to establish timely, market-oriented standards of good quality. In
particular, some of the partners are members of ETSI, IETF, ISO and ITU and participate actively on
topics related to QoS data interfacing and protocols for traffic measurement.
WP7 Partners and role (WPL; TL)
Country:
ITP (WPL, TL) is the leader of this WP. ITP will be in charge of the
elaboration of the dissemination planning and execution. ITP will
also contribute to the dissemination by the publication of the results
in journals and scientific conferences, by the participation to the
standards contributions.
France
Effort allocation
(PM)
15,6
IND will contribute to business models and the exploitation of
project results, coordinating the public activities for external
stakeholders (Celtic, official booths, etc).
Spain
12
ACR will contribute to dissemination and contribution to standards
activities. Dissemination activities will be in the form of scientific
papers and workshop presentations. In T7.4, ACR contributes via
involvement in the work in VQEG where Acreo is leading the
Independent Lab Group and Joint Effort Group as Co-chair., The
work of and results are fed into the appropriate study group in the
ITU e.g. ITU-T SG 9, SG 12 and ITU-R WP6Q Acreo also act as
VQEG/JEG task force leader channelling the work from EU Cost
action IC1003 QUALINET into the Project. ACR is also involved in
ETSI MOI.
Sweden
4
ALU (TL) will take part in the dissemination activities of the
research outcomes, promoting them, in particular, through the
related publications, conferences and workshops.
Spain
13
VTT (TL) will participate the work on business models, contribute
to dissemination activities by means of academic and trade
publications, and participation in workshops and other
dissemination forums. VTT will also lead task T7.3.
Finland
TVN (TL) will contribute to the design of Business models: TVN will
focus on Techno-economic analysis of OTT multimedia delivery
based on HEVC encoding.
France
4
PPO will contribute to the work on business
dissemination activities and demo presentations.
Finland
5
France
1
models,
VGC writes presentations to describe these new NOTTS QoE
features and presents them to existing customers and prospects. It
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also contributes to the creation of new pages on VGC web site
about this project.
LTH will contribute to task T7.2 and 7.4
ALK will contribute to T7.4
MIF will participate in the dissemination and exploitation, in
particular to increase the awareness of the NOTTS approach and
results in industry. MIF will define and carry out an open source
strategy for exploiting its monitoring and management tool.
DYCEC is interested in participating in T7.4. DYCEC will contribute
to dissemination activities by participating in workshops and
conferences.
NAU will contribute to tasks T7.4, T7.2 and T7.3.
CPLUS will contribute, based on its experience, to the design of
business models. It will also contribute to the elaboration of the
exploitation plans for the project results exploitation.
SHEF will contribute to to the work on business models,
dissemination activities and demo presentations.
VID: Participation to work on business models, demos and
exploitation planning and dissemination activities (T7.1, T7.3, T7.4)
PSNC will participate in the dissemination of the project results
during conferences, exhibitions and demos (T7.4). This will include
the preparation of demonstrations, publication of papers, and
presentation the project results at conferences and workshops.
PSNC will produce short project videos, describing the project
scope, presenting the approach taken and expected results (T7.1).
PSNC will also take part in exploitation of project results (T7.3) that
may be possible through the integration of selected components
with media delivery platform operated by PSNC in PIONIER
network.
ADTEL provides both state-of-the-art about future internet and the
new technologies developed to the Catalan innovation centers and
industry, mainly vendors and operators. The main research
outcomes in NOTTS will be dissemination through conferences,
scientific journals and technical workshops and standardisation.
UPEC will take part in the dissemination activities of the research
outcomes, promoting them, in particular, through the related
publications, conferences and workshops. UPEC will also
participate to standardization process in the IEEE ComSoc by
leading this part in IEEE SC TC.
EABS. Ericsson will contribute to T7.2, with the work on security
analysis and requirements for OTT services. One aspect of the
research is the question how to realize security mechanisms in a
client without having comprehensive security requirements to the
extent that the client must be a trusted device and the level at which
the client can stand against manipulation by its users. Specific
questions are e.g. how to design a key management solution for
such caching solution and how to address the user privacy issues if
other entities can operate in a users client cache. Also, EABS will
contribute to T7.4 with dissemination efforts.
Sweden
Sweden
France
12
3
4,8
Spain
6
Spain
France
2
6
Finland
3
Finland
8
Poland
6
Spain
8
France
4
Sweden
11
TP
Poland
2
TP will contribute to T7.1, T7.3 and T7.4. In T7.1 TP will work on
future scenarios and business models viable for telco operator and
OTT service provider. In T7.3 TP will work on project results
exploitation, while in T7.4 TP will contribute to dissemination of
project results through conference and journal publications and
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Deliverables (D) and milestones (M)
Indicate title or short explanation
M7.1.1 Current market situation and actors in
media distribution
D7.1.1 Market situation and business models
for the actors in media distribution –
scenarios for the future
M7.2.1 Security mechanisms for media
distribution – a survey
D7.2.1 Techno economic analysis –
deployment scenarios
D7.2.2 QoE based SLA management
D7.3.1: The consortium Exploitation Plan and
demos version 1
D7.3.2: The consortium Exploitation Plan and
demos version 2
D7.4.1 NOTTS Website
D7.4.2 NOTTS brochure
D7.4.3: Dissemination and Standards
activities (I)
D7.4.4: Dissemination and Standards
activities (II)
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4.4.7
Deliverables Overview
(All deliverables and Milestones in a single list)
Deliverables (Dy.x) and milestones (My.x)
Indicate title or short explanation
M1.1 Kick-off meeting report
M1.2 Annual CELTIC audit- Year 1
M1.3 Annual CELTIC audit- Year 2
M3.1 Description of current OTT service
architectures
M3.2 Use cases, scenarios and requirements
impact on architecture design
M4.1 Report on distribution schemes for OTT
M4.2 First report on content demand patterns
M4.3 Second report on content demand
patterns
M4.4 Framework for energy efficiency analysis
M5.1 State of the art in QoE modelling for OTT
services
M5.2 Preliminary design of OTT QoE
monitoring and service supervision tools
M5.3 Preliminary design of OTT QoE
maintenance and control methods
M6.1 Integration of tools and test-bed
implementation
M6.2 Specification of Prototypes
M7.1.1 Current market situation and actors in
media distribution
M7.2.1 Security mechanisms for media
distribution – a survey
D1.1 Periodic report (1st year)
D1.2 Periodic report (2nd year)
D2.1 Use cases and scenarios
D2.2 Requirements
D3.1 Description of OTT service architectures
and future scenarios
D3.2 Analysis of result impact on architecture
design
D4.1 Caching strategy analysis
D4.2 Impact analysis of OTT content distribution
D5.1 QoE models for OTT services
D5.2 Tools for OTT QoE monitoring and service
supervision
D5.3 Methods for OTT QoE maintenance and
control
D6.1.1 Definition of interfaces (T6.1)
D6.1.2 Integration of tools and test-bed
implementation (T6.1)
D6.2 OTT Demonstrator Phase 1 (T6.2)
D6.3 OTT Integrated Prototypes Phase 2 (T6.2)
D7.1.1 Current market situation and actors in
media distribution
D7.2.1 Techno economic analysis – deployment
scenarios
D7.2.2 QoE based SLA management
D7.3.1 The consortium Exploitation Plan and
demos version 1
D7.3.2 The consortium Exploitation Plan and
demos version 2
D7.4.1 NOTTS Website
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M12
M24
M4
report
M7
report
report
report
M4
M8
M16
report
report
M18
M9
report
M11
report
M12
report
M21
report
report
M21
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report
M13
report
report
report
report
report
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12
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report
report
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21
22
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D7.4.2 NOTTS brochure
D7.4.3 Dissemination and Standards activities (I)
D7.4.4 Dissemination and Standards activities (II)
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5
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The project management of NOTTS proposal is based on efficient proved-engaging coordination of
inherited successful Celtic projects TRAMS (Celtic Call 4, Winner of the Celtic Excellence Award in Gold
2010) and IPNQSIS (Celtic Call 6, in progress, Candidate for Celtic Excellence Award 2013):
Figure 6: NOTTS Project Management
Project Coordinator (PC)
The PC represents the project and the consortium as a whole, manages project resources, monitors
overall project performance, reports to the CELTIC organisation, and promotes project visibility. In
addition, he is also the chair of the Project Coordination Comittee meetings and is the primary contact
point for all formal communication between the project and the CELTIC office as well as any other
external stakeholders.
The Project Coordinator is Antonio Cuadra-Sánchez23 (IND).
Scientific Coordinator (SC)
The role of the SC is to audit the R&D performance of the project and ensure successful implementation
of the scientific and technical objectives. The SC is responsible to resolve any issue arising from the
details of the project work programme and to ensure that effective solutions to any implementation
problems or technical limitations devised. The SC is also the direct communication link between the
Project Coordinator and those conducting the actual technical work. Finally, the SC chairs meetings of the
WP Leaders Board.
The Scientific Coordinator is Andreas Aurelius24 (ACR).
Project Coordination Committee (PCC)
23
Antonio Cuadra-Sanchez has coordinated several consortium projects in the area of QoE,
standardization programs and industry initiatives, such as IPNQSIS Celtic Project, PRINCE Spanish
Consortium, Managing Customer Experience initiative of the TeleManagement Forum and Telefonica-O2
expert team on QoE amongst others, and has also authored two patents and more than 70 publications in
the same innovation field of customer experience.
24
Andreas Aurelius has extensive experience in participation and coordination of European and national
research projects. He coordinated the TRAMMS project, which received the Celtic award of excellence in
gold 2010 and was promoted as a Eureka success story. He has also coordinated the Swedish
consortium in the Celtic IPNQSIS project.
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PCC is responsible for the overall management, strategy, planning and control of the project. The PCC
defines the overall strategic objectives and milestones for the project. It monitors the evolution of the work
packages, and proposes the formal changes in the project (e.g. new partners, major re-allocation of
resources). The PCC will act as the decision making body for the Project. Each Consortium member will
nominate one executive representative to the PCC. Each member of the PCC will have due authorisation
to discuss, negotiate and decide on the actions proposed or to accept the recommendations made.
Decisions taken by the PCC will be based on consensus, otherwise voting will take place.
WP Leaders Board (WPLB)
WPLB is responsible for the technical and scientific coordination for the day-to-day management of the
work and for the collaboration at both the Work Package (WP) level and between activities. It collects
inputs from the partners and prepares the regular work package reports. Cooperation between activities
is organised by regular WPLB meetings. The WPLB assumes overall responsibility towards the PCC for
liaison between the Parties for analysing and approving the results generated in Work-Packages. The
WPLB is the entity responsible for implementing the decisions of the PCC.
The WP Leaders are:

WP1: Antonio Cuadra-Sánchez (IND)
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WP2: Marek Dąbrowski (TP)
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WP3: Miroslaw Czyrnek (PSNC)
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WP4: Andreas Aurelius (ACR)
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WP5: Jukka-Pekka Laulajainen (VTT)
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WP6: Eugenio Rogles (ALU)
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WP7: Ana Cavalli (ITP)
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DETAILS ON BUDGET AND FUNDING
6.1
Budget and Funding Situation of Participants
The NOTTS focus of creating solutions for distribution of over the top content is one of the most important
and relevant challenges today, as the volume of OTT content is virtually exploding. There is a
fundamental need for coordination and collaboration to tackle the challenges posed by this problem, since
the number of different actors involved is large. One service provider cannot create its own solution
without depending on close collaboration with operators, content owners, producers, etc. This is why
collaboration is needed, in order to create common standards, interfaces, best practices for the common
good of all involved actors.
We believe that NOTTS results in the area of QoE controlled over-the-top environment development for
media delivery will enable market players to enhance their services and provide them in a new
competitive way that focus on end-user expected quality of experience.
Several European hearsays support the economic and social relevance of the NOTTS project such as
Ovum Ltd. report on OTT market25, the National Observatory of Telecommunications and Information
Society (ONTSI) annual report of digital content in Spain 201126 and the Norwegian government laws to
provide cheap access to high quality internet OTT services to all the citizens27.
Customers are devoted to OTT services, obviously, although telecoms operators do not know what
should be the business case for them. Ovum measured for 2011 globally and found OTT cannibalization
of lost revenues to mobile operators out of text messaging at 14 Billion dollars, and according to the
growth pattern, we get the cannibalization level at about 20% by the end of this year 2012. This way
some operators try to set up their own OTT services. In the USA, T-Mobile launched Bobsled, while in
Spain, Telefonica has launched Tu Me. And on the other hand the operators also propose to limit shut
down or charge extra for uses of those services, just like TeliaSonera in Sweden is now doing for Skype.
Their (new) contract terms say their unlimited data plan explicitly excludes access to Skype and if Skype
is used, those data charges will be above the standard all-you-can-eat package.
Funding will be assumed in a similar way as is other projects like this, where a part will be funded by the
local PA while the rest, up to the total budget, will come from each partner. Each partner is checking with
their national PA the possibilities to get funds for their participation within the project. Expectations are
high so far, and although the percentage may turn lower, it doesn’t seem to put the project in risk. In case
of stepping-out of some partners or reduced/missing funding for some countries, the amount of work will
be reduced or new partners will be invited.
6.2
Specification of additional budget (equipment, other costs)
Additional budget includes costs to be incurred in development and integration of equipment, acquisition
of equipment for testing and of laboratory instruments and travel costs when national funding allows.
Travel costs are justified as it will be needed to attend several follow-up meeting between the partners
(one travel per quarter) trying to conceal reviews with the follow-up meetings. Researchers will also travel
to attend standardization meetings and international conferences to disseminate the project results.
Travel costs for the Spanish consortium are included into indirect cost.
A specific table for additional funding can be located at section 8.3.
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OVERVIEW OF THE CONSORTIUM
7.1
Description of the consortium
The project is a high-quality mix of industry and academia, ensuring both academic height of the research
and industry focus in the dissemination and commercialisation of the results. The core consortium builds
upon partners from the Celtic IPNQSIS and TRAMMS project.
The mix of the partners described above constitutes a consortium capable to tackle all of the project’s
challenges due to the following reasons:
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The consortium brings together main players with proven expertise in their respective areas.
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The consortium brings together a critical mass of industrial/commercial partners, both large
companies - leaders in their field and high technology SMEs.

The partners have been carefully selected to have diverse and complementary expertise and skills
that they collectively bring into the project.

The partners have extensive experience into the participation and the management of international
collaborative projects (EUREKA, ACTS, ESPRIT, FP5, FP6) and some of the consortium members
have already collaborated in the past with each other.
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Some of the partners are participating actively to standards bodies.

The consortium includes several telecom and TV operators, namely CPLUS, PPO, PSNC, and VID.

The geographically scattered consortium brings up a great opportunity to exchange knowledge and
expertise among different countries, gathering the specific points of view of each partner to achieve a
complete and useful set of results that can be transferred easily to the market with a latest work.
Partner
Expertise
Facilities and IPR
IND
Indra is a global company of technology,
innovation, and talent, leader in high value-added
solutions and services for the Transport and
Traffic, Energy and Industry, Public Administration
and Healthcare, Finance, Insurance, Security and
Defence, and Telecom and Media sectors. Indra
operates in over 100 countries and has 30,000
employees worldwide who share their knowledge
of different sectors and countries to find innovative
solutions to the challenges that clients face. Indra
is the European company that most invests in
R&D in its sector.
Indra will help to improve traffic
monitoring and customer experience
management for next generation
services, mainly focused on IPTV
platforms.
Besides service provider scope, Indra
activities
accomplish
national
authorities requirements for quality
assurance
In addition, Indra aim is to gain insight
into how to apply the traffic monitoring
and testing to traffic analysis by using
different datasources technologies in
order to provide e2e customer-focus
approach of the delivered quality.
Indra's offering covers the entire IT services value
chain and our experience encompasses the main
domains
of
the
system
map
for
a
telecommunication and media operator, in
particular Development and implementation of
solutions to provide support for the operations and
to manage the network in the area of network
monitoring and service supervision.
Antonio Cuadra-Sanchez got the degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the
University of Cantabria (Spain). He is nowadays technology advisor for QoS, probes and
protocols in Indra. He has taught different courses of signaling protocols and networks
(SS7, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, IMS and IPTV) in Telefonica R&D, Telefonica Spain and
Americas. Antonio has been working as quality assurance consultant for the main
Telefónica companies worldwide, such as O2, Movistar or Vivo amongst others. He has
also published over 60 articles as much for the European organisms of regulation as for
Telefonica Group, workshops and scientific and regulation book chapters, and has
participated in lectures for different national and international conferences, including
TeleManagement Forum, ETSI and IEEE.
Mar Cutanda-Rodríguez got the degree in Physical Science from the Complutense
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University of Madrid (Spain). She works as area manager for Quality of Service (QoS) in
Telecom&Media at Indra Spain, where she also started her professional career in air traffic
control systems (SACTA). Subsequently, she has worked in Telefonica R&D leading
several projects related to IP QoS and network monitoring as a head of division.
Furthermore she has published different consultancy reports regarding the Operational
Support Systems (OSS) tendencies in Telefonica Spain.
ALU
With more than 77,000 employees and operations
in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is one
of the largest innovation powerhouses in the
communications industry, representing an R&D
investment of Euro 2.5 billion, and a portfolio of
more than 26,000 active patents spanning virtually
every technology area. Alcatel-Lucent achieved
adjusted revenues of Euro 16.98 billion in 2008,
and is incorporated in France, with headquarters
in Paris.
At the core of this innovation is Alcatel-Lucent’s
Bell Labs, an innovation engine with researchers
and scientists at the forefront of research into
areas such as multimedia and convergent
services and applications, new service delivery
architectures and platforms, wireless and wireline,
broadband access, packet and optical networking
and transport, network security, enterprise
networking and communication services and
fundamental research in areas such as
nanotechnology, algorithmic, and computer
sciences.
As long as committed to the future of
the convergent networks and the nextgeneration digital media delivery,
Alcatel-Lucent can help the project
focus towards the market trends.
Moreover,
Alcatel-Lucent
will
contribute its long-established state-ofthe-art knowledge base and brandnew technical facilities to better
achieve the project goals. It will also
take care of the demonstration
activities. Alcatel-Lucent Spain has a
strong presence in several cooperative
R&D EU and Spanish projects.
Pablo Pérez García received the Ingeniero de Telecomunicación Degree
(Telecommunication Engineering) in 2004 in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with top
honors, and the Suficiencia Investigadora degree (Certificate of Research Aptitude) in
2008. He worked as researcher in Digital TV Platforms division in Telefónica Investigación y
Desarrollo from 2004 to 2006 and joined Lucent Technologies (afterwards Alcatel-Lucent)
in 2006. He has worked as IPTV researcher and system architect in Alcatel-Lucent. In
parallel, he is doing PhD studies in Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His professional
work is focused on digital video technologies, IPTV, video quality of experience and video
processing. He has taken part in several cooperative R&D projects as BLAZE, Magellan
and MESH. He acted as deputy project coordinator in FP6 project MESH and as
workpackage leader in BLAZE. He is currently worpackage leader and Alcatel-Lucent
technical coordinator in project VISION, a 4-year research project co-funded by Spanish
government.He is currently project leader in IPTV R&D group in Alcatel-Lucent.
Jaime Ruiz Alonso holds a Telecommunications Engineer Degree from Politecnica
University of Madrid and a Master in Marketing and Commercial Management from ESIC of
Madrid. In 2006 incorporates in Lucent Technologies as IPTV Video Manager, leading the
development of the IPTV Video technology successfully deployed in Europe and LatinAmerica, including the Telefonica de España Imagenio and the IPTV 02 product in
Chequia.. Previously, since 1992 incorporates in Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo in
the Broadband Services Division where participates in development and integration of
Digital TV Headends and platforms for the provision of interactive services in cable,
satellite, terrestrial and VDSL and also in digital radio (DAB) systems. From 1994 to 1999
has been associate professor in the Alfonso X El Sabio University in Madrid, Spain.
NAU
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Naudit is a spin-off of Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid (UAM) and Universidad Pública de
Navarra (UPNA), shared by professors from both
universities, and also UAM foundation, and
Madrid Scientific Park. Naudit aims to be a
reference company in innovation of high accuracy
and high performance measurement solutions and
certification of communication networks quality,
using a sophisticated statistical treatment as well
Naudit has its headquarters in the
Madrid Scientific Park, located at the
UAM campus.
Thanks to an agreement signed with
UAM, Naudit has access to UAM
laboratories, including, among other
equipment, supercomputing clusters,
and high speed electronic design
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as supercomputing techniques to accelerate
applications and critical processes.
Naudit Works in a continuous collaboration model
with research gropus on high performance
computing and networking at UAM and UPNA.
tools.
Naudit partners have more than ten
years experience in industrial projects
and research initiatives, including EU
Framework Program, USA DARPA
program, and Spanish national
research program.
Selected papers from Naudit partners include
Elsevier Computer Communications, Computer

Naudit exploits several patents
Networks, IEEE Journal on Lightwave
about network monitoring
Technology, Kluwer´s Photonic Networks
devices, developed by its
Communications, IEEE Communication Letters
partners
and IEEE IM, NOMS, ICC and Globecom
conferences.
Dr. Jorge López de Vergara is co-founder and partner of Naudit is also an associate
profesor of Telematic Engineering at UAM. He has actively participated in European
projects (ACTS, IST, ICT) and the Spanish research program, as well as in industrial
projects. Prior to be working at UAM he held a research grant at Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid and also did a stage at Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK. During his research work
he has continuously worked in different aspects of Network and Service Management. With
respect to the projects he has worked on, there are some very relevant to NOTTS: those
related to the definition, modelling and integration of network management information, and
about mechanisms to evaluate the quality provided by ISPS. He has also worked in the
FP7 MOMENT Project, defining information models to integrate network measurements. He
has coautored several papers of this topic in journals (IEEE Network, IEEE
Communications Magazine, Computer Commmunications, Computer Networks …) and
flagship IEEE conferences (IM, NOMS, DSOM, MMNS, CNSM).
Dr. Javier Aracil is co-founder and partner of Naudit and full profesor of Telematic
Engineering at UAM. He has participated in research projects of the Spanish national
program, EU Framework Program (RACE, ACTS, V, VI and VII), and USA National Science
Foundation, as well as industrial projects, many of them as coordinator. He was a Fullbright
grant holder and post-doc researcher at University of California, Berkeley, working on the
Internet Traffic properties. He has leaded network dimensioning projects for Telefonica,
where he was responsible of the dimensioning of the Madrid ADSL pilot. He has also been
responsible of the development of several network monitoring equipments, such as
IPmiser, ESTIGMA, MONET, etc. that have been used by cable network operators (Retena)
and industrial factories (Volkswagen). On the other hand, he has been responsible of the
control system of the ETOMIC European network traffic observatory, where an active
network measurement infrastructure has been deployed covering a European scope, using
nodes that are synchronized by GPS. He has more than 75 papers, especially in optical
networks (IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology) and network analysis and dimensioning
(IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine, Computer Networks,
etc.)
Dr. Sergio López Buedo is co-founder and partner of Naudit and associate professor of
computer architecture at UAM. He has more than 15 years research experience in FPGAs.
He has researched in high-speed and low-power electronic design, dynamic
reconfiguration, FPGA-based embedded systems, high performance computing, and
FPGA-based network monitoring systems. He was a faculty member of the NSF Center of
High Performance Reconfigurable Computing at the George Washington University
(Washington DC, USA), and he also was a postdoctoral research at University of British
Columbia at Vancouver, Canada. He also collaborates with the Universita degli Studi de
Trento (Italy) as a consulting professor. Dr. López has also had intense collaboration with
the industry: he has developed communication systems for Fedetec (now owned by Amper)
which are widely used in call centers, he has participated in embedded systems for several
companies and has an active participation in training Spanish companies about FPGA
technology.
Dr. Francisco J. Gómez Arribas is co-founder and partner of Naudit and associate
professor of computer architecture at UAM. He has participated in several regional, national
and European research projects, as well as projects with Spanish companies. His research
lines include reconfigurable systems, hardware/software co-design, embedded systems
and high performance computing using specific-purpose hardware.
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Dr. Iván González is co-founder and partner of Naudit and assistant professor of computer
architecture at UAM. After his PhD, from October 2006 to March 2008 he was a
Postdoctoral Researcher in the ECE Department, The George Washington University,
Washington, DC. At that time he was part of the NSF Center for High Performance
Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) and participated in several research projects funded
by US National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). His main research interests are
FPGA-based reconfigurable computing applications, with a special focus on dynamic partial
reconfiguration and embedded systems, as well as GPU-based supercomputing.
Finally, Dr. Luis de Pedro, also co-founder and partner of Naudit completes the team. Dr.
de Pedro combines his business activity at HP Spain with teaching and research duties at
UAM. He has a very broad experience and knowledge of the Spanish market, being a key
part of the team for the go-to-market strategies of those products to develop in this project.
DYC
Spanish
Engineering
company
in
the
telecommunications field whose activities are
developed in network integration, infrastructure,
quality Services, network Security, consultancy
and Engineering. Set up in 1976, Our size allows
us to distinguish adapting quickly to new
technological projects without letting out the
quality service required from the customers. 220
employees with a extensive experience in I+D
projects and systems (hardware/Software) for
traffic measurements
Experience in measurements for fixed
and mobile networks using own
algorithms.
Dycec
has
been
developed soft & hard solutions with
passive & active traffic measurements.
Hardware equipment is one of the key
activities of Dycec from his creation in
1976.
Alberto Llano Pérez is Head of Research and Development department of Dycec. He has
a MSc degree in Computer Engineering by Deusto University. Alberto has a strong
background in leading software development projects for embedded applications in
industrial hardware equipment, including operating system, drivers and end-user graphical
and text interfaces.
Ismael Pérez Mateos works as Project Manager in Research and Development
department of Dycec. He has two MSc degrees by Salamanca University (Computer
Engineering and e-Business) and a MBA by UNED University. Ismael has eight years of
experience in the development of software solutions for QoS real time monitoring and
analisys of telephone networks for Telefonica and BT Ignite, including low quality traffic
alarm generation with user-defined thresholds for different quality parameters, and
generation of automatic and on-demand reports. He has also led projects for developing
applications that interact with Dycec's equipments.
ADTEL
ADTEL is a SME centered in the development of
communication systems. ADTEL core expertise is
focused in integration of communications, video
voice and data systems with a great focus on
multimedia, wireless and mobility. ADTEL
develops his activity in the broadcast and
multimedia market (50%) and industrial and
mission critical markets, mainly transportation,
safety
and
emergency
services,
public
administration, environment and utilities.
ADTEL has a long track on
management of big projects including
R+D initiatives. Along the last 5 years,
ADTEL has been involved in national
scale projects related with broadcast,
homologation
of
transportation
technologies, police and emergency
communications
networks
and
transportation
communication
technologies.
About technologies, ADTEL is well known in the
market by its focus in video and transmission
systems. Video includes complex video critical
systems including mobile, on board, and
intelligent video systems including video analytics.
Transmission technologies includes wireless
wideband data (WiMax, WiFI, 3/4G), wireless
narrowband (TETRA, ZigBee), and fixed
wideband.
In R+D projects, ADTEL keeps an
average of 2 to 3 projects per year
granted with government budget. A
significative part of these projects are
in international cooperation, including
countries out of Europe.
ADTEL develops its activity under the frame of a
total quality concept. ADTEL is ISO9000/14000
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ADTEL promote the inclusion of
applied research in their projects and
solutions through collaborations with
local research centres. In this project
ADTEL will subcontract the i2CAT
Foundation, with wide experience in
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certified company.
the design, implementation and
validation
of
advanced
video
streaming systems including media
coding, signalign, distribution and
adaptation.
ADTEL brings to the project his
expertise in video and communication
systems for critical mission customers
that include crowded environments).
Oscar Suarez. Telecommunications Engineering at the UPC since 1998. He have 13 years
of experience in radio communication projects , TV broadcasting, radio and audiovisual
systems and fibre optic communications. He is currently the ADTEL's Operations Director,
where he has long experience in TETRA radio technology used by security and emergency
bodies. He has also participated in projects and audiovisual systems.
Alfonso Colinas. TEchnical telecommunication engineer at the UAH from 1987. With more
than 20 years of experience in telecommunications project management and
radiocommunications in licensed indoor frequency bands.
Francisco J.Barba. Telecommunication engineer at UPC from 2008. With more than 2
years of experience in Telematics projects, audiovisual broadcasting, radio links and
audiovisual systems.
Rafael Galindo. Technical telecommunication engineer at UPC from 2003. He has been
wokring in telecommunications and audiovisual projects for more than 5 years.
ACR
Acreo has extensive knowledge and experience in
broadband networks design and services, partly
acquired through various Vinnova funded projects,
where the Acreo national broadband test-bed
plays an important role.
Traffic measurements is one of the key activities
at the Acreo Photonics department, with
measurement activities ongoing in the Acreo testbed as well as in Swedish Municipal networks
(stadsnät).
One of the purposes with the Acreo
national broadband test-bed is to gain
insight in the traffic in broadband
networks of today and tomorrow. The
test-bed will be available for the
project measurements, and there will
be a possibility to give input on how to
configure the network to be able to get
the most out of the measurements.
Acreo has 2 Packetlogic devices for
deep-flow inspection, meaning that
one can be used for measurements in
the test-bed, and one can be used for
measurements in Swedish municipal
networks.
Acreo also has access to the network
elements in the test-bed, meaning that
other information of interest could be
extracted from e.g. the management
systems, routers, switches, etc...
Andreas Aurelius was born in 1973. He received his M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics
in 2000, from studies at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and the Optical
Sciences Center at Australian National University, Canberra. Andreas joined the Optical
Networks Research lab at Ericsson Telecom in 2000. Here, he pursued research on highspeed optical transmission systems, including experiments, modeling and simulations. In
2002 he joined Acreo AB, working with research on high-speed optical communication. He
has been involved in several national and European research projects focused on access
networks. In 2005 he initiated the traffic measurements activities at Acreo, and he is now
the project coordinator of the Celtic project TRAMMS (Traffic Measurements and Models in
Multi- Service Networks). His main research interests are IP traffic modeling and
measurements in access networks.
Kjell Brunnström is an expert in image processing, computer vision, image and video
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quality assessment having worked in the area for more than 25 years, including work in
Sweden, Japan and UK. He has written a number of articles in international peer-reviewed
scientific journals and conference papers, as well as having reviewed a number of scientific
articles for international peer-reviewed journals e.g. Journal of Optical Society of America
and SPIE Optical Engineering. He has been awarded fellowships by the Royal Swedish
Academy of Engineering Sciences as well as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He
has supervised a number of diploma works. Currently, he is leading standardization
activities for video quality measurements as Co-chair of the VQEG. His research interests
are within video quality assessment and display quality related to the TCO-requirements.
Recently, 3D video and display quality has become the main research activity.
Christina Lagerstedt was born in 1974. She performed her undergraduate studies at the
University of Stockholm from which received her master's degree in physics in 2002
majoring in particle physics and at Mälardalen University from which she received a
bachelor's degree in fine arts in chamber music in 2000. In 2003 she joined the Department
of Nuclear and Reactor Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology as a graduate student
where her research concerned computer simulation of radiation damage in reactor
materials. She received her Ph. lic. degree in 2007 after which she joined Acreo AB. At
Acreo AB she has performed research in the field of traffic measurements and modeling.
Her main interests are traffic measurement and end user behavior analysis.
EABS
Ericsson will focus on traffic measurements, traffic
analyses, traffic modelling and capacity and
resource planning and optimisation with particular
emphasis on QoE. The competence areas
relevant to NOTTS are:

Design, production and marketing of products
for fixed and mobile broadband access and
core networks.

Services for fixed, mobile and converged
networks.
Traffic modelling tools

Traffic models and measurements for fixed
and mobile broadband services
Åke Arvidsson obtained his M.Sc. from the Lund Institute of Technology in Lund, Sweden,
and worked with the department of Communication Systems between 1981 and 1995,
where he also obtained his Ph.D. Between 1990 and 1992 he worked at Bond University
and the University of Adelaide in Australia. In 1995 he took up the Chair of Teletraffic
Systems at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and in 1998 he joined Ericsson
as Technical Expert in the area of Data Traffic Theory. Since 2007 he is with the Packet
Technologies Department at Ericsson Corporate Research. His professional interests
include traffic modelling, performance evaluation, network architecture, load distribution and
control, and forecasting.
Ben Smeets is an Ericsson expert in Security Systems and Data Compression at Ericsson
Research, Sweden. He also holds a chair at Lund University from which he received a
Ph.D. in 1987. In 1998 he joined Ericsson where he worked on security solutions for mobile
phone platforms. He also made major contributions to Bluetooth security and patents in the
field. He has been invited researcher at the Russian Acedamy of Sciences and he is a
receiver of the 2005 Ericsson Inventors of the Year award. While sharing his time between
Ericsson and Lund University he also was for several years head of department at Lund
University. Currently, his research interest is in cryptology, trusted computing technologies
and the use of virtualization for security purpose.
LTH
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Lund University was founded in 1666. Today it is
an international centre for research and education
that has approximately 38 000 students and 5 500
employees, which makes it to one of the oldest
and largest universities in Scandinavia. Lund
University is respected as one of the best
universities in Sweden. Lunds Tekniska Högskola
(LTH) comprises the Faculty of Engineering at
Lund University, and is one of Sweden's largest
higher educational institutes for the technical and
Lund University will mainly contribute
in the dissemination process. Also, our
expertise in traffic and user behavior
modelling will be used in the project.
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engineering
sciences.
The
Broadband
Communications group at the Department of
Electrical and Information Technology focuses on
broadband access and core networks, on all
layers. The research areas are applied signal
processing, DSL systems, and network design.
The group has a system-centric approach, where
the system functionality and maintenance is the
main focus. The research is performed in close
cooperation with Swedish and International
industrial partners. In Sweden, the group has a
formal agreement with Ericsson AB, and
cooperates with TeliaSonera, Bredbandsbolaget,
and Acreo AB. The main objective of the group is
to make a difference, both in academics and
industry. Therefore, the applied research is
always based on deep theoretical knowledge of
the involved networks and systems.
Dr. Maria Kihl received her MSc in Computer Science and Engineering at Lund University,
Sweden, in 1993. In 1999 she received her PhD in Communication Systems from the
sameuniversity. Since 2004, she has been an Associate Professor. During 2005-2006 she
was avisiting researcher at NC State University. Her main research area is performance of
distributed telecommunication applications. She has worked on service oriented
architectures,web server systems, vehicular networks, and she is now working on
multimedia applications in IP-access networks.
ALK
Alkit Communications is a Swedish SME that
develops software for many kinds of networked
applications, including IP video solutions,
automotive telematics, systems for distributed
collaborative work, media streaming and storage
and distributed visualization of data.
Applications for experiments, use
cases, demonstrations. Software
development facilities.
Alkit has strong expertise in software
development,
IP
communication,
video
communication, automotive telematics and
distributed systems.
Dr Mathias Johanson received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Chalmers
University of Technology in 2003. In 2002 he co-founded Alkit Communications AB, where
he has his current employment, and is a member of the board. Dr Johanson's main field of
expertise is interactive multimodal communication, particularly concerning network
technology supporting video-mediated communication. His professional interests also
include computer networks, distributed systems, automotive telematics and software
engineering.
PRO
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Procera Networks, known as Netintact prior to the
merger in 2006, is a global provider of intelligent
network traffic identification, control and service
management
infrastructure
equipment.
PacketLogic(tm) is the core product. PacketLogic
builds on a state-of-the-art network traffic
identification and deep flow inspection (DFI)
engine called DRDL(tm). The traffic data from
DRDL is utilized by the five modules; Surveillance
(real-time traffic monitoring), Statistics (traffic
analyzing), Filtering, Traffic Shaping (bandwidth
management)
and
NetAccess
(service
management). PacketLogic is currently deployed
at more than 300 Service Providers worldwide.
Procera Networks has been into deepflow inspection since 2001, and is
installed into multiple locations where
it analyzes and classifies traffic and
connections based on layer 7
properties. PacketLogic enables you
to see all traffic based on applications,
and it gives the possibilities to modify
that traffic with shaping or filtering, still
on layer 7.
Traffic measurement to understand
today’s
and
future
broadband
requirements is key knowledge to
Procera to succeed in developing a
product that scales up to and beyond
10 gigabit Ethernet. Real-time QoS
monitoring for Service Providers are of
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extremely high interest for planning
capacity in various parts of the
network.
Fredrik Johansson was born in 1977. He has been working with computers, computer
network and network security since the late 80's in both small companies and at Linköping
University. After he was recruited to Procera Networks in 2005 he has been involved in
maintaining and troubleshooting PacketLogic installations world wide. He is now the
Director of Product Management. Johansson has also been involved in the TRAMMS
research project. His main interests understand the network trends on the Internet, and
what information and features a customer to the PacketLogic platform needs.
ITP
Institut Mines-Telecom brings together the 6
Écoles des Mines (Mines Albi, Mines Alès, Mines
Douai, Mines Nantes, Mines ParisTech, Mines
Saint-Etienne) and the 4 Institut Télécom schools
(Télécom Bretagne, Télécom Business School,
Télécom ParisTech, Télécom SudParis) under the
aegis of the MINEFI (ministry of Economic Affairs,
Finance and Industry).
Including its two subsidiary schools Eurecom and
Télécom Lille 1, it brings together 12,000 students
on the school campuses which issue 3,600
diplomas per year, 2,100 of which are in
engineering. This new institute which also
includes 2 strategic partners, Mines Nancy and
Armines, a network of 10 associate schools, as
well as 2 aid structures for technology transfer, 2
Instituts Carnot, 3 foundations and 2 endowment
funds, already represents a major force nationally
in technological, managerial and scientific training
provisions, as well as in research and innovation.
Institut Telecom is the scientific coordinator of two
Networks of Excellence (NoE) in FP6: EURONGI/FGI (Next and Future Generation Internet)
and BIOSECURE (Biometrics for secure
authentication). It is the leader of the Marie Curie
Network TAROT, a major partner of the NoE
NEWCOM (Wireless Communications) and
participates in several other networks, IPs and
STREPs, notably in the fields of broadband
communications, security, networked audiovisual
systems, home platforms, and eLearning.
The Institut Telecom SudParis (ITP)
team participating in NOTTS has a
strong
background
on
Internet
protocols. In particular, they have
worked on the BGP protocol, defining
a protocol for session management
that is well adapted to users needs. As
a result of this work, a new protocol
has been defined, implemented and
simulations have been performed in
order to show the correctness of our
solutions and the advantages with
respect to other protocols. The
protocol has been validated using
different verification and testing
techniques.
The ITP team will contribute in NOTTS
to the definition of QoS and QoE
requirements (WP2), to the traffic
monitoring and modelling mechanisms
design, as well as the integration of
these mechanisms in network testing
tools (WP5). ITP will be the leader of
WP7
and
will
contribute
the
dissemination of the project results
(standardisation,
publications,
organisation of workshops, training
courses and summer schools).
Recent work has been performed by the ITP team
on the BGP protocol, allowing to reduce the
convergence delays when losing connectivity
during VoIP or ToIP sessions. The team has
participated in the Carriocas project, carried out in
the System@tic excellence cluster. In this project,
the ITP team has provided a formal description of
communications protocols in the MPLS context. In
particular, the ITP team has provided a model for
the Path Computation Element Communication
Protocol (PCEP), in order to validate the
implementation provided by Orange Labs. PCEP
is a largely used protocol, it allows
communications between two Path Computation
Elements. This protocol is becoming an IETF
standard. As a result of ITP's work a contribution
has been submitted to IETF, in collaboration with
Alcatel-Lucent France, pointing out ambiguities
found in the protocol specification. The team also
possesses a strong experience in monitoring and
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testing techniques, that have been applied to the
test and supervision of Internet protocols and
services.
Professor Dr. Ana Rosa Cavalli is the head of Software and Networks department. She
has had more than 100 peer review papers published in international conferences and
journals. Currently, she participated recently in numerous national (CARRIOCAS,
EXOTICUS, POLITESS, E-COMPAGNON) and European projects (ASK IT, E-LANE,
SHIELDS, IPNQSIS, DIAMONDS) contributing to the modelling, monitoring, test and QoS
analysis. She has been the leader of the Marie Curie RTN TAROT (Training and Research
on Testing).
Dr. Ing. Stephane Maag is an Associate Professor since 2004 at the Software and
Networks department. His research interests include the modelling, testing and monitoring
of Internet protocols and services. He has published around 25 papers in fully refereed
international conferences and journals.
Anderson Morais is a R&D Engineer at Telecom SudParis. He received his MSc in
Computer Science from University of Campinas, Institute of Computing, Sao Paulo - Brazil
in 2009. He worked as Software Engineer at Motorola and LG Electronics specializing in
development of mobile embedded software and mobile protocols.
Dr. MSc. Ing. Oscar Botero is a R&D Engineer at Telecom SupParis. He received his PhD
from Telecom SudParis and Paris VI University. He holds an MSc degree in Networks, a
specialization in Telecom and a BEng in Electronics. He had work for different actors of the
telecom industry.
VGC
VIERLING is the European leader for test system
for test access: copper, xDSL, IP services (VoIP,
IPTV), fiber core network and FTTH. The
VIERLING test system is worldwide deployed. It is
based on measurements done by test heads on
access network (from physical level to IP
services) and collection of data coming from all
other part of the network and OSS. The
diagnostics and solutions can be provided by an
expert system. This expert system provides very
efficient tools to manage the knowledge base and
update easily user application. For IP services,
the test system includes xDSL active probe
(golden modem) to emulate customer xDSL box
and do end to end service testing (IP, VoIP,
IPTV).
VGC owns test beds for copper and
FTTH access Network including active
probe (golden modem) to emulate
CPE and CO side.
Expert System already used to collect
data from DSLAM, modem, and test
heads, and which could extended to
collect more data and demonstrate
development of this project
VGC will improve his test system with
better end-user's QoE measurements
and possible automatic actions.
Bertrand HAAS is engineer graduated from École Nationale de Techniques Avancées. He
started his career in telecommunication in 1985 with DASSAULT group, then Thales Idatys
and now VIERLING. He took part to European ESPRIT project “LAURA” which lead to
HIPERLAN and to European standardisation COM/ISDN and EUROFILE Transfer.
He managed development of test system since 2000, and is now marketing manager of
VIERLING.
Xavier BOUCHERY is engineer graduated from EERIE. He managed VIERLING R&D
team which is developing test system for test access network since 1994.
ILN
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Around the world, ip-label.newtest solutions
measure the quality of applications from the end
user’s point of view: business applications as well
as web, voice and even TV over IP platforms. A
trusted third-party with its own metrology
infrastructure (nearly 100 million measurements
every day) and independent institute, iplabel.newtest is sought out as much by worldclass enterprises and their service providers to
track the performance of their critical applications
to give them a competitive edge, as by telecom
operators and IT managers mindful of the
ILN actively work in the following
subjects: IPTV QoE ,VOIP QoE HD
TV QoE. With the intention of
measuring and improving the enduser's QoE through the use of
innovative tools and technology, ILN
will
contribute
in
NOTTS
by
determining the relation between QoE
and QoS metrics and defining and
developing QoE tools for IPTV or
VOIP domains. By developing new
algorithms for IPTV QoE monitoring
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robustness of their infrastructures.
Because license mode and the Software as a
Service (SaaS) mode correspond to different
types of usage and needs, ip-label.newtest offers
its customers both of the company’s two triedand-true models.
without
video
references,
a
client/server metrics architecture will
allow to collect the needed data to
deliver end-user QoE
Beyond measurement, ip-label.newtest offers IT
and operations executives its consulting expertise
to accompany them in managing risks and cost
reduction associated with the way the
performance of business applications affects
business and customer service. ip-label.newtest,
in addition to its infrastructure and metrology
networks, has developed a network of sales and
technical partners to ensure access to expected
functionalities and consistent service levels
everywhere in the world.
Eric MANSA was born in 1971. computer science engineer (EPITA Paris).He started his
career in the exploitation and methods service for the automotive sector. After 4 years, he
moved as searches and developpement engineer for Kaptech telecom operator. After 4
years, he worked on Intelligent Network and voice application management as intelligent
network expert for Neuf Telecom. In July 2007, he joined IP-Label.Newtest as the deputy
chief technical officer for the Newtest software part.
UPEC
University of Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne
(36000 students and 2400 staff members) is a
public university devoted to high level education
and research excellence in engineering and
medicine. The participation of the UPEC in this
project will be carried out by the Image, Signal
and Complex Systems (LiSSi) laboratory. LISSI
develops methods and algorithms for modelling,
analysis and control of networks and complex
systems. Application fields are large ubiquitous
robots, large scale enterprises, pervasive and
distributed systems, wired and wireless networks,
autonomic and soft computing. Currently, the
LISSI Lab counts around 71 members (including 8
professors, 29 associate professors, 6 research
assistant and 28 PhD Students).
From a technical point of view, UPEC
shall contribute to design of the
NOTTS architecture, mainly focused
on control and knowledge plans.
Additionally, the UPEC team will
contribute to define the whole end-toend routing chain including QoE
measurements, to the QoS and QoE
analysis, to the development of selfadaptive routing algorithms and to
support the development of the proof
of concept. A large effort is also
planned
for
developments
and
validation aspects. Finally, UPEC will
also participate in the dissemination
activities defined in the project
LiSSI Laboratory, the UPEC team involved in
NOTTS, has large expertise in those fields
addressed in the proposal. This research has
resulted in several publications in international
journals or conference proceedings. LISSI has
conducted several R&D projects mainly funded by
European, national and regional R&D programs
(ACI Blanche/MATEO, ANR RNRT/RADIC SF,
ARITT). The staff continuously collaborates with
industrial and academic partners in various
projects (ANSO, MDI project IST, LEONARDO DA
VINCI
program
SICINE
project,
ITEA2
SemBySem and ITEA2 Multipol projects) covers
topics such as QoS and QoE Intelligent Routing in
wired and wireless areas. Research activities in
software
engineering
(service
based
architectures, context-aware agent middleware,
Intelligent Agents Platform for dynamic workflow
and context-aware applications) are also
developed.
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Professor Dr. Abdelhamid Mellouk, received his Engineer degree and graduated in
Computer Network Engineering from the University of Paris Sud XI Orsay (with
distinction), received his PhD in informatics Engineering from the same university and
the Doctorat of Sciences (Habilitation) Diploma from the University Paris 12. He is
currently full professor, Senior Member IEEE and Chair of IEEE TC Communications
Software. Head of Networks and Telecommunication (N&T) L. Department of UPEC,
France, he was the founder and the scientific leader of TINC (Transport Infrastruture and
Network Control) research group in Network and Telecommunication. His general area of
research is in high-speed new generation wired/wireless networking, quality of service
and quality of experience. He has authored or co-authored four books, more than 150
peer reviewed publications and leads the guest-editing of the February’2007 IEEE Com.
Magazine issue,the November’2008 and the July'2012 Springer Annals of
Telecommunications oriented on Multi domains Ubiquitous QoS.
Professor Dr. Yacine Amirat received the MSc and PhD degrees in robotics and
computer science from the University of Paris 6 (Pierre et Marie Curie), France, in 1986 and
1989, respectively. In 1990, he co-created the Computer Sciences and Robotics Laboratory
of UPEC University (LIIA), France. In 1996, he receives the Habilitation degree from the
same university. His research interests include soft computing and control of complex
systems among them distributed systems. He is scientific director of several research
projects of the LISSI Laboratory of the UPEC University. He also managed 17 research
projects mainly related to control of systems and artificial intelligence.
VTT
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is
the biggest contract research organisation in
Northern Europe. VTT provides high-end
technology solutions and innovation services.
From its wide knowledge base, VTT can
combine different technologies, create new
innovations and a substantial range of world
class technologies and applied research
services
thus
improving
its
clients'
competitiveness and competence. Through
its international scientific and technology
network, VTT can produce information,
upgrade technology knowledge, and create
business intelligence and value added to its
stakeholders. VTT produces research
services that enhance the international
competitiveness of companies, society and
other customers at all stages of their
innovation process.

Extensive experience in the
development of network QoS
measurement tools (for example over
the last ~5 years in the ITEA Easy
Wireless,CELTIC Easy Wireless 2,
CELTIC IPNQSIS, and CELTIC
QuEEN projects), with extremely
accurate end-to-end and multipoint
measurement capabilities, and
integration with QoE metrics for realtime media.
 Advanced techniques for QoE
estimations for real-time media (voice,
LQ and CQ, as well as video), plus
means to integrate those metrics with
both live network measurements and
traditional network performance
evaluation models.
 Adaptive techniques for improving QoE
of media applications (e.g. QoE-driven
mobility management, cross-layer
optimization techniques, etc.)
 Real-time, automatic traffic
classification engine.
 Extensive experience in monitoring
and analysing the performance of live,
commercial 3G networks.
 Availability of VTT’s Converging
Networks Laboratory
(http://www.cnl.fi), which provides a
unique set of enablers for networking
research, including HSPA base station,
fixed and mobile WiMAX, several WiFi
flavours, etc.
Martin Varela received his PhD and MSc from the University of Rennes 1 (Rennes,
France), in 2005 and 2002 respectively. He has been an ERCIM fellow, and spent time at
SICS and VTT, where he has been a Senior Research Scientist since 2007. In 2009 he
was founder and CTO of MOS4 Oy, a startup with a focus on VoIP QoE. His research focus
is on networked multimedia QoE, in particular, real-time QoE metrics and optimization of
media applications. At VTT he has participated and led several research and commercial
projects both at the Finnish and European level.
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Jukka-Pekka Laulajainen received his Master of Science (Tech.) in telecommunications
from the University of Oulu, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Finland,
in 2005. He has been working at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland since 2004
and he is currently leading a research team focusing on QoS technologies. He has been
involved in several European joint projects (e.g. IST FP6 Games@Large, IST FP7 P2PNEXT, ITEA-MAGELLAN) and commercial projects as a project manager, at a European
level cluster leader, and as a researcher.
Antti Heikkinen received his Master of Science (Tech.) in electrical engineering from the
University of Oulu, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Finland, in 2003.
He has been working at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland since 2001 and he is
currently working as a research scientist and project manager in a team focused on
multimedia communication. He has been working on several European joint projects and
customer projects related to video coding, processing and transmission. He has also
experience of telecommunication software development in commercial projects.
VID
Videra is the leading company specialising in
visual communications in the Nordic countries,
which provides video conferencing equipment
and connections with experience of more than
20 years. It is part of the Elisa Group, which is
the leading producer of communication services
in the Nordic countries.
Videra’s visual communications service product
portfolio
consists
of
advanced
video
conferencing and Digital Signage solutions.
Videra is active in the Nordics and Europe, but
thorugh its globally operating customers,
delivers global services. OTT services are of
growing signifigance in the viscom business
area as well. Therefore it is vital to improve
competitiveness and both technological and
economical know-how on delivering superior
OTT services.
In
NOTTS,
Videra
focuses
on
developing OTT services for video
conferencing and media streaming as
well as Digital Signage solutions. Videra
will work on content distribution, QoE
Monitoring and Control, protyping and
business models and exploitation. For
delay sensitive video conferencing, it is
of special interest to study the possibility
of distributed OTT services in multipoint
communication across and between
various type end points.
Juha Valtavaara Master of Science (Tech) has several years of experience in R&D work
and video signalling and packaging technologies already prior to his career in Videra. Juha
has participated in research international projects developing video codec solutions. In
Videra, Juha has been responsible for technology platform development and in his current
position as CIO is tightly involved in developing QoS together with solutions and R&D
teams.
Mikko Puhakka received his Master of Science (Information Proessing) has extensive
experience in developing solutions in videoconferencing environments and on leading
demanding software development projects. Mikko works as the CTO, leading the R&D
function in Videra and has over 10 years experience in the field of video conferencing.
PPO
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PPO is parent company of the PPO Group. The
PPO Group is formed of Pohjanmaan Puhelin
Oy and its subsidiaries BCC Finland Oy,
Telekarelia Oy, PPO Palvelut Oy, Viske Oy and
Pohjanmaan Verkkopalvelut - PVP Oy.
Pohjanmaan Puhelin Oy is a regional Finnet
company and operates as a network and
service operator in Central and Northern
Ostrobothnia and in Western Lapland, also
providing operator services in northern parts of
Central Finland and in the Kaustinen subregion. Service operations cover more than 40
municipalities. PPO provides customers with
modern information technology services:
landline network services and mobile and
information network services. The PPO Group's
PPO develops and provides modern
fixed linen telecom services utilizing its
broad fiber-to-the-home (ftth) network in
western Finland and advanced service
platforms. PP's speciality is advanced
IPTV and triple-play service that are
integrated in easy to use self service
application available for all customers.
PPO is interested to focus more on
Quality of Service tools to enhance the
capability to turn telecom network
powerful channel for TV broadcasting.
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turnover for 2009 was 101,4 million Euros.
Personnel number 290.
Markus Ahokangas, MSc, was graduated in Electrical Engineering from Oulu University in
2001. From 2000 till the end of 2002 Ahokangas taking care of system engineering of the
mobile core network and 3GPP standardization tasks in Nokia Networks. In 2003 he started
as a Product manager in NetHawk Oyj where he was working with NetHawks analysers,
simulators and Quality of Service monitoring tools having global responsibility over his
products. In 2007 Ahokangas started as a Business development Director in PPO and in
2009 also as a Sales director.
Markus Sihvonen, PhD has received Phd on ICT 2007 from the University of Oulu. He has
been working in Technical Research Center, VTT between 1999 – 2010 in multiple jobs
such as senior research scientist, research group manager, customer manager and VTT
Korea director.
CPLUS
CANAL+ is a French leader of Pay TV
edition and distribution. It’s the first Pay TV
group in France. It’s the main aggregator
and distributor of Pay TV services in France.
Pioneer in the new TV services, CANAL+ is
also present at the international with
activities in Poland and Vietnam.
CANAL+ has been investing in
more than 28 years, allowing the
be at the top of technology in
services,
including
video
encryption.
R&D for
group to
Pay TV
contents
CANAL+ recently orientated its distribution
strategy in order to propose its services
wherever customers are, whatever their
device are (since it’s connected and able to
play a video stream).
Consequently,
CANAL+
teams
have
launched different projects these last years
to develop Over The Top distribution.
Isabelle BOUREKEB, was graduated in Computer Science from Université Joseph Fourier
Grenoble in 1995 and has been working for more than 13 years in Digital TV environment,
she showed excellent skills in technical and complex project managing. She leads the
Systems Team in the Technical Division, and she has coordinated numerous projects
advancement.
Alexis FINCK, was graduated in Electrical Engineering from ESME Sudria in 2009. He
joins CANAL+ on March 2010, as a Project Manager and worked mainly on technical
survey and innovation funding.
MIF
Montimage is a French SME specialized in
software development and research in the
domain of services and telecommunication
networks. The company was started in 2004
by a research engineer from Alcatel and
Ericsson, expert in the development of
software for telecommunications and
treatment of critical and massive data.
Montimage
has
also
secured
the
participation of a group of research
scientists from universities and engineering
schools, specialized in ICT (Information and
Communication Technologies), which has
expanded the possibilities of working with
fixed and mobile networks, wireless ad hoc
and mesh networks, protocol engineering,
web applications, and security.
Montimage is actively working in building
tools to monitor the behaviour of different
network protocols to be able to analyse QoS
and estimate QoE. Montimage will adapt
and scale these tools to be able determine
properties related to OTT QoS and QoE.
Montimage has developed a tool, MMT
(Montimage Monitoring Tool) that allows
monitoring the network for detecting
anomalies and QoS/QoE to help optimise
the use of network resources.
Edgardo Montes de Oca graduated as engineer in 1985 from Paris XI University, Orsay.
He has worked as research engineer in the Alcatel Corporate Research centre in
Marcoussis, France and in Ericsson’s Research centre in Massy, France. In 2004 he
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founded Montimage, and is currently its director. His main interests are designing state-ofthe-art tools to test and monitor applications and telecommunication protocol exchanges;
and, the development of software solutions with strong performance and security
requirements.
Wissam Mallouli received his Master from ‘Evry Val d’Essonne’ University in 2005 and his
PhD in computer science from Telecom and Management SudParis in 2008. He is currently
a research engineer at Montimage France. His topics of interest cover formal testing and
monitoring of functional and non-functional behaviour of distributed systems and networks.
PSNC
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking
Center (PSNC) was established in 1993 by
the State Committee for Scientific Research.
PSNC is responsible for the management of
the countrywide Polish National Research
and Educational Network - Polish Optical
Internet - PIONIER, built on own fibbers with
10GE technology as well as POZMAN Metropolitan Area Network in Poznań.
PSNC research activities focus on next
generation networks (optical networks, QoS,
IPv6, multicast, measurement), grids
(resource management, data management,
scheduling, middle-ware and security),
digital media (meta-data, large scale content
distribution and delivery, scalable access,
AAA, content presentation and value-added
services), eHealth, eLearning, mobile
access, videoconferencing as well as checkpointing and users management for HPC
environments.
PSNC has quite extensive experience in
designing, deploying and operating large
scale multimedia distribution systems, that
has been gained in iTVP and PLATON
projects. Since 2003 the content delivery
research in the areas including scalability,
reliability, performance, content distribution
strategies, platform architectures, monitoring
and integration has been conducted in
PSNC and has proven record of
deployments. This constitutes the expertise
in the field that will be used in NOTTS
project to develop new scenarios for delay
sensitive services, platform architecture,
caching strategies, monitoring and service
supervision tools as well as construct a
testbed to verify and present the project
results.
PSNC takes active part in research, funded
by national and EU research programmes,
participating in many projects including:
PLATON – Service Platform for e-Science,
HIPERMED
(HIgh
PERformance
TeleMEDicine platform), Future Internet
Engineering, GEANT3, HPC-Europa2 (PanEuropean Research Infrastructure on High
Performance
Computing),
FEDERICA
(Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to
European Researchers Innovating in
Computing network Architectures) and
more.
The PSNC research activities, lead to
several advanced products which were
developed by PSNC. These include: Gridge
- enterprise solution bridging applications
and grids, dLibra - digital library framework,
iTVP interactive TV - countrywide content
delivery system, as well as application
portals, tools and services for Education,
eGovernment and more.
Dr Cezary Mazurek is the Head of the Network Services Department at Poznan
Supercomputing and Networking Center (www.man.poznan.pl). He received his PhD in
Computer Science from Poznan University of Technology in 2004. His research expertise
and experience include a wide variety of advanced network services including digital
libraries, interactive television, videoconferencing, telemedicine, data and information
management and access to grid services. His recent activities are closely related to Future
Internet technologies and advanced experimental research infrastructures. He has been the
manager of numerous projects in those fields coordinated by PSNC, including the
Wielkopolska Center for Telemedicine, Multimedia City Guide, Polish Educational Portal,
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Digital Library Framework: dLibra, interactive TV platform. Cezary has been participating in
national projects: Future Internet Engineering, SYNAT and PLATON, where he is a leader
of service U5 (infrastructure and services for Research HD Television). He participated in
FP6 projects: GridLab, Géant2 and Qualipso. He has also coordinated PSNC’s participation
in projects IMPACT, Europeana Local, HIPERMED. Currently he is a leader of activity SA4:
Software Governance and project management team member in FP7 Geant3 project as
well as Quality Coordinator in Wf4Ever project. He is the author or co-author of over 100
papers in professional journals and conference proceedings.
Mirosław Czyrnek, M. Sc., received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the
Poznan University of Technology in 2002. Since 1999 he has been actively involved in
projects conducted in PSNC Network Services Department, in the area of access portals,
advanced network services and multimedia systems. The major ones include: Polish
Educational Portal, ATRIUM, iTVP, HDVIPER, NetRadio, HIPERMED. Currently he vicemanages the development of scientific interactive HDTV service within PLATON project
and horizontally coordinates multimedia activities at PSNC. His interests focus on
advanced multimedia technologies deployments in the area of research, education,
medicine and entertainment.
Ewa Kuśmierek received Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University
of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA in 2004. She conducted research in the Computer
Networking and Multimedia Research Laboratory and participated in a number of projects
in the Digital Technology Center at the University of Minnesota. Currently she is with the
Network Services Department at PSNC. She has participated in projects related to large
scale video streaming and multimedia content delivery such as iTVP (done in cooperation
with the national public TV in Poland), NetRadio, Science HD TV Platon, and Future
Internet Engineering in the area of home network multimedia.
Robert Cecko is leading Multimedia and Streaming Techniques Laboratory in Network
Services Department at PSNC. He obtained master of IT science degree at Poznań
University of Technology in 1994 with specialization in microcomputer systems. He has
been working at Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center from 2003. He was
involved in many projects related to large scale video streaming and multimedia content
delivery such as iTVP, Platon – Science HD TV Services, NetRadio and Future Internet
Engineering. He is experienced software developer.
SHEF
Super Head End Finland Oy is wholesale pay
TV operator providing pay TV services to it's
operator customers in Finland. SHEF's pay TV
services include cable and IPTV services.
SHEF's operator customers have more than
80000 household customers using SHEF's pay
TV services. SHEF's specialty is advanced IPTV
TV services.
Harri Seppinen, BEng, Telecommunication Engineer graduated from Stadia (Helsinki
University of Applied Science) in 2008. From 2007 till end of 2011 Seppinen has been
working in IPTV Headend development and IPTV development in Maxisat. From the
beginning of 2012 he has been working as a Production Manager in Super Head End
Finland (SHEF) taking care of Super headend CableTV-, IPTV platforms and its operator
customers technical needs.
Markus Sihvonen, PhD has received Phd on ICT 2007 from the University of Oulu. He has
been working in Technical Research Center, VTT between 1999 – 2010 in multiple jobs
such as senior research scientist, research group manager, customer manager and VTT
Korea director.
TVN
From the very onset of digital TV broadcasting,
the Thomson name has been synonymous with
supplying expertise, quality, and reliability to the
world’s leading broadcasters. Thomson Video
Networks builds on this great heritage by
providing unique and innovative video delivery
solutions for a premium viewing experience.
The Thomson Video Networks philosophy, since
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Thomson Video Networks will focus its
work on the implementation of the
HEVC encoding, the future encoding
standard which will improve the
compression efficiency allowing the
network capacity increased by a factor
2. The improvement of the picture
resolution with HEVC encoding will have
also a important impact in QoE for the
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delivering the world’s first large-scale direct-tohome satellite system, has always been the
same — to provide the best possible picture
quality across any networks, to any devices. As
a worldwide leader in compression systems for
satellite, terrestrial, cable, IPTV, mobile TV, and
Web streaming, Thomson Video Networks is
helping its customers deliver superior quality
video to anything from small handheld devices
to large 3D high-definition screens, with the
lowest bandwidth to ensure a profitable
business model.
A trusted supplier with more than 20 percent of
the active channels deployed worldwide, a
global support presence, and culture of
delivering quality at every stage, Thomson
Video Networks boasts the experience and
range of products to supply every need, from
hybrid multi-format compression systems to
contribution links for content exchange
networks.
user. For the HEVC decoding, Thomson
Video Networks will use a Open
Sources referenced HEVC decoder.
Thomson encoding solution embeds all
necessary features for Web TV/OTT
(decoding,
processing,
encoding,
packaging/scrambling,
HTTP
Live
Streaming output and Smooth streaming
output) in an integrated approach. The
HTTP Live Streaming output creates the
chunks and the manifests, encrypts the
chunks, makes them available on the
local Web server. The Smooth
Streaming output creates the chunks
and the manifest, encrypts the chunks,
and makes them available on the local
Web server and/or on a remote Web
server. The solution is designed to
address different types of terminals from
smartphones to HD fixed terminals.
For information about products from Thomson
Video Networks, please visit www.thomsonnetworks.com.
Raoul Monnier is graduated from "L'École Supérieure d'Électricité" of Paris (1983). From
1985 to 1987, he worked at Thomson CSF DTC in Cholet on software development for a
radio surveillance system. In 1987, he joined Thomson CSF/LER where he took
responsibilities in theoretical studies, simulation and hardware design of a COFDM modem
for digital TV broadcasting. From 1992 to the end of 1995, he worked on several RACE II
projects where he was the representative of Thomson and project coordinator of studies
and hardware developments. From 1998 to 2002, he managed the Front End and Signal
Processing activity in Thomson R&D Rennes. He was responsible for the design and
development of the Front End part of all Set Top Boxes developed by Thomson for the
European market. From 2002 to 2006, he managed several Advanced Development
projects, including Thomson's developments for SATMODE (European Space Agency
project). Since December 2006, he has been European Collaborative Project Manager and
has been managing for Thomson Grass Valley and then for Thomson Video Networks
several FP6/FP7 projects, an Artemis project and also French national collaborative
projects.
Anne-Lore Mevel received a Computer Science and Signal Processing degree from
ENSSAT Lannion (France) in 1998, and a Master degree in Aerospace Electronics and
Telecommunications from SUPAERO Toulouse (France) in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, she
has worked for Philips in the fields of applications development for mobile phones. In 2002,
she joined THALES Broadcast & Multimedia where she was involved with audio/video
development projects such as MPEG-2 switchers, MPEG-2 multiplexers, Logo inserters. In
2005, she joined Thomson where she took over high-level support and partners
development management positions. Today, Anne-Lore works as a Cooperative Projects
technical manager at Thomson Video Networks. She has been involved in several
European Collaborative Projects such as MOVIES, MOTSWAN, ALICANTE, NOTUBE.
TP
Confidential
Telekomunikacja Polska – TP is the largest
public network operator in Poland, part of
France Telecom Group (Orange). Since 2012,
TP uses international brand of Orange for all its
commercial services. TP provides diverse
services and bundles of voice, Internet access,
IPTV via DSL and satellite. Since 2012, OTT
television and on-demand video is also offered
for PC and mobile clients. Research and
development activity of TP is performed by
dedicated branch, Orange Labs Poland, having
Orange Labs Poland (TP) will provide
the network operator and service
provider point of view in the project. As a
national-wide carrier and provider of
triple play services, TP can provide
valuable input to the definition of
requirements and scenarios relevant to
NOTTS. TP brings also to the project its
experience
with
development
of
commercial OTT TV service (“TV Tu i
Tam” offered on Polish market).
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the missions to accelerate innovation and its
implementation in TP Group, to demonstrate TP
corporate social responsibility by reinforcing
R&D potential in Poland in promising domains.
Orange Labs Poland engineers also take part in
European scientific and research projects (IST,
EUREKA/CELTIC), as well as to international
and national standardization bodies (ITU-T,
Broadband Forum). Made up of more than 300
researchers, Orange Labs Poland is located in
Warsaw, Poland. The main activities cover
nearly all information and communication
technology domains needed for mass market
services and enterprise services offering, as
well as support for the development of Orange
Group product roadmaps. Among the different
areas of its activities, it is worth mentioning its
activities in multiservice access everywhere,
access network architectures especially for
triple play services, IPTV and OTT TV
technologies,
IP
Multimedia
Subsystem,
network planning methods. TP is the largest
IPTV operator in Poland, providing TV and VoD
services to more that 600 thousand users.
Marek Dąbrowski joined Polish Telecom R&D Centre (Orange Labs Poland) in 2000. He
received Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from Warsaw University of Technology,
Institute of Telecommunications in 2005. His research interests cover social and interactive
TV services,
context-awareness and personalization, IPTV and WebTV content
distribution, network QoS aspects. He participated in EU funded research projects like
EUREKA/CELTIC project “UP-TO-US”, where he served as WP leader. In Orange Labs he
managed internal projects related with anticipation and development of new services in the
area of digital content distribution. He has publications at national and international
conferences, and co-chaired a workshop during major international event.
Zbigniew Kopertowski received his Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications at Warsaw
University of Technology, Institute of Telecommunications in 1997. In 1998 he joined TP
Research and Development Centre, currently Orange Labs Poland. He participated IST
research projects in COST 242, COST 257, Copernicus 1463 and FP5, FP6, FP7 projects
like “AQUILA”, “EuQoS” and “NapaWine”. He was WP leader in NapaWine project related
to p2p TV. He was project leader in internal Orange Poland and FT Group projects in the
area multimedia services. He has publications at national and international conferences in
computer networks area. He is currently manager of Audiovisual Platform Laboratory in
Orange Labs Poland and is working on IPTV platforms, OTT TV solutions, content delivery,
p2p TV systems and combined services from TV, mobile and VoIP domains.
7.2
Contact details
Name of Organisation: Indra Sistemas, S.A. (IND)
Contact person
Antonio Cuadra Sánchez
Address
City
Parque Tecnológico de
47151 Boecillo – Valladolid
Boecillo. Edificio Solar.
C/ Juan de Herrera, 102 A
Telephone:
E-mail
+34983100818
acuadra@indra.es
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Country
Spain
Fax
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Name of Organisation: Alcatel-Lucent (ALU)
Contact person
Eugenio Rogles Muñoz
Address
City
c/ María Tubau 9
28050 Madrid
Telephone
E-mail
+34913306129
Eugenio.rogles@alcatel-lucent.com
Name of Organisation: Dycec (DYC)
Contact person
Alberto Llano Pérez
Address
City
Torres Quevedo, 1
28760 Tres Cantos (Madrid)
Telephone
E-mail
+34918037444
allano@dycec.com
Country
Spain
Fax
+34913305000
Country
Spain
Fax
Name of Organisation: ADTEL, ADTEL Sistemas de Telecomunicacion S.L.
Contact person
Pablo Hontoria Blanco
Address
City
Country
Avenida Barcelona, 211
08750 Molins de Rei (Barcelona)
Spain
nave 7 Pol. Industrial El Pla
Telephone
E-mail
Fax
+34 932 23 80 00
pablohontoria@adtel.es
+34 932 23 97 98
Name of Organisation: Naudit High Performance Computing and Networking, S.L. (NAU)
Contact person
Jorge E. López de Vergara Méndez
Address
City
Country
FPCM – Faraday, 7
28049 Madrid
Spain
Telephone
E-mail
Fax
+34 630 569 106
jorge.lopezdevergara@naudit.es
Name of Organisation: Acreo (ACR)
Contact person
Andreas Aurelius
Address
City
Electrum 236
16440 Kista
Telephone
E-mail
+46 8 632 78 02
andreas.aurelius@acreo.se
Country
Sweden
Fax
+46 8 632 77 10
Name of Organisation: Ericsson (EABS)
Contact person
Åke Arvidsson
Address
City
Ericsson AB
SE-164 80 Stockholm
Telephone
E-mail
+46 10 7151897
Ake.Arvidsson@ericsson.com
Country
Sweden
Fax
+46 8 7572092
Name of Organisation: Alkit (ALK)
Contact person
Mathias Johanson
Address
City
Sallarängsbacken 2
Mölndal
Telephone
E-mail
+4631675543
mathias@alkit.se
Country
Sweden
Fax
+4631675549
Name of Organisation: Procera Networks (PRO)
Contact person
Fredrik Johansson
Address
City
Carl Gustafs väg 46
214 21 Malmö
Confidential
Country
Sweden
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Telephone
+46(0)340-48 38 00
E-mail
fredrik.johansson@proceranetworks.com
Name of Organisation: Lund University (LTH)
Contact person
Maria Kihl
Address
City
BOX 118
221 00 Lund
Telephone
E-mail
+46 46 222 9010
maria.kihl@eit.lth.se
Name of Organisation: Institut Telecom sudParis (ITP)
Contact person
Ana Cavalli
Address
City
9 rue Charles Fourier
91011 Evry Cedex
Telephone
E-mail
+33 1 60 76 44 27,
ana.cavalli@it-sudparis.eu
+33 6 71 92 52 53
Fax
+46 (0)0340 48 38 28
Country
Sweden
Fax
+46 46 12 99 48
Country
France
Fax
+33 1 60 76 47 11
Name of Organisation: Canal Plus (CPLUS)
Contact person
Alexis FINCK
Address
City
1, place du spectacle
Issy-Les_Moulineaux
Telephone
E-mail
01.71.35.16.98
alexis.finck@canal-plus.com
Country
France
Fax
-
Name of Organisation: VIERLING Communication S.A.S (VGC)
Contact person
Bertrand Haas
Address
City
7, rue Elsa Triolet
78370 Plaisir
Telephone
E-mail
+33 1 30 81 26 14
bertrand.haas@vierling-group.com
Country
France
Fax
+33 1 30 81 26 06
Name of Organisation: University Paris-Est Creteil (UPEC)
Contact person
Abdelhamid Mellouk
Address
City
122, rue Paul Armangot
94400 Vitry sur Seine
Telephone
E-mail
+33 1 41 80 73 13,
mellouk@u-pec.fr
+33 6 08 50 86 81
Name of Organisation: IP-label.newtest (ILN)
Contact person
Alexandre Bourret
Address
City
90 boulevard National
92250 La-Garenne-Colombes
Telephone
E-mail
+33 1 77 49 53 05
abourret@ip-label.com
Country
France
Fax
+33 1 41 80 73 76
Country
France
Fax
+33 1 49 64 03 80
Name of Organisation: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Contact person
Jukka-Pekka Laulajainen
Address
City
Country
Kaitoväylä 1
90570 Oulu
Finland
Telephone
+358 400 236 420
E-mail
Jukka-Pekka.Laulajainen@vtt.fi
Fax
+ 358 207 222 320
Name of Organisation: Videra Oy
Contact person
Ilkka Ketola
Confidential
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Address
Elektroniikkatie 2 B 4 krs.
Telephone
+358 400 604 303,
City
90590 Oulu
E-mail
ilkka.ketola@videra.com
Country
Finland
Fax
+358 (0) 8 557 8051
Name of Organisation: PPO-Yhtiöt Oy (PPO)
Contact person
Markus Sihvonen, Markus Ahokangas
Address
City
Country
Ratakatu 1, PL 34
84101 Ylivieska
Finland
Telephone
+358 40 756 4802
+358 447 291 227
E-mail
Fax
+358 84291361
Sihvonen@greenpeak.fi
markus.ahokangas@ppo.fi
Name of Organisation: Super Head End Finland (SHEF)
Contact person
Markus Sihvonen, Harri Seppinen
Address
City
Tekniikantie 14, Innopoli 2
02150 Espoo
Telephone
+358 40 756 4802
Country
Finland
E-mail
Sihvonen@greenpeak.fi
Fax
harri.seppinen@shef.fi
Name of Organisation: Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)
Contact person
Cezary Mazurek
Address
City
Noskowskiego 10
61-704 Poznań
Telephone
E-mail
+48 61 858 20 30
mazurek@man.poznan.pl
Name of Organisation: Thomson Video Networks (TVN)
Contact person
Raoul Monnier
Address
City
6, rue du Clos Courtel
35517 Cesson Sévigné
Telephone
E-mail
+33 2 99 28 53 75
raoul.monnier@thomsonnetworks.com
Academy of Sciences -
Country
Poland
Fax
+48 61 858 21 51
Country
France
Fax
+33 2 99 28 50 01
Name of Organisation: Montimage EURL (MIF)
Contact person
Edgardo Montes de Oca
Address
City
39 rue Bobillot
75013 Paris
Telephone
E-mail
+33684509637
edgardo.montesdeoca@montimage.com
Telekomunikacja Polska (TP)
Contact person
Marek Dabrowski
Address
City
St. Obrzeżna 7
02-691, Warsaw
Telephone
E-mail
+48 22 699 5706
marek.dabrowski@orange.com
Confidential
Country
France
Fax
Country
Poland
Fax
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7.3
Contact and funding information by Public Authorities
Partner
Confidential
Funding Situation
F =Funding approved
P = Funding pending (but likely)
N = Not approved/ not applied yet
O = Work on own costs (no funding)
D = Funding disapproved
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8
EFFORT AND BUDGET TABLES
All figures in person years (PY)
8.1
Effort allocation per work package and year
Total effort
(all WPs)
Partner 1
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015 (+)
Total
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015 (+)
Total
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015 (+)
Total
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015 (+)
Total
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015 (+)
Total
2014
2015 (+)
Total
Total Effort
(PY)
(add rows as necessary)
Effort per Work Package:
Total effort
(all WPs)
Partner 1
Total Effort
(PY)
(add rows as necessary)
WP2
Partner 1
Total WP2
(PY)
(add rows as necessary)
WP3
Partner 1
Total WP3
(PY)
(add rows as necessary)
WP4
Partner 1
Total WP4
(PY)
(add rows as necessary)
Add further WP tables as necessary
8.2
Total budget allocations per partners
Figures in kEuro
Partner
Partner 1
2011
2012
2013
Total Budget
(k€)
(add rows as necessary)
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8.3
Budget for equipment and other costs
Figures in kEuro
Partner
Partner 1
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015+
Total
Reason
(add rows as necessary)
8.4
Total budget allocations per country
Figures in kEuro
Country
Country 1
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015 (+)
Total
2013
2014
2015 (+)
Total
(add rows as necessary)
8.5
Total effort allocations per country
Figures in person year (PY)
Country
Country 1
2011
2012
(add rows as necessary)
Confidential
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