ICT COST Action IC1304
Autonomous Control for a Reliable
Internet of Services (ACROSS)
ACROSS TF2
on Cross-layer QoE
management
Progress report – October 2015
ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
Summary of main facts:
• 2 TF2 telcos held since the last meeting in Wuerzburg
– dedicated to check a status of TF2 activities
– Note 1 : 11 TF2 telcos in total held up to now (regular basis)
– Note 2: a couple of telcos also held in TF2 IGs (ad hoc basis)
• TF consists of 21 members spreaded across Europe and
Israel
– 2 new members since the last meeting in Wuerzburg
• 5 active IGs - no change since the last meeting
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ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
IG1: A context-based QoE monitoring
• Leader: Florian Metzger (Univesity of Duisburg-Essen, D)
• Number of members: 11
• Focus: User-centric, context-aware QoE monitoring &
network management
• Outputs:
– QCMan 2015 paper presented by Tobias in Ottawa, Canada
• already indexed in IEEE Xplore, authored by 7 IG1 members
– A journal paper dealing with a context monitoring
• submitted to Computer Networks (Elsevier) in July – no feedback so far
• an extension of the QCMan 2015 paper, authored by 10 IG1 members
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ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
IG1: A context-based QoE monitoring
– STSM (Eirini Liotou, GR->D – Uni of Duisburg-Essen):
• STSM leader: Tobias Hossfeld
• Topic: Context awareness in mobile networks
• Outputs:
– A paper dealing with Context Factors in the context of the TCP-based
streaming in Mobile networks (an extension of ITC 2015 paper) going to
be submitted to Computer Networks (Elsevier) – SI on Traffic and
Performance in the Big Data Era
– A paper dealing with Context awareness in mobile networks going to be
submitted to IEEE ICC 2016
» plan to extend this paper for ITC 2016
– A paper dealing with prospect theory in the context of QoE planned for
PQS 2016
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ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
IG1: A context-based QoE monitoring
– 1 talk going to be given at ETSI STQ workshop (Vienna, Austria)
on Telecommunication Quality beyond 2015 by Eirini Liotou on
the following topic:
• An SDN-based QoE-Service for Dynamically Enhancing the Performance
of OTT Applications
• Current activities:
– designing a cloud gaming experiment
– working on follow-up activities based on the above mentioned
papers
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ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
IG3: A cross-layer QoE management
• Leader: Thomas Zinner (Univesity of Wuerzburg, D)
• Number of members: 9
• Focus:
– A cross-layer SLA/QoS management for multi cloud-based
services
– Application-Network Interaction
• Output:
– A paper dealing with QoS-based route selection in Healthcare
Cloud accepted for publication at CEMA 2015 to be held soon in
Bulgaria – authored by Rasa Bruzgiene and her colleagues
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ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
IG3: A cross-layer QoE management
– 2 talks going to be given at ETSI STQ workshop (Vienna, Austria)
on Telecommunication Quality beyond 2015 by Peter Pocta on
the following topics:
• Black box analysis of WebRTC jitter buffer behavior and impact on POLQA
predictions
– a joint work with NUIG Ireland
• Subjective and Objective Assessment of Perceived Audio Quality of
Current Digital Audio Broadcasting Systems and Web-Casting
Applications
– a joint work with TNO, Delft, The Netherlands
• Current activities:
– initiating some activities
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ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
IG4: Time-aware applications, computers and
communication systems
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Leader: Hugh Melvin (NUI Galway, IE)
Number of members: 6
Focus: time awareness in SDN and M2M comm.
Outputs:
– A paper dealing with Time Awareness in SDN presented at
EuCNC 2015 in Paris by Hugh Melvin – a joint work with UniZA
– A paper dealing with Delay issues in WebRTC submitted to a
special issue of Communications journal
– no feedback so far, a joint work of NUIG and UniZA
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ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
IG4: Time-aware applications, computers and
communication systems
– A paper dealing with an impact of WebRTC JB strategies on a
quality perceived by the end-user submitted to a special issue
of Communications journal
• no feedback so far, a joint work of NUIG and UniZA
– 2 talks going to be given at ETSI STQ workshop (Vienna,
Austria) on Telecommunication Quality beyond 2015 by Hugh
Melvin on the following topics:
• Black-box Delay Testing of VoIP Applications
– a joint work of NUIG and UniZA
• Time synchronization for QoE in SDN networks
– a joint work of NUIG and UniZA
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ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
IG4: Time-aware applications, computers and
communication systems
Current activities:
– drafting a paper on Time Awareness in Gaming for ITSF 2015
– designing an SDN experiment to showcase an importance of
time awareness in this context
– designing an online gaming experiment to showcase an
importance of time awareness in this context
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ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
IG6: QoE in mobile networks
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Leader: Ahmed Elmokashfi (Simula Research Lab, NO)
Number of members: 7
Focus: Mobile Broadband Performance and QoE
Output: None so far
Current activities:
– working on a survey/position paper on QoE in mobile
networks
• an expected time of submission: end of this year
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ACROSS TF2
Progress report – October 2015
IG7: QoE management in the context of unified
communication and collaboration services
• Leader: Jasmina Barakovic Husic (Uni of Sarajevo, BiH)
• Number of members: 2
• Focus: QoE management of unified communication and
collaboration services
• Output: None so far
• Current activities:
– drafting a paper on user’s satisfaction with native and Webbased unified communication apps
• supposed to be ready at the end of this year
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ICT COST Action IC1304
Autonomous Control for a Reliable
Internet of Services (ACROSS)
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