TSSG Demonstrates Significant Results of its Opium and AlbatrOSS Projects in Berlin
“Without the pioneering work of the AlbatrOSS and Opium research projects we would still be struggling with complexities in the Operation Support System(OSS) layer says John Strassner Inventor of DEN NG (Directory Enabled Networks, 1997); Creator of the first
international standard for policy management; Advisor to the Board of Directors TM Forum, Co-chair SID Modelling Team TM Forum, Chief Strategy Officer Intelliden and Keynote
speaker at a recent workshop organized by the Telecommunications
Software and Systems Group (TSSG) a research group in Waterford
Institute of Technology. The workshop, Solutions for Personalised Mobile Services Environment, was hosted by T-Systems and FOKUS in Berlin.
This workshop showcased the results of the Opium and AlbatrOSS projects, which have been successfully co-ordinated by the TSSG over the last two years. And the results do indeed make good on the promise of Personalised Mobile Services.
For example, one of the results of the AlbatrOSS project demonstrates enhanced personal mobility - listening to your wireless-enabled MP3
player without detecting that you are automatically moving between a
Local Area Network (LAN) in your office, a General Packet Radio system
(GPRS) network in the park and a Wireless network (WLAN) on the street.
Another trial demonstrates the Smart Home Environment, which allows
users to access their home networks remotely so that they can control
their security cameras, their alarms or even their domestic appliances.
The AlbatrOss project was managed at the TSSG by Conor Ryan and supported
by Boris Rousseau and Cathal O’Riordan, and without the accounting and
billing components provided by the TSSG, services such as the Smart
Home Environment could not be accounted and charged for.
In addition, significant results from the two projects in the areas of Service Composition, Single Sign On, One Stop Shopping, Aggregated Billing, QoS Reporting, Location Based Services, and Inter-Domain &
Inter-Technology Roaming were demonstrated.
It is widely recognised that a significant stage in any research process
is where the results are percolated back to standards bodies and to
industry. The aim of the Berlin workshop, therefore, was to introduce the integrated results of these two complementary and innovative IST projects to a wide audience. And to this end approximately
40 participants were involved from various organisations and standards
bodies such as TM Forum, European Telecommunications Standards
Institute (ETSI) and IPv6 forum.
So what happens next?
Another
key objective of the workshop was to ensure that these results are
integrated into new projects and participants were given the
opportunity to interact with their peers to initiate inter-project
relationships. For this reason the afternoon sessions were dedicated to
creating new funding proposal initiatives and establishing
inter-project relationships.
Speaking also at the event, Mr Francois Fisher
of ETSI said that the first ETSI Location Based Services
Interoperability Event scheduled for September this year (20-24) will
rely heavily on the results of the AlbatrOSS and Opium projects.
Other speakers included Mr. Berthold Butscher, Deputy Director, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany and Mr. Diarmuid McIntyre, Head of Applied Research & Innovation, Waterford Institute of Technology.
Workshop presentations can be found on the AlbatrOSS web site (link to http://www.ist-albatross.org/workshop/).
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