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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