TSSG Demonstrates Significant Results of its Research Projects in Berlin
18-23-2004
By: Margaret Grene
The Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) was established after an initial proposal for European Commission research funding was accepted in 1997. Six years later the group can claim a turnover of over nine million euros; successful transition from the Commission's fifth to sixth framework and a staff of forty-five full time researchers.
At the TSSG Research and Development is regarded as a safeguard against losing Ireland's place as one of the largest exporters of software in the world by ensuring that we stay at the forefront of the ICT sector. If our traditional IT companies move their activities to lower cost locations, we still have the technology and the expertise to produce the new breed of applications and platforms.
Research is, by its very nature, a collaborative process. And from a very simplistic viewpoint the process can be described as follows:
1. The research concepts are devised based on inputs and suggestions from industry and from society in general
2. These requirements are then used to build and test systems
3. The results are fed back to standards bodies and to industry.
Having reached stage three of this research process for the Opium and AlbatrOSS projects the TSSG will be hosting a workshop on February 25th in Berlin to introduce the integrated results of these two complementary and innovative IST projects to a wide audience.
It is recognized that collectively these projects have the potential to solve the 3G puzzle. Both the AlbatrOSS 3G OSS architecture and the OPIUM integrated pan-European 3G testbed will be presented.
A demonstrable result of the AlbatrOSS project includes enhanced personal mobility - listening to your wireless-enabled MP3 player without noticing 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. One of the significant points about this demonstration is that the user is aware of the service and can use it conveniently, without understanding the underlying technologies and functionalities, in the same way that you can use your cooker at home without having to know how it works.
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 will be demonstrated.
A key objective of the workshop is to ensure that these results are integrated into new projects and participants will have the opportunity to interact with their peers to initiate inter-project relationships. The afternoon session is dedicated to creating new funding proposal initiatives and establishing inter-project relationships.
The keynote address will be given by Mr. 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 and Chief Strategy Officer Intelliden. Other speakers include Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Director, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany and Mr. Diarmuid McIntyre, Head of Applied Research, Waterford Institute of Technology.
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