TSSG - Telecommunications Software & Systems Group: EFIPSANS

EFIPSANS

The EFIPSANS project aims at exposing the features in IP version six protocols that can be exploited or extended for the purposes of designing or building autonomic networks and services.

Project Overview

EFIPSANS is a 3 year project aiming to expose the features in IP version six protocols that can be exploited or extended for the purposes of designing or building autonomic networks and services. What this means is, a study of the emerging research areas that target desirable user behaviours, terminal behaviours, service mobility, e-mobility, context-aware communications, self-ware, autonomic communication/computing/networking will be carried out, and out of these areas desirable autonomic(self-*) behaviours in diverse environments e.g. end systems, access networks, wireless versus fixed network environments will be captured and specified.

The vision is that, the specified autonomic behaviour specifications, the identified exploitable IPv6 features and new protocol and architectural extensions will one day be standardized in the long run (after the first 3 years of EFIPSANS) i.e. maturing from being drafts to standards.

Project Implementation

In the ICT EFIPSANS project we are leaders of WP4 “Autonomic Network Management”, were we are looking at how to make management functions such as fault-management functions autonomic. Central to network management is also the role of “monitoring”, which is also a fundamental element that supplies information a control loop of an autonomic function(s). From this research we are creating Autonomic Behaviour Specifications for selected diverse networking environments (ABs) and the Requirements Specifications (RQs). This will contribute software components (Prototype) for each of the EFIPSANS Frameworks, tools development (Prototype) and software components for simulation.

Project Achievements

In the ICT EFIPSANS project the TSSG have been lead authors of the following project deliverables in 2008:

Deliverables
D4.1: Autonomic Monitoring Node Functionality and Dissemination of Information.

Editors: Kevin Quinn (TSSG)

Co-Authors: Alan Davy, Lei Shi

Publications
In the context of ICT EFIPSANS project TSSG researchers produced the following 3 papers, to be presented in 2009:

Ranganai Chaparadza, Symeon Papavassiliou, Timotheos Kastrinogiannis, Martin Vigoureux, Emmanuel Dotaro, Alan Davy, Kevin Quinn, Michal Wodczak, Andras Toth, Creating a viable Evolution Path towards Self-Managing Future Internet via a Standardizable Reference Model for Autonomic Network Engineering, FIA, PRAGUE, 2009

Alan Davy, Brendan Jennings, Dmitri Botvich,, An approach to Measurement Based Quality of Service Control for Communications Networks, IM 2009 Dissertation Digest.

Smirnov, M., Tiemann, J., Chaparadza, R., Rehai, Y., Papavassiliou, S., Karyotis, V., Pouli, V., Merkoulias,V., Gulyas, A., Heszberger, Z., Retvari, G., Nemeth, F., Wodczak, M., Kakdanis, V., Markopoulous, A., Karantoniss, G., Davy A, Quinn, K., Cheng, S., Li, Y., Jin, Y., Gong, X., Cui, Y., Hu, Bo., Shi, Y., Wang, W., Liakopoulos, A., Zafeiropoulos, A., Lopez, J. A. L., Munoz, J, M, G., Vigoureux, M., Clearly D., Demystifying Self-awareness of Autonomic Systems, András TÓTH, ICT ‘09 Mobile Summit.

Events
Through the course of 2008 the TSSG also presented at

9-10/12/08 Future Internet Assembly Madrid, Spain

25-27/11/08 ICT Conference Lyon, France

28/10/2008 Cascadas Project Demo London, UK

30/9-1/10/08 Commission Concertation meeting Brussels, Belgium

11/06/2008 Informa Conference ”IP Network Transformation Forum 2008” London, UK

30/05/2008 IPv6 Open Day Brussels, Belguim

For more information visit the TSSG website at EFPISANS or

Contact kquinn@tssg.org

Tel: + 353 51 302973 Fax: + 353 51 302901

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