ACROSS TF2 on Cross-layer QoE management Progress report – October 2015 ICT COST Action IC1304 Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)

ACROSS TF2on Cross-layer QoE

management

Progress report – October 2015

ICT COST Action IC1304

Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)

• 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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Summary of main facts:

ACROSS TF2Progress report – October 2015

• 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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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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– 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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• 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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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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IG3: A cross-layer QoE management


• 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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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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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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• 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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IG6: QoE in mobile networks


• 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 Web-based unified communication apps

• supposed to be ready at the end of this year

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IG7: QoE management in the context of unified communication and collaboration services


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