CELTIC Project ID: CP7-009 Start Date: October 1, 2010 End Date: April 30, 2013			Visit the IPNQSIS wiki pages for more information.
Coming Up: May 8-10, 2012 Lund, Sweden IPNQSIS is going to have its fourth plenary meeting at the premises of Lund University, LTH. The midterm review of the project by Celtic-Plus will also take place during the meeting. July 4-6, 2012 Berlin, Germany IPNQSIS is going to be represented at the Future Network and Mobile Summit 2012. For further information, please visit the IPNQSIS wiki pages of the project. Recent Events: February 22-23, 2012 Stockholm, Sweden IPNQSIS has presented the latest results of the consortium at the annual Celtic-Plus Event. For further information, please visit the IPNQSIS wiki pages of the project. January 31 – February 1, 2012 Paris, France The third plenary meeting of IPNQSIS project took recently place at the premises of Institute Telecom SudParis. Twenty people from the 18 companies of the Finnish, Swedish, French, and Spanish consortia gathered to review the six active work packages, all of them making progress as planned. Management issues have also been discussed, such as the preparations for the midterm review, and the demonstrators that will be shown during the next Celtic-Plus Event.			Public Documents: (D6.3.1, 30.03.2012) Service optimization demonstrator (D3.2, 14.03.2012) Specification of development and demonstrators in WP3 (D7.1.2, 14.02.2012) Dissemination and exploitation plan (D2.2, 25.10.2011) Definition of requirements of the management systems to keep up with qoe expectations based on qos and traffic monitoring (D2.1, 11.10.2011) State of the art sqm/cem technology, tools, and standardization (D5.3.1, 04.10.2011) Component design for qoe driven control Partners: Finland EXFO NetHawk PPO-Yhtiöt Oy VTT Technical Research Centre France Institut Telecom SudParis IP-Label Newtest Vierling Communication SAS Université Paris-Est Créteil Spain Alcatel-Lucent España SA Dycec SA Gigle Semiconductors Indra Sistemas SA Naudit SL Soft Telecom Sweden Acreo AB Alkit Communications AB Ericsson AB Lund University Procera Networks Coordinator: Antonio Cuadra Sanchez Indra Sistemas SA acuadra@indra.es
	IP Network Monitoring for Quality of Service Intelligent Support
	The main objective of IPNQSIS is to develop continuous monitoring systems to study the behaviour of Quality of Experience (QoE) through the analysis of network and service performance and their impact on end customers.
	Main Focus The uppermost novelty of IPNQSIS is that both the customer perception and network performance will be taken up as the main driver for building a complete Customer Experience Management System (CEMS). The QoE will be fed from multi-technology network devices, such as probes, that will be developed and evaluated in the project. Deep packet and deep flow inspection techniques will be applied to monitor and analyze IP traffic in access networks in order to propose new techniques for distribution of multimedia content for cost-efficient solutions to maintain acceptable levels of QoE. In summary, algorithms, and measurements devices will be developed and tested to provide feedback to the control system. Furthermore, cognitive software will be developed to combine QoE-QoS correlation analysis with network operation and traffic modelling studies. All these elements constitute the Customer Experience Management (CEM) architecture that is the main outcome of this project.
	Our Approach Starting from the definition of the requirements for a monitoring architecture based on QoE measurements, IPNQSIS will design and implement all the elements required to build a network management system rooted in the traffic monitoring and service supervision system. This performance will be improved by means of enhanced hardware and software elements and the tools to monitor QoE from QoS measurements developed in the project. That is, the major outcome of IPNQSIS project will be the requirements, design and an implementation of a Customer Experience Management System (CEMS) composed of three different layers: Data sources (i.e. probes), Monitoring Component and Control Module. The structure of IPNQSIS is implemented on a classical formal pattern from system specification to prototype final implementation including use-cases identification. Besides from two transversal work packages, namely WP1, for general project management and WP7, for dissemination and standardization issues, the structure of the project IPNQSIS aims the final objective of building a prototype up: WP2 establishes the system requirements, WP3 deals with traffic modelling and WP4 with network behaviour analysis. WP5 that actually tackles the data sources and control module that constitutes the prototype implementation. Finally WP6 performs the integration and testing of the prototype by developing several use cases.
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