Telecommunications Software & Systems Group Waterford Institute of Technology TSSG Wireless Services and Management Research Division Overview

Contact : Mícheál Ó Foghlú Research Director, TSSG, WIT [email protected]

TSSG Overview

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TSSG – Summary Statistics

51 Projects since 1997 (lead over 65% of these) 28 Active Projects (EUR 20m over 8 years) 60 staff (6 faculty, 4 PI/SI, 12 research students, 4 support, the rest are full time researchers/project managers) • • A balanced portfolio of basic, applied and pre-product research programmes and projects creating critical mass with synergies between real-world commercial knowledge of the domain, and core academic competencies Impact on industrial domain (standardisation with the TM Forum) and on the academic community

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TSSG Core Working Partners

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Irish Industrial Partners:

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Ericsson, Motorola, O2, Vodafone, BT Ireland Lake Communications, Eircom, Intec Intel, Soft-ex, Lakefield, MDS, 2PM, Mobile Tornado Irish Academic Partners:

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CIT, TCD, UCD, UL, UCC Other Industrial Partners:

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Nortel, Siemens, Alcatel, Lucent, Telefonica, BEA BT Global, Vodafone, T-Mobile/T-Systems, Nokia Portugal Telecom, Telenor, ATOS, Thales UHC, IKV++, FHG Fokus, Intelsis Other Academic Partners:

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Technical University of Berlin, Queen Mary College UCL, Imperial College, University of Sheffield Open University, University of the Aegean University of Naples

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The TSSG has worked directly with over 150 partners in the period 1997-2005 Of the 51 projects run since the TSSG started, we have led 65% of these, the largest being Opium (a precursor of the large FP6 projects) The partner base covers all the major stakeholders in the telecommunications industry in Europe, and some key contacts in the Far East, and the Americas.

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TSSG Research Competence Centres

Communications Infrastructure Management (CIM) – Communications Management (telecommunications & internet) – Security (lower level networking protocols, and higher level frameworks) – Test bed activities (IPv6, interoperability, VASPs for operators’ networks) Pervasive Communications Services (PCS) – Dynamically composed services (creation/management) – Accounting for dynamically composed services – Location-based services and Context awareness Software Tools & Methods (STM) – MDA approaches – Eclipse plug-ins to aid development environment (code metrics) • Autonomic Communications Environment (ACE) – Self-managed communications • Beyond 3G Wireless Software Test Centre

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TSSG Future Research Areas

Autonomic Communications Environment – Self management integrated wireless networks Secure wireless service creation in 3/4G environments – IMS Internet Protocol Subsystem Multimedia Platforms – Software Tools and Methods IPv6 National Test Centre (Hamilton Institute, BT Ireland, HEAnet) – Roaming and handover (Mobile IPv6) – Network Interoperability (BGP, SLAs, …) – Security for IPv6-based services (IPSec) – QoS for IPv6-based services (DiffServ, IntServ, MPLS) Creation of Impact through Clustering Activities – Infrastructure providers – Content Providers – Service Platform providers

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