An Integrated Management Supervisor for End-to-End Management of Heterogeneous Contents, Networks, and Terminals enabling Quality of Service

An Integrated Management Supervisor for End‐to‐ End Management of Heterogeneous Contents,  Networks, and Terminals enabling Quality of Service  Chris&an Timmerer  Klagenfurt University (UNIKLU)  Faculty of Technical Sciences (TEWI)  Department of Informa&on Technology (ITEC)  Mul&media Communica&on (MMC)  hDp://research.Hmmerer.com  hDp://blog.Hmmerer.com  mailto:chrisHan.Hmmerer@itec.uni‐klu.ac.at  Co‐authors: ChrisHan Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Ingo Koﬂer, Hermann Hellwagner  (UNIKLU)  Pedro Souto, Maria Andrade, Pedro Carvalho, Hélder Castro (INESC)   Mamadou Sidibé, Ahmed Mehaoua, Li Fang (PRISM)  Adam Lindsay, Michael Mackay  (ULANC)  Artur Lugmayr (TUT)  Bernhard Feiten (DTAG) 

Outline  •  ObjecHves and Overview  •  ENTHRONE System Architecture  •  ENTHRONE Integrated Management  Supervisor (EIMS)  –  Architecture  –  EIMS Managers: FuncHonality  –  Big Picture  •  Deployment Scenario  •  Conclusions  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  2 

Project ObjecHves  •  To further develop an MPEG‐21 based QoS management  architecture and soluHons for cross‐layer adaptaHon and transport  of protected mulHmedia content over mulH‐domain heterogeneous  network infrastructures to diverse terminals  –  Key elements of the project’s acHviHes  •  Research  •  InnovaHon  •  StandardizaHon  •  New business models  •  To demonstrate the ENTHRONE soluHon in a large‐scale pilot, in  preparaHon for bringing it to the market  –  Large scale end‐to‐end pilot able to demonstrate the capability of  ENTHRONE to manage, in an integrated way, the whole chain of  protected content handling, transport and delivery to user terminals  across heterogeneous networks, while oﬀering QoS‐enabled services   2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  3 

Project Overview  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  4 

ENTHRONE System Architecture  ENTHRONE Integrated Management Supervisor  Supervision  EIMS  Quality of Service   Metadata Management and  Enhanced Features  layer  and AdaptaHon   Search (MATool)  Metadata Management Model  Generic model for   Interfaces  ‐ MulHcast management  ‐ AdaptaHon management  ‐ Metadata management  Adapters  ‐ Metadata storage  ‐ Content caching and   Delivery layer  And extended funcHonaliHes:     CDN management  ‐ End to end (QoS) management  MAtool implementaHon using   ‐ Service management (SM)  MPEG‐7/‐21, TV‐anyHme, ...  ‐ Terminal Device Management (TDM)  Business Actors  Business level  (simpliﬁed)  New enHty.   More open business models  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  5 

Project Overview – (Too) Detailed (?)  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  6 

ENTHRONE Integrated Management Supervisor (EIMS)  •  ENTHRONE Integrated Management Supervisor (EIMS)  –  Various subsystems (called Managers) with dedicated funcHonality interconnected via Web  Services, e.g., EIMS AdaptaHon Manager  –  Add’l management subsystems for mulHcasHng, dynamic service management, caching and  content distribuHon networks  •  Metadata Management  –  Automated extracHon, gathering, and generaHon of metadata from real‐Hme/offline audio‐visual  streams and manifold metadata sources  –  Metadata‐assisted content search  –  Efficient approaches for management, transport and processing of content and context descripHve  metadata  •  MPEG‐21‐based Cross‐Layer AdaptaHon Decision‐Taking  –  DefiniHon of a Cross‐Layer AdaptaHon Model  –  ImplementaHon of an interoperable Cross‐Layer AdaptaHon Decision‐Taking Engine (XL‐ADTE)  –  DRM support for XL‐ADTE (in terms of permissible adaptaHons)  •  Service Management and Monitoring  –  MPEG‐21 for service level agreements and MPEG‐21 Event ReporHng for Service Monitoring  –  NQoS‐to‐PQoS mapping  –  Support for mulHcast‐based services and enabling QoS in access networks  •  Caching and Content DistribuHon Networks  –  IntegraHon of caching strategies in dynamic mulHmedia Caching Nodes  –  Support for Content DistribuHon Network (CDN) deployment and management  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  7 

EIMS: Overview  E I M S  2  4  5  1  Integrated  Management of  3  Services  Integrated  Management of  Integrated Management of  Heterogeneous  Integrated  Terminals  Content‐ and Context‐ ConnecHvity Services of  Management of  aware Digital Item Service  Heterogeneous Networks  Content (Digital  Items)  2008/07/09  Management  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  8 

EIMS Architecture  •  Revised EIMS Architecture feat. AdaptaHon Manager and  Caching/CDN, MulHcasHng, and Dynamic Serv. Mgmt.  ENTHRONE Integrated Management Supervisor  Quality of Service, AdaptaHon, and  Metadata Management and  Enhanced Features  Service Management  Search (MATool)  EIMS End‐to‐End QoS Manager  EIMS Metadata Manager  EIMS MulHcast Manager  EIMS Caching and CDN  EIMS Service Manager  EIMS Search Manager  Manager  EIMS AdaptaHon Manager  EIMS Terminal Device Manager  Interfaces  2008/07/09  ENTHRONE Adapters  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  9 9 

EIMS Managers: Overview  •  EIMS End‐to‐End QoS Manager – E2EQoSMngr  –  Provisioning of the best Digital Item conﬁguraHon (content,  metadata, structure) towards the content consumer ...  –  … by uHlizing several informaHon assets (mainly metadata) from  all business actors along the delivery chain  •  Available content variaHons and descripHon thereof  •  CharacterisHcs of the available Television and MulHmedia (TVM)  processors  •  CapabiliHes and condiHons of networks and end‐user terminals  •  EIMS AdaptaHon Manager – AdaptMngr  –  Provisioning of adaptaHon decisions according to dynamically  changing context condiHons (across service/network layers)  –  Cross‐Layer AdaptaHon Decision‐Taking Engine (XL‐ADTE)  –  Steers exactly one TVM (in a possible chain of TVMs)  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  10 

EIMS Managers: Overview (cont’d)  •  EIMS Caching and CDN Manager – CCDNMngr  –  Provisioning of content (Digital Items) in a CDN including  ranking, placement, distribuHon, etc  –  DeﬁniHon of Caching Policies to deﬁne local cache provisioning  parameters  •  EIMS MulHcast Manager – MCastMngr  –  Provisioning of mulHcast communicaHon services  –  MulHcast overlay network  –  Cross‐Layer mulHcast agent to take advantage of IP mulHcast in  the last core network domain (towards the content consumer)  •  EIMS Metadata Manager – MetadataMngr  –  Central component (MATool) responsible for metadata  collecHon, aggregaHon, conversion, etc.  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  11 

EIMS Managers: Overview (cont’d)  •  EIMS Service Manager – SrvMngr  –  Customer Service Manager (CustSrvMngr): service logic  –  Network Service Manager (NetSrvMngr): network connecHvity service  –  Service Monitoring (ServMon): keep track of end‐to‐end QoS level of a  parHcular service  •  EIMS Terminal Device Manager – TDM  –  Management of heterogeneous end‐user devices  –  Capturing the capabiliHes of the terminal  –  PQoS probe conﬁguraHon and alarm handling  –  License handling  •  EIMS Search Manager – SearchMngr  –  Searching/Browsing for Digital Items (see also DIBrowser)  –  UHlizing a data model speciﬁcally developed within ENTHRONE  –  Supports high‐/low‐level features associated to audio‐visual content  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  12 

al Items   searc h/browse Digit select Digital Item  init TVMs,  Network, and  Monitoring  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  13 

EIMS Deployment Example  •  German Pilot Island (GPI) to be demonstrated at IFA’08  •  Services: VideoLogChannel, SoccerChannel, MulHRadio  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  14 

Conclusions  •  ENTHRONE Integrated Management Supervisor  –  Distributed (not centralized!!!)  –  Integrated end‐to‐end management enabling QoS  –  Heterogeneous contents, networks, and terminals  –  Based on open standards (MPEG‐7/‐21)  •  EIMS Managers  –  Subsystems with well‐deﬁned funcHonality and  interfaces  –  Interconnected through Web Services  –  Service‐enabling technology  2008/07/09  ChrisHan Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria  15 

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