TridentCom 2006 paper on the Living Lab approach

Creating a distributed mobile networking testbed environment – through the Living Labs approach. Presented by Miguel Ponce de Leon Waterford Institute of Technology/TSSG, Ireland. [email_address] Co-Authors: Mats Eriksson**, ** Luleå University of Technology /CDT, Luleå, Sweden. [email_address] Sasitharan Balasubramaniam*, Willie Donnelly* * Waterford Institute of Technology/TSSG, Waterford, Ireland. {sasib, wdonnelly}@tssg.org

Agenda
Introduction
Background
Requirements/Motivation
Main Components of a Living Lab
Proposed model
Implementation of a Living Lab
Example
Results and Analysis
Conclusion
Future Work

Introduction
Many research projects over the years, have ended in a report on a bookshelf.
Why?
Market was not ready
Results from the project were never validated under real-life conditions.
More often than not the project did NOT start from the very needs and preconditions of the intended user.

Digital World Value Chain The Value Chain Transactions Communications Information Applications/Services Content Providers Application Service Providers Portals/ Aggregators Enabling Technologies Operators/ Service Providers End Users Vendors Content

Background
The European Mobile Communications & Technology Platform identified key issues to be taken by both industry and government, with a view to assuring the success of mobile broadband communications
The group identified the need for :-
Large-scale demonstration platforms will arise that will permit to prototype and verify the interoperability of a multitude of applications, services and devices.

The Problem
This value chain is driven and challenged by steady technology innovation
Emerging network technology Infrastructures which are
Highly complex
Drastically changing
Made up of
Next Generation Networks
Fixed/Mobile Convergence
Emerging service delivery platforms provide
Seamless Multimedia Services
New support to application developers (so that they don't have to care to much on the nitty gritty details of the network)

The Challenges
Fixed network operators
Mobile network operators
Equipment Manufacturers
How to reduce the ‘test infrastructure investment overhead
How to involve real end users in the innovation cycle
Have the Problem How to enable real and rapid development, prototyping, interoperability & conformance testing, and validation of research
How to validate research given increasing complexity of multi-access technologies/multi-location requirements
SMEs Academia

The Living Labs network approach
“ Creating a user-centred approach to Wireless Research Environment through Access to Inter connected W ireless I nfrastructure P laygrounds ”
Supersedes the existing prevalence of isolated private wireless test-beds with restricted access, with
a model of providing open testing and validation support to any research project that has a wireless or mobility research component.
Linking national testbeds to one European hub of NGN Testbeds
IPv6 IPv6 IPv6 LivingLab LivingLab LivingLab LivingLab LivingLab

Open
Open and supportive of all wireless researchers
Capable of invoking Standard interfaces
Integrated
interconnected through European IPv6 backbone
interoperable access technologies,
parity of testbed capability
Multiple technology, multiple user, multiple location
Living Labs Motivation

Demand/user driven
Support
gain collective experience
test and validate multi-national, pan-European service offerings
cater for national, regional or other cultural, business, technical or societal differences that makes a pan-European footprint essential for being able to develop pan-European applications, services.
harmonization of European NGN testbed infrastructures
“ Extension" of network centric European testbeds
towards mobility
towards application/service support
Towards End Users
Living Labs Motivation The Living Lab provides a critical, cost effective, technologically complete, testing and validation environment, facilitating innovative research in wireless and mobility

Multiple Access Technologies and End Systems
Access technologies such as GSM/GPRS, UMTS, WLAN, W-MAN, Bluetooth, WLL
Unified Communications Infrastructure
Each access technology has its own individual switching function manager (SM) which administers individual call legs of that technology, at this layer a unified call state model has to be offered to the next layer.
Flexible Services Platform & Middleware
SIP, OSA Parlay, Parlay X, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
Effective Network Management and Control
Monitor the current system or peer monitoring system performing co-operative management tasks

Evaluation and co-creation by the real consumer, the End User
The test facility is enhanced by means of a human resource component
Tools for Testing, validation and management
A rich set of evaluation methods are in place for technical testing measurement and human related evaluations of applications.
Service Development
Submit to service repository and execute the services while monitoring the results remotely during service execution.
Code Repository
Support software reuse to allow partners an opportunity to access pre-existing software to perform tests.

Living Lab Wireless Playground
Each National Hub
Physical ( PSTN, GSM/GPRS, UMTS, WLAN, DVB-T, Bluetooth, 4G, IPv4, IPv6, mobileIP,
Service Delivery Platforms SIP, IN/Camel, OSA Parlay, Parlay X, IMS, CTI, AAA
Engaged End Users
IPv6 Backbone Applications UMTS FDD/ TDD GSM / GPRS WLAN a/b/x DVB- S/T weitere 3Gb Network Technologies Service Platforms & Middleware mGov Other Netw Parlay 3Gb Roaming SIP AAA IMS weitere Web services Other platforms mHealth mLearn. weitere weitere Other Apps Engineering Tools, Conformance Testing, Measurments, and Management Interconnection Adaptor (Security, Management, etc.) International TestBeds End Systems Access Technologies Test Pilots

In EU IST FP5 – OPIUM (2002 – 2004)
The goal of the project was to support the accelerated rollout of commercial mobile services within Europe addressing
interoperability, roaming and billing prior to the delivery of commercial services.
OPIUM consisted of five trial sites in five countries (Portugal, Germany, Spain, UK and China).

OPIUM trials looked at the validation of end-to-end service mobility, interoperability and roaming solutions through the interconnection of open middleware platforms (Parlay)

In EU IST FP6 – Daidalos (2004 – 2008)
Daidalos' vision is a world in which a mobile user can use a diverse range of personalised services - seamlessly supported by underlying technologies at all system levels and from heterogeneous access methods and networks to service platforms.
The Official Test Sites were selected from a list of candidates within Daidalos partners considering a number of requirements (such as UMTS/WLAN coverage, transport facilities, availability of specific equipment, broadcast availability, logistics for demonstrations/workshops and expertise from former projects, among others) to decide which sites were more suitable for the chosen scenarios: automotive and university.
The three Daidalos Official Sites are in place at Stuttgart (Germany), Aveiro (Portugal) and Sophia-Antipolis (France).

Daidalos
In order for the project to benchmark and validate the progress and completeness of the integration process.
An analyses was carried out of each of the Scenario steps and from this exercise a series of conformance tests were developed, which are then used to validate the Daidalos demonstrator.

In building this Living Lab: A Distributed Open pan-European wireless testbed with state-of-the-art service platforms and end user engagement
Collection of access technologies making up the comprehensive platform for others to use … with
Rich multi-vendor service platforms …. with
Inclusion of test pilots, where ‘real’ end-users validate clients research … with
Integrated verification and testing process
Acting a “Catalyst for Innovation”
improving performance, take up, effectiveness of ICT and other complex research projects with wireless component
Acting as a real world ‘clustering’ mechanism
Where is the Innovation in Testbeds? LL Build LL Evolution Client Innovation Accelerated

Conclusion (1/2)
The result of implementing the mobile research Living Lab environment
Researchers have 'Open' access to a powerful, flexible, and evolving federated wireless test bed infrastructure
Interoperability of services and service provision environments (including roaming across heterogeneous networks) are validated; research approaches are verified; and take-up is accelerated.
Real End users participate actively in the validation of a complex wireless environment of mobile intelligence

Conclusion (2/2)
Future work
Just about to start EU FP6 project CoreLabs (April 2006)
Co-ordination of activities towards the establishment of co-creative Living Labs as the foundation of a Common European Infrastructure concept.
Harmonisation of existing and emerging Living Labs
Creation of a common European Roadmap for relevant research activities
A Living Lab is an “end-user” oriented testing environment for validating research. In addition to technological aspects, the Living Lab allows insight to the human dimension of technology.

TridentCom 2006 paper on the Living Lab approach

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