iTract

June 18th University of Aalborg, University of <Stavanger, and University of Karlstad will arrange a conference in Copenhagen about Internet quality.

Place is Nokia building in Copenhagen, start 0830 and end 1600

Main contact is Michael Jensen at Aalborg University.

The conference is part of a common living lab project:

http://www.coll-livinglab.org

If you want to participate:

http://teletekniskselskab.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/konference-internetkvalitet-18-juni-2012/

For a long period there has been an increasingly intense debate about current and future needs and requirements for broadband capacity in our society. How much bandwidth is required for now and in the future? What is needed to support the next generation killer applications and what exactly are they?

However, there are many other service parameters than bandwidth to consider in order to ensure an endto- end service quality of our networks. We are introducing new services and applications in our public administration, health care and industrial sector, and we see an increase in machine to machine communications. These services may have different requirements to latency, robustness and of course bandwidth. How can we make sure that the underlying infrastructure can support all these requirements?

Lately these quality parameters have been given a special attention in the EU. This conference will focus on how the different levels of internet quality may affect the user experience in different cases/scenarios from investigations conducted in resent research projects. We will also look into of current and new methods for measuring quality parameters on core as well as access networks. Measurements of Wireless as well as fixed access networks will be addressed. Finally we will introduce examples of network optimization techniques that address different quality parameters in broadband networks.

“Internet Quality” is one of the outcomes of a three year collaboration ship between industrial and research partners in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The official project name is Collaborating Living Labs (COLL). The conference will be held and announced in association with Tele Technical Society - a trade group within IDA the Danish union of engineers. It will address regulators, ISP’s and everyone working within the field of telecom and internet technologies.

Program, June 18

08.30 – 09.15 Registration and coffee

09.15 – 09.30 Conference opening Jakob Willer, CEO Danish Telecommunication Industry

09.30 – 10.00 Net neutrality TBD

10.00 – 10.30 A quality of experience perspective on internet quality Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 11.30 When latency matters and how to optimize it Andreas Petlund, Simula Research Laboratory

11.30 – 12.00

Impact of experience and technology on the value of telemedicine Per Kristensson, Karlstad University

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 13.30 Broadband quality measurements in EU and US Alex Satler, CEO SamKnows

13.30 – 13.50 Mapping the performance of wireless networks Kim Højgaard-Hansen, Aalborg University

13.50 – 14.10 Using mobile apps in terminal performance measurements across networks

Martin Dam, Aalborg University

14.10 – 14.30 Emulation as a tool to test network applications Anna Brunstrom, Karlstad University

14.30 – 14.50 Short coffee break

14.50 – 15.20 Internet quality from an operator's perspective Mads Hein, Telenor

15.20 – 15.40 Moving towards ultra-high available transport networks José Gutierrez, Aalborg University

15.40 – 16.00 Advanced end-user traffic monitoring Tomasz Bujlow, Aalborg University

16.00 Conclusion and networking

Mwmbers of the WP3 group met through the webex  system. Topic was status at partners for the work with the toolbox of WP3, and further action plan.

Ref Niklas Johansson:

Figure 1. The work process in WP3 (Spring 2012)

A selection of slides from the startup meeting in Groningen is to be found at this website. If you do not see it, check  sitemap.

We expect all partners to the iTract startup meeting in Groningen January 19-20th. All regions will present themselves, information on administrative issues will be presented, and plans for the work packages will be discussed and s.