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Personalised Mobile Services Environment This page contains an index to the material on the Joint AlbatrOSS and Opium workshop CD.
Workshop Presentations
Flyers
AlbatrOSS White Papers AlbatrOSS White Paper 1: NGOSS Principles used in AlbatrOSS Emerging 3G services necessitate the convergence of information processing, multimedia content, communication and networking technologies and infrastructure. The introduction of 3G services and networks introduces newer levels of technical complexity coupled with the need for cost-effective services. The NGOSS programme is a TM Forum initiative to deliver frameworks that guide development, deployment and application of Operations and Business Support Systems in the telecommunications industry. This White Paper is aimed to present how NGOSS work has been reified in AlbatrOSS 3G environment, and how the principles defined by the NGOSS program have been fulfilled within AlbatrOSS. AlbatrOSS White Paper 2: Mediation, rating and billing in an IP services environment - architecture and approach The evolution of network technologies, service types and consumer demands have profound implications for accounting and billing. The application of traditional voice and data accounting methods to the contemporary IP based services of next generation networks have proven too cumbersome and hinder rather than help the process. The notion of a ‘call’ cannot easily be applied to the types of services that are emerging from rapidly progressing Next Generation networks rollout. 3rd Generation type services are exhibiting new characteristics that are far removed from their predecessors, leading to new and challenging ways to account for their usage. AlbatrOSS White Paper 3: Measurement and Analysis of End-to-end Service Quality of 3G Networks and Services Much research work to date has overlooked the end-to-end service quality issue while concentrating on the measurement and analysis of the performance of IP-based networks. The work that does address service quality issues does not relate to the work of standards bodies such as 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) and TMForum, IETF, and ITU-T, which are developing a common framework for 3G service quality measurements. This White Paper tackles this challenge by investigating a mapping between QoS perceived by end-user onto performance of individual networks and services in different domains, and relating this work to the work of standards bodies. The key problem is defined and the mechanism to measure network and service performance and transform it into end-to-end service quality is developed. This paper also covers how the measurement mechanism can be applied to SLA violation monitoring. AlbatrOSS White Paper 4: Secure Seamless Roaming over Heterogeneous Networks This whitepaper describes the AlbatrOSS approach to secure and seamless roaming between different administrative domains and different access technologies. It explains what seamless roaming is, what mechanisms are needed to achieve it, and which technologies are suitable to address the requirements. The focus of the paper is on end-user authentication and mobility management within heterogeneous IP-based access networks. The requirements for authentication and mobility are identified, and solutions are briefly described. The verification and demonstration of the proposed solutions came within the project’s trial systems. AlbatrOSS White Paper 5: Delivery of Integrated Services in AlbatrOSS Service market is evolving, in the AlbatrOSS project we tried to analyse these changes and how this will influence architecture of the systems dedicated to the delivery and operation of services. In the Delivery of Integrated Services sub-trial, one of the three sub-trials developed and validated in the AlbatrOSS project, we present an innovative approach to integrate the need for service composition based on different parties. The main ingredients of this approach are: the definition of service lifecycle phases linked through service models, the definition of a system architecture implementing NGOSS principles through the use of Web Services technologies. AlbatrOSS White Paper 6: User Location in Heterogeneous Mobile Networks In this paper we propose a solution to provide developers of mobile applications with user location information over heterogeneous networks that are managed by different parties. Since user location is privacy sensitive information, we explicitly address end-user control over the access to user location information. We focus on UMTS and Wi-Fi networks, and have prototyped our solution on these networks.
AlbatrOSS Deliverables Deliverable 2: Requirements, Business Model and Scenarios Definition The first step in developing the architecture is to develop an understanding of how 3G networks and services will evolve. This understanding will be achieved through the process of capturing requirements from the main business players involved in the delivery of 3G network and services. The changing technological and business environment is altering the way people work, live and play. The growth in the popularity and usage of (GSM) mobile phones and the Internet provide some indication of society's expectations from 3G networks and services. The starting point for system analyses and the initial architecture work is the collective expertise within the project partner organizations. The project partners represent the key players within any future 3G service marketplace and have collected substantial intelligence on customer market expectations and its technological evolution. Using this expertise, the project has produced a number of typical 3G enabled residential and business scenarios and associated business models, which help to articulate a set of requirements on 3G Operations Support Systems (OSS). The business models reflect the work of key industrial fora such as TMForum and UMTSForum. Deliverable 3: AlbatrOSS Initial 3G OSS Architecture The general objective of the AlbatrOSS project is to specify an architecture for a 3rd Generation Operations Support System (3GOSS). A further objective is to develop a set of building blocks to support rapid service creation, provision and maintenance. With a starting point in the 3G Service Requirements and Business models presented in Albatross deliverable 2, the task of WorkPackage 3 is to define a 3GOSS architecture to support the development of OSSs capable of managing 3rd generation network components, computing resources, applications and services. Deliverable 5: System Version 1 ready for Trial 1 This report represents a milestone and signals the initiation of the first series of Albatross trials. The report describes the 3G OSS Services and Components that are featured, demonstrated and validated through the First Albatross Trial in an overview form. The OSS platforms and components described within this document are reported to be ready for integration into Albatross trial 1. Deliverable 6: Evaluation of Trial System AlbatrOSS is developing OSS components for the management of 3G services that will be provided on WLAN, GPRS, and UMTS networks. This document describes the results of the 4 sub trials conducted by the Albatross partners. The results of this evaluation will be used for the second trials to improve the OSS components usage for 3G environments. The following sub trials have been developed: Delivery of Integrated Services, 3G Service Usage, 3G Billing, Roaming in 3G. Deliverable 7: Requirements, Business Model and Scenario Definition Version 2 This deliverable represents the results from the second and last phase of WP2 - 'Market Analysis & Business Modelling'. The main objective of WP2 is to analyse developments in the 3G business environment and their consequences for the next generation Operation Supports Systems. The results of WP2 provide foundation stones for further WPs in project in the form of business models, usage scenarios and requirements for development of the trials. Deliverable 8: AlbatrOSS Intermediate Architecture and Specifications This document describes the Architecture Framework from a highly practical perspective. All aspects of the Architecture are described in the context of the sub trial systems from the first and second phase of AlbatrOSS trials. It is perceived that the final version of the Architecture Framework will be trial independent and will concisely describe a generic Architecture Framework for application in the emerging communications environment. (Deliverable 8 Annex). Deliverable 9: System Version 2 ready for Trial 2 This report represents a milestone and signals that the AlbatrOSS subtrial systems have been developed, integrated and are ready for the second series of trials. The report describes the 3G OSS Services and Components that are featured, demonstrated and validated through the second Albatross Trial, in an overview form. The OSS platforms and components described within this document are reported to be ready for evaluation in the AlbatrOSS trial 2. Deliverable 10: AlbatrOSS Final Architecture for a Personalised Mobile Services Environment This deliverable provides the final 3G OSS architecture of the AlbatrOSS project. The architecture is considered from various views to meet the concerns of the different stakeholders identified. A complete list of components developed during the project is given in an annex. Deliverable 11: Evaluation of the Trial System Version 2 This document represents a milestone and signals the end of the execution phase for AlbatrOSS Trial System version 2, and reports the evaluation results of the trial. The second version of the AlbatrOSS trial system is a logical continuation of the first trial. A number of concepts, scenarios, and components from the first trial have been reused and/or enhanced. A number of new components have also been developed to validate updated or new requirements.
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