H2020Обмен на изследователи2016–2019

CASPER · User-centric Middleware Architecture for Advanced Service Provisioning in Future Networks

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-01-01 → 2019-12-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 1 080 000 €
Участници: 7
Схема: MSCA-RISE

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Накратко на български

Механизми за оценка и мониторинг на потребителското изживяване при мултимедийни услуги, като например стрийминг на видео, се анализират чрез нова софтуерна архитектура. Това помага за оптимизиране на доставката на услугите и подобряване на управлението на мрежите.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

User-centric Middleware Architecture for Advanced Service Provisioning in Future Networks

CASPER brings together experts from industry and academia, from cross-sectorial research areas having complementary background, with the long-term goal to analyse and exploit QoE towards designing and developing efficient schemes for managing multimedia services over SDN/NFV technologies. Special attention is devoted to the development of a middleware architecture composed of innovative QoE estimation mechanisms and QoE monitoring protocols for optimizing service delivery and providing key input to CEM (Customer Experience Management) policies. In the first two years of the project, all efforts and funding were focused towards the realisation of a fully-integrated and multi-disciplinary program on the development of QoE network optimisation modules. In particular, CASPER works towards the following overall Research and Technological objectives: Research objectives 1. To study, design and optimise QoE estimation mechanisms for multimedia services. 2. To study, design, and optimise QoE monitoring protocols. 3. To analyse, design and optimise advanced QoE-driven service management policies. Technological objectives 1. To develop a System Level Simulator (SLS), where the QoE estimation and monitoring schemes, and the QoE-driven service management policies will be evaluated under realistic scenarios. 2. To develop a hardware proof-of-concept testbed, where the most promising schemes identified via the SLS will be integrated and tested in a real-working environment. 3. To integrate QoE exploitation functions into real devices, where a meaningful subset of the middleware architecture will be implemented in commercial devices and network entities for real-life experimentation.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The current paradigm in service provisioning to future communication networks lacks thorough end-to-end interpretation from the quality viewpoint, while the end-users’/customers’ profiles and preferences are mostly not taken into account. The subjective perception of a provided service, known as Quality of Experience (QoE), is one of the most important factors for a user’s decision on retaining the service or giving it up, and the key parameter for enabling advanced customer experience management (CEM). The main objective of CASPER is to combine academic and industrial forces towards leveraging the expected benefits of QoE exploitation in future networks. In particular, CASPER will exploit the most recent approaches in communication networks, such as the Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), to design and implement a middleware architecture for QoE-driven service provisioning. The architecture will consist of three interlinked modules, one-to-one mapped to the three instrumental functionalities required for the beneficial exploitation of QoE: i) reliable, secure and passive QoE monitoring, ii) efficient, dynamic and objective QoE estimation, and iii) robust and real-time QoE-driven service management. The three modules will be optimised and released as an integrated solution, in order to accelerate the adoption of QoE-driven network service management. The cornerstone of this effort will be a carefully-planned inter-sectorial secondment programme for Experienced Researchers (ERs) and Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). Under this programme, CASPER is expected to foster the exchange of knowledge and strengthen the collaboration among academia and industry through a bidirectional knowledge-sharing approach, where the academic beneficiaries will contribute by conveying their knowledge in QoE analysis and modelling, while industrial beneficiaries will provide their expertise in service development and software implementation.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON · ATHINAКоординаторГърция
ADAPT IT AE · AGIOS STEFANOSГърция
ADAPTERA TECHNOLOGIKES LYSEIS VELTISTOPIISIS EFARMOGON YPODOMON PLIROFORIKES KAI TILEPIKINONION MONOPROSPI IKE · ATHINAГърция
IQUADRAT INFORMATICA SL · BarcelonaИспания
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL'AQUILA · L AQUILAИталия
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · BARCELONAИспания
WEST AQUILA SRL · L AQUILAИталия