ICIN 2009 Programme

13:00

Lunch Break

14:30

S2a: Application Architectures I
Chair: Bernard Vilain (Alcatel-Lucent, France)

Application Architecture is becoming both a technical challenge and an opportunity in the context of an emerging Web/Telecom service space. This session will provide insight into some key aspects such as web 2.0 mashups, social networking, service brokering, service creation, that are central to any merger between Telecom Network Architecture(s) and Web 2.0 new service offerings. It will also discuss the place of Open Source, SOA or distributed software techniques.

Rapid Service Creation using eXtreme Model Driven Design for real-time Communications Services on top of NGNs
Niklas Blum; Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany); Tiziana Margaria (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Existing telecommunication networks and classic roles of operators are subject to fundamental change. Many network operators are currently seeking new revenue sources by exposing network capabilities to 3rd party service providers. At the same time web application APIs are maturing. The combinations of those services, referred to as web 2.0 mash-ups, demand rapid service design and creation to meet the requirements of a competitive market environment. We have enabled a service creation environment based on a model driven design paradigm for complex (orchestrated) real-time communications services through a service broker on top of NGN to combine the emerging web-telecommunications service space.

Leveraging Open Source in commercial service layer development: a case study
Ulf Olsson (Ericsson, Sweden); Martin Börjesson (Sun Microsystems, Sweden)

Open source has proven tremendously successful in producing innovation, collaboration and standards-based interoperable solutions. As a result open source is playing an increasingly important part of business and technology strategies. This paper discusses benefits and opportunities that open source brings to commercial telecommunications service layer development and the application ecosystem. We discuss how open source can be leveraged for different purposes and in different ways and present a case study of a development project of a commercial IMS/IN application and service creation platform that was done based on, and in partnership with, an open source development project.

Ultra-scalable Architectures for Telecommunications and Web 2.0 Services
Mauricio Arango (Sun Microsystems, USA); Bernd Kaponig (Sun Microsystems, Austria)

Over-the-top web 2.0 services are generating profound business and technical impact in the telecommunications industry. On the business front the industry is reacting with deployments of web 2.0-type services and by exploring non-traditional business models. On the technical side, web 2.0 communications services such as social networking and micro-blogging are triggering a major change in the way communications services are architected. The foundation of this transformation is the intensive adoption of distributed and parallel systems technologies to design architectures that scale cost-effectively from thousands to hundreds of millions of subscribers. This paper examines how to design horizontally-scalable communications services through the use of distributed software systems techniques.

14:30

S2b: Service Innovation I
Chair: Rebecca Copeland (Huawei Technologies, UK)

Innovation is the spice of Telecom, without which neither users nor investors are engaged. Such innovation often inhabits the intersecting lines of technologies, and is based on transferable ideas across them. Here are three good examples: a communication hyperlink that lies between web and telephony for initiating calls conveniently and effortlessly; blending Radio FM and Global Positioning technologies for smarter cars; and a visual interaction facility to identify subjects of interest, using nothing but a mobile handset client.

Communication Hyperlinks: Call Me My Way
Mathieu Boussard; Philippe Jabaud; Olivier Le Berre; Fabrice Poussière; Paul Labrogère (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, France)

This paper presents the concept of a new kind of communication mechanism that we call a communication hyperlink. Communication hyperlinks decouple the way users publish and advertise the means to communicate with them on the web from the actual resources used for the communication. The paper describes the model and reference architecture implemented for the study of these communication hyperlinks. Considerations on continuing experimentation with this approach and associated business possibilities are given.

GPS-RDS enabled location-based smart transit
Anjul Agarwal; Neena Goel (Alcatel-Lucent R&D India, India)

This paper suggests that combining Global Positioning System (GPS) and Radio Data System (RDS) technologies can create innovative location-based solutions for the vehicular transportation market.

Best Paper – New Services and Applications
Visual Search: Advancing Mobile Internet Services with Visual
Interaction
Tâm Huỳnh; Elisabeth Felt; Veit Vogel (T-Systems Enterprise
Services, Germany); Michael Rohs; Rahul Swaminathan;
Michael Nischt; Roland Schwaiger (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories,
Germany)

We introduce Visual Search, a mobile internet application framework which provides users with a multi-modal user interface for exploring mobile internet services. The system combines a lightweight mobile client with a modular back-end architecture that allows the delivery of different service and content sources depending on the envisioned usage, recognition technologies, and business models.

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

S3a: New and Improved Services with NGN/IMS
Chair: David Ludlam (Discovery Consultancy Association, UK)

This session gives examples of how both innovative and improved services can be enabled by NGN and IMS and how these architectures can be used to enrich the user experience.

Global IP Services Delivery: Towards End to End Users Experience
Virginia Cortés; Yolanda Ruiz (Telefónica International Wholesale, Spain); Sonsoles Fernández; David Lozano; Diego González (Telefónica I+D, Spain); Pedro Diez (Axpe Consulting, Spain)

The challenge of global IP services interconnection encompasses a set of needs across different network segments and business domains. So, it is crucial to evolve the vertical, one-to-one solutions from the past. We must ensure that all needs of the proliferating IP services are completely and consistently covered for any business case, and ultimately, from an end-to-end user's perspective.

Implementation of session-based web linkage system on IMS
Masashi Toyama; Koji Murakami; Yoshiko Sueda (NTT Corporation, Japan); Osamu Mizuno (Kogakuin University, Japan)

We propose a session-based web linkage system that enables sharing web applications between caller and callee of telephone communication based on IMS-managed session information. Using existing standardized network functions and APIs would make the system easy to apply in the IMS. Our prototype system on an open source IMS shows the feasibility and implementation issues of our proposed method in practical use.

A scalable addressing method when using IMS as a service bus infrastructure
Hans Stokking; Frank den Hartog; Fabian Walraven (TNO, The Netherlands)

The dynamic provisioning of SIP addresses is a challenge when many devices and services are dynamically attached to an IMS network. Manual provisioning is too labor intensive for a telecommunications operator, and it is difficult to do it in a way that allows those devices and services access to all functionality of the IMS architecture. This paper proposes a novel way of handling the addressing of such devices and services, using wildcard PSI addressing in the IMS network.

A Media Synchronization Method for Real-time Group Communication in a Multiple Device Environment
Kazuyuki Tasaka; Naoki Imai; Manabu Isomura; Akira Idoue (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan)

This paper proposes a media synchronization method for real-time group communication in a multiple device environment. The method controls the output time of each media unit received at multiple devices and synchronizes them, even if the arrival time of the media unit temporarily fluctuates. This fluctuation is caused by variation in bandwidth and network delay between different access networks. This paper also evaluates the system performance, in terms of aspects such as the average time difference between the output and input times of each media unit, in order to confirm the effectiveness of the proposal.

16:30

S3b: Web 2.0, Clouds and Telco
Chair: Roberto Minerva (Telecom Italia, Italy)

The technological evolution and the market success of Internet services pose many challenges to the traditional way of providing services in the telco environment: namely the mashup phenomenon started with open APIs and the distribution of storage and service functions on "computational clouds" move the intelligence from the network to the edge. The Next Generation Network architecture, on the contrary, is trying to extend the service layer beyond pure voice services. In doing this, the NGN definition is trying to encompass and exploit web technologies in order to create such a rich service ecosystem "on top" of the new network infrastructure. This session provides hints on how to benefit from improvements of web technologies and how the all-IP network infrastructure can support better functions and services adopting and integrating those technologies.

Grid/Cloud Computing Interoperability, Standardization and the Next Generation Network
Geoffrey Caryer (Telecommunications Management Consultants, UK); Julian Gallop (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK); Jens Grabowski (University of Göttingen, Germany); Tatiana Kovacikova (University of Zilina, Slovakia); Thomas Rings (University of Göttingen, Germany); Stephan Schulz (ETSI, France); Ian Stokes-Rees (Spmetric, USA)

For telecom operators, the future lies in converging fixed, mobile and data services onto the NGN. This paper discusses the relationship between grid and cloud computing, identifies gaps and overlaps in existing standards and identifies how grid and cloud technology could be exploited to improve the efficiency of NGN resources and to offer new "data" services to consumers. This will enable telecom operators to manage their resources in a dynamic and optimal way by a single platform. The paper describes the approach taken by ETSI TC GRID to identify gaps and overlaps in grid/cloud computing standards and to support the integration of grid/cloud computing with the NGN architecture.

Architecture for Web-IMS Cooperative Services for Web Terminals
Hideo Nishimura; Hiroyuki Ohnishi; Miki Hirano (NTT, Japan)

Web-IMS integration offers an opportunity to provide novel services that combine rich web content and IMS real-time communication functions. A rich Internet application (RIA) is a promising way to provide web-IMS cooperative services for web terminals without modification to the terminals. We propose an architecture that allows web developers to implement web-IMS cooperative RIAs without having expert IMS knowledge. We describe two system architectures; one dynamically deploys the component as an RIA and the other deploys the component at an external gateway.

Scalable Orchestration of Telco/IT Mashups
Michele Stecca; Massimo Maresca; Pierpaolo Baglietto (CIPI - University of Padova, Italy)

The high volume of information from Web 2.0 standards such as RSS Feed combined with the large variety of services exposed by means of Web Service APIs leads to the development of new mashup tools for the rapid creation of applications. This paper considers a platform that supports the execution of Event Driven Mashups in which a set of autonomous components belonging both to the Internet world and to the telco world interact with each other. Performance issues such as low latency/high throughput as well as security and management issues such as AAA and regulatory issues such as SLA are addressed and a scalable system for the execution of mashups is described.

1989-2009 The ICIN 20 Year Anniversary

09:00

Enabling New Services on the Network: the ICIN Story

Innovation in the past

Innovation in the present

Innovation in the future

Best Paper Awards

With special guest chair and speakers

10:00

Coffee Break

11:00

S4a: Service Innovation II
Chair: Stefan Uellner (T-Systems Enterprise Services, Germany)

Beyond RCS: Capitalizing on address book to embrace multimedia services
Guillaume Dorbes; Cyril Hue (Alcatel-Lucent, France)

This paper introduces PRISM, a multi-domain address book application which provides a global and simple access point to communication and multimedia services independently of existing application silos. PRISM also enriches the address book with IMS-based network services such as Extended Presence and Personal Data Synchronization which free end users from device constraints. As PRISM is a client-server solution which is by design extensible to any domain of use, it defines an enabling platform for the introduction and the management of end user services on both fixed and mobile devices.

The SIM-based mobile wallet: A convergent approach towards convenience and security in mobile transaction services
Ernst-Joachim Steffens; Ming Yin; Axel Nennker; Zhiyun Ren (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Lutz Schneider (T-Systems Enterprise Services, Germany)

Transaction services such as payment or ticketing as well as security-sensitive services such as user identification or facility access control are increasingly executed in electronic format. With the concept of the SIM-based mobile wallet, this paper presents an integrative approach to electronic transaction services, combining the user experience of handling plastic cards with the convenience and security of mobile telecommunication and emerging NFC infrastructure. Requirements, technical prerequisites and solution architecture are discussed and a proof-of-concept implementation is presented.

A New IMS-based Community Messaging Service
Zhongwen Zhu (Ericsson Canada, Canada)

Group messaging is an increasingly popular communication tool nowadays in both the Internet and telecom networks. With the rapid evolution of social networks, the boundaries of traditional group communications are being extended, allowing users to reach more friends in a virtual world. A new IMS-based community messaging is proposed to meet the demand for extended group communication by making use of keywords to glue different group members together.

11:00

S4b: Service Personalisation through Intelligent Profiles
Chair: Michael Crowther (BT, UK)

Personalisation of service offerings is increasingly important to enhance value both for service users and for 3rd parties funding services under a 2-sided business model. This session will provide insight into some innovative ways that service providers are using profile information to deploy personalised service bundles. It will also show how user behaviour as well as network layer information is being used to derive the user profiles and preferences that are the valuable raw material for this value creation process.

The Service Personalization System for Service Bundling based on Service Usage History
Mun-suk Kang; Soonchul Jung; Jae-dong Lee; Dae-woo Choi; Jinsoo Sohn (Central R&D Lab, Korea Telecom, Korea)

This paper introduces the Service Personalized Bundling service System (SPBS) which minimizes interference between individual services, meets the service conditions and the habits and preferences of individual subscribers, and intelligently controls the mutual relationships between services. By integrating Calendar service, VoIP service, IM services and streaming services, the SPBS provides intelligent services based on the subscriber's personal service preferences.

Context information as enhancement for mobile solutions and services
Gerald Eichler; Karl-Heinz Lüke (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Britta Reufenheuser (Deutsche Telekom, Germany)

People on the move have a growing need for real-time information anytime and anywhere. In many situations, travellers do not feel at ease and well informed when using public transport. Context information on mobile phones can significantly improve the user experience in that situation. This paper addresses an approach of service offering and usage on mobile phones. It focuses on a typical scenario in public transport that covers trip planning, mobile ticketing and service offering on the way. A general framework, classifying, supporting and analyzing user context information, including practical experiences from a mobile ticketing solution, is introduced.

Multi-Source User Profiling and Keyword Inference for Personalized Application Enablement
Armen Aghasaryan; Stéphane Betgé-Brezetz (Alcatel-Lucent, France); Muralidharan Kodialam; Sarit Mukherjee (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Christophe Senot; Yann Toms (Alcatel-Lucent, France); Limin Wang (Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

Mastering knowledge of user profiles is one of the technical cornerstones for service providers who handle large amounts of service consumption data and are well positioned to dynamically infer user interests. This paper presents a technology that gathers usage data from different multimedia services, creates and tracks user profiles in real-time and monetizes them by targeting content or other personalized services. We address the critical issue of a large service provider having to manage services in both controlled domains and domains outside its control. We present a solution based on keyword inference and mapping to enable profiling and personalization within such heterogeneous domains.

12:30

Lunch Break

14:00

S5a: Field Experience and Deployment Issues
Chair: Max Michel (Orange Labs, France)

From standardization and development studies to effective deployment the road to success of service deployments is often rich in surprises, difficulties to overcome and discoveries in clients' usage. This session will provide very interesting insights and experiences gained from effective service roll-out based on IMS-NGN technologies.

Practical Considerations to IVVR based ARS Service Creation
Soonchul Jung; Mun-Suk Kang; Jae-Dong Lee; Dae-Woo Choi; Jin-Soo Sohn (Central R&D Lab, Korea Telecom, Korea)

With the spread of NGN and 3G networks, IVR has evolved into IVVR (Interactive Voice and Video Response). IVVR-based services can more easily deliver complex information and help the hearing impaired. But IVVR-based Automated Response System services are in the roll-out phase and there are few guidelines. In this paper, we describe the practical considerations of IVVR-based ARS service creation, learned from experience with Asiana Airlines Inc. Issues resulting from the different capabilities of video-call phones are discussed.

Rich Communication Suite: A convergent multimedia communication service over IMS
Katell Henry; Qunkai Liu (Orange Labs, France); Severin Pasquereau (Orange, Switzerland)

The Rich Communication Suite (RCS) initiative is driving the commercial introduction of a new convergent communication suite for the mass market. The underplayed IMS core network provides a powerful infrastructure for the deployment of such an innovative suite addressing both mobile and internet access. The commercial specifications are based on the first release of the RCS specification based on profiling of existing standards and specifications from OMA, GSMA and 3GPP fora. It focuses on mobile and includes three main features: Enriched Call, Enhanced Messaging and Enhanced Phonebook. The construction of such an offer is, from a technology point of view, an exciting challenge.

Experience gained from IMS-based FMC network deployment
Rogier Noldus (Ericsson Telecommunications, The Netherlands); Peter Bukhave Hansen (TDC, Denmark)

This paper describes practical experience gained with an IMS-based FMC network deployment and takes a look at future trends. The FMC implementation offers advanced services to enterprise users who may have a SIP phone, a GSM phone or both. Users may have multiple public user identities under which they may be reached or under which they may establish a call. Previous presentations at ICIN presented the architecture for IMS multi-access. The present paper gives feedback from the field, showing how the architecture is practically deployed and operated for enterprise subscribers.

14:00

S5b: Business Models I
Chair: Udo Bub (EICT, Germany)

To generate new revenue streams, stimulate service innovation and effectively compete with Internet players, Communication Service Providers have to look for new business models. This session will study different business models that can leverage the existing and future investment in wireline, wireless and broadband networks. The examples of open 3rd party enabling model for Mobile Advertising as well as emerging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model used for business process management will be analyzed.

Understanding the Business Model for PSTN Emulation
Tomaž Aljaž; Špela Kern, Primoz Svigelj (Iskratel, Slovenia)

This paper focuses on the modernization of an incumbent wireline carrier's infrastructure usSvigeljing the evolutionary PSTN emulation approach. The approach allows a carrier to reuse its existing access network, replace obsolete technology and bring the broadband network to a new service level, discouraging the migration of users to other (mobile) carrier(s). The business case for the PSTN emulation approach is calculated and compared with the PSTN simulation approach.

Communication-Enabled Business Processes as a Service: A Novel Business Model for Telecommunication Providers
Jannis Rake; Oliver Holschke (Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany); Philipp Offermann; Udo Bub (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany)

The SaaS-market for business process management and service orchestration is growing rapidly, fuelled by the capabilities of high bandwidth and 24/7 online access. Additionally, concepts for communication support of the processes are gaining ground to increase flexibility and reduce delays. The paper introduces the concept of Communication-Enabled Business Processes-as-a-Service to enable its benefits without high costs for initial investment and integration. The approach promises increased flexibility and cost control for the customer and better economies of scale and a new customer base for the provider.

KT's Local Advertisement Service and System: Moving toward Cross-Media
HwaYoung Jung; JungWon Lee; JinSoo Sohn (Central R&D Laboratory, Korea Telecom, Korea)

The global trend of Fixed-Mobile-Broadcast-Convergence has extended the open-market business model, which used to be available only on the web, to mobile. Telcos are now turning to the advertising industry to develop a new source of business. Korea Telecom is developing customized advertisements based on local geographic information which is a widely used form of offline advertising and is promoting a cross-media convergence advertisement platform.

15:30

Coffee Break

16:30

S6a: IPTV and Content Services
Chair: Ulrich Reber (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany)

IPTV in its two flavours of multi-casting and Video-on-Demand is nothing really new; we have discussed it in ICIN since 2006. And neither is IMS, already deployed in many networks to allow application and session interaction. So why do we spend another session in 2009 on these topics? The answer is simple: the combination of IPTV and IMS allows for totally new business opportunities for a variety of players.

IPTV Revisited
van Thuan Do (Linus, Norway); Paal Engelstad (Telenor R&I, Norway); Boning Feng; Tore Jønvik (Oslo University College, Norway); Do Van Thanh (Telenor R&I, Norway); Ivar Jørstad (Ubisafe, Norway); Nicolay Bang (Linus, Norway)

The objectives of this paper are to find ways to enhance IPTV so that it will become a viable and attractive platform for broadcast television, video on demand and other online content. The paper discusses concerns and issues with current implementations, introduces the concept of context-aware personalised IPTV, and discusses its significance.

IMS-IPTV moving together
Sonu Jain; Pramod Kumar Verma (Alcatel-Lucent, India)

Two major technology initiatives of telecom service providers, deploying IMS architecture for FMC and offering video services using IPTV, seem to be on a collision course. At some future date IPTV will become just another IP application in a converged multimedia infrastructure. This paper aims at providing an overview of IMS and IPTV together, describing the implementation details as well as technical issues.

16:00

S6b: Quality of User Experience
Chair: Juan Carlos Luengo (Intel Iberia, Spain)

The User Experience, a factor that has a major influence on the usage and therefore the ultimate success of any service, has been overlooked in many unfortunate and well known cases. That is why user behaviour and expectations towards a service are now assuming greater importance and are being considered during the design and development of products and services. Studies that have also examined the relationship between QoS (Quality of Service) and QoE (Quality of Experience or Quality of user Experience) illustrate that feedback from the customer is essential.

Enhanced Interactive Services for End Users in IMS
Dalton Li; Simon Chen (Alcatel-Lucent, China); Bernard Vilain (Alcatel-Lucent, France)

The user interaction (UI) function is enhanced in the IMS service architecture by defining the data model between the UI client and the UI server, introducing the user behavior trace function (UBTF). Unlike traditional services such as Call Forwarding or Ring Back Tone the services built on this extended architecture enable end users to actively and instantly intervene in session control. User preferences will be statistically collected into the network by the UBTF and used for future sessions. The UBTF can also improve the user experience by changing the UI function of a service and cutting down the network resource usage.

End User Behavior and Performance Feedback
Igor Pais; Miguel Almeida (Nokia Siemens Networks, Portugal)

Fulfilling required performance parameters through Quality of Service (QoS) is not synonymous with user satisfaction. Quality of Experience (QoE) measures user satisfaction and so the goal of QoS assurance should be to promote a better QoE. We evaluate the relationship between QoE and QoS in order to predict the impact of end user behavior on the network and the impact of network resources on the QoE. The main goal of this study is to provide the operators with mechanisms to give end users what they really need.

Best Presentation – Day 2
Assessing Social Networking Effectiveness: Survey Results
from a Large Enterprise
Frederico Figueiredo; Luis Soares;
Tiago Pocinho (Nokia Siemens Networks, Portugal)

The usage of social networking sites has increased considerably over the past few years. Nowadays, participating in online communities has become an everyday activity in the lives of millions, worldwide. In enterprises also, employees are now faced with a diverse set of online tools (e.g. wikis, blogs, and other community tools) with the purpose of enhancing collaboration and productivity, while surmounting traditional communication barriers. However, these tools alone are not enough to build and maintain active online communities – purpose is the key. This paper analyses, in a large telecom environment, the efficiency and effectiveness of existing community tools and how these influence employees' daily work.

08:30

S7a: Application Architectures II
Chair: Osamu Mizuno (Kogakuin University, Japan)

New services for IMS/NGN are expected to be implemented rapidly. Many technologies and methodologies such as Web 2.0 mash-up and Service Delivery Platforms have been proposed for developing and deploying new services. This session will discuss how we can reflect user's requirements in services and how we can implement network and user systems.

Towards Abundant DiY Service Creativity: Successfully Leveraging the Internet-of-Things in the City and at Home
Lieven Trappeniers; Marc Roelands; Marc Godon; Johan Criel; Philippe Dobbelaere (Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium)

A profound impact of web2.0 lies in its power to transform skilled users into service providers, resulting in more complex value networks. As traditional "operated" network infrastructure is complemented with huge numbers of connected smart objects (the Internet-of-Things), the same mass creativity can be made applicable to smart, context-enabled services with real-world interactivity, collaboratively created by end users with varying degrees of programming skills. We report on a vision and solutions addressing easy, do-it-yourself service creation by the masses in an Internet-of-Things-enabled world, from which we discuss the (i) value networks, (ii) enabling technology framework, and (iii) domain-specific proof-of-concepts.

An enabler gateway for service composition using SIP
Shanmugalingam Sivasothy; Gyu Myoung Lee; Noel Crespi (Institut Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France); Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France)

To deliver advanced services in IMS, composition of many services including SIP services is needed. However, the IMS standard does not have a proper service architecture for SIP-based service composition. We propose a modified IMS architecture by adding new functional entities: Service Enabler Gateway (SEG) and Application Server for SIP-based service composition. This paper describes the SEG which implements the authorization and service discovery for IMS services.

Semantic SDP: a Service Provider killer app?
Marie-Paule Odini (Hewlett-Packard, France)

This paper presents the results of a study on Semantic SDP, bridging semantic web principles with Service Delivery Platform. The objective is to enrich user experience with more significant information and contextual applications, while providing new business opportunities for Service Providers and their ecosystem of application providers. The observation has been that first people are afraid of the complexity behind "Semantic" web which has so far been addressed in labs with lots of formalism around the concept, and second they are concerned with privacy. Our objective is to address these two points in proving that Semantic SDP is the answer.

08:30

S7b: Home Networking
Chair: Roberto Minerva (Telecom Italia, Italy)

Automation in the home environment can ease a customer's life considerably. Different solutions and hands-on experiences are presented here that are based on SIP entities and P2P networking principles but go far beyond today's known opportunities.

Autonomics in the home
Antonio Manzalini; Roberto Minerva; Corrado Moiso (Telecom Italia, Italy)

While home networking acquires increasing relevance from business and technical perspectives, there is an urgent need to relieve users from the burden of managing the home networking environment. Autonomic architectures represent an enabling solution because an autonomic network is capable of sensing and adapting to environment changes whilst performing self-* capabilities (e.g. configuration, healing, optimization, protection). This paper presents the technical challenges, opportunities and some architectural and application scenarios for the introduction of autonomic capabilities in the home networking environment.

A SIP-based Home Automation Platform: an Experimental Study
Benjamin Bertran; Charles Consel (INRIA / LaBRI, France); Patrice Kadionik (IMS / University of Bordeaux, France); Bastien Lamer (Orange Labs, France)

SIP has demonstrated its effectiveness in enabling distributed entities to exchange any media using various interaction modes. In doing so, this protocol is showing great promise to support much extended forms of telecommunication services. This paper reports on the use of SIP as a communication middleware to support home automation applications that consist of heterogeneous, distributed entities. We describe how SIP fulfills the requirements of home automation; present the resulting architecture of a home automation system; and validate our approach with various scenarios.

P-Gate: Pushing the Operator Service Platform towards the Network Edge
Wolfgang Kellerer; Zoran Despotovic; Maximilian Michel; Anthony Tarlano; Hendrik Berndt (DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany)

In order to extend the coverage of network-based services to the home environment and offload core network servers, this paper presents a novel service platform called P-Gate that resides in home gateways such as femtocells or WLAN access points. The P-Gate platform allows for scalability through self-organized overlay techniques and supports a full integration with centralized service nodes such as IMS to provide functionality like authorization, accounting and bootstrapping. The P-Gate platform serves as a testbed for IMS evolution concepts towards a next generation service platform based on distributed service nodes.

10:00

Coffee Break

10:30

S8a: Business Models II
Chair: Bichlien Hoang (IEEE, USA)

The telecom industry is riding on a blood red sea! Competition is fierce and traditional revenue streams are under pressure. There is a compelling imperative to examine new and alternative business models whilst at the same time analyzing and understanding the current ones. This session explores retail and airline analogies as well as discussing how telecom is affected by the introduction of Service Delivery Platforms.

Best Paper – Business Models
Lessons Learned From Retail: Capturing the IKEA Effect
Erik Kayser (Capgemini, Sweden)

This paper discusses how the telco industry can learn from
the retail industry when delivering services beyond the bit pipe.
There are several challenges facing service developers, service providers and telco operators when moving from mainstream voice and data services into a multitude of services. By learning from the retail industry and looking at the
IKEA effect we can draw some interesting conclusions and lessons learned.

A business model for a Telecom 2.0 start-up
Nicolay Bang (Linus, Norway); Ivar Jørstad (Ubisafe, Norway); Tore Jønvik (Oslo University College, Norway); Do Van Thanh; Paal Engelstad (Telenor R&I, Norway); Boning Feng (Oslo University College, Norway); van Thuan Do (Linus, Norway)

This paper investigates if there still are opportunities for start-ups in the Telecom 2.0 world and proposes a user-centric approach for a telecom start-up. The business model is centred on multiple identity support, holistic Internet customer care, and safe online transactions.

Air Travel and Telecom Industries Synergy
Rebecca Copeland (Huawei Technologies, UK)

The Airline Industry has undergone major disruption but recovered by transforming procedures, pricing and user interaction. Telecom is following a similar path. By analysing the similarities and observing further evolution, we can chart the future evolution of telecom, in particular the effect of the web on the value chain and changing consumer attitudes. Telecom has yet to adapt to the web revolution, and implement web style user interfaces and procedures. At the same time, the industry must find the value that consumers will pay for, even during the recession.

10:30

S8b: Efficient Network Control
Chair: Noël Crespi (Institut Telecom SudParis, France)

This session gives an insight on key issues addressed for network control from both the endpoint and network viewpoints. First, we bring in the new concept of a widget for the IMS client, a powerful tool for convergence with the web. We continue with the use of a smartphone as an entity for controlling personal communications. We also address important issues related to corporate services, VPN and QoS.

Personalised IMS client widget
Do Van Thanh; Paal Engelstad (Telenor R&I, Norway); van Thuan Do (Linus, Norway); Ivar Jørstad (Ubisafe, Norway); Tore Jønvik (Oslo University College, Norway)

Current IMS development follows the path of improving IMS clients and client frameworks. This paper points out the shortcomings of this path for deployment in a mobile-fixed convergent multi-access IMS environment. Instead of continuing the development on IMS client frameworks, an alternative path forward using IMS client widgets is proposed as a novel concept. It involves a thin-client solution where most of the IMS features are implemented in the network. The IMS client widget solution allows for open development of flexible, customizable and personalized IMS clients, which is totally lacking with current technology and solutions. Finally, a prototype implementation of the IMS widget concept is presented.

Enterprise and B2B2C service usage of SIP-based VPN system for NGN
Hideki Yamada; Shintaro Mizuno; Takaaki Koyama; Sotetsu Iwamura (NTT Corporation, Japan); Osamu Mizuno (Kogakuin University, Japan)

We have introduced a new VPN system that uses SIP to enable NGN users to easily create IPsec tunnels. In this paper, to expand business opportunities, we propose a new business model for the system. We discuss how a service model that has evolved over telephone networks can be applied to the system.

Coordination Path Control Method to Reduce Traffic Load on NGN Access Gateway
Naoki Imai; Manabu Isomura; Akira Idoue (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan)

Supporting Quality of Service (QoS) in core transport is an important feature of a next generation network. This feature not only enables real-time communication services such as Voice over IP and video telephony, but also helps create new applications. Access gateways such as the Packet Data Gateway (PDG) in IMS WLAN Interworking must inspect and process all passing traffic to support QoS, resulting in extensive concentration of network load on the access gateway and increased equipment costs. This paper proposes a path control method to reduce the load concentration on the access gateway by offloading specified flows from the PDG.

A personal communication service in a pervasive office environment using SIP B2BUA on the endpoint
Lill Kristiansen (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway); Egil Østhus (Tandberg R&D, Norway)

This paper looks into the use of a personal smartphone as a main controlling entity for personal communication (using IM, audio or video) in an office environment. The service PPCom (Personal Pervasive Communication) is a kind of 'Follow-Me' service. This paper presents the architecture and the design. The architecture is based on a clear separation of 'call' and 'connection' according to NGN. The solution utilizes some aspects of peer-to-peer communication. This allows the endpoint (a B2BUA) to act as a kind of FMC integrator.

12:00

Lunch Break

13:30

S9a: Data Mining
Chair: A C (Chet) McQuaide Jr (StraDis Consulting, USA)

Data regarding individual and aggregate user behavior, usage patterns, and message content have enormous potential value for refining and personalizing services, identifying and exploiting new commercial opportunities, mitigating security risks, and improving network efficiency. The challenge is to efficiently mine and model the enormous volume of network and application data while meeting privacy expectations and obligations. This session provides unique perspectives regarding the key opportunities, tools, and issues associated with data mining for todays emerging networks and services.

Best Presentation – Day 3
Mining the bit pipes: Discovering and leveraging users'
behavior
Michael Brenner (Alcatel-Lucent, USA);
Daping Wang (Alcatel-Lucent, Australia)

This paper explores ways to enhance services provided to a user, based on the user's own behavior and context. The assumption is that the user continues to simply use data communication services, while the service provider mines the content exchanged over the communication pipes for information that can be used to further personalize the same service or other services to which the user has subscribed or opted-in. The content of the messages exchanged by the user may either directly or indirectly present mining opportunities.

An innovative way to analyze large ISP data for IMS security and monitoring
Paolo de Lutiis; Dario Lombardo (Telecom Italia, Italy)

The security of Voice over IP and other session-based services is a cornerstone for the success of the emerging NGN architectures and IMS services. But these NGN architectures and IMS services actually significantly increase the risk of security attacks, fraud and other issues related to the transition from the old and (usually considered) secure PSTN/ISDN. This paper describes an innovative monitoring tool that satisfies the functional requirements of large service providers or operators and provides the necessary security features for emerging IMS services.

Network Intelligence: Facilitate Operators Win in Mobile Broadband Era
Rebecca Copeland (Huawei Technologies, UK)

This paper deals with the wide requirements for Network Intelligence (NI) and the technologies that generate it and utilise it to achieve business goals. NI is the basis for applying policy and differentiating charging capabilities, which are driven by the need to monetise the record growth of mobile broadband data. Advanced analysis tools to model user behaviour from NI can improve knowledge of users' behaviour, market demands and real time communication context that enhance applications, targeted advertising and the whole user experience.

13:30

S9b: Identity Management and Presence
Chair: Igor Faynberg (Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

As is evident from other sessions, Identity Management is a key enabler of the integration of web 2.0 with the managed telecom networks. This session concentrates on several key problems in this area and proposes their solutions. First, we concentrate on the architecture and its implementation for telecom integration with OpenID. Then we move to the application of IMS presence authorization to the RESTful API. We conclude with a detailed investigation of the mash-up of integrated location for determining POI.

Releasing the potential of OpenID and SIM
Ivar Jørstad; Tor Anders Johansen; Elias Bakken (Ubisafe, Norway); Charlott Eliasson; Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden); Do van Thanh (Telenor R&I, Norway)

More than 500 million users are now OpenID-enabled and over 48,000 service provider sites support the solution. The next step is to enable all those users to logon safely, yet easily, to all those services. This paper discusses how telecom operators can be part of this evolution and exploit it commercially by facilitating the adoption of OpenID for their customers. A service architecture is proposed that combines OpenID with SIM-authentication, one of the operators' most valuable assets. The service architecture has been implemented and tested and the business opportunities enabled by the solution are discussed.

IMS Presence Authorization Applied to Web Applications using REST
Kazuhiro Tokunaga; Hiroki Baba; Naoki Takaya; Akira Kurokawa (NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan)

Presence services are not widespread because there is little interest in a closed presence application in IMS/NGN. A representational state transfer (REST) API for a presence service in IMS/NGN that can be easily used in a web application has been proposed to encourage the use of presence services in IMS/NGN. Two problems with the conventional method for a presence REST API are presence authorization in web applications and increased SIP processing within the IMS. This paper describes these problems in detail, proposes functions and analysis for solving them, and presents a prototype application.

Mashing-up integrated location, social networks and recommendations: the POI Radar
Massimo Valla; Danilo Dolfini; Cristina Frà; Carlo Alberto Licciardi (Telecom Italia, Italy)

Users want to access user generated content and recommendations in a contextualized way while on the move. In this paper we illustrate the POI Radar service and its architecture, a mobile mashup of integrated location, social network and users' recommendations to provide contextualized notifications of nearby Points of Interest voted by user's contacts. A description of the service scenario, architecture and its technical components is given, focusing on how information is mashed up with mobile technologies.

15:15

Closing Session
Chair: Dan Fahrman (Ericsson, Sweden)

The closing session summarises the main conclusions of the conference based on input from session chairs. Delegates will get an insight into the conclusions of those parallel sessions they were unable to attend. The session chairman, together with attending delegates, will highlight those conclusions that are considered to be most important, most controversial, or most surprising. The closing session will encapsulate the messages of ICIN 2009 and provide key 'take-aways' for delegates.

16:15

End of conference

PS1: Poster Session
Chair: Warren Montgomery (Insight Research, USA)

The poster session is scheduled during coffee breaks from Monday afternoon 26 October through Thursday morning 29 October.

A global study about Charging Correlation
Thomas Lévy; Emmanuel Bourgninaud (Alcatel-Lucent, France)

As operators strive to deliver a consistent rating policy and aggregated billing information to their customers, there are emerging requirements for correlating many charging requests coming from the network into a few elements rated at the Online Charging System level. This correlation of several charging requests has, until now, never been addressed in detail. This paper presents various use cases where "charging correlation" is needed in IMS, EPC and WiMAX contexts and describes their impact at the network and Online Charging System levels.

Advanced Quality of Service (AQoS): An Overlay Network Mechanism to Improve Service Delivery
Enrique Cauich; Richert Wang; Isaac Scherson (University of California, Irvine, USA); Alexandra Ansiaux; Benoît Fourestié (Orange Labs, France)

This paper proposes a mechanism which allows extending IMS service delivery on the Internet using overlay networks. Dubbed Advanced Quality of Service (AQoS), this solution aims at dynamically providing alternate high-bandwidth routes on the Internet using overlay network measurements to improve connection QoS. The estimation of the achievable QoS in the overlay network makes it possible to adapt IMS service delivery.

An Exploratory Analysis of Software as a Service and Platform as a Service Models for Mobile Operators
Vânia Gonçalves; Pieter Ballon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Software development and software provisioning environments are shifting to web-based platforms supported by Platform/Software as a Service (PaaS/SaaS) models. By elaborating on these concepts, their benefits and risks, mobile operators' experiments with these models are analysed and similarities are identified. This paper argues that mobile operators' mobile web services are shifting from SaaS to PaaS models and there is an opportunity for mobile operators to identify additional sources of revenue by exposing network functionalities through web-based service platforms. However, the platforms analysed incorporate fragmentation at several levels and are likely to face future challenges in order to succeed.

Connected Objects: Building a Service Platform for M2M
Arild Herstad; Espen Nersveen; Haldor Samset; Anders Storsveen; Stein Svaet; Do van Thanh (Telenor R&I, Norway); Knut Husa (TellU, Norway)

Among the problems faced when developing support for pervasive applications are the vast differences in the capabilities of different devices, as well as the requirements for scalability and flexibility. In this paper we show solutions to these problems by defining a service platform architecture for connected objects. The architecture exhibits a number of features to support generality, adaptability, scalability, rapid development, and technology and device independence. The platform also supports distributed processing, concurrency for handling parallel behavior and run time configuration with hot-plugging of objects.

Converged Service Provision in Multidomain Environments for the Future Internet
Sergio Gonzalez-Miranda; Tomás Robles; Augusto Morales; Ramón Alcarria; Eduardo Pico Hernandez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Future Internet requires a service provision that guarantees the adequate control of user related profiles and information. Current service enabler architectures provide attractive tool boxes to compose and provide advanced services in converged environments.

Definition of a business model for Third Party Service Providers in a converged fixed/mobile network scenario
Michele Stecca; Massimo Maresca; Pierpaolo Baglietto (CIPI University of Genoa and Padua, Italy)

The diffusion of Telco/IT Mashups that combine data sources and telecom services seems to require the development of appropriate ecosystems in which small size companies, called Third Parties, conceive, implement and deploy mashups and make them available to end users through service delivery platforms operated by platform operators. The traditional business model, in which third parties are compensated by the platform operator, is being integrated with new business models based on innovative roles and revenue sharing schemes between third parties and platform operators.

Enhancing Business Partnerships with the B2B Gateway
Pekka Valitalo (Comarch, Poland); Tim Wartmann (Comarch, Germany)

Business-to-business (B2B) partnerships bring a need for a B2B platform as a middle-ground solution that enables the information exchange and interaction between operators' and business partners' applications. This paper discusses the market need for communication between partners' applications, classes of exchanged information and topics connected with revenue management, customer-centric and telco-centric business models, and the B2B gateway concept in the MVNE - MVNO business case. The classes of information exchanged and managed by the described B2B gateway concept include service usage data, profile management, provisioning, Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP), data and system security, as well as charging and AAA.

Integrated Info-Security for Vehicular Networks
Huaqun Guo; Lek Heng Ngoh; Yong Dong Wu; Joseph Chee Ming Teo (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Emerging vehicular networks in the form of Intra-Vehicle, Vehicle-to-Vehicle, and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communications are fast becoming a reality. We propose integrated info-security solutions for vehicular networks that ensure data exchanged both inside and outside the vehicle is protected from abuse and security attacks. An Integrated Data Security Gatekeeper connects to the various networks and sensors inside a vehicle, and communicates with infrastructure and other vehicles for applications, such as active safety, infotainment, traffic control, and remote diagnosis. Using wireless interfaces, the Gatekeeper will harmoniously integrate with brought-in devices and beamed-in services.

Mobile Services with Applications
Gwenaël Le Bodic (Airwide Solutions, Canada); Chris Lennartz (Airwide Solutions, The Netherlands)

This paper describes how the distribution of mobile services will evolve over the coming years into an ecosystem where mobile services will be enabled by applications. The paper introduces an Open Services Framework as a solution to host a multitude of innovative applications.

Power Grid 2.0: A journey from unified communication to unified grid
Subhanker Pal; Anjul Agarwal (Alcatel-Lucent India, India)

Communication networks are integrating power grids across many countries. Real-time two-way communications is now possible enabling consumers to actively participate in grid operations. This is laying down the concept of "Power Grid 2.0" and turning the grid into a service delivery platform. Telcos are finding means of tailoring their existing highly stable network and application platforms for hosting power grid 2.0 services. This paper presents the architecture of a power grid 2.0 service delivery platform on top of the IMS framework, and discusses how grid users interact and benefit from IMS applications.

Strong authentication using dual SIM
van Thuan Do (Linus, Norway); Tore Jønvik (Oslo University College, Norway); Ivar Jørstad (Ubisafe, Norway); Boning Feng (Oslo University College, Norway); Do Van Thanh (Telenor R&I, Norway)

Access to Internet services and home services demands proper authentication due to the increase of threats in the Internet. Passwords are not sufficiently strong while stronger authentication schemes are often expensive and complicated. This paper proposes a strong authentication scheme called Dual SIM authentication which makes use of two identical (U)SIMs in the authentication of the user upon access to services provided by a service provider or by himself from his home computer network. One SIM card located on the service side is used in the generation of authentication data while the other one located on the user side participates to the authentication.