ACROSS TF2 on Cross-layer QoE management Progress report – April 2015 ICT COST Action IC1304   Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS) ACROSS TF2 on Cross-layer QoE management Progress report – April 2015

Summary of activities: ACROSS TF2 Progress report – April 2015 Summary of activities: 9 telcos held up to now 4 dedicated to networking and a road map drafting 4 dedicated to a paper drafting for QCMan 2015 1 dedicated to reporting and coordination of the activities Mailing list created kindly hosted by University of Maribor (Slovenia) TF consists of 19 members spreaded across Europe and Israel 5 active IGs and 1 IG on a stand-by regime 2

IG1: A context-based QoE monitoring ACROSS TF2 Progress report – April 2015 IG1: A context-based QoE monitoring Leader: Florian Metzger (Univesity of Duisburg-Essen, D) Number of members: 10 Focus: User-centric, context-aware QoE monitoring & network management Output: QCMan 2015 paper Driving force behind creating this IG Paper drafted in parallel with a road map Current activities: working on an extension of this paper for a journal submission designing a cloud gaming experiment 3 3

IG2: A service-specific QoE estimation models for SDN ACROSS TF2 Progress report – April 2015 IG2: A service-specific QoE estimation models for SDN Leader: No leader appointed so far as this IG is on a stand-by regime No inputs from other TFs/WGs so far Focus: a development of QoE estimation models for SDN As this activity is going to be covered by TF8, we have decided during a joint meeting with TF8 to close down this IG in TF2 4 4

IG3: A cross-layer QoE management ACROSS TF2 Progress report – April 2015 IG3: A cross-layer QoE management Leader: Thomas Zinner (Univesity of Wuerzburg, D) Number of members: 9 Focus: A cross-layer SLA/QoS management for multi cloud-based services Application-Network Interaction Output: None so far (a quite young activity) Current activity: Kicked-off during this meeting 5 5

IG4: Time-aware applications, computers and communication systems ACROSS TF2 Progress report – April 2015 IG4: Time-aware applications, computers and communication systems Leader: Hugh Melvin (NUI Galway, IE) Number of members: 6 Focus: time awareness in SDN Output: None so far (a quite young activity) Current activities: Drafting a paper for EuCNC 2015 showcasing an importance of time awareness for VoIP and multimedia apps Designing an online gaming experiment to showcase an importance of time awareness in this context 6 6

IG6: QoE in mobile networks ACROSS TF2 Progress report – April 2015 IG6: QoE in mobile networks Leader: Ahmed Elmokashfi (Simula Research Lab, NO) Number of members: 7 Focus: Mobile Broadband Performance and QoE Output: None so far (a quite young activity) Current activities: Fine-tuning a scope of this IG identifying factors that are only relevant to mobile users Planning to work on a white/position paper in a near future 7 7

ACROSS TF2 Progress report – April 2015 IG7: QoE management in the context of unified communication and collaboration services Leader: Jasmina Barakovic Husic (Uni of Sarajevo, BiH) Number of members: 2 Focus: QoE management of unified communication and collaboration services Output: None so far (a quite young activity) Current activities: Designing an experiment on user’s satisfaction with native and Web-based unified communication apps 8 8

Cooperations and STSMs: ACROSS TF2 Progress report – April 2015 Cooperations and STSMs: Cooperation with TF8 recently established A joint f2f meeting run during this meeting 22 participants lively discussions on research topics to be covered by both TFs high correlation between our research interests liaise and run joint f2f meetings during regular ACROSS meetings Planning a couple of STSMs for this year: Details are currently discussed How many slots (out of 10 planned for this year) can be allocated to TF2? 9 9

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