2. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 1 Experiments on the EURESCOM Middleware Platform (P715) Jürgen Dittrich Deutsche Telekom Germany

3. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 2 OutlineOutline Research Topics Conclusions Platform Building End-User Services Service Management Stream Management Objects P715 EURESCOM Services Platform Objects

4. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 3 Pan European Infrastructure for Service Experiments Research Topics Conclusions Platform Building End-User Services Service Management Stream Management Objects P715 EURESCOM Services Platform Objects

5. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 4 EURESCOM Project 715 EURESCOM Services Platform  EURESCOM programme -collaboration of public network operators -pre-competitive, technology assessment -formal and industrial standardisation  Assessment of distributed object technologies based on experiments with commercially available products  Experiments using CORBA middleware technologies based on architectural principles of TINA

6. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 5 TINA Business Model Broker RetailerEnd-user Third party Service Provider Connectivity Provider

7. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 6 Broker Conectivity Provider 3 Pty Service Provider RetailerConsumer TCon CSLN LNFed Bkr Ret-Ret 3 Pty Ret 3 Pty Bkr TINA Reference Points Service Architecture Network architecture

8. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 7 Research Topics Conclusions Platform Building End-User Services Service Management Stream Management Objects P715 EURESCOM Services Platform Objects

9. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 8 EURESCOM Project 715 HelsinkiTelephoneCompany DeutscheTelekom FranceTélécom KPN BritishTelecom TelecomÉireann Budget Duration 325 Man Months March 1997 - March 1999

10. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 9 TasksTasks project management platform building service management streams components end-user services dissemination of results Time

11. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 10 experiment exp. Task Description experiment exp. Task Description Project Management Project Plan Tasks define a framework five tasks Experiments defined during course of the project dynamic dynamic adaptive adaptive flexible flexible experiment exp. Task Description

12. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 11 Research Topics Conclusions Platform Building End-User Services Service Management Stream Management Objects P715 EURESCOM Services Platform Objects

13. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 12 Distributed Object Technologies ….. network

14. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 13 Distributed Object Technologies ….. network with computing systems and switches

15. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 14 Distributed Object Technologies ….. and various programming environments

16. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 15 Distributed Object Technologies ….. multi vendor CORBA compliant platform Orbix Visibroker NEO Middleware Modules

17. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 16 Distributed Object Technologies ….. TINA’s Distributed Processing Environment Distributed Processing Environment

18. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 17 Distributed Object Technologies ….. TINA like architectures Telecommunication Services

19. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 18 NLDTAFFTBT Interworking of middleware EU IP over ISDN Objects H320 (ISDN) PC with H320 British Telecommunications plc Telecom Eireann Helsinki Telephone Company Ltd. France Telecom Deutsche Telekom AG KPN Royal PTT Netherlands N.V.

20. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 19 NLDTAFFTBT Interworking of middleware EU IP over ISDN Objects H320 (ISDN) PC with H320 TCP-IP over ISDN

21. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 20 Supporting Services  Naming Service  Lifecycle Service  ….

22. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 21 stored at local NS grid orbix omniOrb KPN Root Naming in a WAN-ORB  Centralized solution not sufficient -performance -single point of failure  Solution: Extend behaviour of Naming Service

23. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 22 root not local stored at local NS EURESCOM NS KPN grid orbix omniOrb KPN OrdinaryNS NSwrapper local binding with name xyz forwarding a not local request local not local xyz forwarding a local request Federated Naming

24. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 23 Platform Building Experiments  PAN-European IP network on top of ISDN operational -star configuration with hub in Heidelberg  Multi-vendor CORBA environment -Orbix, ChorusORB, Visibroker, NEO, omniORB  ORB Benchmarking (Methodology and Measurements)  Ping-ORB Utility  Federated Naming Service  Object Transaction Services  Upcoming: CAPI-based KTN, Trading, Server-object Scalability

25. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 24 Research Topics Conclusions Platform Building End-User Services Service Management Stream Management Objects P715 EURESCOM Services Platform Objects

26. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 25 End-User services  Chat service  Connect 4  Distributed Scheduler  Information Retrievel of MHEG 5 content  Value Added WWW  Video on Demand  Surveillance Camera  Visualisation of CORBA systems Information Exchange

27. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 26 FeaturesFeatures  Interworking of several ORB implementations required -Orbix(Web), NEO, Visibroker, ….  End-User software mainly built in Java  Incorporates and validates TINA reference points

28. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 27 Research Topics Conclusions Platform Building End-User Services Service Management Stream Management Objects P715 EURESCOM Services Platform Objects

29. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 28 Service Management  Service Management Components -standard interfaces -multiple implementations

30. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 29 Service Management: Requirements  A generic re-usable set of components for rapid service development and provisioning  Support for a wide range of services (communication services, information services, multi-party, multi-media)  Management and customisation of services

31. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 30 TINA Reference Points Broker Conectivity Provider 3 Pty Service Provider RetailerConsumer TCon CSLN LNFed Bkr Ret-Ret 3 Pty Ret 3 Pty Bkr Service Architecture Network architecture

32. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 31 Service Management Experiments  Design and Specification of service management platform  Survey of available service management components  Implementation of TINA Ret RP 1.0  Interworking Tests

33. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 32 Research Topics Conclusions Platform Building End-User Services Service Management Stream Management Objects P715 EURESCOM Services Platform Objects

34. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 33 Audio-visual streams support DPE Computing Platform Audio Video

35. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 34 Audio-visual streams support DPE Binding object Bit pipe

36. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 35 A/V Streams... different than ‘normal’ object interactions  QoS important (bandwidth, jitter,delay)  Retransmission often impossible  Resource reservation in local machine and network desirable Management and control of network required

37. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 36 Modelling Streams in an OO environment binding object computational stream object computational Control Interface Binding object: abstracts from network and local resources Stream Interface

38. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 37 State-of-the-art study of several approaches  First-party control approach -H.32x  OMG approach -“Control and Managment of A/V Streams”  TINA approach -Network Resource Architecture

39. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 38 Stream Architecture Stream EndPoint MMDev Stream Ctrl Stream EndPoint MMDev SSM/ CSM ssUAP 1. Join 2. Bind 3. Create 4. Connect 5. Request_connection Service Management Stream Management

40. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 39 FederationFederation  Binding object covers multiple domains  Each domain can have its own implementation  Interworking between solutions needed DPE Reference points for federation are required!

41. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 40 Stream Management Experiments  Started with specification and implementation of simple binding Pt-to-Pt object  Support OMG AV Stream Control and Management RfP  Implementation based upon H.320 products  Defined Reference Points for Stream Management  Future: Support for H.323 (IP-AV-Streams), Multiparty- Binding (MCU), Integration in Service Platform

42. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 41 Research Topics Conclusions Platform Building End-User Services Service Management Stream Management Objects P715 EURESCOM Services Platform Objects

43. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 42 EURESCOM Project 715 an international show case of distributed object technologies  Service Management -demonstrating interoperability based on TINA-C Ret Access reference point -definition of intra-domain reference point for Consumer -study on 3rd Party and Retailer-to-Retailer reference point -RFI issued to TINA vendors  Stream Management -Implementation of binding object, using OMG Media Streams and H.32x standards

44. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 43 EURESCOM Project 715

45. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 44 Project 715 Live Demo! StreamCtrl MMDev B ProShare (OrbixORB) MMDev A ProShare (CoolORB) GUI connect Connect from:Connect to: disconnect NS MMDev C Proshare (CoolORB) Antwerp Remote (FT(Paris), BT, DT(Berlin), KPN))

46. P715 TMN Workshop Antwerp, 27 May1998 45 EURESCOM Project 715 project contact  Project Leader -Lambert J. M. Nieuwenhuis -KPN Research The Netherlands -phone: +31 50 582 11 68 -fax: +31 50 312 24 15 -P715@research.kpn.com  Project Supervisor -Amardeo Sarma -EURESCOM GmbH Heidelberg -phone: +49 6221 9 89 0 -fax: +49 6221 9 89 209 -amardeo@eurescom.de  World Wide Web -http://www.eurescom.de