1. Limited Internal2005-05-091 Wireless Research in Ireland Alan Leddy@ericsson.com Network Management Research Unit Ericsson R&D Ireland

2. Wireless Research in Ireland Public Distribution2005-05-092 Alan Leddy@ericsson.com UTRAN Radio Access Networks GERAN OSS MIB Background

3. Wireless Research in Ireland Public Distribution2005-05-093 Alan Leddy@ericsson.com Research group overview  Headcount –2 PIs (Prof Huw Oliver & Prof Ger Parr) –11 Researchers (6 PhD & 5 MSc) –6 students (4 PhD, 2 MSc) –Embark  Funding –€1.6M since 2001 (founded with IDA Capability Grant & RTI) –€1.64M for 2005-2008 (Marie Curie & RTI) –6’th FP Calls 4&5 under review/development  Group structure –Manager, Steering Group, report to country/R&D manager & ER. –Dublin: sponsored PhDs with UCD, DCU & TCD –Athlone: Design unit collaboration & anchor

4. Wireless Research in Ireland Public Distribution2005-05-094 Alan Leddy@ericsson.com MNC Research Challenges Local competence Existence –previous attempts in Ireland (Broadcom & MLE) –corporate radio research –design unit –unique discipline Funding

5. Wireless Research in Ireland Public Distribution2005-05-095 Alan Leddy@ericsson.com Key Research Areas  Business Focus –To identify and develop technology components for Network Management systems to support the Ericsson Network Element & Network Management product portfolio.  Perspective –Massively distributed large scale adaptive networks, semantically rich data management techniques and machine learning applications which support heterogeneity and interoperability.  Scope of Activities –Evaluations, prototypes, demos, benchmarking, IPR, Innovations & Publications  Specific Interest –Peer to Peer and GRID techniques for automatically distributing computational power and data storage (4 years internal) –Policies and Ontologies for dynamic data representations (2 years internal) –Machine learning techniques to automatically correlate and discover patterns of network event data for CM. (New & Leveraged)

6. Wireless Research in Ireland Public Distribution2005-05-096 Alan Leddy@ericsson.com Distributed Computing  Challenges –Competence, applicability to telecoms, switching costs  Techniques –P2P: Configuration of dynamic networks (Madeira project) –GRID: To develop a scalable architecture for a distributed O&M data management system. (sponsored PhD)  Milestones –Eureka/Celtic project, ranked papers, Internships, Marie Curie  Industrial Usage –P2P Media & distribution sectors (content provision & operators) –GRID: application design, info storage, task computing  Leverage points in Ireland –TSSG, UCD, UU –Digital Hub, ?

7. Wireless Research in Ireland Public Distribution2005-05-097 Alan Leddy@ericsson.com Knowledge Engineering  Techniques –Data mining to extract patterns/events for CM –Policies for specifing system behavior –Ontologies for defining relationships  Challenges –Semantic interoperability, system modelling, switching costs, competence  Industrial Usage –Telecom application design, value added services for operators  Leverage points in Ireland –UU, TCD, UPC-Barcelona, EPFL- Switzerland –DERI ? OSS MIB

8. Wireless Research in Ireland Public Distribution2005-05-098 Alan Leddy@ericsson.com Relationship to other research areas / research groups ProjectObjectiveLinks MadeiraDevelopment of a P2P based network management system for dynamic transient large-scale telecom networks. Ericsson R&D, Ireland Ericsson Research, Sweden. BT Group, UK. TSSG. Siemens, Austria. Telefonica & UPC Spain. DISTORMRecruitment of 6 post-docs & 4 assistant professors in LMI Research over 4 years University of Ulster GandalfNetwork management automation in a multi-RAN technology environment: network self-monitoring, self- troubleshooting and self-optimisation France Telecom R&D, University of Malaga, University of Limerick, Moltsen Intelligent Software, LMI Research, Telefonica I&D Data MiningEvaluation and development of data mining techniques for event correlation of telecom data management systems. UCD Computer Science & University of Ulster at Colraine GRIDInvestigate which aspects of GRID computing systems theory can be best used to in a network management system UCD Computer Science

9. Wireless Research in Ireland Public Distribution2005-05-099 Alan Leddy@ericsson.com Cluster proposals  Knowledge Engineering / Distributed Systems centres of excellence for telecoms  Application modelling & creation (Policies, Ontologies, Web Services)  Distribution & self configuration techniques (P2P, GRID, Autonomic)  Multi access test bed/trial network  Multimedia core network, multi-access (2G, 3G, WLAN, WIMAX, RFID), application and management development  Mesh network, service integration, content provision, P2P services  Athlone (BMW zone, limited scale)  Free subscription  Industry role  Contribute infrastructure, applications  Management Challenges  Ownership, control, incumbent operator hostility  Funding  DETE-Broadband role out, InterTrade Ireland, BMW zone, SFI

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