Detailed Program

Telecommunications is at crossroads. The ongoing network convergence and the associated idea of providing seamless multimedia information and communication services demands for a structured and globally standardized all-IP service provisioning architecture. However, a common service platform is mainly driven by the enabled services on top of it.

In this context a major challenge for the overall telecommunications industry in general is the increasing competition with “over the top” and Internet multimedia service providers.

In this tutorial we will introduce general services principles, architectures, standards, services and service creation approaches and tools in telecommunications and the Internet and discuss the above mentioned issues to provide the necessary base for the subsequent workshops and conference sessions.

1. Motivation & Overview
2. SOA & SDP Evolution and Overview
   • Service Architecture for Traditional Telephone Networks
   • Internet Service Architecture
   • Requirements of Telecommunications SOA
   • Concepts, Technologies and Standards in SOA for Telcos
     • ESBs, CORBA, Web Services
     • TMF IPSphere & NGOSS, OASIS SOA-Tel
3. Enablers: Open API Standards
   • OMA Telco Enabler Concept, OMA Service Environment
   • Network APIs
     • Parlay X, OMA PSA, OMA NGSI, GSMA one API
   • Device APIs
     • JSR 281, JSR 325, BONDI
   • Web 2.0 APIs for over-the-top approach
4. Brokering, Service Creation and Mashups
   • Mashup concepts and technologies
     • REST,  JSON, RSS, etc.
   • Service Creation technologies
     • Telco Service APIs and tools: SIP Servlet, JAIN, Echarts, etc.
     • Mashup Environments and tools
     • Model-driven Engineering for combined Telco / web services
   • Service Composition / Orchestration
     • BPEL,  BPMN, XPDL, SCXML, etc.
   • Service Broker
     • SCIM and JSR289 Application Router
     • SDP System governance
     • Telco Service exposure
     • Market analysis
5. Demos in the FOKUS Open SOA Telco Playground
   • Telco FOKUS Broker
   • MDE-based Service Creation

Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Stefan Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS
Yun Chao Hu, OIPF chairman, Ericsson

An Introduction to IP-based Streaming Services & IPTV
The basic IPTV scenarios and requirements towards IPTV infrastructures will be introduced and analyzed and a definition for IPTV and corresponding services will be tried to be found, e.g.:

• IPTV vs. Web TV
• Managed vs. unmanaged infrastructures
• Basic Scenarios & Requirements

Standardization & Stakeholder Analysis
A deep overview on the different Standard Development Organizations (SDOs) working on standards for IPTV will be given. In addition, the different views and strategies of the key players in the IPTV market will be analyzed. This includes:

• Telecom Operators
• Broadcasters
• Content Providers
• Consumer Electronics
• Advertisement Industry

Technial Insights on NGN-based IPTV Systems
Details on NGN based conversational and media services evolving towards all-IP converged Rich Media Infrastructures will be addressed. In detail this includes a presentation on:

• Architectural Approaches
• IPTV service signaling
• Interaction with telecommunication services
• Application Server Models

Live Demonstration
The Fraunhofer FOKUS Future Applications and Media Lab will be presented by showing the ecosystem in live action. In addition participating conference guests are invited to take part in a short usability test having a hand on experience using the different IPTV services and applications.

Future Internet (FI) research has made a big impact for a few years already. While most initiatives are still driven by academic groups we think it is time to trigger the dialogue with a broader industry community and ask the question how industry can profit today from recent findings in Future Internet research.
In its tradition as a main driver for applied research in Europe, Fraunhofer organizes the Future Internet Industry workshop that brings together key persons from academia, industry and testbed operators.

Learn about Future Internet!

The Future Internet Tutorial provides an overview of FI research directions and trends and asks what results can have an impact today, which trends look promising and which solutions are expected to become mature in the near future. The technical sessions provide information about recent achievements.

• Future Internet Trends – A Technical Overview of Evolutionary and Revolutionary Ideas
  Dr. Tanja Zseby, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
• Using P2P for Future Internet Evolution
  Dr. Michael Kleis, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
• Assessment of Future Internet Solutions
  Jens Tiemann, Dr. Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Originally invented in the mobile world, the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) has become over the last years the globally accepted common control platform for multimedia communication service provision in Next Generation Networks (NGNs). In parallel the internet has matured towards an innovative seamless multimedia communication, information and entertainment services environment, also referred to as Web 2.0.

Driven by the hype around the planed rollout of the Long term Evolution (LTE) wireless access networks providing only packet transport capabilities, the notion of the Next Generation Mobile Network concept is emerging, which will be technically realized by the 3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS). While LTE is forming as Evolved-UTRAN (E-UTRAN) the lower part of the EPS, a new IP connectivity control platform has been defined for the upper part of the EPS to enable wireless access networks diversity (including LTE, UMTS, WiMax, WLAN, etc) below different service platforms, comprising both IMS-based and internet service architectures. This IP connectivity control platform is called Evolved Packet Core (EPC), previously known as Service Architecture Evolution (SAE), which has a lot of common principles with IMS, such as policy based QoS and Charging, user authentication, handover support, etc. however limited to provide a seamless IP pipe to a service platform. There is little doubt, that LTE, which will be initially provided in limited locations only and thus requires handover support with other existing wireless access network technologies, will depend on the proper operation of the EPC. In addition, the provisioning of seamless voice services represents a huge challenge within this environment. Moreover, a key question will be, what future wireless broadband multimedia applications will drive Next Generation Mobile Network adoption.

This half day tutorial will introduce to the main concepts, architectures, standards, fora and related terminology in the field of Next Generation Mobile Networks. We will also briefly illustrate LTE capabilities, however the main focus will be in the introduction of the Next Generation Mobile Network IP control platform, namely the Evolved Packet Core. Here we explain the key components, their capabilities and their main interactions. In addition, we will look at EPC application domains and in this context illustrate also to role of IMS. Finally we will introduce the brand new TU Berlin / FOKUS OpenEPC toolkit enabling EPS testbed establishment, and show practical demonstrations in our Future Seamless Communication FUSECO Playground.

Attendees will gain a basic understanding of the Next Generation Mobile Network capabilities, opportunities as well as technical and business challenges. Furthermore, they will learn how IMS evolution relates to the EPC and how IMS can be utilized above the EPC for voice and other multimedia services.

Detailed Agenda:

Part 1: Next Generation Mobile Network Overview

• Motivation for Next Generation Mobile Network: Mobile data increase vs. revenue decrease
• Mobile Network Evolution
• Key players in Next Generation Mobile Network: NGMN Alliance, LTSI, and 3GPP
• 3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS) Architecture Overview (LTE/E-UTRAN and EPC/SAE)

Part 2: Evolved Packet Core (EPC)

• Long term Evolution (LTE) / Evolved UMTS Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Capabilities
• Beyond LTE - EPC Motivation and Functional Overview (Security, QoS, Charging, mobility management, roaming, etc.)
• Simplified EPC architecture over E-UTRAN (MME, SGW, PDNGW, HSS, PCRF)
• Full EPC architecture above multiple access networks (3GPP and trusted/untrusted non-3GPP access networks)
• Component interactions for registration, service access, mobility management, etc.

Part 3: Next Generation Mobile Network Services beyond the EPC: Voice, IMS and others

• EPS application domains (Internet, IMS, and more)
• The LTE challenge: Voice over LTE Options (comparison of SRVCC, CS over PS, CS Fallback, VoLGA)
• Potential LTE/EPC rollout strategies

Part 4: Getting Started with EPS: Introducing the New FOKUS OpenEPC Testbed Toolkit

• Practical demonstrations will show the possible usage of the EPC based on the FOKUS OpenEPC platform

Abstract:
Operators are trying to embrace developers to integrate into their applications open APIs for network and device centric services. At present successful business models and operator / developer relationships are yet to be defined. This workshop describes existing operator offerings as well as current related initiatives in standardization for open network and device APIs.

Driven by the hype around the planed rollout of Long term Evolution (LTE) based wireless access networks providing only packet transport capabilities, the notion of the Next Generation Mobile Network emerged. Technically the Next Generation Mobile Network will be realized by means of the 3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS). While LTE is forming as Evolved-UTRAN (E-UTRAN) the lower part of the EPS, a new IP connectivity control platform has been defined for the upper part of the EPS to enable wireless access networks diversity (including LTE, UMTS, WiMax, WLAN, etc) below different service platforms, comprising both IMS-based and internet service architectures. This IP connectivity control platform is called Evolved Packet Core (EPC), previously known as Service Architecture Evolution (SAE). There is little doubt, that LTE, which will be initially provided in limited locations only and thus requires handover support with other existing wireless access network technologies, will depend on the proper operation of the EPC. In addition, the provisioning of seamless voice services represents a huge challenge within this environment where IMS may provide the technological basis. However, what additional applications will be enabled by LTE and more generally the EPC.

This half day interactive workshop allows attendants to discuss with leading researchers, network operators, and vendors in two corresponding sessions and one panel where LTE and the EPC technologies stand today and what challenges have to be mastered to go for commercial deployment. A key question for the panel will be what future wireless broadband multimedia applications will accelerate Next Generation Mobile Network adoption and what finally will be the relationship between the NGN and Next Generation Mobile Network architectures.