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WP: WP2
Title: Definition of user requirements related to reference network scenarios
Start month: M1 (Oct 2010)
End month: M3 (Dec 2010)
Leader: GRNET
Participants:
CNIT
ALU
MLX
LQDE
TEI
TELIT
GRNET
NASK
ETY
Objectives:
- Collect data for future specifications of network operational requirements in terms of offered services, architectures and functionalities for providers of various sizes:
- General requirements for value-added services that will be delivered by the networks of tomorrow.
- General high-level network requirements, such as number and typologies of network nodes, as well as specification of end-to-end QoS and fault-tolerance performance indexes.
- Collection of data for the specification at various time-scales of traffic profiles to be taken into account in every selected reference scenario.
- Collection of data for estimating energy consumptions and requirements of today's end-user devices and network infrastructures (including cooling systems). That is to describe the current level of energy consumption outlining critical nodes where the energy consumption is critical. This estimation will be performed by using real data from network devices that are commonly deployed in large Telcos' and ISPs' networks in order to obtain a comprehensive model of energy consumption in today's infrastructures.
- Define future scenarios for the next generation networks and devices starting from the current situation:
- Identifying a suitable set of evolving technologies, architectures and protocols to be used in home, access, transport and core networks of the Future Internet.
- Specification of network performance requirements (e.g., traffic volumes, link bandwidths, delays, etc.) of tomorrow
- Estimation of energy consumption for tomorrow's networks in a business-as-usual case.
- Catalogue current and potential future energy-aware technologies at the device data- and control planes to be used in next-generation network devices. Analyse cost effective solutions for efficient power management by providers of various sizes:
- Specification of target energy-savings to be obtained in different network segments (i.e., home, access, transport and core networks), defining expected improvements on energy consumption.
- Detailed definition of value-added autonomic applications and paradigms for the energy-aware cognitive control of networks and devices.
- Detailed definition of the novel value-added paradigms for energy-aware OAM capabilities configurable by operators and users.
