Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

28/2/2008 - 31/1/2010

Proposal, Investigator

EI, Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development

Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development

This project will undertake a technology development of an autonomics system for network management comprising a) A Policy Server to send commands (business logic) to the network, b) an Autonomics Application (AutApp). One AutApp will reside on each Network element to allow the Network to self-manage and c) connections between neighbouring AutApps and connections from the AutApps to the policy server. The application will autonomously perform the following network management functions: Self-Configuration, Self-Healing and Policy Implementation.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

1/1/2008 - 31/12/2009

Proposal, Researcher (Modelling)

European Commission, Framework 7 STReP

Framework 7 STReP

Future Internet services based on autonomic principles
Networks are becoming service-aware. This implies that all relevant business goals pertaining to a service are fulfilled, and also the network resources are used optimally. As a consequence the network's complexity grows with service abundance placing new requirements on network control and management as well as on Internet network resource usage. The Autonomic Internet (AutoI) research project aspires to find a solution for future Internet based on autonomic principles. It will facilitate a transition from a service agnostic Internet to service aware network resources by creating a self-managing virtual resource overlay that can span across heterogeneous networks, supporting service mobility, quality of service and reliability. This self-managed overlay will be based on the businessdriven goals, changes in these goals (service context) and changes in the resource environment (resource context). This will be achieved using network resource virtualization and self-management techniques to describe and control the internal service logic, ontology-based information and data models to facilitate the Internet service deployment in terms of programmable networks facilities supporting NGN. AutoI is aligned with the International Autonomic Communications Forum (ACF).

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

1/12/2007 - 30/11/2009

Principal Investigator

EI, Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development

Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development

iServe undertakes a research and technology development in the domain of converged IP (Internet Protocol) based communications services. The project will implement a converged communications services framework (iServe) which will incorporate a state of the art multi-platform Communicator (InfinitIM). Enabling Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to easily create and deploy next generation communications services. This will be based on the IMS services framework and client that WIT has prototyped for European FP6 projects to provide end to end IMS services from implementation to delivery. The major outputs of the project will be a toolset for the creation of IMS services, a service hosting platform that will become the reference implementation of the SCIM (Service Capability Interaction Manager) module of the 3GPP’s IMS Architecture, providing a complete service creation and management capability, a voice and video enabled mobile client and an inline web-based VoIP and IM client.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

1/11/2007 - 31/10/2010

Proposal, Researcher

HEA, PRTLI Cycle 4

PRTLI Cycle 4

How do we realise future communications services and infrastructure that, whilst reflecting changing individual and societal preferences, can be effectively managed to ensure delivery of critical service features?

We adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to the specification of artefacts including models, algorithms, processes, methodologies and architectures that collectively constitutes a framework that can guide the realisation of future communications environments. These environments will provide critical societal services, thereby supporting and sustaining interactions between various communities of users. The programme addresses three related research strands: Future Communications Services, Future Communications Networks, and Capturing and Addressing Societal Needs. We now discuss each of these strands in terms of their scope, the medium term research questions they will address, and the role of each partner in addressing these research questions.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

1/8/2007 - 28/2/2008

Principal Investigator

EI, Commercialisation Plus

Commercialisation Plus

ZIMBIE is a tool that facilitates the creation of IM services. IM services are accessed in the same way as human contacts i.e. through the contacts list. Zimbie allows users to transform their accounts into BOTs and also facilitates ‘hybrid’ mode which means that a user can receive and view messages as normal whilst simultaneously providing automated responses – e.g. a user could set up a hybrid BOT to alert their friends when their web content updates. The user can automatically alert friends via presence and IM alerts when they update their blog or social networking profile for example. This could be applied to a service like Bebo for instance, whereby a user publicises what they are doing automatically via presence e.g. uploading photos, writing blogs, new quiz, etc.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

1/2/2005 - 31/12/2008

Senior Investigator, co-Technical Lead

SFI, PI Cluster

PI Cluster

The FoA research programme aims at the heart of the problem: the inability of service providers and communications operators to adapt, in a dynamic fashion, their offered services to the changing needs of their customers. This will be achieved by envisaging an Autonomic Communications Environment (ACE), an idealistic service-centric environment exhibiting self-governing behaviour. Within an ACE, services will be created that are self-aware and self-healing. In their deployment, they will be self-adapting, self-optimising and self-configuring, and in operation they will be self-protecting, self-managing and self-composing. These features enable ACE services to adapt to changing business needs and environmental conditions without manual intervention. The FoA will develop an Autonomic Communications Framework (ACF) at the core of its work programme, whose mission is to support the development of different ACEs targeted at different business needs.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

1/9/2005 - 30/6/2006

Principal Investigator

EI, Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development

Commercialisation Fund - Technology Development

Three-Dimensional Instant Messaging (3DIM) aims to splice the functionality available in standard Instant Messaging clients (e.g. AOL AIM, MSN Messenger), with standard 3D web technologies (X3D, 3DML, VRML), to create a mass market technology to facilitate: a) the creation and deployment of interactive 3D environments over IM; b) the utilisation of instant messaging clients to access these interactive 3D environments and c) the ability to interact with other users and autonomous agents within the 3DIM environments.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

1/1/2005 - 30/6/2006

Principal Investigator

EI, Innovation Partnership Programme

Innovation Partnership Programme

This Innovation Partnership project between Mobile Tornado Ltd.(MT) and the WIT will advance the state of the art in peer-to-peer communications services by leveraging WIT's ground breaking work on Instant Messaging systems and Mobile Tornado's state of the art IPRS Push2Talk service: to create a new category of service called CICS.
The resultant Converged Instant Communications Service will be a mobile service that integrates Push2Talk technologies with features traditionally associated with the Instant Messaging world, such as Presence or Presence enabled Address Books and Instant Messaging, as well as providing a gateway for Mobile Tornado's Push2Talk product to communicate with the major Instant Messaging systems available such as MSN, AOL, Yahoo! and ICQ. Furthermore this project will also enable the CICS to interoperate with other types of Push2Talk systems, such as Motorola's Push2Talk products. The CICS service will also have an add-in, which will enable the CICS service to be targeted at the Enterprise market by creating consolidated address and presence information across an organisation.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

1/10/2004 - 30/9/2005

Principal Investigator

EI, Proof of Concept

Proof of Concept

This project is the result of a number of years research by the collaborators and will enhance the state of the art in peer to peer communications by leveraging the knowledge gained on the Instant Messenger (IM) paradigm. It will achieve this through use of automated contacts/buddies (IMAX Services) that can simply and easily be created and deployed utilising the IMAX System. The IMAX system is a single gateway to all IM clients. The key focus of this project is the rapid development and deployment of services, making them instantly available to a pre-existing, large and growing market (hundreds of millions of existing IM users).
The IMAX project aims to augment the IM paradigm by introducing automated services that can be controlled and communicated with, utilising the user-to-user (peer-to-peer) interaction channel present today, i.e. standard IM text messages. This will be achieved through the provision of a set of software components (IMAX System) to facilitate deployment of services, quickly, efficiently and in a uniform manner over the various existing IM services. Facilitating this development and deployment model equips service providers with the tools needed to rapidly deploy their services and make them available to an enormous audience without the need to deploy anything on the IMAX Consumer's machine.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

1/7/2004 - 30/6/2006

Principal Investigator

European Commission, Celtic Cluster

Celtic Cluster

http://www.celtic-madeira.org

The goal of Madeira is to provide novel technologies for a logically meshed Network Management System (NMS) that facillates dynamic behaviour of transient network elements. This will enable self-managed services and network elements of increased scale, heterogeneity and transience thereby reducing OPEX. The aims of the project are to: (a) Provide de-facto standards that allow a high degree of inter-working between the management systems of various network domains. This will be achieved through the specification of architecture for a distributed non-hierarchical NMS. (b) Provide an advanced computing reference framework to support management operations that are massively distributed in nature, across dynamically forming networks. This will be accomplished by developing a logically meshed peer-to-peer network management computing environment. (c) Provide a means of rapidly and efficiently describing and programming management operations that form network management applications through new modelling techniques. (d) Explore and define a new relationship between Configuration and Fault management for transient dynamic network elements For example, concerns would be how to differentiate between fault and normal network behaviour.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

1/3/2004 - 31/8/2005

Proposal (contribution), Researcher (2004)

European Commission, eTEN

eTEN

http://www.riser.eu.com

The objective of the proposed Registry Information Service on European Residents (RISER) is, therefore, to create a Trans-European internet service offering official address information to companies and citizens. The service communicates with customers at any location via a secure internet infrastructure based on open standards. It is supplied with data by the local offices in civil registration all over Europe. By providing uniform (though multilingual) access and payment procedures to the customer (thereby shielding them from the intricacies of a diversified field) the service is modelled on the concept of One Stop Government.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

Sep 2003 - Mar 2006

Co-Lead Researcher

EI

In 2003 325 million people will use Instant Messaging (IM) applications. IMPRUVE will augment this global IM infrastructure with a platform and a set of adapters to extend its reach. As well as enhancing person-to-person interaction via mediators between the major IM standards, IMPRUVE will implement innovative new technology to facilitate person-to-service and person-to-device interaction. Central to the project will be bridging IM protocols and user interface mechanisms to existing service (SOAP and Web Services) and device (Universal Plug & Play and Bluetooth) standards, operating over existing protocols (IPv4 & IPv6) and wireless (3G, GPRS & WiFi) networks.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

Jun 2002 - May 2006

Programme Manager, WP3 leader

HEA, PRTLI Cycle 3

PRTLI Cycle 3

http://www.m-zones.org

The M-Zones Research Programme plans to develop novel information and communications management technology to support dynamic, integrated management of participants, information appliances, and smart space infrastructure. The M-Zones Research Programme is a multi-disciplinary, inter-institutional research programme that will engage in fundamental research in Management and Control systems for integrating Multiple Smart Spaces . This research programme advances the existing long established (10 years) research collaboration between the research team leaders at WIT and TCD and also the recently established collaboration between the research groups at WIT and CIT. The result is a major programme of interdisciplinary research collaboration between the three participating institutions in order to achieve the programme goals. The technical background and expertise of the participants is ideally suited to achieving the goals set by the M-Zones research programme.

Waterford Institute of Technology / Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

2/10/2006 - 28/9/2007

Principal Investigator

EI, Proof of Concept

Proof of Concept

The GAIIS system will aid the need of Mountain Rescue organisations. To ensure the system is fit for purpose, the research team will collaborate with the South East Mountain Rescue Association (SEMRA) at the Requirements, Design and Trial stages, this will provide insight into the real needs of such an organisation. The prototype integrates low-bandwidth radio data communications into an Incident Control Point (ICP) - using integrated decision support software to track the location of rescuers and plan the dispatch of resources (e.g. for the planning of efficient search pattern for a mountain rescue). The current situation that there are GIS systems, there are command and control systems, but there are as yet no systems that integrate the two with the existing radio communications back-channel (built-in to the voice radios that are currently used in these situations). The commercial opportunity is linked to the manufacturers of these radios, who would have an interest in promoting these unused data features, and in the development of a general optimal resource allocation library with wide ranging applications.

Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems

Mar 2002 - Mar 2002

Proposal (contributor), WP3 leader (2002)

European Commission, Framework 5 STReP

Framework 5 STReP

http://www.ist-albatross.org

The successful rollout and delivery of innovative personalised mobile services is creating new demands on management that traditional Operational Support Systems (OSSs) cannot meet. The AlbatrOSS project has addressed this challenge by designing an architecture for a personalised mobile services environment [D3,8,10] as well as developing OSS components for this environment and evaluating them in a series of innovative trial systems [D5,9].
The primary goals of the AlbatrOSS project were to investigate the emerging requirements for Third Generation Operation Support Systems (3GOSSs), to use the identified requirements to define an architecture and associated framework, and to develop and trial a set of components that deliver a subset of these 3GOSS functionalities.

Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems

2002

Researcher, WP leader (2002)

European Commission, eTEN

eTEN

http://www.ten-a.org

Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems

2000 - 2002

Co-Project Leader

FhG FOKUS / TUB

User-centric Communication System

GMD Institute for Open Communication Systems

1998 - 2001

Co-Project Leader

GMD FOKUS

Provide environment-aware services with graphical and speech-driven user interfaces. This approach realises the combination and integration of technologies from the world of telecommunications (GSM, IN, PSTN, ISDN), computer networks (Ethernet, ATM), the Internet (WWW and active/dynamic HTML, IP Telephony and Voice over IP), and Management (TMN network and service management, multi-level Customer Service Control, Accounting, Subscription, Fault Management). The platform is built uppon a middleware which employs basically CORBA.

GMD Institute for Open Communication Systems

Jan 1996 - Jun 1997

Student

Deutsche Telekom Berkom

The project introduces Personal Communication Support (PCS) concepts to the TINA-C Service Architecture focusing the Access Session. The focus of the PCST project is on the enhancement of the nomadic user's connectivity by introducing location-based user registration and coincident the dynamic terminal selection at a registered location.
My work, a prototype of media conversion specifically ISDN PBX functionality, was demonstrated on TINA'96.

GMD Institute for Open Communication Systems

1996 - 1998

Student, Researcher

Deutsche Telekom Berkom

The project focuses on realising the vision of \"information any time, any place, in any form\" in the field of personal communications. It is desired to support higher flexibility in communications in two aspects:
First a higher flexibility of terminal devices (end-systems) is required for the communication, not only regarding the selection of an appropriate device, but also in adaptation of the medium type to the available set of terminal devices. This refers to SAPs not explicitly designed for the incoming call, which might now be supported by providing media conversion.
Secondly, scenarios of service interworking/service integration have to be supported. Such scenarios might be defined in a user's Call Logic Matrix. In most cases they require conversions of the medium type or at least the medium format, because different services mostly use different media types and different media formats.
Investigating interoperability of interfaces and services, the iPCSS is one step beyond the service personalization examined in the PCSS project. Interoperability describes the capacity of a communications system to support effective interworking between different (possibly unrelated) services, supported by and offered on heterogeneous networks, with the long-term aim of achieving fully interworking applications.

GMD Institute for Open Communication Systems

1994 - 1996

Student (1995/96)

Deutsche Telekom Berkom

The PCSS has been developed within the second phase of the BERKOM II project \"IN/TMN Integration\". It addresses the vision of supporting the nomadic telecommunication user in that it provides the individual with a private Personal Communication Context that is ubiquitously available to the user. It assists the user at any place, at any time, while using any type and any form of communications. Directed at that vision, the PCSS provides support for personal communications in three basic areas: (a) Personal Mobility (either in fixed networks or wireless networks); (b) Service Personalisation (including call management from the users perspective), and (c) Service Interoperability (maximising the user's \"connectivity\").
The most important issue in the context of the PCSS, Personal Mobility, is tightly related to the Intelligent Network [Q.1200] reference service Universal Personal Telecommunications (UPT). But the PCSS approach differs from the conventional IN approach in a number of elementary points: (1) The PCSS uses personal references instead of physical numbers; (2) The PCSS provides capabilities for a uniform, service neutral configuration and personalisation of all types of teleservices subscribed by the user; (3) The PCSS user registers at locations, not only at terminals.

IKV++ Technologies AG

1998

Project Leader

Deutsche Telekom Berkom