The UK Programmable Fixed and Mobile Internet Infrastructure (INITIATE)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract
Understanding the behaviour of the Internet with its inherent complexity and scale is essential when designing new Internet systems and applications. Simulation, emulation, and test-bed experiments are important techniques for investigating large-scale complex Internet systems. It is now widely recognised that classical theoretical/simulation scalability studies for Internet research are unreliable without relevant and representative supporting experimental evidence. This is increasingly important with the emergence of 5G, cloud services and IoT, which lead to at least 2 orders increase in connection capacity requirements and 3 orders of additional devices that require Internet connectivity.
Great progress has been made in the UK over the years on the development of communications laboratories infrastructure in ICT domains such as optical & wireless, signal processing, networks and distributed systems, where the UK is internationally leading. However, UK telecommunications research remains largely segregated in independent optical, wireless or computer network research labs, so researchers very rarely have the opportunity to experiment across the boundaries between these disciplines. Due to the limitations of performing research in discipline-specific facilities, the current UK ICT research output does not address realistic end-to-end Internet systems
INITIATE will create a new, specialist distributed test-bed to facilitate the increasingly large and complex experimentation required for future Internet research. This will be achieved by interconnecting operational, state-of-the-art operational laboratories at the Universities of Bristol, Lancaster (UoLan), Edinburgh (UoEd) and Kings College London (KCL). These laboratories will contribute many key capabilities for Internet research including optical networks, wireless/RF communications, the Internet of Things (IoT), Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and cloud computing.
Therefore INITIATE will offer the combined capability to the UK Internet research and innovation communities as a single distributed test-bed able to support the increasingly complex experimentation required for future Internet research. For example, INITIATE will enable for the first time experimentally driven research addressing the integration of multi-domain and multi-technology 5G and IoT access platforms with high-speed optical transport and investigate full system optimization strategies. Uniquely, INITIATE will also be able to integrate end-users as part of the experimental process and support user driven scenarios such as mobile edge computing, data visualization and autonomous mobility.
The applicants have an outstanding worldwide reputation for creating, maintaining and operating research test-beds. They have repeatedly enabled remote access to their laboratories for experimenters and they have worked in multiple initiatives involving interconnection of research test-beds either locally, across the consortium partners or at a regional, national and international scale. Examples are: Bristol Is Open (UoB), TOUCAN (EPSRC involving UoB, UoEd, UoLan), NDFIS (UoB, UCL, SOTON, Cambridge), wireless mesh networks for rural communities (UoLan) and the Ofcom whitespace trial environment (KCL), among others. Internationally, the partners have been involved in numerous Future Internet infrastructure projects such as OFELIA & Fed4FIRE (EU FIRE), FIBRE & FUTEBOL (EU-Brazil), STRAUSS (EU-Japan) and GEANT, where they have delivered test-bed infrastructure, developed experimental control and federation tools and supported user experiments.
INITIATE will create an environment for delivering excellence in Internet research, educational and industrial innovation and cross-discipline interaction through experimentally driven national collaboration. The project will also support academia as well as industry and SMEs and will deliver a sustainable engagement model.
Great progress has been made in the UK over the years on the development of communications laboratories infrastructure in ICT domains such as optical & wireless, signal processing, networks and distributed systems, where the UK is internationally leading. However, UK telecommunications research remains largely segregated in independent optical, wireless or computer network research labs, so researchers very rarely have the opportunity to experiment across the boundaries between these disciplines. Due to the limitations of performing research in discipline-specific facilities, the current UK ICT research output does not address realistic end-to-end Internet systems
INITIATE will create a new, specialist distributed test-bed to facilitate the increasingly large and complex experimentation required for future Internet research. This will be achieved by interconnecting operational, state-of-the-art operational laboratories at the Universities of Bristol, Lancaster (UoLan), Edinburgh (UoEd) and Kings College London (KCL). These laboratories will contribute many key capabilities for Internet research including optical networks, wireless/RF communications, the Internet of Things (IoT), Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and cloud computing.
Therefore INITIATE will offer the combined capability to the UK Internet research and innovation communities as a single distributed test-bed able to support the increasingly complex experimentation required for future Internet research. For example, INITIATE will enable for the first time experimentally driven research addressing the integration of multi-domain and multi-technology 5G and IoT access platforms with high-speed optical transport and investigate full system optimization strategies. Uniquely, INITIATE will also be able to integrate end-users as part of the experimental process and support user driven scenarios such as mobile edge computing, data visualization and autonomous mobility.
The applicants have an outstanding worldwide reputation for creating, maintaining and operating research test-beds. They have repeatedly enabled remote access to their laboratories for experimenters and they have worked in multiple initiatives involving interconnection of research test-beds either locally, across the consortium partners or at a regional, national and international scale. Examples are: Bristol Is Open (UoB), TOUCAN (EPSRC involving UoB, UoEd, UoLan), NDFIS (UoB, UCL, SOTON, Cambridge), wireless mesh networks for rural communities (UoLan) and the Ofcom whitespace trial environment (KCL), among others. Internationally, the partners have been involved in numerous Future Internet infrastructure projects such as OFELIA & Fed4FIRE (EU FIRE), FIBRE & FUTEBOL (EU-Brazil), STRAUSS (EU-Japan) and GEANT, where they have delivered test-bed infrastructure, developed experimental control and federation tools and supported user experiments.
INITIATE will create an environment for delivering excellence in Internet research, educational and industrial innovation and cross-discipline interaction through experimentally driven national collaboration. The project will also support academia as well as industry and SMEs and will deliver a sustainable engagement model.
Planned Impact
INITIATE will support a wide academic and industrial and SME user base to research and innovate in key future Internet areas: communications, computing, distributed ICT systems, IoT, cloud computing/infrastructure, data science, software engineering, intelligent systems and smart cities. All these areas are recognised as key contributors to local, national and international wealth creation and are essential to the UK economy.
The test-bed will create an open environment for research, education, industrial innovation and cross-discipline interaction through experimentally driven collaboration. INITIATE will be an ecosystem for system driven experimentation with new technologies and applications in realistic deployment scenarios, constrains and, when necessary, real end users. This is the first platform of its type within the UK and Europe, and offers never before seen access to such a wide range of experimental resources, specialist technologies, hardware platforms and software controls. For academia, such an opportunity will generate strong evidence for the viability of research and will facilitate the timely translation of fundamental academic research to industry. For industry, such a capability is fundamental for supporting rapid product design, development, demonstration and evaluation in a real world environment.
In order to reach and attract academic users, we will use our strong connections with JISC/JANET, NDFIS, ARCHER and the EPSRC network COMMNET2, to organise and speak at events and inform the wider ICT research community about the experimental platform. Internationally, we will promote INITIATE at events organised by FIRE, GEANT, e-Infrastructure in the EU, the GENI Engineering conferences and Internet2 Global Summit.
Industrial dissemination will also be extensive. We will widely market the opportunities to potential industrial users. This will be done through existing established relationships, presentations at industrial days organized by the partner's presentations at major conferences (i.e. Globecom, ICC, OFC, Supercomputing), trade shows (Data Centre Dynamics, World Mobile Congress) and national workshops (IET, Cambridge Wireless events). SME dissemination will also be facilitated by the Digital Economy Catapult, which will collaborate to deliver on-site and on-line hands-on training courses with specific focus to SMEs.
The test-bed will create an open environment for research, education, industrial innovation and cross-discipline interaction through experimentally driven collaboration. INITIATE will be an ecosystem for system driven experimentation with new technologies and applications in realistic deployment scenarios, constrains and, when necessary, real end users. This is the first platform of its type within the UK and Europe, and offers never before seen access to such a wide range of experimental resources, specialist technologies, hardware platforms and software controls. For academia, such an opportunity will generate strong evidence for the viability of research and will facilitate the timely translation of fundamental academic research to industry. For industry, such a capability is fundamental for supporting rapid product design, development, demonstration and evaluation in a real world environment.
In order to reach and attract academic users, we will use our strong connections with JISC/JANET, NDFIS, ARCHER and the EPSRC network COMMNET2, to organise and speak at events and inform the wider ICT research community about the experimental platform. Internationally, we will promote INITIATE at events organised by FIRE, GEANT, e-Infrastructure in the EU, the GENI Engineering conferences and Internet2 Global Summit.
Industrial dissemination will also be extensive. We will widely market the opportunities to potential industrial users. This will be done through existing established relationships, presentations at industrial days organized by the partner's presentations at major conferences (i.e. Globecom, ICC, OFC, Supercomputing), trade shows (Data Centre Dynamics, World Mobile Congress) and national workshops (IET, Cambridge Wireless events). SME dissemination will also be facilitated by the Digital Economy Catapult, which will collaborate to deliver on-site and on-line hands-on training courses with specific focus to SMEs.
Organisations
- University of Bristol (Lead Research Organisation)
- KONICA MINOLTA (Collaboration)
- BT Group (Collaboration)
- NEC Corporation (Collaboration)
- Huawei Technologies Research and Development UK Ltd (Collaboration)
- ETSI (Collaboration)
- F5 Networks (United States) (Project Partner)
- pureLiFi Ltd (Project Partner)
- Konica Minolta Business Solutions UK (Project Partner)
- Cambridge Wireless Limited (Project Partner)
- Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- BT Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Ofcom (Project Partner)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Keysight Technologies (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Thales (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- CORSA Technology (Project Partner)
- InterDigital (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Zeetta Networks Limited (Project Partner)
- Huawei Technologies (Sweden) (Project Partner)
- National Instruments (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Fu Y
(2020)
BER Performance of Spatial Modulation Systems Under a Non-Stationary Massive MIMO Channel Model
in IEEE Access
Alshaer H
(2020)
Software-Defined Networking-Enabled Heterogeneous Wireless Networks and Applications Convergence
in IEEE Access
Nassef O
(2021)
Building a Lane Merge Coordination for Connected Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Condoluci M
(2019)
Fixed-Mobile Convergence in the 5G Era: From Hybrid Access to Converged Core
in IEEE Network
Wu X
(2020)
Load Balancing for Hybrid LiFi and WiFi Networks: To Tackle User Mobility and Light-Path Blockage
in IEEE Transactions on Communications
Moazzeni S
(2021)
A Novel Autonomous Profiling Method for the Next-Generation NFV Orchestrators
in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Wang R
(2020)
End-to-End Quantum Secured Inter-Domain 5G Service Orchestration Over Dynamically Switched Flex-Grid Optical Networks Enabled by a q-ROADM
in Journal of Lightwave Technology
Aguado A
(2017)
Secure NFV Orchestration Over an SDN-Controlled Optical Network With Time-Shared Quantum Key Distribution Resources
in Journal of Lightwave Technology
Haas H
(2019)
Introduction to indoor networking concepts and challenges in LiFi
in Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
Nassef O
(2021)
Optimising Performance for NB-IoT UE Devices through Data Driven Models
in Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks
Description | INITIATE created a new, specialist distributed test-bed to facilitate the increasingly large and complex experimentation required for future Internet research. This will be achieved by interconnecting operational, state-of-the-art operational laboratories at the Universities of Bristol, Lancaster (UoLan), Edinburgh (UoEd) and Kings College London (KCL). These laboratories contributed many key capabilities for Internet research including optical networks, wireless/RF communications, the Internet of Things (IoT), Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and cloud computing. |
Exploitation Route | NITIATE offered experimental capabilities to the UK Internet research and innovation communities as a single distributed test-bed able to support the increasingly complex experimentation required for future Internet research. For example, INITIATE enabled for the first time experimentally driven research addressing the integration of multi-domain and multi-technology 5G and IoT access platforms with high-speed optical transport and investigate full system optimization strategies. INITIATE also enables to integrate end-users as part of the experimental process and support user driven scenarios such as mobile edge computing, data visualization and autonomous mobility. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
URL | https://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/smart/ |
Description | The SDN Exchange proposed by INITIATE has been adopted by the DCMS 5GUK Testbeds and Trials programme as a key architectural element for distributed 5G experimentation across the UK. It has been named a National Asset and demonstrated in public during the Mobile World Congress in March'18 The Exchange facility has now been incorporate in National Dark Fibre Infrastructure Facility (NDFF). It is providing additional value to the Dark Fibre infrastructure by enabling capability for high speed Ethernet connections which can accelerate engagement of research groups/laboratories at national scale. The SDN Exchange is also being utilized in the NSF funded project FAB (Fabric Across Borders: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029260&HistoricalAwards=false) to connect UK research patterns to the US FABRIC research network (https://fabric-testbed.net) |
First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
Impact Types | Societal Economic |
Description | Cross panel mentoring Science & Technology Committee enquiry on 5G market diversification |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | Dimitra Simeonidou was invited to give parliamentary evidence regarding the UK 5G infrastructure dependencies from high-risk vendors. |
URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmsctech/450/45002.htm |
Description | Membership in Telecom Diversification Taskforce (DCMS) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Dimitra Simeonidou has contributed to UK Government policy with regards to telecom infrastructure diversification and long-term sustainability of the UK telecom sector. |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ex-bt-boss-leads-task-force-to-attract-new-vendors-to-uk-telecoms |
Description | (EASY-RES) - Enable Ancillary Services bY Renewable Energy Sources |
Amount | € 4,562,357 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 764090 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 06/2021 |
Description | (PriMO-5G) - Virtual Presence in Moving Objects through 5G |
Amount | € 2,000,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 815191 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 06/2018 |
End | 06/2021 |
Description | 5G Enabled Manufacturing |
Amount | £8,265,570 (GBP) |
Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | 5G RuralFirst: Rural Coverage and Dynamic Spectrum Access Testbed and Trial |
Amount | £196,763 (GBP) |
Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2018 |
End | 05/2019 |
Description | 5G UK Test-bed |
Amount | £16,000,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2017 |
End | 03/2018 |
Description | 5G-CLARITY |
Amount | € 1,165,020 (EUR) |
Funding ID | EC 871428 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 11/2019 |
End | 05/2021 |
Description | Connected Communities in the Rural Economy (CoCoRE) |
Amount | £10,937,973 (GBP) |
Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2020 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | National Dark Fibre Facility |
Amount | £4,900,552 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S028854/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 05/2024 |
Description | Code contribution to ETSI Open Source MANO |
Organisation | ETSI |
Country | France |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Code contribution to ETSI Open Source MANO by creating a new improved Wide Area Network Infrastructure Manager (WIM) using the INITIATE's 5GUK exchange expertise. The feature has been approved and released with OSM R5. |
Collaborator Contribution | Code contribution to ETSI Open Source MANO by creating a new improved Wide Area Network Infrastructure Manager (WIM) using the INITIATE's 5GUK exchange expertise. The feature has been approved and released with OSM R5. |
Impact | N/K |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | ETSI OSM PoC - Orchestrating the Orchestra |
Organisation | ETSI |
Country | France |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | With the emergence of low latency, high bandwidth 5G networks, new use cases for the internet are being realised. Applications like remote surgery, cloud-assisted AR/VR require a reliable, low latency and high bandwidth network. The applications require faster deployment and sometimes need to communicate over long distances as well. OSM allows rapid deployment of virtualized services over the infrastructure which enables developers to create new experiences and technical showcases. In current networks, service introduction can take weeks or months, but virtualization can reduce this to hours or days. With end-to-end vision of 5G networks, the dynamic orchestration is required over multiple network domains as well. OSM brings in the capability to deploy the Network Services across datacentres using its latest WIM component. Additionally, to complement the capabilities of OSM, multi-domain orchestrator (5GUKExchange [1]) allows the Virtual Network Services to be created and operated across multiple network domains. |
Collaborator Contribution | University of Bristol, Digital Catapult, King's College London |
Impact | ETSI OSM PoC - Orchestrating the Orchestra |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | KCL Collaboration with Konica Minolta |
Organisation | Konica Minolta |
Country | Japan |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | KCL Collaboration with Konica Minolta on soft-edge (software-driven edge computing) |
Collaborator Contribution | KCL Collaboration with Konica Minolta on soft-edge (software-driven edge computing) |
Impact | N/K |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | KCL collaboration with BT on fixed and mobile network convergence |
Organisation | BT Group |
Department | BT Research |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | KCL collaboration with BT on fixed and mobile network convergence, 3GPP standard or in two magazine papers and one book chapter |
Collaborator Contribution | KCL collaboration with BT on fixed and mobile network convergence, 3GPP standard or in two magazine papers and one book chapter |
Impact | 3GPP standard or in two magazine papers and one book chapter |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | KCL collaboration with BT, Ericsson and Verizon |
Organisation | BT Group |
Department | BT Research |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | KCL collaboration with BT, Ericsson and Verizon on emergency response |
Collaborator Contribution | KCL collaboration with BT, Ericsson and Verizon on emergency response |
Impact | N/K |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | UoL Integration of DPB WIM connector as OSMv7+ Feature Request (with ETSI OSG) |
Organisation | ETSI |
Country | France |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | UoL Integration of DPB WIM connector as OSMv7+ Feature Request (with ETSI OSG) |
Collaborator Contribution | UoL Integration of DPB WIM connector as OSMv7+ Feature Request (with ETSI OSG) |
Impact | N/K |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | UoL collaboration NEC Labs (Europe) |
Organisation | NEC Corporation |
Department | NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | UoL collaboration NEC Labs (Europe)a 1-year research activity and involves initially an internship for Alex Jung. |
Collaborator Contribution | UoL collaboration NEC Labs (Europe)a 1-year research activity and involves initially an internship for Alex Jung. |
Impact | N/K |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | UoL collaboration with Huawei (Network 2030: this is a 2-year ITU-T standardization initiative that started in 2019 |
Organisation | Huawei Technologies Research and Development UK Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | UoL collaboration with Huawei (Network 2030: this is a 2-year ITU-T standardization initiative |
Collaborator Contribution | UoL collaboration with Huawei (Network 2030: this is a 2-year ITU-T standardization initiative |
Impact | N/K |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | UoL partnerships with BT Research NG-CDI |
Organisation | BT Group |
Department | BT Research |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Collaborations and partnerships with BT Research (NG-CDI: 5 years from 2018); |
Collaborator Contribution | UoL Collaborations and partnerships with BT Research (NG-CDI: 5 years from 2018); |
Impact | N/K |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management, Thessaloniki, Greece // 31 October - 4 November 2022, Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof. Simeonidou gave a keynote on "From Digital Transformation to Socio-Digital Innovation." |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2022/program.html |
Description | 5G Music Lesson with Jamie Cullum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | On June 25th 2019, critically acclaimed musician and songwriter Jamie Cullum led the world's first 5G music lesson from his piano at the two thousand year-old Roman Amphitheatre in London, playing live with amateur musicians at Bristol's We the Curious and The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire using 5G technology, on behalf of charity, Music for All. This was the first time INITIATE's academic network was connected to the BT/EE's commercial 5G network. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/smart/5g-demonstrations/5g-music-lesson-with-jamie-cul... |
Description | DPB demo, ECOC2019, Dublin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | DPB demo, video presentations featuring INITIATE technologies: DPB and P4; and discussion of the project technologies with the event attendees |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | ECOC BASEL 17-23 September 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Dimitra Simeonidou organised a session on "Which Technologies Will Be Needed for 6G?" 18 September 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.ecoc2022.org/programme/full-programme |
Description | H. Haas UoEd, Invited Lecture, "What is the Status of LiFi and What Comes Next?", IIT Madras Shaastra, October 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | H. Haas, Invited Lecture, "What is the Status of LiFi and What Comes Next?", IIT Madras Shaastra, October 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | H. Haas,UoEd, Keynote, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), "Using Light to Build the Future Wireless Nervous System", Istanbul, Turkey, 8-11 September 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | How to engage with future internet testbeds (20th May 2020) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | N/K |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Industrial Engagement Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Present the INITIATE project to industry with the scope to gather requirements for supporting industrial experimentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Jisc Networkshop50 event, Nottingham 5G/6G 'beyond the wires' keynote panel 10 June 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | On the keynote panel for 5G/6G 'beyond the wires.' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/networkshop50-8-june-2022/speakers |
Description | KCL - Public & Industry Engagement, MWC 2018, connected drones for emergency response |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Public & Industry Engagement, MWC 2018, connected drones for emergency response https://www.ericsson.com/en/news/2018/2/case-study-bt-verizon-and-ericsson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43906846 |
Description | KCL - Toktam Mahmoodi - Public & Industry Engagement, MWC 2019, connected ambulance - remote ultrasound |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Public & Industry Engagement, MWC 2019, connected ambulance - remote ultrasound KCL have demonstrated our work on remote Ultrasound in connected ambulance, during MWC 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2019/5/evolve-volte-to-enable-real-time-interaction-over-5g-with-im... |
Description | KCL- Public & Industry Engagement, MWC 2017, remote robotic surgery |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | Public & Industry Engagement, MWC 2017, remote robotic surgery |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ericsson.com/en/cases/2017/kings-college/kings-healthcare |
Description | NWS50 - KEYNOTE PANEL: Beyond the wires of the campus 25 May 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Online workshop held by Jisc. Prof. Simeonidou was part of the keynote panel on 25 May 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | OFC Conference, San Diego - Data Centre Summit Keynote speech 8 March 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Attended OFC Conference, San Diego and gave Keynote speech, 8 March 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Orchestrating the Orchestra |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Researchers at the UoB Smart Internet Lab, KCL and Digital Catapult have been working on the creation of a novel and intelligent technology platform which enables automated composition of services across multiple 5G domains. This breakthrough solution, called a Network Orchestrator, will allow mobile operators (i.e. EE, Vodafone, Three etc) to provide highly synchronized and low latency services across their networks. This showcase tested, for the first time, the performance of the Orchestrator through the delivery of music performed by remotely located musicians. The audience's experience was exactly the same as if the musicians were performing in the same venue.? The sites were connected using the 10Gbps JANET link with an average network latency of 5ms across sites. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/smart/5g-demonstrations/orchestrating-the-orchestra/ |
Description | UoEd H. Haas, Keynote, European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | H. Haas, Keynote, European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC), Annual General Meeting, "LiFi - Wireless Networking using Light", Glasgow (UK), 12 April 2019, EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium) Glasgow, UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | UoL Presentation of DPB, WIM connector and CDN scaling use case |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presentation of DPB, WIM connector and CDN scaling use case, OSM Hackfest 7, Patras, Sep. 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | UoL- OSM PoC 9 Open WAN control for multi-site service orchestration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | NFV-MANO standards for network service orchestration de?ne an architecture and a data model that allows an orchestration entity to deploy, dynamically con?gure and monitor virtual and physical network functions across virtualized datacenters. Although the model offers extensive details for network function management and host level network con?guration, end-to-end connectivity management beyond the datacenter remains limited. The responsibility for cross-site connectivity is delegated to a control abstraction, the WAN Infrastructure Manager (WIM), which is partially de?ned in those standards. This PoC builds on the Open Source MANO (OSM) WIM plug-in model to orchestrate an open-source multi-point WIM implementation allowing researchers to experiment with multi-site service deployments. Indeed, this PoC features the Data Plane Broker (DPB), which uses an extensive data model to seamlessly translate NFV MANO requirements into SDN con?guration, supporting point-to-point and multipoint connectivity with strong bandwidth guarantees. A new WIM connector has been implemented to adapt DPB to OSM Release SIX. Initial experiments highlight that path computation can scale to large network topologies and a large number of services, with negligible computational overheads, while DPB increases by less than 10% the overall deployment delay of an OSM service. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Use-case focussed SME workshop (6th November 2020) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | N/K |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |