Objectives:

The aim of WP5 is to integrate all the systems, components, hardware and software modules and the PQoS models that have been developed in WP3 and WP4, into a complete system, in order to evaluate, fine-tune and demonstrate, in a real IMS environment, the overall objective of the project. Research effort of this WP includes the organisation of trials, in order to analyse, fine-tune and optimaly calibrate the system and especially the developed PQoS and adaptation schemes under real transmission conditions and various setup profiles. Work will also include the validation and detection of impairments among the various operational modules and their impact on the overall system performance. IPTV and VoIP applications will be also integrated in the system, to help towards evaluation, based on the provision of actual services. The project experiments will include validation of the novel project developments, evaluating their performance and defining a migration path towards their porting to future IMS platforms. 

Specifically, the objectives of this WP are:

• To integrate all necessary software and hardware modules and tools, in order to produce the final version of the PQoS-aware IMS platform
• Integration of the MCMS into an existing typical IMS platform, along with the intallation of the appropriate monitoring and adaptation interfaces along the network delivery chain
• To develop and then integrate in the system:
•  IPTV uni/multi-cast services
•  VoIP interactive applications
• To test the performance of the overall system, under real conditions. Tests and evaluation will be focused on the novel project developments, especially when the MCMS will be triggered to take actions for enhancing the delivered PQoS level
• To conduct performance evaluation measurements multimedia transmission schemes in a real environment, concerning the various encoding and packetization schemes
• To identify the bottlenecks or “weak points”, in general, along the end-to-end chain of the service delivery
• To produce technical and scientific guidelines that will be used to support the business plan to be elaborated and addressed to mobile service providers and operators, aiming to demonstrate the capabilities of the ADAMANTIUM system and convince them to use it for their profit.
  

Participants: DEM, UOP, RS, TGV, VOD, ERC, VIO


Description of work:

• Task 5.1 Integration of systems and components
• Task 5.2 Integration of IPTV applications
• Task 5.3 Integration of VoIP applications
• Task 5.4 Trials and evaluation