Project Demos – Executive Summaries

Converged Infrastructure for Emerging Regions ConTel Service

Convergence on Telecommunication systems

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-cier/

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The Celtic-Plus project CIER has developed a self-configuration radio technology that allows installing

microwave directional antennas without the need for highly skilled technical people. CIER has

developed and demonstrated the pilot prototype system of a cost- and energy-effective, multi-radio,

wireless backhaul network. This CIER technology provides broadband connectivity to rural areas,

which are experiencing limited or none connectivity to the Internet. The final CIER architecture can

be compared to recent efforts in the research community regarding wireless software defined

networks (SDN) and may provide valuable contributions to the discussion on the future 5G

architecture. The CIER architecture allows cost-efficient broadband coverage of rural areas. This

demo will highlight major project achievements incl. the testbed in Bunda, Tanzania.

Co-operative Mobility Services of the Future

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-comosef/

FI ES KR LU RO FR TR

CoMoSeF - Co-operative Mobility Services of the Future has developed intelligent transport systems

that have been deployed allowing vehicles, road-side units and control centers to communicate with

each other and to increase traffic safety and fluency. In the Vienna Celtic Event CoMoSeF will present

the following pilots based on the common CoMoSeF architecture:

Tampere, Finland; probe vehicle data collection, real time traffic information provision, road

work warnings

Ylivieska, Finland; visualized traffic information for the drivers with added media devices in

vehicles

Sodankylä, Finland; service hotspot for wireless weather related services to vehicles bypassing

a Road Weather Station and at the same time, to collect vehicle data

Compiègne in France; data gathering from the CAN-bus, aggregation on the fly and alert

delivery related to traffic and weather

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; simulation service to provide real time traffic status,

carpooling & car sharing and planning, routing & fleet management.

Cluj, Romania; visual information from mono-camera of Android device, vehicle information

from CAN bus to assist drivers with warnings regarding pedestrians and fog condition

Seoul in Korea; framework for connection & communication between devices in complex car

networks, communication of in-vehicle nomadic devices and vehicular infrastructure

Basque Country, Spain; Real-time data collection from multiple sensor systems, information

delivery system for drivers, authorities and traffic management centers

Istanbul and Sakarya, Turkey; collision & traffic rule violation warning, traffic light

signalization information, hazardous location & emergency vehicle warning, weather and

traffic information collection & warnings

Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia; road and route weather information collection &

delivery, observations and forecasts available through Internet service

These kinds of services have not been earlier available on common market. The developed

CoMoSeF solutions services are based on the latest standards and thus transferable. Indeed

standardization of the services and technologies is crucial, when bringing intelligent transport

system technology to the mass market. In addition to more accurate weather and condition

forecasts, CoMoSeF has been able to develop real-time services related to traffic, weather

road condition, incidents. With the help of cellular and mobile WLAN communications these

services can provide the road users with immediate information and thus increase both traffic

fluency and safety.

HEVC Hybrid Broadcast Video Services

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-h2b2vs/

FR ES FI TR CH

The project develops solutions for hybrid distribution of TV programs and services over Broadcast

and Broadband networks.

Demonstration of hybrid Use Cases:

Totally, twenty hybrid Use Cases were studied by the project. Some of them are demonstrated here

to give a flavour of what hybrid technology can bring to the End-User experience and to illustrate the

work done by the project on synchronization issues between broadcast and broadband networks.

Hybrid distribution of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) signal: This is a way to offer a High

Definition experience to End Users having connected TVs and watching Single Definition TV

programmes on broadcast networks.

Live & Pause - Trick-mode keys on broadcast programmes: It provides the viewer of a

programme sent over a traditional broadcast network with functionalities which are available

today only for Video On Demand services: Pause, rewind, fast forward, …

Picture-In-Picture insertion for sign language: The penetration of sign language video services is

slowed down because everyone, deaf persons or not, is forced to watch them. With

H2B2VS’solution, the broadcast programme remains unchanged: The broadband network is

used to carry the sign language translation which is inserted in an inset window by the terminal.

Real-time HEVC Encoder:

Digital video is estimated to account for 80% of global consumer Internet traffic by 2018 and the

growth of video traffic is anticipated to continue. Therefore, more efficient video compression is

vital. The H2B2VS project develops an open-source encoder for the emerging HEVC standard.

Hybrid Fibre-Copper connectivity using G.fast

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-hfcc_g_fast/

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The HFCC/G.fast project partners will show G.fast products and prototypes operating over copper

wires as found in existing telephone cables. The demo shows a broadband access solution with

optical fibre to a distribution point, from where customers are connected over copper wires.

At lab trials realized by operators, an aggregated throughput of over 1Gbit/s over standard twisted-

pair copper wires has been measured. At a range of 100 meters nearly 1Gbit/s can be achieved.

G.fast is optimized for cable length of up to 250m while operation is possible on longer loops. Data

rates that exceed rates offered by xDSL today have been measured on loop length of 400m and

beyond.

The G.fast standard is a cost-efficient and complementary enabling technology to full fibre to the

home (FTTH) deployments using, for instance, Gigabit-capable passive optical networks (GPON). The

technology is designed to deliver access speeds of up to 1Gbit/s over existing telephone wires.

The 4GBB/HFCC/G.fast series of CELTIC projects has initiated the G.fast family of standards and

ensured their completion, saving about five years of time compared to the standardization of earlier

technologies.

High Performance Telemedicine platform

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-hipermed/

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HIPERMED project won the prestigious EUREKA Innovation Award 2014 and also received the

EUREKA Award in the Category ‘Added Value as well as the CELTIC+ SILVER EXCELLENCE award.

HIPERMED was the first CELTIC cross-domain project including partners from both ICT and e-health in

all project stages from definition to validation. Within just three and a half years, HIPERMED has

developed a common open HIgh PERformance low cost teleMEDicine platform, which has a huge

potential for helping reduce healthcare costs in both developed countries and providing cost-

effective healthcare services to remote areas of developing countries. First real deployments of

HIPERMED Professional to Professional VideoConference solution:

One of the most important technological achievements of HIPERMED are the prototype video

application implemented on top of the platform, which provide an experience so real that if feels like

being in the operation theatre.

HIPERMED will showcase a multiside 3D/HD InterProfessionals consultation as well as different

Professional to Patient and rehabilitation remote medical solutions.

Media Management from Acquisition to Publishing +

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-mediamap/

FR BE

The MediaMap+ ecosystem allows a high degree of automation throughout the whole

workflow of media production and exploitation. Structured audio-visual content can now be

easily enriched with semantic metadata allowing navigation between relevant material via a

built-in search and query functions. It makes content easily identifiable and available for

reuse in 360° publishing.

Its toolset allows assembling the selected sequences through simple drag and drop. The goal

of the project was to produce a media with much less effort for manipulating and verifying

the content of the program prior to broadcast. Typically rights and copyrights management

slow down media production process. The MediaMap+ production system handles the rights

management from acquisition to usage of content, thus significantly reducing the related

overhead. Another asset of the MediaMap+ ecosystem is its ability to interface with

standard tools available on the market.

Demo description

The production and exploitation tools of an audio-visual production chain are connected via

an interoperable platform (semantic middleware). Perfect-Memory manages the network

and connections via a Mission Manager. The Limecraft Flow tool is in charge of ingest and

editing processes (essences) and the SGT Veda tool prepares, manages and controls the

Play-out. The demonstration shows how the Veda and the Flow tools are able to exchange

metadata about a content initialized by creating an Editorial Object.

This demonstration illustrates the interoperability of the interconnected tools in an audio-

visual production chain, usually organized in silo. The semantic alignment leads to better

modelling of relevance and generates through inference a set of additional information in

connected mode. Finally the project has developed a rights management mode, unique in

today's heterogeneous audio-visual environment.

Next Generation Multimedia Efficient, Scalable and Robust delivery

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-mitsu/

PL ES TR RO

Demo name: Reliable video transmission over wireless media in security applications.

The main scope of MITSU is to study and develop the next generation multimedia streaming system

to be used over wireless networks. The task heavily focuses on implementation of video

interoperability while minimising the complexity and power consumption. The expected result is a

platform allowing unhindered coexistence of live video transmission and generic side traffic in a

single wireless communication channel, which is an attractive business case.

This demonstration shows the transmission of live video from an IP camera to a video recorder

instance. This module re-encodes the video stream and adjusts its bit rate to the effective available

network bandwidth, while observing live QoE indicators' values and displaying them on screen. The

resulting stream is transported over the WiFi network using a custom transmission mode over User

Datagram Protocol, especially crafted for reliable transmission of time-sensitive video streams. The

visitors are able to see the innovative network stack in operation by viewing both the actual video

stream being transmitted and the momentary parameter values representing the current channel’s

state. The presented demonstration is meant and especially important for security applications. It

advances the state of the art by providing means for recoding of live video stream and providing

reliable transmission over lossy wireless media using dedicated protocol with forward error

correction, congestion control and retransmission.

Next generation over-the-top multimedia services

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-notts/

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NOTTS is developing an ecosystem for assuring OTT (Over-The-Top) content delivery. The final goal is

to obtain an integrated solution, which includes all the required techniques to achieve a context-

aware and media-aware delivery platform. NOTTS develops new technology to guarantee the OTT

content delivery from the customer’s perspective:

New media distribution architectures, including peer-assisted solutions and local caching, are

being analyzed using real traffic data from our partners

User demand patterns are being analyzed & impact of new consumption patterns will be

investigated

Methods for quality estimation and monitoring tools are being developed

Out-of-Service QoE Monitoring (VTT). Supervision of Over-the-top services tested on a commercial

OTT platform. Applications: Monitoring TV contents on CDN (Content Delivery Networks) for OTT

platforms; Innovation: Improve the QoS & QoE in OTT.

Scalable multipoint videoconferencing (ALKIT). Over-the-top service using layered video coding and

dynamic bandwidth adaptation. Applications: OTT Video services (e.g. videoconferencing);

Innovation: Improve customer experience in video services based on available throughput.

Adaptive Streaming Method (UPEC). Dynamically adapts the video quality for OTT platform.

Applications: Efficiently manages the dynamic network bandwidth and client's buffer status for OTT

video services; Innovation: Regulate the user's QoE for OTT video services.

Optimising Power Efficiency in Mobile Radio Networks 2

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-opera-net2/

FR BE FI UK

OPERA-Net-2 project develops critical methods and components for minimizing both operational

expenses (OPEX) and environmental impact of mobile telecom networks. This is increasingly

important development area as demand for mobile broadband services is growing very rapidly and

energy consumption is already today around 15% of OPEX of a telecom operator. The demos that are

described are selected from the project achievements.

1) Reduced power consumption means for 4G base station transmitters (poster & hardware)

-Hardware/demo for envelop-tracking integrated power amplifier

-Poster on the hardware/demo above and switch mode power amplifier

2) Intelligent small cell duty-cycle (screen)

New intelligent approach for switching small cell base station “off” and “on” depending on

capacity need. This saves energy and avoids unnecessary radio interference.

3) Hybrid power system and battery monitoring (screen)

Architecture of hybrid power system and advantages and drawbacks of multi-strings battery

charging concept are presented.

4) Prototype achievements on new cooling techniques (poster)

Poster on the hardware/demo of

-Passive cooling of telecommunication cabinet

-Liquid cooled base station

SASER-Siegfried

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-saser-siegfried/

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SASER is a major European initiative that focuses on new security and network transmission

approaches. It develops concepts and technologies for a European solution for safe and secure

routing in the network. SASER- Siegfried defines a concept for a flexible and energy-efficient network

architecture based on technologies like Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions

Virtualization (NFV) that fulfils current and future security requirements.

Demo description

In this demonstration, the feasibility of dynamically allocating network resources for LTE gateways is

shown, leveraging the split of user and control plane introduced by SDN.

In the shown scenario a mobile operator is in the process of expanding its network coverage by

setting up new flexible base stations. As the new base stations cannot be rolled out all at once, but

are set up and connected one after another, the optimal resilient placement of gateways within the

network will change. Furthermore, these new base stations have the ability to be disabled during off-

hours, further increasing the dynamic. Therefore, it is beneficial for the operator to adapt the

placement and performance of these gateways. Using the concepts of NFV and SDN, it is possible to

deploy the control plane of the LTE gateways as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in the cloud, while

turning white box hardware switches in the field into the gateway user plane. Both are connected via

the SDN Southbound-API. Whenever a new base station comes online, or an existing flexible base

station is enabled or disabled, the operator can evaluate the current gateway placement using a

planning tool. If a change is advised, the operator can then instantiate or delete control plane

instances in the chosen physical cloud location and connect different or more SDN switches to the

cloud-based control plane to move the gateway locations or add new ones. The SDN switches are

already deployed in the field and are chosen as user plane for the gateways based on their location in

relation to the cloud hosts running the control plane. As the SDN switches are generic forwarding

elements, they can be used for other purposes when not serving as gateway user plane or perform

multiple functions at once through virtualization. This demonstrator shows the setup of the

necessary components in the cloud, the connection setup between the components, the service

setup for two end-users and the PGW policy enforcement functionality.

Secured Embedded Element for Cloud

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-seed4c/

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Security Embedded Element and Data Privacy for Cloud (SEED4C)

The SEED4C project addresses security issues in cloud infrastructures handling critical data and

applications. The proposed approach consists in placing Secure Elements (SE) in cloud nodes. These

hardware-based SE can be smart cards and allow strong security enforcement in cloud services.

It presents the following SEED4C end-to-end security assurance approach:

(i) security policy modelling,

(ii) application & policy deployment on an extended OpenStack platform,

(iii) policy enforcement in the cloud using the SE-based security services, and

(iv) monitoring and assurance of the policies.

This SEED4C process is demonstrated for different use-cases (airport management system, data

residency control in the cloud, security monitoring in cloud environment) as well as the underlying

administration tools for the SE-based cloud infrastructure.

Self-organized Heterogeneous Advanced Radio Networks Generation

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-sharing/

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SHARING investigates issues related to adaptive coverage/capacity techniques and cell densification

towards smaller cells. The main goal of SHARING is to propose cost/power efficient and high capacity

broadband solutions. This includes flexible interference management, smart offloading strategies,

and integrated architecture solutions supporting inter-system service continuity, device-to-device

transmissions and efficient licensed/unlicensed spectrum usage.

Demo 1: Connectivity Management Platform Using Multiple Attribute Decision Making in

Heterogeneous Networks

Mobile operators are thus looking for cost-effective solutions to overcome the capacity bottlenecks

especially in high contention traffic scenarios. Offloading a portion of the mobile data traffic to Wi-Fi

networks is a promising solution to overcome the capacity bottleneck. However, thereby Wi-Fi

networks may get easily congested as well. A centralized connectivity management mechanism can

be used to solve this dilemma. In this demo, a novel centrally controlled Wi-Fi offloading platform for

heterogeneous wireless networks is presented. For a given user, a centralized management server

collects information regarding the quality of service and experience from all accessible data

networks, then selects the data network that maximizes the overall system performance, finally the

decision is sent to the application on the mobile phone for execution. The intelligent decision process

uses an algorithm that is shown to be robust and also flexible to adapt to the needs of different

mobile operators.

Contact: Engin Zeydan, Engin.Zeydan@avea.com.tr, AVEA

Demo 2: Radio fingerprint positioning demo

Coverage measurements with detailed location information are an important asset in self-

optimization of wireless networks. When correlating location and coverage 3G/LTE measurements

with coverage WLAN measurements i) the positioning accuracy can be significantly improved and ii)

knowledge about joint coverage of heterogeneous 3G/4G/WLAN networks can be obtained.

However, currently, there exists no standardized method to combine 3G/4G measurements with

WLAN measurements. In this demo, LTE and WLAN radio fingerprint positioning accuracy is visualized

utilizing field measurements from commercial LTE network. The demo tracks several mobile users

showing their exact and estimated location on top of a map utilizing novel architecture that enables

combining 3G/4G and WLAN fingerprint measurements. Applications: In addition to provides a

convenient and novel way of visualizing the content of 3G/4G trace records, this approach is valuable

for network vendors and operators who are keen on automating the collection of radio coverage

measurements for improving their radio fingerprint positioning capabilities.

Contact: Dr. Jussi Turkka, jussi.turkka@magister.fi, Magister Solutions Ltd.

Demo 3: Dual band / dual access antenna exhibit

Integration of small cell base stations to urban environment requires a miniaturization effort

compared to regular base stations. In addition, increasing base stations capacity is a hot topic that

can be handled thanks to Carrier Aggregation (CA) which consists in simultaneously using several

carriers (within the same band or not). CEA active dual band / dual access antenna design, covering

2100 and 800 MHz LTE bands, has been optimized to take into account these requirements. Since the

antenna size increases with its bandwidth, the antenna system bandwidth has been reduced as far as

possible, to only cover the required bandwidth for a given CA configuration. Frequency agility has

been introduced to make the antenna system compatible with a subset of CA configurations

recommended by the standards. This bandwidth reduction has led to a miniaturization of the

antenna system without degrading its performance.

Contact: Sylvie Mayrargue, sylvie.mayrargue@cea.fr, C.E.A.

SDN Concept in Generalized Mobile Network Architectures

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-sigmona/

FI FR DE ES TR HU

The project defines and evaluates network architectures and functions for virtualization of the 4G

(LTE) mobile core networks. The project applies the latest networking and computing technologies

and architectures, in particular Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization

(NFV) and Cloud computing, on the virtualized mobile core networks. The project also studies new

opportunities for traffic, resource and mobility management, challenges on network security and

monitoring, network management, as well as impact onto cost of the network, value chain and

business models.

1) NFV and SDN for virtualized mobile network (Aalto, Nokia, Coriant, Exfo)

Virtualized 4G (LTE) network that applies software defined networking (SDN) technology to the entire

mobile backhaul, transport and core network. The SDN-based virtual LTE network promises greater

agility for providing capacity and functionality when and where needed. It will allow operators to

introduce new services much faster to the market and adapt network resources quickly to highly

variable traffic and usage patterns. This demo system is one of the Proof-of-Concepts in ETSI

Industry Specification Group for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

2) ISAAR – A SDN-based QoE Monitoring Solution for Video Streaming (Technical University of

Chemnitz)

The setup demonstrates a streaming video monitoring solution which uses in-network parameter

measurements and performs quality of experience (QoE) estimations. It makes use of Software

Defined Networking (SDN) functions for the parameter probing as well as for the optimization of the

traffic transport. The demonstrator focuses on the SDN based QoE monitoring. The SDN switches in

the setup are used to extract the service flows which are processed by the monitoring unit running in

the data centre at TU Chemnitz.

3) Application-layer traffic optimization in software-defined mobile networks (Budapest University of

Technology and Economics)

Application-level traffic optimization (ALTO) protocol specifies a standard network information

service to support decision in the selection of the optimal server when someone connects to a

distributed service. In this demonstration the network controller will communicate with ALTO

network information service, hence it will automatically know the optimal server location for data

flows and will enforce redirection using software-defined networking (SDN) mechanisms. It has

become a question of operator policy, which application types should get redirection support.

Spectrum and energy efficiency through multi-band Cognitive Radio

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-spectra/

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Demo title : An Open Source LTE Network in a PC

LTE 4G cellular networks are gradually being adopted by all major operators in the world and are expected to rule the cellular landscape at least for the current decade. They will also form the starting point for further progress beyond the current generation of mobile cellular networks to chalk a path towards fifth generation mobile networks.

Furthermore, several new approaches and technologies are being considered as potential elements making up such a future mobile network, including cloudification of radio network, radio network programmability and APIs following SDN principles, native support of machine-type communication, and massive MIMO. Research on these technologies requires realistic and flexible platforms that offer a wide range of experimentation modes. At the same time backward compatibility with current generation systems must be assured. Up to now, the lack of open cellular ecosystem has limited applied research in this field to vendor and operator R&D departments. In the demonstration, an OpenAirInterface (OAI) is presented as a suitably flexible platform towards open LTE ecosystem and playground. We will demonstrate an example of the use of OAI to deploy a low-cost open LTE network using commodity hardware with standard LTE-compatible devices. We also show the configurability of the platform.

Technology improvements for large scale smart cities deployment

https://www.celticplus.eu/project-tilas/

ES FR TR KR Malta

TILAS project objective is to provide technical solutions to the unexpected problems raised when

moving from small scale laboratory deployment to large city scale ones. The amount of data, the

crowded environment and the management of security are aspects that require further investigation

so as to facilitate the large scale deployment for future Smart Cities and to be adapted to the new

Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. The project exploits the outcomes of different SmartCity initiatives

taking place across Europe and beyond to propose different IoT test-bed deployments in Santander,

Paris, Grenoble and Seoul.

The two demos showcased in the event introduce the technical approach that the project is following

for solving the aforementioned issues. The first focuses on large scale remote update of devices, how

to securely update devices in a remote way and considering the dense network of devices deployed.

This demo shows how the algorithm proposed in the project reduces the load in the network

achieving the reprogramming in a more efficient way introducing also a user interface for facilitating

the device management operations.

The second demo deals with the particularities of multimedia traffic in low power, low capacity

networks, such as the ones deployed in smart cities. Smart city communications networks and the

devices that compose them are limited in resources, however video surveillance, which is quite

resource demanding, is one of the typical applications for many different purposes. The possibility of

having surveillance devices co-working with other sensors in the same network will ease the

management of the network and reduces the overall cost of the deployment. The platform will

illustrate multi-hop communication of multimedia traffic captured by cameras plugged within

Arduino sensor nodes based on IEEE 802.15.4 transceivers.