3G Network Software

NETWORK SOFTWARE

For engineering and marketing teams with an interest in network software design and development policy.

The programme is the fourth day of a 4 day series of programmes covering network software, network hardware, handset hardware and handset software design.

Day 4 Objective

* To review uplink software in the IP RAN including mobility management,admission control and load balancing functionality.
* To review downlink software in the IP RAN and related traffic management and buffer management metrics.
* To study uplink software in the IP core network and related storage management and application management metrics(KPI and QOS management)
* To study cellular/WiFi network software form factors and the possible impact of cellular/WiFi software integration on network design.

Day 4 Scope

Day 4 is directly relevant to design engineers, product managers and technology and market research team leaders working on present and future network software development projects..The programme draws on over 20 years of research and active involvement in radio access network and core network design and will be of direct interest to engineers and product and market managers with responsibility for defining future network software design and performance policy and/or for managers and team leaders with responsibility for strategic network software technology planning. Typical delegate organisations include device vendors, base station/node B and WiFi access point manufacturers, infrastructure manufacturers, third party OEM and ODM hardware and software development houses and test equipment vendors with an interest in future network software performance trends and related user expectations.

Timed Agenda

09.00 - 10.30
Uplink Software

Loading thresholds and network stability issues, typical jitter and latency figures, modelling multi media traffic ,impact of See What I See (SWIS) and Hear What I Hear (HWIH) POC(Press To Talk) on IP RAN and IP core software requirements, network bandwidth effects, heavy tailed and self similar traffic and performance evaluation, predictability bounds, self similar loading and buffering, feedback controls and related delay bandwidth products, issues of session denial and session/resouce access prioritisation, connection prediction, declarative applications and declarative devices, MEXE and MIDP case study of software (application layer) transparency, impact of handset software and the GUI (graphical user interface) on uplink offered traffic, effect of the downlink on uplink loading (trigger moments), associated peak loading considerations, (including rare event simulation) traffic descriptors and session descriptors, flow management and session management techniques, optimised uplink scheduling.

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 12.30
Downlink Software

The IPV4 to IPV6 transition, typical packet lengths in IP voice and IP video and related address and traffic shaping overheads, ATM virtual paths and virtual circuits and equivalent IP based transport protocols, RSVP, Diffserv, MPLS and related 'real time' traffic protocols, SIP based session management and the IP multimedia sub system, service properties and the IP TV proposition, case study of present DAB/DMB and DVB/DVB H network and service architectures, co-operative networks and content repurposing, image/video source coding including Windows based and MPEG based system options.

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 15.00
Uplink/Downlink Software

Service level agreements (SLA's) and Service Level Guarantees, typical SLA measurements, application SLA's, voice and video quality SLA's and integrated Grade of Service metrics, quality based billing, billing on the basis of storage access, server classifications and server prioritisation, resource management and the OSI 9 layer model (addition of the management logic layer and managed resource layer to the 7 layer model), role of middleware in application performance monitoring, the Common Information Model and Web Based Enterprise Management, authentication and security and the 'Service Delivery' and/or 'Media Delivery' network proposition, integration of perceptual engineering into IP QOS based Service Level Agreements, how these relate to present and likely future network KPI's (key performance indices), merits/demerits of data SLA's, application performance measurement good practice and likely future requirements.

15.00 - 15.30 Tea

15.30 - 17.00
Cellular/WiFi Network Software Integration

'Best connect broadband' GUI management, SIM/USIM based inter RAT handover and roaming, WiFi network software options including ad hoc and mesh network deployments and point to point point to multipoint system configuration, IP based mobility management, Universal Mobile Access (UMA) work items, directory enabled networks as an alternative, issues of wide area, local area and personal area network integration, WiFi mobility and GSM MAP functionality, SIM/USIM based mobility management capabilities, Release 7 work items and their likely impact on future network software form factor and functionality, impact of UMA on IP core software architectures and technologies, the circuit switch/packet switch mix and related IP core software KPI's.

DAB/DMB/DVB-H Network Software Integration

Practical issues of integrating DAB/DMB/DVB broadcast service software platforms into cellular service platforms, the 'co operative network' software proposition.