Fixed-Mobile Convergent Networks: Solutions and Architectures Proposed in FP7

• Monday, 23 June 2014, 09:00-12:50, Room Marconi 2

• Organizers:

  • Jean-Charles Point (JCP Connect, France)

  • Stefano Bregni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

  • Achille Pattavina (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Workshop Description

Currently, Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) is mainly implemented at service level, introducing all-IP services and the IMS, which allows a converged service control layer. Also standardization bodies address fixed and mobile networks separately in different committees.

Today, significant attention is devoted the convergence of fixed and mobile networks, combining both an optimal and seamless quality of experience for the end user together with an optimized network infrastructure ensuring increased performance, reduced cost and reduced energy consumption.

This panel presents and compares approaches proposed in 6 European FP7 Projects (COMBO, SODALES, DISCUS, CONTENT, MOBILE CLOUD, METIS) thus providing an exceptional up-to-date oversight on this theme as studied by European industries, telecom operators, research and academic institutions.

Structure

09:00-10:40

COMBO – Network scenarios for Fixed Mobile Convergence, Stéphane Gosselin (Orange Labs, France)
SODALES - Techno Economics of an Open Access Model for Converged Access Networks, Carlos Bock (Fundació i2CAT, Spain)
DISCUS - End-to-End Optical Network Architecture Offering Broadband Access to All Users and Reduction of O/E/O Conversion in the Core, Andrea Di Giglio (Telecom Italia, Italy)

11:10-12:50

CONTENT - An SDN platform for joint control of wireless and optical virtual infrastructures in mobile cloud services, Giada Landi (Nextworks, Italy)
MOBILE CLOUD - An architecture for dynamic composition and delivery of integrated virtual wireless infrastructures and end-to-end services, Giada Landi (Nextworks, Italy)
METIS – The 5G Mobile and Wireless Communications: Views on System Architecture, Heinz Droste, (Deutsche Telekom, Germany)