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Quality of Service Taskforce Agenda
Two Day - Open to Non-Members - Working Session
The QoS Session at The Open Group Conference in Amsterdam is a 2-day
(October 24th and 25th), open working session.
The two days will cover progress on current Taskforce deliverables via
presentations, feedback, and interactive discussion, with a workshop session
on the QoS Business Scenario we have been developing. It will also offer
special sessions on:
- Service Level Agreements and Policy
- Application Profiling Standards
- Current and Future Liaison Consortia Initiatives
Wednesday
9:00 - 9:30 Introduction and Overview of QoS– Sally
Long, Director of The QoS Taskforce
- This will be an overview of the QoS Taskforce’s Vision, Goals, Objectives,
and Philosophy.
9:30 - 10:30 Presentation & Discussion QoS Road Map
for 2002 Jean Hammond, Chair QoS Taskforce
- As the QoS Taskforce is in the formative stages, one of our main goals
over the past quarter was to pull together the Roadmap and clarify our
positioning allowing us to take the Taskforce vision out to more and
varied constituents (other consortia included) which to date have been
focused on particular pockets of QoS and to build consensus with them
for collaboration on end-to-end QoS standards and interoperability.
Jean Hammond will present the work that has been done for review and
feedback fro all participants.
Break
11:00 - 11:30 QoS Taxonomy and Component Map -
Sally Long, Director of QoS Taskforce
- Review of the Taskforce’s QoS Component Map and
Taxonomy which is a way of referencing existing industry standards,
draft specifications etc. in a way that maps those standards to discreet
components, interfaces etc. in the QoS Component Map. This presentation
will also explore some alternative ways of looking at domains, components,
and naming conventions that we have discovered in our investigative
phase over the past quarter.
11:30 - 12:30 Review and Evaluation of Existing Standards and Approaches
to Propagating QOS Information - Jean Hammond, Chair of QoS Taskforce
- Presentation on the work which has been done thus far to populate
The Open Group's Standards Information Base (SIB) with QoS Industry
Standards. This presentation will provide an overview of existing QoS
standards, their fit in the end-to-end picture, their current state
of development, their support in the industry, and their issues industry
adoption and interoperability.
Lunch
2:00 – 2:45 “Service Level Agreements – What Exists
Today – Where the Issues Are” - David Banes, Ten Ten Communications.
- This presentation will focus on the part that Service Level Agreements
play in the Telecommunications industry, with emphasis on what exists
today and where the limitations are, with some suggestions as how we
might work as a collaborative organization to reduce those limitations
in the future.
2:45 – 3:30 Presentation
on TeleManagement Forum's SLA and QOS Liaison Work - Sally
Long
- The TeleManagement Forum and The Open Group’s QoS Taskforce have recently
established an informal liaison partnership and are currently working
at defining what joint initiative will most effectively further the
evolution of SLA specifications and best practices as they apply to
QoS. We will use this session to introduce and progress that initiative.
3:30 - 4:00 Presentation on Service Management as it
relates to Quality of Service - Andrew Chalmers, Orange - Operation
Support Systems
- This Presentation focuses on why Service Management and the delivery
of Quality of Service as part of Service Management is critical to customer
satisfaction and why Orange is making it an integral part of their Operation
now and in the future. The presentation covers the importance of collecting
relevant data and performance measurements in order to manage customer
service in a meaningful way. It covers the Service Management issues
that are particular to Mobility and the challenges for QoS in that space.
It emphasizes the importance of building in measurement capability and
utilizing tools for monitoring and reacting. Finally, it stresses the
importance to Orange of: providing QoS management to 3rd party service
providers, of working within the industry to establish standardized
QoS parameters, and of combining these efforts to provide on end-to-end
QoS Management that meets customers' expectations.
4:00 – 5:30 Mobile and Directory Business Scenario.
Joint session with MMF, QoS and Security Forum involvement at various
points.
- 4:00- 4:45: Overview of the Scenario and input on security in the
Security Forum open session.
- 4:45- 4:00: Input on QoS in discussion with the QoS Forum.
- 5:00- 5:15: Input from the DIF and the MMF.
- 5:15- 5:30: Review of input and discussion of next steps.
Wednesday Evening: Member Dinner with Special Invitation to All QoS
Attendees
Thursday
9:OO – 10:30 Business Scenario Workshop - Joint
Session with Enterprise Management Forum - Workshop for Gathering QoS
and Resource Management Requirements from Large Customer Organizations
- The Open Group will present the QoS business
scenario it has been working on and will use this as a means for capturing
additional business process and customer requirements that pertain to
a large customer operational scenario. The scenario looks at both quality
of service and resource management requirements and we will use this
session to broaden our customer input.
Break
11:00 – 12:30 Application Classification with respect to QoS
- This Session will center on reviewing progress being made in the standardization
of Application Profiling, i.e. categorizing applications as they apply
to bandwidth and other QoS requirements and characteristics. Application
Profiling is one of the most important areas for the QoS Taskforce members.
We will use this session to discuss how we can effectively work with
router and edge technologies, application vendors, system integrators,
and other consortia to contribute to a faster evolution of application
profiling.
11:00 – 11:30 QoS Architecture, Applications and
Policy “The
MASA QoS Framework” - Dr. Schrader, Network
Laboratories of NEC Europe Ltd.
- In this talk we present a project on defining and implementing a comprehensive
QoS Framework for 'Mobility and Service Adaptation in Heterogeneous
Communication Networks' (MASA) as a co-operation between Siemens AG,
the University of Ulm and NEC Europe Ltd. In this framework, media processing
facilities as well as mobility handling and handoff decisions are closely
coupled to allow for high quality communication for mobile users. We
present an outline of the general MASA architecture, consisting of distributed
autonomous QoS Brokers that can be placed on the end-system, on access
and core network nodes as well as on transcoding/filter entities. We
describe the hierarchical structure of QoS Managers and Controllers
responsible for different tasks like resource, network, media, policy
and mobility management and demonstrate the interworking between all
components by describing example applications and scenarios with a special
focus on policy-driven video filtering.
11:30 – 12:00 QoS Information Management in Applications
“Managing, Monitoring and Controlling the Service Level Agreements for
Multi-service Applications based on Quality of Service Functionality"
– Dr. Vaman, Megaxess Corporation.
- The paper presents methods on how to achieve information
management for end user multi-service application over the network based
on QoS functionality. The ability to manage, monitor and control the
Service Level Agreements are crucial to provide optimal information
management. The paper also presents a specific pilot deployment with
measured performance
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion on Strategy
and Next Steps for Driving Application and Architecture QoS Requirements
Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 Joint Session with Enterprise Management
Forum - CIM and QoS
- Presentation on Common Information Model (CIM) - Karl Schopmeyer,
Chair EMF
With the advent of CIM and WBEM, developed within the DMTF, the industry
was presented with the potential for creating a manageability infrastructure
rich enough to support the wide variety of resources present in modern
IT systems. Karl Schopmeyer will explain the Common Information Model.
- Discussion on How the two forums can work together to apply
CIM to Quality of Service and policy-based resource management.
Break
4:00 – 5:30 QoS Taskforce Wrap-up and Next Steps
For further
questions please contact Sally
Long
Looking Forward
to Your Participation in this Important and Exciting Session!
Biographies
David Banes, Ten Ten Communication
David is an Independent Consultant working in the Telecommunications
Industry, and specializing in IP technologies. Clients include: Marconi,
Quarry Technologies, Element-14 and Flexion. David has over 14 years experience
in the Telecommunications industry and has held a variety of engineering,
marketing, and management posts with 3Com, General DataComm and Quarry
Technologies.
Dr. Vaman, MegAxess Corporation
Dr Vaman has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry,
has won numerous awards and has published over 100 papers and co-authored
a textbook. Prior to developing the HQ technology, he worked for COMSAT
Corporation and CONTEL Information Systems and the Indian Space Research
Organization in various management and research positions. Dr. Vaman was
previously a faculty advisor for NIST (the Department of Commerce) and
has served as an industry advisor and consultant to GTE, Spacenet, Timeplex,
Singer Kearfott, ITT, Inter Digital and Transwitch Corporations. He was
also a Professor in EECS, Stevens Institute of Technology, and the founding
director of the Advanced Telecommunications Institute (ATI), U.S. Navy
Center of Excellence in Telecommunications.
Dr. Vaman received his Ph.D. from City University of New York, Masters
of Engineering, Electrical Engineering (M.E. E.E.) from the City College
of New York, Masters of Technology (M.Tech.) in Electronic Instrumentation
and his Bachelors of Engineering, Electrical Engineering (B.E. E.E.) from
Regional Engineering College, Warangal, India. He is the Chairman of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) 802 Integrated
Services LAN and a board member of the MultiMedia Communications Forum.
He has lectured both nationally and internationally on various nascent
topics within the telecommunications industry throughout his career.
Dr. Schrader, NEC Europe Ltd.
Dr. Schrader was born 1964 in Hamburg, Germany. After studying Electrical
Engineering at the University of Siegen (1991) he received his PhD in
Computer Science at the Department of Programming Languages (Prof. Merzenich)
at the same University (1998). Dissertation topic: "Evolutionary Algorithms
for Color Quantization and asymmetric Coding of Digital Color Images".
Since 1998 he has been with the Network Laboratories of NEC Europe Ltd.
in Heidelberg, where he is within the Internet Services group responsible
for the development of an end-to-end QoS Architecture in a joint project
with industrial and university partners.
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