WP8: Integration-Demonstrations

Work Package 8

Integration, Demonstrations and Field Trials

INSTINCT intends to enable the commercial exploitation of 2G/3G and DTT co-operation and should therefore provide decision makers with tangible evidence of its pros and cons. To do so, proofs of concept are implemented. In the process of dissemination resulting in the adoption of innovative concepts, live demonstrations are indeed a key factor for success. Test platforms also enable necessary field tests so as to verify the technical feasibility of the system and validate the services and technology on panels of real users.

To show how the project can contribute to these objectives, an activity within INSTINCT devoted to integration, field trials, scenario development and demonstrations, implements a limited number of service scenarios that could later be made available to the end user in operational systems and validates the services on test platforms.
Platforms will be set up in three countries virtually covering 50% of EC consumers: France, Germany and the United Kingdom. This allows a system to be demonstrated to investors in their own language and to benefit from a variety of 3G and DTT history contexts. It is also an opportunity to have feedback from a panel of users with different habits. Besides, an additional platform is set up in Brazil to take into account all aspects specific to the south-American market.

In the first phase of the project, platforms integrate and test the necessary components enabling the elementary commercial exploitation of standard DTT/3G co-operation systems: scalable service provisioning and management, mobility management, consistent resource and network management, low power DVB-T/DVB-H receivers, etc… In this phase, the demonstration activities will be limited, because most of the effort will be devoted to the set-up of demonstrators. Targeted terminals are distributed for this phase. Depending on the usage, these terminals may make use of mobile DVB-T or DVB-H.

Figure: INSTINCT European test beds interconnection in phase 1 of the project

Network aspects, RF spectrum engineering and system scalability are evaluated. Regarding network aspects, the use of IPv6, first in the core network then in the access network, will allow issues to be dealt with such as seamless hand-over, billing or security. For this work, INSTINCT reuses as much as possible the results of 5th framework and 6th framework projects that have already tackled IPv6 issues. In the area of RF spectrum engineering, the novel concept – inspired from the telco world- of tri-sectorised, small size cells for DVB networks are evaluated on sample sites, where 3G and low power DVB equipment coexist.
Management in the broadest sense of the word is evaluated: QoS management with new tools developed in INSTINCT, management of inter-working networks, and user management. Validating these tools is necessary to verify that network and service operators will be provided with solutions that ensure secure exploitation of the system. The interconnection between the three platforms via the Internet will simulate the distribution of operators: content providers, mediation operators, etc. and evaluate the performance of the overall system, when used in on a real scale.

Because it is considered a major driver for the business cases, a comprehensive validation of the end user expectations are sought so that feedback on both the service usage and the technology is gathered. The results of these tests enable to conclude on eco-system and network dimensioning aspects such as refinement of user interfaces, identification of bottlenecks for the user and in the end, definition of pricing policies.

The second phase will lay the bases for the exploitation of higher bit rate services thanks to micro-cellular DVB cells - using the appropriate standard to reach mobile users – and will refine all other content production and management tools, terminal and network aspects so as to provide all actors in the value chain with the most appropriate solutions. The second phase will also comprise the demonstration and training activities necessary to enable the take off of the concept. In the long run, the objective is also to open platforms to third parties to enable them to develop and validate their own applications.

The technical approach is articulated along five activities:

Scenario implementation, RBB will lead this activity.
Laboratory and platform integration, TDF will lead this activity.
Field trials, IRT will lead this activity.
Consumer validations, UoC will lead this activity.
Demonstrations, DTAG will lead this activity.

TDF will coordinate these activities in phase 1.



	Work Package 8 Integration, Demonstrations and Field Trials INSTINCT intends to enable the commercial exploitation of 2G/3G and DTT co-operation and should therefore provide decision makers with tangible evidence of its pros and cons. To do so, proofs of concept are implemented. In the process of dissemination resulting in the adoption of innovative concepts, live demonstrations are indeed a key factor for success. Test platforms also enable necessary field tests so as to verify the technical feasibility of the system and validate the services and technology on panels of real users. To show how the project can contribute to these objectives, an activity within INSTINCT devoted to integration, field trials, scenario development and demonstrations, implements a limited number of service scenarios that could later be made available to the end user in operational systems and validates the services on test platforms. Platforms will be set up in three countries virtually covering 50% of EC consumers: France, Germany and the United Kingdom. This allows a system to be demonstrated to investors in their own language and to benefit from a variety of 3G and DTT history contexts. It is also an opportunity to have feedback from a panel of users with different habits. Besides, an additional platform is set up in Brazil to take into account all aspects specific to the south-American market. In the first phase of the project, platforms integrate and test the necessary components enabling the elementary commercial exploitation of standard DTT/3G co-operation systems: scalable service provisioning and management, mobility management, consistent resource and network management, low power DVB-T/DVB-H receivers, etc… In this phase, the demonstration activities will be limited, because most of the effort will be devoted to the set-up of demonstrators. Targeted terminals are distributed for this phase. Depending on the usage, these terminals may make use of mobile DVB-T or DVB-H. *Figure: INSTINCT European test beds interconnection in phase 1 of the project* Network aspects, RF spectrum engineering and system scalability are evaluated. Regarding network aspects, the use of IPv6, first in the core network then in the access network, will allow issues to be dealt with such as seamless hand-over, billing or security. For this work, INSTINCT reuses as much as possible the results of 5th framework and 6th framework projects that have already tackled IPv6 issues. In the area of RF spectrum engineering, the novel concept – inspired from the telco world- of tri-sectorised, small size cells for DVB networks are evaluated on sample sites, where 3G and low power DVB equipment coexist. Management in the broadest sense of the word is evaluated: QoS management with new tools developed in INSTINCT, management of inter-working networks, and user management. Validating these tools is necessary to verify that network and service operators will be provided with solutions that ensure secure exploitation of the system. The interconnection between the three platforms via the Internet will simulate the distribution of operators: content providers, mediation operators, etc. and evaluate the performance of the overall system, when used in on a real scale. Because it is considered a major driver for the business cases, a comprehensive validation of the end user expectations are sought so that feedback on both the service usage and the technology is gathered. The results of these tests enable to conclude on eco-system and network dimensioning aspects such as refinement of user interfaces, identification of bottlenecks for the user and in the end, definition of pricing policies. The second phase will lay the bases for the exploitation of higher bit rate services thanks to micro-cellular DVB cells - using the appropriate standard to reach mobile users – and will refine all other content production and management tools, terminal and network aspects so as to provide all actors in the value chain with the most appropriate solutions. The second phase will also comprise the demonstration and training activities necessary to enable the take off of the concept. In the long run, the objective is also to open platforms to third parties to enable them to develop and validate their own applications. The technical approach is articulated along five activities: Scenario implementation, RBB will lead this activity. Laboratory and platform integration, TDF will lead this activity. Field trials, IRT will lead this activity. Consumer validations, UoC will lead this activity. Demonstrations, DTAG will lead this activity. TDF will coordinate these activities in phase 1.