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INFSO-ICT-216284 SOCRATES
D5.3 Dissemination plan
Contractual Date of Delivery to the CEC: 30.06.2008
Actual Date of Delivery to the CEC: 30.06.2008
Authors: Kathleen Spaey, Chris Blondia, Hans van den Berg, Andreas Eisenblaetter, Ove Linell, Thomas Jansen, Thomas Kürner, Neil Scully, Jakub Oszmianski, Lars Christoph Schmelz
Reviewers: Hans van den Berg, Lars Christoph Schmelz
Participants: IBBT – TNO – ATE – EAB – TUBS – VOD – NSN-PL – NSN-D
Workpackage: WP5 – Integration, demonstration and dissemination
Estimated person months: 2
Security: PU
Nature: R
Version: 1.0
Total number of pages: 21
Abstract: This document contains the dissemination plan of the SOCRATES project. It describes how results and knowledge will be exchanged among the partners of SOCRATES, with other European projects, with the scientific community and with standardisation bodies and other fora.
Keyword list: Dissemination instruments, project workshops, liaisons to standardisation bodies and other fora.
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Executive Summary This document contains the dissemination plan of the SOCRATES project. It describes how results and knowledge will be exchanged among the partners of SOCRATES, with other European projects, with the scientific community and with standardisation bodies and other fora.
Dissemination of the project results is an important activity within SOCRATES. It draws upon the results in all technical work packages and all partners are contributing to its achievements. The dissemination activity is part of Work Package 5 (‘Integration, demonstration and dissemination’) and runs over the total duration of the project.
The SOCRATES project already developed several dissemination instruments, such as a website, a leaflet, a mailing list, etc. Some of these are used for introducing the SOCRATES project to the public, while others are instruments for the easy exchange of information among the project partners.
Dissemination to peers in research will be achieved through presentations at conferences, publications in journals, etc. To date, a number of contributions have already been made, though it is anticipated that the most significant publications will occur when technical results become progressively available.
Further dissemination of the project results to the scientific community will occur through the two public workshops the SOCRATES project has planned, and through cooperation with related projects in the ‘Future Networks’ FP7 project portfolio and with the COST 2100 project.
Since the challenging topic of self-organisation in communication networks is also covered in various standardisation bodies and other fora, like 3GPP and NGMN, SOCRATES identified a number of fora as potentially interesting initiatives to liaise with and to make contributions to.
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Authors Partner Name Phone / Fax / E-mail IBBT Kathleen Spaey Phone: +32 (0)3 265 38 80 Fax: +32 (0)3 265 37 77 E-mail: [email protected] Chris Blondia Phone: +32 (0)3 265 39 03 Fax: +32 (0)3 265 37 77 E-mail: [email protected] TNO Hans van den Berg Phone: +31 15 2857031 Fax: +31 15 2857375 E-mail: [email protected] ATE Andreas Eisenblaetter Phone: +49 (30) 79786845 Fax: +49 (30) 79786843 E-mail: [email protected] EAB Ove Linnell Phone: +46 13 284136 Fax: +46 13 287567 E-mail: [email protected] TUBS Thomas Jansen Phone: +49 (0) 531 391 2486 Fax: +49 (0) 531 391 5192 E-mail: [email protected] Thomas Kürner Phone: +49 (0) 531 391 2416 Fax: +49 (0) 531 391 5192 E-mail: [email protected] VOD Neil Scully Phone: +44 1635 682380 Fax: +44 1635 676147 E-mail: [email protected] NSN-PL Jakub Oszmianski Phone: +48 71 777 3280 Fax: +48 71 777 4610 E-mail: [email protected] NSN-D Lars Christoph Schmelz Phone: +49 89 636 79585 Fax: +49 89 636 75147 E-mail: [email protected]
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List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project BSCW Be Smart – Cooperate Worldwide CFP Call For Papers FP7 Seventh Framework Programme IPR Intellectual Property Rights LTE Long Term Evolution MoU Memorandum of Understanding NGMN Next Generation Mobile Networks NoE Network of Excellence OAM Operation, Administration and Management RAN Radio Access Network SA Service Aspects SAE System Architecture Evolution SON Self-Organisation Network URL Uniform Resource Locator WG Working Group WP Work Package WWRF Wireless World Research Forum
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................. 6
2 Dissemination instruments ........................................................................ 7 2.1 SOCRATES website ................................................................................................................... 7 2.2 SOCRATES leaflet...................................................................................................................... 8 2.3 SOCRATES fact sheet................................................................................................................. 8 2.4 SOCRATES logo....................................................................................................................... 10
3 Dissemination among the partners ......................................................... 11 3.1 SOCRATES mailing list............................................................................................................ 11 3.2 SOCRATES BSCW server........................................................................................................ 11 3.3 Regular meetings and phone conferences.................................................................................. 11
4 Dissemination to the scientific community ............................................ 13 4.1 Scientific meetings, conferences, workshops, journals and magazines ..................................... 13 4.2 Contacts and cooperation with other European projects............................................................ 14
5 SOCRATES workshops ............................................................................ 16
6 Dissemination and liaisons to standardisation bodies and other fora 17
7 Dissemination by the individual SOCRATES partners .......................... 19
8 Concluding remarks ................................................................................. 20
9 References................................................................................................. 20
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1 Introduction Dissemination is an important aspect of a research project, during the whole life cycle of such project. Dissemination allows:
During the initial project phase, that the project goals, project plan and project objectives are evaluated, and that external opinions and input are received.
During the intermediate project phase, that it is checked if the project is on track, if the conditions, requirements and project goals are still valid and in line with other comparable projects and research activities, or if counteractions need to be taken.
During the final project phase, that results are distributed, discussed and pushed to standardisation and other fora, and serve as input to other projects.
Also within the SOCRATES project, dissemination is an important activity. It draws upon the results in all technical work packages and all partners are contributing to its achievements. The dissemination activity (Activity 5.6), which is part of Work Package 5 (‘Integration, demonstration and dissemination’) and which runs over the total duration of the project, consists of the following sub-activities:
Development of a dissemination plan
Construction and maintenance of a project website
Presentation of results to the scientific community
Preparation and realisation of workshops
Contribution to standardisation and other fora
Monitoring of the project achievements
The current deliverable contains the dissemination plan. This plan gives an overview of the SOCRATES dissemination means and describes how the exchange of results and knowledge among the partners, with related European projects, with the scientific community and with standardisation bodies and other fora, will be handled. Further it also discusses the two public workshops SOCRATES plans to organise.
The structure of this document looks as follows. First, in Chapter 2, the major dissemination instruments that have been created (website, leaflet, etc.) are discussed. Chapter 3 is devoted to the means that are used to facilitate the exchange of information among the SOCRATES partners. Chapter 4 refers to dissemination of project results to the scientific community through presentations and publications at conferences, workshops and in journals, and through contacts and cooperation with other European projects. Chapter 5 gives information about the two workshops the SOCRATES project will organise, while Chapter 6 discusses how dissemination and liaisons to standardisation bodies and other fora will be organised. In Chapter 7, the dissemination plans of the individual SOCRATES partners are provided. The document is concluded in Chapter 8.
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2 Dissemination instruments This chapter gives an overview of the dissemination material that has been devised during the first months of the project, and that serves as a source of information for everybody that is interested in the work done within the SOCRATES project.
2.1 SOCRATES website A project website has been created1 and is accessible at the following URLs:
www.fp7-socrates.eu and www.fp7-socrates.org.
The website of the project is intended to be the main dissemination channel towards the public. It serves as a source of information for external parties that are interested in the work done within the SOCRATES consortium.
The main responsible for managing the website is IBBT, but all partners are providing content to keep the information on the website up-to-date. Publications (or their references if there are copyright issues) and public deliverables are published on the website after agreement among all partners.
The website navigation structure is the following:
About Socrates
o Objectives
o Technical approach
o Expected impact
o Leaflet
Vision on self-organisation
o Drivers
o Expected gains
Consortium
Socrates news & events
Publications
Contact
Links
Document server
This structure grew during the first weeks of the project and aims at easy navigation as well as fast retrieval of content. Although we expect the structure of the website to be mature by now, the website is a dynamic environment to which information will be added as it becomes available. Especially the sections ‘Socrates news & events’, ‘Publications’ and ‘Links’ will be updated frequently. In this first section, SOCRATES news is announced and a list of events where the SOCRATES project will be represented is maintained. In the ‘Publications’ section all SOCRATES publications,
1 The website is developed using Drupal [1], which is an open source content management platform. Maintenance of
the website from around the world is easy, because the site can be administered entirely using a web browser without installing additional software.
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including the public deliverables, are made available, and the ‘Links’ section contains, besides some links to related projects and standardisation, also a living list with calls for papers (CFPs) that are related to self-organisation. We choose to focus this list onto the self-organisation topic, and not to include CFPs of conferences and journals where the scope is very broad, to avoid overloading of the list and to stress the importance of the self-organisation aspect for the SOCRATES project.
Figure 1 shows a screenshot of the first page of the SOCRATES website.
Figure 1: Screenshot of the SOCRATES webpage.
2.2 SOCRATES leaflet A project leaflet has been created to introduce the SOCRATES project and to disseminate its main objectives. The leaflet is available for download on the SOCRATES website and printed copies will be made available at events (e.g., conferences, workshops, etc.) where SOCRATES will participate. The information provided in the leaflet is high-level and addresses both experts and non-experts. The main intention of the leaflet is to direct the interested people towards the SOCRATES website, where more in-depth information can be found, and where the latest achievements and public deliverables of the project are available.
Figure 2 and Figure 3 show the SOCRATES leaflet. Note that the leaflet is a 3-fold flyer, which means that Figure 2 shows the front and the back page, while Figure 3 shows the internal page.
2.3 SOCRATES fact sheet As for all FP7 projects, also for SOCRATES a fact sheet has been produced. This fact sheet presents the SOCRATES project in a nutshell and is available for download on the SOCRATES website, as well as on the EU Cordis website on FP7 ICT projects (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/future-networks/projects_en.html).
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Figure 2: SOCRATES leaflet (3-fold flyer – front and back page).
Figure 3: SOCRATES leaflet (3-fold flyer – internal page).
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2.4 SOCRATES logo An important item to establish the project’s identity is the project’s logo. This logo will be included in all presentations2, documents, etc., of the project. The logo is shown in Figure 4. It contains the head of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates and one of his quotes (‘Wisdom begins in wonder’), together with the main picture that expresses our view on self-organisation as background. This picture consists of a cycle and two ‘arms’. The cycle represents the continuous process in a future operational radio access network of collecting measurements, and (self-)optimising the system parameter settings based on these measurements. The two external arms depict the self-configuration and self-healing phases, which are triggered by incidental events. For a more extensive explanation about this picture and the SOCRATES view on self-organisation, we refer to the SOCRATES website.
Figure 4: The SOCRATES logo.
2 A PowerPoint template that includes the logo and that can be used to develop slides for SOCRATES presentations,
has been designed.
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3 Dissemination among the partners Collaboration and exchange of information among the project partners is a daily aspect of the SOCRATES project. This chapter discusses how SOCRATES handles dissemination among the partners.
3.1 SOCRATES mailing list For easy communication among all project members, a closed-access email reflector was installed by TNO. By sending email to the address [email protected], a project member can reach all other SOCRATES members.
3.2 SOCRATES BSCW server For safe and easy sharing of documents among the project members, TNO has set up a BSCW (Be Smart – Cooperate Worldwide [2]) server for the project to which SOCRATES members can subscribe. Access to the server is password protected. This server is intended to be the main dissemination channel among the project partners. It is used for collaborating on deliverables, reports, publications, etc. Besides this, the server is also used for management and financial reporting.
The BSCW server is typically exploited in combination with the SOCRATES mailing list: a member who has uploaded a document on the server sends out an email including a link to the document on the server via the mailing list. Applying this policy avoids sending around large documents, but also makes sure that at the same time also all project documents are archived. Besides this, the system also sends a daily report about the activities that went on at the server during the previous day to each subscriber, if the subscriber activated this feature. These activities include the adding, moving, renaming, etc., of documents.
3.3 Regular meetings and phone conferences The SOCRATES mailing list and BSCW server are very useful tools for collaboration and dissemination among the partners. But from time to time also ‘live’ interaction is needed. Therefore regular meetings among all project partners lasting 2 or 3 days are planned every 3 or 4 months. These regular meetings include plenary sessions, WP meetings and a Project Board meeting. To optimise the possibility for all partners to be present, dates and places of the meetings were already established during the first project month until the end of 2009. Below is the list of the meetings. For some of the meetings an optional day is reserved. Depending on the amount of tasks that need to be covered at that meeting, it will be decided a few weeks before the meeting if this extra day is needed or not.
January 30 – February 1, 2008, TNO – Delft
April 23 – 25, 2008, VOD – Newbury
July 2 – 4, 2008, EAB – Linköping
October 16 – 17, 2008, NSN – Munich
February 19 – 20, 2009, TUBS – Braunschweig
June 10 – 12 (10 is optional), 2009, IBBT – Antwerp or Ghent
October 7 – 9 (7 is optional), 2009, ATE – Berlin
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Besides the planned regular project meetings, there will also be intermediate (WP) meetings or phone conferences among the partners as the need arises. Every first Wednesday of the month, a Project Board meeting is scheduled. Additionally, phone conferences are set up for technical discussions among all partners or among a subgroup of the partners, if required.
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4 Dissemination to the scientific community Throughout the duration of the project, SOCRATES will disseminate the obtained results and knowledge to the relevant scientific communities. This will be done by contributing through papers and presentations to scientific meetings, conferences, workshops and journals in the field. In addition, we will establish and foster relations with other related European projects, e.g., via participation in the concertation meetings organised by the EU.
4.1 Scientific meetings, conferences, workshops, journals and magazines Dissemination to peers in research will be achieved through the usual publication and presentation means.
Until now, a number of contributions have already been made. As the project is still in an early stage, the aim of most of these contributions has been to introduce SOCRATES to the scientific community. The contributions discuss the drivers, expected gains, state-of-the-art and challenges of the use of self-organising methods in wireless networks, together with SOCRATES’ vision on self-organisation. Table 1 below summarises the contributions already made.
It is anticipated that most publications will be delivered during the second and third year of the project, when detailed technical results become progressively available. During the project meeting in April 2008 it was already decided that:
A paper about the work already performed in work package 2 on use cases and requirements for self-organising networks will be submitted to IWSOS 2008 (3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems – http://iwsos.ani.univie.ac.at/).
A paper about the assessment criteria and framework for self-organisation methods will be written after the main part of work package 2 ends (July 2008). A suitable conference to target will be identified by then.
In 2009 a paper will be submitted to IST Mobile Summit 2009.
Other forthcoming workshops, conferences, etc., identified as being particularly suitable for (possible) SOCRATES publications are:
Meetings of COST 2100, sub working group 3.1 on ‘Measurements Based Optimisation for Mobile Wireless Nets’
Wireless World Research Forum meetings
IEEE Infocom 2009 - http://www.comsoc.org/confs/infocom/2009/
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) – Spring 2009
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) – Fall 2009
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom) - http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/
IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management 2009 (IM 2009)
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2009)
IEEE Globecom 2009 - http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2009/index.html
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ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) - http://taas.acm.org/
International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems 2009 (IWSOS 2009)
Remark that the list above contains events that focus onto self-organisation, but also events with a more broader scope. The list will be updated regularly during the next years when new interesting CFPs become available.
When publishing or presenting results, the handling of IPR issues shall follow the established guidelines and processes laid out in the consortium agreement. A balance between the business interests of the partners on the one hand, and the need to publish information and results on the other hand, will be sought.
Table 1: Scientific contributions during the first six months of the project.
Event Contribution COST 2100 meeting, Wroclaw, Poland, February 6-8, 2008.
Technical document and presentation. SOCRATES: Self-Optimisation and self-ConfiguRATion in wirelESs networks. J.L. Van den Berg, R. Litjens, A. Eisenblätter, M. Amirijoo, O. Linnell, C. Blondia, T. Kürner, N. Scully, J. Oszmianski and L.C. Schmelz
Telecom Magazine, Vol. 1, February 2008.
Magazine contribution (in Dutch). Intelligent mobiel netwerk houdt zichzelf topfit. J.L. van den Berg, L. Jorgušeski and R. Litjens
Wireless World Research Forum Meeting 20, Ottawa, Canada, April 22-24, 2008.
Paper and presentation. Self-configuration, -optimisation and -healing in wireless networks. L.C. Schmelz, J.L. van den Berg, R. Litjens, A. Eisenblätter, M. Amirijoo, O. Linnell, C. Blondia, T. Kürner, N. Scully and J. Oszmianski
ICT – Mobile Summit 2008, Stockholm, Sweden, June 10-12, 2008.
Paper and presentation. Self-Organisation in Future Mobile Communication Networks. J.L. van den Berg, R. Litjens, A. Eisenblätter, M. Amirijoo, O. Linnell, C. Blondia, T. Kürner, N. Scully, J. Oszmianski and L.C. Schmelz
4.2 Contacts and cooperation with other European projects SOCRATES is actively looking for cooperation with related FP7 projects. Within the ‘Future Networks’ project portfolio, SOCRATES participates in the clusters ‘Future Internet Technologies’ and ‘Ubiquitous Radio Access and Spectrum Management’. There are several other projects in these clusters (in particular the first one) addressing self-organisation issues, e.g., EFIPSANS, AUTOI, 4WARD, E3, CARMEN, EURONF
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(NoE). Some other projects are of particular interest to SOCRATES because of their planned work on radio access technologies, including LTE, e.g., NEWCOMB++ (NoE).
Some first contacts with related projects have been established via the FP7 concertation meetings in Brussels (11-12 March 2008), Bled (1-2 April 2008) and Stockholm (10-12 June 2008). In particular, together with several other projects, SOCRATES has participated in a panel discussion (at the Bled meeting) on ‘self-management’. This initiative will be extended beyond the contacts at regular FP7 concertation meetings. The possibilities and needs for cooperation and coordination of the work on this topic will be explored and, where appropriate, be established. Other activities may be to organise joint workshops, to write white papers, etc. Currently, no dedicated actions are scheduled – this will become important when at least the baselines of the different FP7 projects are settled and first results are available.
In addition, a liaison with COST 2100 has been established. COST is an intergovernmental framework for European co-operation in the field of scientific and technical research. COST is based on actions, which are networks of coordinated national research projects in fields of interest to participants coming from different COST and non-COST countries. The actions are defined by a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the governments of the COST states wishing to participate in the action. In COST actions the initiative comes from the scientists and technical experts and from those with a direct interest in furthering international collaboration. COST Action 2100 (‘Pervasive Mobile and Ambient Communication’) provides an excellent opportunity for networking and a platform for technical discussions. Sub Working Group 3.1 of COST 2100 (‘Measurement Based Optimisation’) has a significant overlap with topics of interest for self-optimisation. Since the SOCRATES members Atesio, TNO and TUBS are also participating in COST 2100, a strong link has been established especially to SWG 3.1. Input documents to COST 2100 will be submitted by these partners. TUBS will coordinate the contacts with COST 2100. As a result of the contacts with the COST 2100 project, it was decided to have a joint meeting between SOCRATES and the COST 2100 workgroup SWG3.1 for an extensive information exchange. This meeting is scheduled on Wednesday morning, February 18, 2009, and organised by TUBS. In the afternoon, a tutorial on LTE optimisation is planned by the COST 2100 project, which will also be of interest for and attended by SOCRATES members.
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5 SOCRATES workshops Two public dissemination workshops to be organised by the SOCRATES project are planned. The goal of these workshops is to inform other parties (including operators, manufacturers and academia) about the project’s results and to get feedback from these parties not involved in the project. At the second workshop (planned for the end of the project) also demonstrations of methods and algorithms for self-organisation of wireless networks to be developed in WP 3 and WP 4 will be given.
During the project meeting in April 2008, several possible formats for the workshops were discussed, in particular a workshop in conjunction with a larger conference, a joint workshop with other LTE-related projects, a SOCRATES workshop on its own, or a track of a conference dedicated to SOCRATES. About the first workshop it was decided that most of the presentations should come from the SOCRATES partners, together with a few presentations from invited speakers. The target is to organise the first workshop in conjunction with the ICT Mobile Summit 2009 conference3. Since the organisation of the ICT Mobile Summit conference varies slightly from year to year, contacts with the local organisers of ICT Mobile Summit 2009 will be initiated during this year’s conference, which will take place June 10-12, 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Further decisions on the workshops will be taken during future project meetings, and the workshops will be reported on in the future deliverables D5.4 (‘Report on dissemination and standardisation activities’), D5.5 (‘Report on dissemination and standardisation activities including report on 1st workshop’) and D5.8 (‘Final report on dissemination and standardisation activities including report on 2nd workshop and demonstration results’), which are due in December 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively.
3 Depending on the outcome of ongoing discussions with related FP7 projects (see Section 4.2), it may be decided to
have a joint workshop around ‘self-management’ instead of a ‘stand-alone’ SOCRATES workshop.
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6 Dissemination and liaisons to standardisation bodies and other fora The challenging topic of self-organisation in communication networks is also covered in various standardisation bodies and other fora. The exchange of information between the SOCRATES project and these standardisation bodies and other fora will primarily be established by the industrial partners in the SOCRATES consortium, via liaison persons.
The following fora were identified by SOCRATES as potentially interesting initiatives to liaise with:
3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP): 3GPP addresses self-organisation in the Working Groups (WGs) Radio Access Network (RAN) 2, RAN3 and System Aspects (SA) 5, with contributions coming from vendors and operators. The main focus of these groups is on standardisation of measurements and interfaces. 3GPP specifications will define the properties of the systems to which self-organisation will be applied (www.3gpp.org).
o 3GPP RAN WG2: RAN2 is the group of 3GPP where measurements to support self-organising networks will be discussed.
o 3GPP RAN WG3: RAN3 considers RAN architectures and signalling. Contributions on SON use cases and SON architecture principles are made towards this 3GPP group.
o 3GPP SA WG5: One of the purposes of SA5 is to provide operations and management solutions, thereby concentrating on the standardisation of the Itf-N interface between network element management and network management, and Operations and Maintenance (OAM) architecture. Towards SA5, contributions on SON use cases, SON aspects and SON OAM interfaces are made.
Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Initiative: The overall objective of NGMN, a co-operation among world-leading mobile operators, including Vodafone, is to collect and promote operator requirements and recommendations for future mobile networks. NGMN self-organisation activities aim at ensuring that self-organisation capabilities become an inherent part of the initial design of future systems (www.ngmn.org).
World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF): This forum develops a common global vision for the future of wireless communications, to drive research and standardisation. It brings together industry and academia in an active discussion of new concepts, algorithms and techniques. The WWRF Special Interest Group 3 (SIG 3) works on self-organisation in wireless world systems (www.wireless-world-research.org).
3G Long Term Evolution / System Architecture Evolution (LTE/SAE) Trial Initiative: LTE/SAE Trial Initiative is a cooperation between several equipment manufacturers and mobile network operators. The LTE/SAE Trial Initiative will be doing field trials of LTE networks, which will result in operational experience of deploying a (small) network. The results of this experience could be interesting as input to SOCRATES, as it could help identify areas where manual effort needs to be reduced. It is not the intention for SOCRATES to contribute self-organising functionality to the LTE/SAE Trial Initiative. It is currently unclear whether it will
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be useful to have a SOCRATES liaison to the LTE/SAE Trial Initiative, as their most interesting results will probably not be publicly available.
Table 2: SOCRATES liaisons to standardisation and other fora.
Forum Partner Representative Contact person within SOCRATES
3GPP RAN2 VOD Assen Golaup ([email protected])
All contacts via Neil Scully ([email protected])
3GPP RAN3 NSN Alex Vesely ([email protected])
All contacts via Christoph Schmelz([email protected])
3GPP SA5 EAB Per Elmdahl ([email protected])
All contacts via Ove Linnell ([email protected])
NGMN VOD Neil Scully ([email protected])
All contacts via Neil Scully ([email protected])
WWRF NSN Christoph Schmelz ([email protected])
All contacts via Christoph Schmelz([email protected])
Table 2 shows the SOCRATES liaisons that were set up. Representatives are persons within the partners’ companies who are actually participating in the meetings of the standardisation bodies. The representative role is only defined within SOCRATES, and all contacts between the representatives and SOCRATES will pass via a contact person within SOCRATES, who is in all cases one of the active participants of the project. Activities of the representatives include the monitoring of activities in the fora and feedback of the relevant information to SOCRATES. As one of the objectives of the SOCRATES project is to disseminate its results, the role of the representatives also includes the coordination of the SOCRATES generated input documents towards these fora.
It was decided within the SOCRATES consortium that contributions to 3GPP and NGMN will not be made in the name of SOCRATES, but in the name of those partners involved in the contribution, with reference to the SOCRATES project. To date, a first contribution towards 3GPP RAN2 was made by Vodafone. The contribution is based on work done for the SOCRATES deliverable D2.1 [3], and is entitled Measurements for Self-optimisation of DL Physical Channel Parameters. The document with 3GPP number R2-081780 was submitted to the 3GPP RAN2 meeting in Shenzhen, China, March 31 – April 04, 2008.
The intention for liaising with the WWRF is to attract interest in the SOCRATES project from a broad world-wide audience. The SOCRATES project objectives and concepts were already announced to the WWRF through the presentation of a paper at the WWRF meeting in April 2008. Also in future, SOCRATES will disseminate results towards WWRF.
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7 Dissemination by the individual SOCRATES partners In this chapter, the dissemination plans of all SOCRATES partners are listed. These individual dissemination activities will assist the overall SOCRATES dissemination.
TNO – The work in SOCRATES is of interest to various departments within TNO and the results will be shared with these departments, e.g., by distributing project deliverables and via internal presentations and discussions. In addition, public project information and results will be disseminated via presentations and poster sessions at national workshops in the ICT field (some of these workshops are regularly organised by TNO), by publications in journals and magazines, and by presentations at (scientific) international conferences.
ATESIO – Atesio plans to publish scientific results at conferences and workshops. Results that are likely to be of commercial relevance for Atesio will have an impact on the roadmap of Atesio's planning and optimisation modules. Such results will also be communicated to (prospective) clients at various occasions.
ERICSSON – Ericsson plans to publish scientific results obtained in the SOCRATES project at conferences, workshops and in scientific journals. If the results are in line with Ericsson's business plan, Ericsson will drive the standardisation process mainly in 3GPP with contributions originated from SOCRATES. If the results are commercially relevant to Ericsson they will have an impact on future product roadmaps.
IBBT – The work in SOCRATES has an impact on the activities of PhD students working in the IBBT research groups PATS (University of Antwerp) and IBCN (University of Ghent). Scientific results will be presented at conferences, workshops and in scientific journals. The obtained knowledge will influence the future content of master courses on wireless and mobile networks at the universities of Antwerp and Ghent.
TU BRAUNSCHWEIG – The SOCRATES results, achieved within the next years, will be disseminated by various conferences publications and journal papers. Furthermore it is intended to obtain PhD thesis topics in the SON field of activity. The lecture courses on Wireless Communications at Braunschweig Technical University will be updated and new sections on SON will be integrated.
VODAFONE – The SOCRATES results are of interest to various departments within Vodafone and results will be disseminated to these department. This will be achieved by distributing project deliverables, doing presentations, and having discussions with interested parties. Vodafone will also make use of opportunities to contribute to 3GPP standards and NGMN based on SOCRATES results. Scientific results will be presented at conferences and workshops, and published in scientific journals.
NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS – The SOCRATES research topics are in line with internal projects of several departments at Nokia Siemens Networks. It is planned to exchange information between SOCRATES and these internal projects, and also to use the SOCRATES results as input to internal roadmaps if they are in line with the business plans. Furthermore Nokia Siemens Networks plans to publish SOCRATES results at conferences, workshops, and in scientific publications, and to contribute the results to corresponding standardisation fora (predominantly 3GPP), if they are in line with the business strategies.
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8 Concluding remarks This deliverable provides the dissemination plan for the SOCRATES project. It provides an overview of the means that are used for dissemination and describes how the exchange of results and knowledge among the partners, with related European projects, with the scientific community and with standardisation bodies and other fora, is handled. Further it also discusses the two public workshops the project plans to organise.
Although reports on the dissemination activities will be given in the yearly dissemination activities reports (deliverable D5.4, due December 2008; deliverable D5.5, due December 2009; deliverable D5.8, due December 2010), the present document also gives an impression of the already performed actions to present the SOCRATES project to the ‘outside world’. Up to now, most of these actions have focused on presenting the SOCRATES vision on self-optimisation. As the project matures, it will move from presenting a vision to presenting and demonstrating technical results.
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9 References [1] http://drupal.org/
[2] http://public.bscw.de/
[3] SOCRATES deliverable D2.1, Use Cases for Self-Organising Networks, March 2008.
