Research Article
Validation of the Ambient Networks System Architecture
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469501, author={Aurelian Bria and Jan Markendahl and Rene Rembarz and Petteri P\o{}yh\o{}nen and Csaba Simon and Marco Miozzo and Nadeem Akhtar and Ralf Jennen}, title={Validation of the Ambient Networks System Architecture}, proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={CHINACOM}, year={2008}, month={3}, keywords={Ambient Networks Heterogeneous Networks Multi-access Multi-operator Multi-service Network Composition}, doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469501} }- Aurelian Bria
Jan Markendahl
Rene Rembarz
Petteri Pöyhönen
Csaba Simon
Marco Miozzo
Nadeem Akhtar
Ralf Jennen
Year: 2008
Validation of the Ambient Networks System Architecture
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469501
Abstract
The Ambient Networks project develops a complete and coherent solution for control architectures in future networks. In particular, the concept of Ambient Control Space has been proposed to support a technology-agnostic, modular and dynamic control plane. The second phase of the project (2006-2007) has an increased focus on validation, where two complementary tracks are being followed: proof-ofconcept prototyping and performance evaluation through simulations. The prototype modules, focusing on requirement engineering, were validated during the process of integrating them into a common control space prototype, which was later used to build the demonstration setups. The system performance evaluation through simulations deals with aspects such as capacity utilization, reachability, cost and performance trade-offs and also provides evidence that the additional AN features (e.g., composition) do not introduce excessive signaling overhead. We target different composition aspects, advertising & discovery, negotiation of composition agreements and their interaction with multi-radio access and mobility control. Our validation approach is based on several use cases.
