Intermediate Report on Dissemination, Exploitation and ...

CELTIC initiative 

“Telecommunication Solutions” 

Project acronym: COMMUNE 

Project full title: COgnitive network ManageMent under UNcErtainty 

Proposal/Contract no.: CP08-004 

Project Document Number: D6.3 

Project Document Date: M15 

Workpackage Contributing to the Project Document: WP6 

Deliverable Type and Security: <strong>Report</strong> 

Editors: Brian Lee 

Abstract: Deliverable 6.3 describes the dissemination and exploitation strategy for COMMUNE and 

reports on the results achieved to this point at the halfway stage of the project. It identifies the key 

receivers for this information and describes in some detail the main channels through which to deliver 

information. It sets out a roadmap for delivery. Additionally the deliverable identifies the key 

standardization bodes to which COMMUNE outputs can be relevant and how they can be delivered. It 

also describes the exploitation plans of the individual partners. 

Keywords: Uncertainty, Cognitive Management, machine learning, probabilistic 

management, SON, FTTH, Femtocell, Internet of Things 

COMMUNE Celtic Project: Deliverable-D.6.3: issued on (M15) 30.01.2013 Page 1 of 23

Project Number 

CP08-004 

Project Name 

Document Number 

Document Title 

COgnitive network ManageMent under UNcErtainty 

COMMUNE/WP6/D6.3 

<strong>Intermediate</strong> Dissemination, Exploitation and 

Standardization Plan 

Workpackage 

WP6 

Editors 

AIT Brian Lee 

Authors 

AIT, NSN, Sistel, Telenium,Temida, TP, Daysha, 

Ericsson,VTT, Magister, Elisa,Telnet 

Reviewers 

VTT, Telekomunikacja Polska, Sistel 

Contractual delivery date M15 

Delivery Date (revision) M15 

Version 1.0 


Executive Summary 

This is the intermediate version of the Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardization Plan for 

COMMUNE. It describes results achieved in the first half of the project as well as plans for the 

second half of the project. 

COMMUNE aims to investigate the management of networks in the presence of uncertainty. 

Uncertainty arise from both the on-going traffic delivery process and the management process 

and can be sue to many factors. COMMUNE will investigate how cognitive management 

techniques can be used to mitigate the effects of uncertainty in the operation of networks. 

COMMUNE will develop a number of usage scenarios for a limited number of network types 

and will specify the types and sources of uncertainty in these cases. It will subsequently define 

target cognitive functions and algorithms to provide solutions to these problems. The 

combination of these knowledge representation choices and the overall scenarios will inform and 

guide the design and implementation of the COMMUNE cognitive network management 

framework. COMMUNE addresses primarily 

Self organizing networks in LTE including the management of femtocells 

Internet of Things 

Broadband networks in the form of Fibre to the Home (FTTH) 

To achieve widespread dissemination the project’s strategy 

1. Identifies the key receivers of the COMMUNE results. Amongst others these include 

a. Telecom Operators 

b. Equipment Vendors 

c. Research Community 

d. Standardization bodies 

e. Policy Makers 

2. Identifies the channels through which to deliver results to these recipients, including 

a. Workshops and other events 

b. Conferences 

c. Cooperation with other projects 

These plans describe activities pertinent to various network technologies (e.g. SON) and 

individual project work packages. 

In addition to the above information dissemination the deliverable also 

1. Defines the standardization bodies though which to deliver COMMUNE relevant 

findings. The plan details the particular subcommittees where appropriate. Key 

standardization groups include 3GPP and IETF. 

2. Sets out the exploitation plans of the individual partners .In these plans industrial partners 

identify which network types and problem areas are of particular interest for product 

development and elaborate at a high level potential product roadmaps for their future 


development. Academic partners describe the types of research knowledge which they 

intend to further develop and enhance through project participation 

The final version of this deliverable (M30) will describe the actual results delivered also in terms 

of the above activities and including the project formal deliverables. 

Results and Achievements in the first half of the Project 

Project Artifacts: 

The COMMUNE website is established. A project leaflet and slide set has been produced 

Posters are produced for the Celtic event in Turkey in Mar 2013 

Limited scope demonstrations will be made at the mid-term review in Finland on 

February 18/19 2013 and at the Celtic event in Turkey on March 6/7 

Internal Workshops 

An internal workshop is scheduled for the mid term review in February. This will involve 

Finnish companies and institutions who will be invited to the review to see project 

technology plans and demonstrations 

International Events 

A joint workshop proposal with FP7 projects SEMAFOUR and UNIVERSELF has been 

submitted to the Future Network and Mobile Summit. 

An overview of COMMUNE was presented at the 4th IEEE International Workshop on 

Management of Emerging Networks and Services (IEEE MENS 2012) 

Cooperation with Other Projects 

Publications 

See workshop proposal above with other projects. 

A COMMUNE overview was presented to the Finnish IoT project TIVIT by Ericsson in 

November 2012 

4 publications have been accepted or published in the first half. 10 publications are 

planned in the second half 

Standardization 

COMMUNE has established preliminary contact with the ETSI-AFI SIG and presented 

an outline of the COMMUNE approach. More substantive contributions will take place 

in the second half of the project. 

COMMUNE has contributed to IETF activities through the the preparation of Internet 

drafts. in the IoT area – specifically in the ospf and Homenet working groups. 


Table of Contents 

1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................. 6 

1.1 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT ......................................................................................................................... 6 

1.2 SCOPE OF THE DISSEMINATION WP ................................................................................................... 6 

1.3 STRUCTURE OF THE DOCUMENT ........................................................................................................ 6 

2 DISSEMINATION STRATEGY ....................................................................................................................... 7 

2.1 DISSEMINATION TARGET GROUPS ..................................................................................................... 7 

2.1.2 Telecom Operators .................................................................................................................................. 7 

2.1.3 Equipment and Technology Vendors ....................................................................................................... 7 

2.1.4 Research Communities ............................................................................................................................ 7 

2.1.5 Policy Makers .......................................................................................................................................... 7 

2.1.6 Standardization Bodies ............................................................................................................................ 8 

2.2 DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................ 8 

2.2.1 Project Deliverables ................................................................................................................................ 8 

2.2.2 Internal workshops .................................................................................................................................. 9 

2.2.3 Participation to major international events ........................................................................................... 10 

2.2.4 Cooperation with other projects in COMMUNE’s areas of interest ..................................................... 10 

2.2.5 Publications ........................................................................................................................................... 11 

2.2.6 Demonstrators ....................................................................................................................................... 14 

2.2.7 Dissemination to the general public ...................................................................................................... 14 

3 EXPLOITATION ............................................................................................................................................. 15 

3.1 MARKET ANALYSIS .............................................................................................................................. 15 

3.2 PARTNER EXPLOITATION PLANS ...................................................................................................... 16 

3.2.1 Telenium ................................................................................................................................................ 16 

3.2.2 SistelNetworks ........................................................................................................................................ 16 

3.2.3 Telnet Redes Inteligentes ....................................................................................................................... 17 

3.2.4 Temida ................................................................................................................................................... 17 

3.2.5 Athlone Institute of Technology ............................................................................................................. 18 

3.2.6 Daysha Consulting ................................................................................................................................. 18 

3.2.7 Nokia Siemens Networks OY .................................................................................................................. 18 

3.2.8 VTT ........................................................................................................................................................ 19 

3.2.9 Magister Solutions ................................................................................................................................. 19 

3.2.10 Ericsson ............................................................................................................................................. 19 

3.2.11 Elisa ................................................................................................................................................... 20 

3.2.12 Telekomunikacja Polska .................................................................................................................... 20 

4 STANDARDIZATION ..................................................................................................................................... 21 

4.1 CANDIDATE STANDARDIZATION BODIES ...................................................................................... 21 

4.1.1 3GPP ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 

4.1.2 ETSI ....................................................................................................................................................... 22 

4.1.3 Broadband Forum ................................................................................................................................. 22 

4.1.4 IETF ....................................................................................................................................................... 22 


1 INTRODUCTION 

1.1 Scope of the project 

The problem addressed by COMMUNE is how to manage networks in the presence of 

uncertainty. The solution approach is based on the use of cognitive networking techniques. To 

complement this approach COMMUNE adopts a methodology driven by requirements based on 

the definition of representative scenarios. These scenarios will be specified by a number of 

dimensions to identify causes of the uncertainty in the networks. Based on this analysis, a 

taxonomy of typical or likely types of uncertainty will be constructed and this in turn will be 

used to select appropriate choices of knowledge representation, algorithms, inference and 

learning techniques, etc., to enable problem solutions. The combination of these knowledge 

representation choices and the overall scenarios will inform and guide the design and 

implementation of the COMMUNE cognitive network management framework. Finally, to 

validate the COMMUNE approach a small number of applications will be tested, addressing two 

independent scenarios: FTTH and LTE access networks. These approaches will be deployed and 

validated, using both simulation and experimentation, on one or more test beds. 

1.2 Scope of the Dissemination WP 

The role of WP6 is 

To specify the COMMUNE outputs for dissemination 

To identify the receivers for the output 

To specify mechanisms to deliver those outputs 

To define a planned set of activities to enable that delivery 

To monitor, follow up and report on the execution of the dissemination activities. 

1.3 Structure of the document 

The document consists of three main sections outlining the 

Dissemination strategy – chapter 2 

Partners exploitation plans – chapter 3 

Standardization strategy- chapter 4 


2 DISSEMINATION STRATEGY 

COMMUNE aims to have a continuous and on-going dissemination process with high visibility 

in academic and both the industrial and academic communities. The project aims to seek a 

position in which the COMMUNE project is seen as the best technical source for the future of 

SON for the industry. An essential part of this dissemination strategy is the identification of key 

receiver categories for COMMUNE outputs and the targeting of these groups via appropriate 

disseminations activities. The following chapters therefore describe the target groups and the 

dissemination activities that will be employed. As COMMUNE will not exist in a vacuum the 

project will also monitor activities and occurrences in other fora and in the market place and 

adjust its dissemination strategy and targets appropriately. 

2.1 Dissemination Target Groups 

2.1.2 Telecom Operators 

The battle to reduce costs and streamline CAPEX and OPEX is an on-going fact of life for 

Telecom operators. Additionally, maintaining and increasing average revenue per user, 

minimizing churn and creating new opportunities for cross selling and upselling are important to 

maintain a competitive edge. COMMUNE contributes all of these goals through exacting more 

efficient usage of network and service resources and also through ensuring high user QoE via 

intelligent media delivery. COMMUNE will disseminate information to operators through 

publications, industry events, future network products, and, importantly, through standardisation 

submissions. 

2.1.3 Equipment and Technology Vendors 

As with their service provider end-customer, equipment vendors are constantly seeking to have 

more flexible, intelligent and easy to use equipment offerings. Outputs from COMMUNE will 

inform equipment providers of new technology possibilities to influence their product design and 

roadmaps and will also increase their awareness of the drivers for their telecom customers. 

Dissemination will be primarily by means of technical fora, Celtic events, standardisation and 

publication 

2.1.4 Research Communities 

The research community encompasses researchers in academia, public bodies and companies. 

Outputs of interest will be new architectures and protocols for hybrid cognitive management, 

algorithms for distributed fault resolution and data mining and machine-to-machine 

communication. Dissemination is mainly via publications at conferences and through journals 

and magazines as well as cooperation with other research projects. 

2.1.5 Policy Makers 

Policy makers are concerned to ensure that societal goals are achieved through judicious use of 

the telecom services, networks and assets. Policy makers are interested in outputs which can 

influence these factors as e.g. in the dynamic allocation of bandwidth. Dissemination to policy 

makers is mainly through industry and Celtic events. 


2.1.6 Standardization Bodies 

Standardization is a critical activity in the telecom industry and essential to enable interworking 

between equipment form different providers. Contribution to standardization bodies is absolutely 

essential for COMMUNE to ensure its outputs are meaningfully absorbed into the greater 

telecom ecosystem. These activities are described in greater detail in a later chapter. 

2.2 Dissemination Activities 

Table 1 summarizes the dissemination activities 

Activity Category 

Project artefacts 

Internal workshops 

International 

Events 

Cooperation with 

other projects 

Publications 

Demonstrators 

2.2.1 Project Deliverables 

2.2.1.1 Project Website 

The project website can be found at 

Comments 

This includes the project website, leaflet, posters and presentations 

COMMUNE project will arrange workshops to which relevant 

stakeholders are invited 

This includes conferences, workshops and other events 

COMMUNE will interact with related Celtic and FP7 projects to 

share information and approaches. 

COMMUNE will publish its scientific results in a variety of 

conferences, journals and magazines 

These are produced as part of WP5 activities 

Table 1 Dissemination Activity Categories 

http://projects.celtic-initiative.org/commune/ 

The main page of the website is shown in 


Figure 1 COMMUNE website home page 

The website in the main point of contact for all external parties to COMMUNE and, as such, 

serves as the main point of dissemination for the project. The website will maintain up to date 

information on all relevant project activities and outcomes will indicate planned future 

dissemination deliverables and events. 

2.2.1.2 Marketing Material 

The project has prepared a project overview leaflet according to a standard Celtic template. 

This is available on the website and will be disseminated at all events. The project has also 

prepared a slide set and posters for the mid-term review. 

2.2.2 Internal workshops 

COMMUNE will arrange workshops to which relevant stakeholders are invited. The internal 

workshops act as events where the partners share their results coming from the project itself as 

well as other work related to the topics relevant to the project. The workshops will also be 

attended by relevant external participants as keynote speakers or presenters to enrich the 

workshop contents. In order to simplify logistics, these workshops are arranged together with 

PCC meetings, and kept short in duration (1/2 to 1 day at most). 

Two workshops will take place; one will be held in conjunction with the Celtic mid-term review 

(M15) in Finland on Feb 18/19 2012 and another before the project ends (M30). 


2.2.3 Participation to major international events 

The key international events identified by the COMMUNE consortium through which 

disseminate information about the project and its results are: 

Celtic events 2013 & 2014: The main objective of the Celtic event is to present the 

current status, the available results, and developments of the running Celtic projects, thus, 

the COMMUNE project should be presented there. 

COMMUNE will participate in the 2013 Celtic event in Turkey on March 6/7 2013 and 

will demonstrate a number of technologies being developed in the project. 

Future Network & Mobile Summit (http://www.futurenetworksummit.eu) 2013 & 

2014: Supported by the European Commission and the Net!Works European Technology 

Platform, Future Network and MobileSummit integrates high-level industry/policy 

plenary sessions that discuss strategic issues for Future Networks with high quality 

technical/scientific tracks and workshop sessions. Technical/scientific tracks present 

papers that showcase original results and hot topics in all areas of mobile, wireless and 

fixed broadband communications systems and networks. 

Commune has proposed a joint workshop with FP7 projects Univerself and Semafour for 

the summit and is awaiting response from the organising committee 

EU Future Internet research coordination (FIA) 

The European Union coordinates Future Internet research activities. The most complete 

source of information source about such research is European Future Internet 

portal: http://www.future-internet.eu/home.html. Part of the activity is a periodic 

organization of Future Internet Assembly (FIA) events – twice per year. Every year FIA 

publishes a book with FIA submitted papers. FIA is active from 2008 and brings together 

most of EU projects that are focused on Future Internet (ICT programme of FP7). FIA is 

open to all researchers (from EU or not) engaged in Future Internet research. FIA has also 

created several Working groups. One of them, Management and Service-aware 

Networking Architectures (MANA) is of special interest of COMMUNE. COMMUNE 

members will attend FIA events and when COMMUNE concepts will become mature, 

they will be presented there. 

Scientific events: The COMMUNE project aims to maximize the project’s visibility and 

impact through showcasing its results in suitable scientific venues. Besides articles 

published in relevant conferences and journals, the consortium could find at least one 

major event (e.g. top-tier conferences) in which a track or workshop is aligned with the 

project’s scope and present its research topics and results through e.g. scientific papers, 

panels, and demonstrators. 

2.2.4 Cooperation with other projects in COMMUNE’s areas of interest 

The COMMUNE project should coordinate with other European and national projects working 

on cognitive network management mechanisms and related technologies. There are several on- 


going projects in Europe studying similar topics to COMMUNE, thus, it makes sense to follow 

the progress and results of such projects. Therefore, COMMUNE aims to keep track of the 

progress of other relevant projects and to share results when appropriate. 

Currently, the following projects have been identified as potential for such coordination and 

cooperation by the COMMUNE consortium: 

The EU FP7 UniverSelf project (http://www.univerself-project.eu) aims at overcoming 

the growing management complexity of future networking systems and reducing the 

barriers that complexity and ossification pose to further growth. 

COMMUNE has initiated a joint workshop proposal with Univerself 

Celtic CIER - Converged Infrastructure for Emerging Regions project 

(http://www.celtic-initiative.org/Projects/Celtic-projects/Call7/CIER/cier-default.asp) 

aims at designing and implementing energy-efficient, robust, reliable and affordable wide 

heterogeneous wireless mesh networks to connect geographically very large areas in the 

challenged environment of the remote parts of Europe and Africa. 

COMMUNE members in Finland will give an overview of COMMUNE to CIER during 

the second phase of the project. 

Follow up project for EU FP7 project Semafour– (Self-Optimisation and self- 

ConfiguRATion in wirelEss networkS.). Semafour is focused to self-x functionality in 

LTE networks. 

COMMUNE has proposed a joint workshop with Semafour to be held in mid 2013 

TIVIT IoT SRA (http://www.internetofthings.fi) is a new TEKES research program 

aiming to create solutions in the Internet of Things research space. This includes basic 

protocol research, experimentation with very low energy devices and the related 

standardization work. IoT SRA will also apply the developed protocols to vertical 

scenarios and testbeds. The results will be closely followed up in the COMMUNE 

project. 

COMMUNE member Ericsson gave an overview of the project to TIVIT members in 

November 2012 

2.2.5 Publications 

The project disseminates its key technical discoveries through publications at conferences and in 

journals and magazines. 

As stated in the FPP, the COMMUNE project aims at publishing its results in international 

refereed journals with high impact factor. The following journals in particular are considered 

good candidates for publication 

Journal/Magazine Publisher Impact Factor 

Journal of Machine Learning Microtome Publ. 3.116 


Machine Learning Springer 2.326 

IEEE Journal on Selected areas in IEEE 4.249 

Communication 

IEEE Network IEEE 3.068 

IEEE Communications Magazine IEEE 2.799 

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia IEEE 2.288 

Computing 

IEEE Transactions on Communications IEEE 2.070 

IEEE Internet Computing IEEE 2.309 

Computer Networks Elsevier Science 1.304 

International Journal of Network 

Wiley Interscience 0.323 

Management 

IEEE Transaction on Service and Network IEEE 1.815 

Management 

Journal on Wireless Communication and 

Networking 

EURASIP 0.873 

Table 2 Journals and Magazines for COMMUNE output 

Tables 3 and 4 below contains a list of papers published during the first half of the project 

Title Conference Authors 

GARSON: Management 

Performance Aware Approach 

to Autonomic and Cognitive 

Networks 

Operator Governed 

Autonomic Load Balancing in 

Wireless Multiaccess 

Environment 

IEEE MENS 2012 

WCNC 2013 (submitted Oct 

2012) 

Kuklinski et al. 

Rauto et al. 

Table 3 Conference articles published by COMMUNE in the first half of the project 

Title Journal Authors 

Mobile Networks and 

Applications 17(4): 492-505. 

2012 

Integrating adaptive video 

streaming service with multiaccess 

network management. 

Implementing opportunistic 

spectrum access in LTE- 

Advance 

EURASIP Journal on Wireless 

Communications and 

Networking, March 2012 

Ojanperä T, Luoto M, Ortiz J 

& Myllyniemi M 

Osa V., et al. 

Table 4 Journal articles published by COMMUNE in first half 


Table 5 lists planned papers for publication during the second half of the project. 

Title/Topic 

Distributed Decision Engine: information 

delivery mechanism for distributed self-* 

systems 

Cognitive Multimedia Service and Mobility 

Management using a Distributed Decision 

Framework 

Final results regarding the e2e QoE 

management use case (i.e. final testbed, 

algorithms, and results from experimental 

evaluation). 

Self-* for M2M network management 

(GARSON for M2M and IoT network 

management, interference coordination, 

network attachment, fault detection and 

correction, etc.) 

Enabling sensor devices in P2P/M2M 

networks via clustering 

Vendor specific Cloud service platform and 

applications for IoT services 

A Reinforcement Learning Approach 

Supporting Optimal Cloud Based Superpeer 

Deployments for Scalable Video 

Streaming in P2P networks 

JADE/OSGI: A distributed platform for 

autonomic network management. 

Reinforcement learning applied to energy 

saving 

Expected 

submission 

date 

Target 

conference/journ 

al 

Lead 

Authors 

April 2013 PIMRC 2013 VTT 

April 2013 PIMRC 2013 VTT 

/GLOBECOMM 

2013 

Q32013 Journal VTT 

TBD TBD Ericsson 



April 2013 ICNP 2013 AIT 

TBD TBD TP 

TBD TBD TP 

TBD TBD International 

Conference on 

Computer 

Systems and 

Technologies 

CompSysTech'13 

http://www.comp 

systech.org/ 

TBD January 2014 INFORMATION 

SOCIETY 2014, 

16th International 

multiconference 

Temida 

Temida 


Realistic implementation of X2-based 

interference management for LTE 

femtocells 

TBD ICC 2013 Sistel 

On the feasible operation of LTE femtocells TBD International Sistel 

Sypomsium on 

Distributed 

Computing and 

Artificial 

Intelligence 

(Salamanca 

Information management process TBD TBD NSN 

SON coordination – architectures and TBD TBD NSN 

implementation 

Self Healing in SON TBD TBD NSN 

Table 5 Planned Publications in the second half of the project 

In addition to high quality journal and conference papers, the project aims to produce several 

academic theses. 

Partner Thesis type and Subject Area Completion Date 

TP 

PhD – Algorithms and methods for cognitive 2015 

resource management 

TP 

PhD – Self-adaptive monitoring for autonomic 2015 

network management 

VTT PhD - Distributed information and decision 

framework for seamless IP networks 

2015 

Table 6 Academic Theses to be carried out as part of COMMUNE 

2.2.6 Demonstrators 

COMMUNE will demonstrate prototype technologies at an internal workshop at the Mid-term 

review in Finland on Feb 18/192013 and also at the Celtic event in Turkey on March 6/7 2013. 

A further demonstration will be planned in conjunction with the final review. 

2.2.7 Dissemination to the general public 

Besides all the academic and industrial forums in which the project’s results will be shared, it is 

also interesting to make other people aware of new technologies that will likely have an impact 

on their daily lives. Thus, appropriate mass-communication channels such as press releases, 

technology-related TV and radio shows, technology-related websites, etc. shall be used to 

provide a layman’s view of the project’s outcome to the general public. In addition, good quality 

videos of the COMMUNE demonstrators may be published on Youtube for visibility. 


3 EXPLOITATION 

COMMUNE will put emphasis on this activity in the second half 

3.1 Market Analysis 

Telecommunications networks have traditionally evolved through standardization. The 

environment for technology implementation both in terms of technology evolution and market 

needs has been deterministic. Robust, high performance technologies have been developed and 

implemented based on the evolution of the standards. A new trend emerging with the network is 

increasing complexity. Multiple radio technologies - 2G, 3G and 4G - are deployed 

simultaneously. The cost of technology is the key reason why old standards live a long lifetime. 

2G is optimal for voice and SMS, and global de-facto network for roaming customers, 3G for 

global mobile data delivery and 4G for very high speed, low latency mobile data. Emerging 

M2M technologies also will need a long life time of supporting network technologies. 

The number of standards, more than five billion mobile consumers and high growth of M2M 

applications call for better understanding of the market behaviour. Obviously automation is the 

fundament to lower the cost of network operation. However traditional industrial automation 

operates only in predictable environment. The market behaviour with billions of people, 

thousands of different devices, millions of new applications and emerging M2M industry have 

made the market very unpredictable. Rather than a complete understanding of the technology 

environment and evolution, sensitivity to market behaviour and fast response mechanisms have 

become drivers for the evolution of automation. Automation also needs to operate with limited 

information under uncertainty of the market conditions. 

The new business environment calls for learning both organizationally and technically. When 

combined with automation, learning solutions introduce new levels of intelligence in the 

networks. Therefore, rather than just automation, these new learning solutions with intelligence 

define cognitive solutions, involving both cognitive network elements and cognitive network 

layer creating a cognitive network for communications and creation, delivery and access of 

information. Such information includes for example where consumers roam, what applications 

they use, how content they are with the services. Likewise information creation and 

communications in M2M applications will increase the need for sensitivity and quality. All this 

information can be used in business development and operations. Additional new information 

also will also measure the success of deployment new innovations, whether consumer or 

machine centric. 

The project will analyse expected business benefits and ways to exploit for each use cases. 

Market analysis for cognitive network management under uncertainty requires analysis of 

following: 

1. Market definition: new, substitute, size in maturity 

2. Business potential: growth potential, growth, sustainability in time 

3. Market segmentation 

4. Ecosystem: value network, value creation mechanisms, players, roles and positions, basis 

of competition (perfect competition, oligopoly, monopoly, HHI index) 


5. Addressable market for private enterprises 

6. Entry and exit barriers 

7. Market structure: global vs. local 

8. Role of regulation in market definition, licensing and legislation 

Any analysis at an early phase of market birth is qualitative by nature rather than quantative. 

Current early state market analysis can be based on substitution. For example, how many jobs 

globally/locally are impacted by cognitive solutions. What is the job market size currently, how 

large cognitive network management market is created by job substitution and how much value 

can different players capture in competition of the offering. If possible, capital investment needs, 

innovation potential, competence development requirements, characteristics of cyclicty, 

partnerships and IPR licensing schemes etc. could be estimated to give more insight in market 

formulation. When market emerges, growth figures will become available and cash flows will be 

predictable, therefore better quantitative analysis can be performed later. 

3.2 Partner Exploitation Plans 

3.2.1 Telenium 

For Telenium, COMMUNE will mean the incorporation of new capabilities in its Managed 

Services portfolio in three relevant points: 

For both big organisations and especially for small and medium customers, COMMUNE will 

allow Telenium to market services with a higher value at competitive costs, helping those 

present day customers to cope with their network and systems management in more effective 

ways. 

Secondly, COMMUNE will allow Telenium to expand its Managed Services customer base 

to new customers, which will benefit from network and systems management services, but 

cannot afford the licensing and consulting costs and complexity of present day management 

tools implementations. 

As a third point, COMMUNE will allow Telenium to define and market new Managed 

Services, such as product-service bundles and end-to-end management services. Furthermore, 

COMMUNE will guarantee that Telenium will cope with new network and systems 

technologies deployments. 

Telenium’s exploitation plan will then address these three directions, with a specific focus on 

augmenting its small and medium companies’ market penetration. 

3.2.2 SistelNetworks 

The improvements and innovations contemplated in COMMUNE, in relation to the LTE 

femtocells currently available in the market, are of great international relevance. The world’s 

first technical solution proposed in COMMUNE is revolutionary in terms of the use of cognitive 

radio algorithms, control strategies of connectivity and control systems and monitoring of 

femtocells and femtocellular networks. Therefore, the solution proposed in this project entails an 


important enhancement of femtocell operation and a significant reduction in energy consumption 

and management costs for network operators. For all the above, the result of COMMUNE is 

perfect to create a marketable product of world-wide impact, because of the novelty of 

development and enormous international interest in the field of mobile communications systems. 

Hence, for SistelNetworks S.L. this project will allow the company to deploy advanced 

femtocells in enterprise environments, niche market in which the company is specialized. In 

addition, the company will have a femtocell device highly competitive which is expected to have 

a significant market penetration. 

3.2.3 Telnet Redes Inteligentes 

The strategic and commercial objectives of COMMUNE are very important to the approach 

Telnet Redes Inteligentes is taking in having equipment that will enable operators to deploy its 

fiber network to: 

a. Facilitate the location of points of failure in the deployment of the operator, or those 

points where the installation and commissioning are delayed or even canceled. 

b. Technological solutions that will solve or alleviate these problems, which go through 

alternatives to current solutions that aired in the impossibility of giving a contingency solution to 

the explosion-induced functional uncertainty. 

These guidelines are broken down into more specific objectives: 

Getting a new family of GPON FTTH equipment that would enable our teams more 

competitive and attractive to operators due to the cognitive capacity is to implement 

them. 

Create management tools GPON FTTH networks that avoid future cost overruns in 

operating (OPEX) and infrastructure (CAPEX) uncertainty caused by the complexity of 

emerging technologies and their implementations to operators. Allowed to compete with 

other manufacturers including added functionality and highly valued by operators. 

Diagnostic tools that enable to anticipate the problems underlying the deployment of the 

operators or to diagnose these problems quickly and accurately. 

Locate specific solutions and innovative, patent susceptible to enable the operator to 

provide a solution that allows unattended operation cost savings and implementation of 

GPON FTTH deployments. 

Almost, we want to collaborate with other companies that enable us to align / share trends, 

technologies and avoiding decisions and anticipating risks. 

3.2.4 Temida 

Temida is a SME with experiences in software development and constructing knowledge 

intensive decision support systems that are often used in the fields that require handling of 

uncertainty. We plan to improve our skills and abilities in implementing algorithms for cognitive 

networks and their management (self-organization) in the context of probabilistic frameworks 

and uncertainty. The findings and results related to the COMMUNE project will be documented 

and published as papers in thematic conferences or journals. By gaining experience in 

COMMUNE, Temida also plans to become involved in other local and regional 

telecommunication projects that require similar expertise. We plan to exploit the acquired 

knowledge in software construction projects in several other private and public sector domains. 


3.2.5 Athlone Institute of Technology 

The Software research Institute at Athlone Institute of Technology is involved in the creation of 

innovative solutions in the areas of connected media delivery and adaptation and in infrastructure 

performance management solutions in a variety of vertical fields. Within the COMMUNE 

project SRI will seek to develop and enhance its knowledge in the following areas: 

Algorithms and approaches to P2P media adaptation 

Development of machine learning in resource constrained devices 

SW design and architectures for distributed machine leaning 

SRI expects to exploit this knowledge by developing a leading position in the development of 

machine learning in constrained devices scenarios and to apply this knowledge and competence 

in a variety of commercial and industrial sectors such as smart grid, telecom, health, automotive 

and so on. 

3.2.6 Daysha Consulting 

Daysha Consulting is an innovation centric services company with a specific focus on using 

large yet incomplete data sets to support decision-making. Our customers operate in a range 

verticals including telecommunications, aerospace, and financial services. 

Through COMMUNE Daysha will seek to develop and enhance knowledge and expertise in the 

following areas: 

Generalised process model for applying probabilistic reasoning and machine learning 

algorithms 

Generalised evaluation framework for working with probabilistic reasoning algorithms 

SW architecture and designs for working with real-time streamed data 

Mechanisms to co-ordinate autonomous intelligent agents 

Daysha hope to combine the experiences and expertise developed as part of COMMUNE with 

those being developed in SPITFIRE (a parallel FP7 project focussed on managing uncertainty in 

the Internet of Things) and EVOLVE (a Daysha led research project delivering decision support 

in space mission feasibility analysis). Through these efforts Daysha aim to maximise the domain 

applicability of COMMUNE results. Daysha also intend to use COMMUNE as basis to broaden 

its own market share in the emergent LTE market place. Daysha has strong links with Irish 

operators (Eircom, Vodafone, O2, and Three) and Irish based equipment vendors (Ericsson and 

Alcatel-Lucent). The COMMUNE project will allow Daysha to leverage these links to forge new 

business with these organisations. 

3.2.7 Nokia Siemens Networks OY 

Nokia Siemens Networks aims to exploit project results in future communications networks, 

such as further evolution of LTE networks and their network management systems. COMMUNE 

results are seen as enablers for design of cognitive network management features in Nokia 

Siemens Networks’ products. Vision is that more and more cognition will be added to network 


management as a part of automation. Therefore, it is vital interest of Nokia Siemens Networks to 

further strengthen understanding and knowledge in this area. In COMMUNE, NSN’s focus is in 

network management automation based on knowledge based reasoning and machine learning for 

LTE and its evolution. NSN aims to produce 3GPP and TMF standardization contributions and 

publications based on the project’s results. 

3.2.8 VTT 

As a contract research organization, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland seeks to create a 

wide range of technology and provide applied research services. By contributing to the 

COMMUNE solutions, VTT will further improve its expertise in the field of telecommunication 

networks. The enhanced knowledge and competence will be exploited in setting up new projects 

with national and European partners, both in the academic and industrial world. VTT also aims 

at transferring the knowledge built in the COMMUNE project to the industrial partners for 

further development and commercialization of the results. Moreover, the project’s results will be 

published in various scientific forums in the form of conference and journal papers. Besides 

acting as an efficient tool for dissemination and providing visibility for VTT and its expertise, 

the publications are also intended to support the on-going Ph.D. works of VTT’s project 

personnel. 

3.2.9 Magister Solutions 

Magister Solutions Ltd. is a consulting company specialized in wireless systems research. Its 

core competence team has long traditions in wireless communications, especially in development 

of system simulators supporting standardization activities. Its personnel are active in scientific 

community and it has reached a trusted reputation in Finnish ICT sector. Its strategy is to 

strengthen its position and grow internationally and therefore needs to stay close to the 

international research activities within its core competence. The COMMUNE project fulfils this 

need. We expect the project to have a clear positive impact on company’s service offering. We 

also plan to produce publications based on project’s results. 

3.2.10 Ericsson 

Near-future communication networks will have to deal with rapidly growing amount of 

communicating devices e.g. sensors and actuators. Soon the management of those kinds of 

devices and networks becomes a considerable technical and monetary challenge. The main 

objective for Ericsson is to develop such mechanisms that can be used either for preventing or 

alleviating the aforementioned problem. These mechanisms should be able to bring self* 

properties for the devices in M2M networks. Another objective for Ericsson is to study 

mechanisms for implementing the M2M and Internet of Things scenarios in the “Selforganizing” 

& “cognitive” networks. The focus is on effects to LTE and required 

interconnections between LTE and other networks, e.g. localized sensor networks. There are 

different architectural alternatives for M2M communication. Ericsson will mainly focus on a 

M2M gateway solution interconnecting M2M devices to the mobile access i.e. LTE. The work 

will be conducted through academic publications, prototyping and standardization activities 

(3GPP and IETF). Proof-of-concept demonstrations will be organized to validate and 

communicate the results and to get feedback from potential end users. Ericsson plans to 


prototype some of the functionality also in its proprietary product platforms. It is expected that 

some of the results will end up in products in 3-5 years perspective. 

3.2.11 Elisa 

Elisa expects that it will be able to apply some of the achieved operational enhancements 

invented in the COMMUNE project for improving its high competitiveness in the local markets 

and to further improve its excellent service quality. Even shorter reaction times for service breakdowns 

enabled through automated troubleshooting are one of the key expectations for Elisa. 

Moreover, through the operational improvements Elisa expects to increase its competitiveness 

with the help of further OPEX reductions. Finally, any additional results that could be turned, 

e.g., into new service offerings, or for more efficient methodologies for QoS, and especially QoE 

monitoring, are seen extremely beneficial. 

During the project Elisa expects to have information and view of novel telecommunication 

technology implementation plans, especially from the aspects of LTE networks, M2M 

technologies, and femtocells. During the project the performance of Elisa’s network might be 

analysed and enhanced by the tools and methodology developed in the project. 

3.2.12 Telekomunikacja Polska 

Orange Labs Poland is a unit of Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) which is the leader of the 

telecommunication’s market in Poland and is also the member TP Group. The main goal of the 

whole group is to implement the 4G/LTE technology in the network by the end of 2015. New 

technology will significantly increase the complexity of network itself - particularly in 

management operations. Necessity of cooperation with legacy systems: GSM and UMTS and 

augmentation of overall number of network elements causes that traditional network 

management will be less effective than whenever and will increase OA&M costs. Progressive 

depreciation of ARPU forces the reduction of OPEX where network management figures as one 

of the most important factor. Thereupon TP Group has spotted the big opportunity of autonomic 

network management, especially in the area of self-configuration, self-diagnosis and selfoptimization 

(i.e. automated troubleshooting). Our interests are focused on commercial solutions 

covering cognitive network management aspects as well as indirect solutions such as 

standardized monitoring interfaces, reference architectures and cognitive management 

algorithms that will give us opportunity to develop ourselves the dedicated management 

solutions exactly suited to our needs. Last but not least QoS and QoE are also very important 

because TP Group aims for continuously improvement of network performance that will increase 

overall satisfaction of our customers. In this field, built-in self-* network mechanisms will 

reduce failures in network and will enhance perceived services’ quality. 


4 STANDARDIZATION 

4.1 Candidate Standardization Bodies 

4.1.1 3GPP 

There has been no participation in 3GPP during the first half of the project as appropriate 

inputs to standardisation will not available until the second half. Original plans to contribute to 

the RAN2 and RAN3 tracks have been dropped after these activities were not considered any 

longer to be relevant for dissemination. 

Standards contributions will be made to 3GPP SA5 based on research results and identified 

standardization need. SA5 standardization contributions are made in case the developed concept 

would require interaction between network elements and the network management system. 

Table 6 shows SA5 schedule for 2013 and planned contributions by COMMUNE working 

packages (indicative – actual contributions will be decided when results are available and 

standardization status known). 

SA5 

3GPP SA5#87; 28 

Jan – 1 Feb, 2013; 

3GPP SA5#88 

3GPP SA5#89 

3GPP SA5#90 

3GPP SA5#91 

3GPP SA5#92 

COMMUNE 

Contributions 

WP3: Components 

from COMMUNE 

cognitive network 

management mode 

(e.g. knowledge 

model, functions 

related) will be 

contributed to 

SA5#92 meeting 

Table 7 Planned Commune Input to 3GPP 


4.1.2 ETSI 

4.1.2.1 Autonomic network engineering for the self-managing Future Internet 

(AFI) 

An overview of the COMMUNE project and the GARSON architecture was made to AFI 

representatives at the management of Emerging Networks and Services 2012 in California in 

December 2012. 

This ETSI work group deals with design of generic autonomic/self-managing network 

architecture as reference model for engineering the future Internet and as such is concerned with 

aspects of cognitive management. 

COMMUNE will contribute inputs to the main AFI thread and to specific work items that 

address the same networks domains as COMMUNE.. 

4.1.3 Broadband Forum 

There was no project activity in this group during the first half of the project. 

Cognitive management of IoT/M2M networks can be facilitated with the use of TR-069 protocol. 

The conceptual extension relating IoT/M2M networking scenarios will be contributed to 

Broadband Forum standardization specifically to the BroadbandHome WG. 

4.1.3.1 BroadbandHome 

The Scope of BroadbandHome WG is to maintain and evolve the TR-069 CPE WAN 

Management Protocol (CWMP) including to: 

Enhance its capabilities at all stages of the CPE remote management lifecycle: Autoconfiguration, 

service provisioning, firmware management, diagnostics, fault and 

performance monitoring 

Develop and specify new CPE device models (including XML schema) to broaden the 

range of devices for which TR-069 can be used 

Extend home networking device specifications for emerging network interfaces and 

protocols 

Use remote CPE management to facilitate improved energy efficiency 

COMMUNE will contribute GARSON requirements for TR-069 between M2M GW the 

network management element later in the second half of the project when GARSON interfaces 

AMON-L and ACT-L interfaces better defined 

4.1.4 IETF 

In the first half of the project COMMUNE contributed to the preparation of the following 

Internet drafts in the Homenet and ospf working groups – Table 8 Participation in the 


APPSAWG and ROLL working groups have been stopped as these are considered no longer 

relevant for dissemination due to changed scope. 

SDO Activity Who 

IETF - ospf 

OSPFv3 Auto-Configuration, 

Ericsson 

IETF – Homenet 

IETF – Homenet 

draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3- 

autoconfig-00.txt, October 5, 

2012 

Home Networking 

Architecture for IPv6, 

draft-ietf-homenet-arch-06, 

October 22, 2012 

Prefix Assignment in a Home 

Network, 

draft-arkko-homenet-prefixassignment-03, 

October 23, 2012 



Table 8 Contributions to IETF Standardisation 

Further technology and functionality developed as part of the M2M and IoT scenarios will be 

contributed to IETF standardization. The main focus will be in the Working Groups (WGs) 

dealing with M2M/IoT management and services. 

4.1.4.1 Constrained RESTfull Environments (CORE) 

CoRE is providing a framework for resource-oriented applications  intended to run on 

constrained IP networks. 

4.1.4.2 Home Networking (HOMENET) 

This working group focuses on the evolving networking technology   within and among 

relatively small "residential home" networks.

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