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Developing a distributed electronic health-record store for India
The DIGHT project is addressing the problem of building a scalable and highly available information store for the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the over one billion citizens of India
Safety arguments for next generation location aware computing
Concerns over the accuracy, availability, integrity and
continuity of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
have limited the integration of GPS and GLONASS for
safety-critical applications. More recent augmentation
systems, such as the European Geostationary Navigation
Overlay Service (EGNOS) and the North American Wide
Area Augmentation System (WAAS) have begun to address
these concerns. Augmentation architectures build on the
existing GPS/GLONASS infrastructures to support locationbased services in Safety of Life (SoL) applications. Much of the technical development has been directed by air traffic management requirements, in anticipation of the more extensive support to be offered by GPS III and Galileo. WAAS has already been approved to provide vertical guidance against ICAO safety performance criteria for aviation applications. During the next twelve months, we will see the full certification of EGNOS for SoL applications.
This paper identifies strong similarities between the safety
assessment techniques used in Europe and North America.
Both have relied on hazard analysis techniques to derive
estimates of the Probability of Hazardously Misleading
Information (PHMI). Later sections identify significant
differences between the approaches adopted in application
development. Integrated fault trees have been developed by
regulatory and commercial organisations to consider both
infrastructure hazards and their impact on non-precision
RNAV/VNAV approaches using WAAS. In contrast,
EUROCONTROL and the European Space Agency have
developed a more modular approach to safety-case
development for EGNOS. It remains to be seen whether the
European or North American strategy offers the greatest
support as satellite based augmentation systems are used
within a growing range of SoL applications from railway
signalling through to Unmanned Airborne Systems. The key
contribution of this paper is to focus attention on the safety
arguments that might support this wider class of location
based services
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Multimedia delivery in the future internet
The term âNetworked Mediaâ implies that all kinds of media including text, image, 3D graphics, audio
and video are produced, distributed, shared, managed and consumed on-line through various networks,
like the Internet, Fiber, WiFi, WiMAX, GPRS, 3G and so on, in a convergent manner [1]. This white
paper is the contribution of the Media Delivery Platform (MDP) cluster and aims to cover the Networked
challenges of the Networked Media in the transition to the Future of the Internet.
Internet has evolved and changed the way we work and live. End users of the Internet have been confronted
with a bewildering range of media, services and applications and of technological innovations concerning
media formats, wireless networks, terminal types and capabilities. And there is little evidence that the pace
of this innovation is slowing. Today, over one billion of users access the Internet on regular basis, more
than 100 million users have downloaded at least one (multi)media file and over 47 millions of them do so
regularly, searching in more than 160 Exabytes1 of content. In the near future these numbers are expected
to exponentially rise. It is expected that the Internet content will be increased by at least a factor of 6, rising
to more than 990 Exabytes before 2012, fuelled mainly by the users themselves. Moreover, it is envisaged
that in a near- to mid-term future, the Internet will provide the means to share and distribute (new)
multimedia content and services with superior quality and striking flexibility, in a trusted and personalized
way, improving citizensâ quality of life, working conditions, edutainment and safety.
In this evolving environment, new transport protocols, new multimedia encoding schemes, cross-layer inthe
network adaptation, machine-to-machine communication (including RFIDs), rich 3D content as well as
community networks and the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays are expected to generate new models of
interaction and cooperation, and be able to support enhanced perceived quality-of-experience (PQoE) and
innovative applications âon the moveâ, like virtual collaboration environments, personalised services/
media, virtual sport groups, on-line gaming, edutainment. In this context, the interaction with content
combined with interactive/multimedia search capabilities across distributed repositories, opportunistic P2P
networks and the dynamic adaptation to the characteristics of diverse mobile terminals are expected to
contribute towards such a vision.
Based on work that has taken place in a number of EC co-funded projects, in Framework Program 6 (FP6)
and Framework Program 7 (FP7), a group of experts and technology visionaries have voluntarily
contributed in this white paper aiming to describe the status, the state-of-the art, the challenges and the way
ahead in the area of Content Aware media delivery platforms
WHO IS THE MASTER? WHO IS THE SERVANT? MARKET OR GOVERNMENT? AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH: TOWARDS A COORDINATION SYSTEM
The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the limitations of the market and the risks of government failure, and to present an alternative approach on coordination of economic activities by introducing the concept of âcoordination systemâ. In such a system, economic activities are coordinated by market, firms and government requiring the availability of ânon-price factorsâ such as infrastructure, institutions and organizations. This approach is practical, country specific and dynamic. It is practical because it is based on the realities of the world economy and the situations of developing countries. It is country specific because the relative role of each coordination mechanism â market, government and enterprises â changes from one country to another, depending on their level of development and other socio-economic characteristics. It is dynamic because in each country the relative role of each mechanism changes over time during the course of economic development of the country.
Description and Experience of the Clinical Testbeds
This deliverable describes the up-to-date technical environment at three clinical testbed demonstrator sites of
the 6WINIT Project, including the adapted clinical applications, project components and network transition technologies
in use at these sites after 18 months of the Project. It also provides an interim description of early experiences with
deployment and usage of these applications, components and technologies, and their clinical service impact
An Ontology for Product-Service Systems
Industries are transforming their business strategy from a product-centric to a more service-centric nature by bundling products and services into integrated solutions to enhance the relationship between their customers. Since Product- Service Systems design research is currently at a rudimentary stage, the development of a robust ontology for this area would be helpful. The advantages of a standardized ontology are that it could help researchers and practitioners to communicate their views without ambiguity and thus encourage the conception and implementation of useful methods and tools. In this paper, an initial structure of a PSS ontology from the design perspective is proposed and evaluated
Towards a cloud enabler : from an optical network resource provisioning system to a generalized architecture for dynamic infrastructure services provisioning
This work was developed during a period where most of the optical management and provisioning system where manual and proprietary. This work contributed to the evolution of the state of the art of optical networks with new architectures and advanced virtual infrastructure services. The evolution of optical networks, and internet globally, have been very promising during the last decade. The impact of mobile technology, grid, cloud computing, HDTV, augmented reality and big data, among many others, have driven the evolution of optical networks towards current service technologies, mostly based on SDN (Software Defined Networking) architectures and NFV(Network Functions Virtualisation). Moreover, the convergence of IP/Optical networks and IT services, and the evolution of the internet and optical infrastructures, have generated novel service orchestrators and open source frameworks. In fact, technology has evolved that fast that none could foresee how important Internet is for our current lives. Said in other words, technology was forced to evolve in a way that network architectures became much more transparent, dynamic and flexible to the end users (applications, user interfaces or simple APIs).
This Thesis exposes the work done on defining new architectures for Service Oriented Networks and the contribution to the state of the art. The research work is divided into three topics. It describes the evolution from a Network Resource Provisioning System to an advanced Service Plane, and ends with a new architecture that virtualized the optical infrastructure in order to provide coordinated, on-demand and dynamic services between the application and the network infrastructure layer, becoming an enabler for the new generation of cloud network infrastructures.
The work done on defining a Network Resource Provisioning System established the first bases for future work on network infrastructure virtualization. The UCLP (User Light Path Provisioning) technology was the first attempt for Customer Empowered Networks and Articulated Private Networks. It empowered the users and brought virtualization and partitioning functionalities into the optical data plane, with new interfaces for dynamic service provisioning. The work done within the development of a new Service Plane allowed the provisioning of on-demand connectivity services from the application, and in a multi-domain and multi-technology scenario based on a virtual network infrastructure composed of resources from different infrastructure providers. This Service Plane facilitated the deployment of applications consuming large amounts of data under deterministic conditions, so allowing the networks behave as a Grid-class resource. It became the first on-demand provisioning system that at lower levels allowed the creation of one virtual domain composed from resources of different providers.
The last research topic presents an architecture that consolidated the work done in virtualisation while enhancing the capabilities to upper layers, so fully integrating the optical network infrastructure into the cloud environment, and so providing an architecture that enabled cloud services by integrating the request of optical network and IT infrastructure services together at the same level. It set up a new trend into the research community and evolved towards the technology we use today based on SDN and NFV.
Summing up, the work presented is focused on the provisioning of virtual infrastructures from the architectural point of view of optical networks and IT infrastructures, together with the design and definition of novel service layers. It means, architectures that enabled the creation of virtual infrastructures composed of optical networks and IT resources, isolated and provisioned on-demand and in advance with infrastructure re-planning functionalities, and a new set of interfaces to open up those services to applications or third parties.Aquesta tesi es va desenvolupar durant un perĂode on la majoria de sistemes de gestiĂł de xarxa òptica eren manuals i basats en sistemes propietaris. En aquest sentit, la feina presentada va contribuir a l'evoluciĂł de l'estat de l'art de les xarxes òptiques tant a nivell dâarquitectures com de provisiĂł dâinfraestructures virtuals. L'evoluciĂł de les xarxes òptiques, i d'Internet a nivell mundial, han estat molt prometedores durant l'Ăşltima dècada. L'impacte de la tecnologia mòbil, la computaciĂł al nĂşvol, la televisiĂł d'alta definiciĂł, la realitat augmentada i el big data, entre molts altres, han impulsat l'evoluciĂł cap a xarxes dâaltes prestacions amb nous serveis basats en SDN (Software Defined Networking) i NFV (Funcions de xarxa La virtualitzaciĂł). D'altra banda, la convergència de xarxes òptiques i els serveis IT, junt amb l'evoluciĂł d'Internet i de les infraestructures òptiques, han generat nous orquestradors de serveis i frameworks basats en codi obert. La tecnologia ha evolucionat a una velocitat on ningĂş podria haver predit la importĂ ncia que Internet estĂ tenint en el nostre dia a dia. Dit en altres paraules, la tecnologia es va veure obligada a evolucionar d'una manera on les arquitectures de xarxa es fessin mĂŠs transparent, dinĂ miques i flexibles vers als usuaris finals (aplicacions, interfĂcies d'usuari o APIs simples). Aquesta Tesi presenta noves arquitectures de xarxa òptica orientades a serveis. El treball de recerca es divideix en tres temes. Es presenta un sistema de virtualitzaciĂł i aprovisionament de recursos de xarxa i la seva evoluciĂł a un pla de servei avançat, per acabar presentant el disseny dâuna nova arquitectura capaç de virtualitzar la infraestructura òptica i IT i proporcionar serveis de forma coordinada, i sota demanda, entre l'aplicaciĂł i la capa d'infraestructura de xarxa òptica. Tot esdevenint un facilitador per a la nova generaciĂł d'infraestructures de xarxa en el nĂşvol. El treball realitzat en la definiciĂł del sistema de virtualitzaciĂł de recursos va establir les primeres bases sobre la virtualitzaciĂł de la infraestructura de xarxa òptica en el marc de les âCustomer Empowered Networksâ i âArticulated Private Networksâ. Amb lâobjectiu de virtualitzar el pla de dades òptic, i oferir noves interfĂcies per a la provisiĂł de serveis dinĂ mics de xarxa. En quant al pla de serveis presentat, aquest va facilitat la provisiĂł de serveis de connectivitat sota demanda per part de l'aplicaciĂł, tant en entorns multi-domini, com en entorns amb mĂşltiples tecnologies. Aquest pla de servei, anomenat Harmony, va facilitar el desplegament de noves aplicacions que consumien grans quantitats de dades en condicions deterministes. En aquest sentit, va permetre que les xarxes es comportessin com un recurs Grid, i per tant, va esdevenir el primer sistema d'aprovisionament sota demanda que permetia la creaciĂł de dominis virtuals de xarxa composts a partir de recursos de diferents proveĂŻdors. Finalment, es presenta lâevoluciĂł dâun pla de servei cap una arquitectura global que consolida el treball realitzat a nivell de convergència dâinfraestructures (òptica + IT) i millora les capacitats de les capes superiors. Aquesta arquitectura va facilitar la plena integraciĂł de la infraestructura de xarxa òptica a l'entorn del nĂşvol. En aquest sentit, aquest resultats van evolucionar cap a les tendències actuals de SDN i NFV. En resum, el treball presentat es centra en la provisiĂł d'infraestructures virtuals des del punt de vista dâarquitectures de xarxa òptiques i les infraestructures IT, juntament amb el disseny i definiciĂł de nous serveis de xarxa avançats, tal i com ho va ser el servei de re-planificaciĂł dinĂ micaPostprint (published version
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