COST initiative "Traffic Engineering and QoS Control in Multimedia-enabled wireless networks"

PLEASE fill in and return asap to
COST initiative coordinator:

E-mail: yk@cs.tut.fi


COUNTRY:

Sweden

Organization:

Department of Communication Systems, Lund Institute of Technology

Org-address

BOX 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden



Representative

(in case of several representatives please repeat the below for each of them):

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Family-name,

Kihl

Given-name,

Maria

Degrees and positions

Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow

tel.:

+46 46 222 9010

fax.:

+46 46 14 58 23

E-mail:

maria@telecom.lth.se
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Family-name,

Nyberg

Given-name,

Christian

Degrees and positions

Associate Professor

tel.:

+46 46 222 3328

fax.:

+46 46 14 58 23

E-mail:

cn@telecom.lth.se
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Family-name,

Widell

Given-name,

Niklas

Degrees and positions

MSc, PhD student

tel.:

+46 46 222 7195

fax.:

+46 46 14 58 23

E-mail:

niklasw@telecom.lth.se
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Family-name,

Andersson

Given-name,

Jens

Degrees and positions

MSc, PhD student

tel.:

+46 46 222 0000

fax.:

+46 46 14 58 23

E-mail:

jensa@telecom.lth.se
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Family-name,

Aprin

Given-name,

Shabnam

Degrees and positions

MSc, PhD student

tel.:

+46 46 222 0000

fax.:

+46 46 14 58 23

E-mail:

shabnam@telecom.lth.se
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URL:

www.telecom.lth.se



Activity related to the proposed action:

Our main research area is Performance analysis of service architectures for 
next generation networks. A service architecture is used to provide 
value-added services in a communication network. We have since several 
years worked with service architectures as the Intelligent Network (IN) and 
the Telecommunication Information Networking Architecture (TINA). Currently 
we are looking at, for example, Open Service Access (OSA) and Parlay. Our 
aim in this action is to develop performance models for object-oriented 
distributed service architectures and then use these models to investigate 
the behavior of the architecture when implementing it in a real network. 
We work with issues as object distribution, load balancing and overload protection. 
All these issues are important to take into account when developing service 
architectures for the next generation networks. However, there is today 
very little research in this area which means that performance issues are 
not taken into account during the design of the architectures. Therefore,
we want to take part in this action so that also performance issues can 
be discussed and investigated.