Network optimisation and management - Guaranteed network quality with less cost

Network optimisation and

management

Guaranteed network quality

with less cost

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Explosive increase in number

of network system

components and special

networks:

Industry is increasingly adopting remote

controlling and monitoring of machines or

environment, Internet of Things and machine to

machine communication.

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Increasingly complex networks are now creating new challenges of maintaining

and improving network performance and guaranteeing premier network quality.

VTT offers wide range of solutions for managing increasing network complexity

and improving quality of service to overcome these challenges.

Solutions are applicable in cellular networks as well as in special networks in

critical infrastructure and special industry.

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New challenges

Managing increasing capacity

demand and complexity

Managing quality of service in

networks

Utilizing big data in networks

Ensuring information security

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Network management

Quality of Service and Experience

Big data for telecom

Network security

VTT’s solutions for network optimisation

management

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Novel network management

Cognitive network management architecture and

algorithms see slide 14 for more details »

Wireless mesh networks see slide 15 for more details »

Network planning see slide 16 for more details »



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Network management

Smart grid telecommunication emulation see slide 17 for more details »

Intelligent network monitoring tools see slide 18 for more details »



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QoS and QoE tools and models see slide 19 for more details »

Network traffic analyser see slide 20 for more details »

Quality aware vertical handover solution see slide 21 for more details »



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Service level agreement risk visualisation see slide 22 for more details »

Network equipment monitoring see slide 23 for more details »



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Big data for telecom

Regular decomposition for data mining see slide 24 for more details »

Data collection and analytics see slide 25 for more details »



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Network security

Security metrics, testing and risk analyses see slide 27 for more details »

Industrial control system security see slide 26 for more details »



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VTT – intellectual property and

commercialisation

VTT offers a reliable and direct channel for

acquiring protected technology.

We offer our customers access to a portfolio of

more than 300 patent families.

There are various ways to exploit these

off-the-shelf technologies

Exclusive or non-exclusive licensing

IP transfer as a sales transaction

IP transfer as part of an interlinked research project



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Guaranteed network quality

with less cost

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Cognitive network management

architecture and algorithms

Value proposition: Over 10 years of experience in network

management and real-time monitoring.

Competitive edge: Analytical studies, laboratory measurements

and management algorithm implementations. Main focus on

cognitive technologies.

Offering: Design and consultancy Cognitive algorithm implementations for real-time networks

Building tailored network testbeds incl. applications, terminals and

base stations

Modelling of different radio access technologies e.g. WLAN, UMTS,

LTE, GSM, WiMAX

Improving users’ QoE/QoS

R&D infrastructure: Converging networks laboratory.

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Wireless mesh networks

Value proposition: Over 10 years of experience on ad-hoc and

multi-hop networking research and development with various

industry use cases.

Competitive edge: Analytical studies and prototype

implementations. Main focus on network and link layer protocols,

quality of service in ad-hoc networks, routing and management of

the ad-hoc systems.

Offering: Design and consultancy for mesh networks Simulations: NS-2, OMNET++, OPNET

Routing scalability and protocols

Link layer protocols

Power management

WLAN mesh networks (IEEE802.11s, HWMP) solutions

R&D infrastructure: Converging networks laboratory and Green

mesh network.

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Value proposition: Suitable and reliable network in right place.

Competitive edge: Understanding the applications and services

used in networks. Profound experience in designing and analysing

of almost all kind of wireless, wired and fibre networks.

References: Demonstrations available: CNL. Research and

customer projects done to NSN, Finnish Defence Forces, NESA,

PSA Port of Singapore, Port of Cork etc.

Offering: Network planning and analyses for: capacity

access point locations

coverage

alternative network comparisons

reliable power arrangements

fault analyses

dependency of telecom and electricity network


Network planning

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Smart grid telecommunication emulation

Value proposition: Flexible system for interconnection and

communication reliability analysis of the grids

Competitive edge: Emulates real world link conditions

Bandwidth

Delay, jitter

Packet loss, duplication, corruption, and reordering

Default parameters for different types of interfaces, e.g.: GPRS, 3G,

LTE, Ethernet, Wi-Fi

Development phase: demonstrations available.

Offering: Telecommunication network emulator for automation and

simulation systems.

R&D infrastructure: Otaniemi EcoCampus.

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Intelligent network monitoring tools

Value proposition: Over 15 years of experience in network planning

and real-time monitoring. Tools and prediction models for intelligent

proactive decision-making in heterogeneous networks.

Competitive edge: Analytical studies, field measurements and

management algorithm implementations. Main focus on ensuring

reliable and resilient machine-type communications.

Offering: Design and consultancy Benchmarking radio access technologies of different mobile operators

Assessing the feasibility of wireless communications for smart grid

communications

Modelling of different radio access technologies (WLAN, UMTS, LTE,

GSM, WiMAX)

Enabling swift handovers in heterogeneous networks to improve QoE

R&D infrastructure: Network planning tool and Green mesh

network.

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QoS and QoE tools and models

Value proposition: Ensure network quality with real time QoS-

and QoE measurements.

Competitive edge: Profound experience in QoS, QoE,

communication protocols, mobile networks, transport techniques,

network and mobility management, and used applications and

services.

Development phase: Demonstrations available.

Offering: Qosmet: passive quality of service measurement tool

Evaluate application flow performance over the network in real-time.

Any IP-based application can be measured.

Moset: active quality of service measurement tool

Active measurement tool (PC,Mobile) using fixed content sizes

especially for wireless access (LTE, HSPA, 3G, WLAN) download and

upload throughput monitoring.

Quality of Experience estimation models (separately and integrated to

Qosmet)


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Network traffic analyser

Value proposition: Real time method for identifying the applications

generating network traffic by looking at the statistical features of network

flows.

Competitive edge:

Fast operation, delay for first result < 1 s from beginning of a flow

Lightweight, could be used in embedded systems

Accuracy ~98%

Can detect unknown traffic

Can be trained to classify practically any kind of IP traffic

Can be used on encrypted (e.g. SSH tunneled) traffic

IP status: Demonstration available, patent pending.

Offering: Network traffic classifier/analyzer.

R&D infrastructure: Converging networks laboratory (www.cnl.fi).

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Quality aware vertical handover solution

Value proposition: Enhance user experience considerably when

compared to signal strength and/or simple availability based systems.

Competitive edge: A solution, which implements terminal initiated

QoS-guided intelligent vertical handovers (IVHO).


Offering:

Licensing and customizing the IVHO technology for the

customer’s environment.

One can use all the components or just some of them

Customization for different mobility protocols

VTT’s Qosmet measurement tool can be used for

providing required measurements, or IVHO can be

customized to support another tool.

Developing IVHO-like technology directly to a customer.


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Service level agreement risk visualisation

Value proposition: Understand importance of different

network components from service level point of view.

Competitive edge: Easy way to calculate and illustrate SLA

risks.


Offering:

Method for highlighting repair priorities in terms of

SLAs

Visualise which working elements are currently

critical ones for the service

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Network equipment monitoring

Value proposition: Efficient status monitoring of network devices

enables more autonomic network management and better quality.

Competitive edge: Usage of wider amount of network parameters,

but still keeping the easy to use approach.


Offering: SW tool for analysing status of network components (devices).

Consultancy services.


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Regular decomposition for data mining

Value proposition: Boosting big data analytics.

Competitive edge: New and effective way for data mining. Strong

research background.


IP status: Own IPR.

Offering: Regular decomposition -> rest of the data is classified

quickly

classify customers => well targeted actions, saving resources

help finding trends in customer data => anticipate changes in

business conditions => a competitive edge

predictions: detected trends in traffic => compute ‘what if’-type

scenarios

provide a big picture of customers data => how one should proceed

provide understanding of big data => how this resource can be used

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Data collection and analyses

Value proposition: Real-time efficient data collection and

analytics for several business fields.

Competitive edge: Expertise on the whole “pipeline” required in

the data analytics, designed for very large data amounts.

Development phase: Several customer projects done.

IP status: Own IP for context aware analyses.

Offering:

Textual and numerical data mining

Finding relationships between biological entities from

medical publications

Data fusion in business intelligence

Anomaly detection in server logs

Network packet identification

Recommendation systems and personalization

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Industrial control system security

Value proposition: Ensure continuous and safe operation.

Competitive edge: Research combined with close co-operation

with industry gives unique capability to analyse and improve

security of ICS.

Development phase: Several customer projects done.

IP status: Tools for network monitoring and intrusion detection.

Offering:

Architectural analysis

Network traffic analysis

Security monitoring

Holistic security analysis

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Security metrics, testing and risk analyses

Value proposition: Understand and improve your security situation.

Competitive edge: Holistic approach for information security.

Offering:

Security assessment Gap identification recommendations best practices

implementation.

Security testing Architecture analyses, system penetration testing,

testing automation.

Security metrics and risk analyses Methodology for eliciting the significant risks, their

countermeasures, and the relevant metrics for security

effectiveness assessment.

Support for informed security decision-making such as trade-off analyses,

security assurance, and visualisation for further human analysis.

Mechanisms for automated adaptation in the changing operational conditions.

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Mr Tapio Rauma

Key Account Manager

VTT Technical Research Centre of

Finland

Tel. +358 40 526 8231

[email protected]

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