Subscription/Gvt funded Industry-Academic Collaboration Core 5 Prog– 2008- 2012 3 Work Areas:

1. Subscription/Gvt funded Industry-Academic Collaboration • Core 5 Prog– 2008- 2012 • 3 Work Areas: • Green Radio • Flexible Networks • User interactions

2. Mobile VCE industrial members – represent the world’s leading communications companies – define & steer long-term, world-class, shared-cost research Undertaken by some of the UK’s leading comms research Universities

3. Mobile VCE… • Organisation & Operation • A not-for-profit company, established in 1996 • High Financial & Manpower Gearing • Members’ annual subscriptions plus government grants fund a substantial integrated research programme, led by Industry • Research programme delivered by 12 key UK University groups • Annual subscription costing £45k (9MJY) secures full access to ~ £2M of industry-directed research • Royalty-free access to resulting patents, recruitment, industry collaboration opportunities, etc

4. Core 5 – Green Radio Programme Objectives & Overview (48 Person years of effort)

5. Why Green Radio? – An operator view • Vodafone UK is an average load of 50MW • Energy costs money and Vodafone has pledged to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by 2020 • 57% of energy use is in Radio Access

6. Green Radio Scenarios • Two Scenarios: • Developed World • Developed Infrastructure • Saturated Markets • Quality of Service Key • Drive to reduce costs • Emerging Markets • Less Established Infrastructure • Rapidly expanding Markets • Large Geographical Areas • Often no mains power supply – power consumption a major issue • Explore both Scenarios through targeted innovations

7. Green Radio Objectives • April 2008 workshop and following discussion identified two key targets: • To identify the best radio techniques across all layers of the protocol stack that collectively address the aspiration of achieving 100x power reduction. • To identify a green network architecture - a low power wireless network & backhaul that still provides good QoS

8. Architecture: Target Innovations • Establishing Baselines - To develop a clear understanding of energy consumption in current networks and the network elements, base sites, mobiles, etc for the defined scenarios • Backhaul Options - To determine the best backhaul strategy for a given architecture • Deployment Scenarios - To determine what is the optimum deployment scenario for a wide area network given a clearly defined energy efficiency metric

9. Techniques: Target Innovations • Overall Base Station Efficiency - Techniques to deliver 30% overall efficiency for base stations, measured as RF power out to total input power • Improving the QoS/RF Power Ratio - Techniques that will reduce the required RF output power required from the base station whilst still maintaining the required QoS • Optimization of a Limited Energy Budget - Given a base station nominal daily energy requirement derived from renewable energy sources (eg 2.4 kWh - 100W x 24hrs) to determine how this would be best used for communication • Scaling of Energy Needs with Traffic - Sleep mechanisms that deliver substantial reduction in power consumption for base stations with no loads and techniques that allow power consumption to scale with load

10. The Team • Academics • University of Bristol • Prof. Mark Beach • University of Edinburgh • Prof. Steve McLaughlin • Kings College London • Prof. Hamid Aghvami • Swansea University • Prof. Tim O’Farrell • Industry Steering Group – participants so far…

11. Core 5 – Flexible Networks Programme Objectives & Overview (50 person years in two phase programme)

12. The “It Just Is” Networking 2020 Vision Future Network Stimulus: A mishmash of Collisions and Synergies Raised Expectations • It-Just-Is (IJI) Network: • Connectivity happens • Optimised delivery happens • Services happen

13. Goals and Aims • The Goal: • Provide future networks with • design methodologies • enabling technologies that promote • flexible, agile, dynamic and self-evolving networking • A Network capable of coping with unforeseen demands • The Aim: • identify those key socio-economic parameters that impact future network design • Use these parameters to help identify suitable technologies to promote desired future network properties • Develop a network design methodology that promotes self-evolving flexible IJI networking

14. Key Deliverables • Architectural Combinations of Technology that promote : • Robustness & Efficiency, • Adaptability & Agility, • Network Verification & Trust • Design Methodologies for Future Flexible Networks • Self-design Flexible Networking Mechanisms, permitting network: • Initiation, • Construction, • Delivery & Verification • Proof of Concept through a Demonstration of a Flexible Network • Pushing the boundaries of networking • Virtualised, • Robust, • Self-evolving, • Flexible networks • Adapt to and keep pace with the end user

15. Core 5 Flexible Networking Team • University of Surrey • Prof Rahim Tafazolli • University of Strathclyde • Prof John Dunlop • Imperial College • Prof Kin Leung These academics are internationally known for wireless and wireless networking with an wealth of expertise in flexible networking • LSE • Dept of Management, Information Systems & Innovation Group • Dr Carsten Sørenson Internationally recognised, with experience working with the mobile industry

16. Core 5 – User Interaction Programme Objectives & Overview (20 Person years of effort)

17. Objectives • Understanding User Interactions to facilitate new breakthrough services • Exploration, evolution, demonstration & evaluation • Advanced user interaction modalities • Stimulating new markets within the framework of personal lifestyle support services • Not to develop such services per se, but…. • Define a set of usable design principles and tools, • Demonstrate potential • Deliver a baseline toolkit • Will enable Mobile VCE’s industrial members create in-house new capabilities, services and products

18. Research Challenges • Simple to use but with hidden complexity • Interaction with • Multiple devices • Dynamically composable services • Identify effective • Device interaction modalities • Environmental interactionmodalities • Combinations coupled with contextual intelligence • Socio-economic Requirement • Approaches must be acceptable to users • Support new / emerging business models

19. Technical Scope • Building on prior research in the HCI community plus established socio-economic approaches to explore: • Predispositions, Preferences and Prejudices of the User • Revenue Potential • Interaction Mechanisms • Service Awareness and Transparency • Design Approaches and Tools • Service Prototype Source: mirovision

20. Work Packages: • 1: User Requirements & Service Opportunities • 2: Interaction Design: Interacting with the User’s Devices & Environment • 3: Simplifying Service Awareness and Transparency for the End User • 4: Principles, Toolkit & Prototype

21. Key Deliverables • Deliverables from the programme will be a mix of experimental prototypes/demonstrations & technical reports: • Context Workshop with Instant Knowledge & Ubiquitous Services • ScenariosWorkshop • Understanding of User Predisposition, Preferences & Prejudices • Experimental Prototype Components & Mechanisms for Interaction and Service Awareness • Future User & Business Opportunities Directions • Integrated Requirements of Multi-Interface Services • Set of Design Principles • Combination Toolkit of Interaction Components • Demonstration & Evaluation of a Service Prototype • User Behavioural Drivers & Business Opportunities • Final Summary Report – Mar 2012

22. The Academic Team • University of Bath • Computer Science – HCI Group • Prof Peter Johnson & Dr Eamonn O’Neill • University of Bristol • Computer Science – Public Computing Group • Dr Mike Fraser & Dr Sriram Subramanian • University of Glasgow • Computer Science - Multimodal Interaction Group • Prof Stephen Brewster • London School of Economics • Management - Information Systems and Innovation Group • Dr Carsten Sorensen & Dr Daniele Pica

23. The Industrial Team • Embryonic Steering Group Members • Representatives from the following member organisations • BAE • BT • FTR&D (Orange) • HMGCC • NEC • Philips • Thales • Turner

24. Interactions between Core 5 programmes • Green Radio and Flexible Networking envisage • Mutual leveraging in: • Network coding and routing • Self–organisation • Complementary metrics on energy efficiency and real time optimisation and adaptation of networks • User Interaction and Flexible Networking • Mutual leveraging in: • Socio – economic drivers/factors to future designs and tool generation

25. Industry-Academic Engagement • Inbuilt measures to maximise dialogue : • Industry steering group coordinates programme • Industrial “Book of Assumptions” • Industrial mentor programme + short placements in industry for researchers • Regular deliverables report key results • Regular Industrially relevant workshops • Simulation/demonstration activity • See www.mobilevce.com