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
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Network planning

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Network management
Smart grid telecommunication emulation
Intelligent network monitoring tools

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QoS and QoE tools and models
Network traffic analyser
Quality aware vertical handover solution

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Service level agreement risk visualisation
Network equipment monitoring

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Big data for telecom
Regular decomposition for data mining
Data collection and analytics

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Network security
Security metrics, testing and risk analyses
Industrial control system security

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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.
R&D infrastructure: Converging networks laboratory (www.cnl.fi).
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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
tapio.rauma@vtt.fi

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