Helsinki University of Technology 
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory			
Version 4.7.2000

IPMAN – Management of Large IP Networks
Project plan 1.1.2000 – 31.12.2000
Stiina Ylänen

Teknillinen  korkeakoulu
Tietotekniikan osasto
Tietoliikenneohjelmistojen ja multimedian laboratorio

1 INTRODUCTION

Helsinki University of Technology, Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory started IP management – IPMAN – project in March 1999. The project lasts for two years and is funded by TEKES, Nokia Networks and Open Environment Software. The second project year, 2000, is about to begin.

2 THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT AND CURRENT RESULTS 

The objective of the project is to do basic research on the effect of the growth of IP services on the network architecture; to model IP traffic for network management purposes and to prototype network and service management.

IPMAN has developed further the network management model suggested by Professor Olli Martikainen. The network management has been divided into four layers:

 Content Management 	
 Service Management 	
 Traffic Management 	
 Network Element Management  	

The report “IP Network Management – Interim report of the IPMAN-project”, authors Liisa Uosukainen, Tuomas Lilja, Lasse Metso, Stiina Ylänen, Seppo Ihalainen and Ossi Taipale, TML-B2, ISSN 1456-792X, ISBN 951-22-4827-1, 92 pages, was published in December, 1999 and was delivered to all relevant parties. The report was based on the network management model. Within the project Lasse Metso completed his Master’s Thesis on “Service Management in IP networks” that has also been delivered to the project parties.

On the remaining project year 1999 (1.1.2000 – 31.5.2000) and on the project year 2000, (1.6.2000 – 31-12.2000) the project focuses on studying the content management.

3 ORGANIZATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Responsible manager of the project – Professor Hannu H. Kari
					E-mail: Hannu.Kari@hut.fi
					Tel. 09-451 29 18

Project manager – Researcher Jouni Karvo (1.1.2000 – 2.5.2000)
		      Reseach assistant Stiina Ylänen (3.5.2000 – 31.12.2000)
    	                  E-mail: Stiina.Ylanen@lut.fi
		      Tel. 05-41 25 388

I: Remaining of the project year 1999, 1.1.2000 – 31.5.2000

Research personnel / person working month:

Name	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	TOTAL	
Akkanen Jaakko	1	1	0	0	0	2	
Liukko Juha	0,3	0,3	0,3	0,3	0,3	1,5	
Mednonogov Alexey	0	0	0	0,5	1	1,5	
Metso Lasse	1	1	1	0	0	3	
Suihko Toni	0	1	1	1	1	4	
Ylänen Stiina	0,6	0,6	0,6	0,6	0,6	3	
Zhou Yuchen	1	1	1	1	1	5	
Taipale Engineering: 
Liisa Uosukainen, Kirsi Lehtinen	1	1	1	1	1	5	
TOTAL	4,9	5,9	4,6	3,6	4,9	25	

Of the total 25, the subcontractor Taipale Engineering accomplishes five.

II: Project year 2000, 1.6.2000 – 31.12.2000

Research personnel / personal working month: 

Name	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	TOTAL	
Laasonen Henna	0,75	0,75	0,75	0,75	0	0	0	3	
Liukko Juha	0,3	0,3	0,3	0,3	0,3	0,3	0,3	2,1	
Mednonogov Alexey	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	
Terrihauta Voitto	1	1	1	0,6	0,6	0,6	0	4,8	
Ylänen Stiina 	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	7	
Zhou Yuchen	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	7	
Savolainen Petri	0,5	0,5	0,5	0	0	0	0	1,5	
Parhankangas Juha	1	1	1	0,6	0,6	0,6	0	4,8	
Taipale Engineering: Lehtinen Kirsi	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	7	
N.N 1	0	0	0	0,6	0,6	0,6	0	1,8	
N.N 2	0	0	0	0,5	0,5	0,5	0	1,5	
N.N 3	0	0	0	0,5	0,5	0,5	0	1,5	
N.N 4	0	0	0	0,5	0,5	0,5	0	1,5	
N.N 5	0	0	0	0,5	0,5	0,5	0	1,5	
TOTAL	7,55	7,55	6,55	7,85	7,1	7,1	3,3	47,0	

Of the total 47.0, the subcontractor Taipale Engineering accomplishes seven.

4 TASKS AND TIMESCHEDULE

I: Remaining of the project year 1999, 1.1.2000 – 31.5.2000

A) 1.1.2000 – 31.5.2000. Research on network management and modeling the management.

The main objective is to introduce the IP network management model – the four layers: network element management, traffic management, service management and content management – and provide definitions and descriptions of the basic properties and characteristics of the model. The purpose is to publish two papers as a result, “The IP Network Management Paradigm” and “An IP Network Management Model” – tutorial/research type – in a magazine, target is the “Communications” magazine, and in a conference and then to integrate them with the project report. The papers can also be used in the Licentiate Theses of the researchers. The papers can be found at: http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Research/BBS/IPMAN/internal/juhaliukko.pdf
http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Research/BBS/IPMAN/internal/zhou.ps

B) 1.1.2000 – 31.3.2000. Research on service management; policy-based network management.

The main focus is to find current problems on IP networks related to service management, and to try to figure out problems, which might rise in the future on the massive IP networks. The complete Master’s Thesis “Service Management on IP networks” is available at: http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Research/BBS/IPMAN/service_management5.doc. 

Also a paper “Policy and Trust in Open Multi-Operator Networks” in cooperation with Professor Pekka Nikander was completed. The paper can be found at: http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Research/BBS/IPMAN/internal/vienna2000.pdf

C) 1.2.2000 – 31.5.2000. Research on testing.

The objective is to research how to apply ISO 9646 methodology for testing of SNMP based network management systems in IP networks. The result of the research is a simple testing model that defines the architecture between tester and system under test and defines the testing strategy using ISO 9646-2 (X.291) methodology. The paper is available at the web-site in the near future.

D) 1.1.2000 – 31.5.2000. Research on classifying the content for content personalization.

The objective is to study different methods of classification used in IP networks. The idea is to focus on various useful text classification and indexing methods. 

See for more information of the Master’s Thesis at: http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Research/BBS/IPMAN/internal/lehtinen.txt

E) 1.1.2000 – 31.5.2000. Research on user profiling for content personalization.

The objective is to research how the customers of the content services can be profiled; how the data is gathered on them and what are the used profiling methodologies.

See for more information of the Master’s Thesis at: http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Research/BBS/IPMAN/internal/ylanen.doc.

F) 15.4.2000 – 31.5.2000.  The prototype of content personalization – First stage: identifying the use cases.

The idea of Content Management Framework is to produce a platform suitable for provisioning of personal business content into the Internet by content supplier, which can easily be accessed by content user. The implementation is divided into three stages. In identifying the use cases and later in the other stages, TriMedia service platform forms the basis. (See more information of TriMedia: Press release 11.4.2000 at http://tky.hut.fi/trimedia.html). The implementation is done by using corba technology and real tools such as Wap phones and Wap Toolkits.

The first stage comprises of identifying use cases, namely investigating concrete scenarios of actions taken by content users, suppliers and providers in which involvement of CMF is regarded as beneficial. The resulting document should contain concise English-prose description of each identified use case together with all relevant illustrative material attached. 
See for more information http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Tutkimus/G4/cmf.doc. 

Responsible persons / task and the scope of the task in person working months:

Task	Responsible	Scope	
A	Juha Liukko, Yuchen Zhou, Jaakko Akkanen	8,5	
B	Lasse Metso	3	
C	Toni Suihko	4	
D	Taipale Engineering: Liisa Uosukainen, Kirsi Lehtinen	5	
E	Stiina Ylänen	3	
F	Alexey Mednonogov	1,5	
TOTAL		25	

II: Project year 2000, 1.6.2000 - 31.12.2000

A1) 1.6.2000 – 15.6.2000. The prototype of content personalization 
– First stage: identifying the use cases (continues from the project year 1999).

The idea of Content Management Framework is to produce a platform suitable for provisioning of personal business content into the Internet by content supplier, which can easily be accessed by content user. The implementation is divided into three stages. The first stage comprises of identifying use cases, namely investigating concrete scenarios of actions taken by content users, suppliers and providers in which involvement of CMF is regarded as beneficial. The resulting document should contain concise English-prose description of each identified use case in TriMedia together with all relevant illustrative material attached. 

See for more information http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Tutkimus/G4/cmf.doc. 

A2) 16.6.2000 - 30.8.2000. The prototype of content personalization (continues from the project year 1999) – Second stage: pre-prototype black-box implementation.

At the second stage, a black-box implementation of CMF prototype is produced. Based on the identified use cases, a visual demonstration of CMF capabilities is developed. 

See for more information http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Tutkimus/G4/cmf.doc. 

A3) 1.9.2000 – 30.11.2000. The prototype of content personalization (continues from the project year 1999)– Third stage: prototype design and implementation.

The detailed architecture of prototype is designed and at least part of it is implemented. 

See for more information http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Tutkimus/G4/cmf.doc. 

B) 1.6.2000 – 30.11.2000. Research on testing the services.

To study in the environment of massive IP networks the required capabilities of testing/trouble shooting tools, when testing the availability for use of a service offered to a customer. 

Consider an example, where a customer calls the operator at the customer care that his service is not working. Right away the person in the customer care would be able to tell the customer if the service is really down and when it is going to get fixed again with the help of an easy-to-use testing tool.  

C) 1.6.2000 – 30.9.2000. Research on user profiling for content personalization (continues from the project year 1999).

The objective is to research how the customers of the content service can be profiled; how the data is gathered on them and what are the used profiling methodologies. 

See for more information of the Master’s Thesis at: http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Research/BBS/IPMAN/internal/ylanen.doc.

D) 1.6.2000 – 31.10.2000. Research on classifying the content for content personalization (continues from the project year 1999).

The objective is to study different methods of classification used in IP networks. The idea is to focus on various useful text classification and indexing methods. 

See for more information of the Master’s Thesis at: http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Research/BBS/IPMAN/internal/lehtinen.txt

E) 1.6.2000 – 31.12.2000. Research on agent technology.

The objective is to study how agent technology can be used in dynamic discovery of new content in content management framework. 

F) 1.6.2000 - 30.9.2000. Research on images, audio and video content.

The purpose is to study how images in the documents and audio and video content can be indexed and classified.

G) 1.11.2000 – 31.12.2000. Research on metadata, XML and RDF.

H) 1.10.2000 – 31.12.2000. Some ideas for further discussion: 
•	Content management in multiple authorship environments (DoubleClick Inc.)
•	Managing the delivery of the content (Akamai, Cacheflow, Mirror Image).

The final task is to integrate the results to the final report of IPMAN-project published and distributed to the relevant parties at the beginning of calendar year 2001.

Responsible persons / task and the scope of the task in person working months:

Task	Responsible	Scope	
A1	Alexey Mednonogov, Voitto Terrihauta	1	
A2	Alexey Mednonogov, Voitto Terrihauta, Petri Savolainen	5,5	
A3	Voitto Terrihauta, N.N 1, N.N 2, N.N 3, N.N 4, N.N 5	9,6	
B	Henna Laasonen, Juha Parhankangas	7,8	
C	Stiina Ylänen	4	
D	Taipale Engineering: Kirsi Lehtinen	5	
E	Juha Liukko	2,1	
F	Yuchen Zhou	4	
G	Kirsi Lehtinen	2	
H	Stiina Ylänen, Yuchen Zhou	6	
TOTAL		47	

5 BUDGET

Estimation of the costs for the project year 2000 (1.6.2000 - 31.12.2000)	

Salaries			427.400 FIM
Additional costs, 
88% of the salaries		376.100 FIM
Travels				  50.000 FIM
Materials 			  80.000 FIM
Equipment			           0 FIM
Services			260.000 FIM
Other costs			  10.000 FIM
Total			         1.203.600 FIM

6 Financing plan

Estimated funding for the project year 2000 (1.6.2000 – 31.12.2000)

Tekes				843.600 FIM
Nokia Networks		350.000 FIM
OES				  10.000 FIM 
Total			         1.203.600 FIM