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Contractual Date of Delivery: 31/12/2009

Actual Date of Delivery: : 31/12/2009

Author(s): Nizar Zorba, Christos Verikoukis, Jonathan Rodriguez, Paulo Marques, David Boixade, Ahmet Akan, Álvaro Gomes, Julian Perez, Ainara Gonzalez, Oscar Lazaro.

Editor: Nizar Zorba

Participant(s): All

Work package: WP5

Version: 4

Total number of pages: 27

LOOP Deliverable 5.2.1

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Abstract

This deliverable identifies the dissemination and exploitation plan for the LOOP project. These activities have evolved throughout the whole project duration running in parallel to the other WPs. The exploitation will cover the overall project results, but also sub- or partial results, components, tools etc. as well as skills, publications, patents, licenses, public code, methods, techniques, etc. Regarding dissemination activities, the consortium’s main objective was to create a strong awareness at European level among all involved parties. The dissemination of the project results is accomplished by conference presentations, articles in various journals, and demonstration of project’s achievements.

Keyword List:

Standardization; Dissemination; Exploitation plan.


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Date Version Status Contribution

13/12/2009 001 Ready CTTC, TID, Turkcell, IT

21/12/2009 002 Ready Iquadrat, PT

26/12/2009 003 Ready CBT, Trimek

14/1/2010 004 Ready IT; Revision by IT

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AF Amplify and Forward

ABEP Average Bit Error Probability

AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise

CF Characteristic Function

CFA Constant False Alarm

CR Cognitive Radio

CRN Cognitive Radio Network

DSA Dynamic Spectrum Access

FW Fenton-Wilkinson

GQR Gauss Quadrature Rule

I-SY Improved Schwartz-Yeh

MGF Moment Generating Function

MMA Moment Matching Approximation

MoMs Method of Moments

N.A. Not Available

Pd Detection Probability

PDF Probability Density Function

Pfa False Alarm Probability

Pm Miss Probability

Pout Outage Probability

PSD Power Spectral Density


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RVs Random Variables

SLC Square-Low Combining

SY Schwartz-Yeh

UWB Ultra Wide Band


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...................................................................................................................... 6

2 INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION .................................................................................................. 7

3 DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................. 8

3.1 PUBLICATIONS .................................................................................................................................. 8 3.2 FURTHER DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES .............................................................................................. 11

4 STANDARDISATION ACTIVITIES ..................................................................................................... 12

4.1 DESCRIPTION OF STANDARDIZATION CONTRIBUTION ......................................................................... 12

5 EXPLOITABLE KNOWLEDGE AND ITS USE .................................................................................. 14

5.1 TID................................................................................................................................................ 14 5.2 CBT AND TRIMEK ........................................................................................................................... 14 5.3 TURKCELL ...................................................................................................................................... 20 5.4 PTIN ............................................................................................................................................. 21

6 WEBSITE TOOLS ............................................................................................................................... 22

7 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES ............................................................................ 24

8 APPENDICES ..................................................................................................................................... 25

8.1 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................. 25


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1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This deliverable will identify the dissemination and exploitation plan for the LOOP project. These activities have evolved throughout the whole project duration running in parallel to the other WPs.

The LOOP project has shown an outstanding dissemination activity that include:

Key results being published in 37 scientific papers at international conferences and journals;

5 internal dissemination activities to present the results to peers;

2 special sessions at international conferences;

1 demonstration and 1 presentation of the LOOP project results have been conducted.

One of the project objectives was the impact on commercial standards. The LOOP project outputs have been presented in 3 main standardization bodies: the IEEE Observator (moving for an Open Source Environment for optimisation of resources on heterogeneous access networks environments) ; The LSTI LTE/SAE Trial Initiative (to standardize the different products and their SAE specifications within the LTE commercial standard); and finally the IEEE 1900.6 WG targeting the development and evolution of spectrum sensors to alleviate the limitations of spectrum availability for new technologies evolution of the regulatory regimes.

The project results also have had a large impact on the acquired know-how by the different partners, and more specifically in TID’s Open Source OS, through the development of connectivity mechanisms inside the device that allow the convergence of the access networks for the optimization and improvement of Internet data service. Such optimization makes service quality and networks availability to the citizens, enterprises and administration, enabling them to be constantly connected to the network. The LOOP project assisted TID in applying new ideas, concepts and practices in addition to developing advanced modules in the MAEMO Nokia Operating System.

CBT and Trimek have also acquired know-how through the LOOP project in relation to their manufacturing process and distribution channels, by employing LOOP to pilot new solutions in the context of the information management needs of OEMs and SMEs within the automotive sector. Worldwide manufacturers are already exploiting Trimek solutions, which offer more agile and customised exploitation of the metrology information generated by the manufacturers’ installations.

The LOOP project has also enabled Turkcell to work within the two leading wireless broadband commercial standards: WiMax and LTE platforms. LOOP enabled the implementation of a multi-user multi-cell system level simulator (SLS) based on the WiMax 802.16m standard, in order to measure the system level performance of different cell planning schemes. Novel algorithms are implemented on the simulator to test the corresponding system level performance enhancements.

LOOP has allowed PTiN to exploit its Optimax WiMax solution, which is a tool that allows the wireless network operator to monitor parameters associated with the WiMax system, and to estimate the maximum bit rate per location considering a particular bandwidth.

Finally, two websites were launched to show the results achieved by the LOOP project:

- http://www.theloopproject.com

- http://www.turkcell.com.tr/en/AboutTurkcell/europeanrdprojects/eureka/loop

http://www.theloopproject.com/

http://www.turkcell.com.tr/en/AboutTurkcell/europeanrdprojects/eureka/loop


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2 INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION

The objective of this deliverable (D5.2.1) is to present the dissemination and exploitation activities that were carried out to maximise the visibility of the project throughout and beyond its lifetime. A concrete roadmap for project exploitation has also allowed the LOOP consortium to carefully plan the transition from innovative conceptual prototype towards new extended product lines and potential contributions to standards.

The outline of the deliverable is as follows: Chapter 2 provides the LOOP dissemination results in terms of exploitable tangible results. Chapter 3 discusses the standardization activities. The exploitation of the projects results, which has evolved throughout the whole project duration, running in parallel to the other activities, will be addressed in Chapter 4; in this chapter the environment in which LOOP was used in terms of applicability to the targeted user community, conformance to the regulations, the market opportunities will be analyzed. Finally Chapter 5 is dedicated to the LOOP web-site and its tools that offer among others e-mailing, wiki, forum, ftp and web statistics facilities making both the project dissemination efforts and the management tasks more efficient.


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3 DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

3.1 Publications

Table 3-1 outlines the publication activities within the project and the planned publications (accepted papers).

#

Conference or journal

Contributing partners

Title of publication Planned time of

publication

Status of contribution

1 IEEE PIMRC 2007 CTTC Cooperation on Demand Protocols for Wireless

Networks

September 2007

Published

2 IEEE ISWS 2007 CTTC Enhanced Operation of

DQMAN based Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

November 2007

Published

3 IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

CTTC A Near-Optimum Cross-

Layered Distributed Queuing Protocol for Wireless LAN

February 2008

Published

4 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

CTTC

A General Formula for Log-MGF Computation: Application to the

Approximation of Log-Normal Power Sum via Pearson Type

IV Distribution

April 2008 Published

5

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’08)

CTTC

Saturation Throughput Analysis of a Passive Cluster-

based Medium Access Control Protocol for Ad Hoc

Wireless Networks

May 2008 Published

6

EURASIP Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Cooperative Communications

CTTC

Persistent RCSMA: A MAC Protocol for a Disitributed

Cooperative ARQ Scheme in Wireless Networks

May 2008 Published

7

IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC’08)

CTTC

Performance Enhancement of a DQMAN-based Wireless Ad

Hoc Networks in Multi-hop Scenarios

May 2008 Published

8 ICT Mobile Summit 2008

CTTC

Performance Evaluation of a Medium Access Control

Protocol for a Distributed ARQ Scheme in Cooperative

Wireless Networks

June 2008 Published

9 IEEE Communications Magazine

CTTC

Cross-Layer Enhancement for WLAN Systems with

Heterogeneous Traffic based on DQCA

June 2008 Published

10

TEMU 2008: International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia

CBT

Advanced scenarios framework for coexistence

and optimization in next generation wireless networks

July 2008 Published


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11 IEEE Globecom 2008

CTTC

Throughput Analysis of a Medium Access Control

Protocol for a Distributed Cooperative ARQ Scheme in

Wireless Networks

September 2008

Published

12

International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU) 2008

All partners

Advanced scenarios framework for coexistence

and optimization in next generation wireless networks

September 2008

Published

13 IEEE PIMRC CTTC

A Novel Near-Optimum Medium Access Control


Wireless Networks

September 2008

Published

14 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

CTTC

Performance of Cooperative Multi-Hop Wireless Systems

over Log-Normal Fading Channels

December 2008

Published

15

Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International

CTTC

Saturation Throughput Analysis of a Cluster-based

Medium Access Control Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless

Networks

December 2008

Published

16 IEEE Transactions on Communications

CTTC

Approximating the Linear Combination of Log-Normal

RVs via Pearson Type IV Distribution for UWB

Performance Analysis

February 2009

Published

17 IEEE Trans on Wireless Communications

CTTC

Performance Analysis of the Distributed Queuing Collision Avoidance (DQCA) Protocol

with Link Adaptation

February 2009

Published


CTTC

Further Results on the Approximation of Log-Normal Power Sum via Pearson Type

IV Distribution: A General Formula for Log-Moments

Computation

April 2009 Published

19

Mobilight 2009: 1st

International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems

PTIN

IEEE 802.16 Packet Scheduling with Traffic

Prioritization and Cross-Layer Optimization

May 2009 Published

20

Proc ICST International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems

IT Dynamic Resource Allocation

for IEEE802.16e May 2009 Published

21 ICST Mobilight 2009 CTTC

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios:

Performance Analysis for realistic System Setups and

Channel Conditions

May 2009 Published

22 ICST Mobilight 2009 CTTC Self-Organizing Mobile Ad

Hoc Networks: CTTC Spontaneous Clustering at the

May 2009 Published


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MAC Layer

23

Mobilight 2009: 1st

International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems

CBT

On the Performance of Intra-System Optimization of Virtual

Manufacturing Communication Systems

May 2009 Published

24 ICT Mobile Summit 2009

CTTC QoS Guarantee for Wireless

LAN with Heterogeneous Traffic

June 2009 Published

25 IEEE Communications Letters

CTTC

Medium Access Control Priority Mechanism for a DQMAN-Based Wireless

Networks

July 2009 Published

26 IEEE PIMRC 2009 CTTC

Analytical Evaluation of a Medium Access Control Priority Mechanism for

Wireless Ad hoc Networks

September 2009

Published

27 ICST 5th MobiMedia CTTC MAC layer Cooperation

Analysis in Cognitive Wireless Networks

September 2009

Published

28

Mobimedia 2009: 5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference

CBT

Deploying and Experimenting Wireless Ad Hoc Networks in

Mountainous Regions for Broadband Multimedia

Service Access

September 2009

Published

29

Proc. of the 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS’09)

IT

A Joint Utilility-Token Bucket Packet Scheduling Algorithm

for IEEE 802.16e WiMAX Networks,

September 2009

Published

30 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

CTTC

Performance Analysis of a Persistent Relay Carrier Sensing Multiple Access

Protocol

December 2009

Published


CTTC

A Comprehensive Framework for Performance Analysis of

Cooperative Multi-Hop Wireless Systems over Log-

Normal Fading Channels

December 2009

Published

32

ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)

CTTC

Cross-Layer Scheduling with QoS Support over a

Distributed Queuing MAC for Wireless LANs

December 2009

Published

33 IEEE GLOBECOM 2009

CTTC

Experimental Performance Evaluation of a MAC Protocol

for Cooperative ARQ Scenarios

December 2009

Published

34 IEEE GLOBECOM 2009

CTTC

Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Ad hoc Networks with

Cooperative ARQ in the Presence of Hidden and

Exposed Terminals

December 2009

Published



35 Wireless Personal Communications

CBT

Broadband Internet Access via Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks: Design, Protocol

and Experiments

December 2009

Published

36 Book entitled: RadioCommunications Ed. IN-TECH

CTTC

A Novel Near-Optimum Medium Access Control


Wireless Networks

2010 To appear

37

Book entitled: Wireless Network Traffic and Quality of Service Support: Trends and Standards, IGI Global

CTTC

Cross-Layer Scheduling with QoS Support over a near-

optimum distributed queuing protocol for wireless LAN

March 2010 To appear

Table 3-1 LOOP Publications

3.2 Further Dissemination activities

Table 3-2 lists the further dissemination activities within the project.

Event Place and Date

Type Purpose

Partner(s) responsible /

involved

Madrid, Spain, 2009

Internal dissemination of

activities in Telefonica

Advanced devices for advanced services division

TID

Madrid, Spain, 2009

Internal dissemination of

activities in Telefonica

Telefonica Mobile advanced devices and services

TID

London, UK, 2009 Special Session “Multimedia over WLAN”, Joint

Newcom++ and LOOP, Mobimedia 2009

CTTC, CBT

Athens, Greece, 2009

Special Session “Coexistence and Optimization for

RANs and WANs”, Joint Newcom++ and LOOP

CTTC, IT, CBT

Portugal, July 2009

Internal dissemination of PTIN activities

“Main functionalities of the OptiMAX prototype”

PTIN

Lisbon (Portugal), June 2009

Demonstration Exhibition of EUREKA Project Results

IT, CBT

Bilbao (Spain), July 2009

Dissemination Internal dissemination of LOOP project activities

CBT, TRIMEK

Sophia-Antipolis (France), October

2009 Presentation Wireless Factory Starter Group

Meeting ETSI CBT

Turkey, January 2010

Internal Dissemination

A writing (as software and hardware) in Networks of Turkcell and baby

companies of Turkcell

Turkcell

Table 3-2 LOOP Dissemination activities



4 STANDARDISATION ACTIVITIES

This chapter will define the standardization activities envisaged within the LOOP project lifetime. The LOOP Consortium consists of important partners currently holding leading roles (technical advisors, main technical contributors, and specification editors) in some of the most relevant standardization/regulation bodies, e.g., IEEE. Based on the results of the LOOP project, relevant issues and extensions to existing standards have been identified and proposed. Pertinent inputs are forwarded to these organizations after careful validation of project results in laboratory and field tests. The standardization work of LOOP is in strict co-ordination with other European projects and standardization initiatives to ensure the necessary coherence with respect to network and interface compatibility.

4.1 Description of standardization contribution

The contribution of each one of the partners is now described in detail.

4.1.1 TID

Telefonica Investigación y Desarrollo participates in the most important international forums on technological know-how, thus creating one of the largest innovation ecosystems in the ICT sector. Products such as the public phones in the booths currently used by Telefónica (1990), the large fixed and mobile network management systems (1990), data switches (1991), Internet access services (1996), developments for digital homes and connected cars (2000), the prepaid system for mobile phones (1999), interactive a la carte digital television (Imagenio) (2004), new services for television and the new business models on Internet (2006)... are just some of the projects the company has worked on and allowing Telefonica I+D to play this important role in the standardisation field and user penetration. Telefonica Investigación y Desarrollo contributed to the LOOP project in order to provide an innovative product on an Open Source Environment for optimisation of resources on heterogeneous access networks environments, that allows not only the new positioning of a relevant product that attracts the innovation ecosystem but an important impact on the future perspective for global associations, organisation and standardisation bodies, contributing to the creation a new vision on the telecommunication model. Considering its global strategy, LOOP TID has actuated as LOOP observer on the following standardisation bodies:

Non Member list IEEE Observator [email protected]

Non Member list IEEE Observator [email protected]

Table 3-3 LOOP Standardization Activities

4.1.2 Turkcell

From the operator’s point of view, the LOOP Project has helped Turkcell to simulate and contact with the technological perspective in a network related environment. Turkcell is a member in LSTI (LTE/SAE Trial Initiative) and the results arising from the LOOP Project have been leading the company’s path towards broadband world.

4.1.3 IT

IT Participated in the IEEE 1900.6 Working Group on Spectrum Sensing Interfaces and Data Structures for Dynamic Spectrum Access and other Advanced Radio Communication Systems. The purpose of this standard targets the development and evolution of spectrum sensors to alleviate the limitations of spectrum availability for new technologies evolution of the regulatory regimes is needed.

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



Changes to the regulatory environment will require reliable dependable trusted spectrum sensing capabilities that are fundamental to any advanced radio systems application.

Recently proposed advanced radio systems based on sensing technology combine sensing and the protocols and cognitive engines that use the sensing results into proprietary architectures. This model of development reduces innovation and limits the opportunities for integrating new component technologies for better system performance. Further the results of sensing extend beyond the activities of a single system and are ideally integrated into the larger spectrum management process to including the development of spectrum use monitoring and enforcement activities. Many different sensing techniques have been defined so far, there has been no effort to ensure interoperability between sensors and clients provided by different manufacturers. Sensing techniques have been defined without considering their compatibility with other existing solutions.

This group develops a standard that defines the interfaces and data structures required for exchange of sensing related information. The resulting standard will provide a formal definition of data structures and interfaces for exchange of sensing related information.

In the scope of LOOP Project one of the expected results was the investigation of opportunistic radios for monitoring and utilization of available licensed radio spectrum. The opportunistic use of the spectrum is only possible with reliable sensing mechanisms able to detect licensed systems in order to avoid harmful interference. In this context, the IEEE standard P1900.6 defines the information exchange between spectrum sensors and their clients in opportunistic radio communications. IT attended two IEEE P1900.6 standardization plenary meetings as a voting member with the support of the LOOP project:

The IEEE P1900.6 standardization plenary meeting between the 4th and the 6th November 2009. The meeting was hosted by CEA-LETI in Grenoble, France. IT contributed to the D0.3 draft of the standard reviewing the sensing parameters description, quality of detection metrics and the scope and usage of the Data Archive in IEEEE P1900.6 system model. A technical presentation about spectrum occupancy measurements in licensed cellular bands, coexistence analysis and detection techniques including cooperative sensing was presented by IT.

The IEEE P1900.6 standardization plenary meeting between the 1st and the 3rd July 2009. The meeting was hosted by the OSAKA University in Japan. IT provided contributions related with the sensing requirements and the system model definition of IEEE P1900.6 standard.

Figure 3.1 Cover slide from IEEE P1900.6 meeting



5 EXPLOITABLE KNOWLEDGE AND ITS USE

LOOP targeted to address coexistence and optimization solutions for legacy and future emerging technologies, including, among others, 3GPP LTE-RAN, WiMax, and WiFi. The exploitable knowledge acquired along this project is now described individually for each one of the partners.

5.1 TID

Telefonica Investigación y Desarrollo completed in the LOOP project the optimisation of resources for the mobile networks and WiFi ones, harmonising them through NOKIA Open Sources initiatives on OPEN source (MAEMO) and associated short term advanced device deployment, by exploiting the advantages of radio management and the future possibilities of Telefonica on the Mobile BroadBand business.

Taking into account the new convergence requirements of the next years and ICT research and development on LOOP, Telefonica I+D has committed inside this project to the development of connectivity mechanisms inside the device that allow the convergence of these access networks for the optimization and improvement of Internet data service quality and their availability to citizens, enterprises and administration to be constantly connected to the network. TID was then able not only to apply new ideas, concepts and practices but also to further develop advanced modules in the MAEMO Nokia terminal and provide new potential future service for broadband networks ensuring the optimization of energy and radio resources from the own device.

The possibilities of exploitation following the strategy of Telefonica would imply an extension of the Open Source Operative System and Devices around Europe and the improvement of quality for users, companies and administration, providing new opportunities to the mobile Broad-Band sectors for competitors, operators and the Telecommunication partner chain. This is due to the possibilities of optimisation of resources of Mobile networks thanks to the usage of newly developed modules inside the devices of Open Mobile users and to the exploitation of the free resources available on WiFi devices on multiple environments.

5.2 CBT and Trimek

5.2.1 Market Context and Trends

Manufacturing is still the driving force of Europe's economy, contributing over € 6,553 billion in GDP and providing more than 30 million jobs. It covers more than 25 different industrial sectors, largely dominated by SMEs, and generates annually € 1,535 billion (42%) of value added. Building on Europe's excellent R&D base, the future of manufacturing is vital to European economic growth and sustainability. The long-term shift from a cost-based competitive advantage to one based on high added value requires that European manufacturing increases its technological base and develops a number of enabling trans-sectored production technologies.

As stated by Pat Byrne, president of Agilent Technologies’ Electronic Measurements Group,

“The geographic diversification of manufacturing and R&D for many companies has created a challenge in maintaining quality and consistency. New products designed in one country may be prototyped in another and manufactured in yet another or even on another continent. The push to take advantage of the rich diversity of talent across the globe has increased our dependence upon robust measurement tools and techniques to ensure that the performance inherent in designs from the country of origin are maintained across the world at the end of the production line”

To meet this challenge, it is necessary that a large amount of measurement related information is intelligently managed in an efficient manner throughout the complete business value change by all actors independently of their size. The effective communication and management of measurements information is therefore key to improve competitiveness and leverage truly knowledge based manufacturing.



However, the nature of such information is very distinct compared to state of the art monitoring services being employed within the factory. Hence, associated with the evolution of the manufacturing paradigm is associated the management of massive information in a contextualised manner.

Machine vision business in Europe and 3D metrology business in particular is a segment highly dominated by knowledge intensive high-tech SMEs that demand advanced solutions. As the European Machine Vision Association Data (EMVA) from 2009 reveals 51% of the companies in the sector have between 1 and 10 employees, while only 9% have employees between 50-100 people and 6% presents a workforce in excess of 100 employees.

Figure 3-2 Optically Scanned Motor Engine

5.2.2 Strategy for Long-Term Impact and Market Demand

In today’s industrial environment, systems and equipment must perform at levels thought impossible a decade ago. Global competition is forcing European industry to continuously improve process operations, product quality, and productivity with short innovation cycles and less human capital than before. Production equipment must deliver unprecedented levels of reliability, availability, and maintainability as plant managers seek ways to reduce operational and support costs and to eliminate or minimise capital investments.

The European Union is facing an increasingly competitive market in the global economy, and besides the U.S. and Japan, new players such as Korea, India, and China are experiencing substantial economic growth. For European industry to remain competitive in such an increasingly complex global economic environment, it is crucial to modernise manufacturing. Industry must invoke new measures to improve production performance and safety whilst minimising costs and, despite decreasing product lifecycles, extend the operational life and flexible reuse of equipment.

ICT are moving into the factories by closing the information gap between business management, production and control systems and by offering meaningful data for decision making in real time. The primary application domain for industrial automation has been traditionally the automotive industry which, in many cases, has also been the trendsetter for new R&D solutions. All automotive manufacturers have been diversifying their model. The higher degree of customization and increased modularization requires both greater flexibility in the production plant and lower costs for migration and reconfiguration.

LOOP will exploit TRIMEK privileged position within the automotive industry to pilot the new solution embraced by the project in the context of the information management needs of OEMs and SMEs in the sector. Worldwide manufacturers such as SEAT, VW or MAGNA are already supporting TRIMEK solutions and now demand more agile and customised exploitation of the metrology information generated by their new installations worldwide.

A recent market prospect carried out by EU Association of Car Manufacturers has forecasted an activity increase by as close as 2012 fuelled by incorporation of new ICT intelligent systems that will support a more sustainable manufacturing approach. The specifics of the Spanish market are shown below.



Figure 3-3 Car Production Provision in Spain (Source: DMR Consulting)

As well as in other domains, there are currently five megatrends affecting the adoption of Information Strategies in the manufacturing sector:

Challenges Mega-Trends

Political Enlargement, Sustainability

Technological Digitisation & Communications

Regulatory Regulatory Framework (IPR, Security, Safety, ...)

Social Ageing Population

Economic Globalization

Table 3-4 Challenges and Mega-Trends

Europe is in a fortunate position to have an established, innovation-driven and export-oriented manufacturing industry. This industry accounts for about a quarter of the European economy and an employment of about 45 million people. European companies manufacture world-leading products in automotive, aviation, aerospace, telecommunications, machinery, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Besides direct employment, with many highly qualified jobs, manufacturing industry supports the generation of jobs throughout the supply chain and of growth in related services.

The size of the global market for mechanical engineering is approximately € 353 billion, with the market being divided into three roughly equal segments such as process, machinery, factory and building automation. According to ABB the automation market is estimated to grow from around € 57 billion4 in 2002 to about € 74 billion5 in 2007 in which the process industry accounts for 2/3 of the share as compared to 1/3 of manufacturing industries.

In automation, Europe is believed to be slightly ahead of North America and Asia with a current tendency of losing ground. Its annual growth rate on a worldwide scale is 3-4 %, whilst the automation markets of Asia and China in particular, are expected to have double-digit growth rates. Suppliers, mainly



export-oriented European ones, need to understand how to address the fast-growing Chinese manufacturing market to gain long-term competitive advantages and market shares.

One key issue will be to invest in ICT to enhance product quality and meet schedules, upgrading the manufacturing plants to compete on all fronts. Traditionally, Europe has a very strong position in industrial automation and several of the major suppliers and system integrators in that sector are from Europe. The increasing competitiveness has been demonstrated in 2004 by Germany that confirmed its status as export champion (mainly driven by machinery and automotive production). German suppliers of machine tools and equipment range second to world market leader Japan, having experienced 8% annual growth in 2004 whilst having tripled the volume of exported machines to China since 2000. European manufacturers are also key players, with a strong competition from Japanese manufacturers, in the world market for numerical controls accounting for about € 1.5 billion in 2004.

European manufacturing is nevertheless showing signs of decline in favour of Asian countries and China in particular. In machine tools for instance, European players dominate the market with a 52 % market share. However, China’s production of machine tools went up by 15% while the total production in Europe decreased by 9%. China is currently ranked fourth in global machine tool production, with a 9% share.

ICT are moving into the factories by closing the information gap between business management, production and control systems and by offering meaningful data for decision making in real time. This is due to technological developments with respect to Internet technology, intelligent sensing end end-to-end processes digitization. PC-based control software is likely to experience its greatest growth rate in the coming years. PC-based solutions offer a simple connection to the office world using industrial Ethernet and standard protocols for control, motion, operation and monitoring, archiving and evaluation, simple connection to the Web and off-the-shelf hardware and software with increasing computing capacity. Moore’s Law is another driver which provides increasing capability to embed intelligence in devices and products.

The primary application domain for industrial automation has been the automotive industry which, in many cases, has also been the trendsetter for new R&D. Electronics can profoundly change a product. In the future, it is expected that 90% of innovations in a car will be electronics related. Consequently, all automotive manufacturers have been diversifying their models and more vehicles are built while lot sizes are becoming smaller. The higher degree of customization and increased modularization requires both greater flexibility in the production plant and lower costs for migration and reconfiguration.

Consequently, LOOP for manufacturing has the potential to provide the right communication means for better traceability and real-time decision making. It can also improve collaboration along the manufacturing process, and in this way open up new opportunities for flexible business processes and introduce a swifter implementation of disruptive business models and products. Europe is leading in manufacturing of high-value products and machinery. This position can only be sustained by early and effective adoption of the Internet of Things and Services and pioneering effective communication strategies that can be successfully demonstrated. LOOP will provide such edge to communication equipment and machine manufacturers.

The market that could benefit from LOOP technology is very large and through ISA100 working group on Factory Automation (beyond process automation) is waiting for this kind of technology to be proved effective. In terms of market size, one should realize that only the metrology market was estimated to be above €6.3 billion in 2005, and the overall manufacturing activity in Europe represents approximately 21% of the EU GDP and provides about 20% of all jobs (about 30 million) in 25 different industrial sectors.

5.2.3 LOOP Product & Services

The LOOP product is a communication suite that will permit that process engineers interact and optimise manufacturing processes in an easy manner.

LOOP service will allow for information to move towards the process engineers as opposed to more traditional approaches where the part has to be transported to the metrology labs, the metrology tasks performed, the reports generated and the information collected.

LOOP will automate and accelerate this workflow through effective exploitation of industrial wireless systems. The LOOP suit is composed of a networking, communication and service management platform.



The business model identifies the Quality Control Equipment provider as the provider of the LOOP system. The cost of the LOOP system will be assimilated as part of the next generation equipment and maintenance services to be provided by companies such as TRIMEK. Hence, the end customer will benefit from LOOP technology but will not acquire it explicitly.

LOOP will be commercialised as an extension to the M3 metrology platform currently commercialised by TRIMEK. As indicated above the LOOP offer will be commercialised as follows:

Individual metrology services: 3.000€/year

Increase in CMM price: 5.000€/machine

It is expected that one platform is made available per customer and that the CMM park currently being deployed and managed worldwide by TRIMEK would be upgraded to LOOP features over the next 5 years.

The second business segment would be the incorporation of this sort of equipment to other SMEs. A clear trend exists in the manufacturing area to increase the quality of the production processes and to ensure that subcontractors of large OEMs are equipped with the necessary services.

As it is mentioned before, the priority of LOOP project is the industrial sector, and based on that an analysis of the benefits has been carried out. The purpose is to achieve a provisional exploitation plan. For this aim, we have taken into account the LOOP results that will be commercialized by the partners.

The following analysis summarises the evolution of the sales, costs and profit between 2007 and 2012. Some economic estimations have been carried out regarding the revenues because of LOOP technology sales and considering long term profit. The total costs of the project have been considered, as well as the commercialisation of the results and exploitation costs.

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Sales 0 0 0 1.200.000 1.500.000 1.800.000

Products 0 0 0 400.000 500.000 600.000

Services 0 0 0 800.000 1.000.000 1.200.000

TOTAL REVENUES 0 0 0 1.200.000 1.500.000 1.800.000

Production costs 600.000 930.000 820.000 200.000 250.000 300.000

Staff costs 600.000 930.000 820.000 200.000 250.000 300.000

Comercial costs 0 0 13.200 11.000 11.500 12.000

Sales staff 0 0 8.200 9.000 9.500 10.000

Marketing 0 0 5.000 2.000 2.000 2.000

Other 0 0 0 0 0 0

General costs 0 9.300 10.000 10.000 10.000 10.000

Administration staff 0 9.300 10.000 10.000 10.000 10.000

Other 0 0 0 0 0 0

Financial costs 0 9.300 8.000 6.000 4.000 2.000

Effect discount 0 0 0 0 0 0

Other 9.300 8.000 6.000 4.000 2.000

TOTAL COSTS 600.000 948.600 851.200 227.000 275.500 324.000

PROFIT -600.000 -948.600 -851.200 973.000 1.224.500 1.476.000

Table 3-5 Sales, Costs Profit Evolution Analysis



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Figure 3-4 Loop Benefits Analysis

Considering the foreseen investments for LOOP project, as well as the increase of the sales derived from the results obtained and exploitation costs, we can estimate the profitability of LOOP. In order to simplify this calculation, it has been supposed that capital exits and entries will happen at the end of each year. Furthermore, the profitability has been calculated by two different methods. First, the value of the money along the time is not considered, and secondly, in the two next estimations this aspect has been considered.

Pay-back: Approximately 2 years.

Net Present Value: Only taking into account the three years of sales and with a interest rate of 8%, the NPV of the project is the following one:

NPV = 434.151,38€

Return on Investment: ROI = 15,10%

In conclusion, LOOP results are economically profitable in long term.

5.2.4 Distribution Channels

LOOP products can be easily marketed at the end of the project through the TRIMEK commercial network that expands four continents (Spain, UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, China, India, Germany, Holland, France, Sweden, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Czech Republic, Taiwan, Korea and Iran), and links the company with major manufacturers worldwide.



Figure 3-5 Trimek Commercial Network

5.3 Turkcell

5.3.1 LOOP Product

The detailed product exploitation was shown in two industry meetings:

WiMax World Europe 2007, Munich, 28th November 2007

WiMax Forum Global Congress, Amsterdam, 18th June 2008

and in organisations such as:

LSTI (LTE/SAE Trial Initiative) (Starting from April 2009)

where the LOOP Project was announced, and the participation of Turkcell was emphasized.

The system level performance analysis of WiMax plays a major role in cell planning. In order to measure the system level performance of different cell planning schemes a multi-user multi-cell system level simulator (SLS) is implemented based on the 802.16m. Novel algorithms can be implemented on top the simulator to test the corresponding system level performance enhancements. Network planning is very important for an operator as you can guess. The simulation platform developed is being used for WiMax and LTE Access network issues. We are also planning to progress the tool for LTE Advanced.

Before LOOP, Turkcell was only working with 2G and 3G planning platforms. Now, after LOOP, we have capability for both WiMax and LTE. More important than this, we have the target for LTE Advanced.

5.3.2 Distribution Channels

Another distribution link for the product can be established through the Turkcell's ISP company Superonline's (www.superonline.com) and Turkcell’s distribution channels.

http://www.superonline.com/



5.4 PTIN

PT Inovação holds competence in applied research, technology integration, services and solutions development, telecommunications engineering and training services. Major products include systems and solutions for Intelligent Networks (next generation/convergence approach), Access Networks, Multimedia and IP Solutions, Mobile Networks, Services and Platforms, Business Intelligence, Network Management, IT Systems and Software Engineering, as well as telecommunications business processes. To the developments of its products PTIN has partnerships with the main international players as: HP, Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and Autodesk. The main PTIN clients are network operators (fixed and mobile) on Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Botswana, Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, East Timor, St.Tome & Principe and Venezuela. PTIN has the expertise and the means to make and market the technology and the solutions developed in the LOOP project.

PTIN has exploited its Optimax WiMax solution through LOOP, where OptiMax is a tool that allows the radio network operator to monitor parameters associated with the WiMax system (IEEE802.16d). The monitoring consists mainly in collect and store the radio signal quality and basic information concerning the IEEE802.16 protocols. Beyond the monitoring capabilities the tool can also estimate the maximum bit rate per location considering a particular bandwidth.

Taking into consideration that the OptiMAX tools was designed to operate in WiMax fixed \nomadic radio networks ( IEEE802.16d) is a brand new solution given that the existing tools only address the WiMax mobile version, that has a different radio interface.

The WiMax radio network monitoring tool developed in LOOP project is a prototype and not a commercial tool. Nevertheless it can clearly demonstrate very important features to support the network operator in the WiMax radio network planning and optimization. OptiMAX can be used by PT Inovação on future WiMax deployments but also can be incorporated in the existing equipments of the PTIN portfolio targeting the network quality evaluation. PT Inovação intends to exploit the OptiMAX tool on several ways:

As standalone solution - as presented in this document.

Incorporated in existing PTIN equipments targeting quality network evaluation, namely the ArQoS products. The ArQoS system is a solution that enables the operator to make performance monitoring calls/connections over different kinds of networks technologies (fixed/mobile/IP), in order to gather its QoS network parameters, as well as to evaluate its associated networks services functional aspects, according to the related standards and recommendations.

National level -The BWA (Broadband Wireless Access) spectrum licenses will be attributed in Portugal during 2010. There are very important strategic decisions to take concerning the WiMax technology future although the major wireless operators are out of the run, at least in a first stage. Nevertheless, Portugal telecom Inovação can have a significant role providing consulting services and equipments namely the OptiMAX tool to the new entrants.

International Level- WiMax has emerged as a serious player in underdeveloped regions where low bandwidth and inadequate infrastructure have limited the growth of broadband. WiMax facilitates connectivity in rural areas at low cost, delivering live IPTV and VOD transmissions in the absence of expensive DSL infrastructure build-outs. This is especially important for regions such as East Africa, where the lack of infrastructure has led to some of the highest connectivity costs in the world. Major WiMax deployments have occurred in South Africa, Nigeria, and Uganda, with the city of Freetown in Sierra Leone achieving total citywide unrestricted WiFi/WiMax coverage. The Portugal Telecom Group owns several telecommunication companies in Africa and a strategy to grow in this continent, particularly in countries like Angola, Mozambique and Nigeria intends to developed technologies and solutions to this new reality, namely WiMax.



6 WEBSITE TOOLS

Within the scope of the project, a website has been built up in order to raise awareness of the Loop project. A modern, elegant and appealing design has been presented to facilitate the visualization of information and its access.

The site has been developed both in English and Spanish based on the information that is gathered from the project partners. The layout has been made following the instructions defined by the content accessibility guidelines developed by the WAI working group within W3C. To this end, the XHTML 1.0 programming language was been used for the contents and structure, while the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) was employed to arrange and graphically present the elements. All pages are validated as XHMTL 1.0 and CSS 2.0

The page is ready to be fully manageable through a simple but powerful content management system, so that the different project partners can provide information as it evolves. The programming was developed in PHP.

To enable the page search through search engine, the designed code is as clean as possible. Moreover, all menus and links are presented in text format so that spiders can easily access the whole structure and site content. The website is running under Domains http://www.proyectoloop.com and http://www.theloopproject.com

An example from the project website is presented in Figure 3.6

Figure 3.6 Project website

On the other hand, form the Turkcell partner, a website has been also launched for the project http://www.turkcell.com.tr/en/AboutTurkcell/europeanrdprojects/eureka/loop where the project information and the involved partners are listed. An example of the website is presented in Figure 3.7

http://www.proyectoloop.com/

http://www.theloopproject.com/

http://www.turkcell.com.tr/en/AboutTurkcell/europeanrdprojects/eureka/loop



Figure 3.7: Turkcell Project website



7 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

The LOOP dissemination, exploitation and standardization activities are given in this deliverable. This document will be the final document to show the objectives that have been accomplished along this project.



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