Seserv athens-workshop-brief-report

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SESERV Socio-‐Economic Services for European Research Projects h8p://www.seserv.org European Seventh Framework CSA FP7-‐2010-‐ICT-‐258138

The interplay of economics and technology for the Future Internet SESERV workshop Brief report and next steps

George Stamoulis and Costas Kalogiros (AUEB) Presented by Didier Bourse (ALBLF) EC D1 ConcertaAon MeeAng 14.02.12 -‐ Brussels


Workshop objectives

•  Present economic issues related to •  Adoption of technologies •  New pricing schemes •  Regulation of FI: interconnection, net neutrality

•  Elaborate on the application of the paradigm of “tussle-awareness” in the design of FI technologies

•  Debate on topics related to the role of economics and regulation, the evolution of CDNs etc.

•  Advance the awareness of SESERV on the related needs of the FI community, and give/get feedback

Directly related to Horizon 2020 FP


Participation

•  Projects: •  CLOUD4SOA •  ECONET •  ENSEMBLE •  ETICS •  EURO-NF •  OneFIT •  φSAT •  PURSUIT •  SAIL •  SESERV •  ULOOP •  UNIVERSELF

•  Industry/Other: •  British Telecom •  Deutsche Telekom •  Center for

Democracy and Technology

•  IT Innovation •  COMET

Number of participants: 50

•  National Technical University of Athens

•  Kapodistrian University of Athens

•  University of Pireaus •  Athens University of

Economics and Business

•  University of Zurich •  Athens Information

Technology •  Aalto University

•  Academia: •  University of Exeter •  University of

Wuerzburg •  Technical University

Berlin •  University of Thessaly


Workshop’s structure (1/2) •  Invited keynote speeches

•  Internet Market Failures, Dr. Bob BRISCOE (BT) •  The Evolution of Business Models in the Internet, Dr. Falk von

BORNSTAEDT (DT) •  Internet Traffic Management in the UK and the US, Ms. Alissa

COOPER (CDT) •  Two-sided perspectives on network neutrality, Prof. Robin MASON

(UoExeter)

•  Tussle analysis session •  Introduction to tussle analysis methodology,

Prof. C. COURCOUBETIS (AUEB) •  Illustrative Tussle analysis for DNS and TCP, Dr. C. KALOGIROS

(AUEB) •  Tussle analysis for FP7 research project ETICS case studies,

Dr. M. DRAMITINOS (AUEB)


Workshop’s structure (2/2)

•  Breakout working sessions: focus groups •  To exchange views and advance SESERV awareness on FI

technologies

•  Discussion panel on the role of economics to the evolution of Internet •  Mr. M. BONIFACE (ITI), •  Dr. B. BRISCOE (BT), •  Ms. A. COOPER (CDT), •  Prof. R. MASON (UoExeter), •  Mr. N. LE SAUZE (ALBLF), •  Prof. G.D.STAMOULIS (AUEB), •  Prof. B. STILLER (UZH)


Key statements of Invited Speakers •  B.Briscoe: The “byte” is not the right charging metric –

A flow should be charged on its contribution to congestion

•  F.von Bornstaedt: “Sending Party Network Pays” is the only way to do E2E QoS - increases accountability and trust among providers – no problem with net neutrality

•  A. Cooper: Competition among ISPs in the UK does not regulate the market: almost all ISPs employ traffic discrimination, so no consumer choice

•  R.Mason: Net neutrality should be evaluated – more analysis based on models and less ideology is needed


Tussle Analysis Sessions

Introduction to tussle analysis methodology & DNS, TCP case-studies

Preliminary tussle analysis for QoS-aware ISP interconnection (ETICS project)

Focus group 1

Focus group 2

Focus group 3

•  Internet protocol designers should take into account the lessons learned from tussles related to other popular Internet protocols

•  Tussle analysis helps in understanding: •  how Internet stakeholders may interact by exploiting Future Internet technologies to advance their socio-economic interests •  and their implications to other stakeholders & functionalities

•  Allowing ISPs to control major properties of their service offerings (such as range of destinations, prices, etc.) increases chances of adoption and can even have positive effects to other Internet functionalities (e.g. routing)

•  SLA monitoring technologies can have an impact on ISPs’ incentives for correctly dimensioning their backup paths

•  Focus groups as an interactive tussle analysis game where stakeholder representatives can express how they perceive an Internet technology under investigation

•  Key instrument for SESERV in bridging the gap between those who build and use/study the Internet


Preliminary findings of tussle analysis focus groups

User-centricity and transparency with an emphasis on wireless networks •  Users may need trust-enabling technologies and economic incentives for relaying traffic •  ISPs may be concerned about losing control of their networks but they could be willing to

release that control, if it would increase user satisfaction

Content and service delivery architectures, with an emphasis on Information-centric technologies • ISPs lower their transit costs and gain a larger share of the content delivery market with deploying ICN architectures and their own CDNs • Traditional stakeholders whose interests are offended will respond, e.g. transit ISPs will evolve and enter the content delivery market (interconnect “islands of information”) • Generally, a co-existence of traditional and ISP-owned CDNs is envisioned

Interconnection agreements and monitoring, with an emphasis on technologies promoting collaboration between ISPs for QoS-aware service provision • Smaller ISPs are likely to retreat from the market, or collaborate with other small ISPs to increase their control during QoS path setup • End users will probably demand some kind of SLA monitoring tool that allows to make sure that the premium rates they have asked and payed for are provided

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Work plan on FI Economic Priorities (1/3) •  Perform tussle analysis for several European research

projects’ technologies •  ETICS, UNIVERSELF, ULOOP, C2POWER, SAIL, PURSUIT,

OPTIMIS, CLOUD4SOA

•  Identify generic FI functionalities, their stakeholders and major tussles (including their spillovers)

Functionality A Functionality B

Tussle 3

Tussle 1 Tussle 2

Tussle 4

Tussle 5


Work plan on FI Economic Priorities (2/3) •  Produce a consolidated view of stakeholders and tussles, by

considering multiple networking functionalities at the same time. •  Provide recommendations based on lessons learned

•  e.g. functionalities with high “out degree” can be considered as high-priority ones for further research

A cartography of stakeholders A cartography of tussles by showing possible spillovers between network functionalities

Mobility Traffic control

QoS Naming

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Transit-‐ISP

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End-‐User ✔

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ASP ✔

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Regulator ✔

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Functionality A

Functionality B

Functionality C

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Work plan on FI Economic Priorities (3/3)

•  Perform a survey of technologies for each of the functionalities by studying a broader set of Challenge 1 research projects. •  Focus on the innovative aspects of a technology and its

relationship to (Socio-)Economic priorities.

Mobility Traffic control

QoS Naming

ETICS ASQ goods

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ULOOP mesh network

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SAIL content delivery plaTorm

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PURSUIT content delivery plaTorm

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* Illustrative table


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