The Convergence Project

Standardization

Contributions to IETF/IRTF

• “IPv4 and IPv6 Options to support Information Centric Networking”,
  A. Detti, S. Salsano, N. Blefari-Melazzi
  Contribution to IETF, draft-detti-conet-ip-option
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• “ICTP – Information Centric Transport Protocol for CONET ICN”,
  S. Salsano, A. Detti, N. Blefari-Melazzi, M. Cancellieri
  Contribution to IETF, draft-salsano-ictp
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• “Information-Centric Networking Research Group”,
  Contribution has been given by CONVERGENCE (represented by G. Morabito) to the proposal for the creation of an Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Working Group (WG), named Information-Centric Networking.  The proposal has been presented at the IETF 81 – Quebec City, Canada. July 24 – 29, 2011. The group has been chartered on April 2012. Charter and participation information can be found at http://irtf.org/icnrg
• “Route caching: a technique to improve the scalability of ICN”,
  A. Detti
  Contribution to ICNRG side meeting IETF-83 in Paris, March 28th 2012

Contributions to MPEG

International Standards supported by CONVERGENCE

• MPEG-21 – The project designed and developed a solution that enables the explicit declaration of semantically unambiguous relationships between digital resources, employing structured semantic descriptors and ontologies, based on MPEG-21. The devised mechanism has become part of the MPEG-21 international standard, specifically in the form of an Amendment to MPEG-21 part 3: DII Digital Item Identification, which introduces Semantic Relationships. This amendment (ISO/IEC 21000-3:2003/Amd.2) has been approved, after a many steps evaluation, at MPEG 102nd meeting, 2012/10/19, and is now part of the standard.
• MPEG-M – The project has strongly contributed to writing and design of the MPEG-M international standard. Over 20 input documents, and output documents for all parts, were produced (see following section) together with the MPEG-M working group and CONVERGENCE personnel are editors of all parts of MPEG-M ISO/IEC 23006. The status of the various parts is as follows:
  – the part 1: Architecture: is International Standard approved at MPEG102 (2012/10/19)
  – other parts, part 2: MPEG extensible middleware (MXM) API, part 3: Conformance and reference software, part 4: Elementary Services and part 5: Service aggregation, are final versions of the International Standard and will be approved at MPEG104 (2013/04/22)

Contributed papers

• “Preliminary input contribution for DID extension”,
  Teresa Andrade, Helder Castro, Edoardo Radica, Giuseppe Tropea
  Input document “for information” to INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 96th meeting of March 2011, Geneva, Switzerland.

• “Proposal to extend MPEG-21 DII with means to support a semantically explicit declaration of relationships between Digital Items“,
  Teresa Andrade, Helder Castro, Leonardo Chiariglione, Aziz Moussas, Giuseppe Tropea
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 97th meeting, Torino, July 2011.
  This input document generated two output documents:
  N12246: Requirements for the extension of MPEG 21 DID to support the description of the relational situation of Digital Items
  Helder Castro (INESC Porto), Giuseppe Tropea (CNIT)
  N12147: WD of ISO/IEC 21000-3:2003/Amd.2 Relationship description
  Helder Castro (INESC Porto), Giuseppe Tropea (CNIT)

• “Proposal for reengineering of MPEG-M reference software“,
  Angelo Difino, Angelo-Christos Anadiotis, Giuseppe Tropea
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 97th meeting, Torino, July 2011.
  The content of this input document was introduced into the MPEG-M part 3 working draft

• “The CONVERGENCE project – A bird’s eye view”
  Leonardo Chiariglione, Stefano Salsano, Giuseppe Tropea
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 97th meeting, Torino, July 2011.
  The content of this input document was converted to an Informative Annex to MPEG-M part 1

• “Proposal for improving MPEG-M base schema”
  Angelo Difino, Giuseppe Tropea
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 97th meeting, Torino, July 2011.
  This input document was added as a Normative Annex to MPEG-M part 4:
  N12149: Study of ISO/IEC DIS 23006-4 Elementary services

• “A demonstration of MPEG-M technologies in Convergence”
  Angelo Difino, Salvatore Signorello
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
  The content of this input document was presented in a demonstration session on the Friday plenary

• “Input contribution on Overlay Technology”
  Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Giuseppe Tropea, Iakovos S. Venieris
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
  The content of this input document was taken in consideration to be included in MPEG-M part 4

• “First step towards unified orchestrator/aggregation environment”
  Angelo-Christos Anadiotis, Angelo Difino, Iakovos S. Venieris
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
  The content of this input document was taken in consideration to be included in MPEG-M part 5

• Proposed PE/ES implementation of MPEG-M part3
  Angelo Difino, Angelo-Christos Anadiotis, Iakovos S. Venieris
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
  The content of this input document was taken in consideration to be included in MPEG-M part 3

• Amendment for DII Digital Item Semantic Relationships
  Giuseppe Tropea, Helder Castro
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
  The content of this input document was taken as a starting point for CD of ISO/IEC 21000-3:2003/Amd.2 Relationship description

• Introducing User Identification in MPEG-M
  Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Leonardo Chiariglione
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 98th meeting, Geneva, November 2011.
  The content of this input document was taken in consideration to be included in MPEG-M part 4

• DASH and MMT as seen from an ICN viewpoint
  Nicola Blefari Melazzi, Andrea Detti, Giuseppe Tropea, Leonardo Chiariglione
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), Coding of Moving Pictures and Audio, 99th MPEG meeting in San José, USA, February 2012.

• MXM Configuration Schema Syntax and Semantics   
  Angelo Difino  
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 99th MPEG meeting in San José, USA, February 2012

• Proposal for Post Content Elementary Service
  Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Angelo Difino, Giuseppe Tropea       
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 99th MPEG meeting in San José, USA, February 2012

• An MPEG-M use case: The MPM Photo Sharing Service   
  Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Angelo Difino, Az Mousas, Salvatore Signorello, Giuseppe Tropea  
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 99th MPEG meeting in San José, USA, February 2012

• Proposal for a refactored version of MXM for MPEG-M purpose  
  Angelo Difino, Az Mousas, Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Bogdan Ardeleanu, Panagiotis Gkonis  
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 100th MPEG meeting in Geneva, CH, April 2012

• MPEG-M Reference Software Workplan  
  Angelo Difino, Giuseppe Tropea, Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Silvia Llorente  
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 100th MPEG meeting in Geneva, CH, April 2012

• Proposal for adding the Overlay Technology Engine  
  Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Angelo Difino, Giuseppe Tropea, Iakovos Venieris  
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 100th MPEG meeting in Geneva, CH, April 2012

• Proposed revised version of MPEG-M part3  
  Angelo Difino, Az Mousas, Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Bogdan Ardeleanu, Panagiotis Gkonis  
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 100th MPEG meeting in Geneva, CH, April 2012

• Proposed revised version of MPEG-M part2  
  Angelo Difino, Az Mousas, Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Bogdan Ardeleanu, Panagiotis Gkonis
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 100th MPEG meeting in Geneva, CH, April 2012

• Proposed revised version of MPEG-M part2
  Angelo Difino, Az Mousas, Angelos-Christos Anadiotis
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 101th MPEG meeting in Stockholm, SWE, July 2012

• Proposed revised version of MPEG-M part3
  Angelo Difino, Az Mousas, Angelos-Christos Anadiotis
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 101th MPEG meeting in Stockholm, SWE, July 2012

• MPEG-M Reference Software Workplan
  Angelo Difino, Giuseppe Tropea, Angelos-Christos Anadiotis, Silvia Llorente
  Input document to the INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), 103th MPEG meeting in Geneva, CH, January 2013

• An implementation of user devices for Information Centric Networking
  Anegelo Difino and Giuseppe Tropea
  submitted to MPEG as M28414 and presented to MPEG Multimedia Ecosystem 2013 Conference and Exhibition, Incheon (KR), April 2013.

• Joint study about MMT and ICN, “On possible MMT contributions to ICN standardisation”
  Leonardo Chiariglione (CEDEO), Youngkwon Lim (Samsung) and Giuseppe Tropea (CNIT)
  published as input Document M28334 to the 103rd MPEG meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland, January 21-25, 2013. This paper reports about cross-fertilization inputs between CONVERGENCE and ICN and the novel MPEG-H part 1 MPEG Media Transport standard

Contributions to ETSI

CONVERGENCE contributed to Work Item number 3 of the ETSI MOI ISG. MOI’s (Measurement Ontology for IP traffic) Industry Specification Group central task is to specify an ontology for IP traffic measurements. See http://www.etsi.org/about/how-we-work/industry-specification-groups for a list and a description of the concept behind ISGs. See http://portal.etsi.org/portal/server.pt/community/MOI/346 for a direct link to MOI.

WI#3 of MOI provides the high level structure description of the ontology for interfacing interoperable solutions in (currently vendor-specific and heterogeneous) infrastructures and tools for IP traffic measurement.

CONVERGENCE contributed a specific chapter on “Information-Centric Networks and Statistics Collection”, dealing with ubiquitous in-network caching and some challenges it poses in terms of monitoring and collection of statistics.

• Final version of MOI WI#3 has been accepted by members in MOI meeting#12 of 20/03/2013, and is in the approval phase (just editorial changes) of ETSI.
• Results of MOI and specifically WI#3 have been presented at 3rd ETSI Future Networks Workshop, 9-11 April 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France, “Session 9: Enabling Techniques”.