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SpaceForScience DEPLOYMENT
EXPERIMENTATION Status Guidelines HandsOn
Workshop Alcatel Alenia Space 7th 8th
November 2005 Hélène Mignot C2 Consultants
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INTRODUCTION
Context, Objectives Targets Benefits for User
Communities Pilots deployment
Objectives Project Facilities Applications
demonstrated from the SFS platform
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INTRODUCTION

• Context
• System and applications are validated on a
  technological point of view
• System and applications shall now be made
  available for the Scientific User Communities for
  a real-use experimentation and feed-back
  collection
• Objectives
• To deploy a network over Eastern and Southern
  Europe to interconnect scientific and research
  Centers
• To coordinate the deployment and experimentation
  phase and collect all relevant input from the
  users to enhance the proposed solutions
• Targets
• To manage the concrete set-up and coordination of
  the networks implementation over the user sites
• To frame and collect the Users feedback and
  tackle encountered obstacles to finalise the
  solution

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INTRODUCTION

• Benefits for User Communities
• Access to a bi-directional DVB-RCS satellite
  system combined with a large portfolio of
  added-value applications,
• Involvement in a trans-national European
  initiative lead by ESA and in partnership with
  UNESCO
• Promotion of the Scientific and Research
  cooperation thanks to the experimentation of
  adapted satellite tools and solutions
• Enhancement of the users activities, skills and
  dynamism in the European scientific landscape
• Cooperation Spirit to interact with the
  Consortium, to express their needs, expectations,
  feedback and recommendations

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INTRODUCTION

• Pilot Deployments Objectives
• To put the SFS system and application platform at
  the disposal of User Communities of Southern and
  Eastern Europe, in the Scientific and Research
  field
• To accompany users in their experimentation of
  the system, designed to serve and support their
  scientific activities
• To make Users experiment the added-value of such
  innovative bi-directional satellite links,
  networks, tools and solutions.
• To provide a sound and real-use based feedback
  on the proposed Technologies and Applications, to
  allow necessary evolutions and prepare future
  developments

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USER HANDSON WORKSHOP

• Objective 1 Precise information of the User
  sites project and technical managers, on the
• experimentations concrete set-up,
• related documentation ,
• evaluation and reporting procedures
• Objective 2
• Practical training on the use and performance of
• the SFS system
• the application platform
• Demonstrations via satellite

User Handson Workshop 7th 8th November
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• USER SITES SELECTION STATUS
• SpaceforScience User Communities List
• User sites of SFS have been selected by UNESCO
• according to the following criteria
• Have a concrete need for such tools to support
  and enhance their cooperation.
• Be representative of the SEE diversity and of the
  scientific fields recommended during the
  Ministerial Round Table
• Be able to contribute to the local development of
  the countries

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CURRENT IDENTIFIED PILOTS SITES

• Focolare sites 8 sites over 5 countries
• Italy / Germany / Hungary / Spain / Switzerland
• UNESCO sites 19 sites over 7 countries
• Serbia and Montenegro / Croatia / Bulgaria /
  Bosnia and Herzegovina / Romania / FYR of
  Macedonia / Albania
• ESA sites 2 sites over 2 countries
• ESRIN- Italy
• ESTEC- The Netherlands

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Computer Sciences and Telecommunication 1/2
Serbia and Montenegro Centre for
Telecommunications Department of Electrical
Engineering University of Montenegro- Podgorica
Serbia and Montenegro Belgrade University
Computing Center and AMREJ Computer Engineering
and Computer Science Department Faculty of
Electrical Engineering Croatia Croatian
Academic and Research Network (CARNet) Zagreb
Bulgaria Institute for Parallel
Processing Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Acad.
Georgi Bonchev- Sofia
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Computer Sciences and Telecommunication 2/2
Serbia and Montenegro Bosnia and Herzegovina
Academic and Research Network BIHARNET
Center- Sarajevo Romania National Institute
for Research and Development in Informatics-
Bucharest FYR fo Macedonia Institute of
Informatics Faculty of Natural Science and
Mathematics - Skopje Albania Institute of
Informatics and Applied Mathematics Albanian
Academy of Sciences- Tirana
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Biology, Biotechnologies in Health and Genetics
Bosnia and Herzegovina Institute for Genetic
Engineering and Biotechnology Sarajevo
Bulgaria The Stephan Angeloff Institute of
Microbiology Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences Academician Georgi Bonchev- Sofia FYR
of Macedonia Research Center for Genetic
Engineering and Biotechnology Macedonian
Academy of Sciences Arts- Skopje Serbia and
Montenegro Institute of Molecular Genetics and
Genetic Engineering Belgrade
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Agriculture, Environment, Biotechnologies in
Agriculture
Albania Institute of Biological
Research Academy of Sciences- Tirana Bosnia and
Herzegovina Agricultural Institute of Republic
of Srpska University of Banja Luka- Banja
Luka Bulgaria AgroBioInstitute (ABI)
-Sofia Serbia and Montenegro Faculty of
Metallurgy and Technology University of
Montenegro- Podgorica
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Environmental Sciences
Albania Institute of Seismology Academy of
Sciences of Albania Tirana Bulgaria Geophysica
l Institute Bulgarian Academy of Sciences-
Sofia FYR of Macedonia Institute of
Earthquake Engineering and Engineering
Seismology (IZIIS) Department of Dynamics,
Experimental mechanics and structural control -
Skopje
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• USERS-RELATED AGREEMENT
• The following agreement s goal is to inform the
  Users on all relevant information concerning the
  experimentations organisation and to define the
  conditions of their participation in the SFS
  project.
• SFS Agreement
• signed between UNESCO and each User site
• Formalizing the involvement of the users in this
  projects experimentation phase and for the
  preparation of the future initiatives
• Framing the administrative, financial and
  organisational issues.
• Describing the mutual commitments of the
  parties
• project Consortiums partners
• Users as partners of the Project

Deployable
SFS agreement
Official SFS User Site
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PILOTs DEPLOYMENT Equipment delivery
Installation procedure First Connection
Session
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EQUIPMENT DELIVERY Equipment delivery and
Reception Status
. Alcatel Space sends the kit together with the
KDN to each site. Each user site must check the
equipment received and undersign the KDN,
necessary to trigger the installation. Once
signed by the user, it assesses the
acknowledgement of the conformity and integrity
of the received equipment. The equipment is
then under the installers and the users
responsibility.
Supplied
KDN signed
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• EQUIPMENT DELIVERY
• Equipment delivery and Reception
• All equipments have been sent to all sites-
• except Uni of Bucarest, Romania, as no technical
  questionnaire has been sent process at level 0
• All equipments shall be received by soon, with
  delays due to
• False or unprecise addresses
• Customs delays
• Tax and contractual procedures
• RECALL It is Crucial to fax the
• KIT DELIVERY NOTICE undersigned!!
• .Only IZIIS sent it, up to today!!

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INSTALLATION PROCEDURE Installation on each site
by the installer

• Schedule The installation planning for each site
  shall be decided in tight cooperation by the
  user, the installer, C2 Consultants and Alcatel
  Alenia Space, to anticipate and prepare the
  concrete installation of the equipment and
  satellite bandwidth booking for tests.
• Reporting Once the installation is performed,
  the installer
• Transmits on the Users site to Alcatel Alenia
  Space and C2C for TDS up-dating.( final SIT
  configuration, S/N)
• Signs the SIR Site Installation Report
  undersigned by both the user and the installer
• Validation of the installation and connection
  from Network and Application point of view
• Alcatel Alenia Space and the installer performs
  the connection and distant testing and produces
  the First Connection Session Report

Installed
DSL updated
SIR signed
Validated
FCSR
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• INSTALLATION PROCEDURE
• Installation Tours Schedule
• Team 1 Alain Sargos Departure on 3rd Nov
• 1/Albania 3 sites
• - Biological research Institute -
  TIRANA-Reception Equipment OK
• - INIMA - TIRANA - Reception Equipment OK
• Seismological Institute- TIRANA- Reception
  Equipment OK
• 2/Bulgaria 4 sites
• - Geophysical Institute - SOFIA - Reception
  Equipment OK
• - Institute of Parallel Processing - SOFIA
• - Microbiology - Reception Equipment OK
• Agrobio SOFIA
• 3/Romania
• ICI BUCAREST

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• INSTALLATION PROCEDURE
• Installation Tours Schedule
• Team 2 G.Augustin
• Departure on the 7th Nov
• up to 2 days for each site
• 1/Croatia
• SRCE- ZAGREB
• 2/Macedonia
• - MASC- SKOPJE
• - IZIIS - SKOPJE Reception Equipment OK
• Institute of Informatics- SKOPJE Reception
  Equipment OK
• 3/Serbia Montenegro
• - Center for Telecommunication- PODGORICA (Switch
  2 sites)
• - Petnica Science Center - VALGERO
• - IMGGE - BELGRADE - Réception Equipement OK

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• THE EVALUATIONS SCOPE
• Networks
• To implement and experiment the opportunities of
  combined satellite and terrestrial networks in
  order to extend the coverage of existing
  infrastructures
• To define the next generation of Research and
  education networks, in terms of concrete
  professional needs for cooperation purposes.
• Applications
• To experiment the panel of multimedia, computing,
  data handling and communication solutions that
  enable e-science, e-research and e-education at a
  large scale,
• - To explore models that could be proposed for
  the next phases and further implementations.

Early November until Mid December
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• THE EVALUATIONS SCOPE
• Contents identification, dissemination and
  transfer
• To enable remote access to high level contents
  and courses, the content scenario describes the
  nature, size, quantity, format and vocation of
  the exchanged contents,
• To explore capabilities of the SpaceForScience
  solutions in order to develop sound Technology
  and know-how transfer towards industries,
  research centers and governmental bodies
• Knowledge dissemination
• To enable access to international events and
  conferences, by making when possible usage of
  multicast over satellite.
• To enable on-line access to specialised journals
  and databases,

Early November until Mid December
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THE EXPERIMENTATION SESSIONS

• Pilot Utilisation Plan produced by the
  Consortium
• Precise planning and explanations on procedures
  needed to perform and manage properly the
  experimentation phase at the pilots levels.
• -Describes the concrete technical modalities and
  organizational schemes to be followed to
  practically handle and manage the experimentation
  sessions of the system, on the basis of the
  users SESSION FORMS
• Experimentation Guidelines Usage PROTOCOL,
  REPORT Forms and EVALUATION forms
• Each user site will have the guidelines to be
  followed for the feedback collection
• -Guidelines are provided under the form of
  protocol to be respected and forms to be
  filled-in to let each site follow the same
  procedure in experimenting and reporting the
  activities to the consortium.
• -Once completed by the end of the experimentation
  phase, each sites report will be gathered and
  analyzed by the Community Coordinator and by the
  Consortium.

Pilot Utilisation Plan
User Report Guidelines
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DOCUMENTATION TO BE PRODUCED BY THE USERS SESSION
FORM
November
Session Form Usage Scenario - Identifies and
plans which applications are to be used for the
activities and the provisional schedule for their
use. - Anticipated description of the activities
and external exchanges - as reference for the
evaluations -Describes the detailed and practical
activities PLANNING that will be performed at
each User Communitys level, Periodicity,
required services, number of sites connected at
the same time for video-conference To be defined
to be included in the pilot Utilisation
Plan Session Form Content Definition -Describes
the nature, format, size, location, volume and
destination of the contents that will be
exchanged and made available on the SFS network.
Usage scenario
Content Definition
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USER SITES PILOT EVALUATION

• USER EVALUATION REPORTS
• Feedback collection at Communitys level
• During the use of the system by the users, the
  Leaders are responsible for the collection of the
  Communities user sites feedback on at least the
  following items
• - Equipment / installation / maintenance
  Difficulties/ level of satisfaction
• Network / access to sessions/Difficulties //level
  of satisfaction
• Usage of the application Difficulties //level of
  satisfaction
• - Feedback on the applications functionalities,
  performance and on their adequacy with the
  professional needs of the community
• - Wished up-grade or evolutions
• Report on the benefit of the system at the
  Communitys level and user sites level.
• Proposals and recommendations for a critical
  analysis of the system and of the operational
  model to be se-up for the future
• These User Feedback reports shall be collected,
  to be analysed and synthesised and compiled in
  the frame of the SFS System Usage and
  Experimentation Report -

Mid-December
Evaluation Reports
System Usage experimentation Report
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EXPERIMENTATION-INTRODUCTION
Project facilities put at the disposal of the
users

• Alcatel Alenia Space DVB-RCS Hub
• Alcatel Alenia Space Applications platform
• 28 user sites, via DVB-RCS terminals
• Satellite capacity HellaSat
• Bandwidth
• Best effort mode of 4 Mbps on the forward link
  from the Platform to the site
• Best effort mode up to 512 Kbps on the return
  link from the site to the platform

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EXPERIMENTATION-INTRODUCTION
Applications demonstrated from the
SFS DVB-RCS platform Added-value
applications are proved on an end-to-end basis
by satellite in DVB-RCS terminals using an
applications platform.

• Fast Internet
• Push
• Mirror
• Business TV
• Collaborative Working
• e-Education off-line
• Portal ( Content Management)
• Streaming
• Video Conferencing

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PILOTs EXPERIMENTATION Guidelines and
Documentation USAGE PROTOCOL Experimentation
sessions guidelines SESSION FORM Usage and
content scenario Schedule of sessions REPORT
FORM Evaluation of the session EVALUATION
REPORTS Overall Feedback and Perspectives
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Usage Protocol

• Introduction
• Session is a session during which user
  sites are using a single application provided by
  the SFS platform
• During the experimentation, each user site shall
• Use all the applications and at least once, that
  is to say to organise at least one session for
  each application
• Participate to and/or organize some plenary
  sessions to allow one group or site presenting
  their activity to all the others sites 4
  plenary sessions at least

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Usage Protocol

• Applications 3 classes of applications
• Free Session Applications which can be used
  anytime
• Internet Access
• Declared session Applications which requires
  that the user site informs the SFS support Team
  by scheduling the session via the session form
  provided and filled-in
• Collaborative Work
• Vision-conference
• Authorized Session Applications which requires
  that the user site schedules the session and
  waits for the acknowledgment of SFS support , via
  the session form provided and filled-in
• Push
• Mirroring
• File Streaming
• Business TV

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Usage Protocol

• How to schedule a session?
• 1/ The leader of the session downloads the
  Session Form on the SFS portal
• 2/ The leader fills in the Session form
• Leader name, participants names,
• Starting date/hour, ending date/hour,
• Application used
• Contents characteristics (size, type, place, )
• 3/ The leader site sends the form by e-mail to
  SFS support.
• 4/ SFS support must receive this mail at least 2
  days before the session
• 5/ SFS support completes the form (private part)
  with administrative/technical information
• 6/ If required, the SFS support acknowledges the
  schedule of the session e-mail back to the
  leader of the session

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Usage Protocol

• The session preparation
• The leader of the session organizes the session
• Contacts all the participants,
• With the help of the participants defines the
  Usage scenario and the contents to be used during
  the session
• The leader fills the SESSION form
• Description of the Usage Scenario and of the
  contents to be used during the session
• The usage scenario has to be representative of a
  certain usage of the application depending on the
  functions used, the characteristics of the
  contents,
• The leader site sends the Session form to all the
  participants and by e-mail to SFS support.
• SFS support validates the form, acknowledges the
  session if required

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Usage Protocol

• The process during and after the session
• The application has to be run from the SFS portal
• The leader manages the session Each participant
  plays the expected role, according to the usage
  scenario
• At the end of the session
• Based on the real session performed, the leader
  up-dates the SESSION Form s usage scenario, and
  it sends again
• The leader, with the help of the others, fills
  the REPORT form
• Application easy to run, to use ?
• Response time, quality of audio, video,
• Interest of the applications/functions used
  during the session
• Applications/functions which can be interesting
• The leader site sends the updated Session Form
  and the Report form by e-mail to SFS support.- at
  least 2 days after the session
• SFS support completes the form with
  administrative/technical information

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Usage Protocol

• At the end of the Pilot phase
• Each user site sends an EVALUATION REPORT
• Synthesis on the use of the system interesting
  applications/functions, other applications/functio
  ns to be provided, remarks,
• Feedback on the overall technical aspects
  interoperability, bit-rate, security, QoS,
• Added-value and benefits of such a solution for
  the institution and thematic field communication
  needs and benefits-collaboration internally to
  the user site and with the other partners,
  cooperation schemes
• Perspective of use of these means in your
  activity, possible extension with potential
  example of possible scenario of deployment in
  your country or other countries, with potential
  partners..

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Usage Protocol

• All the forms will be available on the SFS
  portal
• Protocol document,
• Session form
• Report Form
• Evaluation Form

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THE DEPLOYMENT
Information Workshop 28-29 Sept
Agreement

User site
First Contact QuestR
time
End of September
User site
Technical QuestR
User site
User site
Technical Specification for the equipment
Site survey for installation
User site
Early October
Equipment Set-Up And Configuration
SFS Consortium Partners
Equipment Shipment
Reception - Kit Delivery Notice
Mid-End of October
Installation
First Connection Session
3rd 4th November
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THE EXPERIMENTATION
User HandsOn Workshop 7th 8th November
Pilot Utilisation Plan
Usage Scenario
time
User Reports Guidelines
Early November
Content Definition
SFS Consortium Partners
Experimentation
of the SFS System Evaluation
November to Mid December

User site
User Reports Recommendations
User site
Mid-December
User site
User site
User site
SFS System Usage and Experimentation Reports
31st Dec 2005