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IntroductionVisionThe vision of the Teleservice Laboratory and the PATS program
is to provide a setting in which students and researchers can
experiment with the development of advanced telecommunication services.
The lab provides access to state-of-the-art technology and
infrastructures .
By advanced we mean a combination of the following:
We use the term service to imply functionality offered by the underlying communication network, and functionality provided by applications outside the network. By the network we mean heterogeneous networks: PSTN, IP, GSM, and in the near future UMTS, hence we are referring to what we denote hybrid services. MotivationThe motivation is for students and researchers to experiment with the widest possible range of advanced hybrid services, in an environment that enables short development times and controlled quality. The merging of influences from traditional telecommunications and information technology in the combined services and networks is expected to result in innovative solutions to communication needs. The Teleservice Lab will provide a sand box in which the shape of future services can be molded. Problem definitionThe problem areas that will be focused in the Teleservice Lab setting are:
Development methodologies and Service interaction are
complementary problem areas that will be given some attention. Security
and reliability issues are not main areas of focus in the Teleservice
Lab, although the services developed and the platforms used may be
objects of study in this respect too. AssignmentsStudent project assignments take place in the autumn of the 5th study year as part of TDT4735 System Development, Advanced Course (Systemutvikling Fordypning). An overview on earlier and ongoing activities is available. Life cycleThe Teleservice Lab setting combines long lived problems and research areas, like service development methodologies, feature interaction problems and modeling capabilities, with the technological opportunities made available by the latest and greatest advances in mobile devices and available software platforms (e.g. PDA, SmartPhones, WLAN, Parlay, SIP, mobile media streaming). In this way it is both cool, making it attractive to the young students that are keen on new technology, and sound, i.e. the problems treated are substantial and long lived, and have been areas of focus in the Department of Telematics for many years. Relation to fields of studyThe lab represents a resource center for the final years of
study at the NTNU / Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Telecommunications / Department of Telematics MSc course Communications
Technology (E4/E7), for students that have chosen a specialization in
Telematics in general, and System Development (Systemutvikling - SU) in
particular. The lab is also relevant for related PhD work and other
research projects at the Department of Telematics. In addition,
voluntary student work might take place under the auspices of Mimir.
TTM4130 is offered in the spring of the 4th academic year,
while TTM4710 and TTM47AC are offered in the autumn of the 5th academic
year. AssessmentAn assessment of the two first years of the lab is the subject
of an article
at NIK-2003. LocationThe lab is co-located at NTNU and Telenor FoU in Trondheim,
and
is connected by high capacity links to Ericsson in Asker. Additional
links
towards other partner labs are possible, such as the link to Agder
University College in Grimstad, thereby creating a virtual center of
excellence. OpeningThe lab was officially opened on Friday 21st September 2001. Presentations and pictures are available. |