internet for people martti mäntylä hiit / tkk / aalto university

Internet for PeopleInternet for People

Martti Mäntylä

HIIT / TKK / Aalto University

A Day in the LifeA Day in the Life

•Matti’s deskside clock wakes him up at 6.45, a bit earlier than usual because his calendar includes a telemeeting at 8.00 in the office. The clock display shows him a reminder of the meeting.

•After morning procedures, Matti takes his electronic car to drive to office. The car communications system reminds him of missed calls. Matti calls his colleague while driving using the hands-free communication system installed in the car.

•For the rest of the trip, he listens to his personal music channel. The 99-channel music is adapted to the 4-speaker setup on his car to create a perfect acoustic rendering of the conditions of the original recording.


•In the office Matti takes a seat in the meeting room at front of a terminal. He logs on it and gets access to his personal virtual desktop and all resources. His phone switches to silent work mode.

•During the meeting, Matti shows a presentation to all participants, shown on the big display in all meeting sites. Another participant makes notes on a shared whiteboard.

•After the meeting, Matti opens his office terminal and starts to work on a shared document from another colleague on his virtual desktop. As Matti is immersed in work, his phone switches to work mode.


•Taking a pause on editing, Matti peeks into the Office Sizzle Channel to get a grip of the status of his workteam. He observes that two of his team members are visiting a customer, one is immersed with browsing a specification document, and one is having a networked work session with a collaborator.

•Matti’s phone rings - his boss was notified of Matti’s status change to pause mode and uses the opportunity to give him a call where they discuss the results of a lab test. A record of the call, with a context record including links to relevant documents, is placed in Matti’s and his boss’ work diaries.


•During mid-afternoon, Matti’s peeks into his Home Sizzle Channel to see that his daughter is in a café with her friends after school and his son is at home. He is also reminded that his wife will be working late, and Matti is expected to pick up takeaway Chinese for the family dinner while commuting home.

•Matti places an order for the food. The ordering system gives him a personalised recommendation, but for variety Matti changes one of the suggested courses.

•After the day in the office, Matti is driving home. Near the shopping mall exit, he gets a friendly reminder to stop for the food.


•After family dinner, Matti decides to edit the video material from his son’s birthday party. He opens the video editor using his home office terminal, and fetches the video files from the family digital storage. He is happy the files were automatically synchronised there from the camera - big relief compared to the past!

•After editing the video, he publishes it for access by the boy’s grandparents and other close family. He observes that his mother has commented a photo journal published previously, and spends a moment peeking into the notes left.

•While working on the video, Matti listens music and news from another of his favourite subscribed channels.


•Later, Matti joins his wife in the living room to watch an episode of their shared favourite TV show, recorded in the family digital storage.

•After that, he watches a real-time football match of Italian Premier League. He enjoys the 3D webcast: during a penalty kick, he places his viewpoint between the goalposts, guessing where the penalty is aimed. He can also stop the game for a replay from any viewpoint.

•Using a wireless keybord, he also chats with a Dutch colleague who is watching the same match, as Matti saw in his Social Sizzle Channel. They place a bet on the number of goals in the match; Matti loses it. They agree to share another match viewing in 2 weeks.


•After the match, Matti peeks into tomorrow’s work schedule using the living room display. There will be a customer visit in the afternoon, so he peeks its context record. He reminds himself to ask about how the art project of customer’s spouse Tiina has progressed.

•Before sleep, Matti reads a chapter of a new novel using his lightweight wireless reading terminal. While reading, he makes a side note on the credibility of a plot twist knowing that his secretary is reading the same novel. While Matti is reading, the display of the terminal is adapted to the ambient lighting of the bedroom.

•Matti dozes off at 23.45.

Qualitative CharacteristicsQualitative Characteristics

•Many terminals, shared content:

– Phone, video camera, living room display, reading terminal, home office terminal, work terminal(s), ...

– “Automatic” content synchronization and adaptation

•Ubiquitous social interaction

– Social networks (contact lists) shared between services and terminals, embedded everywhere

•Ubiquitous context sensitivity and adaptation

– With context disclosure according to contextual privacy policies and settings

•Ubiquitous shared digital assets

•Interactive and adaptable content formats

Basic Assumptions by 2020Basic Assumptions by 2020

•Basic rates of development remain in place:

– Moore’s law (1.5x / year)

– Kryder’s law for mass storage (2x / year)

– Butter’s law for optical networks (2x / 9 months)

– etc.

•The differences in rates are significant, and their impacts accumulate over the years

•Another law that must get beaten: the power consumption per node doubles every year

– Optimising power consumption may become the driving principle of Internet design

New Internet ArchitectureNew Internet Architecture

•Universal wideband wireless access, universal roaming

– Intelligent spectrum management and on-line trading assures availability with variable crowds

– Cross-layer optimisation between radio and Internet architectures

•Universal core network asset management architecture

– New congestion and resource control protocols

– Incentives, market mechanisms

•Integrated support for mobility and multihoming

Federated Content, Identity, and Federated Content, Identity, and Context ManagementContext Management

•Universal federated content distribution architecture

– Based on P2P / information networking principles

– Published content is cached wherever it is needed

– Flash crowds handled with Bittorrent-like protocol

•Universal federated identity management architecture

– Identities and profiles reside in an identity broker

• And possible cached copies in the federation

– Users authorise services to access profile information from the broker

•Universal federated context management and disclosure architecture

Federated Service CloudsFederated Service Clouds

•Services and applications accessed through the terminals run in service clouds providing nearly infinitely elastic capacity and other capabilities for manageability, adaptability, resiliency, survivability, robustness, stability, accountability, and evolvability

•For further resilience and robustness, the service clouds may form a federated structure based on an on-line market with varying service level agreements

– E.g. critical business services vs. home entertainment services have different profiles

•Based on this, the computing, storage, and networking services may be freely deployed in network systems, nodes, and user devices

Network-Oriented TerminalsNetwork-Oriented Terminals

•Terminal = virtualisation platform + browser + resources needed for the terminal’s tasks + caches

•Identity, profile, content, (majority of) applications come from the network

•A device becomes user’s “own” by associating it with user’s identity, whereby it gets access to user’s profile, social network, content, services

– These may be cached if practical

•Correspondingly, the federated infrastructure gets access to sensor information of the terminal

– Location, immediate environment, user interaction not captured by the browser

Ubiquitous Contextual AdaptationUbiquitous Contextual Adaptation

•Content to context:

– Music content adapts to varying listening conditions (car, living room, office, bedroom, earplugs)

•Communication to context:

– Automatic presence capture and disclosure

•Terminal to physical context and resources:

– Terminal in living room: control of living room home entertainment

– Terminal in bedroom: reading terminal, control of bedroom lights

•Terminal to identity: terminal recognises its user and adapts to his/her profile

Business? To Who?Business? To Who?

•The driver of the change is end-user value

– Matti’s company uses wholly virtualised services: near-zero investment in infrastructure and its maintenance

– At home, nearly all services are virtualised and subscribed from several service providers

• Matti invests only in the terminal(s) some of which may come bundled with the service(s).

•Impacts to value chains? Surely considerable ...

•Transition path? Already taking place in business computing!

4. What can or should Europe do?4. What can or should Europe do?

•What is at stake for Europe? Which actions should be undertaken?

•Which are the obstacles (market, regulations, technologies etc) to the realisation of this scenario? What needs to be done to overcome such obstacles?

5. Which economic opportunities 5. Which economic opportunities can be explored?can be explored?

•Which are the strengths Europe could draw upon to build this scenario?

•Is our industrial and academic base capable to deal with the issue?

•Should the efforts in Europe be on the technological developments?

•Should they be placed on the development of applications?

•How to stimulate the creativity and innovation of European actors?

6. How European competitiveness 6. How European competitiveness could be stimulated?could be stimulated?

•To which degree and how can the competitiveness of Europe be strengthened?

•Where will Europe benefit from these developments?

•Which specific actions should be undertaken? At which level? National? European? Are there specific reasons as to why European efforts required to build the scenario, need to be consolidated?

•Which are the costs of simply not taking action?

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