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SUMMARY
The MAPS (Management, Pricing and Services in Next Generation Networks) group conducts research into network management, planning, architecture and service engineering. Taking advantage of inter-domain synergies generated through the collaboration of its wide-ranging, expert members, the group conducts research in a variety of diverse areas, primarily:
- Service Engineering (creation, deployment, management of context-aware ubiquitous services)
- Management of Service-aware Networks and Supporting Resources (autonomic management systems)
- Business and Economic Aspects of Telecommunication Services (SLAs, pricing)
- Enabling Management Technologies (network virtualization, policy-based management, context-awareness, information and data modelling, reasoning and learning techniques)
The MAPS group is actively involved in international and national projects and has been declared as a consolidated group by the Generalitat de Catalunya
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SOLUTIONS
- Decoupling the operation of access networks and transport networks so as to facilitate independent management of the access network
- Introducing industry-standards-based IT Service Management (ITSM) in Federated e-Infrastructures
- Investigating the creation of a network virtualisation environment over a fully heterogeneous network infrastructure
- Developing a business-oriented management framework for mobile communication systems
- Designing a two-dimensional architecture for end-to-end resource management in virtual network environments
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LINK: http://www.maps.upc.edu/
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