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Applying Semantics to Optimize End-User Services in Telecommunication Networks

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Conferences (OTM 2014)

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This paper describes Aesop, a semantically-enhanced approach for optimizing telecommunication networks to manage over-the-top end-user services such as web-browsing and video-streaming, according to the experience expectations of individual users. Aesop is built using technologies already available in the semantic ecosystem. In this paper, we explain our semantic approach to this problem domain and describe how we applied semantic technologies in the design and implementation of our system. We give an overview of an implementation and evaluation of Aesop. We describe our experiences in using semantic technologies, and explore the potential and limitations of semantic technologies in the telecommunication management domain.

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  1. Network Management Lab, Ericsson, Athlone, Co., Westmeath, Ireland

    Liam Fallon & John Keeney

  2. Knowledge & Data Engineering Group (KDEG), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Declan O’Sullivan

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  1. TU Graz, Rechbauerstraße 12, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Robert Meersman

  2. CRAN, Campus Sciences, University of Lorraine, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoevre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, 3086, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

  4. Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems (LEKS), IASI - CNR, Viale Manzoni 30, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Michele Missikoff

  5. School of Software, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

    Lin Liu

  6. PROS Research Center, Camino de Vera, Universidad Politècnica de València, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Oscar Pastor

  7. Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, Univeristy of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 41C, 87036, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

    Alfredo Cuzzocrea

  8. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT, Australia

    Timos Sellis

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Fallon, L., Keeney, J., O’Sullivan, D. (2014). Applying Semantics to Optimize End-User Services in Telecommunication Networks. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Conferences. OTM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45563-0_44

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