The CASPER Project Approach Towards User-Centric Mobile Networks

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the project CASPER, a Marie Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) project running from 2016 until 2020. The main objective of CASPER is to combine academic and industrial forces towards leveraging the expected benefits of Quality of Experience (QoE) exploitation in future digital networks. In particular, CASPER exploits the most recent advances in communication networks, such as the Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) in order to design and implement a middleware architecture for QoE-driven service provisioning. CASPER, therefore, addresses the challenges that mobile network operators and service providers face in the current fully digitalized era of communications, concerning the need to provide customer-oriented, reliable, efficient, flexible and dynamic service management.