Monthly Report (2012 December) of the “Large-Scale M2M Mobile Communications Networking” project PI: Phone Lin Co-PI: Whai-En Chen 1. Team members (please highlight team member modification, e.g., new members join, or some students graduate): No Changes 2. Discussion with champions a. How many times? (please inform if it is face-face, by phone, or e-mail) About 12 Emails exchange with Sunder Rajan, Ashok on November. Topic: 1. ng4t emulator 2. Interfaces of MME 3. Large number of LTE UEs connected to eNode B 4. State Transitions of UEs 5. Measurement of the message traffic 6. Detail of EPC environment b. What are the major comments/conclusion from the discussion Now NG40-RAN-S1-X2-FT- functional test with subset functionalities without emulators of eNB and UE is available. (not full set functionalities). Check the cost to upgrade our software to “NG40-RAN-S1-X2-LT.” 3 a. b. Progress between last month and this month Summary of key findings and innovation, and/or - No c. Cross-project synergy - No No Negative results and their consequences, and/or 4. Brief plan for the next month a. - Updated view of planned milestones, deliverables, and success criteria Write the paper for Energy Conservation Mechanism for Internet Router - Define the outputs for analysis in the LTE/UMTS core network to support M2M communications - Refine the Grouping mechanism for Mobility Management in M2M Networks - Design Counter-based and Timer-based mechanisms for stateless IPv6 address allocation 5. a. Research byproducts Paper (submissions, or acceptance) - No b. Talks (invitation received and given), and others (1)演講(邀請/受邀) (2)擔任國際期刊編輯委員 (3)重要技術突破 (4)重要榮譽/獎項 (5)訪問學者/國際交換生 1. M2M and IoT Workshop in IWCMC2013 (Chair: Prof. Phone Lin)