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European Initiatives
FP7 Projects
NOVI
Title: Networking innovations Over Virtualized Infrastructures
Others partners: 13 european partners including GARR, ELTE, Cisco, etc.
See also: http://www.fp7-novi.eu/
Abstract: NOVI (Networking innovations Over Virtualized Infrastructures) research concentrates on efficient approaches to compose virtualized e-Infrastructures towards a holistic Future Internet (FI) cloud service. Resources belonging to various levels, i.e. networking, storage and processing are in principle managed by separate yet interworking providers. NOVI will concentrate on methods, information systems and algorithms that will enable users with composite isolated slices, baskets of resources and services provided by federated infrastructures.
Fed4Fire
Title: Federation for Future Internet Research and Experimentation
Others partners: 17 european partners including iMinds, IT Innovation, UPMC, Fraunhofer, TUB, UEDIN, NICTA, etc.
See also: http://www.fed4fire.eu/
Abstract: Fed4FIRE will deliver open and easily accessible facilities to the FIRE experimentation communities, which focus on fixed and wireless infrastructures, services and applications, and combinations thereof. The project will develop a demand-driven common federation framework, based on an open architecture and specification. It will be widely adopted by facilities and promoted internationally. This framework will provide simple, efficient, and cost effective experimental processes built around experimenters’ and facility owners’ requirements. Insight into technical and socio-economic metrics, and how the introduction of new technologies into Future Internet facilities influences them, will be provided by harmonized and comprehensive measurement techniques. Tools and services supporting dynamic federated identities, access control, and SLA management will increase the trustworthiness of the federation and its facilities. A FIRE portal will offer brokering, user access management and measurements. Professional technical staff will offer first-line and second-line support to make the federation simple to use. The project will use open calls to support innovative experiments from academia and industry and to adapt additional experimentation facilities for compliance with Fed4FIRE specifications. A federation authority will be established to approve facilities and to promote desirable operational policies that simplify federation. A Federation Standardization Task Force will prepare for sustainable standardization beyond the end of the project. The adoption of the Fed4FIRE common federation framework by the FIRE facilities, the widespread usage by both academic and industrial experimenters, and the strong links with other national and international initiatives such as the FI-PPP, will pave the way to sustainability towards Horizon 2020.
OPENLAB
Defi: ICT 2011.1.6 Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE)
Others partners: 18 European partners (including ETH Zurich, Fraunhofer, IBBT, TUB, UAM, etc.) and Nicta from Australia.
See also: http://www.ict-openlab.eu/
Abstract: OpenLab brings together the essential ingredients for an open, general purpose and sustainable large scale shared experimental facility, providing advances to the early and successful prototypes serving the demands of Future Internet Research and Experimentation.OpenLad partners are deploying the software and tools that allow these advanced testbeds to support a diverse set of applications and protocols in more efficient and flexible ways. OpenLab’s contribution to a portfolio that includes: PlanetLab Europe (PLE), with its over 200 partner/user institutions across Europe; the NITOS and w-iLab.t wireless testbeds; two IMS telco testbeds that can connect to the public PSTN, to IP phone services, and can explore merged media distribution; an LTE cellular wireless testbed; the ETOMIC high precision network measurement testbed; the HEN emulation testbed; and the ns-3 simulation environment. Potential experiments that can be performed over the available infrastructure go beyond what can be tested on the current internet. OpenLab extends the facilities with advanced capabilities in the area of mobility, wireless, monitoring, domain interconnections and introduces new technologies such as OpenFlow. These enhancements are transparent to existing users of each facility. Finally, OpenLab will finance and work with users who propose innovative experiments using its technologies and testbeds, via the open call mechanism developed for FIRE facilities.
FI-WARE
Defi: PPP FI: Technology Foundation: Future Internet Core Platform.
Others partners: SAP (Germany), IBM (Israel, Switzerland), Thales Communications (France), Telecom Italia (Italy), France Telecom (France), Nokia Siemens Networks (Germany, Hungary, Finland), Deutsche Telekom (Germany), Technicolor (France), Ericsson (Sweden), Atos Origin (Spain), Ingeneria Informatica (Italy), Alcatel-Lucent (Italy, Germany), Siemens (Germany), Intel (Ireland), NEC (United Kingdom), Fraunhofer Institute (Germany), University of Madrid (Spain), University of Duisburg (Germany), University of Roma La Sapienza (Italy), University of Surrey (United Kingdom).
See also: http://www.fi-ware.eu/ .
Abstract: The goal of the FI-WARE project is to advance the global competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees. FI-WARE is designed to meet the demands of key market stakeholders across many different sectors, e.g., healthcare, telecommunications, and environmental services. The project unites major European industrial actors in an unique effort never seen before. The key deliverables of FI-WARE will deliver an open architecture and implementation of a novel service infrastructure, building upon generic and reusable building blocks developed in earlier research projects. This infrastructure will support emerging Future Internet (FI) services in multiple Usage Areas, and will exhibit significant and quantifiable improvements in the productivity, reliability and cost of service development and delivery - building a true foundation for the Future Internet.
EIT KIC funded activities
Our project team was involved in 2012 in six activities funded by the EIT ICT Labs KIC:
Others partners: Alcatel Lucent, Fraunhofer FOKUS, BME, IT, U. Paris XI.
Abstract: FITTING develops a testbed federation architecture that combines wireless and wired networks. Through FITTING, components and solutions developed in the projects OneLab2, PII and SensLAB are brought together to facilitate access. These components and devices complement each other – for instance SensLAB enhances the testbed federation by adding wireless sensors. FITTING addresses issues related to usability and accessibility of federated experimentation resources from multiple autonomous organizations. FITTING is a process of federating elements from various European and national initiatives into a global shared resource pool with a standardized interface to access them. Further, FITTING will adopt a user-driven (researchers, developers, students) approach with its running testbeds allowing experimentation with different technologies to meet the variety of needs of a broad customer base. The FITTING activity is mentioned as a “success story” by the EIT ICT Labs KIC (See http://eit.europa.eu/kics1/stories-archiv/stories-single-view/article/fitting-from-eit-ict-labs-the-next-generation-testbeds.html ). In fact, after an initial funding in 2010, the french partners succeded to get the FIT Equipment of Excellence project accepted with a total budget of 5.8 MEuros to develop a testbed federation in France.
This activity deals with privacy issues in smart environments, with a particular issue on smart metering systems.
The objective of this activity is to explore software-defined networking at different positions on the axis between basic flow-level processing (using OpenFlow for end-to-end flows) in controlled fixed networks and cooperation between mobile end nodes in the open wireless Internet (using opportunistic networking for resources communicated hop-by-hop).