Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

• Program: FP7 FIRE programme

• Project acronym:

• Project title: Fed4Fire

• Duration: mois October 2012 - October 2016

• Coordinator: iMinds (Belgium)

• Other partners: 17 european partners including iMinds (Belgium), IT Innovation (UK), UPMC (Fr), Fraunhofer (Germany), TUB (Germany), UEDIN (UK), NICTA (Australia), etc.

• Web site: 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.

EIT KIC funded activities

• Program: FNS Future Networking Solutions Action Line

• Project acronym: NFMD

• Project title: Networks for Future Media Distribution (14082)

• Duration: January 2014 to December 2014

• Coordinator: Acreo, Sweden

• Other partners: VTT (Finland), Ericsson, Lund University, SICS (Sweden).

• Abstract: The EIT ICT Labs’ Networks for Future Media Distribution (NFMD) activity 14082 has as a specific innovation object set out in the application: “Information centric networking is a novel approach of distributing content based on information rather than traditional host routing. The impact foreseen is novel content distribution networks. This is high risk but gives potentially very high impacts. Solutions for media distribution, based on caching in the network and with advanced tools for quality of experience monitoring, as well as optimization for user demand content patterns as monitored in live services, will be considered.” The expected outcomes envisioned also in the application were seen over the total length of the project of 2-3 years and would give:

  • Building blocks for high performance media service distribution at low cost

  • Optimized caching strategies

  • Information centric networking solutions

  • Quality of Experience tools

  • Prototypes, standardization and open source

  • Greater mobility, better performance of media services and reduced cost

  • Sharing of experience; increased cooperation; new or extended partnerships

• Program: FNS Future Networking Solutions Action Line

• Project acronym: SDN

• Project title: Software Defined Networking (13153)

• Duration: January 2014 to December 2014

• Coordinator: Aalto University, Finland

• Other partners: Helsinky University (Finland), Thales (France), Deutsche Telecom, Fraunhofer, TU München, TU Berlin (Germany).

• Abstract: SDN still requires improvements to be used in mobile networks considering aspects such as security, resilience/robustness and efficient usage of resources in the mobile access. This activity addresses the design of security in mobile access networks (Distributed FW for attack detection and mitigation), Efficient resource usage in mobile access networks (redistribution of traffic based on congestion, mobility patterns) and Resilient control-plane (supporting high speed carrier mobile networks). The expected outcomes are the following:

  • Security outcome: Dynamically allocate resources to countermeasure the cyber attack. Isolation of the part of the network under attack so rest is not compromised.

  • Efficient resource usage in mobile access networks outcome: Optimal redirection of flows following optimized caching policy and pattern based mobility.

  • Resilient control-plane outcome: Understand QoS and make that information available in routing to ensure resiliency.