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ICT Work Programme 2009/10 Objective 1.6 Future
Internet experimental facility and
experimentally-driven research Brussels 12 May
2009

Marek KolodziejskiEuropean Commission DG
Information Society and Media New Infrastructure
Paradigms and Experimental Facilities
"The views expressed in this presentation are
those of the author and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the European Commission"
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ICT Challenge 1
ICT challenge 1
Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Services
Infrastructures
Planned EU contribution under the federating
theme Future Internet in 2009/2010 gt 567 M
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Purpose of FIRE
Purpose of FIRE

• creating a research environment for
  investigating and experimentally validating
  highly innovative and revolutionary ideas
• To investigate, test and compare, at large
  scale, new paradigms and future internet
  architectures, and their socio-economic impact
• e.g. transport/routing paradigms, dynamic
  topologies, service architectures ...
• e.g. socio economic impact of putting
  intelligence into the core, changing the
  end-to-end principle, ...

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Dimensions of Future Internet
Dimensions of Future Internet
Support investments backward compatibility Need
for (open) standards Security for commer-cial
services and applications
Terabyte networks Complexity Mobility Internet
of things Clean slate approaches
European competitiveness on future Internet (act
where market forces fail) Consumer protection /
empowerment Social responsibility preserve
neutrality, openness, fairness, social
role Balance the need for security/accountability
and the right to privacy
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Building the FIRE Facility
Building the FIRE Facility
FP7 WP 2007/08 Prototyping the federation
concept

• open and dynamic
• focus on network connectivity layers
• supporting academia and industry
• proof-of-concept ? pre-commercial tbs
• understanding the socio-economic dim.
• availability and gradual expansion of
  prototype services starting in 2008

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FIRE - Overview of Projects
FIRE - overview of projects
(from Call2 Objective 1.6 Community Funding 40
M)
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FIRE Launch Event, Paris, 10 September 2008
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FIRE - main project partners
FIRE - main project partners

• Industries/SMEs Albentia, Alcatel-Lucent,
  Ericsson, Dimes, Nokia, Thales, Intel, Italtel,
  NEC Europe, Thomson , Norut, Solinet, BCT, PLA,
  OCTO
• Operators BT, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom,
  Cosmote, OTE, RBB, Telefonica, Telekom Austria,
  Telekomunikacja Polska, Turkcell, VoiceGlobe,
  Vodafone-Panafon
• Research Centers ETH, Fraunhofer, WIT,
  Create-Net, RACTI, CNIT, EURESCOM, CERTH, INRIA,
  CNRS, KTH, CTRC, IBBT, Club of Rome, MIT, NICTA
• Universities Athens, Basel, Berlin, Bern,
  Braunschweig, Bucharest, Delft, Dublin, UPC,
  Geneva, Jerusalem, KCL, Lancaster, Liege, Lubeck,
  Lulea, Palermo, Passau, Patras, Madrid,
  Paderborn, Pisa, Poznan, Surrey, Tel Aviv, UPMC,
  Uppsala, Warsaw

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Challenges for 2009 and beyond

• Have a working prototype of the integrated FIRE
  facility in 2011 (9 months into Call 5 projects)
• Match the offer of the FIRE prototypes with the
  demand by research projects across Challenge 1
• Establish FIRE Research as the Grand Challenge
  projects for the FIRE Facility
• Establish bilateral federations between FIRE
  prototypes and with other EU national or
  international facilities
• Establish FIRE as an integral part of a potential
  Future Internet PPP

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ICT WP 2009/10 - Objective 1.6 Future Internet
experimental facility experimentally-driven
research
FIRE experimentallydriven research 20 M for
STREPs
Building the FIRE experimental facility
stimulating its use 25 M for IPs
Defining the challenges for the facility
Takingadvantage ofthe facility
FIRE Components(gradual expansion)(20)
FIRE Users (user stimulation)(20)
Co-ordination and support actions - 5 M for CSAs
ICT Call 5
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Building the Experimental Facility and
stimulating its use (1)

• The FIRE facility shall allow for
• Large scale experimentation with and comparison
  of visionary approaches for
• network architectures and technologies,
• service architectures and platforms,
• networked media
• and trustworthy infrastructures for the Future
  Internet.
• Experimentation with systems based on
  cross-layer/non-layered approaches
• Direct involvement of user communities
• Assessment of the socio-economic and
  environmental impact.
• The FIRE facility should be
• Dynamic,
• Sustainable
• Open at all levels and based on open standards.
• Participation from INCO countries in particular
  at use level encouraged.

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Building the Experimental Facility and
stimulating its use (2)

• FIRE Components
• Operational prototype to be provided at an early
  stage
• minimum 20 of the resources for gradual
  expansion of functionality
• in a demand-driven and open way
• by federating testbeds providing additional
  functionality within the facility.
• FIRE Users
• Minimum 20 of the resources for extending the
  use for research groups that
• propose innovative usage scenarios
• exploiting the multiple dimensions and scale of
  the facility
• using the mechanism of open call
• High degree of innovation in the use of the
  Facility, including
• system level experiments making a comprehensive
  use of several components of the facility,
• large scale experimentation,
• broad involvement of user communities,
• assessment of socio-economic and other
  non-technological aspects.
• Results, lessons learnt and recommendations of
  mutual interest

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Experimentally-Driven Research in WP 2009-2010

• Visionary multidisciplinary research
• Defining the challenges for and taking advantage
  of the Experimental Facility
• Consisting of iterative cycles of research,
  design and large-scale experimentation of new and
  innovative network and service architectures and
  paradigms for the Future Internet
• Research to consider the Future Internet as a
  complex system and therefore address all the
  associated aspects in a holistic vision and at
  all relevant levels and layers (taking a system
  perspective)
• This includes the definition of relevant metrics
  taking into account energy, low cost,
  environmental or socio-economic aspects

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Co-ordination and Support Actions

• Coordination of related EU-level and MSs / ACs
  activities
• International co-operation with other initiatives
  in industrial and emerging countries
• Collaboration on standardisation in order to
  exploit synergies
• Multidisciplinary networking of research
  communities addressing both technological and
  socio-economic and environmental aspects of the
  Future Internet
• Co-ordination of experience research and
  user-driven open innovation activities
  establishing common concepts, tools, roadmaps,
  methodologies, including the sharing of best
  practices across pilots and sectors.

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Expected Impact

• Improved European competitiveness in Future
  Internet research and development by providing
  European researchers, in industry and academia,
  with a
• unique operational, sustainable, dynamic, and
  integrated large scale Experimental Facility,
• which is used by a significant number of Future
  Internet research projects in European and
  national programmes and beyond
• Establishing the methodology of
  experimentally-driven research for investigation
  of innovative concepts for FI taking a
  multidisciplinary and holistic approach
• Assessment at an early stage of the
  technological, societal, economic and
  environmental implications of changes to the
  Internet
• Strengthened European competitive position on
  experimentation environments through targeted
  international co-operation
• Increased acceptance and use of the concept of
  user-driven open innovation through demonstrated
  benefits from complementary approaches of open
  testbeds, pilots, experience research, etc.

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Use of the FIRE facility

• We encourage the use of the FIRE facility created
  by
• OneLab2
• PII
• WISEBED
• VITAL
• Details, rules and contact persons on
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire/

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Where to find more information

• Info Day for Objective 1.6
• 16 June 2009, from 900 to 1700
• Charlemagne building (room Jenkins),
• 170 rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels.
• FIRE Week, Lulea, Sweden
• Open workshop 1-2 July 2009
• Offering of FIRE Facility projects
• Use-cases for FIRE
• Expert Group Report (under consultations)
• DRAFT http//www.ict-fireworks.eu/
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire/