EU-Japan Workshop AalborgFIRE conference Ghent
15 December 2010 (part of 
FI-week 13-17 Dec 2010)
Conference objectives:
- Position the FIRE activities in the Digital Agenda and the general Future Internet strategy of Europe
- Stimulate the use of the existing and future experimental facilities by future Internet researchers
- Present successful use of current existing facilities based on use cases and experiments
- Explore the potential of a new multi-disciplinary approach towards Internet Science
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Conference Report
Agenda, summary report & presentation slides
All presentation videos available online at http://fire-ghent.fi-week.eu/video/
Time | Opening session | Chair: Anastasius Gavras |
9:00 | Welcome | Wim De Waele, CEO of IBBT |
9:15 | FIRE in the general Future Internet Strategy | Mario Campolargo, Director Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures |
9:30 | Details on FIRE results from call 5 and plans for call 7 | Per Blixt |
10:00 | FIRE portfolio, offering and challenges | Jerker Wilander, FIRESTATION |
10:30 | Coffee break |
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| Panel – Experimentation in FIRE | Chair: Jacques Magen |
11:00 | Views of experimental facilities projects on how to stimulate use and populate facilities High-level speakers from Integrated Projects (Potentially without slides) | Alex Gluhak, University of Essex for SmartSantander Christoph Heller, EADS for CREW Julie Marguerite, Thales for TEFIS Serge Fdida, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 for Onelab2 Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS for PII Kostas Kavoussanakis, University of Edinburgh for BonFIRE Hagen Woesner, EICT for OFELIA |
12:15 | Lunch break |
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| Usages of FIRE facilities | Chair Max Lemke |
13:30 | Exiting services by testbed providers, examples of concrete use cases Feedback from the research projects | Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom, PII, Mauro Campanella, GARR,Federica Stefan Fischer, Uni Lübeck, Wisebed,Carsten Buschmann, coalesenses GmbH Paul Müller, Uni Kaiserslautern, G-Lab/PII federation Tanja Zseby, Fraunhofer Fokus, Measurements in Onelab2, G-Lab, P-VINI |
15:30 | Practical and economic issues related to sustainability and usage of experimentation infrastructures | Steven Newhouse, Director egi.eu |
16:00 | Coffee break |
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| FIRE next steps: towards an Internet Science | Chair:Georgios Tselentis |
16:30 | How FIRE can support multidisciplinary research | Georgios Tselentis |
17:30 | Open floor to participants to discuss concrete multidisciplinary topics needing experimentation on FIRE. Short presentations by the audience are possible if send in advance to Networking and interaction with existing projects |
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18:30 | Closing |
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contact(at)ict-fire.eu18:30 – 21:00 | Joint demonstration evening FIA, FIRE and ServiceWave |
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Related event
The FIRE at FIA session on Friday 17.12. concentrated on the new FIRE Integrated Projects having plans to call for innovative user experiments via Open Calls. Each selected experiment will receive up to 200,000 € funding under the EC funding rules to conduct the experiment. Overall the budget of all projects for user experiments should allow for more than 20 experiments.
Session report and presentations downloadable at http://www.ict-fire.eu/events/eventview/article/future-internet-assembly-ghent-2010.html
Background
The FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) Initiative was launched at the beginning of 2007 as part of Framework Programme 7 (FP7). It builds on the "Situated and Autonomic Communications" Initiative and other internet-related projects funded under the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Programme, as well as on several projects launched as Research Networking Testbeds already operating under FP6.
FIRE has two related dimensions: on the one hand, promoting experimentally-driven long-term, visionary research on new paradigms and networking concepts and architectures for the future internet; and on the other hand, building large-scale experimentation facilities to support both medium- and long- term research on networks and services by gradually federating existing and new testbeds for emerging or future internet technologies.
FP7 ICT Call 2 gave birth to the first wave of FIRE projects, which will run until the second half of 2010. Four of the projects can be categorised as “facility projects” building experimental platforms for future internet researchers, whilst eight projects in the FIRE portfolio are research-focused and experimentally-driven.
Following FP7 ICT Call 5 more FIRE projects have been successfully started. The full list of projects can be found online at www.ict-fire.eu/home/fire-projects.html. Among these projects, the 5 integrated projects are building further experimental platforms for future Internet research.
Future availability and use of facilities
In addition to existing facilities, the new FIRE integrated projects are establishing facilities that can be used for diverse types of experiments:
BonFIRE is open for experiments that pose state-of-the-art research challenges in Cloud Computing. For example:- - Dynamic Service Landscape Orchestration for an Internet of Services
- - QoS-Oriented Service Engineering for Federated Clouds
- - Elasticity Requirement for Cloud Based Applications
- CREW has 4 wireless testbeds across Europe, with advanced spectrum sensing solutions. These can be combined to allow industry and academia to evaluate wireless protocols and/or hardware in a controlled environment
- OFELIA has 5 testbeds across Europe that create a distributed OpenFlow infrastructure of multi-layer and multi-technology. The experimental facility will offer access to diverse technologies, including Ethernet, optical and wireless domains. The islands are connected by multiple 1GE links to the GEANT network
- SmartSantander has a unique city-scale experimental research facility that supports typical sensor (IoT) applications and services for a smart city
- TEFIS has a Web portal that provides a single access point to different testing and experimental facilities. Initially, the TEFIS platform integrates 7 complementary experimental facilities, including network and software testing facilities. An example of a typical Use Case is a large scale SOA application for a huge travel-business e-Commerce platform accessible both from Websites and Web Services
It is important to note that the new FIRE Integrated Projects have in their plans to call for innovative user experiments via open calls. Each selected experiment will receive up to 200,000 € funding under the EC funding rules to conduct the experiment. Overall the budget of all projects for user experiments should allow for more than 20 experiments.
Current availability and use of facilities
The existing testbeds have been used for different types of experiments:
- FEDERICA has been used for experimenting with a multi-domain, multivendor network resource brokering system (called “Harmony”)
- OneLab2 has been used for experimenting with a distributed (over 50 sites) overlay routing system for a wide variety of network applications ranging from routing to peer-to-peer file sharing (called “Egoist”)
- Panlab/PII has been used for experimenting with end-to-end self-management in a wireless Internet environment, adaptive admission control and resource allocation algorithms, and enhanced Web TV services over mobile phones
- WISEBED has been used for experimenting with two physically distant sensor networks that were combined into one single virtual network
Certainly this is only an excerpt of what could be done in the future on the existing facilities.
Coordination of facilities
A common FIRE co-ordination activity has been established that facilitates leveraging the visibility of the projects’ outcome, exchanging valuable information between experimenting researchers and facility builders for the needs of the experimenters, bridging gaps, eliminating duplication, and providing knowledge of possible use cases where more than one facility would be needed in order to carry out satisfactory experimentation. The structure of the co-ordination activity is illustrated below.
Internet Science
There is an agreement that the complexity of the phenomena underpinning the current Internet developments, at technological, societal and economic levels, and their even more complex interrelations, cannot be understood without a genuine multidisciplinary approach, involving scientific disciplines and human sciences as well. We need a unifying theory understanding the networking needs of humans which can be fulfilled by technological networks.
This kind of multidisciplinary and holistic research cannot be based solely on theories: experimentation and, more in general, an empirical approach, are essential to the definition of this emerging science. And this experimentation of theories must be conducted in research environments which are as close as possible to the real world, in terms of scale and of user involvement.
Objectives of the conference
The objectives of the conference are to:
- Position the FIRE activities in the Digital Agenda and the general Future Internet strategy of Europe
- Stimulate the use of the existing and future experimental facilities by future Internet researchers
- Present successful use of current existing facilities based on use cases and experiments
- Explore the potential of a new multi-disciplinary approach towards Internet Science