The research workshop is a Future Internet Week event.
The research workshop was held in Budapest, on 16 May 2011 

Full Agenda

Presentation slides

9:00 – 10:30 Opening and Session 1

FIRE and the networks of tomorrow  Session chair: Timo Lahnalampi

• Opening and welcome - Manuel Monteiro, European Commission - 10 minutes
• CONET - A Content Centric Inter-Networking Architecture: Plans to use FIRE Experimental Facilities - Presenter: Nicola Blefari Melazzi, CONVERGENCE Project
• Virtual Network Embedding in Federated Virtualized Platforms - Presenter: Chrysa Papagianni, NOVI Project
• Self-Management of Cognitive Future Internet Elements - Presenter: Nancy Alonistioti, Self-NET Project

 
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2

Experimentation and evaluation for resilient networks Session chair: Jacques Magen

• Performance evaluation of learning methods for self-adaptive resilient networks - Presenter: Dimitri Papadimitriou, ECODE Project
• Evaluation of a BGP stability metric - Presenter: Florin Coras, EULER Project
• Network Resilience: From Concepts to Experimentation - Presenter: Georg Carle, ResumeNet Project

13:30 – 15:30 Session 3

Measurements and Benchmarking of Experiments Session chair: Jerker Wilander

• Introduction to measurements and benchmarking - Presenter: Stefan Bouckaert (IBBT, Belgium)
• Measurements and benchmarking in wired networks: examples - Presenter: Carsten Schmoll (Fraunhofer, Germany)
• Measurements and benchmarking in wireless networks: examples - Presenter: Walid Dabbous (INRIA, France)
• Measurements for cloud services - Presenter: Stephen C Phillips (IT Innovation Centre, UK)

16:00 – 18:00 Session 4

Future Internet, Living Labs and Web analytics Session chair: Anastasius Gavras

• Distributed QoE Retrieval and Measurement for Context Centric Networking in the Future Internet - Presenter: Martin Dobler, FH Vorarlberg
• Service platform for social aware mobile and pervasive computing: the SCAMPI project - Presenter: Mikko Pitkänen, Aalto University
• Future Internet experimentation in Poland - Presenter: Jaroslaw Sliwinski, Warsaw University of Technology
• LAWA - Longitudinal Analytics of Web Archive data - Presenter: Marc Spaniol, MPI-INF

Background

The current projects and initiatives under the umbrella of Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) have two related dimensions:

• Promoting experimentally-driven long-term, visionary research on new paradigms and networking concepts and architectures for the Future Internet
• 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.

To date the focus of FIRE workshops and conferences has been on the experimental facilities.

Focus and motivation

There is to date no suitable event where projects and their corresponding researchers meet and discuss their approaches and results outside the standard dissemination avenues typically organised in the context of EC projects’ concertation meetings. Very little opportunity exists to directly and multi-laterally exploit feedback from these meetings.

The focus of the FIRE research workshop will be on the experimentally driven research dimension of FIRE and in particular, to improve the visibility and the involvement of the experimental-driven FIRE projects as well as increase researcher attendance and their active participation to FIRE events and workshops.

This should lead to a scientific and technical discussion forum that will allow projects and researchers working on similar subjects to share and challenge their ideas and results with their peers. By offering this opportunity the workshop aims at increasing the incentives for researchers’ participation, without intending to replace or compete with established research conferences and workshops.

Structure

To implement the above ambition it is proposed to setup a small scale forum in the form of a workshop, which allows researchers to share and discuss their experimental research results and best practices by means of short, targeted and well scoped presentations.

By structuring them by similar research topics or objectives (multi-media/content networking, wireless, self-adaptive/cognitive networks, routing system, etc.), researchers would be able to challenge, compare and contrast practices, methodologies, and in particular obtained results.

The first FIRE research workshop will be a full day workshop starting at 9:00 CET and finishing at 17:00

Openness

The mode of operation shall remain simple to be effective, agendas and material will be organized by means of the FIRE Wiki (e.g. wiki.ict-fire.eu/). A moderator shall control certain properties of the workshop, like maximum number of presentations, sessions, topics, etc.

The forum should be opened to any FIRE project participant.

Expected outcome(s)

The outcome of such initiative should be the production of a compendium of results to be made available online through the Wiki and opened to further online discussions and improvements. The outcome of the FIRE research workshop shall be at least a plan for the production of above compendium.

Venue

The conference venue: Novotel Budapest Centrum Hotel
http://www.novotel.com/gb/hotel-3560-novotel-budapest-centrum/index.shtml

Accommodation

The Hotel rooms can be reserved on a discounted rate through the link below:
http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/lien_externe.svlt?goto=rech_geo_avantage&nom_ville=Budapest&checkboxAvantage=1&code_avantage=ELTEFI&sourceid=&merchantid=ADV-AccorHU

When you select the dates of the conference May 15-17 (bookable for the 3 nights), you can see the 3 hotels with the special Conference rates in first position:
1. Novotel Budapest Centrum (location of FIRE Research Workshop & Architecture Board meeting)
2. Mercure Budapest Metropol
3. Ibis Budapest City

General information

HOW TO GET TO BUDAPEST
Arrival in Budapest by air:
Most participants will arrive at Budapest Ferihegy (http://www.bud.hu/english) Airport. Airport Minibus Service (http://www.airportshuttle.hu/en) is reasonably priced (HUF 2990/person for one way, approx. EUR 11), comfortable and reliable. Another way of getting to the city is by taxi. The airport taxi has flat prices.

Arrival in Budapest by train:
More than fifty trains a day provide direct links between Budapest and 25 other capital cities. Trains to Vienna run in every three hours. International trains operate from the three largest stations:

• Keleti pályaudvar (railway station): Budapest VIII.district, Baross tér. Tel: (+36-1) 413 - 4610, (+36-1) 413 - 4610
• Nyugati pályaudvar: Budapest VI.district, Nyugati tér Tel: (+36-1) 349-8503, (+36-1) 349-8503      
• Déli pályaudvar: Budapest I district, Krisztina krt. 37. Tel: (+36-1) 375-6593, (+36-1) 375-6593

For further information on schedules see the timetable of the Hungarian railway: http://www.mav-start.hu/

Arrival in Budapest by car:
All motorways and most of the main roads in Hungary start from the capital. M1, M3, M5 and M7 are toll highways. Road signs conform to continental standards. 24-hour assistance is provided by the Magyar Autóklub (Tel.: (+36-1) 345-1755 , (+36-1) 345-1755 ), emergency roadside assistance is available by dialing 188.

VISA REQUIREMENTS/ VISA FREE ENTRY
Citizens of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) member states and the following countries may travel to Hungary without a visa:
Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Guatemala, Vatican, Honduras, Hong Kong (the exemption applies only to holders of a "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region"), Iceland, Israel, Japan, Macao (the exemption applies only to holders of a "Regio  Administrativa Especial de Macau" passport), Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Salvador, San Marino, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, The United States of America, Uruguay
Schengen States visas:
Hungary is a member of the Schengen States. Visas and residence permits issued by one of the Schengen States are valid also for Hungary.
On the other hand, visas issued by Hungarian representations abroad and residence permits issued by Hungarian national authorities are also valid for the entire Schengen Area.

BANK, CURRENCY, CREDIT CARDS
The unit of currency is Hungarian Forint (HUF), denoted as "Ft" by the Hungarians. International credit cards (AmEx, EC/MC, Visa) are accepted at most hotels, restaurants and shops. ATMs are available at the Airport and all over the city.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Public transportation (BKV: http://www.bkv.hu/en/). Tickets - valid for one ride only - should be purchased in advance (e.g. at metro stations, hotels, news-stands, tobacco shops), since drivers do not sell any. The tickets should be validated (on board or at the entrance gates), and kept, since one must show them if requested by inspectors on board or at the exit gates. You also can buy a carnet of 10 tickets or a pass (for 1/7/14 days or for a month).
The junction of all the three metro lines is Deák tér. Service time is between 4:30 a.m. and  11.00 p.m. Most bus and tramlines operate until 11pm.