Objectives

The main objectives are as follow:

1.    To move the FIRE Facility towards a more customer-driven, dynamic, effective, sustainable, easy-to-access and easy-to-use experimental platform

• Establish a collaboration structure between the different FIRE facility projects according to the collaboration framework defined by the corresponding Working Group in the Architecture Board; and co-ordinate and support these projects in implementing developments and performing other activities related to this high-level federation framework,
• Support the development of a portal supporting a one-stop-shop for accessing the testing facilities,
• Identify potential new capabilities that should be added to the existing experimental facilities,
• Promote and support collaboration with European, national and international projects and initiatives on experimental facilities, as well as testbed operators outside of FIRE to federate their resources and provide them within the FIRE framework.

2.    To intensify the collaboration amongst the FIRE Community (all FIRE projects, all related stakeholders, such as other testbeds, testbed initiatives, customers of testbeds (projects, researchers from academy and industry)

• Help bring customers to the facilities (e.g. by supporting the “Open Call” process),
• Establish an information channel and a widely recognised forum to spread knowledge on various FIRE-related research topics and achievements relevant to experimentally-driven research on the future internet (academic and industrial),
• Promote and develop the FIRE approach of researchers performing future Internet experimentation of the facilities,
• Build and maintain links with similar actions internationally,
• Promote FIRE as a channel for - and support of – research.