TEFIS: Testbed for Future Internet Services
The TEFIS portal provides a single access point to different testing and experimental facilities (eg. PACA Grid, ETICS, and PlanetLab) for communities of software and business developers to test, experiment, and collaboratively elaborate knowledge.
TEFIS will establish a connector model that makes it possible to interact with testbeds and their resources in a unified manner using Web services. Initially, the TEFIS platform integrates 7 complementary experimental facilities, including network and software testing facilities, and user oriented LivingLabs.
An example of a typical Use Case is a large scale SOA application for a huge travel eCommerce platform accessible both from Websites and Web Services. This experiment demonstrates the capacity to deploy large scale experiment of the application on different testbeds accessible via the TEFIS portal with the deployment of SOA components offering Services.
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From the TEFIS Open call that closed in May 2011, four new experiments have been accepted for funding.
1. Queens (Dynamic Quality User Experience ENabling Mobile Multimedia Services). Coordinated by Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece.
2. Smart Ski Resort. Coordinated by University of  Geneva, Switzerland
3. TEFPOL(Augumented Reality collabroative workspace using Future Internet videoconferencing Platform for remote education and learning). Coordinated by Poznan Supercomputing and networking Center, Poland
4. Experimenting with Quagga Open API and Cross-layer Coordinated networks. Coordinated by University of Catalunya, Spain.

Queens (Dynamic Quality User Experience ENabling Mobile Multimedia Services)

Short description:
QUEENS aims at establishing, assessing, evolving and prototyping a novel framework/mechanism for extending QoS (Quality of Service) to QoE (Quality of Experience) in mobile wireless networks, placing emphasis on mobile on-demand multimedia applications over wireless networking paradigms and thus, under a realistic environment. Instead of viewing QoE as an off-line apriori mapping between users’ subjective perspective of their service quality and specific networking metrics, QUEENS vision is to treat QoE provisioning as a dynamic process that enables users to express their preference with respect to the instantaneous experience of their service performance at: a) multimedia application’s content server and b) wireless access network’s radio resource management (RRM) mechanisms.
More at: http://www.tefisproject.eu/about/tefis-use-cases/queens

Smart Ski Resort

Short description:
Megève is a famous ski resort that has deployed over the past couple of years a new wireless  infrastructure in order to provide new mobile services to its customers both in town and on the ski slopes. One of those services concerns augmenting the skiing experience while on the slopes with a free mobile application developed by Lumiplan on iPhone and Android.
Problems to be solved/what to be tested:
Unfortunately, this application uses a lot of multimedia content such as ski slopes videos and the infrastructure has difficulties to scale and to be user-friendly. In addition, foreign tourists cannot use all functionalities because it is too expensive due to roaming. Finally, 3G partial coverage and limited bandwidth disconnects the user from time to time. Therefore, these technical issues tend to frustrate the users. Also it is not clear if the current functionalities of the mobile application are fully satisfying the users and if other functionalities might lead to greater satisfaction and service adoption.
More at: http://www.tefisproject.eu/about/tefis-use-cases/smart-ski-resort

TEFPOL (AugmenTed rEality collaborative workspace using Future Internet videoconferencing Platform fOr remote education and Learning)

Short description:
The experiment aims at integrating, deploying and testing of an innovative videoconferencing system enhanced with an advanced real-time remote visualization service. The HDVIPER platform will be used as the videoconferencing solution, while remote rendering will be realized with the Vitrall system.
The outcome of the integration process will be validated during a geographically distributed “biology in English” lesson of the future. Groups of students sitting in Swedish classrooms as well as individuals located at their homes will benefit from innovative, natural user interfaces in order to interact collaboratively with 3D models imposed onto a video stream.
Problems to be solved/what’s to be tested:
During the TEFPOL experiment, the following factors are to be tested:
- latency of audio, video and virtual object streams in ms,
- delay in responsiveness of the motion tracking interface in ms,
- maximum number of users that can be simultaneously using the application and that can participate in a given collaboration session,
- the correctness of the integration of particular elements of HDVIPER with IMS,
- maximum delay that end users accept during a videoconferencing session enhanced with augmented reality.
More at: http://www.tefisproject.eu/about/tefis-use-cases/tefpol

The Quagga experiment

Short description:
The Open and Programmable ENvironment for Experimenting with Routing (OPENER) is a OpenAPI interface to the legacy Quagga routing suite based on RESTful webservices. OPENER provides a robust and extensible management interface that complements and enhances the functionalities present in the legacy Quagga routing suite. To evaluate the OPENER we propose two complementary experiments:
1) Quagga OpenAPI Scalability, where we will compare approaches with centralized and distributed node management.
2) IP offloading performance assessment in centralized node management.
Problems to be solved/what’s to be tested:
The goal of the first experiment is to assess the scalability of a deployment of the OPENER framework using a large number of PlaneLab nodes. The second experiment is focused on a use of the OPENER framework, working in coordination with an external network management application.
More at: http://www.tefisproject.eu/about/tefis-use-cases/the-quagga-experiment