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Chapter 1

FIRE FOR THE FUTURE

Networks are the neural system of our society as it exists today, we barely breathe without connectivity, unplugging would discon-tinue society and the individuals in it. The Internet keeps revolu-tionizing the world - the way we function, interact, behave and evolve. Equally, we revolutionize the Internet - the way it func-tions, interacts, behaves and evolves. Our needs, usage and vi-sions shape it into the Network of the Future. The Internet is consequently a complex and evolving entity where any techno-

logical development, no matter how small, may have multifac-eted and even surprising consequences.

Humans are heuristic and discover through experimentation. Any research into new ways of approaching the Internet from the most fundamental level cannot simply be limited to paper-work. Early and realistic experimentation and testing in a large-scale environment is required, even though some of these ideas may only be implemented in the long-term.

The Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE - Ini-tiative is addressing the need to experiment with networks, creat-ing a multidisciplinary test environment for investigating and ex-perimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms. FIRE offers a disci-pline, a platform and tools for trying out innovative ideas for the Future Internet. FIRE is promoting the concept of the experimentally-driven research, combining visionary academic research with the wide-scale testing and experimentation that is required for the industry. Several initiatives, at EU Member States level and also worldwide (US, China, Japan, South Korea, etc.), already exist and there is a need for more collaboration be-tween them. FIRE is creating a dynamic, sustainable, large-scale European Experimental Facility, which is constructed by gradu-

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What is FIRE?

Movie 1.1 Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE introduction

ally connecting and federating existing and upcoming testbeds for Future Internet technologies.

The FIRE facility is open – Let’s use it!The FIRE Facility projects are building a variety of network ex-perimentation infrastructures and tools with different technolo-gies and characteristics. Various structures, tools and features are already available and trials are being performed. All of the facili-ties evolve in a demand-driven way, supported through Open Calls — for regular new Open Calls from the FIRE Facility pro-jects and also for details of the new mechanism called “Open Ac-cess”. Open Access offers experimenters the opportunity to use the experimental facilities for free and to obtain support beyond the originally planned lifetime of the respective project. Bon-FIRE (Clouds), OFELIA (OpenFlow) and CREW (Cognitive Ra-dio) are three examples of FIRE facilities now offering Open Ac-cess; other individual testbeds continue to operate by federating with running FIRE Facility projects, thereby fostering a long-living FIRE!

This publication gives an insight into what is real and usable to-day in FIRE. The FIRE Facility projects funded by the European Commission under FP7 ICT Objective 1.6 and the FIRE related international projects are presented here, with a focus on giving examples of experimentation that has been undertaken.

The FIRE outcome is open and public for all experimenters who find the facilities offered are suited to their R&D needs. The FIRE Facility projects invite you as exploratory users to profit

from the experimentation opportunities and help shape the FIRE Facility according to your needs!

We hope to spark your enthusiasm. Jointly, we can light up the Future Internet, because FIRE is OPEN and ALIVE.

FIRE information portal: www.ict-fire.eu

FIRE FIRE EC

Information about the activities of the European Commission on FIRE - Future Inter-net Research and Experimentation, and about all FIRE projects can be found at http://europa.eu/!cC44Qk

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The FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) Ini-tiative was launched at the beginning of 2007 as part of Frame- work Programme 7. It built upon the “Situated and Autonomic Communications” Initiative and other internet-related projects funded under the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Pro- gramme, as well as on several projects launched as Research Net-working Testbeds already 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 a large-scale experimentation facility to support both medium- and long-term research on networks and services by gradually federat-ing existing and new testbeds for emerging future internet tech-nologies.

FP7 ICT Call 2 gave birth to the first wave of FIRE projects, which ran until the second half of 2010. Four of the projects (Pan-lab- PII, OneLab, WISEBED and Vital++) were categorised as “facility projects” building experimental platforms for future internet researchers, whilst eight projects (ECODE, N4C, Nano Data Centers, OPNEX, PERIMETER, RESUMENET, SELF-NET and SMARTNET ) were re search - focused and experimentally-driven (so-called “STREP”) projects. The

FEDERICA project funded by the Research Infrastructure pro-gramme complimented the facility projects of the ICT Call 2. Two Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) for the FIRE Ini-tiative were FIREWorks and PARA- DISO.

FP7 ICT Call 5 brought in 5 new Integrated Projects (IPs): OFE-LIA, BonFIRE, SmartSantander, TEFIS and CREW) and 8 new STREPs (CONECT, SPITFIRE, SCAMPI, CONVERGENCE,

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FIRE portfolio

Figure 1.1 FIRE Projects 2014

LAWA, EULER, HOBNET, NOVI). FIRE STATION was funded through this Call to co-ordinate and support the FIRE Programme. Three further CSA projects were funded to (i) exam-ine the socio-economic aspects of the Future Internet (PARADISO-2), (ii) liaise with the Living Lab community (FIRE-BALL) and (iii) liaise with the Future Internet activities in Brazil, Russia, India and China, and keep the community aware of im-portant standardisation issues (MyFIRE).

OFELIA, BonFIRE, TEFIS and CREW provided facilities in new technological areas, whereas SmartSantander can be consid-ered as a continuation of WISEBED (from Call 2), but on a larger scale and in a real city environment.

Three new IP projects started in Autumn 2011 from the FP7 ICT Call 7: CONFINE, EXPERIMEDIA and OpenLab. In addition,

CREW (additional testbed) and BonFIRE (new Use Case) ex-tended their facilities.

A specific call for collaboration between Europe and Brazil re-sulted in one new FIRE project FIBRE-EU. The main goal of the FIBRE-EU project was the design, implementation and vali-dation of a shared Future Internet research facility between Bra-zil and Europe.

FP7 ICT Call 8 brought in one IP project (Fed4FIRE), 12 STREPs (RELYonIT, OFERTIE, STEER, Social&Smart, IRATI, 3D-LIVE, CLOMMUNITY, EAR-IT, ECO2Clouds, ALIEN, EVARILOS, Cityflow) and 2 CSAs (AmpliFIRE and FUSION). These started in the 2nd half of 2012, or at the begin-ning of 2013.

FP7 ICT Call 10 resulted in 2 IPs (FLEX, SUNRISE), 5 STREPs (IoTLab, FORGE, TRESCIMO, MOSAIC 2B, SMARTFIRE), 3 CSA projects (CI-FIRE, ECIAO, ceFIMS-CONNECT) and 2 FIRE-related projects from Coordinated Calls with Brazil (Res-cuer) and Japan (FLEX-EU). TRESCIMO and MOSAIC 2B are joint projects with South Africa and SMARTFIRE is a joint pro-ject with South Korea.

FIRE’s offering currently (March 2014) includes seven fa-cility projects:

• CONFINE, CREW, EXPERIMEDIA, Fed4FIRE, FLEX, OpenLab and SUNRISE, which all contribute to the FIRE Fa-cility by developing a large-scale testbed or federation of test-beds.

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Figure 1.2 FIRE Integrated Projects (IP) 2008 - 2014

FIRE’s research projects:

• EULER, FIBRE, RELYonIT, OFERTIE, STEER, SOCIAL&S-MART, IRATI, 3D-LIVE, CLOMMUNITY, EAR- IT, ECO2Clouds, ALIEN, EVARILOS, Cityflow, IoTLAB, FORGE, TRESCIMO, MOSAIC 2B, SMARTFIRE) are spe-cifically research-focused and experimentally-driven.

The Coordination and Support Action (CSA) projects and their main functions are:

• AmpliFIRE: FIRE vision, strategy, dissemination; FIRE Board and FIRE Forum

• ceFIMS-CONNECT: European Future Internet Forum (FIF) Support

• CI-FIRE: EIT ICT Labs and FIRE co-operation

• ECIAO (EU-China FIRE): EU-China cooperation on FIRE and IPv6

• FUSION: SMEs for FIRE

Previous FIRE projects have laid the foundations for FIRE’s portfolio/offering today and created a solid basis for the continu-ous development of the FIRE Facility and experimental re-search; supported by CSA projects.

More information can be found on the FIRE website at: www.ict-fire.eu/home/fire-projects.html

The FIRE projects on 2014 are shown in Figure 1.1 and the FIRE Integrated Projects (IP) evolution and their timing in Figure 1.2.

Links• Information about the

Digital Agenda for Europe, FIRE - Future Internet Research and Ex-perimentation: http://europa.eu/!cC44Qk

• FIRE information portal: http://www.ict-fire.eu

• FIRE Wiki: http://bit.ly/17C4KCp

• FIRE group @ LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/ypSQ8V

• FIRE @ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FIREFP7

• FIRE @ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/fire_fp7

• FIRE@Twitter:https://twitter.com/ICT_FIRE, #ICT_FIRE, @ICT_FIRE

• FIRE @ SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/fire-ict

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The objective of the AmpliFIRE Support Action is to prepare FIRE for the year 2020, in strengthening the exploitation and impact creation capacities of Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities. AmpliFIRE enhances the awareness of FIRE-enabled research and innovation opportu-nities in the business community, in societal domains and in the existing FIRE community.

AmpliFIRE develops a sustainable vision for 2020 of Fu-ture Internet research and experimentation including the role of FIRE facilities, and sets out a transition path from the cur-rent situation towards 2020. It conducts an assessment of today’s FIRE capabilities, identifying the gaps relative to the 2020 demands and identifying how capabilities must evolve. AmpliFIRE proposes the capabilities, collaboration models and service offering portfolios so that by 2020, FIRE facilities would be the backbone of European research and innovation ecosystems. Based on Key Performance Indicators, Ampli-FIRE monitors the technical, operational and organizational conditions necessary to realise benefits, impact and sustain-ability of the Europe-wide Future Internet experiment facility.

Key achievementsAmpliFIRE has already conducted a series of community building and support activities aimed at articulating the needs and potential for Future Internet experimentation until 2020. The FIRE Forum was created to widen the FIRE community, and the FIRE Board for internal coordination. A FIRE Radar

AMPLIFIRE

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 318550

LinksInformation about the Digital Agenda for Europe, FIRE - Future Internet Research and Experimentation: http://europa.eu/!cC44Qk

FIRE information portal: http://www.ict-fire.eu

FIRE Wiki: http://bit.ly/17C4KCp

FIRE group @ LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/ypSQ8V

FIRE @ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FIREFP7

FIRE @ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/fire_fp7

FIRE @ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICT_FIRE, #ICT_FIRE, @ICT_FIRE

FIRE @ SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/fire-ict

COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTIONS

activity was initiated, developing a vision and scenarios de-scribing FIRE’s development potential, in discussion within FIRE’s community. FIRE’s current and future testbed facili-ties and services were assessed in relation to experimenter demands. Based on FIRE’s positioning within the Future In-ternet landscape, AmpliFIRE explored collaboration oppor-tunities with related initiatives. The FIRE information portal (www.ict-fire.eu) is a central place for all FIRE wide dissemi-nation activities together with LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and SlideShare.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Hans Schaffers, Aalto UniversityEXECUTION: From 2013-01-01 to 2015-06-30PARTNERS: Aalto University (Finland) (Coordinator), Martel (Switzerland), University of Southampton (UK), InterInnov (France), LTU (Sweden), iMinds (Belgium), Telefónica (Spain), Hebrew University (Israel).

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Chapter 2

FACILITY PROJECTS – OPEN ACCESS

BonFIRE enables developers to research new, faster, cheaper, or more flexible ways of running applications with new business models. SMEs and researchers can test a range of cloud scenar-ios, such as cloud bursting and hybrid clouds, across BonFIRE’s five European sites. BonFIRE’s Open Access initiative gives us-ers access to a multi-site cloud facility for applications, services and systems experimentation:

• Large-scale, heterogeneous and virtualised compute, storage and networking resources;

• Full control of your resource deployment;

• In-depth monitoring and logging of physical and virtual re-sources;

• Advanced cloud and network features; and

• Ease of use of experimentation.

How does it work? The BonFIRE cloud facility is based on an Infrastructure-as-a-Service delivery model with guidelines, policies and best prac-tices for experimentation. It has a federated multi-platform ap-proach, providing interconnection and interoperation between novel service and networking testbeds. It offers advanced serv-

ices and tools for services research including cloud federation, virtual machine management, service modelling, service lifecycle management, service level agreements, quality of service moni-toring and analytics.

The BonFIRE project provides innovative methods for describ-ing, deploying, managing, executing, measuring and removing ex-periments. These methods include uniform test description and deployment descriptors for all scenarios (including cross-cutting tests), federation of cloud resources in different administrative

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BonFIRE — Open Access

Movie 2.1 BonFIRE: a multi-site Cloud experimentation and testing facility.

domains that provide BonFIRE with physical resources, and user-friendly interfaces at the facility’s entry point. Three key test scenarios were implemented:

1. Extended cloud: the extension of current cloud offerings towards a federated facility with heterogeneous virtualized resources and best-effort Internet interconnectivity;

2. Cloud with emulated network implications: a controlled en-vironment providing an experimental network emulation platform to service developers, where topology configura-tion and resource usage is under ful l control of the experimental researcher; and

3. Extended cloud with complex physical network implica-tions: investigation of federation mechanisms for an experi-mental cloud system that interconnects individual BonFIRE sites with other FIRE facilities.

Key achievements/resultsBonFIRE is offering its multi-site cloud infrastructure free throughout 2014 for researchers and SMEs to use for testing and experimentation of cloud-based applications and services. Al-though EU investment finished at the end of 2013, the infrastruc-ture will continue to operate as the BonFIRE Foundation.

The continuation of the service beyond the lifetime of the EU-funded project is a major step forward for European research. Rather than being a centrally funded project, the Foundation will be financed by its core members. Testbed providers, integrators, and partners who agree to provide practical support for the pro-ject are full members of the BonFIRE Foundation; other part-ners will retain their links as associates.

How to get involved?All you need is an idea for testing and experimentation that ex-ploits BonFIRE’s unique features. Join BonFIRE by submitting your exper iment app l i ca t ion a t http://www.bonfire-project.eu/access-now.

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Figure 2.1 BonFIRE’s features supporting cloud research and experimentation

Project facts (during project execution)C O O R D I N A-TOR: Josep Mar-trat, Atos

EXECUTION: From 2010-06-01 to 2013-12-31

NOTE: Sustained through the BonFIRE Foundation throughout 2014.

PARTNERS: Atos (Spain) (Coordinator), The Universityof Edinburgh (UK), SAP AG (Germany), University of Stuttgart (Germany), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany), iMinds (Belgium), UCM (Spain), i2Cat (Spain), Hewlett-Packard (UK), 451 Re-search (UK ) , TU Ber l in (Germany ) , Univer s i tyof Southampton IT Innovation (UK), INRIA (France), Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Pan (Poland), Nextworks (Italy), Wellness Telecom (Spain), RedZinc Services (Ireland), Cloudium Systems (Ireland), CESGA (Spain), CETIC (Belgium), University of Man-chester (UK), ICCS/NTUA (Greece), Televes (Spain), SZTAKI (Hungary), IN2 (UK), University of Patras (Greece).

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BONFIRE

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OFELIA OpenFlow Experimental Facility Infrastruc-ture and Functionality Continues to Exist and Remains Open for Experiments.

The FP7-FIRE project OFELIA ended after three years in Octo-ber 2013, but announced the continued availability, maintenance and further development of the pan-European OpenFlow-based testbed facility. OpenFlow, for those not familiar with the latest developments in networking, is a key standard within the new networking paradigm called Software Defined Networking (SDN).

How does it work?OFELIA creates an experimentation space which allows for the flexible integration of test and production traffic by isolating the traffic domains inside the OpenFlow-enabled network equip-ment. This provides realistic test scenarios and permits the seam-less deployment of successfully tested technology.

Tests of new routing algorithms, tunnelling protocols and tai-lored network control planes can be deployed as applications on top of the OpenFlow controller at any time. Testing of new ad-dressing formats and forwarding schemes, which requires changes to the controller itself, will be carried out as and when the required modifications are developed. These innovations

were provided by both project partners and other contributors, brought to the project through the process of Open Calls.

Key achievements/resultsThe OFELIA facility consists of ten federated islands dispersed over Europe and Brazil. The OFELIA Control Framework (OCF) is responsible for the deployment of Virtual Machines

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OFELIA — Open Access

Movie 2.2 Ofelia - The story of the switch.

(VM), binding of VMs to slices and provisioning of an OpenFlow controller interface to control the forwarding in the slice indi-vidually per experiment. Cross-island experiments have been made possible during 2013 for a number of ongoing collabora-tions and interconnections with other OpenFlow infrastructures.

The “OFELIA Foundation Task-Force” was setup in August 2013 in order to prepare the institutional follow-up to the project. It focuses on four aspects to sustain and coordinate

OFELIA’s software development: academic and industrial rela-tions, software development, network connectivity. At the mo-ment of preparation of this publication, the process of creating a follow-up organisation outside of the structures of EU project organisation is on-going.

This not-for-profit organisation will take over the further steer-ing of the development of OCF, manage software releases, and organize the further funding of the operation.

How to get involved?Generally, the use of the OFELIA facility is provided “as is” as a free-of-charge best-effort service. Any user accepting the usage policy is welcome to experiment on the OFELIA test- bed.

Technically, the testbed has created a pan-European Layer-2 net-work, a giant LAN that allows the definition of various forward-ing entries, including loops. As this is an intended feature, the ex-perimental network itself is built in a tunnel infrastructure laid over the Internet. Consequently, experimenters have to ‘dial in’

to OFELIA. The account and the OpenVPN credentials can be generated via the OFELIA web site.

The policy of access to the testbed may, however, change to “members only” once the planned organisation is set up, thereby encouraging users to join the community and contribute to its growth by adding new islands. This model would follow the suc-cessful example of PlanetLab, where membership was based on adding two nodes to the global facility. A similarly low entrance barrier may be envisioned for OFELIA as an outcome of further discussion in the organisation, i.e. later this year or in 2015.

Project facts (during project execution)COORDINATOR: Hagen Woesner, EICT (Germany).

EXECUTION: From 2010-10-01 to 2013-09-30.

PARTNERS: EICT (Ger-many) (Coordinator), Deut-sche Telekom AG (Germany), University of Essex (UK), Fun-dacio Privada i2CAT (Spain), Technische Universität Berlin (Ger-many), NEC Europe Ltd (UK), Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (Belgium), Eidgenössische Technische Ho-chschule Zürich (Switzerland), The Board of Trustees of the Le-land Stanford Junior University (USA), ADVA AG Optical Net-working (UK), CREATE-NET (Italy), Consorzio Nazionale In-teruniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (Italy).

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OFELIA — OPEN ACCESS

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OFELIA OpenFlow Experimental Facility Infrastructure and Functionality Continues to Exist and Remains Open for Experiments.

The FP7-FIRE project OFELIA ended after three years in Oc-tober 2013, but announced the continued availability, mainte-nance and further development of the pan-European Open-Flow- based testbed facility. OpenFlow, for those not familiar with the latest developments in networking, is a key standard within the new networking paradigm called Software De-fined Networking (SDN).

How does it work?OFELIA creates an experimentation space which allows for the flexible integration of test and production traffic by isolat-ing the traffic domains inside the OpenFlow-enabled network equipment. This provides realistic test scenarios and permits the seamless deployment of successfully tested technology.

Tests of new routing algorithms, tunnelling protocols and tailored network control planes can be deployed as applica-tions on top of the OpenFlow controller at any time. Testing of new addressing formats and forwarding schemes, which requires changes to the controller itself, will be carried out as and when the required modifications are developed. These innovations were provided by both project partners and other contributors, brought to the project through the process of Open Calls.

Key achievements/resultsThe OFELIA facility consists of ten federated islands dis-persed over Europe and Brazil. The OFELIA Control Frame-work (OCF) is responsible for the deployment of Virtual Ma-chines (VM), binding of VMs to slices and provisioning of an OpenFlow controller interface to control the forwarding in the slice individually per experiment. Cross-island experiments have been made possible during 2013 for a number of ongo-ing collaborations and interconnections with other OpenFlow infrastructures.

The “OFELIA Foundation Task-Force” was set-up in Au-gust 2013 in order to prepare the institutional follow-up to the project. It focuses on four aspects to sustain and coordinate

OFELIA’s software development: academic and industrial re-lations, software development, network connectivity. At the moment of preparation of this publication, the process of cre-ating a follow-up organisation outside of the structures of EU project organisation is on-going.

This not-for-profit organisation will take over the further steering of the development of OCF, manage software releas-es, and organize the further funding of the operation.

How to get involved?Generally, the use of the OFELIA facility is provided “as is” as a free-of-charge best-effort service. Any user accepting the usage policy is welcome to experiment on the OFELIA test-bed.

Technically, the testbed has created a pan-European Lay-er-2 network, a giant LAN that allows the definition of various forwarding entries, including loops. As this is an intended fea-ture, the experimental network itself is built in a tunnel infra-structure laid over the Internet. Consequently, experimenters have to ‘dial in’ to OFELIA. The account and the OpenVPN cre-dentials can be generated via the OFELIA web site.

The policy of access to the testbed may, however, change to “members only” once the planned organisation is set up, thereby encouraging users to join the community and con-tribute to its growth by adding new islands. This model would follow the successful example of PlanetLab, where member-ship was based on adding two nodes to the global facility. A similarly low entrance barrier may be envisioned for OFELIA as an outcome of further discussion in the organisation, i.e. later this year or in 2015.

Project facts (during project execution)COORDINATOR: Hagen Woesner, EICT (Germany).EXECUTION: From 2010-10-01 to 2013-09-30.PARTNERS: EICT (Germany) (Coordinator), Deutsche Telekom AG (Germany), University of Essex (UK), Fundacio Privada i2CAT (Spain), Technische Universität Berlin (Germany), NEC Europe Ltd (UK), Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (Belgium), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Switzerland), The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (USA), ADVA AG Optical Networking (UK), CREATE-NET (Italy), Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (Italy).

Chapter 3

FACILITY PROJECTS

The goal of the Fed4FIRE project (www.fed4fire.eu) is to feder-ate the different FIRE facilities using a common federation framework. The federation framework enables innovative experi-ments that break the boundaries of these domains. It allows ex-perimenters to more easily find the right resources to translate their ideas into actual experiments, to easily gain access to differ-ent nodes on different testbeds, to use the same experimenter tools across the different testbeds, etc. This means that the ex-perimenters can focus more on their research tasks than on the

practical aspects of experimentation. The benefits of federation for the infrastruc-ture providers are e.g. the reuse of common tools developed within the federation, reach of larger community of experiment-ers through the federation, etc.

As depicted in the figure, there are currently 17 testbeds involved in the Fed4FIRE federation, introducing a diverse set of Future Internet technologies. Four of these testbeds joined the project after winning the project’s first Open Call. This call was launched in May 2013, and aimed to allocate budget to selected candidate testbeds for inclusion in the Fed4FIRE project, and to selected experiments that make use of the provided Fed- 4FIRE federation. A similar second Open Call will be launched in March 2014. Next to that, the project has also launched a new type of Open Calls which is especially targeting experimentation by SMEs. The submission deadline for that call is April 2nd 2014.

How does it work?The Fed4FIRE federation architecture is characterized by a pref-erence for distributed components. This way, the federation would not be compromised if, in the short or long term, individ-ual testbeds or partners would discontinue their support of the federation. The general policy is that experimenter tools should

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Fed4FIRE

Movie 3.1 Fed4FIRE: An Open FEDERATION solution at the Hands-On FIRE! 8-10 May 2013 / FIA-Dublin.

always be able to directly interact with the different testbeds, and should not be obliged to pass through some central Fed4FIRE component. However, some non-critical central federation-level components are also included in the architecture for convenience purposes. For instance, when an experimenter tool is used for resource discovery, reservation and provisioning, it will retrieve the lists of available resources directly from the different Fed4FIRE testbeds, and it will directly request these testbeds to reserve specific resources or to provision them. Ex-periment control tools (which ease the execution of complex ex-periment scenarios) and experiment monitoring frameworks are other example cases where the experimenter tool will directly in-teract with the testbed.

A critical aspect in such a highly distributed approach is the adoption of common interfaces in the federation, and making sure that every member of the federation is fully compliant with them. Therefore, Fed4FIRE is developing a new software tool that focuses on acceptation testing of the required interfaces for testbed federation: jFed. This test suite enables the rigorous test-ing and integration activities that are needed when federating a highly heterogeneous set of testbeds with the intention to realize a fully operational federation. jFed focuses on logical tests for all steps of the experiment workflow and adds interface tests and negative testing (are things breakable?) where needed.

In the context of resource discovery, reservation and provision-ing, the adoption of the Slice-Based Federation Architecture (SFA) is a key element in Fed4FIRE. Therefore, the first focal point of jFed is the support of manual and automatic nightly test-ing of the entire SFA API. This testing functionality is entirely developed in Java, allowing greater flexibility in development of both the test suite and future Java SFA client tools. For the man-ual testing of the SFA interface of any given testbed, both a com-mand line and a graphical user interface are provided. The auto-matic (nightly) testing of testbeds is run from within a Jenkins platform, posting the test reports on a web site and sending emails in case of problems. The test suite has been released as open source software (http://jfed.iminds.be), and easily allows for extensions through a plugin system. This way, other important Fed4FIRE federation interfaces will also be added to the testing suite as the project continues. The Federated Resource Control Protocol (FRCP) is an example of such an interface.

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Movie 3.2 OpenLab/Fed4FIRE Demo @ICT2013.

Key achievements/resultsMerely 16 months after the start of the project, Fed4FIRE has deployed the first version of its federation framework, allowing experimenters to get involved with all affiliated testbeds in an easy manner. At the same time, it has selected 8 Open Call experi-ments from a total of 55 received proposals, and is actively sup-porting them in the design, setup and execution of their specific experiments.

How to get involved?FIRE facilities interested in joining Fed4IRE can compete for funding in the project’s second Open Call, which will be launched in March 2014. When wanting to join without funding,

then just mail us at contact@fed4fire.eu. Experimenters inter-ested in our facilities can participate in this same Open Call, or can compete in the new SME-specific Calls (first launched in Feb-ruary 2014). Open Access Calls will also be launched in a later stage, the concrete timing for this remains to be defined. It is ad-vised to regularly check the project’s website www.fed4fire.eu for updates on all these different Open Calls.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Piet Demeester, iMinds

E X E C U T I O N : From 2012-10-01 to 2016-09-30

PA RT N E R S : iMinds (Belgium) (Coordinator), University of Southamp-ton IT Innovation (UK), UPMC (France), Fraunhofer- FOKUS (Germany), TU Berlin (Germany), University of Edinburgh (UK), INRIA (France), NICTA (Australia), Atos (Spain), University of Thessaly (Greece), NTUA (Greece), University of Bristol (UK), i2CAT (Spain), EURESCOM (Germany), DANTE (United King-dom), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), NISA (Republic of Ko-rea), UMA (Spain), UPC (Spain), UC3M (Spain), DEIMOS (Spain), MTA SZTAKI (Hungary), NUI Galway (Ireland), ULANC (UK), WooX Innovations (Belgium), UKent (UK), Brit-ish Telecom (UK), Televes (Spain).

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Figure 3.1 Overview of the testbeds currently belonging to Fed4FIRE.

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Project factsCOORDINATOR: Piet Demeester, iMindsEXECUTION: From 2012-10-01 to 2016-09-30PARTNERS: iMinds (Belgium) (Coordinator), University of Southampton IT Innovation (UK), UPMC (France), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany), TU Berlin (Germany), University of Edinburgh (UK), INRIA (France), NICTA (Australia), Atos (Spain), University of Thessaly (Greece), NTUA (Greece), University of Bristol (UK), i2CAT (Spain), EURESCOM (Germany), DANTE (United Kingdom), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), NISA (Republic of Korea), UMA (Spain), UPC (Spain), UC3M (Spain), DEIMOS (Spain), MTA SZTAKI (Hungary), NUI Galway (Ireland), ULANC (UK), WooX Innovations (Belgium), UKent (UK), British Telecom (UK), Televes (Spain).

Overview of the testbeds currently belonging to Fed4FIRE.

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CONFINE (Community Networks Testbed for the Future Inter-net) provides an experimental facility that supports and extends experimentally-driven research on Community-owned Open Lo-cal IP Networks (COPLANs), which are already successful in de-veloping Internet access in many areas of Europe and the world. The project takes an integrated view on these innovative commu-nity networks, offering a testbed that federates the resources of several COPLANs, each hosting between 500–20,000 nodes, along with a greater number of links and even more end-users.

How does it work?CONFINE’s testbed, Community-Lab, integrates and extends three existing community networks: Guifi.net (Catalonia, Spain), FunkFeuer (Wien, Austria) and AWMN (Athens, Greece). These facilities are extremely dynamic and diverse, and successfully combine different wireless and wired (optical) link technologies, fixed and mobile routing schemes and management schemes, run-ning multiple self-provisioned, experimental and commercial services and applications. The testbed is an innovative model of self-provisioned, dynamic and self-organizing networks using un-licensed and public spectrum and links. It offers unified access to an open testbed with tools that allow researchers to deploy, run, monitor and experiment with services, protocols and applica-tions as part of real-world community IP networks. This inte-

grated platform provides user-friendly access to these emerging COPLAN networks, supporting any stakeholder interested in developing and testing experimental technologies for open and interoperable network infrastructures.

The CONFINE facility, through federation and virtualization, allows the experimental validation of varied scenarios. For exam-ple, the cooperation and comparison between nodes using di-verse mesh routing protocols (e.g. OLSR, Batman, Babel); self-managing (or autonomic) application protocols that adapt to the dynamic conditions of nodes, links and routes in these networks; network self-management or cooperative and decentralized man-agement; the adaptation of services such a VoIP (live video streaming) to low band- width wireless networks.

Key achievements/resultsThe main achievement in the project is the offering of Community-Lab: an open federated test platform that facilitates experimentally-driven research in existing community networks. Community-Lab has more than 100 nodes for experiments em-bedded around more than 40,000 community network nodes in Europe. Experiments by the project partners and Open Call par-ticipants encompass topics such as the characterisation of com-munity networks and mesh networks, the development of im-

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provements on existing routing protocols, cross-layer optimiza-tions, SDN, decentralized video streaming, network attached ra-dios, content-centric networking, etc. Open data sets about com-munity networks a re pub l i shed a t http://opendata.confine-project.eu including data such as topol-ogy, routing, traffic, and usage patterns. This has also resulted in new software tools and protocols developed as part of the test-bed itself or specific experiments that are now adopted outside the project.

How to get involved?The testbed portal is at http://community-lab.net; the documen-tation is at http://wiki.confine-project.eu and all its code is pub-lished at http://redmine.confine-project.eu. Open usage of Community-Lab is planned in the future as enough testbed re-sources will become available.

Project factsC O O R D I N AT O R : Leandro Navarro, UPC

EXECUTION: From 2011-10-01 to 2015-09-30

PARTNERS : Core: UPC (Spain) (Coordina-tor), guifi.net (Spain), FunkFeuer (Austria), Athens Wireless Met-ropolitan Network (Greece), OPLAN (UK), Pangea (Spain), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany), iMinds (Belgium). 1st Open Call: CNIT (Italy), Freie Universität Berlin - FUB (Germany), INESCP (Portugal), University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), University of Trento (Italy).

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Figure 3.2 CONFINE is an entry point for experimentation on a federation of real community networks, including Guifi.net, FunkFeuer and AWMN, shown here.

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CONFINE (Community Networks Testbed for the Future In-ternet) provides an experimental facility that supports and extends experimentally-driven research on Community-owned Open Local IP Networks (COPLANs), which are al-ready successful in developing Internet access in many ar-eas of Europe and the world. The project takes an integrated view on these innovative community networks, offering a testbed that federates the resources of several COPLANs, each hosting between 500–20,000 nodes, along with a greater number of links and even more end-users.

How does it work?CONFINE’s testbed, Community-Lab, integrates and ex-tends three existing community networks: Guifi.net (Catalo-nia, Spain), FunkFeuer (Wien, Austria) and AWMN (Athens, Greece). These facilities are extremely dynamic and diverse, and successfully combine different wireless and wired (opti-cal) link technologies, fixed and mobile routing schemes and management schemes, running multiple self-provisioned, experimental and commercial services and applications. The testbed is an innovative model of self-provisioned, dy-namic and self-organizing networks using unlicensed and public spectrum and links. It offers unified access to an open testbed with tools that allow researchers to deploy, run, monitor and experiment with services, protocols and appli-cations as part of real-world community IP networks. This integrated platform provides user-friendly access to these emerging COPLAN networks, supporting any stakeholder interested in developing and testing experimental technolo-gies for open and interoperable network infrastructures.

The CONFINE facility, through federation and virtualiza-tion, allows the experimental validation of varied scenarios. For example, the cooperation and comparison between nodes using diverse mesh routing protocols (e.g. OLSR, Bat-man, Babel); self-managing (or autonomic) application pro-tocols that adapt to the dynamic conditions of nodes, links and routes in these networks; network self-management or cooperative and decentralized management; the adaptation of services such a VoIP (live video streaming) to low band-width wireless networks.

Key achievements/resultsThe main achievement in the project is the offering of Com-munity-Lab: an open federated test platform that facilitates experimentally-driven research in existing community net-works. Community-Lab has more than 100 nodes for ex-periments embedded around more than 40,000 community network nodes in Europe. Experiments by the project part-ners and Open Call participants encompass topics such as the characterisation of community networks and mesh net-works, the development of improvements on existing rout-ing protocols, cross-layer optimizations, SDN, decentralized video streaming, network attached radios, content-centric networking, etc. Open data sets about community net-works are published at http://opendata.confine-project.eu including data such as topology, routing, traffic, and usage patterns. This has also resulted in new software tools and protocols developed as part of the testbed itself or specific experiments that are now adopted outside the project.

How to get involved?The testbed portal is at http://community-lab.net; the documentation is at http://wiki.confine-project.eu and all its code is published at http://redmine.confine-project.eu. Open usage of Community-Lab is planned in the future as enough testbed resources will become available.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Leandro Navarro, UPCEXECUTION: From 2011-10-01 to 2015-09-30PARTNERS: Core: UPC (Spain) (Coordinator), guifi.net (Spain), FunkFeuer (Austria), Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (Greece), OPLAN (UK), Pangea (Spain), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany), iMinds (Belgium).1st Open Call: CNIT (Italy), Freie Universität Berlin - FUB (Germany), INESCP (Portugal), University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), University of Trento (Italy).

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CONFINE is an entry point for experimentation on a federation of real community networks, including Guifi.net, FunkFeuer and AWMN, shown here.

The CREW project facilitates experimentally-driven research on advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive net-working strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spectrum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands.

How does it work?The CREW platform federates five individual wireless test- beds, built on diverse wireless technologies: heterogeneous ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) radio, heterogeneous licensed

radio (TV-bands), cellular networks (LTE) , and wireless sensors. The offerings of these geographically distributed testbeds are fed-erated, and improved with the addition of state-of-the-art cogni-tive sensing equipment.

The platform offers users a common portal with a comprehen-sive description of the functionalities of each individual testbed together with clear user guidelines. The facility also includes a benchmarking framework that enables experiments under con-trolled/ reproducible test conditions, and offers universal and automated procedures for experiments and performance evalua-tion. This allows fair comparison between different cognitive ra-dio and cognitive networking concepts.

The combined expertise, software and hardware that is available in the CREW federated platform allows the experimental opti-mization and validation of cognitive radio and cognitive network-ing concepts in a diverse range of scenarios, including but not limited to: radio environment sensing for cognitive radio spec-trum sharing, horizontal resource sharing between heterogene-ous networks in the ISM bands, cooperation in heterogeneous networks in licensed bands, robust cognitive sensor networks, and measuring the impact of cognitive networking on primary cellular systems.

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Movie 3.3 CREW WLAN Handover - Hands-On FIRE! 8-10 May 2013 / FIA-Dublin.

Key achievements/resultsCREW has organised three successful Open Calls. Open Call 1 and Open Call 2 resulted in 7 funded experiments and the acces-sion of 9 new partners to the CREW project. 7 more experi-ments (with no funding for the experimenters) will be supported as a result from the latest call (Open Call 3), evidencing a first step towards sustainable use of the CREW facilities.

How to get involved?CREW has entered in a continuous Open Access phase. CREW offers best effort access to the facilities that is free for non-commercial use and includes basic support (consisting of informa-tion from portal, guidelines, tutorials, handbooks, and very lim-

ited basic technical support). If more guarantees are required on availability of infrastructure and technical support, it is possible to submit a request for experimentation with guaranteed avail-ability and support. More information about the Open Access use o f the CREW fac i l i t i e s can be found a t http://www.crew-project.eu/opencall. The CREW portal (http://www.crew-project.eu/portal) guides the experimenter to find the most suitable test facility for its experiment and further gives information on how to get started.

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Figure 3.3 The CREW federated platform and its advanced cog-nitive component.

Movie 3.4 CREW: CCA agent in a CSMA MAC using Iris at the Hands-On FIRE! 8-10 May 2013 / FIA-Dublin.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Ingr id Moerman , iMinds

E X E C U T I O N : From 2010-10-01 to 2015-09-30

P A R T N E R S : iMinds (Belgium) (Coordinator), imec (Belgium), Trinity College Dubl in , (Ire l and ) , TU Ber l in (Germany ) ,TU Dresden (Germany), Thales (France), EADS (Germany), Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia). 1st Open Call: University of Durham (UK), Technische Universität Ilmenau (Germany), Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain). 2nd Open Call: Univer-sity of Thessaly (Greece), National ICT Australia (Australia), In-stituto de Telecomunicações (Portugal), CMSF-Sistemas de Infor-mação (Portugal) , CNIT (Italy) , WINGS ICT Solutions (Greece).

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The CREW project facilitates experimentally-driven research on advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spec-trum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands.

How does it work?The CREW platform federates five individual wireless test-beds, built on diverse wireless technologies: heterogeneous ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) radio, heterogeneous licensed radio (TV-bands), cellular networks (LTE) , and wire-less sensors. The offerings of these geographically distribut-ed testbeds are federated, and improved with the addition of state-of-the-art cognitive sensing equipment.

The platform offers users a common portal with a com-prehensive description of the functionalities of each individ-ual testbed together with clear user guidelines. The facility also includes a benchmarking framework that enables ex-periments under controlled/ reproducible test conditions, and offers universal and automated procedures for experiments and performance evaluation. This allows fair comparison between different cognitive radio and cognitive networking concepts.

The combined expertise, software and hardware that is available in the CREW federated platform allows the experi-mental optimization and validation of cognitive radio and cognitive networking concepts in a diverse range of scenari-os, including but not limited to: radio environment sensing for cognitive radio spectrum sharing, horizontal resource sharing between heterogeneous networks in the ISM bands, coop-eration in heterogeneous networks in licensed bands, robust cognitive sensor networks, and measuring the impact of cog-nitive networking on primary cellular systems.

CREWKey achievements/resultsCREW has organised three successful Open Calls. Open Call 1 and Open Call 2 resulted in 7 funded experiments and the accession of 9 new partners to the CREW project. 7 more ex-periments (with no funding for the experimenters) will be sup-ported as a result from the latest call (Open Call 3), evidencing a first step towards sustainable use of the CREW facilities.

How to get involved?CREW has entered in a continuous Open Access phase. CREW offers best effort access to the facilities that is free for non-commercial use and includes basic support (consisting of information from portal, guidelines, tutorials, handbooks, and very limited basic technical support). If more guarantees are required on availability of infrastructure and technical support, it is possible to submit a request for experimenta-tion with guaranteed availability and support. More informa-tion about the Open Access use of the CREW facilities can be found at http://www.crew-project.eu/opencall. The CREW portal (http://www.crew-project.eu/portal) guides the ex-perimenter to find the most suitable test facility for its experi-ment and further gives information on how to get started.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Ingrid Moerman, iMindsEXECUTION: From 2010-10-01 to 2015-09-30PARTNERS: iMinds (Belgium) (Coordinator), imec (Belgium), Trinity College Dublin, (Ireland), TU Berlin (Germany), TU Dresden (Germany), Thales (France), EADS (Germany), Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia).1st Open Call: University of Durham (UK), Technische Universität Ilmenau (Germany), Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain).2nd Open Call: University of Thessaly (Greece), National ICT Australia (Australia), Instituto de Telecomunicações (Portugal), CMSF-Sistemas de Informação (Portugal), CNIT (Italy), WINGS ICT Solutions (Greece).

The CREW federated platform and its advanced cognitive component.

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EXPERIMEDIA aims to explore the new forms of social interac-tion and rich media experiences enabled by the Future Media Internet (FMI). The project is developing and operating a unique facility that offers researchers what they need for large- scale FMI experiments, and in particular for socio-technical ex-perimentation of networked media systems conducted in the real world. The state-of-the-art Future Internet testbed infra-structure offered supports the large-scale experimentation of user generated content, 3D Internet, augmented reality, integra-tion of online communities and full experiment lifecycle manage-ment.

How does it work?EXPERIMEDIA targets the research community in the FMI, working with stakeholders such as venue management, broadcast-ers, content and service providers, and application developers (in-cluding mobile). The facility allows them to gain valuable insight into how Future Internet technologies can be used and enhanced to deliver added value, legally compliant, media experiences to consumers. Users can then take advantage of three culturally im-portant “smart venues” offered by the facility where they are not only able to access state-of-the-art testbed resources, but they also have access to the necessary experts to help them design, execute and analyse innovative socio-technical experiments.

Key achievements/resultsEXPERIMEDIA has run ten ground-breaking experiments at smart venues across Europe developing new techniques for sports science, learning in culture and heritage, and visitor experi-ence. All experiments were tested with users to assess quality of experience. The Foundation of the Hellenic World showed novel interactivity and augmented reality as part of exhibitions deliv-ered to 100+ visitors attending a next generation digital dome show in ancient Greece “A Walk Through Ancient Miletus”. IN2 have successfully concluded a trial “Digital Schladming” of their

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Movie 3.5 3D Media in Sports.

ON:meedi:a platform at the Schladming Ski Resort demonstrat-ing how hyperlocal media, content syndication and advanced fil-tering can enhance visitor experience by providing access to all of Schladming’s social media channels in one place. CAR, a High Performance Training Centre for Olympic athletes, has demon-strated significant advances in using invasive and non-invasive sensing techniques to improve sports performance. Five more ex-periments have been funded in the 2nd Open Call including deliv-ery of real-time information to mobile users to Smart Ski Gog-gles, adaptive streaming technologies for interactive video naviga-tion for camera-based coaching and training, 3D interactive and collaborative serious games, multi-factor human sensing and re-mote calibration of 3D capture systems.

How to get involved?EXPERIMEDIA will be opening the facility during 2014 for ex-perimentation by stakeholders external to the consortium. If you have an idea and would like to explore it, please contact info@experimedia.eu.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Michael Boniface, University of South-ampton IT Innovation

EXECUTION: From 2011-10-01 to 2014-09-30

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Movie 3.6 Foundation for the Hellenic World: Next Gen Digital Domes.

Movie 3.7 MEDIA CONNECT: Online video-based interaction without limits.

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EXPERIMEDIA aims to explore the new forms of social inter-action and rich media experiences enabled by the Future Me-dia Internet (FMI). The project is developing and operating a unique facility that offers researchers what they need for large-scale FMI experiments, and in particular for socio-technical experimentation of networked media systems conducted in the real world. The state-of-the-art Future Internet testbed in-frastructure offered supports the large-scale experimentation of user generated content, 3D Internet, augmented reality, in-tegration of online communities and full experiment lifecycle management.

How does it work?EXPERIMEDIA targets the research community in the FMI, working with stakeholders such as venue management, broad casters, content and service providers, and applica-tion devel opers (including mobile). The facility allows them to gain val uable insight into how Future Internet technologies can be used and enhanced to deliver added value, legally compliant, media experiences to consumers. Users can then take advantage of three culturally important “smart venues” offered by the facility where they are not only able to access state-of-the-art testbed resources, but they also have access to the necessary experts to help them design, execute and analyse innovative socio-technical experiments.

Key achievements/resultsEXPERIMEDIA has run ten ground-breaking experiments at smart venues across Europe developing new techniques for sports science, learning in culture and heritage, and visitor experience. All experiments were tested with users to assess quality of experience. The Foundation of the Hel-lenic World showed novel interactivity and augmented re-ality as part of exhibitions delivered to 100+ visitors attend-ing a next generation digital dome show in ancient Greece “A Walk Through Ancient Miletus”. IN2 have successfully concluded a trial “Digital Schladming” of their ON:meedi:a platform at the Schladming Ski Resort demonstrating how hyperlocal media, content syndication and advanced fil-tering can enhance visitor experience by providing access to all of Schladming’s social media channels in one place. CAR, a High Performance Training Centre for Olympic athletes, has demonstrated significant advances in using

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invasive and non-invasive sensing techniques to improve sports performance. Five more experiments have been funded in the 2nd Open Call including delivery of real-time information to mobile users to Smart Ski Goggles, adaptive streaming technologies for interactive video navigation for camera-based coaching and training, 3D interactive and col-laborative serious games, multi-factor human sensing and remote calibration of 3D capture systems.

How to get involved?EXPERIMEDIA will be opening the facility during 2014 for ex-perimentation by stakeholders external to the consortium. If you have an idea and would like to explore it, please contact info@experimedia.eu.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Michael Boniface, University of Southampton IT InnovationEXECUTION: From 2011-10-01 to 2014-09-30PARTNERS: Core: University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre (UK) (Coordinator), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Greece), Atos Origin (Spain), Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft (Austria), Bearingpoint Infonova (Austria), Idrima Meizonos Ellinismou (Greece), Schladming 2030 (Austria), Centre D’alt Rendiment Esportiu De Sant Cugat Del Valles (Spain), KU Leuven (Belgium), La F@brique du Futur (France), TII (Sweden).1st Open Call: IN2 search interfaces development Ltd (UK), STI International GmbH (Austria), University of Graz (Austria), University of Peloponnese (Greece), Henri Tudor Research Center (Luxembourg), University of Vigo (Spain), STT Engineering and Systems (Spain), Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (Poland).

PARTNERS: Core: University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre (UK) (Coordinator), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Greece), Atos Origin (Spain), Joanneum Re-search Forschungsgesellschaft (Austria), Bearingpoint Infonova (Austria), Idrima Meizonos Ellinismou (Greece), Schladming 2030 (Austria), Centre D’alt Rendiment Esportiu De Sant Cugat De l Va l l e s (Spa in ) , KU Leuven (Belg ium ) ,La F@brique du Futur (France), TII (Sweden). 1st Open Call: IN2 search interfaces development Ltd (UK), STI International GmbH (Austria), University of Graz (Austria), University of Pelo-ponnese (Greece), Henri Tudor Research Center (Luxembourg), University of Vigo (Spain), STT Engineering and Systems (Spain), Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (Poland).

Figure 3.4 EXPERIMEDIA offers a FIRE facility for experi-ments in social interaction and rich media experiences.

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OpenLab delivers the ingredients to build an open, general-purpose, shared experimental facility, which allows European in-dustry and academia to innovate and assess the performance of their solutions. OpenLab builds on and improves successful FIRE prototypes, increasing their offering in diversity and scale. It works on the sustainability of these R&D&I resources. Open-Lab has pioneered the collaboration with EIT ICT Labs, which enables the exchange and shared objectives between education, research and innovation. The joint effort, FITTING, has brought OpenLab into KIC nodes, embedding the facility’s main components and resources in the involved EIT ICT Labs co-location centers. This is a milestone for sustainable facility host-ing in the future.

How does it work?OpenLab deploys the software and tools that allow a selection of advanced testbeds to support diverse applications and protocols in more efficient and flexible ways. The project delivers control and experimental plane middleware to facilitate use of these test-beds by researchers in industry and academia, exploiting its own technologies, developed notably in the OneLab and Panlab pro-jects, as well as drawing upon and improving other initiatives’ work, such as the Slice Facility Architecture (SFA) control frame-work and OpenFlow switching.

OpenLab extends FIRE facilities with advanced capabilities in the area of mobility, wireless, monitoring and domain intercon-nections, incorporating technologies such as OpenFlow.

OpenLab offers access to a wide range of testbeds, providing an infrastructure for experiments that go beyond what can be tested on the current Internet. The testbeds offered include:

• PlanetLab Europe, offering access to over 1000 nodes distrib-uted worldwide, based on the PlanetLab system;

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Movie 3.8 OpenLab: video streaming over federated facilities - Hands-On FIRE! 8-10 May 2013 / FIA-Dublin.

• NITOS, an OMF-based wireless testbed consisting of 45 nodes equipped with a mix of Wi-Fi and GNU-radios;

• w-iLab.t wireless mesh and sensor network infrastructure of 180 nodes, including 20 mobile nodes;

• Two IMS testbeds, supporting carrier-grade next generation network services, for performing diverse converged media ex-periments;

• ETOMIC, a high-precision network measurement testbed fea-turing dozens of Internet-connected nodes synchronized via GPS;

• .SEL, a hybrid delay-tolerant opportunistic networking test-bed;

• ns-3, a free open-source discrete-event network simulator; and

• HEN, which allows emulation of rich topologies in a con-trolled fashion over switched VLANs that connect multiple vir-tual machines.

Key achievements/results• An architecture supported by standards and tools to enable fed-

eration for the control, experimental and data planes;

• A large and coherent testbed offering; and

• Large usage experience from partners joining the project fol-lowing 2 Open Calls.

How to get involved? To express your interest to use the facility, please send an email to contact@ict-openlab.eu.

Project factsC O O R D I NAT O R : Serge Fdida, UPMC

EXECUTION: From 2011-09-01 to 2014-06-30

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Figure 3.5 Distribution of OpenLab testbeds in Europe.

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OpenLab delivers the ingredients to build an open, general-purpose, shared experimental facility, which allows European industry and academia to innovate and assess the perfor-mance of their solutions. OpenLab builds on and improves successful FIRE prototypes, increasing their offering in diver-sity and scale. It works on the sustainability of these R&D&I resources. OpenLab has pioneered the collaboration with EIT ICT Labs, which enables the exchange and shared objectives between education, research and innovation. The joint effort, FITTING, has brought OpenLab into KIC nodes, embedding the facility’s main components and resources in the involved EIT ICT Labs co-location centers. This is a milestone for sus-tainable facility hosting in the future.

How does it work?OpenLab deploys the software and tools that allow a selec-tion of advanced testbeds to support diverse applications and protocols in more efficient and flexible ways. The pro-ject delivers control and experimental plane middleware to facilitate use of these testbeds by researchers in industry and academia, exploiting its own technologies, developed notably in the OneLab and Panlab projects, as well as draw-ing upon and improving other initiatives’ work, such as the Slice Facility Architecture (SFA) control framework and OpenFlow switching.

OpenLab extends FIRE facilities with advanced capabili-ties in the area of mobility, wireless, monitoring and domain interconnections, incorporating technologies such as Open-Flow.

OpenLab offers access to a wide range of testbeds, providing an infrastructure for experiments that go beyond what can be tested on the current Internet. The testbeds of-fered include:

• PlanetLab Europe, offering access to over 1000 nodes distributed worldwide, based on the PlanetLab system;

• NITOS, an OMF-based wireless testbed consisting of 45 nodes equipped with a mix of Wi-Fi and GNU-radios;

• w-iLab.t wireless mesh and sensor network infrastruc-ture of 180 nodes, including 20 mobile nodes;

• Two IMS testbeds, supporting carrier-grade next generation network services, for performing diverse converged media experiments;

• ETOMIC, a high-precision network measurement testbed featuring dozens of Internet-connected nodes synchronized via GPS;

• .SEL, a hybrid delay-tolerant opportunistic networking testbed;

• ns-3, a free open-source discrete-event network simulator; and

• HEN, which allows emulation of rich topologies in a controlled fashion over switched VLANs that connect multiple virtual machines.

Key achievements/results• An architecture supported by standards and tools to

enable federation for the control, experimental and data planes;

• A large and coherent testbed offering; and• Large usage experience from partners joining the

project following 2 Open Calls.

How to get involved?To express your interest to use the facility, please send an email to contact@ict-openlab.eu.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Serge Fdida, UPMCEXECUTION: From 2011-09-01 to 2014-06-30PARTNERS: Core: UPMC (FR) (Coordinator), Cosmote (EL) Creative Systems Engineering (EL), ELTE (HU), ETH Zurich, (CH) EURESCOM (DE), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (DE), HUJI (IL), iMinds (BE) INRIA (FR), NICTA (AUS), TU Berlin (DE), UAM (ES), UCL (UK), Università di Pisa, (IT), University of Patras, (EL), University of Thessaly (EL), Waterford Institute of Technology (IE). 1st Open Call: Universidad de Murcia (ES), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO), NTUA (EL), Politechnika Warszawska (PL), Orange Polska (PL). 2nd Open Call: TU München (DE), CNIT (IT), Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (ES), Deutsche Telekom AG (DE), Portugal Telecom Inovacao (PT).

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PARTNERS: Core: UPMC (FR) (Coordinator), Cosmote (EL) Creative Systems Engineering (EL), ELTE (HU), ETH Zurich, (CH) EURESCOM (DE), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (DE), HUJI (IL), iMinds (BE) INRIA (FR), NICTA (AUS), TU Berlin (DE), UAM (ES), UCL (UK), Università di Pisa, (IT), University of Patras, (EL), University of Thessaly (EL), Waterford Institute of Technol-ogy (IE). 1st Open Call: Universidad de Murcia (ES), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU), Norwegian Uni-versity of Science and Technology (NO), NTUA (EL), Politech-nika Warszawska (PL), Orange Polska (PL). 2nd Open Call: TU München (DE), CNIT (IT), Universidad Politecnica de Cata-lunya (ES), Deutsche Telekom AG (DE), Portugal Telecom Inova-cao (PT).

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FLEX (FIRE LTE testbeds for open experimentation) aims at contributing a crucial missing piece in FIRE’s infrastructure puz-zle: cellular access technologies and Long-Term Evolution (LTE). FLEX’s experimentation environment will feature both open source platforms and configurable commercial equipment that span macro-cell, pico-cell and small-cell setups. FLEX will build upon current FIRE testbed management and experiment con-trol tools and extend them to provide support for the new LTE components, and will develop specialized monitoring tools and methodologies. Focus will be placed on mobility, with the estab-lishment of both real and emulated mobility functionalities on the testbeds. FLEX will organize two Open Calls, aiming to at-tract research groups to conduct sophisticated experiments, test innovative usages or provide functional extensions of LTE test-beds.

How does it work?FLEX will establish LTE resources by means of access and core network in existing FIRE facilities thus reducing the integration effort. The LTE resources deployment will take place at the wire-less testbeds of NITOS in Greece, w—iLab.t in Belgium and EURECOM in France by using two different setups; the first one based on commercial equipment and the second one using highly configurable Open Source LTE components on an FPGA

setup. The first approach offers a commercial network that is configurable and enables testing that needs compliance with the market products while the second one allows for full redesign of the system. The state-of-the-art tools for resource control and experiment orchestration and monitoring will be extended in or-der to support the LTE specific resources, so as to provide a user friendly way for the experimenter to remotely access the test-beds and evaluate new ideas and protocols.

Key objectivesThe main objectives of the project can be summarized in the fol-lowing:

• Provide a truly open and highly configurable experimental facil-ity that uses LTE resources;

• Fully integrate the LTE resources with existing FIRE infra-structure; and

• Create the circumstances for innovation in the field of 4G net-works.

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How to get involved?The FLEX portal can be reached at http://www.flex-project.eu where valuable information on how to conduct experiments and use the infrastructure is included. FLEX will organize two Open Calls, one at M6 and one at M14 of the project. The goal of these calls is to attract proposals for innovative usages of the deployed facilities, sophisticated experiments or even functional exten-sions of the LTE components. The calls have been planned to take place early, in order for provide enough time for the new partners to be integrated in the consortium and provide meaning-ful contributions.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Prof. Leandros Tassiulas, Univer-sity of Thessaly

E X E C U T I O N : From 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31

PARTNERS: University of Thessaly (Greece) (Co-ordinator), iMinds (Belgium), SiRRAN Engineering Services Ltd. (UK), Eurecom (France), ip.access Ltd. (UK), COSMOTE (Greece), Rutgers – The state university of New Jersey (US), NICTA (Australia).

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Figure 4.1 Demonstration of supported experiments for FLEX’s infrastructure.

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FLEX (FIRE LTE testbeds for open experimentation) aims at contributing a crucial missing piece in FIRE’s infrastructure puzzle: cellular access technologies and Long-Term Evolu-tion (LTE). FLEX’s experimentation environment will feature both open source platforms and configurable commercial equipment that span macro-cell, pico-cell and small-cell set-ups. FLEX will build upon current FIRE testbed management and experiment control tools and extend them to provide support for the new LTE components, and will develop spe-cialized monitoring tools and methodologies. Focus will be placed on mobility, with the establishment of both real and emulated mobility functionalities on the testbeds. FLEX will organize two Open Calls, aiming to attract research groups to conduct sophisticated experiments, test innovative us-ages or provide functional extensions of LTE testbeds.

How does it work?FLEX will establish LTE resources by means of access and core network in existing FIRE facilities thus reducing the inte-gration effort. The LTE resources deployment will take place at the wireless testbeds of NITOS in Greece, w—iLab.t in Bel-gium and EURECOM in France by using two different setups; the first one based on commercial equipment and the second one using highly configurable Open Source LTE components on an FPGA setup. The first approach offers a commercial network that is configurable and enables testing that needs compliance with the market products while the second one allows for full redesign of the system. The state-of-the-art tools for resource control and experiment orchestration and monitoring will be extended in order to support the LTE spe-cific resources, so as to provide a user friendly way for the experimenter to remotely access the testbeds and evaluate new ideas and protocols.

Key objectivesThe main objectives of the project can be summarized in the following:

• Provide a truly open and highly configurable experi-mental facility that uses LTE resources;

• Fully integrate the LTE resources with existing FIRE infrastructure; and

• Create the circumstances for innovation in the field of 4G networks.

FLEXHow to get involved?The FLEX portal can be reached at http://www.flex-project.eu where valuable information on how to conduct experiments and use the infrastructure is included. FLEX will organize two Open Calls, one at M6 and one at M14 of the project. The goal of these calls is to attract proposals for innovative usages of the deployed facilities, sophisticated experiments or even functional extensions of the LTE com-ponents. The calls have been planned to take place early, in order for provide enough time for the new partners to be integrated in the consortium and provide meaningful con-tributions.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Prof. Leandros Tassiulas, University of ThessalyEXECUTION: From 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31PARTNERS: University of Thessaly (Greece) (Coordinator), iMinds (Belgium), SiRRAN Engineering Services Ltd. (UK), Eurecom (France), ip.access Ltd. (UK), COSMOTE (Greece), Rutgers – The state university of New Jersey (US), NICTA (Australia).

Demonstration of supported experiments for FLEX’s infrastructure

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Oceans and lakes cover 71% of the Earth surface, and play a key role for the equilibrium of many earth systems, including climate and weather. Moreover, they support the life of nearly half of all species on earth and about 40% of the global population living within 100 kilometers of a coast. The future of mankind is therefore very dependent on careful monitoring, control and exploitation of the marine environments. As of today, however, our ocean basins are less well mapped, explored and understood than the moon, or even Mars.

SUNRISE aims to provide all the tools for the unprecedented monitoring and exploration of marine environments, extending the concept of The Future Internet (i.e., the so called “Internet of Things”) to the underwater domain.

How does it work?SUNRISE concerns developing innovative solutions for network-ing smart devices to monitor and control the marine environ-ments. Several underwater platforms, including unmanned mo-bile robots, will be deployed in five different marine areas includ-ing the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Black Sea, lakes and canals. These devices will be interconnected wirelessly, through prevailing underwater communication technologies (e.g., acoustic and optical). Data collected by sensors, whether

on static or mobile platforms, will be delivered to a central command and control station, where scientist and experts will be able to check the status of the marine environ-ment and take any action, if needed. SUNRISE will enable for the first time an accurate monitoring of large marine areas ‘in real time’.

SUNRISE directly addresses the FIRE objectives providing inno-vative technologies for open underwater experimental facilities.

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Movie 4.1 SUNRISE Demo @ICT2013 6.-8.11. 2013.

Key objectives• Develop innovative solutions to bring the Internet to marine

environments; and

• Enable the cooperation of static and mobile platforms for en-hanced monitoring, control and exploration of the underwater world.

How to get involved?The five SUNRISE facilities should be accessible at the end of the first year of project. User participation at any level will be

eased by a user-friendly web interface, enabling the connection to remote underwater devices, to request measurements, and to remotely monitor the status of marine areas.

The SUNRISE project will also extend its infrastructure through two Open Calls. The first one will be launched after 12 months from the beginning of the project and the second one after 18 months.

Project factsC O O R D I N AT O R : Chiara Petrioli, Univer-s i ty o f Rome “La Sapienza”

EXECUTION: From 2013-09-01 to 2016-08-31

PARTNERS : Univer-sity of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) (Coordinator), Evologics Gmb (Germany), NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Ex-perimentation (Italy), Nexse s.r.l. (Italy), SUASIS Underwater Sys-tems Technology Limited (Turkey), The Research Foundation of State University of New York (University at Buffalo) (U.S.A.), Uni-versidade do Porto (Portugal), Universiteit Twente (The Nether-lands).

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Figure 4.2 SUNRISE federated testing infrastructure.

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Oceans and lakes cover 71% of the Earth surface, and play a key role for the equilibrium of many earth systems, includ-ing climate and weather. Moreover, they support the life of nearly half of all species on earth and about 40% of the global population living within 100 kilometers of a coast. The future of mankind is therefore very dependent on careful monitoring, control and exploitation of the marine environ-ments. As of today, however, our ocean basins are less well mapped, explored and understood than the moon, or even Mars.

SUNRISE aims to provide all the tools for the unprec-edented monitoring and exploration of marine environ-ments, extending the concept of The Future Internet (i.e., the so called “Internet of Things”) to the underwater domain.

How does it work?SUNRISE concerns developing innovative solutions for net-working smart devices to monitor and control the marine environments. Several underwater platforms, including unmanned mobile robots, will be deployed in five different marine areas including the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Black Sea, lakes and canals. These devices will be interconnected wirelessly, through prevailing underwater communication technologies (e.g., acoustic and optical). Data collected by sensors, whether on static or mobile platforms, will be delivered to a central command and control station, where scientist and experts will be able to check the status of the marine environment and take any action, if needed. SUN-RISE will enable for the first time an accurate monitoring of large marine areas ‘in real time’.

SUNRISESUNRISE directly addresses the FIRE objectives providing

innovative technologies for open underwater experimental facilities.

Key objectives• Develop innovative solutions to bring the Internet to

marine environments; and • Enable the cooperation of static and mobile platforms

for enhanced monitoring, control and exploration of the underwater world.

How to get involved?The five SUNRISE facilities should be accessible at the end of the first year of project. User participation at any level will be eased by a user-friendly web interface, enabling the con-nection to remote underwater devices, to request measure-ments, and to remotely monitor the status of marine areas.

The SUNRISE project will also extend its infrastructure through two Open Calls. The first one will be launched after 12 months from the beginning of the project and the second one after 18 months.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome “La Sapienza”EXECUTION: From 2013-09-01 to 2016-08-31PARTNERS: University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) (Coordinator), Evologics Gmb (Germany), NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (Italy), Nexse s.r.l. (Italy), SUASIS Underwater Systems Technology Limited (Turkey), The Research Foundation of State University of New York (University at Buffalo) (U.S.A.), Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Universiteit Twente (The Netherlands).

SUNRISE federated testing infrastructure.

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Chapter 5

RESEARCH PROJECTS

CLOMMUNITY addresses the obstacles for communities in bootstrapping, running and expanding community-owned net-works that provide community services organised as community clouds. On the infrastructure layer, this concerns the manage-ment of a large number of distributed, low-cost, unreliable com-puting resources and dynamic network conditions. On the plat-form and application layer, the community cloud should operate elastic, resilient and scalable service overlays and user-oriented applications, such as for storage and home computing, built over this underlying infrastructure, which provide a good quality of experience at the lowest economic and environmental cost.

How does it work?CLOMMUNITY utilizes CONFINE’s community networking testbed and additional cloud infrastructure to deploy cloud serv-ice prototypes in a cyclic participatory process of design, devel-opment, experimentation, evaluation and optimization, tailoring these to the specific social-technical challenges of community networks. The existence of this community cloud should allow end-users to find cloud applications within the community net-work, without needing to consume them from the Internet, which could ultimately lead to cloud ecosystems in communities.

Key achievements/results• Development of the Guifi-Community-Distro, which contains

common services and applications; and

• Deployment of the community cloud in the Guifi community network.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Felix Freitag, UPC

E X E C U T I O N : From 2013-01-01 to 2015-06-30

PA R T N E R S : UPC (Spain ) (Coordinator ) , KTH (Sweden), UNESCO (France), Guifi.Net (Spain), SICS (Sweden).

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http://clommunity-project.eu/

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CLOMMUNITY

The EULER (Experimental UpdateLess Evolutive Routing) pro-ject designs and experimentally evaluates novel dynamic Internet-wide routing models and algorithms by taking into ac-count its possible evolution and enhancements. These novel rout-ing schemes aim to address the functional and performance lim-its of current Internet-wide routing in terms of i) cost of topol-ogy and policy dynamics, ii) computational complexity (both in time and space) and iii) memory complexity (both in time and space).

How does it work?The project iteratively designs specialized routing models and al-gorithms for Internet-wide routing, experimentally evaluates their functionality and performance, and compares them to exist-ing routing protocols, namely the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

Key achievements/resultsEULER has produced a novel geometric information routing scheme, unifying information and traffic routing, positioned as a paradigmatic alternative to overlay/CDN and NDN/CCN ap-proaches. The proposed routing scheme exploits the geometric properties of the Internet topology by associating to content

identifiers (names) of a content locator (coordinate) taken out of a hyperbolic metric space from which a routing path can be de-rived without requiring knowledge of non-local information.

EULER has also designed and developed a novel dynamic mul-ticast routing scheme (referred to as GCMR for Greedy Com-pact Multicast Routing) designed to perform independently of the underlying unicast routing protocol. This multicast routing scheme positions itself thus as an alternative to the PIM/mBGP routing scheme currently deployed in the context of IPTV

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Movie 5.1 EULER Demo: GCMR Experiment at the Hands-On FIRE! 8-10 May 2013 / FIA-Dublin.

within an Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) network. The first demonstration was conducted at the Hands-On FIRE! event at the FIA-Dublin on May 2013.

Project factsC O O R D I N AT O R : Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Ant-werpen (Belgium)

EXECUTION: From 2010-10-01 to 2014-06-30

PARTNERS: Alcatel-Lucent Bell Antwerpen (Belgium) (Coordinator), INRIA (France), iMinds (Belgium), Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (France ) , Univer s i té Catho l iquede Louvain (Belgium), University of Patras (Greece), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain).

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EULER

3D-LIVE develops and experiments a User Driven Mixed Real-ity and Immersive (Twilight) platform connected to EXPERIME-DIA facilities in order to investigate the Future Internet (FI) broadband capacity to support real-time immersive situations, and to evaluate both the Quality of Experience (QoE) and Qual-ity of Service. The combination of FIRE testbeds and Living Labs enables both researchers and users to explore 3D/Media technologies and IoT in real and virtual environments and in live situations. Combining both FI technology and Tele-Immersion market pull establishes new requirements for Internet technol-

ogy and infrastructure, and advances the creation and adoption of innova-tive FI Immersive services.

How does it work?3D-LIVE experiments and evaluates the Twilight Platform and 3D Tele-Immersive Environments in skiing, running and golfing scenarios. The selected FIRE facility is EXPERIMEDIA Schlad-ming. Of particular interest is the EXPERIMEDIA advance-ment in new methods and algorithms for content processing tar-geting the efficient delivery of augmented reality to mobile de-vices and 3D processing for on the fly reconstruction of live events in indoor geolocalised spaces.

Key achievements/resultsThe Project has developed a model and a methodology suitable for involving users in the design loop of Future Internet applica-tions at an earlier stage: the resulting applications are exactly what the users require. Prototypes for a Twilight Tele-Immersive Environment have been developed allowing users dispersed geo-graphically to practice their favourite sport as if they were to-gether.

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Movie 5.2 3D LIVE - Golfing Scenario.

Project factsCOORDINATOR : Marco Conte, Collabo-rative Engineering

EXECUTION: From 2012-09-01 to 2015-02-28

PARTNERS: Collaborative Engineering (Italy) (Coordinator), ARTS (France), University of Southampton (UK), Cyberlightning (Finland), Sportscurve (Germany), CERTH (Greece).

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Movie 5.3 3D LIVE - Jogging Scenario.

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3D-live

ALIEN extends the OpenFlow control framework of OFELIA and its architecture to support the abstraction of network infor-mation of equipment that are alien to the OpenFlow technology such as optical network elements, legacy layer2 switches, net-work processors and programmable hardware (FPGA), thereby building strong foundations for Software Defined Networks (SDN).

How does it work?The ALIEN project aims to provide an experimentally verified OpenFlow Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for describing network device capabilities and controlling their forwarding be-haviour by a set of unified interfaces for different types of net-work equipment. The HAL decouples hardware-specific control and management from the network-node abstraction mechanism (i.e. OpenFlow). It hides the device complexity, as well as tech-nology and vendor specific features, from the Control Plane. The HAL is split into two sub-layers: 1) Cross-Hardware Platform Layer providing node abstraction, virtualization and communica-tion mechanisms and 2) Hardware Specific Layer, composed as a set of hardware drivers, realizing atomic network instructions for various network platforms/devices.

Key achievements/resultsThe project has delivered a definition and the detailed specifica-tion of the HAL architecture that makes the implementation of OpenFlow on any non-OpenFlow equipment easier by providing a software framework for the development of hardware drivers for various “alien” network elements.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Ar-tur Binczewski, Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS

EXECUTION : From 2012-10-01 to 2014-09-30

PARTNERS: Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS (Poland) (Coordinator), Uni-ver s i ty Co l l ege London (UK ) , Univer s i ty of Bristol (UK), Poznan University of Technology (Poland), EICT(Germany), Universidad Del Pais Vasco Ehu (Spain), Dell France (France), Create-Net (Italia).

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http://www.fp7-alien.eu/

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ALIEN

Audio sensors are cheap and often easy to deploy. With the grow-ing power of processing and networking capabilities it is possible to exploit audio data for a broad range of applications. There is great potential for RTD on intelligent (acoustic) solutions based on acoustical sensor networks to support a myriad set of applica-tions of high (social, business, etc.) value.

How does it work?Two FIRE facilities, SmartSantander and HobNet have an in-stalled base of sensors, networked together, capable of support-

ing advanced research in intelligent acoustics solutions. This enables “Ears on FIRE”, Experimenting Acoustics in Real environments using Innovative Testbeds (EAR-IT) realising distributed intelli-gence powered by acoustics. To explore, validate and confirm the RTD possibilities of using audio data, EAR-IT uses testbed capa-bilities of the HobNet project for indoor environments; benefits from SmartSantander offerings including applications on energy efficiency, etc. run in both large-scale outdoor and indoor smart city environments. EAR-IT validates main research lines and de-livers innovative services and applications targeting (but not lim-ited) to smart-buildings and smart-cities.

Key achievements/resultsThe Acoustic Processing Unit (APU) within EAR-IT has been developed. The APU comes with increased processing power via the utilization of an embedded processing platform to process complex algorithms with high quality audio. Several APUs were successfully deployed in the FIRE test bed Smart-Santander in the city of Santander (Spain) with successful experiments on Events detection and Traffic monitoring using sounds. APUs were also deployed in Smart Building at Mandat (Geneva).

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Movie 5.4 Ear-It: Sounds for Smarter Future Internet.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Pe-dro Maló, UNINOVA

EXECUTION: From 2012-10-01 to 2014-09-30

PA R T N E R S : UNI-NOVA (Portugal) (Coor-dinator), Fraunhofer-IDMT (Germany), Easy Global Market (France), MANDAT International (Switzerland), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), LTU (Sweden), Wuxi Smart Sensing Stars (China).

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EAR-IT

ECO2Clouds investigates strategies that can ensure effective ap-plication deployment on the cloud infrastructure and reduce the resultant energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

How does it work?ECO2Clouds provides a timely, challenging and highly innova-tive approach to cloud computing service delivery by addressing the following issues:

• Develop cloud application programming interface extensions and mechanisms to collect eco-metrics at infrastructure and VM level, and quantify the environmental impact of execution at infrastructure and application level;

• Investigate the key environment, quality and cost parameters needed to underpin a holistic approach to multi-cloud applica-tion deployment;

• Develop evaluation mechanisms and optimization algorithms to assess different parameter configurations and their influence in energy-efficient cloud sourcing and application-deployment strategies; and

• Integrate carbon-aware mechanisms into the FIRE facility Bon-FIRE so as to test, validate and optimize the eco-metrics, mod-els and algorithms developed and improve the FIRE offering.

Key achievements/results In its first year the ECO2Clouds project developed:

• a monitoring infrastructure to assess energy consumption and real time environmental impact in terms of CO2 for hosts and virtual machines;

• a scheduler for BonFIRE to allocate virtual machines on the basis of quality of service constraints, energy efficiency and en-vironmental impact; and

• application deployment optimization tools based on fore- casts on energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

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Project factsC O O R D I N AT O R : Julia Wells, Atos

EXECUTION: From 2012-10-01 to 2014-09-30

PA R T N E R S : Atos (Spain) (Coordinator), University of Manchester (UK), The University of Edinburgh (UK), niversitaet Stuttgart (Germany), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Inria (France).

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ECO2CLOUDS

EVARILOS addresses major problems of indoor localization re-search: The pitfall to reproduce research results in real life sce-narios suffering from uncontrolled RF interference, and the weakness of numerous published solutions being evaluated under individual, not comparable and not repeatable conditions. Accu-rate and robust indoor localization is a key enabler for context-aware Future Internet applications, whereby robust means that the localization solutions should perform well in diverse physical indoor environments under realistic RF interference conditions.

How does it work?EVARILOS develops a benchmarking methodology enabling ob-jective experimental validation of and fair comparison between state-of-the art indoor localization solutions, which does not only consider accuracy metrics, but also complexity, cost, energy, and, most importantly, RF interference robustness metrics. Next, the project improves the interference robustness of local-ization solutions through (a) multimodal approaches leveraging different localization methods; (b) introducing environmental awareness and cognitive features; (c) leveraging the presence of external interference. Finally, the EVARILOS benchmarking methodology and interference-robust localization solutions will be validated in two real-life application scenarios: healthcare in a hospital setting and underground mining safety. The outcome,

the EVARILOS bench-marking suite will be implemented in CREW and TWIST facili-ties and be publically available under open source licenses.

Key achievements/resultsThe main result of the first project year is the EVARILOS Benchmarking Handbook and the announcement of the EVARI-LOS Open Challenge for the best localization solution to pro-mote the EVARILOS benchmarking methodology.

Project factsC O O R D I N AT O R : Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin

EXECUTION: From 2012-11-01 to 2014-12-31

PARTNERS: TU Ber-lin (Germany) (Coordina-tor), Televic Healthcare (Belgium), SICS (Sweden), Advantic Sistemas y Servicios (Spain), iMinds (Belgium).

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http://www.evarilos.eu/

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EVARILOS

The Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) is a new Internetwork architecture whose fundamental principle is that networking is only Inter-Process Communication (IPC). RINA reconstructs the overall structure of the Internet, forming a model that comprises a single repeating layer, the DIF (Distrib-uted IPC Facility), which is the minimal set of components re-quired to allow distributed IPC between application processes. RINA supports inherently, and without the need of extra mecha-nisms, mobility, multi-homing and Quality of Service, provides a secure and configurable environment, motivates for a more com-petitive marketplace and allows for a seamless adoption. IRATI’s goal is to achieve further exploration of this new architecture. IRATI will advance the state of the art of RINA towards an ar-chitecture reference model and specifications that are closer to enable implementations deployable in production scenarios.

How does it work?The IRATI project will evolve the RINA architecture reference model and draft, incomplete specifications in order to enable RINA deployments that can potentially obsolete TCP/IP in the near future. To achieve this main goal, IRATI will design and im-plement a RINA prototype on top of Ethernet, targeted to the Linux platform. This prototype will be validated in the OFELIA facility by assessing on how it addresses the limitations of TCP/

IP in a set of use cases around data-centre networking and net-work operators.

Key achievements/resultsAfter Year 1 IRATI has achieved the completion of Prototype 1, allowing the creation of simple DIFs over Ethernet, validated at the i2CAT and iMinds OFELIA islands. During Year 2 the proto-type will be enhanced in the areas of routing, data transfer and overall performance; targeting multi-island experiments of RINA over Ethernet but also over TCP and UDP.

Project factsCOORDINATOR : Sergi Figuerola, i2CAT

EXECUTION: From 2013-01-01 to 2014-12-31

PARTNERS: i2CAT (Spain) (Coordinator), NextWorks (Italy), iMinds (Belgium), In-teroute Communications (UK), Boston University (US).

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http://irati.eu/

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IRATI

OFERTIE addresses an emerging class of distributed applica-tions known as Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA). The project is using Software-Defined Networking (SDN) principles to introduce new mechanisms to manage the network allowing network traffic to be controlled and business conflicts to be resolved within and across multiple data centres and/or ISPs.

How does it work?OFERTIE will extend the SLA-based management and software APIs, integrating with the OpenFlow, the programmable net-working technology under-pinning the OFELIA experimental fa-cility (described on page 7). The enhanced SLA-based manage-ment system will be used to control the use of computational re-sources by application processes running on the OFELIA test-bed, and our new API will enable the OpenFlow to control the traffic flows across the network. The testbed will allow a variety of business models to be explored.

Key achievements/resultsOFERTIE has documented the business challenges and models for leveraging emerging SDN technology; the reports are avail-

able on the OFERTIE web at www.ofertie.eu. Movie 5.5 explains the benefits of SDN.

The technical achievements include additions to the open source network virtualisation platform OpenNaaS, and a new API for ROIA developers, which together can simplify the task to create applications for improved application performance, as demon-strated with Spinor’s Shark3D real-time, multi-user virtual world editor on the OFELIA testbed.

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Movie 5.5 Ofertie Project Presentation

Project factsC O O R D I N AT O R : Paul Walland, University of Southampton

EXECUTION : From 2012-10-01 to 2014-09-30

PARTNERS : Univer-s i ty o f Southampton (UK) (Coordinator), i2CAT (Spain), SPINOR (Germany), In-te route Communicat ions (United Kingdom ) ,Turk Telekomunikasuyon (Turkey), Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (Germany).

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OFERTIE

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions currently do not provide de-pendable performance. Embedded wireless sensors and actuators are deeply affected by their often hostile environment. Radio in-terference from other wireless equipment and electrical appli-ances impairs communication; temperature and humidity varia-tions affect battery capacity and electronics. RELYonIT closes this gap by providing a systematic framework and toolchain to enable dependable IoT applications by taking into account all relevant environmental properties and their impact on IoT plat-forms and protocols.

How does it work?Environment-aware IoT protocols will be developed and auto-matically configured to meet application-specific dependability requirements. Analyzing and modeling environmental properties and their impact on IoT platforms and protocols requires experi-mentation on a large number of different platforms under widely varying environmental conditions. RELYonIT will not only ex-ploit the scale and diversity of the existing IoT facilities WISE-BED and SmartSantander, but will extend them to allow repeti-tion of an experiment under identical environmental conditions to enable a systematic study of how IoT performance is affected by relevant parameters.

Key achievements/resultsIn the first year, two testbed extensions called TempLab (con-trolled temperature conditions) and JamLab (controlled interfer-ence patterns) have been developed and used to develop models of how the environment affects to the IoT platforms. Initial environment-aware routing and MAC protocols for the IoT us-ing these models have been devised and experimented with.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Kay Römer, TU Graz

E X E C U T I O N : From 2012-10-01 to 2015-01-31

PARTNERS: TU Graz (Austria) (Coordinator), Wor ldsens ing (Spa in ) , Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands), Acciona In-fraestructuras (Spain), SICS Swedish ICT (Sweden), Lancaster University (UK).

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http://www.relyonit.eu/

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RELYonIT

SOCIAL&SMART is a research project using the housekeeping scenario to experiment a pervasive Future Internet network pro-viding real services to a wide population by operating connected appliances. The goal is to set up a Social Network of Facts (SNoF) where members share knowledge in order to automati-cally generate smart instruction lists (recipes) electronically dis-patched from the cloud to household appliances.

How does it work?An SNoF member sends requests such as “I want to wash blue cotton trousers stained with grease”. The request is negotiated through a domestic middleware and processed by the SNoF through a set of computational intelligence tools. They consti-tute the Networked Intelligence of this ecosystem, which profits from a huge knowledge base consisting of appliance technical sheets, best practices and the entire log of previous transactions. The recipe evaluation by the task requesters is the main social capital of the SNoF feeding the learning algorithms to produce smart recipes.

Main achievements/resultsInterfacing boards and protocols to connect appliances to the Internet have been realized. The domestic middleware is in a

t r i a l s t a ge , SNoF i s under des ign . At : http://mockup.laren.di.unimi.it a person can remotely control and monitor the entire operational cycle of a washing machine. S/he can also follow an entire bread maker transaction and virtu-ally evaluate the executed recipe.

Project factsC O O R D I N AT O R : Bruno Apolloni, Univer-sita Degli Studi di Mi-lano (Italy)

EXECUTION: From 2012-11-01 to 2015-04-30

PARTNERS: Universita Degli Studi di Milano (Italy) (Coordi-nator), Amis Druzba za Telekomunikacije (Slovenia), Arduino SA (Switzerland), National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Fundacion Cartif (Spain), Gorenje Gospodinjski Aparati D.D. (Slovenia), Libelium Comunicaciones Distribuidas Sociedad (Spain), Universitad del Pais Vasco EHU UPV (Spain).

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STEER investigates the emerging community-centric, digitally- based ecosystem referred to as “Social Telemedia”, a cross- breed-ing of social networks and networked media. Social Telemedia is enabled through a new network middleware framework devel-oped within STEER that provides an operational environment customized to support various innovative experiments.

How does it work?STEER defines innovative uses cases that combine media distri-bution with social network information generated and ex-changed during various events among members of dynamically created communities. These use cases will be hosted by STEER experimental facilities comprised of smart houses and mobile de-vices and complemented by OpenLab and EXPERIMEDIA pro-ject facilities. This will eventually lead to the instantiation of a Social-Aware Media Enabled Cloud (STEER Architecture) of us-ers and component facilities that not only implements new re-search findings but will also support extensive experimentation in order to investigate the correlations between various kinds of information.

Main achievements/resultsThe main achievements are the STEER Architecture, and the definition of the two use cases: Storytelling and Augmented Live

Broadcast. These use cases enable users at an event to produce, share, and enjoy personal media experiences with other members of their community. The first experiment has already been car-ried out in the Schladming Ski area where the storytelling use case was validated by playing out a realistic scenario where a number of friends attended the popular Nightrace ski event and involved their friends at home, who could follow their story through the storytelling system.

Project factsC O O R D I N AT O R : Odysseas Koufopavlou, University of Patras

EXECUTION: From 2012-09-01 to 2014-11-30

PARTNERS: University of Patras (Greece)(Coordinator), ADB Broadband (Italy), University of Southampton, IT Innovation (UK), Bitnomica (The Netherlands), TNO (The Netherlands), Lancaster University (UK).

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The Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) project aims to transform the Future Internet Research and Experimen-tation (FIRE) testbed facilities into learning resources for higher education. Through FORGE, traditional online courses will be complemented with interactive laboratory courses. FORGE will also allow educators to efficiently create and use FIRE-based learning experiences through our tools and techniques. And, most importantly, FORGE will enable equal access to the latest ICT systems and tools, independently of location and at low cost.

How does it work?FORGE will be build upon current trends in online education and will use online educational platforms such as iTunes U, as well as in Massive Open Online Course platforms, where we see the large-scale take-up and use of rich media content. These in-clude video, webcasts, podcasts and eBooks, which can contain multimedia and interactive segments. FORGE will produce inter-active learning resources targeting a wide range of media and de-vices in order to maximize its impact on the eLearning commu-nity with remote laboratories and experiments.

Key Objectives• Study and develop new processes and approaches to online

learning based on the integration of FIRE facilities and eLearn-ing technologies;

• Inject into the higher education learning sphere the FIRE port-folio of facilities and tools;

• Introduce the learning community to Experimentally Driven Research; and

• Increase the overall accessibility and usability of FIRE facili-ties through the layering of how-to-use resources over the FIRE platforms.

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Figure 6.1 The FORGE course design framework.

Project factsC O O R D I N A T O R : John Domingue (The Open University)

EXECUTION : From 2013-10-01 to 2016-10-31

PARTNERS: The Open University (UK) (Coordi-nator), University of Patras (Greece), iMinds (Belgium), GRNET (Greece), University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris (France), Trin-ity College Dublin (Ireland), NICTA (Australia).

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IoT Lab is a European Research project which aims at re-searching the potential of crowdsourcing to extend Internet of Things (IoT) testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary ex-periments with more end-user interactions.

How does it work?The future of IoT research will require closer interactions between the researchers and the society in order to better address societal needs and challenges, including end-user acceptance. This will require new approaches for experimen-tation that will become more pervasive, leaking out from the labs into the real world. IoT Lab will serve this future by con-tributing to pave the way to new experimental approaches with innovative “privacy-friendly” crowd sourcing tech-nologies, multidisciplinary approaches and new research schemes, such as crowd-sourcing driven research.

Key Objectives1. Crowdsourcing mechanisms and tools enabling testbeds

to integrate and use third parties resources (e.g. mobile phones);

2. Virtualization of crowdsourcing and testbed components;

3. Ubiquitous Interconnection and Cloudification of the test-beds resources to provide an on-line platform of Testbed as a Service (TBaaS);

4. To research potential crowdsourcing participants interests, drivers and barriers to adoption;

5. “Crowdsourcing-driven research” as a new model: the research initiated, guided and assessed by the crowd;

6. Analyzing the potential Economic dimension of crowd-sourcing testbed: markets and business models; and

7. Performing multidisciplinary experiments including end-user driven experiments through crowdsourcing.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Mandat International, Sébastien ZieglerEXECUTION: From October 2013 to September 2016PARTNERS: Mandat International (CH) (Coordinator), University of Geneva (CH), Computer Technology Institute & Press Diophantus (GR), University of Surrey (UK), Technical University of Lulea (SW), Alexandra Institute (DK) (KR), University of Southampton (UK), DunavNET d.o.o. (RS).

The Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) project aims to transform the Future Internet Research and Experi-mentation (FIRE) testbed facilities into learning resources for higher education. Through FORGE, traditional online courses will be complemented with interactive laboratory courses. FORGE will also allow educators to efficiently create and use FIRE-based learning experiences through our tools and techniques. And, most importantly, FORGE will enable equal access to the latest ICT systems and tools, independently of location and at low cost.

How does it work?FORGE will be build upon current trends in online education and will use online educational platforms such as iTunes U, as well as in Massive Open Online Course platforms, where we see the large-scale take-up and use of rich media content. These include video, webcasts, podcasts and eBooks, which can contain multimedia and interactive segments. FORGE will produce interactive learning resources targeting a wide range of media and devices in order to maximize its impact on the eLearning community with remote laboratories and experiments.

Key Objectives• Study and develop new processes and approaches to

online learning based on the integration of FIRE facilities and eLearning technologies;

• Inject into the higher education learning sphere the FIRE portfolio of facilities and tools;

• Introduce the learning community to Experimentally Driven Research; and

• Increase the overall accessibility and usability of FIRE facilities through the layering of how-to-use resources over the FIRE platforms.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: John Domingue (The Open University)EXECUTION: From 2013-10-01 to 2016-10-31PARTNERS: The Open University (UK) (Coordinator), University of Patras (Greece), iMinds (Belgium), GRNET (Greece), University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris (France), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), NICTA (Australia).

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IoT Lab is a European Research project which aims at research-ing the potential of crowdsourcing to extend Internet of Things (IoT) testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments with more end-user interactions.

How does it work?The future of IoT research will require closer interactions be-tween the researchers and the society in order to better address societal needs and challenges, including end-user acceptance. This will require new approaches for experimentation that will become more pervasive, leaking out from the labs into the real world. IoT Lab will serve this future by contributing to pave the way to new experimental approaches with innovative “privacy-friendly” crowd sourcing technologies, multidisciplinary ap-proaches and new research schemes, such as crowd-sourcing driven research.

Key Objectives1. Crowdsourcing mechanisms and tools enabling testbeds to

integrate and use third parties resources (e.g. mobile phones);

2. Virtualization of crowdsourcing and testbed components;

3. Ubiquitous Interconnection and Cloudifica-tion of the test-beds resources to provide an on-line plat-form of Testbed as a Service (TBaaS);

4. To research potential crowdsourcing participants interests, drivers and barriers to adoption;

5. “Crowdsourcing -driven research” a s a new model :the research initiated, guided and assessed by the crowd;

6. Analyzing the potential Economic dimension of crowd- sourcing testbed: markets and business models; and

7. Performing multidisciplinary experiments including end-user driven experiments through crowdsourcing.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Man-dat International, Sébas-tien Ziegler

EXECUTION: From Oc-tober 2013 to September 2016

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IoT Lab is a European Research project which aims at re-searching the potential of crowdsourcing to extend Internet of Things (IoT) testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary ex-periments with more end-user interactions.

How does it work?The future of IoT research will require closer interactions between the researchers and the society in order to better address societal needs and challenges, including end-user acceptance. This will require new approaches for experimen-tation that will become more pervasive, leaking out from the labs into the real world. IoT Lab will serve this future by con-tributing to pave the way to new experimental approaches with innovative “privacy-friendly” crowd sourcing tech-nologies, multidisciplinary approaches and new research schemes, such as crowd-sourcing driven research.

Key Objectives1. Crowdsourcing mechanisms and tools enabling testbeds

to integrate and use third parties resources (e.g. mobile phones);

2. Virtualization of crowdsourcing and testbed components;

3. Ubiquitous Interconnection and Cloudification of the test-beds resources to provide an on-line platform of Testbed as a Service (TBaaS);

4. To research potential crowdsourcing participants interests, drivers and barriers to adoption;

5. “Crowdsourcing-driven research” as a new model: the research initiated, guided and assessed by the crowd;

6. Analyzing the potential Economic dimension of crowd-sourcing testbed: markets and business models; and

7. Performing multidisciplinary experiments including end-user driven experiments through crowdsourcing.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Mandat International, Sébastien ZieglerEXECUTION: From October 2013 to September 2016PARTNERS: Mandat International (CH) (Coordinator), University of Geneva (CH), Computer Technology Institute & Press Diophantus (GR), University of Surrey (UK), Technical University of Lulea (SW), Alexandra Institute (DK) (KR), University of Southampton (UK), DunavNET d.o.o. (RS).

The Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) project aims to transform the Future Internet Research and Experi-mentation (FIRE) testbed facilities into learning resources for higher education. Through FORGE, traditional online courses will be complemented with interactive laboratory courses. FORGE will also allow educators to efficiently create and use FIRE-based learning experiences through our tools and techniques. And, most importantly, FORGE will enable equal access to the latest ICT systems and tools, independently of location and at low cost.

How does it work?FORGE will be build upon current trends in online education and will use online educational platforms such as iTunes U, as well as in Massive Open Online Course platforms, where we see the large-scale take-up and use of rich media content. These include video, webcasts, podcasts and eBooks, which can contain multimedia and interactive segments. FORGE will produce interactive learning resources targeting a wide range of media and devices in order to maximize its impact on the eLearning community with remote laboratories and experiments.

Key Objectives• Study and develop new processes and approaches to

online learning based on the integration of FIRE facilities and eLearning technologies;

• Inject into the higher education learning sphere the FIRE portfolio of facilities and tools;

• Introduce the learning community to Experimentally Driven Research; and

• Increase the overall accessibility and usability of FIRE facilities through the layering of how-to-use resources over the FIRE platforms.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: John Domingue (The Open University)EXECUTION: From 2013-10-01 to 2016-10-31PARTNERS: The Open University (UK) (Coordinator), University of Patras (Greece), iMinds (Belgium), GRNET (Greece), University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris (France), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), NICTA (Australia).

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PARTNERS: Mandat International (CH) (Coordinator), Uni-versity of Geneva (CH), Computer Technology Institute & Press Diophantus (GR), University of Surrey (UK), Technical Univer-sity of Lulea (SW), Alexandra Institute (DK) (KR), University of Southampton (UK), DunavNET d.o.o. (RS).

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Testbed-oriented international cooperation on SDN research across continents can serve as a strong foundation for advanced, high-impact programmable network research work. Researchers can validate their novel network applications and solutions in world-class testbeds, capitalizing on resources from different ad-ministrative and geographically remote facilities. In this context, FELIX, the joint EU-Japan research project, addresses SDN test-bed federation between key research labs in the field.

How does it work?The primary objective of the FELIX project is to create a com-mon framework in which users can request, monitor and manage a slice provisioned over distributed and distant Future Internet experimental facilities in Europe and Japan. FELIX, a joint ef-fort of two independent but closely-cooperating consortia (FELIX-EU in Europe, FELIX-JP in Japan), builds strong founda-tions for a federation framework by further developing emerging technologies and SDN control frameworks (e.g. Open Grid Fo-rum’s NSI and OFELIA OCF) for the practical applicability in the project. The implemented use cases will promote unique ca-pabilities of the new federation framework.

Key achievements/resultsFELIX is currently defining a common framework for federated SDN Future Internet (FI) testbeds, which are dispersed across continents (Europe and Japan). This framework will enable its user to:

1. Dynamically request and obtain resources across different testbed infrastructures;

2. Manage and control the network paths which connect the federated SDN testbed infrastructures; and

3. Execute distributed applications on the federated infrastruc-ture.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Artur Binczewski, Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS

E X E C U T I O N : From 2013-04-01 to 2016-03-31

PARTNERS: Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS (Po-land) (Coordinator), Nextworks (Italy), Fundacio Privada I2CAT (Spain), SURFnet (Netherlands), European Center for Informa-tion and Communication Technologies (Germany), iMinds (Bel-gium). 57

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FIBRE is encouraging collaboration between Brazil and Europe in the area of Future Internet (FI) applied research through the establishment of an intercontinental large-scale federated testbed facility. The project brings together differ-ent technologies: OpenFlow, wireless and optical communi-cations. The facility will remain operational after the end of the project and will be open for experimenters.

How does it work?FIBRE builds a federation of IT and networking devices com-posed of independent resources located in 13 remote test-beds in Europe and Brazil. Resources are aggregated through a set of interfaces and data types that allow the interoperation of the slice-based network substrates. The physical devices deployed in FIBRE are virtualized in order to be shared be-tween different users/experiments. A dedicated “per-slice” SDN controller allows the experimenter to test and validate new network applications and routing strategies in an isolat-ed environment. The FIBRE federated architecture will allow users to access the testbed through an integrated interface for either experimental or control planes.

Key achievements/resultsA new facility of FI testbeds has been established in Brazil from scratch, while the testbeds of the European partners have been extended with state-of-the-art equipment (Open-Flow switches, optical and wireless extensions). The testbeds have been physically interconnected through GÉANT and transatlantic circuits, while functional federation has relied on tools widely adopted in the FIRE community. Three large scale pilot applications have been designed and developed as proof of concept use cases.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Sebastia Sallent, i2CAT foundationEXECUTION: From 2011-06-01 to 2014-07-31PARTNERS: i2CAT (Spain) (Coordinator), Nextworks (Italy), U. Bristol (UK), UPMC (France), UTH (Greece), NICTA (Australia), UFPA, CPqD, RNP, UFF, UFG, UFPE, UFRJ, UFSCar, UNIFACS and USP (Brazil).

Testbed-oriented international cooperation on SDN research across continents can serve as a strong foundation for ad-vanced, high-impact programmable network research work. Researchers can validate their novel network applications and solutions in world-class testbeds, capitalizing on resourc-es from different administrative and geographically remote facilities. In this context, FELIX, the joint EU-Japan research project, addresses SDN testbed federation between key re-search labs in the field.

How does it work?The primary objective of the FELIX project is to create a common framework in which users can request, monitor and manage a slice provisioned over distributed and distant Future Internet experimental facilities in Europe and Japan. FELIX, a joint effort of two independent but closely-cooperat-ing consortia (FELIX-EU in Europe, FELIX-JP in Japan), builds strong foundations for a federation framework by further developing emerging technologies and SDN control frame-works (e.g. Open Grid Forum’s NSI and OFELIA OCF) for the practical applicability in the project. The implemented use cases will promote unique capabilities of the new federation framework.

Key achievements/resultsFELIX is currently defining a common framework for feder-ated SDN Future Internet (FI) testbeds, which are dispersed across continents (Europe and Japan). This framework will enable its user to:

1. Dynamically request and obtain resources across different testbed infrastructures;

2. Manage and control the network paths which connect the federated SDN testbed infrastructures; and

3. Execute distributed applications on the federated infrastructure.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Artur Binczewski, Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSSEXECUTION: From 2013-04-01 to 2016-03-31PARTNERS: Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS (Poland)(Coordinator), Nextworks (Italy), Fundacio Privada I2CAT (Spain), SURFnet (Netherlands), European Center for Information and Communication Technologies (Germany), iMinds (Belgium).

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FIBRE is encouraging collaboration between Brazil and Europe in the area of Future Internet (FI) applied research through the establishment of an intercontinental large-scale federated test-bed facility. The project brings together different technologies: OpenFlow, wireless and optical communications. The facility will remain operational after the end of the project and will be open for experimenters.

How does it work?FIBRE builds a federation of IT and networking devices com-posed of independent resources located in 13 remote test-beds in Europe and Brazil. Resources are aggregated through a set of in-terfaces and data types that allow the interoperation of the slice-based network substrates. The physical devices deployed in FI-BRE are virtualized in order to be shared between different users/experiments. A dedicated “per-slice” SDN controller allows the experimenter to test and validate new network applications and routing strategies in an isolated environment. The FIBRE federated architecture will allow users to access the testbed through an integrated interface for either experimental or con-trol planes.

Key achievements/resultsA new facility of FI testbeds has been established in Brazil from scratch, while the testbeds of the European partners have been extended with state-of-the-art equipment (OpenFlow switches, optical and wireless extensions). The testbeds have been physi-cally interconnected through GÉANT and transatlantic circuits, while functional federation has relied on tools widely adopted in

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the FIRE community. Three large scale pilot applications have been designed and developed as proof of concept use cases.

Project factsC O O R D I NAT O R : Sebastia Sallent, i2CAT foundation

EXECUTION: From 2011-06-01 to 2014-07-31

PARTNERS: i2CAT (Spain) (Coordinator), Nextworks (Italy), U. Bristol (UK), UPMC (France), UTH (Greece), NICTA (Australia), UFPA, CPqD, RNP, UFF, UFG, UFPE, UFRJ, UFSCar, UNIFACS and USP (Brazil).

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FIBRE is encouraging collaboration between Brazil and Europe in the area of Future Internet (FI) applied research through the establishment of an intercontinental large-scale federated testbed facility. The project brings together differ-ent technologies: OpenFlow, wireless and optical communi-cations. The facility will remain operational after the end of the project and will be open for experimenters.

How does it work?FIBRE builds a federation of IT and networking devices com-posed of independent resources located in 13 remote test-beds in Europe and Brazil. Resources are aggregated through a set of interfaces and data types that allow the interoperation of the slice-based network substrates. The physical devices deployed in FIBRE are virtualized in order to be shared be-tween different users/experiments. A dedicated “per-slice” SDN controller allows the experimenter to test and validate new network applications and routing strategies in an isolat-ed environment. The FIBRE federated architecture will allow users to access the testbed through an integrated interface for either experimental or control planes.

Key achievements/resultsA new facility of FI testbeds has been established in Brazil from scratch, while the testbeds of the European partners have been extended with state-of-the-art equipment (Open-Flow switches, optical and wireless extensions). The testbeds have been physically interconnected through GÉANT and transatlantic circuits, while functional federation has relied on tools widely adopted in the FIRE community. Three large scale pilot applications have been designed and developed as proof of concept use cases.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Sebastia Sallent, i2CAT foundationEXECUTION: From 2011-06-01 to 2014-07-31PARTNERS: i2CAT (Spain) (Coordinator), Nextworks (Italy), U. Bristol (UK), UPMC (France), UTH (Greece), NICTA (Australia), UFPA, CPqD, RNP, UFF, UFG, UFPE, UFRJ, UFSCar, UNIFACS and USP (Brazil).

Testbed-oriented international cooperation on SDN research across continents can serve as a strong foundation for ad-vanced, high-impact programmable network research work. Researchers can validate their novel network applications and solutions in world-class testbeds, capitalizing on resourc-es from different administrative and geographically remote facilities. In this context, FELIX, the joint EU-Japan research project, addresses SDN testbed federation between key re-search labs in the field.

How does it work?The primary objective of the FELIX project is to create a common framework in which users can request, monitor and manage a slice provisioned over distributed and distant Future Internet experimental facilities in Europe and Japan. FELIX, a joint effort of two independent but closely-cooperat-ing consortia (FELIX-EU in Europe, FELIX-JP in Japan), builds strong foundations for a federation framework by further developing emerging technologies and SDN control frame-works (e.g. Open Grid Forum’s NSI and OFELIA OCF) for the practical applicability in the project. The implemented use cases will promote unique capabilities of the new federation framework.

Key achievements/resultsFELIX is currently defining a common framework for feder-ated SDN Future Internet (FI) testbeds, which are dispersed across continents (Europe and Japan). This framework will enable its user to:

1. Dynamically request and obtain resources across different testbed infrastructures;

2. Manage and control the network paths which connect the federated SDN testbed infrastructures; and

3. Execute distributed applications on the federated infrastructure.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Artur Binczewski, Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSSEXECUTION: From 2013-04-01 to 2016-03-31PARTNERS: Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS (Poland)(Coordinator), Nextworks (Italy), Fundacio Privada I2CAT (Spain), SURFnet (Netherlands), European Center for Information and Communication Technologies (Germany), iMinds (Belgium).

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Mobile Empowerment for the Socio-Economic Development in South Africa. Mobile empowerment based on mobile technolo-gies allows the development and implementation of new busi-ness models and new business opportunities targeting micro en-terprises and their customers in developing countries such as South Africa. The goal of MOSAIC 2B is to develop and test a new framework that uses cloud-based applications, innovative low-cost internet delivery mechanisms and affordable mobile technologies to unlock new mobile business opportunities, espe-cially in rural villages.

How does it work?MOSAIC 2B delivers a combination of mobile digital cinemas for edutainment, mobile business and consumer services as well as visual analytics and interactive tools to obtain real-time knowl-edge of on-going processes, to support decision making, and to increase business opportunities. Ultimately the business case of South African micro entrepreneurs delivering edutainment to ru-ral consumers serves as a showcase for broad based economic ac-tivities at the bottom of the economic pyramid in the developing world.

Key objectivesIn essence the MOSAIC 2B framework will provide technolo-gies to implement:

• Low-cost mechanisms to deliver multimedia content via mo-bile devices;

• Mechanisms to identify and protect the copyright of the multi-media content delivered;

• Mobile business ser vices to suit the needs of micro -entrepreneurs (e.g. Edutainment services to rural communi-ties);

• Multi-cultural mobile interfaces; and

• User-friendly visualization and analysis tools to integrate, correlate, fuse, analyze, process real-time data.

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Project factsC O O R D I N AT O R : Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker (GraphicsMedia.net)

EXECUTION: From 2013-10-01 to 2015-09-30

P A R T N E R S : GraphicsMedia.net GMBH (Germany) (Coordinator), The Walt Disney Company GmbH (Switzerland), Associação CCG/ZGDV - CENTRO DE COMPUTAÇÃO GRÁFICA (Portugal), EPI-USE Africa PTY LTD (South Africa), University of Pretoria (South Africa), INFUSION KNOWLEDGE HUB (PTY) LTD (South Africa).

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Incidents occurring during large-scale events and in industrial areas may have a huge impact on human lives, property, and the environment. Fast reaction is vital in order to minimise physical damages as well as damages to the public image of the involved organisations. The main challenge for a com-mand centre is to quickly obtain contextual information about the emergency situation. As mobile devices are widely used and connected to the Internet, RESCUER exploits crowd-sourcing information and mobile technologies to address this challenge.

How does it work?RESCUER will provide a smart and interoperable computer-based solution with the following components:

1. Mobile Crowdsourcing Solution: to support eyewit-nesses and first responders to provide information to the command centre;

2. Data Analysis Solutions: to integrate data from differ-ent operational forces as well as to combine, filter, and analyse crowdsourcing and open data information;

3. Emergency Response Toolkit: to provide relevant infor-mation in appropriate format and time to the command centre; and

4. Communication Infrastructure: to support the informa-tion flow between the crowd and the command centre.

Key objectives• Design of a user interface and interaction model that sup-

port safe and efficient provision of information;• (Semi-)Automatic fusion, aggregation and analysis of

multimedia data;• Optimised aggregation of intuitive metaphors for visuali-

sation and manipulation of information;• Customised communication of the incident and its con-

sequences targeted to the audience; and• Development of a peer-to-peer communication method

to support ad-hoc communication.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Karina Villela, Fraunhofer IESEEXECUTION: From 2013-10-01 to 2016-03-31PARTNERS: European Consortium: Fraunhofer IESE (Coordinator), DFKI and Vomatec (Germany); University of Madrid (Spain); FireServ (Austria);Brazilian Consortium: UFBA, USP, MTM, COFIC.

Mobile Empowerment for the Socio-Economic Development in South Africa. Mobile empowerment based on mobile technologies allows the development and implementation of new business models and new business opportunities tar-geting micro enterprises and their customers in developing countries such as South Africa. The goal of MOSAIC 2B is to develop and test a new framework that uses cloud-based ap-plications, innovative low-cost internet delivery mechanisms and affordable mobile technologies to unlock new mobile business opportunities, especially in rural villages.

How does it work?MOSAIC 2B delivers a combination of mobile digital cinemas for edutainment, mobile business and consumer services as well as visual analytics and interactive tools to obtain real-time knowledge of on-going processes, to support decision making, and to increase business opportunities. Ultimately the business case of South African micro entrepreneurs de-livering edutainment to rural consumers serves as a show-case for broad based economic activities at the bottom of the economic pyramid in the developing world.

Key objectivesIn essence the MOSAIC 2B framework will provide technolo-gies to implement:

• Low-cost mechanisms to deliver multimedia content via mobile devices;

• Mechanisms to identify and protect the copyright of the multimedia content delivered;

• Mobile business services to suit the needs of micro-entrepreneurs (e.g. Edutainment services to rural com-munities);

• Multi-cultural mobile interfaces; and • User-friendly visualization and analysis tools to integrate,

correlate, fuse, analyze, process real-time data.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker (GraphicsMedia.net)EXECUTION: From 2013-10-01 to 2015-09-30PARTNERS: GraphicsMedia.net GMBH (Germany) (Coordinator), The Walt Disney Company GmbH (Switzerland), Associação CCG/ZGDV - CENTRO DE COMPUTAÇÃO GRÁFICA (Portugal), EPI-USE Africa PTY LTD (South Africa), University of Pretoria (South Africa), INFUSION KNOWLEDGE HUB (PTY) LTD (South Africa).

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Incidents occurring during large-scale events and in industrial ar-eas may have a huge impact on human lives, property, and the en-vironment. Fast reaction is vital in order to minimise physical damages as well as damages to the public image of the involved organisations. The main challenge for a command centre is to quickly obtain contextual information about the emergency situa-tion. As mobile devices are widely used and connected to the Internet, RESCUER exploits crowd-sourcing information and mobile technologies to address this challenge.

How does it work?RESCUER will provide a smart and interoperable computer- based solution with the following components:

1. Mobile Crowdsourcing Solution: to support eyewitnesses and first responders to provide information to the command centre;

2. Data Analysis Solutions: to integrate data from different op-erational forces as well as to combine, filter, and analyse crowdsourcing and open data information;

3. Emergency Response Toolkit: to provide relevant informa-tion in appropriate format and time to the command centre; and

4. Communication Infrastructure: to support the information flow between the crowd and the command centre.

Key objectives• Design of a user interface and interaction model that support

safe and efficient provision of information;

• (Semi-)Automatic fusion, aggregation and analysis of multime-dia data;

• Optimised aggregation of intuitive metaphors for visualisation and manipulation of information;

• Customised communication of the incident and its conse-quences targeted to the audience; and

• Development of a peer-to-peer communication method to sup-port ad-hoc communication.

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EXECUTION: From 2013-10-01 to 2016-03-31

PA R T N E R S : Euro-pean Consortium: Fraun-hofer IESE (Coordinator), DFKI and Vomatec (Germany); Uni-versity of Madrid (Spain); FireServ (Austria); Brazilian Consor-tium: UFBA, USP, MTM, COFIC.

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Incidents occurring during large-scale events and in industrial areas may have a huge impact on human lives, property, and the environment. Fast reaction is vital in order to minimise physical damages as well as damages to the public image of the involved organisations. The main challenge for a com-mand centre is to quickly obtain contextual information about the emergency situation. As mobile devices are widely used and connected to the Internet, RESCUER exploits crowd-sourcing information and mobile technologies to address this challenge.

How does it work?RESCUER will provide a smart and interoperable computer-based solution with the following components:

1. Mobile Crowdsourcing Solution: to support eyewit-nesses and first responders to provide information to the command centre;

2. Data Analysis Solutions: to integrate data from differ-ent operational forces as well as to combine, filter, and analyse crowdsourcing and open data information;

3. Emergency Response Toolkit: to provide relevant infor-mation in appropriate format and time to the command centre; and

4. Communication Infrastructure: to support the informa-tion flow between the crowd and the command centre.

Key objectives• Design of a user interface and interaction model that sup-

port safe and efficient provision of information;• (Semi-)Automatic fusion, aggregation and analysis of

multimedia data;• Optimised aggregation of intuitive metaphors for visuali-

sation and manipulation of information;• Customised communication of the incident and its con-

sequences targeted to the audience; and• Development of a peer-to-peer communication method

to support ad-hoc communication.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Karina Villela, Fraunhofer IESEEXECUTION: From 2013-10-01 to 2016-03-31PARTNERS: European Consortium: Fraunhofer IESE (Coordinator), DFKI and Vomatec (Germany); University of Madrid (Spain); FireServ (Austria);Brazilian Consortium: UFBA, USP, MTM, COFIC.

Mobile Empowerment for the Socio-Economic Development in South Africa. Mobile empowerment based on mobile technologies allows the development and implementation of new business models and new business opportunities tar-geting micro enterprises and their customers in developing countries such as South Africa. The goal of MOSAIC 2B is to develop and test a new framework that uses cloud-based ap-plications, innovative low-cost internet delivery mechanisms and affordable mobile technologies to unlock new mobile business opportunities, especially in rural villages.

How does it work?MOSAIC 2B delivers a combination of mobile digital cinemas for edutainment, mobile business and consumer services as well as visual analytics and interactive tools to obtain real-time knowledge of on-going processes, to support decision making, and to increase business opportunities. Ultimately the business case of South African micro entrepreneurs de-livering edutainment to rural consumers serves as a show-case for broad based economic activities at the bottom of the economic pyramid in the developing world.

Key objectivesIn essence the MOSAIC 2B framework will provide technolo-gies to implement:

• Low-cost mechanisms to deliver multimedia content via mobile devices;

• Mechanisms to identify and protect the copyright of the multimedia content delivered;

• Mobile business services to suit the needs of micro-entrepreneurs (e.g. Edutainment services to rural com-munities);

• Multi-cultural mobile interfaces; and • User-friendly visualization and analysis tools to integrate,

correlate, fuse, analyze, process real-time data.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker (GraphicsMedia.net)EXECUTION: From 2013-10-01 to 2015-09-30PARTNERS: GraphicsMedia.net GMBH (Germany) (Coordinator), The Walt Disney Company GmbH (Switzerland), Associação CCG/ZGDV - CENTRO DE COMPUTAÇÃO GRÁFICA (Portugal), EPI-USE Africa PTY LTD (South Africa), University of Pretoria (South Africa), INFUSION KNOWLEDGE HUB (PTY) LTD (South Africa).

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The project aims to further develop Europe - South Korea co- operation on Future Internet experimental research. SMART- FIRE aims to design and to implement a shared large scale ex-perimental facility spanning different islands located in Europe and in South Korea, enabling distributed applications by incorpo-rating cutting edge SDN research in South Korea and wireless networking experimentations in Europe.

How does it work?Existing testbed infrastructures in Europe and South Korea, al-ready featuring WiFi nodes, wireless sensors and supporting Wi-Max, LTE and OpenFlow technologies, will be extended and fed-erated. These two directions will be supported by the leading ex-perimental frameworks adapted by most European testbeds, the cOntrol and Management Framework (OMF) and the Slice Fed-eration Architecture (SFA). The SDN features in the South Ko-rean testbeds will be integrated into OMF. Interconnection of the aforementioned islands will take advantage of the GÉANT network in Europe while the respective KOREN/KREONET will be used in South Korea. The GÉ-ANT and the KOREN/KREONET will be interconnected via theTEIN3/TEIN4) and via the GLORIAD.

Key objectives• European testbeds will benefit from the cutting edge SDN re-

search in South Korea;

• South Korean testbeds will be enhanced using EU heterogene-ous wireless access networks;

• The creation of a unified intercontinental testbed by using high-speed research networks (TEIN3/4, GLORIAD, GÉ-ANT).

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Le-andros Tassiulas

EXECUTION: From 2013-11-01 to 2015-10-30

PA R T N E R S : UTH (Greece) (Coordinator), UPMC (France), iMinds (Belgium), UMU (Spain), SIGMA ORIONIS (France), National ICT (Aus-tralia), GIST (South Korea), KISTI (South Korea), KAIST (South Korea), ETRI (South Korea), SNU (South Korea).

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A Reference Architecture for Greener and Smarter Cities

Smarter and greener cities are essential to address economic, social, and environmental challenges due to the increase in urbanization, requiring informed decisions based on Internet of Things generated data. A particular challenge is the un-stable power supply of cities in underdeveloped countries, thus requiring smart energy management. Future handling of grid overload in South Africa involves demand-response mechanisms, installing small devices at the end-user, com-municating over different network technologies to a central controller, allowing loads to be measured and limited if nec-essary. Further challenges are the deployment of affordable smart sensors as well as gathering information from nodes with limited power.

In scenarios from energy consumption to waste bin lev-els, data is either sent immediately over IP networks or col-lected in a delay tolerant mode by mobile devices of individu-als or crowds.

How does it work?TRESCIMO analyzes the above mentioned use cases in the Smart City context and develops a reference architec-ture which interweaves Smart City platforms and an ETSI/oneM2M compliant Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communi-cation framework. The architecture emphasizes secure iden-tification and authentication of sensors and users as well as policy-based store and forward functionality. The use cases and the architecture core developments are analyzed and validated in federated testbeds in Berlin and Cape Town and complemented with field studies/pilots in Gauteng and Spain.

Key objectives• Smart City platform architecture;• Interconnection and federation of testbeds Germany and

South Africa; and• Execution of pilots in Spain and Gauteng South Africa.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Anastasius Gavras, EurescomEXECUTION: From 2014-01-01 to 2015-12-31PARTNERS: Eurescom (Germany) (Coordinator), TU Berlin (Germany), Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany), i2CAT (Spain), ABS (Israel), UCT (South Africa), CSIR (South Africa), Eskom (South Africa).

The project aims to further develop Europe - South Korea co-operation on Future Internet experimental research. SMART-FIRE aims to design and to implement a shared large scale experimental facility spanning different islands located in Eu-rope and in South Korea, enabling distributed applications by incorporating cutting edge SDN research in South Korea and wireless networking experimentations in Europe.

How does it work?Existing testbed infrastructures in Europe and South Korea, already featuring WiFi nodes, wireless sensors and support-ing WiMax, LTE and OpenFlow technologies, will be extend-ed and federated. These two directions will be supported by the leading experimental frameworks adapted by most Eu-ropean testbeds, the cOntrol and Management Framework (OMF) and the Slice Federation Architecture (SFA). The SDN features in the South Korean testbeds will be integrated into OMF. Interconnection of the aforementioned islands will take advantage of the GÉANT network in Europe while the respec-tive KOREN/KREONET will be used in South Korea. The GÉ-ANT and the KOREN/KREONET will be interconnected via theTEIN3/TEIN4) and via the GLORIAD.

Key objectives• European testbeds will benefit from the cutting edge

SDN research in South Korea;• South Korean testbeds will be enhanced using EU

heterogeneous wireless access networks;• The creation of a unified intercontinental testbed by

using high-speed research networks (TEIN3/4, GLORIAD, GÉANT).

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Leandros TassiulasEXECUTION: From 2013-11-01 to 2015-10-30PARTNERS: UTH (Greece) (Coordinator), UPMC (France), iMinds (Belgium), UMU (Spain), SIGMA ORIONIS (France), National ICT (Australia), GIST (South Korea), KISTI (South Korea), KAIST (South Korea), ETRI (South Korea), SNU (South Korea).

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A Reference Architecture for Greener and Smarter Cit-ies: Smarter and greener cities are essential to address economic, social, and environmental challenges due to the increase in ur-banization, requiring informed decisions based on Internet of Things generated data. A particular challenge is the unstable power supply of cities in underdeveloped countries, thus requir-ing smart energy management. Future handling of grid overload in South Africa involves demand-response mechanisms, install-ing small devices at the end-user, communicating over different network technologies to a central controller, allowing loads to be measured and limited if necessary. Further challenges are the de-ployment of affordable smart sensors as well as gathering infor-mation from nodes with limited power.

In scenarios from energy consumption to waste bin levels, data is either sent immediately over IP networks or collected in a delay tolerant mode by mobile devices of individuals or crowds.

How does it work?TRESCIMO analyzes the above mentioned use cases in the Smart City context and develops a reference architecture which interweaves Smart City platforms and an ETSI/ oneM2M compli-ant Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication framework. The architecture emphasizes secure identification and authenti-

cation of sensors and users as well as policy-based store and for-ward functionality. The use cases and the architecture core devel-opments are analyzed and validated in federated testbeds in Ber-lin and Cape Town and complemented with field studies/pilots in Gauteng and Spain.

Key objectives• Smart City platform architecture;

• Interconnection and federation of testbeds Germany and South Africa; and

• Execution of pilots in Spain and Gauteng South Africa.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Anas-tasius Gavras, Eurescom

E X E C U T I O N : From 2014-01-01 to 2015-12-31

PARTNERS: Eurescom (Germany) (Coordinator), TU Berlin (Germany), Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany), i2CAT (Spain), ABS (Israel), UCT (South Af-rica), CSIR (South Africa), Eskom (South Africa).

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Smarter and greener cities are essential to address economic, social, and environmental challenges due to the increase in urbanization, requiring informed decisions based on Internet of Things generated data. A particular challenge is the un-stable power supply of cities in underdeveloped countries, thus requiring smart energy management. Future handling of grid overload in South Africa involves demand-response mechanisms, installing small devices at the end-user, com-municating over different network technologies to a central controller, allowing loads to be measured and limited if nec-essary. Further challenges are the deployment of affordable smart sensors as well as gathering information from nodes with limited power.

In scenarios from energy consumption to waste bin lev-els, data is either sent immediately over IP networks or col-lected in a delay tolerant mode by mobile devices of individu-als or crowds.

How does it work?TRESCIMO analyzes the above mentioned use cases in the Smart City context and develops a reference architec-ture which interweaves Smart City platforms and an ETSI/oneM2M compliant Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communi-cation framework. The architecture emphasizes secure iden-tification and authentication of sensors and users as well as policy-based store and forward functionality. The use cases and the architecture core developments are analyzed and validated in federated testbeds in Berlin and Cape Town and complemented with field studies/pilots in Gauteng and Spain.

Key objectives• Smart City platform architecture;• Interconnection and federation of testbeds Germany and

South Africa; and• Execution of pilots in Spain and Gauteng South Africa.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Anastasius Gavras, EurescomEXECUTION: From 2014-01-01 to 2015-12-31PARTNERS: Eurescom (Germany) (Coordinator), TU Berlin (Germany), Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany), i2CAT (Spain), ABS (Israel), UCT (South Africa), CSIR (South Africa), Eskom (South Africa).

The project aims to further develop Europe - South Korea co-operation on Future Internet experimental research. SMART-FIRE aims to design and to implement a shared large scale experimental facility spanning different islands located in Eu-rope and in South Korea, enabling distributed applications by incorporating cutting edge SDN research in South Korea and wireless networking experimentations in Europe.

How does it work?Existing testbed infrastructures in Europe and South Korea, already featuring WiFi nodes, wireless sensors and support-ing WiMax, LTE and OpenFlow technologies, will be extend-ed and federated. These two directions will be supported by the leading experimental frameworks adapted by most Eu-ropean testbeds, the cOntrol and Management Framework (OMF) and the Slice Federation Architecture (SFA). The SDN features in the South Korean testbeds will be integrated into OMF. Interconnection of the aforementioned islands will take advantage of the GÉANT network in Europe while the respec-tive KOREN/KREONET will be used in South Korea. The GÉ-ANT and the KOREN/KREONET will be interconnected via theTEIN3/TEIN4) and via the GLORIAD.

Key objectives• European testbeds will benefit from the cutting edge

SDN research in South Korea;• South Korean testbeds will be enhanced using EU

heterogeneous wireless access networks;• The creation of a unified intercontinental testbed by

using high-speed research networks (TEIN3/4, GLORIAD, GÉANT).

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Leandros TassiulasEXECUTION: From 2013-11-01 to 2015-10-30PARTNERS: UTH (Greece) (Coordinator), UPMC (France), iMinds (Belgium), UMU (Spain), SIGMA ORIONIS (France), National ICT (Australia), GIST (South Korea), KISTI (South Korea), KAIST (South Korea), ETRI (South Korea), SNU (South Korea).

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The ceFIMS-CONNECT Coordination Action project will ad-dress the need for closer integration and coordination of ICT re-search and innovation among Member States and between Mem-ber States and the EU.

ceFIMS-CONNECT will support the European Future Internet Forum (FIF) by providing a Secretariat and supporting the activi-ties of the FIF in the process of transition into Horizon 2020 and the new 5G PPP. It will support Member State and Associate State Future Internet initiatives and the National FI Chapters by facilitating the collection and sharing of information on Member State and Associate State FI initiatives, strategies and priorities by establishing mechanisms for exchange of experiences, best practices and for identifying common challenges and coopera-tion opportunities. It will also undertake targeted dissemination activities to Member States and Associated States in cooperation with other FIRE projects.

Key objectivesThrough its Secretariat to the EU FIF, ceFIMS-CONNECT will work closely with the European Commission and the FIF in the development of strategies for promoting greater alignment of Fu-ture Internet investment priorities at National and European lev-els.

The ceFIMS-CONNECT project will support the development of National FIF Chapters to ensure that national agencies involved in the funding of such facilities have greater visibility of activities in other EU countries and in the European framework to ensure more cost effect investments and sharing of information.

Project factsCOORDINATOR : James Clarke, Water-ford Institute of Tech-nology - Telecommuni-cations Software & Sys-tems Group (WIT-TSSG)

EXECUTION: From 2014-03-01 to 2016-08-31

PARTNERS: Waterford Institute of Technology - TSSG (Ire-land) (Coordinator), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Por-tugal), Asociación de Empresas de Electrónica, Tecnologías de la Información, Telecomunicaciones y Contenidos Digitales (Spain), Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Pan. Poznan - Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (Poland).

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The CI-FIRE Support Action (www.ci-fire.eu) focuses on ena-bling the sustainable use of FIRE facilities as part of a collective effort to help create a market for innovative Internet technolo-gies. To this end, CI-FIRE is working in synergy with peers ad-vancing Future Internet technologies and ICT test facilities, identifying mechanisms that help translate outstanding research results into innovative products and services. The synergy be-tween CI-FIRE, EIT ICT Labs and the FanTaastIC project pro-motes the value of supporting federated and sustainable Euro-pean test facilities based on new business approaches. Together, we a re in tegra t ing and promot ing a ne w p la t form, www.testbeds.eu. It is a mutually understood goal to share the same vision, strengthen collaboration and empower the commu-nity by ensuring the best development and use of facilities, be it for research, education or innovation purposes. CI-FIRE is ana-lysing the sustainability potential of European FIRE facilities, assessing different collaboration models for ICT test facilities and promoting benefits for companies of all sizes. CI-FIRE is also developing an innovation business framework, performing a feature mapping and benchmarking analysis of these facilities. Other key activities include conducting a technical and business gap analysis on the demand and supply side and creating a busi-ness planning tool to define relevant client groups, potential mar-kets, revenue models and operation plans.

Key objectivesCI-FIRE is working in synergy with FIRE and EIT ICT Labs, with the main goal of ensuring sustainability, promoting commu-nity empowerment and the best use of testbed facilities, be it for innovation, research or education, now and in the future.

Project factsC O O R D I N AT O R : Milon Gupta, Eurescom

EXECUTION: From 2013-10-01 to 2015-03-31

PA RT N E R S : Eures-com (Germany) (Coordi-nator), Martel (Switzerland), Technische Universität Berlin (Ger-many), Trust-IT Services Ltd (UK), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France).

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The EU-China FIRE project is an EU-funded FP7 project last-ing two years (2013-2015) with the aim of strengthening EU- China Cooperation on IPv6 and Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) activities.

China is a very large country pursuing its ICT infrastructure de-velopment, which could lead to pioneer the implementation of Future Internet advanced technologies, and promote large scale IPv6 deployment. Europe is investing substantially in FIRE and could thus benefit from exchange and experience from large-scale deployment requirements in China. The EU-China FIRE project will implement the recommendations of the EU-China Future Internet, IPv6 and IoT Expert Group, created in 2010 in the framework of EU-China Information Society Dialogue, and contribute to establish an efficient bridge between European and Chinese stakeholders to make the future Internet a truly global success.

The EU-China FIRE has developed a web-based cooperation platform, including an online community and support desk serv-ices, with advanced functionalities in terms of collaborative work-space, collective intelligence, and professional networking. Euro-pean and Chinese researchers are invited to join the platform to develop collaborative partnerships, to learn more and contribute to discussions on topics such as benefits and priorities of EU-

China cooperation on Future Internet, opportunities in 5G, Mo-bile Internet, Internet of Things, SDN/NFV, EU and Chinese experimental platforms and testbeds, as well as on IPv6 best practices and pilots.

Key objectives• Strengthening EU-China joint research efforts on the Future

Internet;

• Reinforcing academic and industrial cooperation on Future Internet; and

• Exchanging good practices for IPv6 deployment.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Mar-tin Potts, Martel Consult-ing

E X E C U T I O N : From 2013-08-01 to 2015-07-31

PARTNERS: MARTEL (Switzerland) (Coordinator), EGM (France), Sigma Orionis (France), UL (Luxembourg), BII (China), CATR (China), RUIJIE (China).

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The goal of the FUSION project is to bring SMEs that have needs in testing new applications together with the FIRE test-beds. The FIRE facilities will in turn benefit from the specific requirements expressed by those SMEs, thanks to FUSION. The FUSION pro ject pro v ides an exchange por ta l (www.sme4fire.eu) whereby SMEs through their clusters can pre-sent testing requirements and search for technical offers. FU-SION provides a series of engagement activities with clusters in-tegrating SMEs or ultimately with SMEs. These engagement ac-tivities include discussions of the testbeds capabilities, the SME testing requirements and application market opportunities, to enable collaboration and dissemination of information and to re-port on their findings. Finally, FUSION will present a roadmap and a series of recommendations for ongoing testing of applica-tions on the facilities. The clusters integrating SMEs with inade-quate or no testbeds facilities, will not need to spend money de-veloping their own. They can benefit from the expertise of peo-ple who have developed and worked on these world-class re-search facilities.

Key Achievements/resultsIn the f i r s t year, FUSION setup the exchange por ta l (www.sme4fire.eu), edited 3 newsletters with 305 subscribers, or-ganised 5 free webinars and many workshops over Europe. All de-

liverables can be downloaded on the website (roadmap, white pa-pers, etc.).

Project factsC O O R D I NAT O R : Jean-Charles Point, JCP Consult

EXECUTION: From 2013-01-01 to 2014-12-31

PA R T N E R S : JCP -Consult (France) (Coor-dinator), Martel (Switzerland), QuartzsPark (Ireland), RedZinc Services (Ireland).

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The objective of the AmpliFIRE Support Action is to prepare FIRE for the year 2020, in strengthening the exploitation and impact creation capacities of Future Internet Research and Ex-perimentation (FIRE) facilities. AmpliFIRE enhances the aware-ness of FIRE-enabled research and innovation opportunities in the business community, in societal domains and in the existing FIRE community.

AmpliFIRE develops a sustainable vision for 2020 of Future Internet research and experimentation including the role of FIRE facilities, and sets out a transition path from the current situation towards 2020. It conducts an assessment of today’s FIRE capabilities, identifying the gaps relative to the 2020 de-mands and identifying how capabilities must evolve. AmpliFIRE proposes the capabilities, collaboration models and service offer-ing portfolios so that by 2020, FIRE facilities would be the back-bone of European research and innovation ecosystems. Based on Key Performance Indicators, AmpliFIRE monitors the techni-cal, operational and organizational conditions necessary to real-ise benefits, impact and sustainability of the Europe-wide Future Internet experiment facility.

Key achievementsAmpliFIRE has already conducted a series of community build-ing and support activities aimed at articulating the needs and po-tential for Future Internet experimentation until 2020. The FIRE Forum was created to widen the FIRE community, and the FIRE Board for internal coordination. A FIRE Radar activ-ity was initiated, developing a vision and scenarios describing FIRE’s development potential, in discussion within FIRE’s com-munity. FIRE’s current and future testbed facilities and services were assessed in relation to experimenter demands. Based on FIRE’s positioning within the Future Internet landscape, Ampli-FIRE explored collaboration opportunities with related initia-tives. The FIRE information portal (www.ict-fire.eu) is a central place for all FIRE wide dissemination activities together with LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and SlideShare.

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Project factsCOORDINATOR : Hans Schaffers, Aalto University

EXECUTION: From 2013-01-01 to 2015-06-30

PARTNERS: Aalto University (Finland) (Coordinator), Martel (Switzerland), University of Southampton (UK), InterInnov (France), LTU (Sweden), iMinds (Belgium), Telefónica (Spain), Hebrew University (Israel).

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The objective of the AmpliFIRE Support Action is to prepare FIRE for the year 2020, in strengthening the exploitation and impact creation capacities of Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities. AmpliFIRE enhances the awareness of FIRE-enabled research and innovation opportu-nities in the business community, in societal domains and in the existing FIRE community.

AmpliFIRE develops a sustainable vision for 2020 of Fu-ture Internet research and experimentation including the role of FIRE facilities, and sets out a transition path from the cur-rent situation towards 2020. It conducts an assessment of today’s FIRE capabilities, identifying the gaps relative to the 2020 demands and identifying how capabilities must evolve. AmpliFIRE proposes the capabilities, collaboration models and service offering portfolios so that by 2020, FIRE facilities would be the backbone of European research and innovation ecosystems. Based on Key Performance Indicators, Ampli-FIRE monitors the technical, operational and organizational conditions necessary to realise benefits, impact and sustain-ability of the Europe-wide Future Internet experiment facility.

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FIRE information portal: http://www.ict-fire.eu

FIRE Wiki: http://bit.ly/17C4KCp

FIRE group @ LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/ypSQ8V

FIRE @ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FIREFP7

FIRE @ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/fire_fp7

FIRE @ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICT_FIRE, #ICT_FIRE, @ICT_FIRE

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activity was initiated, developing a vision and scenarios de-scribing FIRE’s development potential, in discussion within FIRE’s community. FIRE’s current and future testbed facili-ties and services were assessed in relation to experimenter demands. Based on FIRE’s positioning within the Future In-ternet landscape, AmpliFIRE explored collaboration oppor-tunities with related initiatives. The FIRE information portal (www.ict-fire.eu) is a central place for all FIRE wide dissemi-nation activities together with LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and SlideShare.

Project factsCOORDINATOR: Hans Schaffers, Aalto UniversityEXECUTION: From 2013-01-01 to 2015-06-30PARTNERS: Aalto University (Finland) (Coordinator), Martel (Switzerland), University of Southampton (UK), InterInnov (France), LTU (Sweden), iMinds (Belgium), Telefónica (Spain), Hebrew University (Israel).

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