Final Publishable Summary Report

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Final Publishable Summary

Final publishable summary report

Grant Agreement number: 258142

Project acronym: TEFIS

Project title: TESTBED FOR FUTURE Funding Scheme: IP

Period covered: from: 1

Name of the the project's co-ordinator, Title and Organisation: Services SAS))

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E-mail: : [email protected]

Project website address: http://www.tefisproject.eu/

Final Publishable Summary R

TEFIS

Final publishable summary report

258142

UTURE INTERNET SERVICES

from: 1st June 2010 to: 28th February

ordinator, Title and Organisation: joseph LATANICKI

[email protected]

http://www.tefisproject.eu/

Report

28th February 2013

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1 - Executive summary

The TEFIS project main objective is to offer a single access point to different testing and experimental facilities for communities of software and business developers to test, experiment, and collaboratively elaborate knowledge.

In this document we shall describe:

• The TEFIS project context and objectives • The main scientific and technological results

o The architecture

o The portal

o The experiment manager

o The identity manager

o The connector framework

o The data services

o The monitoring services

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2 - Summary description of project context and objectives

The TEFIS platform will support research on future large-scale and resource demanding Internet service technologies by offering a single access point to different testing and experimental facilities for communities of software and business developers to test, experiment, and collaboratively elaborate knowledge.

2.1 - Scientific and technological objectives

In order to accomplish the TEFIS vision, the project researched and developed solutions for exploiting the full potential of testbeds. In particular, the project pursued the following objectives:

2.1.1 - Supporting experimentations on Network and services convergence with an unseen emphasis on the involvement of user communities

Over the years, the Internet architecture has defined a permeable and persistent separation between networking and distributed systems research. While networking research has always tried to enhance communication capabilities, distributed systems research has focused on a variety of distributed applications. Considering recent societal and IT evolutions, these two domains are strongly required to embraces together the challenges of the future Internet knowing that:

• Users are located all over the world and more and more mobile.

• Most of the future Internet applications and services will be deployed at large-scale

• Users are very demanding in terms of networking resources (e.g., bandwidth, latency) but often do not want to explicitly manage them.

• Users generate an ever increasing amount of content which tends to be more and more dynamic in its natures (see Twitter, Facebook)

TEFIS bridges the gaps between the software and service industry (i.e., NESSI community), the FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) research community and Living Labs.

The close collaboration with Living Labs in TEFIS is a powerful instrument for effectively involving the user at all stages of the research, development and innovation process, thereby contributing to European competitiveness and growth.

2.1.2 - Engineering a platform addressing full-development cycles of future internet services and applications

TEFIS supports the users throughout the whole experiment lifecycle by providing testing tools covering most of the software development-cycle activities such as software build and packaging, compliance tests, system integration, SLA dimensioning, large-scale deployment, and user evaluation of run-time services. The platform provides the necessary services that allow the management of underlying testbeds resources. In particular, it handles generic resource management, resource access scheduling, software deployment, matching and identification of resources that can be activated, and measurement services for a variety of testbeds.

The TEFIS platform serves as a bidirectional link between the evolution of Future Internet technologies and the ever changing demand of the end-users communities.

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2.1.3 - Defining an Open framework for provisioning of testbeds as a service

The TEFIS platform is based on an open platform able to integrate existing and next generation of testing and experimental facilities. The project contributes to standardise the way network and service facilities may be accessed. TEFIS establishes a connector model that enables facilities to be accessed and used in a unified manner using Web services. We refer to this new paradigm as the TaaS (Testbed-as-a-Service) paradigm. TEFIS integrates the following facilities coming from both future internet and services research communities, namely FIRE, Living Labs and NESSI.

Experimental facitilites

Short description Benefits Components offered

PACA grid Addresses parallel,

distributed, and multi-threaded computing and cloud applications.

A computing infrastructure for largescale computations A number of tools to automatically deploy and execute the distributed application, monitor the progress of computation and retrieve the computation results

Computation resources

- Each node of the infrastructure is equipped with a

dual-processor quadcore AMD Opteron 2356 processing unit, or a quad-processor hexa-core Intel Xeon E4750 for a total of 688 cores.

- A Windows CCS cluster of 8 computing nodes is also available and each node has a dual-processor quad core Intel Xeon E5320, for a total of 64 cores.

- Several software packages are available on the machines and any library and software that may be required can be installed on the nodes on demand.

ETICS Automatic build, test and

quality certification for any distributed software exploiting distributed resources

Using ETICS throughout the development process lifecycle improves the quality of the software, and reduces the time spent on build,

integration and test activities offering the possibility to achieve shorter time-to-market, a lower risk to delivery schedules and reduce project costs

A pool of around 50

computational nodes supporting all major platforms: RedHat, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows Server.

SQS-IMS Validation and Testing of

Converged Next Generation

Services.Emulated and Real IMS networks supporting OMA, SIP, PGM, 3GPP, TISPAN, SS7 and IM standards.

TheSQS testbed offers both the emulated IMS platform, and connection to real environments to allow tasks to be run and tested. The SQS testbed also provides end-to end

validation and testing services for the Telecommunications Sector,

- IMS Core,

- IMS Roaming broker, - Monitoring testing tools, - Human team for IMS validation

BOTNIA The Botnia Living Lab

focuses on the support of human-centric innovation on advanced ICT Services

Added value for Facility users offered by Botnia Living Lab - To speed up the innovation process from idea to market

>5000 end-users

The Form-IT methodology for user-involvement

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for “Extended Capabilities and Mobility”.

launch by end user involvement

- To co-create, tap into and improve innovative ideas and concepts

• To investigate and create new business opportunities

Kyatera Resources to develop

science, technologies, and applications of the future Internet remotely

collaborating via a high capacity optical network in São Paulo State (Brazil).

KyaTera can be seen as two different services: As a high speed network, or as a network measurement tool. The KyaTera network performance meter will be created to measure the quality of the network, targeting the problem of transmitting multimedia with a predetermined

quality of service, i.e., with a pre-determined pattern, measuring the parameters needed in the network so that the desired quality is achieved

The Kyatera fiber-optic network

PlanetLab The facility is a powerful

infrastructure for the testing and evaluation of network protocols and distributed systems on a large scale under real conditions.

The facility is a powerful infrastructure for the testing and evaluation of network protocols and distributed systems on a large scale under real conditions.

PlanetLab currently consists of 1018 nodes at 487 sites across the globe. A number of monitoring capabilities: PSNC Hybrid Cluster and 16K Visualization Tiled Display - Pending testbed Poznań Supernetworking and Computing Center’s Hybrid Cluster is a big GPU cluster remotely available via QosCosGrid (QCG) middleware and managed locally by SLURM queuing system.

This facility mainly targets scientific communities that need to analysis and visualize large data volumes as well as speed-up their scientific computation.

Advanced visualization, including not only static images or offline generated movies, but also involving human-computer interactions and steering will allow experimenters for much better analysis and enhanced

understanding of their scientific problems.

A 16 Tiled Visualization Wall for experimenters to investigate and evaluate new ways of visualizing scientific data in wide-area distributed

environments with the use of high resolution displays.

2.1.4 - Providing a single access point to experimental testbeds and research facilities TEFIS offers a portal as a single access point to specify the experiments to carry out delivering a managed execution of distributed experiment remotely on heterogeneous testbeds.

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This portal provides not only a service to exploit the existing technologies and assists the users to choose the most appropriate experimental facilities but also the service intelligence that will permit to personalise the tools and testing methodologies to the task in hand. The TEFIS portal allows researchers to work together, by sharing experiences and expertise both in terms of experimental approaches and lessons learnt. TEFIS offers knowledge management capabilities in order to elaborate knowledge on user behaviours, requirements and expectations. The knowledge can then be shared among communities of service and business developers as well as facility providers. TEFIS adopts social networking functionalities for this purpose.

2.1.5 - Enlarging the initial user base and functionalities by reserving resources for an open call and to support new experiment requirements.

TEFIS has executed an open call to engage 5 new experimentations designed to deploy and test pilot applications through the TEFIS platform across various testbeds. Proposals have been selected by an Evaluation Committee composed of external experts.

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3 - Description of main S&T results

TEFIS, a Testbed for Future Internet Services

supported during all phases of experiment design and execution on federated test resources.

the TEFIS infrastructure from experimenter (top) out to the federated testbeds (bottom). The platform itself is made up of five basic components:

TEFIS core services supporting overall operation and control,

connector interface to communicate with the federated testbeds.

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The TEFIS portal is the main access point for the user to create an account (the

Interface), to search for resource (the

experiment (the TEFIS Experiment component within the TEFIS middleware

Manager, respectively). In addition, the

search any existing experiments to locate those with similar goals or set

well as to interact with monitoring data and experimental results once the experiment or an individual run completes.

The Core Services manages the whole platform and the execution of the experimenter’s test runs. The

Experiment and Workflow Scheduler

execution to the appropriate test resource. The initiate them. The Supervision Manager

TEFIS environment itself as well as communicating with the testbeds to retrieve monitoring output from them.

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vision. It is the Connector Interface

Description of main S&T results

Testbed for Future Internet Services, provides a single access point to be guided through and

supported during all phases of experiment design and execution on federated test resources.

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supporting overall operation and control, (iv) the Experiment data manager to communicate with the federated testbeds.

Figure 1: TEFIS functional architecture

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The Data Services supports the other TEFIS components as well as experimenters and testbed providers with all of the data needs associated with an experiment. The TEFIS data filesystem holds all data and information necessary for the satisfactory execution of an experimental testrun, as well as providing storage for output data from each workflow step. Through the experimental metadata we have defined, experiments can be tracked and browsed in support of experimenters within the community wanting to find or review related work.

3.1 - The portal

The TEFIS Portal offers both experimenters as well as domain owners a graphical interface to the capabilities of the TEFIS platform. Apart from providing administrative functions like user management, it also allows domain owners to specify information about their domains and the resources they support. It has a view of the experimenter's data, the running experiments, the available platform capabilities (list of sites), etc. In the future it will furthermore integrate the frontends of the TEFIS Experiment Manager and the TEFIS Data Manager as well as specific user interfaces that certain domains might offer.

3.2 - The experiment manager

The Experiment Manager will provide to TEFIS users the ability to define, configure and execute experiments, and also receive the experiment ending warnings. It will make use of the Teagle directory services to list available test types, domains, and resources, and allow configuration of resources and plan for experiment execution. All necessary data will be stored on the Experiments Data Manager during the whole life-cycle. Communication with TEFIS core services will be also established in order to make it possible to specify the jobs to be executed and launch the test runs. All those communications will be based on REST Services, using HTTP methods.

Experiment Manager is divided into 5 blocks: • Experiment Designer

• Intelligent Planner

• Experimental Workflow Manager • Configuration Assistant manager • and Interface to TEFIS blocks

The basic experiment design service will offer to the user a simple and user-friendly free-text search to obtain some default services suggested by the Experiment Designer. These services will be loaded from Experiments Data Manager. After the search, the Experiment Manager will propose a set of past or template experiments, along with their description and related information. The selection of one of them will imply the creation of a new experiment, based on it, and will give the user the chance of modifying this new experiment, or create a new testrun derived from it.

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3.3 - The identity manager

To access the TEFIS platform the user, i.e. the experimenter or the testbed provider, has to get the access credentials. The user gets these credentials registering himself at the TEFIS portal. With the access credentials the user is authorized to access TEFIS and, indeed, he is allowed to define experiment or to plug testbeds into TEFIS platform.

The identity management component has features that address the following issues:

• To create the account for the user on the TEFIS platform to let the him access TEFIS facilities; • To register, authenticate and authorize the TEFIS user, transparently, on the TEFIS internal

components, even if the TEFIS user needs separate credentials for each different component;

• To allow the TEFIS user to authenticate on the testbed registered at the TEFIS platform, seamlessly, even if those testbeds use different authentication mechanisms.

Lastly, the identity management component grants the protection of the identity of the user on the TEFIS platform.

3.4 - The connectors framework

TEFIS defines a connector model that allows any testing facility to connect to the TEFIS platform and be accessed and used in a unified manner by TEFIS users. In particular the model was conceived so that also non-physical entities, such as the Botnia LivingLab [BOTNIA], could be seamlessly integrated within the same framework. In that sense, the Living Lab represent a neglected dimension of the experimentation; on the contrary, the possibility to include an organised and structured team of experts within an experiment process may allow more realistic results. Moreover the possibility to interact with the experts as any other resources in the platform increase the possibility to support any experiment, especially those related to crowd-sourcing and social networking. Hence, the connector model has been proven to be general enough to be further adopted to access any testing facility.

Benefits of this model are multiple for users: a) users can define experiments targeting different testing facilities using an unique integrated GUI, b) multiple testing facilities can be involved in the same experiment, c) experiments execution is managed by TEFIS platform that takes care of orchestrating executions on different testing facilities, d) all data collected during execution of experiments can be accessed and analysed directly in the TEFIS platform. Also from the testing facilities' owners' point of view there exist multiple benefits: i) larger number of potential users, ii) standard, controlled and secured access to the testing facility mediated by the TEFIS platform, iii) lower expertise needed to users to use the testing facility since tests are defined using the TEFIS modelling tools and templates and/or existing experiments can be used as baseline for the new ones. The core part of the TEFIS' connector model is an Application Programming Interface (API) called TEFIS Connector Interface (TCI) to be implemented by specific modules called connectors. Connectors are specific for each testing facility and map the TCI to testing facility's domain operations. TCI operations have been designed to be generic enough to adapt to all testing facilities and to cover all aspects of testing work-flow. Macro-areas covered by TCI are: i) resource management: testing facility's resources can be reserved or created (if the testing facility allows dynamic creation) for an experiment. They can be configured directly from the TEFIS platform and, eventually, released or destroyed at the end of the experiment. ii) Execution management: execution unit in TEFIS is the task. A task is executed on one testing facility and a TEFIS experiment is made by one or more tasks. If the testing facility offers an adequate level of automation, TCI defines a set of operations to start and monitor the execution of tasks directly through the TEFIS platform's GUI. iii) TCI includes also data management's operations that allow access (both for reading and writing) to a common shared data space created in the TEFIS platform specifically for a specific execution of an experiment. Different tasks (being executed on different testing facilities) can download

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and/or upload data enabling, in such a way, a basic, cross-testing facility communication mechanism between different tasks of an experiment.

3.5 - The data services

The TEFIS Data Services are a central, and one of the most significant components in the TEFIS platform. They are responsible for maintaining data for the TEFIS experimenters, data associated with and generated by the experiments they run, and data from other experimenters that they may wish to consult when planning their own work. The TEFIS Data Services are also responsible for providing the data handling for all of the TEFIS internal components, for them to be able to store the data they need to be able to process user experiments, and for them to be able to act on the requests of the TEFIS experimenters. Finally, the TEFIS Data Services are responsible to the TEFIS testbed providers, in allowing them access to the data they need to satisfy requests to execute experiments, as well as providing them a location to store output data from the tests they run. In short, the TEFIS Data Services are significant for all of the TEFIS stakeholders in support of the smooth operation of the platform and of the experimenters who use it.

3.6 - The monitoring services

The monitoring service supports the three main TEFIS stakeholders: the experimenter, the TEFIS platform operator, and the testbed provider. The monitoring service allows KPIs to be specified and customised for the different stakeholder types, configuration of KPIs to be measured, control of the monitoring process, access to the KPIs collected during execution and creation of summary monitoring data and reports, when available from the heterogeneous testbeds integrated with TEFIS. Additional monitoring services are provided to enhance usability and user experience, enhance support for testbeds integrated with the TEFIS platform

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Potential impact, dissemination and exploitation of results

As for TEFIS key-drivers have been to address the surge in complexity that services and network developers are facing and to bridge the gaps between the software and service industry, the Future Internet Research community and the more user-oriented Living Labs. For these three main target groups TEFIS offers a platform to support Future Internet research and to foster the innovation capacity in Europe and worldwide. By TEFIS, communities of software and business developers, can test, experiment, and collaboratively elaborate knowledge by easy access to different testing and experimental facilities. The TEFIS platform serves as a bidirectional link between the evolution of Future Internet technologies and the ever changing demand of the end-users communities. During the project six different testing facilities coming from both future Internet research and the service research communities including Living Labs have been integrated and accessible via TEFIS for a wide diversity of experiments in several domains:

- Mobile multimedia - E-Learning

- E-Heath

- Network performance measurements - Tourism

By these real experiments the TEFIS platform have been validated at the same time as they have influenced the TEFIS evolution.

Who are then the users that can benefit from TEFIS?

Researchers are a specific group of users identified as beneficiaries of the TEFIS platform. The researchers are both benefiting from the access to the experimental facilities as well as through the research output obtained through the TEFIS-project. “Research and academic entities will have access to an advanced testing environment. It will contribute to increase skills acquisition in the academic and educational field. The research community will benefit from test results, which can be calculated in a relatively short time and on such a large scale only by relying on a powerful platform and facilities provided by TEFIS.”

Further, and more specifically “Researchers will have the opportunity to test the performance of various algorithms in terms of data analysis efficiency on different data size scales. Moreover, the rapid rates of location-associated content generation impose significant research challenges for the efficient data storage.” The PhD students at the university are also seen as beneficiaries since the experiments using TEFIS can serve as learning and teaching examples.

From industry the particular group where TEFIS has an impact is the ICT enterprises. A specific segment of them are SME´s that normally don´t have their own testing infrastructure. Another impact for them is in the perspectives of knowledge transfer. By TEFIS “the knowledge and the technological achievements gathered from the experiments will be transferred to small and medium enterprises by means of technological transfer and tutoring activities. Further TEFIS is also an environment with an impact to support innovation take-up as an experimental platform with real users and applications served as “a showcase for companies to go to market program.”

Other TEFIs beneficiaries’ are policy makers, Firstly they can use TEFIS to explore the Future internet and by this develop strategies, further their benefit as well as the entire society is benefitting from the social and economic development outlined through the collaboration with TEFIS.

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Finally TEFIS is also having an impact of standardisation bodies as the results from the actual experiments can give “the assistance in the definition of new strategies to lead the development of new guidelines across service context based on experimental results obtained.” The European Commission is also a key beneficiary mentioned among the open call applicants.

3.7 - TEFIS impact

Different types of benefits or values have been identified in connection to the different groups of beneficiaries and their specific context. During the project the most relevant have been the testbed providers and experimenters.

For the testbed-providers the TEFIS impact from TEFIS is related to their sustainability by the means of:

• Higher flexibility in their service-offerings by combining individual services with others

• Support for visibility and market attraction of the testbed facility

For the second group – the experimenters, the impact from TEFIS is mainly regarding cost of service and applications development by access to leading edge testing-facilities. But for them the impact is also on service-improvement and access to expertise to strengthen their individual capacity.

Below follows some short details from the actual impact achieved by TEFIS usage for the TEFIS experimenters:

TEFIS supported an experiment on a new technology for advanced remote teaching

The TEFPOL solution is an advanced platform for remote teaching under development by researchersat Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in Poland. To further improve the solutionresearchers in Poznań accessed resources provided by three different testbeds including end-users inSweden. A biology lesson was held to validate the TEFPOL solution with real teachers and students.

Here is a video about the TEFPOL experiment>

To run this advanced experiment wouldn´t have been possible without TEFIS and their connected testbeds. Now we can move forward to the next step of the development considering user feedback on quality of service and usefulness and make important future decisions for technical improvements ,Tomasz Kuczyński at Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center(PSNC)

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TEFIS helped to improve a Smart Ski application

The TEFIS Smart Ski Resort experiment involved the use of 3 of the TEFIS testbeds in order to improve the mobile ski application deployed in Megève ski resort.

Experts from Botnia Living Lab taught Living Lab methodology to the tourism board. The University of Geneva coordinated the trials of collaborative wi-fi sharing, initially simulated, between skiers on the ski slopes. The SME, which provides the mobile ski application, involved PlanetLab and IMS experts from the TEFIS portal in order to improve the performance of the mobile ski application. More than 3000 tourists answered the online and on-site surveys!

TEFIS used for unique personalized mobile on-demand applications.

The QUEENS experiment exploited TEFIS towards establishing, assessing, and prototyping a novel framework for user-controlled quality in on-demand multimedia applications. By using the application a user can choose his/her preferred video-quality when watching a mobile video depending on available bandwidth, individual user-preferences etc.

TEFIS made it possible for us to try and elaborate a new service available on the market for the near future. Panagiotis Vlahopoulos, Product Manager at VELTI.

The design, experimentation and validation process of complex research activities becomes easy with TEFIS. Giorgos Aristomenopoulos, Researcher at ICCS

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TEFIS helped to handle Internet traffic-jam

OPENER is a new network management framework under development to bring network administrators and application developer higher control over the resources by offering a programming interface. When traffic load in a network is high enough to exceed the pre-configured maximum threshold, the monitoring system raises an alarm in the network management service to trigger the bypass setup.

This Internet scenario can be transferred into a traffic-management system; when there is a lot-of traffic-jam,traffic is re-routed on other roads.

This experiment was using two different TEFIS connected testbeds: Planetlab and KYATERA testbed in Brazil.

“TEFIS helped us to easily access remotely testbeds as well as to configure and re-run our experiment in an easy way”. Marcel Garcia one of the experimenters at the Advanced Network Architectures Lab at UPC in Spain.

When looking into these excellent examples of TEFIS usage the future socio-economic impact of TEFIS is obvious TEFIS gives easy access to fore-front Future Internet testing infrastructures that will lead to faster service development, digital services with better usefulness as well as increased Future Internet knowledge among a wider community including researcher, industry and society by their involvement in Future Internet experimentation.

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3.8 - Dissemination of results

The main target audiences for TEFIS dissemination have been to reach the testbed Future Internet experimenters. Already in month 1

for the project, was launched and it has been continuously updated (www.tefisproject.eu). A critical success factor for dissemination was the TEFIS Open call for new experiments that opened in March 2011. For this we produced specific dissemination material including hand

testbed facilities and the call itself. The Open call was also disseminated in public newspapers and in Internet channels.

List of advertisement of TEFIS Open call National:

• The Guardian (UK) – issued on April 2 2011 • El Mundo (Spain) – issued on April 4 2011 • Computer Sweden (Sweden)

International:

• Computerweekly – issued on April 4 2011 • IEEE Communication newsletter

• Nessi Newsletter – issued on April X 2011 And

• Google ads campaign

• Future Internet portal

The call resulted in 22 proposals including different Future Internet experiments spanning from early phases of a new service into market validation, and with needs for test

technical assessment as well as end

Dissemination of results

The main target audiences for TEFIS dissemination have been to reach the testbed

Future Internet experimenters. Already in month 1 the TEFIS webpage, including the visual identity for the project, was launched and it has been continuously updated (www.tefisproject.eu). A critical success factor for dissemination was the TEFIS Open call for new experiments that opened in

r this we produced specific dissemination material including hand

testbed facilities and the call itself. The Open call was also disseminated in public newspapers and

List of advertisement of TEFIS Open call:

issued on April 2 2011 issued on April 4 2011

Computer Sweden (Sweden) – issued on April 5 2011

issued on April 4 2011

IEEE Communication newsletter – issued on April 4 2011 issued on April X 2011

The call resulted in 22 proposals including different Future Internet experiments spanning from early phases of a new service into market validation, and with needs for test

technical assessment as well as end-user verification.

The main target audiences for TEFIS dissemination have been to reach the testbed-providers and the TEFIS webpage, including the visual identity for the project, was launched and it has been continuously updated (www.tefisproject.eu). A critical success factor for dissemination was the TEFIS Open call for new experiments that opened in r this we produced specific dissemination material including hand-outs about TEFIS testbed facilities and the call itself. The Open call was also disseminated in public newspapers and

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TEFIS has also been represented in several events with presentations and by demonstrations to share the ongoing work and to create an interest of our vision and results. Events have been mainly organised by the scientific community as well as by the European commission:

List of dissemination events Year 2010-2011

o ICT2010 Sept 2010

o Open call information event Brussels in March 2011 o EU-Canada workshop in Waterloo March 2011. o FIA event in Budapest in May 2011

o Smart Cities and FIRE: Experimentation and Living Labs for the Future Internet workshop May 2011

o ICE 2011 Munich, Germany, June 2011 Year 2012-2013

o MyFIRE workshop in Sao Paolo in Brazil

o Future Internet Assembly/Servicewave conference in Poznan, Poland October 2012 o ACM Augumented Human International Conference in Megeve, France, February 2012 o Future Internet Assembly in Aalborg, Denmark, May 2012

o TridentCom2012 in Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2012 o ISPIM 2012 in Barcelona, Spain, June 2012

o QA&TEST conference in Bilbao, Spain Oct 2012

o EBN Tools-exchange Forum in London, UK October 2012. o eChallenges 2012 in Lisboa, Portugal Oct 2012

o Creative Media Days82012 (FIRE Engineering Workshop and at the event Living Labs for Innovation in eCulture) in Ghent, Nov 2012

o FIA Dublin, Ireland May 2013 Dissemination material

For dissemination purpose different materials have been produced including a promotion video about “Why TEFIS?” http://vimeo.com/55102856

Other dissemination material have been brochures, hand-outs, posters, videos etc

Testbed-descriptions: http://www.tefisproject.eu/facilities/experimental-facilities Posters: http://www.tefisproject.eu/tefis-posters Hand-outs: http://www.tefisproject.eu/tefis-hand-outs Videos: http://www.tefisproject.eu/videos-to-know-more-about-tefis

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Academic publications

Schaffers.H, Sällström.A, Pallot, M, Hernández-Muñoz. J, Santoro. R and Trousse. B. (2011) Integrating Living Labs with Future Internet Experimental Platforms for Co-creating Services within Smart Cities, ICE 2011, Aachen, Germany. >>

Leguay, J., Sällström, A., Pickering, B. & Benbadis, F. (2011), Travel eCommerce experiment: Through TEFIS, a single access point to different testbed Towards a Service-Based Interne resources. Abramowicz, W. (red.). Berlin : Springer s. 334–336. 3 s. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 6994).

C. Ballester Lafuente ; J.-M. Seigneur, (2012) Crowd augmented wireless access in the ACM proceedings of the 3rd Augmented Human International Conference, Megève, France.

G. Aristomenopoulos ; A. Kaninis ; P. Vlahopoulos ; Annika Sällström ; F. Benbadis ; S. Papavassiliou, (2012) The QUEENS experiment through TEFIS platform demonstration at the TridentCom 2012 Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.

J. Johansson, M. Malmström (2012) To exchange or not to Exchange Information:Inter-organizational R&D collaboration, ISPIM 2012, Barcelona,Spain.

Blazewicz, M. , Grzelachowski, G. , Kuczynski, T. , Kurowski, K. , Mazurek, C. , Pawalowsk, P. , Pieklik, W. , Stroinski, M. , Szymaniak, P. , Śniegowski, P. , Zieliński, S. &Sällström, A.(2012) Augmented reality videoconferencing as a new approach to remote teaching: eChallenges e-2012 Conference proceedings. Cunningham, M. & Cunningham, P. (red.). IIMC International Information Management Corporation M. Błażewicz, G. Grzelachowski, T. Kuczyński, K. Kurowski, C. Mazurek, P. Pawałowski, W. Pieklik, M. Stroiński, P. Szymaniak, P. Śniegowski, S.Zieliński (2012) “Projekt TEFPOL: integracja wideokonferencji, rozszerzonej rzeczywistości i śledzenia ruchów w scenariuszu testowym dla platformy TEFIS”, Przegląd Telekomunikacyjny rocznik LXXXV i Wiadomości Telekomunikacyjne rocznik LXXXI nr 8-9/2012, pp. 1222-1233, ISSN: 1230-2496

G.Aristomenopoulos, S. Papavassiliou, G. Katsaros and P. Vlahopoulos, (2013) “User-centric Mobile Multimedia Service Delivery: From Theory to Experimentation to Prototyping”, IEEE INFOCOM 2013 (demo session), Turin, Italy. [Accepted – to be published]

J. Johansson, M. Malmström (2013) The Business Model Transparency Paradox in Innovative Growth Ventures: Trade-offs between Competitive Advantages and Agency Costs.Entrepreneurship Research Journal [Accepted – to be published]

M. Caria, A. Jukan,(2013) A Novel Approach to Accurately Compute an IP Traffic Matrix Using Optical Bypass, accepted for ManFI 2013, Ghent, Belgium, May 2013 [Accepted – to be published]

3.9 - Exploitation

To continue the TEFIS collaboration and exploitation TEFIS partner have established a TEFIS partners network.

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List of partners in the TEFIS partner network (April 27 2013)

The main intention of the cooperation is to:

- Exploit TEFIS results

- Further develop the concept of testbed as a service

- _{Interact with other initiatives (within and outside FIRE) for long‐term synergies and}

strategic development

Parties joining the TEFIS partner network have agreed on principles of openess and trust for inter-organizational R&D. Other conditions for the network are stated in a Letter of intent. The network will act as the TEFIS operator when the project is over and be the actor to attract new users. SQS will be the hosting organisation of the TEFIS platform when the project has ended. For further exploitation and a wider usage among new experimenters as well as to host more testing facilities will need additional investments to move from the current functional technical implementation into a production grade.

Regarding testbeds connected via TEFIS there has been two additional testbeds connected (and this was exceeding the expectations in terms of usage and adoption from what was the mission fo the project) . By this exploitation result the number of testbeds available via TEFIS today is eight - covering a wide range of testing services.

Another exploitation result from TEFIS is the toolkit for testbed management that consist of all components that has been used for the TEFIS technical platform implementation. They are now available for a wider usage, and most of them are in open-source. Individual partners have committed to re-use and improve selected components as part of their exploitation plans and further usage is also forseen in ongoing and upcoming FIRE projects.

For the future exploitation activities for TEFIS they include market outreach to a wider group of experimenters, TEFIS to be used in new FP7 projects as well as further exploitation by and among TEFIS partner-network actors.

“Within the next five years, TEFIS will be a central player in the development of an European testbed service ecosystem by becoming internationally known for the testing services offerings and

the extraordinary values created and maintained through the outstanding service offerings attracting a large number of new collaborating partners providing and using the TEFIS service

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Final Publishable Summary Report

Final Publishable Summary

Final publishable summary report

Final Publishable Summary R

TEFIS

Final publishable summary report

Report

Table of contents

1 - Executive summary

2 - Summary description of project context and objectives

2.1 - Scientific and technological objectives

3 - Description of main S&T results

Description of main S&T results

3.1 - The portal

3.2 - The experiment manager

3.3 - The identity manager

3.4 - The connectors framework

3.5 - The data services

3.6 - The monitoring services

Potential impact, dissemination and exploitation of results

3.7 - TEFIS impact

3.8 - Dissemination of results

Dissemination of results

3.9 - Exploitation

4 - Project public website