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Networks are the neural system of our society as it exists today, we barely breathe without connectivity, unplug-ging would discontinue society and the individuals in it. The Internet keeps revolutionizing the world - the way we function, interact, behave and evolve. Equally, we revolutionize the Internet - the way it functions, interacts, behaves and evolves. Our needs, usage and visions shape it into the Network of the Future. The Internet is con-sequently a complex and evolving entity where any technological development, no matter how small, may have multifaceted 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 paperwork. Early and realistic experimenta-tion and testing in a large-scale environment is required, even though some of these ideas may only be imple-mented in the long-term.

What is FIRE?

The Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE - Initiative is addressing the need to experiment with networks, creating a multidisciplinary test environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly inno-vative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms. FIRE offers a discipline, 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 between them. FIRE is creating a dy-namic, sustainable, large-scale European Experimental Facility, which is constructed by gradually 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 experimentation infrastructures and tools with different technologies and characteristics. Various structures, tools and features are already available and trials are being performed. All of the facilities evolve in a demand-driven way, supported through Open Calls — for regular new Open Calls from the FIRE Facility projects and also for details of the new mechanism called “Open Access”. Open Access offers experimenters the opportunity to use the experimental facilities for free and to obtain support be-yond the originally planned lifetime of the respective project. BonFIRE (Clouds), OFELIA (OpenFlow) and CREW (Cognitive Radio) are three examples of FIRE facilities now offering Open Access; other individual testbeds con-tinue 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 today 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

Information about the activities of the European Commission on FIRE - Future Internet 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 Networking 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 ex-perimentation facility to support both medium- and long- term research on networks and services by gradually federating exist-ing and new testbeds for emergexist-ing future internet technologies. 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 (Panlab-PII, OneLab, WISEBED and Vital++) were categorised as “facil-ity projects” building experimental platforms for future inter-net researchers, whilst eight projects (ECODE, N4C, Nano Data Centers, OPNEX, PERIMETER, RESUMENET, SELFNET and SMARTNET) were research-focused and experimentally-driven (so-called “STREP”) projects. The FEDERICA project funded by the Research Infrastructure programme complimented the fa-cility projects of the ICT Call 2. Two Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) for the FIRE Initiative were FIREWorks and PARA-DISO.

FP7 ICT Call 5 brought in 5 new Integrated Projects (IPs): OFELIA, BonFIRE, SmartSantander, TEFIS and CREW) and 8 new STREPs (CONECT, SPITFIRE, SCAMPI, CONVERGENCE, 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) examine the socio-economic aspects of the Future Internet (PARADISO-2), (ii) liaise with the Living Lab community (FIREBALL) and (iii) liaise with the Future Internet activities in Brazil, Russia, India and China, and keep the community aware of important 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) extend-ed 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 validation

of a shared Future Internet research facility between Brazil 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, City-flow) and 2 CSAs (AmpliFIRE and FUSION). These started in the 2nd half of 2012, or at the beginning 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 (Rescuer) and Japan (FLEX-EU). TRESCIMO and MOSAIC 2B are joint projects with South Africa and SMARTFIRE is a joint project with South Korea. FIRE’s offering currently (March 2014) includes

seven facility projects:

CONFINE, CREW, EXPERIMEDIA, Fed4FIRE, FLEX, OpenLab and SUNRISE, which all contribute to the FIRE Facility by developing a large-scale testbed or federation of testbeds.

FIRE’s research projects:

EULER, FIBRE, RELYonIT, OFERTIE, STEER,

SOCIAL&SMART, 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:

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Previous FIRE projects have laid the foundations for FIRE’s port-folio/offering today and created a solid basis for the continuous development of the FIRE Facility and experimental research; 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 and the FIRE Integrated Projects (IP) evolution and their timing in Figure 2.

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BonFIRE’s features supporting cloud research and experimentation

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BonFIRE enables developers to research new, faster, cheaper, or more flexible ways of running applications with new busi-ness models. SMEs and researchers can test a range of cloud scenarios, such as cloud bursting and hybrid clouds, across BonFIRE’s five European sites. BonFIRE’s Open Access initia-tive gives users access to a multi-site cloud facility for applica-tions, 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 resources;

• 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 practices for experimentation. It has a federated multi-plat-form approach, providing interconnection and interopera-tion between novel service and networking testbeds. It offers advanced services and tools for services research including cloud federation, virtual machine management, service mod-elling, service lifecycle management, service level agree-ments, quality of service monitoring and analytics.

The BonFIRE project provides innovative methods for describing, deploying, managing, executing, measuring and removing experiments. These methods include uniform test description and deployment descriptors for all scenarios (including cross-cutting tests), federation of cloud resources in different administrative 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 virtual-ized resources and best-effort Internet interconnectivity; 2. Cloud with emulated network implications: a controlled

environment providing an experimental network emula-tion platform to service developers, where topology con-figuration and resource usage is under full control of the experimental researcher; and

3. Extended cloud with complex physical network impli-cations: investigation of federation mechanisms for an experimental cloud system that interconnects individual BonFIRE sites with other FIRE facilities.

Key achievements/results

BonFIRE 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 servic-es. Although EU investment finished at the end of 2013, the infrastructure will continue to operate as the BonFIRE Foun-dation.

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 project are full members of the Bon-FIRE Foundation; other partners will retain their links as as-sociates.

How to get involved?

All you need is an idea for testing and experimentation that exploits BonFIRE’s unique features. Join BonFIRE by submit-ting your experiment application at

http://www.bonfire-project.eu/access-now.

Project facts

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COORDINATOR: Josep Martrat, Atos

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

NOTE: Sustained through the BonFIRE Foundation

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PARTNERS: Atos (Spain) (Coordinator), The University of Edinburgh (UK), SAP AG (Germany), University of Stuttgart (Germany), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany), iMinds (Belgium), UCM (Spain), i2Cat (Spain), Hewlett-Packard (UK), 451 Research (UK), TU Berlin (Germany), University of 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 Manchester (UK), ICCS/NTUA (Greece), Televes (Spain), SZTAKI (Hungary), IN2 (UK), University of Patras (Greece).

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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/results

The 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

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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).

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The goal of the Fed4FIRE project (www.fed4fire.eu) is to fed-erate the different FIRE facilities using a common federation framework. The federation framework enables innovative ex-periments that break the boundaries of these domains. It allows experimenters to more easily find the right resources to trans-late their ideas into actual experiments, to easily gain access to different nodes on different testbeds, to use the same experi-menter tools across the different testbeds, etc. This means that the experimenters can focus more on their research tasks than on the practical aspects of experimentation. The benefits of federation for the infrastructure providers are e.g. the reuse of common tools developed within the federation, reach of larger community of experimenters through the federation, etc.

As depicted in the figure, there are currently 17 testbeds in-volved 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 experimenta-tion by SMEs. The submission deadline for that call is April 2nd 2014.

How does it work?

The Fed4FIRE federation architecture is characterized by a preference for distributed components. This way, the federa-tion would not be compromised if, in the short or long term, individual testbeds or partners would discontinue their sup-port of the federation. The general policy is that experimenter tools should always be able to directly interact with the differ-ent 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 provi-sion them. Experiment control tools (which ease the execution of complex experiment scenarios) and experiment monitoring frameworks are other example cases where the experimenter tool will directly interact 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 testing and integration activities that are needed when federat-ing 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 provi-sioning, the adoption of the Slice-Based Federation Architec-ture (SFA) is a key element in Fed4FIRE. Therefore, the first focal point of jFed is the support of manual and automatic nightly testing of the entire SFA API. This testing functionality is en-tirely developed in Java, allowing greater flexibility in develop-ment of both the test suite and future Java SFA client tools. For the manual testing of the SFA interface of any given testbed, both a command line and a graphical user interface are pro-vided. The automatic (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 Fed-erated Resource Control Protocol (FRCP) is an example of such an interface.

Key achievements/results

Merely 16 months after the start of the project, Fed4FIRE has deployed the first version of its federation framework, allow-ing experimenters to get involved with all affiliated testbeds in an easy manner. At the same time, it has selected 8 Open Call experiments from a total of 55 received proposals, and is actively supporting them in the design, setup and execu-tion of their specific experiments.

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 fund-ing, then just mail us at [email protected]. Experiment-ers interested in our facilities can participate in this same Open Call, or can compete in the new SME-specific Calls (first launched in February 2014). Open Access Calls will also be launched in a later stage, the concrete timing for this remains to be defined. It is advised to regularly check the project’s website www.fed4fire.eu for updates on all these different Open Calls.

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Project facts

COORDINATOR: Piet Demeester, iMinds

PARTNERS: 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 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/results

The 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.

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.

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COORDINATOR: Leandro Navarro, UPC

PARTNERS: 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.

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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 testbdistribut-eds are fdistribut-ederatdistribut-ed, and improvdistribut-ed 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.

CREW

Key achievements/results

CREW 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.

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.

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COORDINATOR: Ingrid Moerman, iMinds

PARTNERS: 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 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.

EXPERIMEDIA 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.

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 [email protected].

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COORDINATOR: Michael Boniface, University of Southampton IT Innovation

PARTNERS: 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).

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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 applicaselec-tions 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 improvdraw-ing 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.

To express your interest to use the facility, please send an email to [email protected].

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COORDINATOR:Serge Fdida, UPMC

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 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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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 experimentaEvolu-tion 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 objectives

The 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.

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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 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.

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COORDINATOR: Prof. Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly

PARTNERS: 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).

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FACILITY PROJECTS — CALL 10

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’.

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SUNRISE 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.

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COORDINATOR: Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome “La Sapienza”

PARTNERS: 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).

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CLOMMUNITY addresses the obstacles for communities in bootstrapping, running and expanding community-owned networks that provide community services organised as com munity clouds. On the infrastructure layer, this con-cerns the management of a large num ber of distributed, low-cost, unreliable computing resources and dynamic net-work conditions. On the platform and application layer, the community cloud should operate elastic, resilient and scala-ble 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 service prototypes in a cyclic participatory process of design, development, experimentation, evaluation and optimiza-tion, 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 network, without needing to consume them from the Internet, which could ultimately lead to cloud ecosystems in communities.

• Development of the Guifi-Community-Distro,

which contains common services and applications; and • Deployment of the community cloud in the Guifi

community network.

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COORDINATOR: Felix Freitag, UPC

PARTNERS: UPC (Spain) (Coordinator), KTH (Sweden), UNESCO (France), Guifi.Net (Spain), SICS (Sweden).

The EULER (Experimental UpdateLess Evolutive Routing) project designs and experimentally evaluates novel dynamic Internet-wide routing models and algorithms by taking into account its possible evolution and enhancements. These novel routing schemes aim to address the functional and performance limits of current Internet-wide routing in terms of i) cost of topology and policy dynamics, ii) computational complexity (both in time and space) and iii) memory com-plexity (both in time and space).

How does it work?

The project iteratively designs specialized routing models and algorithms for Internet-wide routing, experimentally evalu-ates their functionality and performance, and compares them to existing routing protocols, namely the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

EULER has produced a novel geometric information routing scheme, unifying information and traffic routing, positioned as a paradigmatic alternative to overlay/CDN and NDN/CCN approaches. The proposed routing scheme exploits the geo-metric 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 derived without requiring knowledge of non-local information.

EULER has also designed and developed a novel dy-namic multicast routing scheme (referred to as GCMR for Greedy Compact Multicast Routing) designed to perform in-dependently of the underlying unicast routing protocol. This multicast routing scheme positions itself thus as an alterna-tive to the PIM/mBGP routing scheme currently deployed in the context of IPTV 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.

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COORDINATOR: Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Antwerpen (Belgium)

PARTNERS: Alcatel-Lucent Bell Antwerpen (Belgium) (Coordinator), INRIA (France), iMinds (Belgium), Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (France), Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), University of Patras (Greece), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain).

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3D-LIVE develops and experiments a User Driven Mixed Reality and Immersive (Twilight) platform connected to EXPERIMEDIA facilities in order to investigate the Future In-ternet (FI) broadband capacity to support real-time immer-sive situations, and to evaluate both the Quality of Experi-ence (QoE) and Quality of Service. The combination of FIRE testbeds and Living Labs enables both researchers and us-ers to explore 3D/Media technologies and IoT in real and vir-tual environments and in live situations. Combining both FI technology and Tele-Immersion market pull establishes new requirements for Internet technology and infrastructure, and advances the creation and adoption of innovative FI Immer-sive 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 Schladming. Of particular interest is the EXPERIMEDIA ad-vancement in new methods and algorithms for content pro-cessing targeting the efficient delivery of augmented reality to mobile devices and 3D processing for on the fly recon-struction of live events in indoor geolocalised spaces.

The Project has developed a model and a methodology suit-able for involving users in the design loop of Future Internet applications 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 geographically to practice their favourite sport as if they were together.

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COORDINATOR: Marco Conte, Collaborative Engineering

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

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 technol-ogy such as optical network elements, legacy layer2 switches, network processors and programmable hardware (FPGA), thereby building strong foundations for Software Defined Net-works (SDN).

How does it work?

The ALIEN project aims to provide an experimentally verified OpenFlow Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for describing net-work device capabilities and controlling their forwarding behav-iour by a set of unified interfaces for different types of network 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 communi-cation mechanisms and 2) Hardware Speciffic Layer, composed as a set of hardware drivers, realizing atomic network instruc-tions for various network platforms/devices.

The project has delivered a definition and the detailed speci-fication of the HAL architecture that makes the implementa-tion of OpenFlow on any non-OpenFlow equipment easier by providing a software framework for the development of hard-ware drivers for various “alien” network elements.

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COORDINATOR: Artur Binczewski, Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS

PARTNERS: Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS (Poland) (Coordinator), University College London (UK), University 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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Audio sensors are cheap and often easy to deploy. With the growing power of processing and networking capabilities it is possible to exploit audio data for a broad range of applica-tions. There is great potential for RTD on intelligent (acoustic) solutions based on acoustical sensor networks to support a myriad set of applications 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 sup-porting advanced research in intelligent acoustics solutions. This enables “Ears on FIRE”, Experimenting Acoustics in Real environments using Innovative Testbeds (EAR-IT) realising distributed intelligence powered by acoustics. To explore, validate and confirm the RTD possibilities of using audio data, EAR-IT uses testbed capabilities of the HobNet project for in-door 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 delivers innovative services and applications targeting (but not limited) to smart-buildings and smart-cities.

The Acoustic Processing Unit (APU) within EAR-IT has been developed. The APU comes with increased processing pow-er 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 Smart-Santander (Spain) with successful experiments on Events detection and Traffic monitoring us-ing sounds. APUs were also deployed in Smart Buildus-ing at Mandat (Geneva).

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COORDINATOR: Pedro Maló, UNINOVA

PARTNERS: UNINOVA (Portugal) (Coordinator),

Fraunhofer-IDMT (Germany), Easy Global Market (France), MANDAT International (Switzerland), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), LTU (Sweden), Wuxi Smart Sensing Stars (China).

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

inno-vative approach to cloud computing service delivery by ad-dressing 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 appli-cation deployment;

• Develop evaluation mechanisms and optimization algorithms to assess different parameter configurations and their influ-ence in energy-efficient cloud sourcing and application-de-ployment 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

consump-tion 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 ef-ficiency and environmental impact; and

• application deployment optimization tools based on

fore-casts on energy consumption and CO₂ emissions.

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COORDINATOR: Julia Wells, Atos

PARTNERS: 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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EVARILOS addresses major problems of indoor localization research: The pitfall to reproduce research results in real life scenarios suffering from uncontrolled RF interference, and the weakness of numerous published solutions being evaluated under individual, not comparable and not repeatable condi-tions. Accurate 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 di-verse physical indoor environments under realistic RF interfer-ence 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, ener-gy, and, most importantly, RF interference robustness metrics. Next, the project improves the interference robustness of locali-zation 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 out-come, the EVARILOS benchmarking suite will be implemented in CREW and TWIST facilities and be publically available under open source licenses.

The main result of the first project year is the EVARILOS Benchmarking Handbook and the announcement of the EVARILOS Open Challenge for the best localization solution to promote the EVARILOS benchmarking methodology.

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COORDINATOR: Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin

PARTNERS: TU Berlin (Germany) (Coordinator), Televic Healthcare (Belgium), SICS (Sweden), Advantic Sistemas y Servicios (Spain), iMinds (Belgium).

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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, form-ing a model that comprises a sform-ingle repeatform-ing layer, the DIF (Distributed IPC Facility), which is the minimal set of compo-nents required to allow distributed IPC between application processes. RINA supports inherently, and without the need of extra mechanisms, mobility, multi-homing and Quality of Service, provides a secure and configurable environment, motivates for a more competitive marketplace and allows for a seamless adoption. IRATI’s goal is to achieve further explo-ration of this new architecture. IRATI will advance the state of the art of RINA towards an architecture 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 implement 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 limita-tions of TCP/IP in a set of use cases around data-centre net-working and network operators.

After Year 1 IRATI has achieved the completion of Prototype 1, allowing the creation of simple DIFs over Ethernet, vali-dated at the i2CAT and iMinds OFELIA islands. During Year 2 the prototype will be enhanced in the areas of routing, data transfer and overall performance; targeting multi-island ex-periments of RINA over Ethernet but also over TCP and UDP.

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COORDINATOR: Sergi Figuerola, i2CAT

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

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OFERTIE addresses an emerging class of distributed appli-cations known as Real-Time Online Interactive Appliappli-cations (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 soft-ware APIs, integrating with the OpenFlow, the program-mable networking technology under-pinning the OFELIA experimental facility (described on page 7). The enhanced SLA-based management system will be used to control the use of computational resources by application processes run-ning on the OFELIA testbed, 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.

OFERTIE has documented the business challenges and mod-els for leveraging emerging SDN technology; the reports are available on the OFERTIE web at www.ofertie.eu. The video, available at http://vimeo.com/78808742, explains the ben-efits 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 demonstrated with Spinor’s Shark3D real-time, multi-user virtual world editor on the OFELIA testbed.

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COORDINATOR: Paul Walland, University of Southampton

PARTNERS: University of Southampton (UK) (Coordinator), i2CAT (Spain), SPINOR (Germany), Interoute

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Turk Telekomunikasuyon (Turkey), Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (Germany).

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Internet of Things (IoT) solutions currently do not provide dependable performance. Embedded wireless sensors and actuators are deeply affected by their often hostile environ-ment. Radio interference from other wireless equipment and electrical appliances impairs communication; temperature and humidity variations affect battery capacity and electron-ics. RELYonIT closes this gap by providing a systematic frame-work and toolchain to enable dependable IoT applications by taking into account all relevant environmental properties and their impact on IoT platforms and protocols.

How does it work?

Environment-aware IoT protocols will be developed and au-tomatically configured to meet application-specific depend-ability requirements. Analyzing and modeling environmental properties and their impact on IoT platforms and protocols requires experimentation on a large number of different plat-forms under widely varying environmental conditions. RELY-onIT will not only exploit the scale and diversity of the existing IoT facilities WISEBED and SmartSantander, but will extend them to allow repetition of an experiment under identical en-vironmental conditions to enable a systematic study of how IoT performance is affected by relevant parameters.

In the first year, two testbed extensions called TempLab (con-trolled temperature conditions) and JamLab (con(con-trolled inter-ference 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 using these models have been devised and experimented with.

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COORDINATOR: Kay Römer, TU Graz

PARTNERS: TU Graz (Austria) (Coordinator), Worldsensing (Spain), Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands), Acciona Infraestructuras (Spain), SICS Swedish ICT (Sweden), Lancaster University (UK).

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SOCIAL&SMART is a research project using the housekeep-ing scenario to experiment a pervasive Future Internet net-work providing real services to a wide population by oper-ating connected appliances. The goal is to set up a Social Network of Facts (SNoF) where members share knowledge in order to automatically generate smart instruction lists (reci-pes) electronically dispatched 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 ne-gotiated through a domestic middleware and processed by the SNoF through a set of computational intelligence tools. They constitute the Networked Intelligence of this ecosystem, which profits from a huge knowledge base consisting of ap-pliance technical sheets, best practices and the entire log of previous transactions. The recipe evaluation by the task re-questers is the main social capital of the SNoF feeding the learning algorithms to produce smart recipes.

Main achievements/results

Interfacing boards and protocols to connect appliances to the Internet have been realized. The domestic mid-dleware is in a trial stage, SNoF is under design. At: http://mockup.laren.di.unimi.it a person can remotely con-trol and monitor the entire operational cycle of a washing ma-chine. S/he can also follow an entire bread maker transaction and virtually evaluate the executed recipe.

Project facts

COORDINATOR: Bruno Apolloni, Universita Degli Studi di Milano (Italy)

PARTNERS: Universita Degli Studi di Milano (Italy) (Coordinator), 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-breeding of social networks and networked media. Social Telemedia is enabled through a new network middleware framework developed within STEER that provides an opera-tional environment customized to support various innovative experiments.

How does it work?

STEER defines innovative uses cases that combine media distribution with social network information generated and exchanged during various events among members of dy-namically created communities. These use cases will be hosted by STEER experimental facilities comprised of smart houses and mobile devices and complemented by OpenLab and EXPERIMEDIA project facilities. This will eventually lead to the instantiation of a Social-Aware Media Enabled Cloud (STEER Architecture) of users and component facilities that not only implements new research findings but will also sup-port extensive experimentation in order to investigate the correlations between various kinds of information.

Main achievements/results

The 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 carried out in the Schladming Ski