Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 Projects

ECODE

• Title: Experimental COgnitive Distributed Engine

• Type: COOPERATION (ICT)

• Defi: New paradigms and experimental facilities

• Instrument: Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP)

• Duration: September 2008 - August 2011

• Coordinator: Alcatel Lucent (Belgium)

• Others partners: UCL (Belgium), ULg (Belgium), IBBT (Belgium), ULANC (UK), CNRS (France).

• See also: http://www.ecode-project.eu/

• Abstract: The goal of the ECODE project is to develop, implement, and validate experimentally a cognitive routing system that can meet the challenges experienced by the Internet in terms of manageability and security, availability and accountability, as well as routing system scalability and quality. By combining both networking and machine learning research fields, the resulting cognitive routing system fundamentally revisits the capabilities of the Internet networking layer so as to address these challenges altogether. For this purpose, the project investigates and elaborates novel semi-supervised, on line, and distributed machine learning techniques kernel of the cognitive routing system. During the building phase, the cognitive routing system is both designed and prototyped. In the second phase, three sets of use cases are experimented to evaluate the benefits of the developed machine learning techniques. The experimentation and the validation of these techniques are carried out on physical (iLAB) and virtual (e.g.,OneLab) experimental facilities.

NOVI

• Title: Networking innovations Over Virtualized Infrastructures

• Type: COOPERATION (ICT)

• Defi: CAPACITIES programme.

• Instrument: Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP)

• Duration: September 2010 - February 2013

• Coordinator: NTUA (Greece)

• Others partners: 13 european partners including GARR, ELTE, Cisco, etc.

• See also: http://www.fp7-novi.eu/

• Abstract: NOVI (Networking innovations Over Virtualized Infrastructures) research concentrates on efficient approaches to compose virtualized e-Infrastructures towards a holistic Future Internet (FI) cloud service. Resources belonging to various levels, i.e. networking, storage and processing are in principle managed by separate yet interworking providers. NOVI will concentrate on methods, information systems and algorithms that will enable users with composite isolated slices, baskets of resources and services provided by federated infrastructures.

OPENLAB

• Title: OpenLab: extending FIRE testbeds and tools

• Type: COOPERATION (ICT)

• Defi: ICT 2011.1.6 Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE)

• Instrument: Integrated Project (IP)

• Duration: September 2011 - January 2014

• Coordinator: Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France)

• Others partners: 18 European partners (including ETH Zurich, Fraunhofer, IBBT, TUB, UAM, etc.) and Nicta from Australia.

• See also: http://www.ict-openlab.eu/

• Abstract: OpenLab brings together the essential ingredients for an open, general purpose and sustainable large scale shared experimental facility, providing advances to the early and successful prototypes serving the demands of Future Internet Research and Experimentation.OpenLad partners are deploying the software and tools that allow these advanced testbeds to support a diverse set of applications and protocols in more efficient and flexible ways. OpenLab’s contribution to a portfolio that includes: PlanetLab Europe (PLE), with its over 200 partner/user institutions across Europe; the NITOS and w-iLab.t wireless testbeds; two IMS telco testbeds that can connect to the public PSTN, to IP phone services, and can explore merged media distribution; an LTE cellular wireless testbed; the ETOMIC high precision network measurement testbed; the HEN emulation testbed; and the ns-3 simulation environment. Potential experiments that can be performed over the available infrastructure go beyond what can be tested on the current internet. OpenLab extends the facilities with advanced capabilities in the area of mobility, wireless, monitoring, domain interconnections and introduces new technologies such as OpenFlow. These enhancements are transparent to existing users of each facility. Finally, OpenLab will finance and work with users who propose innovative experiments using its technologies and testbeds, via the open call mechanism developed for FIRE facilities.

WSN4CIP

• Title: Wireless Sensor Networks for critical infrastructures Protection

• Type: COOPERATION (ICT)

• Defi: FP7 Security area, Objective 1.7 Critical Infrastructure Protection

• Instrument: Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP)

• Duration: 2009 - 2011

• Coordinator: Eurescom (Germany)

• Others partners: 11 European partners (including IHP, NEC, BUTE, etc.)

• See also: http://www.wsan4cip.eu/home.html

• Abstract: The goal of WSAN4CIP is to advance the technology of Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) beyond the current state of the art, in order to improve the protection of Critical Infrastructures (CIs) By advancing WSAN technology, the project contributes to networked information and process control systems which are more secure and resilient. The distributed nature of WSANs enables them to survive malicious attacks as well as accidents and operational failures. It makes them dependable in critical situations, when information is needed to prevent further damage to CIs.

EIT KIC funded activities

Our project team was involved in 2011 in two activities funded by the EIT ICT Labs KIC: FITTING on Future InterneT (of ThINGs) facility and Information centric and device clouds (11901). In 2012, we will be involved in three additional activities on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) (11634), Information-centric networking (ICN) experimentation (12191) and Seamless P2P video streaming for the web (12199). The FITTING activity is mentioned as a “success story” by the EIT ICT Labs KIC  (See http://eit.europa.eu/kics1/stories-archiv/stories-single-view/article/fitting-from-eit-ict-labs-the-next-generation-testbeds.html ). In fact, after an initial funding in 2010, the french partners succeded to get the FIT Equipment of Excellence project accepted with a total budget of 5.8 MEuros to develop a testbed federation in France.

FITTING

• Title: Future InterneT (of ThINGs) facility

• Activity Number: 10340

• Duration: 2011-2012

• Coordinator: UPMC (France)

• Others partners: Alcatel Lucent, Fraunhofer FOKUS, BME, IT, U. Paris XI.

• Abstract: FITTING develops a testbed federation architecture that combines wireless and wired networks. Through FITTING, components and solutions developed in the projects OneLab2, PII and SensLAB are brought together to facilitate access. These components and devices complement each other – for instance SensLAB enhances the testbed federation by adding wireless sensors. FITTING addresses issues related to usability and accessibility of federated experimentation resources from multiple autonomous organizations. FITTING is a process of federating elements from various European and national initiatives into a global shared resource pool with a standardized interface to access them. Further, FITTING will adopt a user-driven (researchers, developers, students) approach with its running testbeds allowing experimentation with different technologies to meet the variety of needs of a broad customer base.