f-interop meetup

1 - F-Interop Meetup, London

F-Interop/Digital Catapult

Interoperability Meetup

London, July 18th Michele Nati, Lead Technologist Personal Data and Trust Digital Catapult, London @michelenati [email protected]


The Problem


The Opportunity

●  60% of the IoT value is currently hindered by lack of interoperability ¢  Mckinsey Report: http://tinyurl.com/jqpymqu


The Challenges

●  Interoperability requires tests, validation and certification ¢  Conformance

■  Test against reference implementations

¢  Interoperability ■  Test against other vendor implementations

¢  Performance ■  How protocols can be improved and scale?


The Barriers

●  SMEs are driven by time-to-market ●  Standards are driven by large organizations

¢  If not open, membership might be otherwise expensive

●  Tests require physical meetings and complex logistics ¢  Plugfest

¢  Managing confidentiality of information

●  Certification process might be long and costly


F-Interop Project

●  EU H2020 F-Interop project is researching and developing online remote interoperability and performance test tools for emerging IoT-related technologies

●  It aims to: ¢  Support researchers communities, SMEs involved

¢  Integrating and extending several European testbeds

¢  Researching and developing online testing tools for IoT

¢  Developing online certification and labelling mechanisms


The Testing Life Cycle

●  Test Description (TD) ¢  Describe the test scenario, any language

●  Test Script (TS) ¢  Set of actions to implement the scenario

¢  Exchange of information between IUTs (interoperability) and IUT and test system (conformance)

●  Test Analysis (TA) ¢  Analyze, compare messages, generate verdict (pass

or fail)


F-Interop Current Base Platform


The F-Interop Platform Roles

●  Testbed owner ¢  Who integrates a testing facilities with the F-Interop

platform (more devices, more infrastructure, etc) ●  Platform contributor

¢  Who provides tools for supporting the testing life cycle of supported protocols or new ones

●  Platform user ¢  Who uses the platform and provides new TD, TS, TA

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Supported Protocols

●  6LoWPAN and RPL, ●  6LoWPAN and supported functionalities ●  6TiSCH ●  OneM2M ●  Web of Things (partially) ●  ….


“Currently” Federated Testbeds Capabilities●  Fed4FIRE (http://www.fed4fire.eu/testbeds/)

federates 24 FIRE+ testbeds, bringing together cloud, IoT, wireless, wireless mobile, LTE, cognitive radio, 5G, openflow, SDN, NFV and network emulation technologies

●  OneLab (https://onelab.eu/) federates testbeds for the future Internet, including IoT, cognitive radio, wireless and overlay network technologies

●  IoT lab9 (http://www.iotlab.eu/) federates crowd sourcing and crowd sensing testbeds, including smart campus, smart building and smart office testbed (low end IoT device, sensor platforms)


Open Call Categories

§  New testing tools to extend capabilities of F-Interop

§  New tests designs to test interoperability & other

measures

§  SME device Interop tests to test F-Interop platform

§  Plugtests to conduct 3 remote online plugtest events


Supported Activities & Budget

List of Categories Grants Award

New F-Interop tools extensions 3 100 000

New interop test design and implementation 3 60 000

Plugtests 3 10 000

SME devices F-Interop tests and report 10 10 000


Important Dates

Formally launch Open Call & open the

application process

Open Call Starts

July, 31st … 2016 … 2017 ~ ~

Close the application process

Delivery of plugtest events

Jan, 25th

Conduct evaluations &

select 3rd parties

April, 26th Aug, 30th

Commence experiments/

projects

May … 2018 ~ ~

Review 1st release of tools & tests projects

Projects kick off

April February

Results announcement

…


“Possible” Open Call tools and communities§  Tools:

§  Specific protocols tools, such as: tools to emulate client and server protocol functionalities; visualization tools; remote communications tools; data security and confidentiality handling; certification and compliance issuance tools; network analyzer and emulation tools

§  HW tools: agent implementation under test energy consumption measurement board, additional HW for timestamping functionalities for low-end devices

§  Protocols:

§  UNB LPWAN (LoRa, N-WAVE, Sigfox), IPv6, OMA LWM2M, 5G IoT, Hypercat, BLE

§  Test descriptions:

§  For all new protocols

§  For existing ones: IPVv6, 6LoWPAN and RPL, 6LoWPAN and supported functionalities, Web of Things

§  Communities:

§  Hypercat, Web of Things (direct involvement to generate more test descriptions), LoRA Alliance, BLE, OMA, 5G


Workshop Structure

●  Choose a group/table ¢  Based on the interoperability level you are interested/

operating ¢  Based on the how open/close is the standards your

are involved ●  Participatory activities

¢  Three rounds

●  Wrap up

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First Round – Basics – 15 min

●  List protocols and communities you know (per level) – 5 min

●  Discuss the following and provide an answer for your group – 10 min ¢  What is your definition of interoperability?

¢  Do you think interoperability is needed?

●  Let’s rearrange ourselves ¢  if you think you don’t need interoperability move to

another table


Second Round – Benefits vs Barriers – 10 min●  List benefits of interoperability

¢  Per level? In general?

●  List barriers for interoperability ¢  Per level? In general?


Third Round – Challenges – 15 min

●  Choose a role: ¢  Testbed owner, contributor, user

●  Answer the following: ¢  Tools:

■  What tools you should provide?

■  What tools you would need?

¢  Business model: ■  What business model you see for your tools?


Final step

●  Any questions? ●  Please take few minutes (3) to complete this on-line

survey ¢  http://tinyurl.com/jeko2zz

●  Be a champion, share the open call info within your communities: ¢  http://www.f-interop.eu/index.php/open-call

¢  Tweet @michelenati, @digicatapult, @finterop


Looking for more info?

●  Website: http://www.f-interop.eu/index.php/open-call ●  Email: [email protected],

[email protected] ●  Interoperability blog post:

http://tinyurl.com/zmjvauh - please comment with your view

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Just one more step

●  Look to the wall: ¢  Cheer yourself for what we develop

¢  Discuss and network, find partners for possible projects


Thank you

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