Future Internet Research and Experimentation

FIRE in Action

The Net Futures 2015, 25-26 March 2015

AmpliFIRE Project Team

contact(at)ict-fire.eu

1. FIRE introduction

2. FIRE portfolio

3. FIRE federation

4. FIRE services and access

5. FIRE Open Call

6. FIRE and Business/SMEs

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Content

"The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

FIRE = Future Internet Research and Experimentation

Future Internet Research and Experimentation

Introduction

Systems are too complex, too heterogeneous to be analysed or even simulated

We need to test them, i.e., experiment in the real world, under real conditions, with real traffic/load and real users

No one, even the largest corporations, can afford to assemble – much less operate – the "entire" system to be able to test/assess their solutions, developments, improvements

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Why FIRE? Why Experimentation?

Requirements

Validation

ResearchLarge Scale

Experiments

FIRE Research

FIRE

Experimental Facility

FIRE Positioning versus related initiatives

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OpenLab, FIBRE and EINS involve an Australian Partner

FIBRE is from an EU-Brazil joint call

TEFIS and MyFIRE involvedBrazilian Partners

An Indian partnerin MyFIRE

OFELIA and CONECT involve US Partners. FIRE-GENI cooperation (Fed4FIRE)

A Chinese partner inTEFIS, EINS and EAR-IT

A Korean Partner in EINS and Fed4FIRE. FIRE STATION involved in the KOREN event and AsiaFI Forum)

FELIX and FANTASTIC projects.FIRE involved through several EU-Japan events. EU-Japan common call.

OpenLab and EINSinvolve a Canadian partner.

FIRE Projects International Cooperation

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MyFIRE involved a Russian Partner

TRESCIMO project and joint events

Bolded projects are still ongoing

Future Internet Research and Experimentation

FIRE Offering/Portfolio

FIRE Projects: Evolution 2008 - H2020

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Expanded scope related to networking and far beyond:– Service architectures and

clouds

– Sensor Networks

– Networking: cognitive radio, Open flow

– Increased emphasis on system level testing

– IoT and Smart Cities

– Immersive environments

Demand-driven open federation of facilities

Massive stimulation of users/experimenters:– Open calls in facility projects

reserved for innovative experiments - Calls by projects

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FIRE Project portfolio 03 / 2015

FIRE Portfolio – Technology /Working Areas

10* Coordination & Support Action projects typically support all FIRE projects

** ** OneLab projects finished - Open Access continues

FIRE in Horizon 2020 (Call 1):

FIESTA: Integration of IoTplatforms

Organicity: IoT and Smart Cities

RAWFIE: Federation of networking testbeds for unmanned, aereal, vehicular, maritime domains

WISHFUL: Spectrum issues in platforms for flexible and unified radio and network control

MONROE: Stability and performance measurement in mobile broadband networks

FIRE Facility projects

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www.xipi.eu

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* Finished project – Open Access continues

SmartSantander – Call5

Santander facility

Guildford Ekobus

WISEBED – Call2

Lübeck Braunschweig

Fed4FIRE

CREW – Call5

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iMinds w-iLab.t

IRIS testbed

TUB TWISTLTE/LTE

advancedJSI

Sensorlab

BonFIRE – Call5

EPCC HPINRIA

GRID’5000Stuttgart

Bristol(UnivBris)

Virtual Wall(iMinds)

OFELIA – Call5

ETH ZurichTUB

campus

PSNC

FEDERICA – Call1

KTH HUNGARNET...

NTUA

VITAL ++ – Call2

FOKUS

Telecom Austria IMS

Telefonica I+D

UoP IMS OpenLab – Call7

OneLab2 – Call2

PLE NITOS ETOMIC DIMES

DOTSEL HEN TSSG / WIT NGN IMS

KOREN

NICTA

FIT-UPMC

FIT-INRIA

PLE federation

TEFIS – Call5

ETICS KYATERA

Botnia Living Lab

PACAGRIDSQS-IMS

FLEX – Call10

CONFINE – Call7 Experimedia – Call7 Sunrise – Call10

UB UPORTO TWENTE SUASIS CMRE

EURECOM

Guifi.net FunkFeuer AWMN Smart Venues: Schladming, CAR, FHW

iMinds Antwerp

Fraunhofer FKIE

Wibed UPC

Proxmox UPC

i2Cat Barcelona

Catania (CNIT)

Rome (CNIT)

Trento(CreateNet)

PISA(CNIT)

Uberlândia(UFU)

Castelldefels(CTC)

Fed4FIRECompatible interfacingUltraAccess

performLTE

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FIRE Facilities & Testbeds – FI-PPP/XIFI Relationship

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FIRE Federation

Federation of existing testbeds across Europe

The objective of several FIRE projects is to federate existing testbeds across Europe

Bigger scale

More diversity

Uniform tools

Easy access

Example:

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FIRE Facilities - Fed4FIRE, Federation for FIRE

Wide range of experiments

Seamless use of multiple facilities and facility sites (incl. trust aspects)

Powerful tool chain covering the whole experiment lifecycle

Systematic experimentation approach

Low entry barrier, also for industry (especially SME)

Professional access (incl. SLA, legal, commercial) and interaction models (experts <> non-experts)

Shorten time from idea to experiment to market

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Fed4FIRE – Focus on the experimenters

Fed4FIRE – Focus on the service

FOCUS on service offered by the facility! Broad functionality using de-facto standard platforms (e.g. trust,

experiment control, …)

Documentation, training, support and expert advise

Reduced development and maintenance cost

Offer services to larger customer base using different business models (incl. industrial access)

Pan-European (and international) federation

Sustainable (technical and financial)

Shorten time from idea to facility to market

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Future Internet Research and Experimentation

FIRE Services & Access

• 12 FIRE projects have a large scale facility infrastructure ready that can be used:

– CONFINE – exploration and advancement of the community networks

– CREW – radio spectrum and measurements of wireless

– Fed4FIRE – a real federation of experimentation facilities:Wired, wireless, sensor, cellular, Openflow, cloud computing and/or Smart City testbeds

– FELIX-EU – Software Defined Networking - SDN

– FESTIVAL – IoT experimentation platforms

– FIESTA – IoT

– FLEX – Long Term Evolution (LTE)

– MONROE – Measuring Mobile Broadband Networks

– ORGANICITY – Smart Cities - EaaS

– RAWFIE – Unmanned/robotic networked devices

– SUNRISE – Underwater sensors – IoT

– WISHFUL – Wireless unified radio and network control

• Open Access provided by completed projects:

– OneLab – Core Networking

FIRE Facilities – Available for Future Internet experimentations

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Open Access - How to get involved?

CREW has entered in a continuous Open Access phase.CREW offers best effort access to the facilities that isfree for non-commercial use and includes basicsupport (consisting of information from portal,guidelines, tutorials, handbooks, and very limited basictechnical support). If more guarantees are required onavailability of infrastructure and technical support, it ispossible to submit a request for experimentation withguaranteed availability and support. More information:http://www.crew-project.eu/opencall.

Through the OneLab portal (portal.onelab.eu), the following testbeds are available:- IoTLab (https://www.iot-lab.info) – a large numbers of small wireless sensor devices;- NITOS (nitlab.inf.uth.gr/NITlab), an outdoor platform consisting of Wi-Fi a/b/g/n nodes; and- PLE (http://www.planet-lab.eu/), the PlanetLab Europe overlay.If you are a PlanetLab Europe (PLE) member, your PLE account now gives you access to other world-class testbeds, at no additional cost to you or your institution!

In accordance with the Fed4FIRE project structure, the two planned Open Calls have been completed and no further Calls of this type are planned for the future.However, the Fed4FIRE will consider organization offurther two additional Calls for experiments originatingfrom SMEs in the upcoming months.Moreover, Fed4FIRE has launched a process for OpenAccess to the Fed4FIRE testbeds allowing access anduse of the federated testbeds without additionalfunding.To keep informed about the Fed4FIRE SME Calls andOpen Access, please, regularly check the projectwebsite www.fed4fire.eu and/or contact@fed4fire.eu.

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FIRE Facilities - How to get involved?

The testbed portal at http://community-lab.net;

The documentation 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.

FELIX is currently deploying a framework for federated SDN Future Internet (FI) testbeds. This framework will enable its user to:1. Dynamically request and obtain

resources across different testbedinfrastructures.

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

3. Execute distributed applications on the federated infrastructure.

4. Moreover, the project is preparing the EU-JP testbed for large-scale proof-of-concept experiments to be executed to validate the novel concepts developed in the project.

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FIRE facilities - How to get involved?

The FLEX portal can be reached at www.flex-project.eu where valuable information on how to conduct experiments and use the infrastructure is included.

FLEX has already organized one Open Call for proposals, and a second one is expected in 2015. 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 components.

The calls have been planned to take place early, in order to provide enough time for the new partners to be integrated in the consortium and provide meaningful contributions.

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

The SUNRISE project will also extend its infrastructure through two Open Calls. The first one is closed and the selected projects will start in spring 2015; the second one will be launched in summer 2015.

http://fp7-sunrise.eu/

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FIRE newer facilities - How to get involved?

The FESTIVAL project will participate in various national and international events such as hackatons, meetups and relevant

conferences in order to involve external experimenters and to offer them access to the experimentation facilities.

FESTVAL will also launch an Open Call for experimenters in the project’s second year (October 2015). Despite the fact that there will not be a specific funding for those calls, the experimenters will be able to benefit from the experimental IoT infrastructure that will be provided by the project, both in Europe and in Japan.

http://www.festival-project.eu/

In order to accomplish its goals, the FIESTA-IoT project will issue, manage and exploit a range of open calls towards involving third-parties in the project. The objective of the involvement

of third-parties will be two-fold:

• To ensure the design and integration (within FIESTA-IoT) of more innovative experiments, through the involvement of additional partners in the project (including

SMEs).

• To expand the FIESTA-IoT experimental infrastructure on the basis of additional testbeds.

http://www.fiesta-iot.eu/

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FIRE newer facilities - How to get involved?

MONROE will run a series of Open Calls where external users can ask for funding to run experiments. The first MONROE Open Call will be announced by the end of the first year and it will target researchers, innovators and business that depend on MBB networks.

The second MONROE Open Call will be announced towards the end of second year and it will be open to all user groups.

Apart from the Open Calls, the platform will be available to external users in the beginning of the third year.

monroe-project.eu

You can get involved in three ways:

1. Start using the already existing Wishful facilities located at iMinds (w-iLab.t), TCD (IRIS), TUB (TWIST) and RUTGERS (WINLAB).

2. Follow our updates for new software releases, fork the software, try it and contribute feedback or improved code.

3. Follow the upcoming Open Calls that will be launched by the project.

http://www.wishful-project.eu/

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FIRE newer facilities - How to get involved?

Users will be able to access RAWFIE resources and services through the portal and

experimentation suite. The portal will include a user-friendly interface to illustrate all the essential information for the RAWFIE federation (i.e., authorization, documentation, testbedsand resources). In addition, the experimentation suite will provide a number of functionalities for the definition of experiment scenarios such as booking, monitoring and authoring tools. The set of RAWFIE partners will be supplemented through 2 Open Calls cycles in the direction of expanding the infrastructure and allowing a wide spectrum of experiments to be undertaken prior to the RAWFIE self-sustainability, resource autonomy phase.

www.rawfie.eu

Communities and organisations are invited to use the new OrganiCity facility, self-funded or funded through OrganiCity.

• 2 open calls in 2016 and 2017, with € 1.8 m in funding for third-party experimental groups (25-35 experiments).

• Communities can co-create the calls in 2015 and 2016.

• Cities can connect to the facility and become an OrganiCity.

www.organicity.eu

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FIRE Open Call

Open Calls in FIRE – Example targeting SMEs

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FIRE and Business/SMEs

Objective for the futureFIRE to become a “platform ecosystem” enabling business innovation on

products and services bringing together developers, users, technology providers

Benefits FIRE Increase the relevance and

sustainability of FIRE in serving industry customers

Benefit from industry projects experience to widen the range of services

Benefits Business / SMEs Technical: access to resources and

expertise not currently available. Reduce technical risks.

Organisational: know-how, support, partnerships

Commercial: develop demonstrators close to market

Develop products and services by exploiting testbed facilities

Current activities to enhance the FIRE offerService delivery quality

Sustainability of the testbed facility and servicesContracting issues

Promotion and marketing

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FIRE value proposition towards Business/SMEs

All companies developing cloud-based applications, mobile games, different types of web-services, multimedia applications and telecommunication services/products can benefit from leading-edge testbeds

Any company can access and use them for testing its products/services. Examples include the testing of: – Cloud-related and web-based applications (e.g. web-based documents

editing service, any social media services, online payment systems, mobile marketing services, any web-based services, mobile gaming etc.)

– Wireless and networking equipment (WiFi, LTE, networking protocols, cognitive radio, OpenFlow, SDN, p2p services, etc.)

– Multimedia applications (augmented reality, 3D environments, etc.)

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Which SMEs may benefit from FIRE and how

Instead of building your own Future Internet testbed – you can SAVE money, efforts and time by re-using already available FIRE test facilities – concentrate your core R&D&I right away– Instead of re-inventing a wheel again –> use your investment much

more efficiently

– Experimentations/testing can start much faster –> SAVE time

– Investments can be used for the R&D&I and for the experimentations/testing instead of the the building of the testbed(s) -> SAVE money, efforts

– Test results/products/services available (on market) much faster!-> SAVE time, win your competitor(s)

• FIRE test facilities are available NOW – Let’s use them!

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FIRE – For the Future Internet Success

Thank You –Testbed access for Future Internet Success

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

More information: www.ict-fire.eu

Contact E-mail: contact@ict-fire.eu

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Please contact individual facilities for more information about access

and services