FIRE slideshow running on the FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) booth, organized by all FIRE Support Action projects (AmpliFIRE, ceFIMS-CONNECT, CI-FIRE, ECIAO and FUSION) at the Net Futures 2015 (former FIA) event on 25-26 March 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. More information: http://www.ict-fire.eu.

1. Future Internet Research and Experimentation
FIRE in Action
The Net Futures 2015, 25-26 March 2015
AmpliFIRE Project Team
contact(at)ict-fire.eu

2. 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

3. Future Internet Research and Experimentation
Introduction

4.  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
Research
Large Scale
Experiments
FIRE Research
FIRE
Experimental Facility

5. FIRE Positioning versus related initiatives
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6. OpenLab, FIBRE and EINS
involve an Australian Partner
FIBRE is from an EU-Brazil
joint call
TEFIS and MyFIRE involved
Brazilian Partners
An Indian partner
in MyFIRE
OFELIA and CONECT
involve US Partners.
FIRE-GENI cooperation
(Fed4FIRE)
A Chinese partner in
TEFIS, 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 EINS
involve 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

7. Future Internet Research and Experimentation
FIRE
Offering/Portfolio

8. FIRE Projects: Evolution 2008 - H2020
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9.  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

10. 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 IoT
platforms
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

11. FIRE Facility projects
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www.xipi.eu
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* Finished project – Open Access continues

12. SmartSantander – Call5
Santander
facility
Guildford Ekobus
WISEBED – Call2
Lübeck Braunschweig
Fed4FIRE
CREW – Call5
...
iMinds w-iLab.t
IRIS
testbed
TUB TWIST
LTE/LTE
advanced
JSI
Sensorlab
BonFIRE – Call5
EPCC HP
INRIA
GRID’5000
Stuttgart
Bristol
(UnivBris)
Virtual Wall
(iMinds)
OFELIA – Call5
ETH Zurich
TUB
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)
Fed4FIRE
Compatible interfacingUltraAccess
performLTE
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FIRE Facilities & Testbeds – FI-PPP/XIFI Relationship

13. Future Internet Research and Experimentation
FIRE Federation

14. 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

16.  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

17. 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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18. Future Internet Research and Experimentation
FIRE Services &
Access

19. • 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 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 experimentation with
guaranteed 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 of
further two additional Calls for experiments originating
from SMEs in the upcoming months.
Moreover, Fed4FIRE has launched a process for Open
Access to the Fed4FIRE testbeds allowing access and
use of the federated testbeds without additional
funding.
To keep informed about the Fed4FIRE SME Calls and
Open Access, please, regularly check the project
website 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 testbed
infrastructures.
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, testbeds
and 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

26. Future Internet Research and Experimentation
FIRE Open Call

27. Open Calls in FIRE – Example targeting SMEs
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28. Future Internet Research and Experimentation
FIRE and
Business/SMEs

29. Objective for the future
FIRE 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 offer
Service delivery quality
Sustainability of the testbed facility and services
Contracting issues
Promotion and marketing
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FIRE value proposition towards Business/SMEs

30.  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

31.  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

32. 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