1. "The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"
Future Internet Research and
Experimentation - FIRE
www.ict-fire.eu
Presenter: FIRE STATION Project Team
E-mail: contact@ict-fire.eu
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Updated 31.05. 2013

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FIRE
FIRE - Future Internet Research and Experimentation

3. Future Internet Research: Why
The Internet of today: it works, but:
Designed as a best effort service infrastructure
Multiple unforeseen usages - data, voice, video, TV,…
Scalability issues, Security, trust, mobility..
Fixing the perceived deficiencies of today
Tomorrow, more to come
Connected objects, Sensors;
Geo location services, physical meet virtual world
Clouds, virtualisation,
Preparing for the usages of tomorrow
Ultimately every object/process “Internetised”
Towards smart usages and applications
Smart cities and environments
Tackling societal challenges
FI underpinning smart societies and economies

4. Internet of Services, Service Web
Networks of the Future
3D & Media Internet
Internet of Things
Trust
Security
A multi dimensional technological approach
Future Internet Research: What

5. 5
Test bed 1 Test bed 2 Test bed 3
Test bed 4
Test bed 5
Test bed 6 Test bed 7 Test bed 8
Test bed 9
Federated Network Testbeds
Test bed 1 Test bed 2 Test bed 3
Test bed 4
Test bed 5
Test bed 6
Test bed 7 Test bed 8
Federated Service Testbeds
Exp1
Exp 3
Exp 2
Exp 4
Exp 5
User Communities
FIRE Experimental Facility
Requirements
Validation
Research
Large Scale
Experiments
FIRE Research
What is FIRE?
FIRE - Future Internet Research and Experimentation

6. time to
market
Technology
risk
Piloting
deployment
2-3 years 5-10 years
CIP / ICT PSP
 large scale trials
(using existing
technology)
 Smart Cities
 market oriented R&D
 adaptation to specific
demands..
 FIRE
 Testing facilities
and experiments
Future Internet: Comprehensive EU approach
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FP7 / PPP
FP7 / FIRE
Future Internet

7. Benefits of FIRE for Europe
• The FIRE initiative creates an
open research environment,
which facilitates strategic
research and development on
new Internet concepts giving
researchers an instrument to
carry out large-scale
experimentation on new
paradigms
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8. FIRE - Experimentally driven R&D
coordination and support measures
experimental facility
experimentally-driven research
 Supporting research and innovation on new network
and service architectures
 Through large scale experimentation, predict
behaviour and assess non-technical impact
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9. Infrastructures
Services
Applications
Wireless /
Sensors
Fixed/ Wired
Compute/
Storage
Peripherals/
Device
IMS
Service Delivery
Platforms
Media eHealthTransport ...
....
research,developmentandoperation
Internet
Users
Clouds/Grids
FIRE and the FI Ecosystem:Infrastructures
Demand
EnablingTechnology

10. Coordination and Support Actions
FUSION
Experimentally-driven Research
Exploratory
Research
Real-scale
Experimentation
Validation
Requirements
NOVIEULERLAWA SPITFIRE
EVARILOS
IRATI
ECO2CloudsEAR-IT
3D-LIVE
ALIEN
Social&SmartSTEEROFERTIERELYonIT
CREWBonFIRE
Building the Experimental Facility and stimulating its use
Enlarged Enlarged
Fed4FIRE
Users Users
Wisebed
Onelab2
PII
Vital++
Paradiso
FIREworks
Opnex
Perimeter
Ecode
N4C
SmartNet
SelfNet
FIREBALL
FIRE
STATION
Coordination
& support
actions Call 5
Coordination
& support
actions Call 8
Research
projects Call
5 (STREPs)
Research
projects Call
7 (STREPs)
Research
projects Call
8 (STREPs)
Facility
Projects (IPs)
Call 5
Facility
Projects (IPs)
Call 7
Facility
Projects (IPs)
Call 8
Projects
ended
FIRE Projects (June 2013)
AmpliFIRE
SCAMPI
CityflowCLOMMUNITY
Openlab Experimedia CONFINE
Smart Santander OFELIA
MyFire
TEFIS
CONVER-
GENCE
HOBNET
CONECT

11. • 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
• Demand-driven open federation of facilities
Joint architecture board moderated by FIREstation
• Massive stimulation of users/experimenters:
Open calls in facility projects reserved for innovative experiments
Calls by projects
FIRE Projects

12. FIRE Facility projects
Cognitive
radio
Cloud
Services
SmartSantander
Smart Cities
IoT
Network &
Services*
Open flow
Community
Networks
Future
Media
Extending
FIRE
testbeds
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FIRE Federation
* The TEFIS project is finished but service offering continues on
TEFIS portal at: http://www.tefisportal.eu/

13. FIRE Facility Projects - Roadmap
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FIRE FacilityProjects – Call 8
(started October 2012)
• Fed4FIRE:
• Fed4FIRE will deliver open and easily accessible federated
facilities to the Future Internet experimentation communities,
which focus on fixed and wireless infrastructures, services and
applications, and combinations thereof.
• http://www.fed4fire.eu/

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FIRE FacilityProjects – Call 7
(started October 2011)
• OpenLab: PlanetLab Europe (PLE), NITOS, w-iLab.t wireless, IMS
telco; LTE cellular wireless; ETOMIC high precision measurement;
HEN emulation; and ns-3 simulation.
www.ict-openlab.eu
• Experimedia: Offering testbeds for large-scale experiments using
live events and real-world communities to accelerate the adoption of
the Future Media Internet.
www.experimedia.eu
• Confine: Community networks incorporating wireless and optical
links, heterogeneous nodes, routing protocols, applications and end-
users utilising self-provisioning.
www.confine-project.eu

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FIRE Facility projects Call 5
(started mid - 2010)
• BonFIRE: Building service testbeds for Future Internet
Research and Experimentation
www.bonfire-project.eu
• CREW: Cognitive Radio Experimentation World
www.crew-project.eu
• OFELIA: OpenFlow in Europe – Linking Infrastructure
and Applications
www.fp7-ofelia.eu
• Smart Santander: Large scale sensor network in the
Spanish city of Santander
www.smartsantander.eu
• TEFIS: Testbed for Future Internet Services
www.tefisproject.eu

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FIRE STREP Projects (1)
• LAWA: Longitudinal Analytics of Web Archive data. Aims at
building an Internet-based experimental testbed for large-
scale data analytics. http://www.lawa-project.eu/
• FIBRE: Future Internet Experimentation between Brazil and
Europe. Its goal is to Create a common space between the
EU and Brazil for Future Internet (FI) experimental research
into network infrastructure and distributed applications, by
building and operating a federated EU-Brazil Future
Internet experimental facility.
• Scampi: Service Platform for Social Awware Mobile and
pervasive Computing. SCAMPI will investigate techical
solutions for a service platform in mobile and pervasive
opportunistic networks.

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FIRE STREP Projects (2)
• SPITFIRE: Semantic-Service Provisioning for the Internet of
Things using Future Internet Research by Experimentation.
SPITFIRE works towards the realization of a stronger
connection between the natural and the digital worlds.
http://www.spitfire-project.eu/
• CONECT: Cooperative Networking for High Capacity
Transport Architectures. It will develop novel performance
bounds of wireless network information flow.
http://www.conect-ict.eu/
• CONVERGENCE: CONVERGENCE proposes to enhance
the Internet with a novel, content-centric, publish-subscribe
service model, based on the Versatile Digital Item.
http://www.ict-convergence.eu/

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FIRE STREP Projects (3)
• EULER: Experimental UpdateLess Evolutive Routing. The main
objective of EULER is to investigate new routing paradigms so
as to develop a distributed and dynamic routing scheme
suitable for the future Internet. http://www.euler-fire-project.eu/
• HOBNET: Holistic Platform Design for Smart Buildings of the
Future InterNET. The goal is to maximize the use of FIRE
platforms by multidisciplinary developers of Future Internet
applications focused on automation and energy efficiency for
smart buildings. http://www.hobnet-project.eu/
• NOVI: Networking innovations Over Virtualized Infrastructures.
It aims at composing virtualized e-Infrastructures towards a
holistic Future Internet (FI) cloud service. http://www.fp7-
novi.eu/

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FIRE STREP Projects (4)
• CityFlow Future Internet experiment will create a multi-
autonomous-system experimental signalling overlay on the
OFELIA OpenFlow infrastructure.
• IRATI’s goal is to achieve further exploration of the Recursive
InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) architecture. http://irati.eu/
• RelyonIT: By embracing vast quantities of wireless sensors
and actuators, the Future Internet will reach into the real world
and provide online access to the state of things and places.
The resulting Internet of Things (IoT) is deemed to enable
applications of utmost societal value including smart cities,
smart grids, and smart healthcare. http://www.relyonit.eu/

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FIRE STREP Projects (5)
• ALIEN will deliver an innovative network abstraction
mechanism targeting the control and management
convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous network
elements building strong foundations for Software Defined
Networks. The NOS of ALIEN will be based on control and
management framework of OFELIA FIRE facility.
http://fp7-alien.eu
• Social & Smart is a research project using the housekeeping
scenario to experiment a pervasive Future Internet network that
provides real services to a wide population. The goal is to
devise an infrastructure allowing all appliances in the home to
speak to a middleware where any user can easily create
cognitive and scalable solutions in the cloud to manage them.
http://shannon.laren.dsi.unimi.it/drupal7/

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FIRE STREP Projects (6)
• EVARILOS addresses one of the 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
conditions. http://www.evarilos.eu/
• Eco2Clouds will investigate strategies that can ensure not only
effective application deployment on the cloud infrastructure but
also reduce the resultant energy consumption and CO2
emissions. http://eco2clouds.eu/
• STEER will address the community-centric digitally-based
ecosystem which we refer to as “Social Telemedia”, a cross-
breeding of social networks and networked media.

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FIRE STREP Projects (7)
• EAR-IT: Audio sensors are cheap and often easy to deploy
and, with the growing power of processing and networking
capabilities it is possible to exploit audio data for a broad range
of applications incl. energy efficiency and traffic monitoring.
• 3D-LIVE project aims to develop and experiment a User Driven
Mixed Reality and Immersive (Twilight) platform connected to
EXPERIMEDIA facilities in order to investigate the Future
Internet (FI) broadband capacity to support Real-Time
immersive situations as well as evaluating both the Quality of
Experience (QoE) and Quality of Services.
http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/3D-LIVE

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FIRE STREP Projects (8)
• OFERTIE addresses an important emerging class of distributed
applications known as Real-Time Online Interactive
Applications (ROIA). These include multi-player online
computer games, advanced simulation-based e-Learning and
training platforms, and other applications dependent upon
synchronised bidirectional media distribution.
http://www.ofertie.eu
• CLOMMUNITY project aims at addressing the obstacles for
communities of citizens in bootstrapping, running and
expanding community-owned networks that provide community
services organised as community clouds.

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Internet & Society project - Call 7
(started October 2011)
• FIRE related Internet & Society project
• EINS: European INternet Science is a Network of Excellence aiming
at developing Internet Science as a foundation for the understanding
and evolution of the Internet as a societal and a technological
artefact.
More http://www.internet-science.eu/

26. FIRE Projects – Current (06/2013)
http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/fire-projects.html 26

27. One single access via
www.ict-fire.eu
The FIRE Offering
27http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/fire-offering.html
Examples of Use Cases
can be found at:
http://www.ict-fire.eu/
home/use-cases.html
FED4FIRE

28. FIRE for Experimentations
* www.ict-fire.eu
Facility Portal
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InformationPortal*
Research
Applications
Services
Networking
--------------
Information
New
Experimenters,
Users
Ext. Contacts
Information
queries
Etc.

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The FIRESTATION Support Action
FIRE Architecture Board
Federation between facility projects
Chairman + Moderator + Secretary
+ 1 representative per running IP project
+ representatives from other relevant
projects
External Relations
Other test beds (outside
FIRE EC projects)
External Experts
Advisory Group
Other initiatives
(incl. GEANT,
NRENs, EIT,
G-Lab, GENI,
Asia FI, FIA,FI-
PPP, FIF, ETPs,
etc.)
FIRE STATION
Project Mgt
FIRE Office
Entry point from the outside
FIRE STREP
and other FI
projects

30. Beneficiary name
Beneficiary short
name, country
Martel* MAR, Switzerland
Université Pierre et
Marie Curie - Paris
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UPMC, France
Eurescom GmbH EUR, Germany
GARR GARR, Italy
iMinds iMinds, Belgium
University Lübeck UZL, Germany
University of
Southampton
IT Innovation,
United Kingdom
InterInnov InterInnov, France
FIRE STATION Project
* Coordinator 30
• FIRESTATION is a
Coordination &
Support Action (CSA)
project funded in
Framework
Programme 7 (FP7),
Call 5
• Started 1st of June
2010 for 36 months
•Budget: 1.5 M€

31. 1 To move the FIRE facility towards a more customer-driven, dynamic,
effective, sustainable, easy-to-access and easy-to-use experimental
platform
2 To intensify the collaboration amongst the FIRE Community
• FIRE projects and all related stakeholders, such as other
testbeds, testbed initiatives, customers of testbeds -
projects, researchers from academy and industry
The objectives of FIRE STATION
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32. FIRE STATION implements a FIRE Office and a FIRE
Architecture Board:
- The FIRE Office serves as a single contact point and a
mediator when looking for experimental resources or new
customers;
- The FIRE Architecture Board involves all FIRE facility
builders to decide on the strategy and means to facilitate the
development of FIRE offerings.
The organization of FIRE STATION
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33. FIRE Open Calls
• The Open Calls are designed to stimulate the use of the
facilities through new innovative experiments
• 9 IP projects have a ready large scale facility infrastructure
that can be used:
• Fed4FIRE - a real federation of experimentation facilities
• BONFIRE – research in the Cloud
• CREW – radio spectrum and measurements of wireless
• OFELIA – networking in Open Flow
• TEFIS – research in services
• Smart Santander – Internet of Things – 20 000 nodes in one city
• OPENLAB – advancing capabilities of early FIRE facilities
• EXPERIMEDIA – research in Future Media Internet
• CONFINE - exploration and advancement of the community networks
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34. FIRE+ in Horizon 2020
Consultation 21 September
• Federation towards a European experimental
Infrastructure
• More users to be involved in FIRE
• Sustainability over time
• EIT
• National Initiative
• Advanced networking experimentation, GEANT

35. FIRE in ICT Work Programme 2013
Call 10 (Objective 1.7/)
/a: Testbed Facilities: IPs, Indicative budget: 8M €
/b: Experimentally-driven Research: STREPs, Indicative budget: 8M €
/c: Coordinatation and Support Actions: CSAs, Indicative budget: 0,5M €

36. FIRE Roadmap
FIRE in
Horizon 2020
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Preparatory projects
under FP6
First wave of FIRE projects
(Call 2: Facility + Research)
Second Wave of FIRE projects
(Call 5: Facility + Research)
Third Wave of FIRE projects
(Call 7: Facility + Internet Science)
FIRE Federation and Sustainability
(Call 8: Facility + Experiments)
FIRE projects
(Call 10: Facility + Experiments)

37. Status of international cooperation
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A Korean Partner in EINS;
FIRE STATION involved
(KOREN and AsiaFI)
TEFIS and MyFIRE
include a
Brazilian Partner.
FIBRE is from a EU-
Brazil joint call.
A Russian partner
In MyFIRE
An Indian partner
In MyFIRE
OFELIA and
CONECT involve US
Partners
OpenLab involves a
Canadian partner
A Chinese partner in
TEFIS, EINS,
MyFIRE
FIRE involved through
EU-Japan Symposium +
Call 8 Info Day
OpenLab and EINS
involve an Australian
Partner

38. The FIRE Website www.ict-fire.eu
Maintained by the FIRESTATION Support Action
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39. The www.ict-fire.eu word count
39Maintained by the FIRESTATION Support Action – June 2013

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Further Information
Next Key Events in 2013:
Future Networks & Mobile Summit 2013 (FUNEMS) 3-5 July 2013
Lisbon, Portugal
More at: http://www.ict-fire.eu/events/eventview/article/future-network-mobile-summit-
2013.html
ICT 2013: Create, Connect, Grow 6-8 November 2013 Vilnius, Lithuania
More at: http://www.ict-fire.eu/events/eventview/article/ict-2013-create-connect-
grow.html
Useful Websites:
www.ict-fire.eu – FIRE website
http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/publications.html - FIRE Brochure
http://wiki.ict-fire.eu – FIRE wiki
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire - FIRE / EU Commission

41. Thank you for your attention
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 2007-2013, ICT
objective 1.6) under grant agreement nr. 257439 FIRESTATION.
More information: www.ict-fire.eu Contact: contact@ict-fire.eu