1. Future Internet
Networks, Media and Services
Piet Demeester
EDM (Uhasselt), PATS (UA),
WiCa (UGent), IBCN (UGent)
WeBBT, 03/05/2011 Brussels

2. Vint Cerf, John Postel,
David Crocker (1969)
The Internet
Tim -Lee, Robert Cailliau (1989)

3. The Internet as a Unifying Communication
Platform
The Internet will connect
billions of people and
trillions of devices.

4. The Internet as an Intelligent Application
Platform
The Internet will become the
service platform of the future
and it will take over large
parts of the functionality and
intelligence that is currently
provided on personal
platforms.

5. The Internet as an Immersive Medium
The Internet is becoming
an immersive medium that
will support a natural
interaction between
people and their
environment.

6. The Internet enabling a
Sustainable Smart Society

7. Research Focus
Internet as an Immersive Medium
Human Computer
3D Media
Interaction
health, energy, transport and logistics, media and
entertainment, working, education
Internet as an Intelligent Application Engine
Generic Knowledge
Application Domains:
Service Engineering
and Tools
Autonomic Computing and Networking
Internet as a Unifying Communication Platform
Fixed Mobile and Wireless
Networks Networks

8. Example Research Unit Roadmap
Mobile and Wireless Networks

9. (1) Cognitive Radio Networks
M C M C
M C M C
M C
• Cognitive Architecture M C M C
• Distributed Monitoring
M C
• Cognitive Control DATA
VIEW
DECISI
ON

10. (2) Autonomic Systems
Inspired by Human Body
• Distributed responsibilities
• Collaborating control systems
• Each system: optimized for
specific task
• Under control of central
system
• Learns and adapts online
• Governed by high-level goal:
Stay Alive

11. High level
goal
(2) Autonomic Systems
• Application and
Infrastructure Models
• Optimal Resource Allocation
• Dynamic configuration admission control availability
algorithms in the autonomic
management architecture
video rate software
adaptation distribution

12. (3) Immersive and Context-Aware
Collaborative Environments
• Context-aware interaction and
visualizations on arbitrary
surfaces
• Improved capture, manipulation,
coding and rendering of moving
3D video objects and scenes
• Efficient communication strategies

13. (4) Energy Efficiency in and by ICT
p = 60%
• Footprint augmented network solutions
• Wireless Access Networks
• Smart Grids 1-p = 40%

14. Organization
Scientific Director Management
Board Co-Director Board
Coordination Project
Support management
IT & RI
support
Mobile &
Fixed … HCI
Wireless