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fire FOR FUTURE
INTERNET SUCCESS
2015

FIRE FOR THE FUTURE
What is FIRE?
The Future Internet is a growth engine, offering new ways for businesses to be innovative and competitive in the
digital market. World-class European testbed services offer companies the support they need so they can test a
betatechnologyornewideaincontrolledenvironments,evaluatingthembeforebringingthemtotherealworld.
The Future Internet Research and Experimentation – FIRE – initiative offers the capability to experiment with
networks, infrastructure and tools, in a multidisciplinary test environment for investigating and experimentally
validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms.
Inaddition,FIREpromotestheconceptoftheexperimentally-drivenresearch,combiningvisionaryacademic
research with the wide-scale testing and experimentation that is required for the industry.
FIRE value proposition for collaboration
FIRE offers access to experimental facilities and services to a range of user segments, as well as to other initia-
tives related to the Future Internet such as IoT, FI-PPP, 5G-PPP, EIT ICT Labs and Smart Cities. In turn, FIRE makes
use of - or collaborates for offering - services and facilities of other players such as GÉANT/NRENs. The coopera-
tionrelationbetweenFIREandtheseotherinitiativesandplayersisco-evolvingasFIRE’sfuturedevelopmentwill
anticipate the initiatives´ need to make more extensive use of FIRE´s testbed facilities.
FIRE and the Research Community
FIRE offers cutting edge facilities that cannot be inexpensively reproduced. It offers them to the Net Futures
research communities (researchers in cloud, cyber physical systems, big data) and for Horizon 2020 as a whole
(e.g. Smart Cities, Manufacturing, eHealth). FIRE offers access to the experimenter and research community to
increase impact of the experimenters’ work. Experimentation services are offered to reduce time and cost to
perform experiments. FIRE offers access to the experimenter and research community to increase the impact of
their work. Experimentation services are offered to reduce time and cost to perform experiments.
The FIRE facility is open – Let’s use it!
The FIRE current offer to customers from industry (including SMEs) and research includes access to testbed fa-
cilities for the purpose of technology, product and service development and testing, as well as knowledge, meth-
ods and tools for experimenters and product and service developers. FIRE’s offer in the next years will transform
towards a service-oriented framework where the concept of Experimentation as a Service (EaaS) will be central.
AlloftheFIREfacilitiesevolveinademand-drivenway,supportedthroughOpenCallsandanewmechanism
called “Open Access”. Open Access offers experimenters the opportunity to use FIRE facilities for free, both dur-
ingandbeyondtheoriginallyplannedlifetimeoftherespectiveproject.CREW(CognitiveRadio),FORGE(eLearn-
ing) and OneLab (Core Networking) are current examples of FIRE facilities offering Open Access; other individual
testbeds continue to operate by federating with running FIRE Facility projects, thereby allowing researchers to
access facilities around Europe.
Instead of building your own Future Internet testbed, you can save money,
efforts and time by re-using already available FIRE test facilities!
FIRE information portal: www.ict-fire.eu
Information about the activities of the European Commission on FIRE - Future
Internet Research and Experimentation, and about all FIRE projects can be
found at http://europa.eu/!cC44Qk
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4 SUCCESS STORIES
4 CREW
5 FLEX
6 OneLab
7 3D-LIVE
8 EVARILOS
9 CREW
10 SmartFIRE
11 FACILITY PROJECTS
11 CONFINE
12 Fed4FIRE
14 CREW
15 FACILITY PROJECTS – CALL 10
15 FLEX
16 SUNRISE
17 FACILITY PROJECTS – CALL 1 / ICT11 - H2020
17 FIESTA
18 MONROE
19 ORGANICITY
20 RAWFIE
21 WiSHFUL
22 RESEARCH PROJECTS
22 CLOMMUNITY — SOCIAL&SMART
23 FORGE — IoTLab
24 RESEARCH PROJECTS – INTERNATIONAL
24 FELIX-EU — MOSAIC2B
25 SmartFIRE — TRESCIMO
26 RESCUER
26 COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTIONS
26 EU-ChinaFIRE(ECIAO)
27 ceFIMS-CONNECT — CI-FIRE
28 AmpliFIRE
TABLE OF CONTENTS

SUCCESS STORY BY CREW
participants
iMinds
Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI)
TASS Belgium
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN)
challenGe
TheCREWfacilitiesareopen,onabesteffortbasis,toallusers
thatwishtotestandevaluatetheircognitiveradionetworking
solutions. Through the Continuous Open Call mechanism,
the facility owners also provide support to these experiment-
ers if needed.
solution
InthefirstunfundedOpenCalloftheCREWproject,7propos-
alswereacceptedandsupportedbythefacilityproviders.We
briefly present the most successful SME and the most suc-
cessful academic project.
picoMESH was an experiment proposed by TASS, on
the iMinds testbed, aiming to prove that the Optimized Link
State Routing Protocol (OLSR) (IETF RFC3626) implementa-
tion provided by PicoTCP fits a scenario where a mesh topol-
ogy based on IEEE 802.15.4 is challenged by multiple issues
(i.e. nodes with a limited visibility or partially hidden, nodes
joining and leaving the topology with no notice, embedded
devices with limited capabilities). While executing the project,
the company was able to detect and fix software bugs in their
code as well as to reach their aim by running OLSR on a 55
node facility. They gained significant know-how with port-
ing their code on embedded wireless devices and they also
learned how to debug large networks.
Improving IoT solutions
using cognitive radio facilities
GAME-COG-NET was an experiment proposed by TUCN,
on the JSI testbed, aiming to show the feasibility of power
control games to enable the co-existence of several IoT de-
vices over a relatively small area. The experiment was suc-
cessfully performed resulting in a submitted journal publica-
tion. During this work, it was shown that most of the theoretic
frameworks need serious reformulation and adaptation to
work in real set-ups. Additionally, most games only rely on
signal to noise ratio while considering cross-layer metrics
such as packet received ratio which seems to be a more prac-
tical approach.
fire contribution
FIRE remote and relatively large test facilities enable experi-
menters from small companies and groups to get hands-on
experience, which would be difficult or very expensive to ob-
tain otherwise. Additionally, the availability of state-of-the-art
hardware and software is a plus for these experimenters, but,
especially the SMEs tend to favor scale at the expense of so-
phisticated equipment.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.crew-project.eu/demos
CREW

SUCCESS STORY BY FLEX
participants
University of Thessaly (UTH)
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
challenGe
As data traffic exchanged over the mobile networks is con-
stantly growing, mobile operators need to prioritize the traffic
according to the traffic class that it belongs (e.g. voice, video,
etc), towards maximizing the end user perceived Quality of
Experience (QoE). However, the lack of truly open testbed fa-
cilities that support experimentation with cutting edge wire-
less technologies is hindering any efforts of the research
community.
solution
FIRE LTE testbeds for Open Experimentation (FLEX) project
aims in establishing truly open testbed facilities that use the
state-of-the-art LTE protocol for mobile communications.
Through FLEX equipment and supporting software plat-
forms are becoming fully compatible with the existing FIRE
tools and methodologies, enabling user-friendly experimen-
tation with the recently added resources. Moreover, the par-
ticipating testbeds are featuring heterogeneous networking
equipment that is already present at each site, enabling the
creation of topologies with joint wired and wireless network-
ing resources. In this context, we use OpenFlow, the widely
known SDN enabler, behind the LTE Evolved Packet Core
Experimenting with LTE and SDN
resources for enhanced end-user QoE
Network to categorize the traffic that is received from the LTE
access network. According to the LTE-specific Quality of Ser-
vice (QoS) network parameters (e.g. QCi and ARP retention
policy, etc.) used for each wireless client, we create the ap-
propriate traffic flow in the wired backbone beyond the LTE
network.Byinspectingthetrafficandusingaspecificallybuilt
OpenFlow controller, we are able to create a distinct network
environment for each wireless client, thus affecting the per-
ceived Quality of Experience (QoE).
We apply this test scenario, between two different NITOS
testbeds, one using the LTE equipment and one using the
WiMAX infrastructure. The two participating smartphones
are communicating using a Layer 2 interconnection. Two dif-
ferent types of traffic are sent; VoIP traffic initiated from an
LTEenabledsmartphonetotheWiMAXenabledsmartphone
andbackgroundtraffic.BymakinguseofSDN,wemanageto
prioritize the VoIP traffic over the background traffic.
fire contribution
The tools that we take advantage of in this demonstration
have been built through FLEX, and target in creating a soft-
ware defined backend behind the available LTE resources.
These tools are fully compatible with the existing established
FIRE platforms and are given free-of charge to any experi-
menter that wants to conduct LTE-related experiments over
the FLEX platform. Hardware and software is a plus for these
experimenters, but, especially the SMEs who tend to favor
scale at the expense of sophisticated equipment.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.flex-project.eu
FLEX
Topologyadoptedforthisexperiment;OpenFlowsupportbeyondtheLTE
andWiMAXnetworkallowsustoprioritizetrafficaccordinglytothe
experimenter’sneeds.

SUCCESS STORY BY ONELAB
MOREINFORMATION:
www.onelab.eu
ONELAB
participants
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6
Inria (France)
iMinds (Belgium)
Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
University of Thessaly (Greece)
challenGe
Until recently, developing a federation of large-scale com-
puter networking testbeds from different authorities has not
successfully been achieved. Testbeds such as PlanetLab, Em-
ulab,ORBITprovidethenecessaryscaleoftestingbutexistas
independent entities with separate tools and authentication
mechanisms. The OneLab facility has resolved this challenge
through the development of testbeds that are freely available
to researchers through a single-access point with a unique
credential, and common set of tools through which the het-
erogeneous platforms can be accessed.
solution
OneLab’s adoption of Slice-based Federation Architecture
(SFA), an API for authentication and authorization, and the
MySlice portal technology provide a successful model for
federation. SFA allows for the independent authorities fed-
erated under OneLab to offer distributed resources to their
users, with each authority authenticating and authorizing
user access to resources. The OneLab portal, using MySlice,
provides a single point through which users can access the
testbeds and reserve heterogeneous resources across plat-
forms.
Opening of the OneLab Experimental Facility:
European and International Impact
High recognition within Europe: The OpenLab project,
which resulted in the OneLab facility, was honored with the
“Etoiles de l’Europe,” a prestigious award from the French
Ministry of Higher Education and Research. This award rec-
ognizedOpenLabanditsEuropeanandinternationalpartners
for their successful, innovative, and collaborative research in
the future internet field.
fire contribution
Several FIRE platforms have federated under OneLab, ex-
panding the user base of FIRE resources and providing sup-
port for sustained development and creation of future inter-
net testbeds. New platforms have opened under OneLab: the
FIT IoT-Lab testbed for large scale testing of small wireless
sensor devices; and FIT NITOS-Lab offering experimentation
across WiFi connected nodes.
International Success: OneLab continues to expand the
FIREcommunityanddisseminatetheFIREmissionoutsideof
Europe. A memorandum of understanding with the Institute
for Information Technology - Taiwan was signed in Septem-
ber, allowing for shared and reciprocal access to resources.
The OneLab facility contributes to the sustainability of the
FIRE mission, and will continue its innovative research and
development of future internet resources.
OneLabFederationOverview.

SUCCESS STORY BY 3D-LIVE
participants
Collaborative Engineering (Coordinator) (Italy)
ARTS (France)
University of Southampton (UK)
Cyberlightning (Finland)
Sportscurve (Germany)
CERTH (Greece)
challenGe
In the modern world, the number of 3D capable devices are
rapidly increasing bringing virtual reality closer to the real
world. The 3D-LIVE project challenge was to study how to
evaluate experiences in immersive environment where us-
ers are able to experience, feel and interact with real environ-
ments and real distant users in real time.
solution
The 3D-LIVE project developed a User Driven Mixed Reality
platform connected to EXPERIMEDIA testbeds to investigate
the Quality of Experience (QoE) and Quality of Services (QoS)
when users are fully immersed into mixed environments. In
the context of Augmented Sports, we allow several users to
be virtually immersed in one shared environment called the
“Twilight platform”. In this mixed reality environment, they
are able to see, communicate and play with one another in
real time taking advantages of the latest research in 3D Re-
construction of moving humans. Our platform is adapted to
three use-cases: the Golf, the Ski and the Jogging activities.
Experiments
in a Twilight Space
The 3D-LIVE project main phases
• Creation of a Future Internet Experiential Design method-
ology including a holistic User Experience model to en-
able the continuous evaluation of the QoE and the QoS.
• Design and creation of open FI mediated Mixed Real-
ity (Twilight) Platform supporting 3D Tele-Immersive
Environments with social interaction in the context of
live sport events. During the project new practices were
created for:
• Skeleton Capturing.
• Pre-recorded animations usage.
• Human 3D reconstruction.
• Experimentation and evaluation of the implemented
Twilight Platform and 3D Tele-Immersive Environments
with the skiing, running and golfing live scenarios.
3D Live experimentations
User experiences with Twilight platform in all 3D-LIVE sce-
nariosweresimilarandencouraging:usersenjoyedtheexpe-
rience and reported strong, positive attitudes towards future
use. In some cases users wanted to schedule further events
with each other after the experiment! Many of our joggers
became competitive very quickly during these experiments!
Othersenjoyedinteractingwitheachotherinthesharedenvi-
ronment via physical actions their avatars performed. Quality
of Service and Quality of Experience data we captured were
valuable and used to further improve the overall user experi-
ence.
fire contribution
The 3D-LIVE project has engaged with the FIRE community
on a number of platforms including cross-project collabora-
tion with EXPERIMEDIA (including the sharing of facilities;
technologies and methods); the presentation of collabora-
tions at workshops; and the dissemination of promotional
material.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.3dliveproject.eu
3D-LIVE
TwilightPlatformwhichseamlesslyconnectsindoorandoutdoorusersin
Tele-immersiveenvironment.

SUCCESS STORY BY EVARILOS
TestbedinfrastructureforbenchmarkingofRF-basedindoorlocalization
undercontrolledinterference.
participants
Technische Universität Berlin (Germany, Coordinator)
ADVANTIC Sistemas y Servicios (Spain)
iMinds (Belgium)
SICS Swedish ICT (Sweden)
Televic Healthcare (Belgium)
challenGe
EVARILOS addresses major problems of indoor localization
research: The pitfall to reproduce research results in real life
scenarios due to uncontrolled RF interference, and the weak-
ness of numerous published solutions being evaluated under
individual, not comparable and not repeatable conditions.
Accurate and robust indoor localization is a key enabler for
context-aware Future Internet applications, whereby robust
means that the localization solutions should perform well in
diverse physical indoor environments under realistic RF inter-
ference conditions.
solution
EVARILOS developed a benchmarking methodology ena-
bling objective experimental validation of and fair compari-
son between state-of-the art indoor localization solutions.
This methodology considers not only accuracy metrics, but
also complexity, cost, energy, and, most importantly, RF in-
terference robustness metrics. The interference robustness
of localization solutions has been improved through (a) mul-
timodal approaches leveraging different localization meth-
ods; (b) introducing environmental awareness and cognitive
Evaluation of RF-based Indoor Localization
Solutions for the Future Internet
features; (c) leveraging the presence of external interference.
Finally, the EVARILOS benchmarking methodology and in-
terference-robust localization solutions are validated in two
real-life application scenarios: healthcare in a hospital setting
andundergroundminingsafety.Theoutcome,theEVARILOS
benchmarking suite, has been implemented in FIRE (CREW,
TWIST) facilities and is publicly available.
fire contribution
As one of the main FIRE contributions the project developed
the EVARILOS Benchmarking Handbook which provides a
generic benchmarking methodology, as well as a set of vali-
dated and standardized experiment-based benchmarks for
localization solutions. The implemented EVARILOS Bench-
marking Suite provides opportunities to users (a) to support
the evaluation process of indoor localization solutions using
objective methodologies, (b) to simplify the use of experi-
mentalFIREfacilitiesforthepurposeofevaluatinglocalization
solutions and (c) to allow reuse of EVARILOS research results
by a wider scientific community.
Open datasets, containing environmental RF data from
multiple environments, as well as detailed descriptions of
the setup and outcomes of the performed localization experi-
ments, are provided to bootstrap efficient experimentation
design and comparison of solutions.
The EVARILOS Open Challenge – an open competition
for the best localization solution to promote the EVARILOS
benchmarking methodology – has been organized with two
tracks in 2014. Continuous opportunities for evaluating RF-
based indoor localization algorithms and solutions using the
methodology and infrastructure developed in the scope of
the project are still open to anyone from academia and indus-
try, potential users and contributors.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.evarilos.eu
EVARILOS

SUCCESS STORY BY CREW
ContinuousmonitoringofUHFspectrum.
participants
Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
iMinds
Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI)
Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) + (Celia Maria Dos Santos
Ferreira) CMSF
challenGe
Cognitive radio has been proven to be a good alternative to
deal with the spectrum bottleneck we are faced with, how-
ever the concept and technology are only known and under-
stood by a relatively small community. Therefore, broaden-
ing the impact of cognitive radio and raising awareness of its
benefits are important challenges.
solution
As a first step in addressing the challenge, a very intuitive
and user-friendly four player game entitled “Spectrum Wars”
was created. Inspired by the participation of TCD in the 2014
DARPA Spectrum Challenge, the game subsequently won
the best Demo award at IEEE DySpan 2014 and has been suc-
cessfullyshownatseveraleventssuchasFIA,ICT,iMindsThe
Conference, etc.
Broadening the impact of
cognitive radio
The ongoing OfCom trials in the UK are preparing the
ground for the use of primary/secondary access in TV white
space (TVWS). CREW is involved in the trials though the col-
laboration with the ACROPOLIS NoE and King’s College Lon-
don. The participation consists of 1) long term continuous
monitoring of the activities in the VHF and UHF TV bands and
2) testing the ability of the geo-location database to automati-
cally create protection zones based on real-time sensing in-
formation.
fire contribution
Without FIRE, it would have been very difficult to develop a
portable spectrum wars game on actual hardware that can
be used to raise awareness and educate people on cognitive
radioanddynamicspectrumaccess.FIREalsofundedthede-
velopment of the low-cost VESNA - ESHTER hardware which
is capable of continuous spectrum sensing and the exten-
sions to the geo-location database.
READ MORE:
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/~psutton/?page_id=103
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/tv-white-spaces/white-spaces-pilot/TV-White-Space-Trials/
http://log-a-tec.eu/bokeh/vss-05-jsi-c-building/
MOREINFORMATION:
www.crew-project.eu/demos
CREW

SUCCESS STORY BY SMARTFIRE
TheC-flowusecaseoverthefederatedfacilityprovidedbyNITOSandSNU
testbed.
participants
University of Thessaly (Greece)
Seoul National University (South Korea)
challenGe
Overthelastyears,severaltheoreticalunderpinningsonSDN
have been established, thus inspiring the conception and de-
ploymentofnovelnetworkarchitectures.However,theevalu-
ation of these architectures on experimentation platforms is
still an open challenge, especially in the cases which feature
unified ‘intelligent’ backbone and wireless access networks.
SmartFIRE is building a shared large-scale infrastructure, by
expanding and federating the existing Future Internet test-
beds in Europe and South Korea. The new infrastructure
promotes joint experimentation among European and South
Korean experimenters, encouraging them to conceive and
implement innovative protocols on video streaming and IoT
architectures, etc. A content-based architecture is discussed
as a use case for the validation of the effectiveness of this in-
frastructure.
solution
SmartFIRE is creating a common and unified way of experi-
menting with a large-scale facility, incorporating SDN re-
search that is primarily conducted by the South Korean Part-
ners,andwirelessnetworkingexperimentationthatiscarried
out by the European Partners. A major part of the worldwide
Enabling Experimentation on Content-based
Architectures with Wireless and
Software-Defined Networking
current research on SDN technologies is being carried out
in South Korea, from organizations building OpenFlow ena-
bled testbeds, while the European side provides its expertise
in wireless technologies and federation architectures. In this
specific case, a content-based communication architecture is
developed on top of the University of Thessaly (NITOS) and
Seoul National University (SNU) testbeds. This communica-
tionscheme,namedC-Flow,isimplementedusingOpenFlow
technology on top of the European and South Korean test-
beds. The utilized resources of the federated facility include
Linux host machines, virtual machines, physical and virtual
OpenFlow switches and Layer 2 intercontinental virtual con-
nections,basedontheGEANT-GLORIAD-KREONETservices.
Wireless devices laying on the NITOS testbed are connected
to a content-based network, where the IP addressing scheme
is replaced by a novel one, based on content identifiers. The
goalofthisinnovationistouseidentifiersthatspecifyonlythe
content,whichisplacedonmultiplesidesontheSNUtestbed
and not its location. The target of the C-Flow architecture is
demonstrating the forwarding procedure of the content from
the most appropriate side to each requesting wireless device,
while streaming over the wireless mesh of NITOS which is
based on a Backpressure routing scheme.
fire contribution
Theexperimentationontheaforementionedscenario,among
other things, illustrate the efficiency of the content-based ar-
chitectures, as well as the feasibility of their development to-
day. However, the main benefit of SmartFIRE is the exchange
of know-how, the promotion of the OpenFlow experimenta-
tion in the European zone and the broadening of the South
Korean partners’ expertise on the wireless networking.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.eukorea-fire.eu
SmartFIRE

FACILITY PROJECTS
CONFINE (Community Networks Testbed for the Future In-
ternet) provides Community-Lab, an experimental facility
that supports and extends experimentally-driven research
on Community-owned Open Local IP Networks, already
successful in developing Internet access in many areas of
Europe and the world. The project takes an integrated view
on these innovative networks, offering a testbed to embed
experiments on several community networks, each hosting
between 40–40,000 nodes, along with even more end-users.
How does it work?
CONFINE’s testbed, Community-Lab, integrates and extends
several existing community networks: Guifi.net (Catalo-
nia, Spain), FunkFeuer (Wien, Austria) and AWMN (Athens,
Greece), Wireless België (Belgium), Ninux (Italy), Sarantapo-
ro.gr (Greece). These facilities are extremely dynamic and di-
verse, and successfully combine different wireless and wired
(optical) link technologies, diverse routing schemes and man-
agement schemes, running multiple services and applica-
tions. The testbed is an innovative model of self-provisioned,
dynamic and self-organizing networks using unlicensed
and public spectrum and links. It offers unified access to an
open testbed with tools that allow researchers to deploy, run,
monitor and experiment as part of real-world community IP
networks. This integrated platform provides user-friendly
access to these emerging community networks, supporting
any stakeholder interested in developing and testing experi-
mental technologies for open and interoperable network in-
frastructures.
The CONFINE facility allows the experimental validation
of scenarios such as comparison between diverse mesh
routing protocols; self-managing (or autonomic) application
protocols that adapt to the dynamic conditions of nodes, links
androutes;networkself-managementorcooperativeandde-
centralized management; the adaptation of services such as
VoIP to low bandwidth wireless networks.
CONFINE
Key achievements/results
Community-Lab: An open federated test platform that facili-
tates experimentally-driven research in existing community
networks. Community-Lab has more than 200 nodes. The
testbed is part of the Fed4FIRE federation. Experiments en-
compass topics such as network characterisation, improve-
ments on routing protocols, cross-layer optimizations, SDN,
video streaming, network attached radios, and content-cen-
tric networking, etc. Social experiments focus on the analy-
sis of social networks, participation, social incentives, social
enterprises for local telecom services, and sustainability fac-
tors. Open data sets are published at http://opendata.confine-
project.eu including topology, routing, traffic, and usage pat-
terns. New open source software tools and protocols have
been developed, and are now adopted outside the project.
How to get involved?
Testbed portal: http://community-lab.net
Documentation: http://wiki.confine-project.eu
Code: http://redmine.confine-project.eu
Open usage of Community-Lab is available since 2015.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Leandro Navarro (UPC)
EXECUTION: From 2011-10-01 to 2015-09-30
PARTNERS: Core: UPC (Spain) (Coordinator), guifi.net (Spain),
FunkFeuer (Austria), Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
(Greece), OPLAN (UK), Pangea (Spain), Fraunhofer-FOKUS
(Germany), iMinds (Belgium).
1st Open Call: CNIT (Italy), Freie Universität Berlin - FUB
(Germany), INESCP (Portugal), University of Luxembourg
(Luxembourg), University of Trento (Italy).
2nd Open Call: CNIT (Italy), University of Cambridge
(United Kingdom), University of Western Cape (South
Africa), Sarantaporo.gr (Greece), Technische Universität
Berlin (Germany), Itinerarium (Spain), New America
Foundation (USA), Routek S.L. (Spain), Forschungszentrum
Telekommunikation Wien (Austria), Universität Hannover
(Germany), UNIDATA (Italy).
MOREINFORMATION:
www.confine-project.eu
CONFINE

FACILITY PROJECTS
The goal of the Fed4FIRE project (www.fed4fire.eu) is to fed-
erate the different FIRE facilities using a common federation
framework. The federation framework enables innovative
experiments that break the boundaries of these domains. It
allows experimenters to more easily find the right resources
to translate their ideas into actual experiments, to easily gain
access to different nodes on different testbeds, to use the
same experimenter tools across the different testbeds, etc.
This means that the experimenters can focus more on their
research tasks than on the practical aspects of experimen-
tation. The benefits of federation for the infrastructure pro-
viders are e.g. the reuse of common tools developed within
the federation, reach of larger community of experimenters
through the federation, etc.
There are currently 21 testbeds involved in the Fed4FIRE
federation, introducing a diverse set of Future Internet tech-
nologies. 8 of these testbeds joined the project after winning
the project’s 1st and 2nd Open Calls . These calls were issued
in 2013 and 2014, respectively, and aimed to allocate budget
to selected candidate testbeds for inclusion in the Fed4FIRE
project. Furthermore, the Open Calls also targeted propos-
als for innovative experiments that make use of the provided
Fed4FIRE federation. In total 17 experiments were selected
over those 2 Open Calls. In addition, two specific Open Calls
havebeenorganizedin2014especiallytargetingexperiments
proposed by SMEs, resulting in a selection of 8 experiments
by SMEs.
How does it work?
The Fed4FIRE federation architecture is characterized by a
preference for distributed components. This way, the federa-
tion would not be compromised if, in the short or long term,
individual testbeds or partners would discontinue their sup-
port of the federation. The general policy is that experimenter
tools should always be able to directly interact with the differ-
enttestbeds,andshouldnotbeobligedtopassthroughsome
central Fed4FIRE component. However, some non-critical
central federation-level components are also included in the
Fed4FIRE
architectureforconveniencepurposes.Forinstance,whenan
experimenter tool is used for resource discovery, reservation
andprovisioning,itwillretrievethelistsofavailableresources
directly from the different Fed4FIRE testbeds, and it will di-
rectly request these testbeds to reserve specific resources or
to provision them. Experiment control tools (which ease the
execution of complex experiment scenarios) and experiment
monitoring frameworks are other example cases where the
experimenter tool will directly interact with the testbed.
A critical aspect in such a highly distributed approach is
the adoption of common interfaces in the federation, and
making sure that every member of the federation is fully
compliant with them. Therefore, Fed4FIRE is developing a
new software tool that focuses on acceptance testing of the
required interfaces for testbed federation: jFed. This test suite
enables the rigorous testing and integration activities that are
needed when federating a highly heterogeneous set of test-
beds with the intention to realize a fully operational federa-
tion. jFed focuses on logical tests for all steps of the experi-
ment workflow and adds interface tests and negative testing
(are things breakable?) where needed.
In the context of resource discovery, reservation and pro-
visioning, the adoption of the Slice-Based Federation Archi-
tecture (SFA) is a key element in Fed4FIRE. Therefore, the first
focal point of jFed is the support of manual and automatic
nightly testing of the entire SFA API. This testing functional-
ity is entirely developed in Java, allowing greater flexibility in
development of both the test suite and future Java SFA client
tools. For the manual testing of the SFA interface of any given
testbed, both a command line and a graphical user interface
are provided. The automatic (nightly) testing of testbeds is
run from within a Jenkins platform, posting the test reports
on a website and sending emails in case of problems. The
test suite has been released as open source software (http://
jfed.iminds.be), and easily allows for extensions through a pl-
ugin system. This way, other important Fed4FIRE federation
interfaces will also be added to the testing suite as the project
continues.TheFederatedResourceControlProtocol(FRCP)is
an example of such an interface.
StatisticsfromFed4FIREOpenCalls.
Call Category EC Contribution Number of proposals Success rate
Requested Available Submitted Accepted
1st Open Call Experiments 4 076 492 € 600 000 € 56 8 14.28%
Facilities 2 387 121 € 300 000 € 25 3 12.00 %
1st SME Call Experiments 298 650 € 100 000 € 12 4 33.33%
2nd Open Call Experiments –
industry driven
486 697 € 200 000 € 11 5 45.45%
Experiments
– academia
driven
387 434 € 200 000 € 8 4 50.00%
Facilities 1 400 082 € 400 000 € 18 5 27.78%
2nd SME Call Experiments 663 269 € 100 000 € 28 4 14.28%

25 months after the start of the project, Fed4FIRE has de-
ployed the first and the second version of its federation
framework, allowing experimenters to get involved with all
affiliated testbeds in an easy manner. The first version of the
Fed4FIRE framework has been validated by 8 experiments
accepted after the 1st Open Call and by four additional ex-
periments accepted after 1st specific SME call. The second
version of the framework will be validated by 9 experiments
accepted after the 2nd Open Call and four additional experi-
ments accepted after the 2nd SME Call. These experiments
will be implemented and executed in 2015.
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 upcom-
ing months. Moreover, Fed4FIRE has launched a process
for Open Access to the Fed4FIRE testbeds allowing access
and use of the federated testbeds without additional fund-
ing. To keep informed about the Fed4FIRE SME Calls and
Open Access, please, regularly check the project website
(www.fed4fire.eu) and/or contact us at contact@fed4fire.eu.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Piet Demeester (iMinds)
PARTNERS: iMinds (Belgium) (Coordinator), University of
Southampton IT Innovation (UK), UPMC (France), Fraunhofer-
FOKUS (Germany), TU Berlin (Germany), University of Edinburgh
(UK), INRIA (France), NICTA (Australia), Atos (Spain), University
of Thessaly (Greece), NTUA (Greece), University of Bristol (UK),
i2CAT (Spain), EURESCOM (Germany), DANTE (United Kingdom),
Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), NISA (Republic of Korea).
PARTNERS JOINED AFTER 1ST OPEN CALL (FROM DECEMBER 2013):
UMA (Spain), UPC (Spain), UC3M (Spain), DEIMOS (Spain), MTA
SZTAKI (Hungary), NUI Galway (Ireland), ULANC (UK), WooX
Innovations (Belgium), UKent (UK), British Telecom (UK), Televes
(Spain).
PARTNERS JOINED AFTER 2ND OPEN CALL (FROM DECEMBER 2014):
Be-Mobile (Belgium), Nissatech (Serbia), Liberologico (Italy),
TELTEK (Spain), Televic Rail (Belgium), PSNC (Poland), CNIT (Italy),
CREATE-NET (Italy), UAM (Spain), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland),
Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia), Adele Robots (Spain), PAN PCSS
(Poland).
OverviewofthetestbedscurrentlybelongingtoFed4FIRE.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.fed4fire.eu
Fed4FIRE

FACILITY PROJECTS
The CREW project facilitates experimentally-driven research
onadvancedspectrumsensing,cognitiveradioandcognitive
networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spec-
trum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands.
How does it work?
The CREW platform federates five individual wireless test-
beds, built on diverse wireless technologies: heterogeneous
ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) radio, heterogeneous
licensed radio (TV-bands), cellular networks (LTE) , and wire-
less sensors. The offerings of these geographically distribut-
ed testbeds are federated, and improved with the addition of
state-of-the-art cognitive sensing equipment.
The platform offers users a common portal with a com-
prehensive description of the functionalities of each individ-
ual testbed together with clear user guidelines. The facility
also includes a benchmarking framework that enables ex-
perimentsundercontrolled/reproducibletestconditions,and
offers universal and automated procedures for experiments
and performance evaluation. This allows fair comparison
between different cognitive radio and cognitive networking
concepts.
The combined expertise, software and hardware that is
available in the CREW federated platform allows the experi-
mental optimization and validation of cognitive radio and
cognitive networking concepts in a diverse range of scenari-
os,includingbutnotlimitedto:radioenvironmentsensingfor
cognitiveradiospectrumsharing,horizontalresourcesharing
between heterogeneous networks in the ISM bands, coop-
eration in heterogeneous networks in licensed bands, robust
cognitive sensor networks, and measuring the impact of cog-
nitive networking on primary cellular systems.
CREW has organised three successful Open Calls. Open Call
1 and Open Call 2 resulted in 7 funded experiments and the
accession of 9 new partners to the CREW project. 7 more
experiments (with no funding for the experimenters) have
been supported as a result from the latest call (Open Call 3),
evidencing a first step towards sustainable use of the CREW
facilities.
3rd Open Call experimenter community: Laboratoire
d’Informatique PAris Descartes (LIPADE), Paris Descartes
University & Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
(LRI), Paris-Sud University, Technical University of Cluj-
Napoca, AED Engineering GmbH, TASS Belgium NV, Ss.
Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (UKIM), Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, ESAT - TELEMIC, Televic Healthcare NV.
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 experimenta-
tion with guaranteed availability and support. More informa-
tion about the Open Access use of the CREW facilities can be
found at http://www.crew-project.eu/opencall. The CREW
portal (http://www.crew-project.eu/portal) guides the experi-
menter to find the most suitable test facility for its experiment
and gives further information on how to get started.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Ingrid Moerman (iMinds)
PARTNERS: iMinds (Belgium) (Coordinator), imec (Belgium),
Trinity College Dublin, (Ireland), TU Berlin (Germany),
TU Dresden (Germany), Thales (France), EADS (Germany),
Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia).
1st Open Call: University of Durham (UK), Technische
Universität Ilmenau (Germany), Tecnalia Research &
Innovation (Spain).
2nd Open Call: University of Thessaly (Greece), National
ICT Australia (Australia), Instituto de Telecomunicações
(Portugal), CMSF-Sistemas de Informação (Portugal),
CNIT (Italy), WINGS ICT Solutions (Greece).
TheCREWfederatedplatformanditsadvancedcognitivecomponent.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.crew-project.eu
CREW
CREW

FACILITY PROJECTS
FLEX (FIRE LTE testbeds for open experimentation) aims at
contributing a crucial missing piece in FIRE’s infrastructure
puzzle: cellular access technologies and Long-Term Evolution
(LTE). FLEX’s experimentation environment will feature both
open source platforms and configurable commercial equip-
ment that span macro-cell, pico-cell and small-cell setups.
FLEX will build upon current FIRE testbed management and
experiment control tools and extend them to provide support
for the new LTE components, and will develop specialized
monitoring tools and methodologies. Focus will be placed on
mobility, with the establishment of both real and emulated
mobility functionalities on the testbeds. FLEX will organize
two Open Calls, aiming to attract research groups to conduct
sophisticated experiments, test innovative usages or provide
functional extensions of LTE testbeds.
How does it work?
FLEX will establish LTE resources by means of access and
core network in existing FIRE facilities thus reducing the inte-
gration effort. The LTE resources deployment will take place
at the wireless testbeds of NITOS in Greece, w—iLab.t in Bel-
gium and EURECOM in France by using two different setups;
the first one based on commercial equipment and the second
one using highly configurable Open Source LTE components
on an FPGA setup. The first approach offers a commercial
network that is configurable and enables testing that needs
compliance with the market products while the second one
allows for full redesign of the system. The state-of-the-art
tools for resource control and experiment orchestration and
monitoring will be extended in order to support the LTE spe-
cific resources, so as to provide a user friendly way for the
experimenter to remotely access the testbeds and evaluate
new ideas and protocols.
FLEX achievements can be summarized as follows:
• The three testbed sites are already online and operating.
• The LTE resources are smoothly integrated in the FIRE
management frameworks.
• Frameworks and monitoring applications using the LTE
equipment are given to the experimenters.
• Awareness has risen in the FIRE community about FLEX
by disseminating the project in key events.
• First Open Call has been successfully organized!
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 or-
ganized one Open Call for proposals, and a second one is ex-
pected in 2015. The goal of these calls is to attract proposals
for innovative usages of the deployed facilities, sophisticated
experimentsorevenfunctionalextensionsoftheLTEcompo-
nents.Thecallshavebeenplannedtotakeplaceearly,inorder
to provide enough time for the new partners to be integrated
in the consortium and provide meaningful contributions.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Prof.ThanasisKorakis(UniversityofThessaly)
PARTNERS: University of Thessaly (Greece) (Coordinator),
iMinds (Belgium), SiRRAN Engineering Services Ltd. (UK),
Eurecom (France), ip.access Ltd. (UK), COSMOTE (Greece),
Rutgers – The state university of New Jersey (US), NICTA
(Australia).
TheFLEXtestbed;OpenSourceandCommercialLTEplatformsavailablefor
experimentation.
FLEX
MOREINFORMATION:
www.flex-project.eu
FLEX

FACILITY PROJECTS – CALL 10
Oceans and lakes cover 71% of the earth surface, and play a
key role for the equilibrium of many earth systems, includ-
ing climate and weather. Moreover, they support the life of
nearly half of all species on earth and about 40% of the global
population living within 100 kilometers of a coast. The future
of mankind is therefore very dependent on careful monitor-
ing, control and exploitation of the marine environments. As
of today, however, our ocean basins are less well mapped,
explored and understood than the moon, or even Mars.
SUNRISE aims to provide all the tools for the unprece-
dented monitoring and exploration of marine environments,
extendingtheconceptofTheFutureInternet(i.e.,thesocalled
“Internet of Things”) to the underwater domain.
How does it work?
SUNRISE concerns developing innovative solutions for net-
working smart devices to monitor and control the marine
environments. Several underwater platforms, including
unmanned mobile robots, will be deployed in five different
marine areas including the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic
Ocean, the Black Sea, lakes and canals. These devices will
be interconnected wirelessly, through prevailing underwater
communication technologies (e.g., acoustic and optical). Data
collected by sensors, whether on static or mobile platforms,
will be delivered to a central command and control station,
where scientist and experts will be able to check the status of
the marine environment and take any action, if needed. SUN-
RISE will enable for the first time an accurate monitoring of
large marine areas ‘in real time’.
SUNRISEdirectlyaddressestheFIREobjectivesproviding
innovative technologies for open underwater experimental
facilities.
In the first year of the project the different building blocks of
the SUNRISE architecture have been designed, implemented
and integrated, allowing to build cutting edge facilities usable
for experimentation. In particular:
• Prototypes of Software Defined Acoustic Modems and
Software Defined Communication Stacks have been
built and successfully tested. The technologies devel-
oped enable interoperability and cooperation of hetero-
geneous, multi-vendor platforms and allow coexistence
and dynamic selection of different communication
technologies and solutions.
• Two testing facilities (in La Spezia, Italy, and in Porto, Por-
tugal) have been built, extended and federated through
the SUNRISE GATE. The SUNRISE GATE allows to
access the testbeds remotely through Internet, schedule
tests, control in real-time the experiments, gather, store,
analyze and present the collected data.
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 con-
nection to remote underwater devices, to request measure-
ments, 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 se-
lected projects will start in spring 2015; the second one will be
launched in summer 2015.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome
“La Sapienza”)
PARTNERS: University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) (Coor-
dinator), Evologics Gmb (Germany), NATO STO Centre for
Maritime Research and Experimentation (Italy), Nexse s.r.l.
(Italy), SUASIS Underwater Systems Technology Limited
(Turkey), The Research Foundation of State University of
New York (University at Buffalo) (U.S.A.), Universidade do
Porto (Portugal), Universiteit Twente (The Netherlands).
SUNRISE
LightAUVsatworkinthebayofPorto(Portugal)©MARCOMEROLA.
MOREINFORMATION:
fp7-sunrise.eu
SUNRISE

FACILITY PROJECTS – CALL 1 / ICT11-H2020
FIESTAwillrealizetheinteroperabilityofdiverseIoTtestbeds,therebyena-
blingexperimentsleveragingdataandresourcesfrommultipletestbeds.
The vision of integrating IoT platforms, testbeds and asso-
ciated silo applications is associated with several scientific
challenges, such as the need to aggregate and ensure the
interoperability of data streams stemming from different IoT
platforms or testbeds, as well as the need to provide tools
and techniques for building applications that horizontally in-
tegrate silo platforms and applications.
The convergence of IoT with cloud computing is a key
enabler for this integration and interoperability, since it allows
the aggregation of multiple IoT data streams towards the de-
velopment and deployment of scalable, elastic and reliable
applications that are delivered on-demand according to a
pay-as-you-go model.
How does it work?
FIESTA-IoTworkstowardsprovidingablueprintexperimental
infrastructure, tools, techniques, processes and best practic-
es enabling IoT testbed/platforms operators to interconnect
their facilities in an interoperable way, while at the same time
facilitating researchers and solution providers in designing
and deploying large scale integrated applications (experi-
ments) that transcend the (silo) boundaries of individual IoT
platforms or testbeds. FIESTA-IoT will enable researchers
and experimenters to share and reuse data from diverse IoT
testbeds in a seamless and flexible way, which will open up
new opportunities in the development and deployment of
experiments that exploit data and capabilities from multiple
testbeds.
Key objectives
The main goal of the FIESTA project is to open new horizons
in the development and deployment of IoT applications and
experiments at an EU (and global) scale, based on the inter-
connection and interoperability of diverse IoT platforms and
testbeds.
Overall, the project’s experimental infrastructure will pro-
vide European experimenters in the IoT domain with the fol-
lowing unique capabilities (Figure 1):
• Access to and sharing of IoT datasets in a testbed-agnos-
tic way. FIESTA will provide researchers with tools for ac-
cessing IoT data resources (including Linked sensor data
sets) independently of their source IoT platform/testbed.
• Execution of experiments across multiple IoT testbeds,
based on a single API for submitting the experiment and
a single set of credentials for the researcher.
• Portability of IoT experiments across different testbeds,
through the provision of interoperable standards-based
IoT/cloud interfaces over diverse IoT experimental facili-
ties.
In order to accomplish its goals, the FIESTA-IoT project will is-
sue,manageandexploitarangeofopencallstowardsinvolv-
ing third-parties in the project. The objective of the involve-
ment of third-parties will be two-fold:
• To ensure the design and integration (within FIESTA-IoT)
of more innovative experiments, through the involve-
ment of additional partners in the project (including
SMEs).
• To expand the FIESTA-IoT experimental infrastructure on
the basis of additional testbeds.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Dr. Martin Serrano (National University of
Ireland Galway – Insight)
PARTNERS: National University of Ireland - NUIG (Ireland)
(Coordinator), University of Southampton IT Innovation -
ITINNOV (United Kingdom), Institut National Recherche en
Informatique & Automatique - INRIA, (France), University of
Surrey - UNIS (United Kingdom), Unparallel Innovation, Lda
- UNINNOVA (Portugal), Easy Global Market - EGM (France),
NEC Europe Ltd. NEC (United Kingdom), University of
Cantabria UNICAN (Spain), Association Plate-forme Telecom
- Com4innov (France), Research and Education Laboratory
in Information Technologies - Athens Information Technol-
ogy - AIT (Greece), Sociedad para el desarrollo de Cantabria
- SODERCAN (Spain), Ayuntamiento de Santander - SDR
(Spain), Korea Electronics Technology Institute KETI, (Korea).
FIESTA
MOREINFORMATION:
www.fiesta-iot.eu
FIESTA

Measuring Mobile Broadband Networks in Europe
Mobile broadband (MBB) networks underpin a lot of vital op-
erations of the modern society and are arguably becoming
the most important piece of the modern communications
infrastructure in the world. The immense popularity of mo-
bile devices like smartphones and tablets, combined with
the availability of high-capacity 3G and 4G mobile networks,
has radically changed the way most people access and use
the Internet. Given the importance of MBB networks, there
is a strong need for objective information about their perfor-
mance, particularly, the quality experienced by the end user.
Such information is very valuable for many parties including
operators, regulators and policy makers, consumers and so-
ciety at large, businesses whose services depend on MBB
networks, researchers and innovators. MONROE proposes
to design and operate the first European transnational open
platform for independent, multi-homed, large-scale monitor-
ing and assessment of performance of MBB networks in het-
erogeneous environments.
How does it work?
MONROE will build a dedicated infrastructure for measur-
ing and experimenting in MBB and WiFi networks, compris-
ing both fixed and mobile nodes distributed over Norway,
Sweden, Spain and Italy. The mobile nodes will be placed
on trains, busses and trucks, and they will play a key role to
understand the MBB performance under mobility. The MON-
ROEnodeswillbedesignedsuchthattheywillbeflexibleand
powerfulenoughtorunmostmeasurementandexperiments
tasks, including demanding applications like adaptive video
streaming. MONROE will design experiments that measure
the characteristics of MBB networks both in terms of per-
formance and reliability. Furthermore, MONROE will allow
experimenting novel services and applications on MBB net-
works. All nodes will be connected to three MBB providers,
and often also to WiFi. This makes MONROE particularly well
suitedforexperimentationwithmethodsthatexploitmultiple
links. In addition to information about network, time and loca-
tion for experiments, MONROE nodes will have built-in sup-
port for collecting metadata from the externally connected
modems such as cell ID, signal strength, connection mode,
etc. The measurement results along with metadata will be
provided as OPEN DATA in regular intervals. MONROE will
make it easy to access the system and deploy experiments
on all or a selected subset of the nodes. The user access and
experiment management system will be adapted from FED-
4FIRE project to make MONROE compliant with all other FIRE
facilities.
Key objectives
The main objectives of MONROE are:
• To build an open and large-scale measurement and ex-
perimental platform, targeting MBB and WiFi networks,
distributed over multiple European countries, with multi-
homing capabilities.
• To operate this large-scale platform by providing both
maintenance and external user support.
• To use the platform for the identification of key MBB per-
formance parameters, thus enabling accurate, realistic
and meaningful monitoring and performance assess-
ment of such networks.
• To provide Experimentation as a Service (EaaS), thus
lowering the barrier for using the platform to external
users, by providing well-documented tools and high-
level scripts to execute experiments, collect results, and
analyze data.
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
announcedtowardstheendofsecondyearanditwillbeopen
to all user groups. Apart from the Open Calls, the platform
will be available to external users in the beginning of the third
year.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Dr. Özgü Alay (Simula Research Laboratory)
PARTNERS: Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) (Coordina-
tor), IMDEA Networks (Spain), Karlstad University (Sweden),
Politecnico Torino (Italy), Celerway Communications (Nor-
way), Telenor (Norway), NET1 (Sweden).
MONROE
MOREINFORMATION:
monroe-project.eu
MONROE

Building on and extending the legacy of FIRE, OrganiCity is
a service facility based on three mature smart cities: Aarhus
(Denmark), London (UK) and Santander (Spain). OrganiCity
aims to enhance the capacities of mature smart cities in a sys-
tematic way, co-created with the citizens of the three cities.
How does it work?
OrganiCity’s essential and fundamental starting point is a
new, holistic paradigm in city making. This is a heterogene-
ous, urbanscale Experimentation-as-a-Service facility. It’s a
step away from urban planning; a step towards collaborative
city making, breaching classic divisions and sectors.
We pursue our goals and work with this new paradigm
by focusing on co-creation at the meeting point of society
and technology. Our results will be replicable, scalable and
sustainable across the Connected Smart Cities Network and
beyond.
Key objectives
• Develop a live, integrated, Experimentation-as-a-Service
facility, which is multi-site and urbanscale.
• Combine top down planning and operations with flexible
bottom-up initiatives where citizen involvement is key.
• Provide co-creation tools for trans-disciplinary participa-
tory urban interaction design to enable citizens to partici-
pate and develop their own approaches and applications.
• Enhance the holistic large-scale experimentation capabil-
ity of the involved cities.
Other key activities include:
• Create and maintain networks of mature multi-helix
partnerships.
• Contribute to the development of standards, perfor-
mance indicators, metrics and maturity models for con-
nected smart cities.
• Explore and provide a viable context for holistic co-crea-
tive city making.
• Enhance citizen engagement.
• Manage and co-create application scenarios.
• Facilitate, enable and apply crowd-sourced data annota-
tion and quality control.
• Facilitate, enable and apply opportunistic networking of
IoT and smartphones.
• Facilitate, enable and apply data analysis and visualisa-
tion by non-experts.
• 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 Organi-
City.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Martin Brynskov (Aarhus University)
PARTNERS: Aarhus University (Denmark) (Coordinator), Intel
UK (United Kingdom), Alexandra Institute (Denmark), Future
Cities Catapult (United Kingdom), Imperial College London
(United Kingdom), TST Sistemas (Spain), Luleå University
of Technology (Sweden), Computer Technology Institute &
Press Diophantus (Greece), University of Lübeck (Germany),
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (Spain),
Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alterna-
tives (France), University of Cantabria (Spain), Santander Mu-
nicipality (Spain), Aarhus Municipality (Denmark), University
of Melbourne (Australia).
ORGANICITY
MOREINFORMATION:
www.organicity.eu
ORGANICITY

RAWFIE (Road-, Air- and Water- based Future Internet Experi-
mentation) is a project funded by the European Commission
(FIRE+ challenge, Horizon 2020) that aims to provide research
and experimentation facilities through the growing domain
of unmanned networked devices. The project will establish
a unique, mixed experimentation environment across the
space and technology dimensions by integrating numerous
testbeds for experimenting in vehicular (road), aerial and
maritime environments. RAWFIE targets to bring EU in the
foreground of Future Internet (FI) research and experimenta-
tionwhilefacilitatingthescientificosmosisbetweenacknowl-
edged IoT research groups with testing infrastructures world-
wide.
How does it work?
The basic idea behind RAWFIE is the automated, remote op-
eration of a large number of robotic devices for assessing the
performanceofdifferenttechnologiesinnetworking,sensing
and mobile/autonomic application domains. These robotic
devices will be: (a) Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV), (b)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and (c) Unmanned Sur-
face Vehicles (USVs). Devices will be hosted on a respective
testbed and RAWFIE will feature a significant number of UxV
nodes for exposing a vast test infrastructure to experiment-
ers. All these items will be managed by a central controlling
entity which will be programmed per case and it will fully
overview/drive the operation of the respective mechanisms
(e.g., auto-pilots, remote controlled ground vehicles). Internet
connectivity will be extended to the mobile units in order to
enable the remote programming (over-the-air), control and
data collection. The project will deliver the required software
for experiments management, data collection and post-anal-
ysis. The vision of Experimentation-as-a-Service will be real-
ized by virtualizing the provided software, making the frame-
work available to any experimenter around the globe.
Key objectives
• The development of a strategic experimental infrastruc-
ture for mobile IoT.
• To support of the entire experiment lifecycle with fully
detailed, controllable and replicable conditions.
• The integration of Cloud resources and networking facili-
ties provided by the Europe’s Research and Education
Network (GEANT).
• The provision of a proof of concept for extending the IoT
paradigm in the world of autonomous mobile devices
and remote piloted systems with real time characteris-
tics.
• The implementation of a reusable architecture that
facilitates the testing of hardware, protocols, algorithms,
middleware and application protocols.
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 ex-
perimentation 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 (account-
ing for the 50% of the RAWFIE budget) in the direction of ex-
panding the infrastructure and allowing a wide spectrum of
experiments to be undertaken prior to the RAWFIE self-sus-
tainability, resource autonomy phase. Third parties that will
join RAWFIE consortium through the Open Calls are experi-
menters providing specific experiment applications, testbed
operators and UxV manufacturers.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Stathes Hadjiefthymiades (National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens)
PARTNERS: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
(Greece) (Coordinator), CSEM Centre Suisse d’electronique
et de Microtechnique SA (Switzerland), Intelligence for
environment and security SRL IES Solutions SRL (Italy),
FRAUNHOFER-Gesellschaft zur foerderung der angewand-
ten forschung E.V (Germany), EPSILON (Bulgaria), Hellenic
Aerospace Industry (Greece), Association Pegase (France),
Centre for research and technology Hellas (Greece), OCEAN-
SCAN - marine systems & technology LDA (Portugal),
Haute ecole specialisee de suisse occidentale (Switzerland),
ROBOTNIK automation SLL (Spain), AVIONTEK GMBH
(Germany), Ministry of National Defense (Greece).
RAWFIE
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RAWFIE

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WiSHFUL
Wireless Software and Hardware platforms for Flexible and
Unified radio and network control
Many of the recent trends in the development of information
systems, such as Industry 4.0 and the Tactile Internet, require
innovative solutions in wireless communication thus the in-
creasing pressure to be able to quickly prototype and test po-
tential solutions before creating market mature products. The
WiSHFUL project aims to enable shorter development cycles
by offering proper development and testing environments.
How does it work?
The WiSHFUL project offers advanced test facilities for exper-
imental validation of end-to-end innovative wireless systems
and solutions. Wireless innovation and experimentation is
notjustamatteroftheavailabilityofadvancedtestinfrastruc-
ture with the newest radio hardware platforms and support
for remote management and control of the experiments, it is
also a matter of the availability of suitable software platforms
for controlling and coordinating radio communication and
network protocols that support the wireless service. Wishful
develops, implements and prototypes a unified software ar-
chitecturethatcanbeleveragedtospeedupthedevelopment
time and reduce the costs of wireless solutions for different
vertical markets.
Key objectives
• To offer open, flexible and adaptive software and hard-
ware platforms for radio control and network protocol
development allowing rapid prototyping of innovative
end-to-end wireless solutions and systems in different
vertical markets (manufacturing, smart cities, home, of-
fice, healthcare, transportation, logistics, environmental
monitoring...). Key features of such platforms are:
• Unified radio control allowing full radio control
without the need for deep knowledge of the hard-
ware specifics of the radio hardware platform.
• Unified network control, allowing rapid prototyp-
ing and adaptations of network protocol stacks.
• Support for experimentation with intelligent con-
trol of radio and network settings.
• To offer advanced wireless test facilities that:
• Follow the current de facto standards in FIRE, set
by the FED4FIRE project, for testbed interoper-
ability.
• Support diverse wireless (access) technologies
and platforms by 1) creating generic and open
interfaces for control of the existing devices for
technologies like Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11), Bluetooth
(IEEE 802.15.1), WPAN (IEEE 802.15.4), and 2)
extending these interfaces to more open ended
experimental radio platforms covering software
defined radio platforms, embedded devices and
non-commercial grade hardware, so as to enable
5G, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine-to-Machine
(M2M), tactile internet.
• To offer portable facilities that can be deployed at any
location allowing validation of innovative wireless solu-
tions in the real world (with realistic channel propagation
and interference characteristics) and involving real users.
• To extend the WiSHFUL facilities with additional facilities
or wireless hardware, offering complementary or novel
radio hardware/software platforms, supporting experi-
mentation with new technologies such as mmWave
(WiGig 60GHz and IEEE802.11ad), full duplex radio, IoT
testbeds, smart antennas, etc.
• To attract and support experimenters for wireless inno-
vation creation targeting different classes of experiment-
ers via different open call mechanisms tailored to the
specific classes (industrial relevance for SME versus level
of innovation for academia).
You can get involved in three ways. First, start using the al-
ready existing Wishful facilities located at iMinds (w-iLab.t),
TCD (IRIS), TUB (TWIST) and RUTGERS (WINLAB). Second,
follow our updates for new software releases, fork the soft-
ware, try it and contribute feedback or improved code. Third,
follow the upcoming Open Calls that will be launched by the
project.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Ingrid Moerman (iMinds)
PARTNERS: iMinds (Belgium) (Coordinator), Trinity College
Dublin - TCD (Ireland), Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario
per le Telecomunicazioni - CNIT (Italy), Technische Univer-
sität Berlin - TUB (Germany), nCentric (Belgium), Rutgers
University (USA), Seoul National University - SNU (Korea),
Federal University of Rio De Janeiro - UFRJ (Brazil).
WiSHFUL

RESEARCH PROJECTS
CLOMMUNITY SOCIAL&SMART
CLOMMUNITY addresses the obstacles for communities in
bootstrapping, running and expanding community-owned
networks that provide community services organised as
community clouds.
On the infrastructure layer, this concerns the manage-
ment of a large number of distributed, low-cost, unreliable
computing resources and dynamic network conditions. On
the platform and application layer, the community cloud
should operate elastic, resilient and scalable service overlays
and user-oriented applications, such as for storage and home
computing, built over this underlying infrastructure, which
provide a good quality of experience at the lowest economic
and environmental cost.
How does it work?
CLOMMUNITY utilizes CONFINE’s community networking
testbed and additional cloud infrastructure to deploy cloud
service prototypes in a cyclic participatory process of design,
development, experimentation, evaluation and optimization,
tailoring these to the specific social-technical challenges of
communitynetworks.The existence ofthis communitycloud
should allow end-users to find cloud applications within the
community network, without the Internet, which could ulti-
mately lead to cloud ecosystems in communities.
• Development of Cloudy, the Community-Distro, which
contains common services and applications; and
• Deployment of the community cloud in the Guifi com-
munity network.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Felix Freitag (UPC)
PARTNERS: UPC (Spain) (Coordinator), KTH (Sweden),
UNESCO (France), Guifi.Net (Spain), SICS (Sweden).
SOCIAL&SMART is a research project using the house-
keeping scenario to experiment a pervasive Future Internet
network providing real services to a wide population by op-
erating connected appliances. The goal is to set up a Social
Network of Facts (SNoF) where members share knowledge
in order to automatically generate smart instruction lists (reci-
pes) electronically dispatched from the cloud to household
appliances.
How does it work?
An SNoF member sends requests such as “I want to wash
blue cotton trousers stained with grease”. The request is ne-
gotiated through a domestic middleware and processed by
the SNoF through a set of computational intelligence tools.
TheyconstitutetheNetworkedIntelligenceofthisecosystem,
whichprofitsfromahugeknowledgebaseconsistingofappli-
ance technical sheets, best practices and the entire log of pre-
vious transactions. The recipe evaluation by the task request-
ers is the main social capital of the SNoF feeding the learning
algorithms to produce smart recipes. See the Youtube video
at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NHzmXR1JCk.
KEY achievements/results
Interfacing boards and protocols to connect appliances to the
Internet have been realized. The domestic middleware is in a
trial stage, SNoF computational intelligence tools are under
assessment. At: http://mockup.laren.di.unimi.it a person can
remotely control and monitor the entire operational cycle of a
washing machine. S/he can also follow an entire bread maker
transaction and virtually evaluate the executed recipe.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Bruno Apolloni (Universita Degli Studi
di Milano)
PARTNERS: Universita Degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
(Coordinator), Amis Druzba za Telekomunikacije
(Slovenia), Arduino SA (Switzerland), National Technical
University of Athens (Greece), Fundacion Cartif (Spain),
Gorenje Gospodinjski Aparati D.D. (Slovenia), Libelium
Comunicaciones Distribuidas Sociedad (Spain), Universitad
del Pais Vasco EHU UPV (Spain).
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RESEARCH PROJECTS — CALL 10
FORGE IOT LAB
The Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) project
aims to transform the Future Internet Research and Experi-
mentation (FIRE) testbed facilities into learning resources for
higher education. Through FORGE, online courses will be en-
hanced with FIRE-enabled interactive labs.
How does it work?
FORGE will be build upon current trends in online education
and will use online educational platforms such as iTunes U,
as well as in Massive Open Online Course platforms, where
we see the large-scale take-up and use of rich media content.
These include video, webcasts, podcasts and eBooks, which
can contain multimedia and interactive segments.
FORGE has already developed a framework called FORGE-
Box (www.forgebox.eu), which enables the hands-on-en-
hanced courses. These courses can be accessed from mul-
tiple platforms and devices. Moreover, the courses can be
exported to different formats, i.e. ePub, iBook, and HTML.
Furthermore, FORGE has developed FORGEStore as a mar-
ketplace of widgets (www.forgestore.eu); as well as FIRE
adapters to enable the interactive courses. Moreover, within
the first year FORGE has produced already 10 courses cover-
ingawiderangeofnetworkingandcommunicationdomains.
These are freely available from FORGEBox and has resulted
in more than 3000 experiments undertaken by more than 300
students at 5 universities. FORGE is also contributing to the
IEEE P1876 Networked Smart Learning Objects for Online
Laboratories Standard.
Trinity College Dublin’s FIRE testbed empowered by
FORGEBox has been shortlisted in The Irish Laboratory
Award 2014 in the Educational category.
New partners will be joining the FORGE project through
the Open Call (ict-forge.eu/opencall).
Project facts
COORDINATOR: John Domingue (The Open University)
PARTNERS: The Open University (UK) (Coordinator), Univer-
sity of Patras (Greece), iMinds (Belgium), GRNET (Greece),
UniversityPierreetMarieCurie-Paris(France),TrinityCollege
Dublin (Ireland), NICTA (Australia).
IoT Lab is a European Research project which aims at re-
searching the potential of crowdsourcing to extend Internet
of Things (IoT) testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary ex-
periments with more end-user interactions.
How does it work?
The future of IoT research will require closer interactions
between the researchers and the society in order to better
address societal needs and challenges, including end-user
acceptance. This will require new approaches for experimen-
tation that will become more pervasive, leaking out from the
labs into the real world. IoT Lab will serve this future by con-
tributing to pave the way to new experimental approaches
with innovative “privacy-friendly” crowd sourcing tech-
nologies, multidisciplinary approaches and new research
schemes, such as crowd-sourcing driven research.
IoT Lab specified a comprehensive privacy-by-design ar-
chitecture for crowd sourcing and testbed virtualization. It
started developing its crowd-sourcing tools. The various
participating IoT testbeds, including Mandat International,
University of Surrey, University of Geneva, CTI have been
integrated through a common IPv6 network. The project is
currently focusing on the development of its smartphone ap-
plication and its Testbed as a Service that will be accessible to
external users in 2015.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Sébastien Ziegler (Mandat International)
PARTNERS: Mandat International (Switzerland) (Coordinator),
University of Geneva (Switzerland), Computer Technology
Institute & Press Diophantus (Greece), University of Surrey
(UK), Technical University of Lulea (Sweden), Alexandra
Institute (Denmark), University of Southampton (UK),
DunavNET d.o.o. (Serbia).
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FORGE
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IoTLab

RESEARCH PROJECTS — INTERNATIONAL
FELIX-EU MOSAIC 2B
Testbed-oriented cooperation on SDN research across con-
tinents can serve as a strong foundation for advanced, high-
impact programmable network research work. Researchers
can validate their novel network applications in world-class
testbeds, capitalizing on resources from different adminis-
trative and geographically remote facilities. In this context,
FELIX, the joint EU-Japan research project, addresses SDN
testbed federation between key research labs in the field.
How does it work?
TheprimaryobjectiveoftheFELIXprojectistocreateaframe-
work in which users can request, monitor and manage a slice
provisioned over distant Future Internet experimental facili-
ties. FELIX builds strong foundations for a federation frame-
work by further developing emerging technologies and SDN
control frameworks (e.g. Open Grid Forum’s NSI and OFELIA
OCF) for the practical applicability in the project. The imple-
mented use cases will promote unique capabilities of the new
federation framework.
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 differ-
ent testbed infrastructures.
2. Manage and control the network paths which connect
the federated SDN testbed infrastructures.
3. Execute distributed applications on the federated infra-
structure.
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.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Artur Binczewski (Instytut Chemii
Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS)
PARTNERS: Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS
(Poland)(Coordinator), Nextworks (Italy), Fundacio Privada
I2CAT (Spain), SURFnet (Netherlands), European Center for
Information and Communication Technologies (Germany),
iMinds (Belgium).
Mobile Empowerment for the Socio-Economic Develop-
mentinSouthAfrica.Mobileempowermentbasedonmobile
technologies allows the development and implementation of
new business models and new business opportunities tar-
geting micro enterprises and their customers in developing
countries such as South Africa. The goal of MOSAIC 2B is to
develop and test a new framework that uses cloud-based ap-
plications, innovative low-cost internet delivery mechanisms
and affordable mobile technologies to unlock new mobile
business opportunities, especially in rural villages.
How does it work?
MOSAIC 2B delivers a combination of mobile digital cinemas
for edutainment, mobile business and consumer services as
well as visual analytics and interactive tools to obtain real-
time knowledge of on-going processes, to support decision
making, and to increase business opportunities. Ultimately
the business case of South African micro entrepreneurs de-
livering edutainment to rural consumers serves as a show-
case for broad based economic activities at the bottom of the
economic pyramid in the developing world.
KEY achievements/results
In the first year MOSAIC 2B developed all the necessary plat-
form components, i.e., the delay tolerant network (DTN), the
MOSAIC 2B player platform (MPP) App for Android including
visual analytics tools, the server-side MOSAIC 2B control unit
(MCU) used to administer the user and multimedia-content.
Moreover, the consortium designed the whole field experi-
ment which will start in March 2015. At that point in time all
micro-entrepreneurs will be equipped with a cinema-in-a-
backpackcontainingatabletwiththeMPPapp,speakers,pro-
jectors, and a power unit to screen the multimedia-content in
rural areas in South Africa.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Daniel Steffen (GraphicsMedia.net)
PARTNERS: GraphicsMedia.net GMBH (Germany)
(Coordinator), The Walt Disney Company GmbH
(Switzerland), Associação CCG/ZGDV - CENTRO DE
COMPUTAÇÃO GRÁFICA (Portugal), EPI-USE Africa PTY
LTD (South Africa), University of Pretoria (South Africa),
INFUSION KNOWLEDGE HUB (PTY) LTD (South Africa).
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FELIX-EU
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RESEARCH PROJECTS — INTERNATIONAL
SMARTFIRE TRESCIMO
The project aims to further develop Europe - South Korea co-
operation on Future Internet experimental research. Smart
FIRE aims to design and to implement a shared large scale
experimental facility spanning different islands located in Eu-
rope and in South Korea, enabling distributed applications by
incorporating cutting edge SDN research in South Korea and
wireless networking experimentations in Europe.
How does it work?
Existing testbed infrastructures in Europe and South Korea,
already featuring WiFi nodes, wireless sensors and support-
ing WiMAX, LTE and OpenFlow technologies, will be extend-
ed and federated. These two directions will be supported by
the leading experimental frameworks adapted by most Eu-
ropean testbeds, the cOntrol and Management Framework
(OMF) and the Slice Federation Architecture (SFA). The SDN
features in the South Korean testbeds will be integrated into
OMF. Interconnection of the aforementioned islands will take
advantage of the GÉANT network in Europe while the respec-
tive KOREN/KREONET will be used in South Korea. The GÉ-
ANT and the KOREN/KREONET will be interconnected via the
TEIN3/TEIN4 and via the GLORIAD.
• The SmartFIRE portal is ready, providing a single point
of access for all testbeds from Europe (NITOS, w-iLab.t,
GAIA) and South Korea (OF@TEIN, c-Flow, WiFi+, MOFI,
KREONET Emulab).
• South Korean testbeds have been enhanced with new
wireless resources, providing new features to their users.
• European testbeds have been extended with additional
SDN equipment, enabling advanced SDN research.
• Final details remaining for the successful physical inter-
connection of all islands, through the GEANT and the
KOREN/KREONET networks.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Thanasis Korakis (UTH)
PARTNERS: UTH (Greece) (Coordinator), UPMC (France),
iMinds (Belgium), UMU (Spain), SIGMA ORIONIS (France),
National ICT (Australia), GIST (South Korea), KISTI (South
Korea), KAIST (South Korea), ETRI (South Korea), SNU
(South Korea).
TRESCIMO improves FIRE testbed capabilities in Europe and
inSouthAfrica,demonstratedthroughexperimentalresearch
linking smart and green technological and social innovation.
Smarter and greener cities are essential to address eco-
nomic, social, and environmental challenges due to the in-
crease in urbanization, requiring informed decisions based
on Internet of Things data, sent immediately over IP networks
or collected in a delay tolerant mode by mobile devices of in-
dividuals or crowds.
A particular challenge is the unstable power supply of cit-
ies in underdeveloped countries, thus requiring smart energy
management, e.g. demand-response mechanisms, installing
small devices at the end-user, communicating over different
network technologies to a central controller, allowing loads to
be measured and limited if necessary, using affordable smart
sensors as well as gathering information from nodes with
limited power.
How does it work?
TRESCIMO addresses these issues with a Smart City plat-
forms and an ETSI/oneM2M compliant Machine-to-Machine
communication framework.
The project runs two testbeds for smart cities M2M com-
munication: one at the Technical University of Berlin, Germa-
ny, and another at the University of Cape Town, South Africa,
and it is integrated into the Fed4FIRE SFA client, running at
https://federation.trescimo.eu.
Two trials are being implemented: the Smart Energy Sys-
tem Trial in Gauteng, South Africa, and the Smart City Envi-
ronmental Monitor Trial in Sant Vicenç dels Horts, Spain.
TRESCIMO brings FIRE closer to offer Smart Infrastructures
as a Service with the key achievement of providing a reliable
and standard compliant Smart City Software Stack as a Ser-
vice for evaluation purposes based on European and South
African Smart Cities requirements.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Maria Barros Weiss (Eurescom)
EXECUTION: 2014-01-01 to 2015-12-31
PARTNERS: Eurescom (Germany) (Coordinator), TU Berlin
and Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany), i2CAT (Spain), ABS
(Israel), UCT, CSIR and Eskom (South Africa).
MOREINFORMATION:
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SmartFIRE
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TRESCIMO

RESEARCH PROJECTS — INTERNATIONAL CALL 10 COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTIONS — CALL 10
RESCUER EU-CHINA FIRE (ECIAO)
Incidentsoccurringduringlarge-scaleeventsandinindustrial
areas may have a huge impact on human lives, property, and
the environment. Fast reaction is vital in order to minimise
physical damages as well as damages to the public image
of the involved organisations. As mobile devices are widely
usedandconnectedtotheInternet,RESCUERexploitscrowd-
sourcing information and mobile technologies to address the
challenge of quickly obtaining contextual information about
emergency situations.
How does it work?
RESCUER will provide a smart and interoperable computer-
based solution with the following components:
1. Mobile Crowdsourcing Solution: to support eyewit-
nesses and first responders in providing information to
the command centre;
2. Data Analysis Solutions: to integrate data from different
operational forces as well as to combine, filter, and ana-
lyse crowdsourcing and open data information;
3. Emergency Response Toolkit: to provide relevant
information in an appropriate format and on time to the
command centre; and
4. Communication Infrastructure: to support the informa-
tion flow between the crowd and the command centre.
1. First versions of the Mobile Crowdsourcing Solution and
of the Emergency Response Toolkit were evaluated posi-
tively during the FIFA World Cup 2014, in Brazil.
2. A first version of the Data Analysis Solutions has been
implemented. It comprises text, image and video analy-
ses.
3. An ad-hoc communication solution has been implement-
ed for Android smartphones. It is based on the built-in
WiFi capability of mobile devices.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Karina Villela (Fraunhofer IESE)
PARTNERS: European Consortium: Fraunhofer IESE
(Coordinator), DFKI and Vomatec (Germany); University of
Madrid (Spain); FireServ (Austria); Brazilian Consortium:
UFBA, USP, MTM, COFIC.
The EU-China FIRE project is an EU-funded FP7 project aim-
ing to strengthen EU-China cooperation on IPv6 and Future
Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) activities. The
initiative will implement the recommendations of the EU-Chi-
na Future Internet, IPv6 and IoT Expert Group, created in 2010
in the framework of EU-China Information Society Dialogue,
and contribute to establish an efficient bridge between EU
and Chinese stakeholders to make the Future Internet a truly
global success.
The EU-China FIRE project has developed a web-based
cooperation platform, including an online community and
support desk services, with advanced functionalities in terms
of collaborative workspace, collective intelligence, and pro-
fessional networking. European and Chinese researchers are
invited to join the platform to develop collaborative partner-
ships, to learn more and contribute to discussions on topics
such as benefits and priorities of EU-China cooperation on
Future Internet, opportunities in 5G, Mobile Internet, Internet
ofThings,SDN/NFVandChineseexperimentalplatformsand
testbeds, as well as on IPv6 best practices and pilots.
• Creation of the EU-China FIRE online cooperation
platform (www.euchina-fire.eu) to help EU and Chinese
organisations network together, contribute to discus-
sions, and reinforce academic and industrial cooperation
on Future Internet Experimental Research (FIRE).
• Establishment of the IPv6 Education Program in EU and
China to introduce IPv6 educational best practices in
curriculum and course definitions as well as stimulate
uptake of IPv6 deployment in the education sector.
• Contribution to fed4FIRE specifications.
• Promotion of Best Practices for IPv6 deployment.
• Start-up of an ETSI Industry Specification Group to
promote IPv6 and its impact on IoT, Cloud Computing,
SDN-NFV and 5G.
• EU-China IPv6 pilots to demonstrate end to end and
cross-border IoT networking and applications with other
partners such as BUPT in China, Mandat Int in Switzer-
land and Orange in France.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Martin Potts (Martel Consulting)
PARTNERS: MARTEL (Switzerland) (Coordinator), EGM
(France), Sigma Orionis (France), UL (Luxembourg), BII
(China), CATR (China), RUIJIE (China).
MOREINFORMATION:
www.rescuer-project.org
RESCUER
EU-China FIRE
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euchina-fire.eu
ECIAO

COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTIONS — CALL 10
CEFIMS-CONNECT CI-FIRE
The ceFIMS-CONNECT Coordination Action project will ad-
dress the need for closer integration and coordination of ICT
researchandinnovationamongMemberStatesandbetween
Member States and the EU.
ceFIMS-CONNECT will support the European Future In-
ternet Forum (FIF) by providing a Secretariat and supporting
the activities of the FIF as it transitions into Horizon 2020 and
the new 5G PPP. It will support Member State and Associate
State Future Internet initiatives and the National FI Chapters
by facilitating the collection and sharing of information on
Member State and Associate State FI initiatives, strategies
and priorities by establishing mechanisms for exchange of
experiences, best practices and for identifying common chal-
lenges and cooperation opportunities. It will also undertake
targeted dissemination activities to Member States and As-
sociated States in cooperation with other FIRE projects.
As part of strategic activities, related to the setting up of Na-
tional FI chapters, the project submitted to EC The Guidelines
report, which provides a standardized way for gathering in-
formation on FI Research & Innovation (FI R&I) structures in
MS/ACsandstartedtoworkontheceFIMS-CONNECTFIFRe-
pository Database. Through its Secretariat role to the EU FIF,
ceFIMS-CONNECT supported all FIF meetings held in 2014.
Finally, to facilitate the exchange of information it started the
FIF Monitor service and disseminated relevant FI news via its
website, newsletter, and social media channels.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: James Clarke (Waterford Institute of
Technology - Telecommunications Software & Systems
Group (WIT-TSSG))
PARTNERS: Waterford Institute of Technology - TSSG (Ireland)
(Coordinator), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
(Portugal), Asociación de Empresas de Electrónica,
Tecnologías de la Información, Telecomunicaciones
y Contenidos Digitales (Spain), ICHB PAN - Poznan
Supercomputing and Networking Center (Poland).
The Future Internet Research & Experimentation (FIRE)
initiative of the European Commission has brought Europe
several large-scale test beds and platforms that offer a rich
set of original, cutting-edge and diverse technologies for the
future internet. While there have been many successes, to
date there is no convincing sustainable model that adopts a
market-oriented approach with a focus on business value for
companies of all sizes.
CI-FIRE sets out to change this by providing an innovative
business framework and establishing a model collaboration
with EIT ICT Labs and its FanTaaStic Broker Service. FanTaaS-
tic is building on the FIRE legacy, its resources, knowledge
and federations, to drive the sustainable use of test beds in
Europe with a compelling service and new business model.
CI-FIRE has demonstrated the added value of FanTaaStic for
SMEs with the help of industry experts. The focus is now on
meeting the need for a niche offering for ICT-savvy SMEs and
entrepreneurs with a beta technology not yet fully tested or
a new idea that do not typically have access to nodes. Col-
laboration between FanTaaStic and FIRE can fill this gap with
streamlined and tailored testing services, thus widening up-
take.
CI-FIREfacilitatesFIREtestfacilitiesinapplyingtobecome
potential resource providers of the Broker Service, explaining
the requirements and practical steps involved.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Milon Gupta (Eurescom)
PARTNERS: Eurescom (Germany) (Coordinator), Martel
(Switzerland), Technische Universität Berlin (Germany),
Trust-IT Services Ltd (UK), Université Pierre et Marie Curie
(France).
MOREINFORMATION:
www.cefims.eu
ceFIMS-CONNECT
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www.ci-fire.eu
@CIFIRE
CI-FIRE

The objective of the AmpliFIRE Support Action is to prepare
FIRE for the year 2020, in strengthening the exploitation and
impact creation capacities of Future Internet Research and
Experimentation (FIRE) facilities. AmpliFIRE enhances the
awarenessofFIRE-enabledresearchandinnovationopportu-
nities in the business community, in societal domains and in
the existing FIRE community.
AmpliFIRE develops a sustainable vision for 2020 of Fu-
ture Internet research and experimentation including the role
of FIRE facilities, and sets out a transition path from the cur-
rent situation towards 2020. It conducts an assessment of
today’s FIRE capabilities, identifying the gaps relative to the
2020 demands and identifying how capabilities must evolve.
AmpliFIRE proposes the capabilities, collaboration models
and service offering portfolios so that by 2020, FIRE facilities
would be the backbone of European research and innovation
ecosystems. Based on Key Performance Indicators, Ampli-
FIRE monitors the technical, operational and organizational
conditions necessary to realise benefits, impact and sustain-
ability of the Europe-wide Future Internet experiment facility.
Key achievements
AmpliFIREhasconductedaseriesofcommunitybuildingand
support activities aimed at articulating the needs and poten-
tial for Future Internet experimentation until 2020. The open
FIRE Forum was established to widen the FIRE community,
andtheFIREBoardforinternalcoordination.Throughinterac-
AMPLIFIRE
LAYOUT: MARKO MYLLYAHO, WWW.MARKOMYLLYAHO.COM
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research,
technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 318550
Links
Information about the Digital Agenda for Europe,
FIRE - Future Internet Research and Experimentation:
http://europa.eu/!cC44Qk
FIRE information portal: http://www.ict-fire.eu
FIRE News & Tweets in one place: http://www.ict-fire.eu/news/fire-project-news.html
FIRE Wiki: http://wiki.ict-fire.eu
FIRE group @ LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/ypSQ8V
FIRE @ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FIREFP7
FIRE @ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/fire_fp7
FIRE @ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICT_FIRE, #ICT_FIRE, @ICT_FIRE
FIRE @ SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/fire-ict
COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTIONS
tion with FIRE’s community, a FIRE Radar activity was initiat-
ed,resultinginavision,scenariosandroadmaptowards2020
and describing FIRE’s development potential. FIRE’s current
and future testbed facilities and services were assessed in
relation to evolving experimenter demands and the require-
ments of FIRE’s future vision. Based on FIRE’s positioning
within the Future Internet landscape, AmpliFIRE explored col-
laboration opportunities with related initiatives for exploita-
tion of FIRE’s testbed resources. The FIRE information portal
(www.ict-fire.eu)isacentralplaceforallFIREwidedissemina-
tion activities together with LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr
and SlideShare.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Hans Schaffers (Aalto University)
PARTNERS: Aalto University (Finland) (Coordinator), Martel
(Switzerland), University of Southampton (UK), InterInnov
(France), LTU (Sweden), iMinds (Belgium), Telefónica (Spain),
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).
MOREINFORMATION:
www.ict-fire.eu/home
/amplifire.html
AmpliFIRE
MOREINFORMATION:
www.ict-fire.eu
FIREINFOPORTAL
MOREINFORMATION:
europa.eu/!cC44Qk
FIREEC

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