Future Internet Visions: An Opportunity for Ireland

Future Internet Visions:
An Opportunity for Ireland
Future Internet Visions: An Opportunity for
Ireland
Mícheál Ó Foghlú
Executive Director Research TSSG
Waterford Institute of Technology
<mofoghlu@tssg.org>

Wed 29th October 2008 Future Internet Event
http://www.tssg.org http://www.future-internet.ie

Author / TSSG

• Co-founder of TSSG with Willie Donnelly and Eamonn de Leastar in
1996, joined by Barry Downes in 2003.

• TSSG Ethos is to support a critical mass of activity at all stages of
the innovation lifecycle: basic and applied research,
commercialisation, and spin-out/spin-in real commercial activity

• TSSG metrics:
– Size: 160 researchers
– Funding: €50M 1996-2008
– Publications: 50 per annum (2006, 2007, 2008)
– Projects: 45 active, 70 completed (October 2008)
– No. 1 in Ireland for EU ICT Engagement (FP6 & FP7)
– No. 1 in Ireland for EI Informatics Commercialisation (10 spin-out/spin-in
companies, 60 new regional jobs created)
– HEA PRTLI Cycle 3 and Cycle 4 Funding
– SFI Development, PI Cluster and Research Frontiers Awards


Structure

• Introduction
• EU Future Internet
• TSSG’s Engagement in EU Future Internet
• Opportunities for Irish Companies and
Researchers


SECTION

• Introduction
• EU Future Internet
• TSSG’s Engagement in EU Future Internet
• Opportunities for Irish Companies and
Researchers


Introduction: Overview

• What exactly is the Internet and why has it
been successful?
• What threatens this continued growth and
success?
• How can visions on the Future Internet
address these threats?


Introduction: Generative Internet

• [Zittrain 2006] of Oxford Internet Institute and
Harvard Law School
• Generative Internet =
– Services/applications/middleware (Web/REST, other
distributed software)
– Inter-networking (TCP/IP suite)
– Local networks (Ethernet)
– Devices (end node PC, routers/switches)
• You Need Network(s) & Services & Devices
[Zittrain, 2006] http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/119/may06/zittrain.shtml


Introduction: Standards

• Services/Middleware:
– XML: W3C, OASIS, OMG, …
• Inter-networking
– TCP/IP, http: IETF, Internet Society
• Networks:
– Ethernet/WiFi/WiMAX: IEEE
– Telecommunications: ITU-T, ETSI, 3GPP, …
• Devices:
– Equipment manufacturers’ de facto standards e.g. IBM PC
compatible (arguably success of ICT driven by Moore’s Law)


Introduction: ISOC Internet Model


Introduction: Ownership

• Who builds, maintains and owns
networks?
– Telecommunications operators/carriers
• Who sells internet connectivity:
– Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
• But also important are:
– Enterprise/corporate networks
– Enterprise/government networks
– Home networks

Introduction: Culture Clash

• Internet-centric view
– Everything is on “public” Internet using TCP/IP
– All services are over this infrastructure
– Many key software elements open source (bind, sendmail,
apache, Linux, …)
– Telecoms networks may enable some connectivity
– Expectation of many “free” services (and use of “free” software)
• Telecommunications view
– Migration of private telecom networks to “private” TCP/IP
– Allows same infrastructure to support fixed/mobile convergence
– Backwards compatibility with existing voice service infrastructure
– IMS as architecture to encapsulate this
– Interface to “public” Internet problematic and insecure
– Expectation that all services are billable


Introduction: Threat IPv4 Depletion

• Internet-centric expect TCP/IP to be core to their view of
the Future Internet – the Future Internet is just the
Internet (promise more of the same, lots of free services
with variable reliability)
• Telecoms expect TCP/IP to be core to IMS – Future
Internet is the Internet technologies deployed using
added security/accounting/QoS (promise of no more
spam, but fewer free services)
• BUT availability of new IPv4 addresses due to dry up in
2010! One key enabling infrastructure has reached its
capacity!


Introduction: IPv6

• Solution to IPv4 address depletion is
adoption of IPv6
• One view of Future Internet is business as
usual with IPv6 instead of IPv4
• No other new solution can be designed,
agreed and deployed within the timeframe
– so we all must move to IPv6 regardless
of our longer term views


Introduction: Summary

• The Internet is made up of networks, inter-connectivity
(TCP/IP), services and devices
• The core driver has been the cheap hardware for end-
user devices and network devices
• Many of the core software elements have been
developed as open source
• Hardware is cheaper than people, so over time generic
networking (IP) and generic software (C/C++/Java)
replace specialised vertical market segments (e.g. 3G
networks use Unix servers)
• The main inter-networking protocol IPv4 has now
reached the end of its usefulness and we need to
migrate to IPv6


EU Future Internet - Funding Programme

• January 2007
– Launch of FP7 (2007-2013)
– €50 billion over 7 years - largest research funding
programme in the world
• FP7 ICT calls so far
– ICT Call 1 (deadline: May 2007)
<- Call 1 was main relevant call
– ICT Call 2 (deadline: Oct 2007)
– ICT Call 3 (deadline: Apr 2008)
• All funded activities that come under “Future
Internet” banner have organised to cross-fertilise

EU Technology Platforms (Future Internet)

• eMobility
– Mobile & Wireless Communications
• NEM
– Networked Electronic Media
• NESSI
– Software Services
• EPoSSS
– Platform for Smart Systems Integration
• ISI
– Integral Satellite Communications

http://cordis.europa.eu/technology-platforms/home_en.html

EU Future Internet: 1 Challenge, 6 Areas


EU Future Internet: Projects Calls 1, 2, 3


EU Future Internet - FI Assembly

• March/April 2008 (Slovenia: Bled)
– Future Internet Assembly
– Bled Declaration
http://www.fi-bled.eu/Bled_declaration.pdf

• December 2008 (Spain: Madrid)
• May 2009 (Czech Republic: Prague)


TSSG in FP7 FI (9 Projects; 3 EU-TPs)

• Area 1: “Future Networks”
– 4WARD
– EFIPSANS
– AUTOI
– eMobility Technology Platform: board members
• Area 2: “Services Architectures”
– PERSIST
– NESSI Technology Platform: members
• Area 3: “Networked Media Systems”
– NEM Technology Platform: board members
• Area 4: “Internet of Things”
– No involvement as yet - interest in sensor networks
• Area 5: “Security”
– Inco-Trust
– THINK-TRUST
– No Technology Platform, but TSSG play strategic role
• Area 6: “Experimental Test Facilities”
– PANLAB II
– Perimeter
– Vital++

Irish Funding: HEA

• HEA PRTLI Cy 3: M-Zones 2002-2007
– Partners: TCD, CIT
– Managing smart spaces
• HEA PRTLI Cy 4: FutureComm 2007-2011
– Partners: UL, NUIM
– Managing future communications networks
and services


Irish Funding: SFI

• SFI Development Award 2003-2004
– TSSG
• SFI PI Cluster: AMCNS 2004-2008
– Autonomic Management of Communications
Networks and Services
– Basic research into self-* approaches
• Model-driven approaches to network management
• Bio-inspired approaches to network management


Irish Funding: Enterprise Ireland

• Commercialisation awards CF-TD, PoC
• EI ILRP: IMS ARCS
• EI Equipment Funding: Testbed for IMS
• EI support funding for FP7 engagement


TSSG: Standards

• W3C (mobile content initiatives, widgets)
• JCP (widgets, mobile development)
• TM Forum (telecom management)
• ACF (autonomic management)
• ETSI (telecom management)
• IETF/Internet Society (mobility, SIP,
SHIM6)
• IEEE (cognitive radio, software defined
radio)

EU ICT thematic area: 7 Challenges


EU FP7 Calls 4 & 5

• The Future Internet is focused on the first of
these challenges “Pervasive and Trustworthy
Network and Service Infrastructures”
• This was mainly open in Calls 1 and 2, and will
be open again in Calls 4 and 5
• Work Programme to be launched in Lyon
November 2008
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2008/index_en.htm
• Followed by an FP7-ICT Proposers' Day 2009
22 January 2009, Budapest, Hungary
• Enterprise Ireland will organise local Irish events
to promote the calls

Irish Advantages

• English speaking - English is working language
of nearly all projects
• Globalised - open to external partnerships
• Track record of Irish success stories in previous
framework programmes
• Strong indigenous and FDI ICT base
• Opportunity to bridge North American knowledge
with European knowledge
• Opportunity to develop Asian links
• Enterprise Ireland support structures for
academic and industrial participation

Conclusion

• The Internet is about more than networks – it is about
networks, services and devices
• The Internet is threatened by shortage of IPv4 addresses
• The future of the Internet is a contested space,
particularly between telecoms operators and those with
an Internet-centric view
• The future research has to go beyond these immediate
issues and envision a new future
• Some of this is clean slate (design from scratch) and
some is evolutionary (grown from what we have)
• There are many opportunities for Irish companies and
researchers to engage in these debates

• Irish IPv6 Summit, Dublin Castle, 28th Jan 2009


Questions


Additional Information

[Zittrain, 2006] “The Generative Internet”
Harvard Law Review Vol 119 pp. 1974--
2040.


Future Internet Visions: An Opportunity for Ireland

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