FIRE Brochure 2014 multimedia eBook -version

Networks are the neural system of our society as it exists today,
we barely breathe without connectivity, unplugging would discon-
tinue society and the individuals in it. The Internet keeps revolu-
tionizing the world - the way we function, interact, behave and
evolve. Equally, we revolutionize the Internet - the way it func-
tions, interacts, behaves and evolves. Our needs, usage and vi-
sions shape it into the Network of the Future. The Internet is
consequently a complex and evolving entity where any techno-
logical development, no matter how small, may have multifac-
eted and even surprising consequences.
Humans are heuristic and discover through experimentation.
Any research into new ways of approaching the Internet from
the most fundamental level cannot simply be limited to paper-
work. Early and realistic experimentation and testing in a large-
scale environment is required, even though some of these ideas
may only be implemented in the long-term.
The Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE - Ini-
tiative is addressing the need to experiment with networks, creat-
ing a multidisciplinary test environment for investigating and ex-
perimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas
for new networking and service paradigms. FIRE oﬀers a disci-
pline, a platform and tools for trying out innovative ideas for the
Future Internet. FIRE is promoting the concept of the
experimentally-driven research, combining visionary academic
research with the wide-scale testing and experimentation that is
required for the industry. Several initiatives, at EU Member
States level and also worldwide (US, China, Japan, South Korea,
etc.), already exist and there is a need for more collaboration be-
tween them. FIRE is creating a dynamic, sustainable, large-scale
European Experimental Facility, which is constructed by gradu-
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What is FIRE?
Movie 1.1 Future Internet Research and Experimentation -
FIRE introduction

ally connecting and federating existing and upcoming testbeds
for Future Internet technologies.
The FIRE facility is open – Let’s use it!
The FIRE Facility projects are building a variety of network ex-
perimentation infrastructures and tools with different technolo-
gies and characteristics. Various structures, tools and features are
already available and trials are being performed. All of the facili-
ties evolve in a demand-driven way, supported through Open
Calls — for regular new Open Calls from the FIRE Facility pro-
jects and also for details of the new mechanism called “Open Ac-
cess”. Open Access offers experimenters the opportunity to use
the experimental facilities for free and to obtain support beyond
the originally planned lifetime of the respective project. Bon-
FIRE (Clouds), OFELIA (OpenFlow) and CREW (Cognitive Ra-
dio) are three examples of FIRE facilities now offering Open Ac-
cess; other individual testbeds continue to operate by federating
with running FIRE Facility projects, thereby fostering a long-
living FIRE!
This publication gives an insight into what is real and usable to-
day in FIRE. The FIRE Facility projects funded by the European
Commission under FP7 ICT Objective 1.6 and the FIRE related
international projects are presented here, with a focus on giving
examples of experimentation that has been undertaken.
The FIRE outcome is open and public for all experimenters who
find the facilities offered are suited to their R&D needs. The
FIRE Facility projects invite you as exploratory users to profit
from the experimentation opportunities and help shape the
FIRE Facility according to your needs!
We hope to spark your enthusiasm. Jointly, we can light up the
Future Internet, because FIRE is OPEN and ALIVE.
FIRE information portal: www.ict-fire.eu
FIRE FIREEC
Information about the activities of the European Commission on FIRE - Future Inter-
net Research and Experimentation, and about all FIRE projects can be found at
http://europa.eu/!cC44Qk
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The FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) Ini-
tiative was launched at the beginning of 2007 as part of Frame-
work Programme 7. It built upon the “Situated and Autonomic
Communications” Initiative and other internet-related projects
funded under the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Pro-
gramme, as well as on several projects launched as Research Net-
working Testbeds already under FP6.
FIRE has two related dimensions: on the one hand, promoting
experimentally-driven long-term, visionary research on
new paradigms and networking concepts and architectures for
the future internet; and on the other hand, building a large-
scale experimentation facility to support both medium- and
long-term research on networks and services by gradually federat-
ing existing and new testbeds for emerging future internet tech-
nologies.
FP7 ICT Call 2 gave birth to the ﬁrst wave of FIRE projects,
which ran until the second half of 2010. Four of the projects (Pan-
lab- PII, OneLab, WISEBED and Vital++) were categorised as
“facility projects” building experimental platforms for future
internet researchers, whilst eight projects (ECODE, N4C, Nano
Data Centers, OPNEX, PERIMETER, RESUMENET, SELF-
NET and SMARTNET) were research-focused and
experimentally-driven (so-called “STREP”) projects. The
FEDERICA project funded by the Research Infrastructure pro-
gramme complimented the facility projects of the ICT Call 2.
Two Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) for the FIRE Ini-
tiative were FIREWorks and PARA- DISO.
FP7 ICT Call 5 brought in 5 new Integrated Projects (IPs): OFE-
LIA, BonFIRE, SmartSantander, TEFIS and CREW) and 8 new
STREPs (CONECT, SPITFIRE, SCAMPI, CONVERGENCE,
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FIRE portfolio
Figure 1.1 FIRE Projects 2014
Call 5 project
Note: EULER is
Call 5 project

LAWA, EULER, HOBNET, NOVI). FIRE STATION was
funded through this Call to co-ordinate and support the FIRE
Programme. Three further CSA projects were funded to (i) exam-
ine the socio-economic aspects of the Future Internet
(PARADISO-2), (ii) liaise with the Living Lab community (FIRE-
BALL) and (iii) liaise with the Future Internet activities in Brazil,
Russia, India and China, and keep the community aware of im-
portant standardisation issues (MyFIRE).
OFELIA, BonFIRE, TEFIS and CREW provided facilities in
new technological areas, whereas SmartSantander can be consid-
ered as a continuation of WISEBED (from Call 2), but on a
larger scale and in a real city environment.
Three new IP projects started in Autumn 2011 from the FP7 ICT
Call 7: CONFINE, EXPERIMEDIA and OpenLab. In addition,
CREW (additional testbed) and BonFIRE (new Use Case) ex-
tended their facilities.
A speciﬁc call for collaboration between Europe and Brazil re-
sulted in one new FIRE project FIBRE-EU. The main goal of
the FIBRE-EU project was the design, implementation and vali-
dation of a shared Future Internet research facility between Bra-
zil and Europe.
FP7 ICT Call 8 brought in one IP project (Fed4FIRE), 12
STREPs (RELYonIT, OFERTIE, STEER, Social&Smart,
IRATI, 3D-LIVE, CLOMMUNITY, EAR-IT, ECO2Clouds,
ALIEN, EVARILOS, Cityﬂow) and 2 CSAs (AmpliFIRE and
FUSION). These started in the 2nd half of 2012, or at the begin-
ning of 2013.
FP7 ICT Call 10 resulted in 2 IPs (FLEX, SUNRISE), 5 STREPs
(IoTLab, FORGE, TRESCIMO, MOSAIC 2B, SMARTFIRE), 3
CSA projects (CI-FIRE, ECIAO, ceFIMS-CONNECT) and 2
FIRE-related projects from Coordinated Calls with Brazil (Res-
cuer) and Japan (FLEX-EU). TRESCIMO and MOSAIC 2B are
joint projects with South Africa and SMARTFIRE is a joint pro-
ject with South Korea.
FIRE’s offering currently (March 2014) includes seven fa-
cility projects:
• CONFINE, CREW, EXPERIMEDIA, Fed4FIRE, FLEX,
OpenLab and SUNRISE, which all contribute to the FIRE Fa-
cility by developing a large-scale testbed or federation of test-
beds.
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Figure 1.2 FIRE Integrated Projects (IP) 2008 - 2014

FIRE’s research projects:
• EULER, FIBRE, RELYonIT, OFERTIE, STEER, SOCIAL&S-
MART, IRATI, 3D-LIVE, CLOMMUNITY, EAR- IT,
ECO2Clouds, ALIEN, EVARILOS, Cityflow, IoTLAB,
FORGE, TRESCIMO, MOSAIC 2B, SMARTFIRE) are spe-
cifically research-focused and experimentally-driven.
The Coordination and Support Action (CSA) projects
and their main functions are:
• AmpliFIRE: FIRE vision, strategy, dissemination; FIRE Board
and FIRE Forum
• ceFIMS-CONNECT: European Future Internet Forum (FIF)
Support
• CI-FIRE: EIT ICT Labs and FIRE co-operation
• ECIAO (EU-China FIRE): EU-China cooperation on FIRE
and IPv6
• FUSION: SMEs for FIRE
Previous FIRE projects have laid the foundations for FIRE’s
portfolio/offering today and created a solid basis for the continu-
ous development of the FIRE Facility and experimental re-
search; supported by CSA projects.
More information can be found on the FIRE website at:
www.ict-fire.eu/home/fire-projects.html
The FIRE projects on 2014 are shown in Figure 1.1 and the FIRE
Integrated Projects (IP) evolution and their timing in Figure 1.2.
Links
• Information about the
Digital Agenda for
Europe, FIRE - Future
Internet Research and Ex-
perimentation:
• FIRE information portal:
http://www.ict-fire.eu
• FIRE Wiki:
http://bit.ly/17C4KCp
• 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
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Key achievements
AmpliFIRE has already conducted a series of community
buildingandsupportactivitiesaimedatarticulatingtheneeds
and potential for Future Internet experimentation until 2020.
The FIRE Forum was created to widen the FIRE community,
and the FIRE Board for internal coordination. A FIRE Radar
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:
FIRE information portal: http://www.ict-fire.eu
FIRE Wiki: http://bit.ly/17C4KCp
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
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Chapter 2
FACILITY PROJECTS – OPEN ACCESS

BonFIRE enables developers to research new, faster, cheaper, or
more flexible ways of running applications with new business
models. SMEs and researchers can test a range of cloud scenar-
ios, such as cloud bursting and hybrid clouds, across BonFIRE’s
five European sites. BonFIRE’s Open Access initiative gives us-
ers access to a multi-site cloud facility for applications, services
and systems experimentation:
• Large-scale, heterogeneous and virtualised compute, storage
and networking resources;
• Full control of your resource deployment;
• In-depth monitoring and logging of physical and virtual re-
sources;
• Advanced cloud and network features; and
• Ease of use of experimentation.
How does it work?
The BonFIRE cloud facility is based on an Infrastructure-as-a-
Service delivery model with guidelines, policies and best prac-
tices for experimentation. It has a federated multi-platform ap-
proach, providing interconnection and interoperation between
novel service and networking testbeds. It offers advanced serv-
ices and tools for services research including cloud federation,
virtual machine management, service modelling, service lifecycle
management, service level agreements, quality of service moni-
toring and analytics.
The BonFIRE project provides innovative methods for describ-
ing, deploying, managing, executing, measuring and removing ex-
periments. These methods include uniform test description and
deployment descriptors for all scenarios (including cross-cutting
tests), federation of cloud resources in different administrative
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BonFIRE — Open Access
Movie 2.1 BonFIRE: a multi-site Cloud experimentation and
testing facility.

domains that provide BonFIRE with physical resources, and
user-friendly interfaces at the facility’s entry point. Three key
test scenarios were implemented:
1. Extended cloud: the extension of current cloud offerings 
towards a federated facility with heterogeneous virtualized
resources and best-effort Internet interconnectivity;
2. Cloud with emulated network implications: a controlled en-
vironment providing an experimental network emulation
platform to service developers, where topology configura-
tion and resource usage is under full control of the 
experimental researcher; and
3. Extended cloud with complex physical network implica-
tions: investigation of federation mechanisms for an experi-
mental cloud system that interconnects individual BonFIRE
sites with other FIRE facilities.
Key achievements/results
BonFIRE is offering its multi-site cloud infrastructure free
throughout 2014 for researchers and SMEs to use for testing and
experimentation of cloud-based applications and services. Al-
though EU investment finished at the end of 2013, the infrastruc-
ture will continue to operate as the BonFIRE Foundation.
The continuation of the service beyond the lifetime of the EU-
funded project is a major step forward for European research.
Rather than being a centrally funded project, the Foundation will
be financed by its core members. Testbed providers, integrators,
and partners who agree to provide practical support for the pro-
ject are full members of the BonFIRE Foundation; other part-
ners will retain their links as associates.
How to get involved?
All you need is an idea for testing and experimentation that ex-
ploits BonFIRE’s unique features. Join BonFIRE by submitting
your experiment application at
http://www.bonfire-project.eu/access-now.
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Figure 2.1 BonFIRE’s features supporting cloud research and
experimentation

Project facts (during project execution)
C O O R D I N A-
TOR: Josep Mar-
trat, Atos
EXECUTION:
From 2010-06-01
to 2013-12-31
NOTE: Sustained
through the BonFIRE Foundation throughout 2014.
PARTNERS: Atos (Spain) (Coordinator), The University 
of Edinburgh (UK), SAP AG (Germany), University of Stuttgart
(Germany), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany), iMinds (Belgium),
UCM (Spain), i2Cat (Spain), Hewlett-Packard (UK), 451 Re-
search (UK), TU Berlin (Germany), University 
of Southampton IT Innovation (UK), INRIA (France), Instytut
Chemii Bioorganicznej Pan (Poland), Nextworks (Italy), Wellness
Telecom (Spain), RedZinc Services (Ireland), Cloudium Systems
(Ireland), CESGA (Spain), CETIC (Belgium), University of Man-
chester (UK), ICCS/NTUA (Greece), Televes (Spain), SZTAKI
(Hungary), IN2 (UK), University of Patras (Greece).
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http://www.bonﬁre-project.eu

OFELIA OpenFlow Experimental Facility Infrastruc-
ture and Functionality Continues to Exist and Remains
Open for Experiments.
The FP7-FIRE project OFELIA ended after three years in Octo-
ber 2013, but announced the continued availability, maintenance
and further development of the pan-European OpenFlow-based
testbed facility. OpenFlow, for those not familiar with the latest
developments in networking, is a key standard within the new
networking paradigm called Software Defined Networking
(SDN).
How does it work?
OFELIA creates an experimentation space which allows for the
flexible integration of test and production traffic by isolating the
traffic domains inside the OpenFlow-enabled network equip-
ment. This provides realistic test scenarios and permits the seam-
less deployment of successfully tested technology.
Tests of new routing algorithms, tunnelling protocols and tai-
lored network control planes can be deployed as applications on
top of the OpenFlow controller at any time. Testing of new ad-
dressing formats and forwarding schemes, which requires
changes to the controller itself, will be carried out as and when
the required modifications are developed. These innovations
were provided by both project partners and other contributors,
brought to the project through the process of Open Calls.
The OFELIA facility consists of ten federated islands dispersed
over Europe and Brazil. The OFELIA Control Framework
(OCF) is responsible for the deployment of Virtual Machines
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OFELIA — Open Access
Movie 2.2 Ofelia - The story of the switch.

(VM), binding of VMs to slices and provisioning of an OpenFlow
controller interface to control the forwarding in the slice indi-
vidually per experiment. Cross-island experiments have been
made possible during 2013 for a number of ongoing collabora-
tions and interconnections with other OpenFlow infrastructures.
The “OFELIA Foundation Task-Force” was setup in August 2013
in order to prepare the institutional follow-up to the project. It
focuses on four aspects to sustain and coordinate
OFELIA’s software development: academic and industrial rela-
tions, software development, network connectivity. At the mo-
ment of preparation of this publication, the process of creating a
follow-up organisation outside of the structures of EU project
organisation is on-going.
This not-for-profit organisation will take over the further steer-
ing of the development of OCF, manage software releases, and
organize the further funding of the operation.
Generally, the use of the OFELIA facility is provided “as is” as a
free-of-charge best-effort service. Any user accepting the usage
policy is welcome to experiment on the OFELIA testbed.
Technically, the testbed has created a pan-European Layer-2 net-
work, a giant LAN that allows the definition of various forward-
ing entries, including loops. As this is an intended feature, the ex-
perimental network itself is built in a tunnel infrastructure laid
over the Internet. Consequently, experimenters have to ‘dial in’
to OFELIA. The account and the OpenVPN credentials can be
generated via the OFELIA web site.
The policy of access to the testbed may, however, change to
“members only” once the planned organisation is set up, thereby
encouraging users to join the community and contribute to its
growth by adding new islands. This model would follow the suc-
cessful example of PlanetLab, where membership was based on
adding two nodes to the global facility. A similarly low entrance
barrier may be envisioned for OFELIA as an outcome of further
discussion in the organisation, i.e. later this year or in 2015.
COORDINATOR: Hagen
Woesner, EICT (Germany).
EXECUTION: From 2010-
10-01 to 2013-09-30.
PARTNERS: EICT (Ger-
many) (Coordinator), Deut-
sche Telekom AG (Germany),
University of Essex (UK), Fun-
dacio Privada i2CAT (Spain), Technische Universität Berlin (Ger-
many), NEC Europe Ltd (UK), Interdisciplinary Institute for
Broadband Technology (Belgium), Eidgenössische Technische Ho-
chschule Zürich (Switzerland), The Board of Trustees of the Le-
land Stanford Junior University (USA), ADVA AG Optical Net-
working (UK), CREATE-NET (Italy), Consorzio Nazionale In-
teruniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (Italy).
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http://www.fp7-ofelia.eu/
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OFELIA
innovationswereprovidedbybothprojectpartnersandother
contributors, brought to the project through the process of
Open Calls.
The OFELIA facility consists of ten federated islands dis-
persed over Europe and Brazil. The OFELIA Control Frame-
work (OCF) is responsible for the deployment of Virtual Ma-
chines (VM), binding of VMs to slices and provisioning of an
OpenFlow controller interface to control the forwarding in the
slice individually per experiment. Cross-island experiments
have been made possible during 2013 for a number of ongo-
ing collaborations and interconnections with other OpenFlow
infrastructures.
The “OFELIA Foundation Task-Force” was set-up in Au-
gust 2013 in order to prepare the institutional follow-up to the
project. It focuses on four aspects to sustain and coordinate
tributetoitsgrowthbyaddingnewislands.Thismodelwould
follow the successful example of PlanetLab, where member-
ship was based on adding two nodes to the global facility. A
similarly low entrance barrier may be envisioned for OFELIA
as an outcome of further discussion in the organisation, i.e.
later this year or in 2015.
COORDINATOR: Hagen Woesner, EICT (Germany).
EXECUTION: From 2010-10-01 to 2013-09-30.
PARTNERS: EICT (Germany) (Coordinator), Deutsche Telekom
AG (Germany), University of Essex (UK), Fundacio Privada
i2CAT (Spain), Technische Universität Berlin (Germany), NEC
Europe Ltd (UK), Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband
Technology (Belgium), Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule Zürich (Switzerland), The Board of Trustees
of the Leland Stanford Junior University (USA), ADVA AG
Optical Networking (UK), CREATE-NET (Italy), Consorzio
Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (Italy).

The goal of the Fed4FIRE project (www.fed4fire.eu) is to feder-
ate the different FIRE facilities using a common federation
framework. The federation framework enables innovative experi-
ments that break the boundaries of these domains. It allows ex-
perimenters to more easily find the right resources to translate
their ideas into actual experiments, to easily gain access to differ-
ent nodes on different testbeds, to use the same experimenter
tools across the different testbeds, etc. This means that the ex-
perimenters can focus more on their research tasks than on the
practical aspects of experimentation. The
benefits of federation for the infrastruc-
ture providers are e.g. the reuse of common tools developed
within the federation, reach of larger community of experiment-
ers through the federation, etc.
As depicted in the figure, there are currently 17 testbeds involved
in the Fed4FIRE federation, introducing a diverse set of Future
Internet technologies. Four of these testbeds joined the project
after winning the project’s first Open Call. This call was
launched in May 2013, and aimed to allocate budget to selected
candidate testbeds for inclusion in the Fed4FIRE project, and to
selected experiments that make use of the provided Fed- 4FIRE
federation. A similar second Open Call will be launched in
March 2014. Next to that, the project has also launched a new
type of Open Calls which is especially targeting experimentation
by SMEs. The submission deadline for that call is April 2nd 2014.
How does it work?
The Fed4FIRE federation architecture is characterized by a pref-
erence for distributed components. This way, the federation
would not be compromised if, in the short or long term, individ-
ual testbeds or partners would discontinue their support of the
federation. The general policy is that experimenter tools should
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Fed4FIRE
Movie 3.1 Fed4FIRE: An Open FEDERATION solution at the
Hands-On FIRE! 8-10 May 2013 / FIA-Dublin.

always be able to directly interact with the different testbeds,
and should not be obliged to pass through some central
Fed4FIRE component. However, some non-critical central
federation-level components are also included in the architecture
for convenience purposes. For instance, when an experimenter
tool is used for resource discovery, reservation and provisioning,
it will retrieve the lists of available resources directly from the
different Fed4FIRE testbeds, and it will directly request these
testbeds to reserve specific resources or to provision them. Ex-
periment control tools (which ease the execution of complex ex-
periment scenarios) and experiment monitoring frameworks are
other example cases where the experimenter tool will directly in-
teract 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 acceptation testing of the required interfaces for
testbed federation: jFed. This test suite enables the rigorous test-
ing and integration activities that are needed when federating a
highly heterogeneous set of testbeds with the intention to realize
a fully operational federation. jFed focuses on logical tests for all
steps of the experiment workflow and adds interface tests and
negative testing (are things breakable?) where needed.
In the context of resource discovery, reservation and provision-
ing, the adoption of the Slice-Based Federation Architecture
(SFA) is a key element in Fed4FIRE. Therefore, the first focal
point of jFed is the support of manual and automatic nightly test-
ing of the entire SFA API. This testing functionality is entirely
developed in Java, allowing greater flexibility in development of
both the test suite and future Java SFA client tools. For the man-
ual testing of the SFA interface of any given testbed, both a com-
mand line and a graphical user interface are provided. The auto-
matic (nightly) testing of testbeds is run from within a Jenkins
platform, posting the test reports on a web site 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 plugin system. This way, other important
Fed4FIRE federation interfaces will also be added to the testing
suite as the project continues. The Federated Resource Control
Protocol (FRCP) is an example of such an interface.
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Movie 3.2 OpenLab/Fed4FIRE Demo @ICT2013.

Merely 16 months after the start of the project, Fed4FIRE has
deployed the first version of its federation framework, allowing
experimenters to get involved with all affiliated testbeds in an
easy manner. At the same time, it has selected 8 Open Call experi-
ments from a total of 55 received proposals, and is actively sup-
porting them in the design, setup and execution of their specific
experiments.
FIRE facilities interested in joining Fed4IRE can compete for
funding in the project’s second Open Call, which will be
launched in March 2014. When wanting to join without funding,
then just mail us at contact@fed4fire.eu. Experimenters inter-
ested in our facilities can participate in this same Open Call, or
can compete in the new SME-specific Calls (first launched in Feb-
ruary 2014). Open Access Calls will also be launched in a later
stage, the concrete timing for this remains to be defined. It is ad-
vised to regularly check the project’s website www.fed4fire.eu for
updates on all these different Open Calls.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Piet
Demeester, iMinds
EXECUTION: From
2012-10-01 to 2016-09-30
PARTNERS: iMinds
(Belgium) (Coordinator),
University of Southamp-
ton 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 King-
dom), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), NISA (Republic of Ko-
rea), UMA (Spain), UPC (Spain), UC3M (Spain), DEIMOS
(Spain), MTA SZTAKI (Hungary), NUI Galway (Ireland),
ULANC (UK), WooX Innovations (Belgium), UKent (UK), Brit-
ish Telecom (UK), Televes (Spain).
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Figure 3.1 Overview of the testbeds currently belonging to
Fed4FIRE.
http://www.fed4fire.eu/
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Piet Demeester, iMinds
EXECUTION: From 2012-10-01 to 2016-09-30
PARTNERS: iMinds (Belgium) (Coordinator), University
Southampton IT Innovation (UK), UPMC (France), Frau
FOKUS (Germany), TU Berlin (Germany), University of
Edinburgh (UK), INRIA (France), NICTA (Australia), Atos
University of Thessaly (Greece), NTUA (Greece), Unive
Bristol (UK), i2CAT (Spain), EURESCOM (Germany), DA
(United Kingdom), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), N
(Republic of Korea), UMA (Spain), UPC (Spain), UC3M
DEIMOS (Spain), MTA SZTAKI (Hungary), NUI Galway
(Ireland), ULANC (UK), WooX Innovations (Belgium), U
(UK), British Telecom (UK), Televes (Spain).
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Fed4FIRE

CONFINE (Community Networks Testbed for the Future Inter-
net) provides an experimental facility that supports and extends
experimentally-driven research on Community-owned Open Lo-
cal IP Networks (COPLANs), which are already successful in de-
veloping Internet access in many areas of Europe and the world.
The project takes an integrated view on these innovative commu-
nity networks, offering a testbed that federates the resources of
several COPLANs, each hosting between 500–20,000 nodes,
along with a greater number of links and even more end-users.
How does it work?
CONFINE’s testbed, Community-Lab, integrates and extends
three existing community networks: Guifi.net (Catalonia, Spain),
FunkFeuer (Wien, Austria) and AWMN (Athens, Greece). These
facilities are extremely dynamic and diverse, and successfully
combine different wireless and wired (optical) link technologies,
fixed and mobile routing schemes and management schemes, run-
ning multiple self-provisioned, experimental and commercial
services and applications. The testbed is an innovative model of
self-provisioned, dynamic and self-organizing networks using un-
licensed and public spectrum and links. It offers unified access to
an open testbed with tools that allow researchers to deploy, run,
monitor and experiment with services, protocols and applica-
tions as part of real-world community IP networks. This inte-
grated platform provides user-friendly access to these emerging
COPLAN networks, supporting any stakeholder interested in
developing and testing experimental technologies for open and
interoperable network infrastructures.
The CONFINE facility, through federation and virtualization,
allows the experimental validation of varied scenarios. For exam-
ple, the cooperation and comparison between nodes using di-
verse mesh routing protocols (e.g. OLSR, Batman, Babel); self-
managing (or autonomic) application protocols that adapt to the
dynamic conditions of nodes, links and routes in these networks;
network self-management or cooperative and decentralized man-
agement; the adaptation of services such a VoIP (live video
streaming) to low band- width wireless networks.
The main achievement in the project is the offering of
Community-Lab: an open federated test platform that facilitates
experimentally-driven research in existing community networks.
Community-Lab has more than 100 nodes for experiments em-
bedded around more than 40,000 community network nodes in
Europe. Experiments by the project partners and Open Call par-
ticipants encompass topics such as the characterisation of com-
munity networks and mesh networks, the development of im-
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CONFINE

provements on existing routing protocols, cross-layer optimiza-
tions, SDN, decentralized video streaming, network attached ra-
dios, content-centric networking, etc. Open data sets about com-
munity networks are published at
http://opendata.confine-project.eu including data such as topol-
ogy, routing, traffic, and usage patterns. This has also resulted in
new software tools and protocols developed as part of the test-
bed itself or specific experiments that are now adopted outside
the project.
The testbed portal is at http://community-lab.net; the documen-
tation is at http://wiki.confine-project.eu and all its code is pub-
lished at http://redmine.confine-project.eu. Open usage of
Community-Lab is planned in the future as enough testbed re-
sources will become available.
Project facts
COORDINATOR:
Leandro Navarro, UPC
EXECUTION: From
2011-10-01 to 2015-09-
30
PARTNERS: Core:
UPC (Spain) (Coordina-
tor), guifi.net (Spain), FunkFeuer (Austria), Athens Wireless Met-
ropolitan 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).
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Figure 3.2 CONFINE is an entry point for experimentation
on a federation of real community networks, including
Guifi.net, FunkFeuer and AWMN, shown here.
http://www.confine-project.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
www.confine-project.eu
Confine

The CREW project facilitates experimentally-driven research on
advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive net-
working strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spectrum
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 wireless sensors.
The offerings of these geographically distributed testbeds are fed-
erated, and improved with the addition of state-of-the-art cogni-
tive sensing equipment.
The platform offers users a common portal with a comprehen-
sive description of the functionalities of each individual testbed
together with clear user guidelines. The facility also includes a
benchmarking framework that enables experiments under con-
trolled/ reproducible test conditions, and offers universal and
automated procedures for experiments and performance evalua-
tion. This allows fair comparison between different cognitive ra-
dio and cognitive networking concepts.
The combined expertise, software and hardware that is available
in the CREW federated platform allows the experimental opti-
mization and validation of cognitive radio and cognitive network-
ing concepts in a diverse range of scenarios, including but not
limited to: radio environment sensing for cognitive radio spec-
trum sharing, horizontal resource sharing between heterogene-
ous networks in the ISM bands, cooperation in heterogeneous
networks in licensed bands, robust cognitive sensor networks,
and measuring the impact of cognitive networking on primary
cellular systems.
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CREW
Movie 3.3 CREWWLAN Handover - Hands-On FIRE! 8-10
May 2013 / FIA-Dublin.

CREW has organised three successful Open Calls. Open Call 1
and Open Call 2 resulted in 7 funded experiments and the acces-
sion of 9 new partners to the CREW project. 7 more experi-
ments (with no funding for the experimenters) will be supported
as a result from the latest call (Open Call 3), evidencing a first
step towards sustainable use of the CREW facilities.
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 informa-
tion from portal, guidelines, tutorials, handbooks, and very lim-
ited basic technical support). If more guarantees are required on
availability of infrastructure and technical support, it is possible
to submit a request for experimentation with guaranteed avail-
ability and support. More information 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 experimenter to
find the most suitable test facility for its experiment and further
gives information on how to get started.
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Figure 3.3 The CREW federated platform and its advanced cog-
nitive component.
Movie 3.4 CREW: CCA agent in a CSMA MAC using Iris at the

Project facts
COORDINATOR:
Ingrid Moerman,
iMinds
E X E C U T I O N :
From 2010-10-01 to
2015-09-30
P A R T N E R S :
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: Univer-
sity of Thessaly (Greece), National ICT Australia (Australia), In-
stituto de Telecomunicações (Portugal), CMSF-Sistemas de Infor-
mação (Portugal), CNIT (Italy), WINGS ICT Solutions
(Greece).
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http://www.crew-project.eu/
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component.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.crew-project.eu
CREW

EXPERIMEDIA aims to explore the new forms of social interac-
tion and rich media experiences enabled by the Future Media
Internet (FMI). The project is developing and operating a
unique facility that offers researchers what they need for large-
scale FMI experiments, and in particular for socio-technical ex-
perimentation of networked media systems conducted in the
real world. The state-of-the-art Future Internet testbed infra-
structure offered supports the large-scale experimentation of
user generated content, 3D Internet, augmented reality, integra-
tion of online communities and full experiment lifecycle manage-
ment.
How does it work?
EXPERIMEDIA targets the research community in the FMI,
working with stakeholders such as venue management, broadcast-
ers, content and service providers, and application developers (in-
cluding mobile). The facility allows them to gain valuable insight
into how Future Internet technologies can be used and enhanced
to deliver added value, legally compliant, media experiences to
consumers. Users can then take advantage of three culturally im-
portant “smart venues” offered by the facility where they are not
only able to access state-of-the-art testbed resources, but they
also have access to the necessary experts to help them design,
execute and analyse innovative socio-technical experiments.
EXPERIMEDIA has run ten ground-breaking experiments at
smart venues across Europe developing new techniques for
sports science, learning in culture and heritage, and visitor experi-
ence. All experiments were tested with users to assess quality of
experience. The Foundation of the Hellenic World showed novel
interactivity and augmented reality as part of exhibitions deliv-
ered to 100+ visitors attending a next generation digital dome
show in ancient Greece “A Walk Through Ancient Miletus”. IN2
have successfully concluded a trial “Digital Schladming” of their
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EXPERIMEDIA
Movie 3.5 3D Media in Sports.

ON:meedi:a platform at the Schladming Ski Resort demonstrat-
ing how hyperlocal media, content syndication and advanced ﬁl-
tering can enhance visitor experience by providing access to all
of Schladming’s social media channels in one place. CAR, a High
Performance Training Centre for Olympic athletes, has demon-
strated signiﬁcant advances in using invasive and non-invasive
sensing techniques to improve sports performance. Five more ex-
periments have been funded in the 2nd Open Call including deliv-
ery of real-time information to mobile users to Smart Ski Gog-
gles, adaptive streaming technologies for interactive video naviga-
tion for camera-based coaching and training, 3D interactive and
collaborative serious games, multi-factor human sensing and re-
mote calibration of 3D capture systems.
EXPERIMEDIA will be opening the facility during 2014 for ex-
perimentation by stakeholders external to the consortium. If you
have an idea and would like to explore it, please contact
info@experimedia.eu.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Michael
Boniface, University of South-
ampton IT Innovation
EXECUTION: From 2011-
10-01 to 2014-09-30
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Domes.
Movie 3.7 MEDIA CONNECT: Online video-based interaction
without limits.
http://www.experimedia.eu/
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MOREINFORMATION:
www.experimedia.eu
Experimedia

PARTNERS: Core: University of Southampton IT Innovation
Centre (UK) (Coordinator), Institute of Communication and
Computer Systems (Greece), Atos Origin (Spain), Joanneum Re-
search Forschungsgesellschaft (Austria), Bearingpoint Infonova
(Austria), Idrima Meizonos Ellinismou (Greece), Schladming
2030 (Austria), Centre D’alt Rendiment Esportiu De Sant Cugat
Del Valles (Spain), KU Leuven (Belgium), 
La F@brique du Futur (France), TII (Sweden). 1st Open Call:
IN2 search interfaces development Ltd (UK), STI International
GmbH (Austria), University of Graz (Austria), University of Pelo-
ponnese (Greece), Henri Tudor Research Center (Luxembourg),
University of Vigo (Spain), STT Engineering and Systems (Spain),
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (Poland).
Figure 3.4 EXPERIMEDIA oﬀers a FIRE facility for experi-
ments in social interaction and rich media experiences.
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OpenLab delivers the ingredients to build an open, general-
purpose, shared experimental facility, which allows European in-
dustry and academia to innovate and assess the performance of
their solutions. OpenLab builds on and improves successful
FIRE prototypes, increasing their offering in diversity and scale.
It works on the sustainability of these R&D&I resources. Open-
Lab has pioneered the collaboration with EIT ICT Labs, which
enables the exchange and shared objectives between education,
research and innovation. The joint effort, FITTING, has
brought OpenLab into KIC nodes, embedding the facility’s main
components and resources in the involved EIT ICT Labs co-
location centers. This is a milestone for sustainable facility host-
ing in the future.
How does it work?
OpenLab deploys the software and tools that allow a selection of
advanced testbeds to support diverse applications and protocols
in more efficient and flexible ways. The project delivers control
and experimental plane middleware to facilitate use of these test-
beds by researchers in industry and academia, exploiting its own
technologies, developed notably in the OneLab and Panlab pro-
jects, as well as drawing upon and improving other initiatives’
work, such as the Slice Facility Architecture (SFA) control frame-
work and OpenFlow switching.
OpenLab extends FIRE facilities with advanced capabilities in
the area of mobility, wireless, monitoring and domain intercon-
nections, incorporating technologies such as OpenFlow.
OpenLab offers access to a wide range of testbeds, providing an
infrastructure for experiments that go beyond what can be
tested on the current Internet. The testbeds offered include:
• PlanetLab Europe, offering access to over 1000 nodes distrib-
uted worldwide, based on the PlanetLab system;
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OpenLab
Movie 3.8 OpenLab: video streaming over federated facilities -

• NITOS, an OMF-based wireless testbed consisting of 45
nodes equipped with a mix of Wi-Fi and GNU-radios;
• w-iLab.t wireless mesh and sensor network infrastructure of
180 nodes, including 20 mobile nodes;
• Two IMS testbeds, supporting carrier-grade next generation
network services, for performing diverse converged media ex-
periments;
• ETOMIC, a high-precision network measurement testbed fea-
turing dozens of Internet-connected nodes synchronized via
GPS;
• .SEL, a hybrid delay-tolerant opportunistic networking test-
bed;
• ns-3, a free open-source discrete-event network simulator; and
• HEN, which allows emulation of rich topologies in a con-
trolled fashion over switched VLANs that connect multiple vir-
tual machines.
• An architecture supported by standards and tools to enable fed-
eration for the control, experimental and data planes;
• A large and coherent testbed oﬀering; and
• Large usage experience from partners joining the project fol-
lowing 2 Open Calls.
To express your interest to use the facility, please send an email
to contact@ict-openlab.eu.
Project facts
COORDINATOR:
Serge Fdida, UPMC
EXECUTION: From
2011-09-01 to 2014-06-
30
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Figure 3.5 Distribution of OpenLab testbeds in Europe.
http://www.ict-openlab.eu/
How does it work?
OpenLab deploys the software and tools that allow a selec-
tion of advanced testbeds to support diverse applications
and protocols in more efficient and flexible ways. The pro-
ject delivers control and experimental plane middleware to
facilitate use of these testbeds by researchers in industry
and academia, exploiting its own technologies, developed
notably in the OneLab and Panlab projects, as well as draw-
ing upon and improving other initiatives’ work, such as the
Slice Facility Architecture (SFA) control framework and
OpenFlow switching.
OpenLab extends FIRE facilities with advanced capabili-
ties in the area of mobility, wireless, monitoring and domain
interconnections,incorporatingtechnologiessuchasOpen-
Flow.
OpenLab offers access to a wide range of testbeds,
providing an infrastructure for experiments that go beyond
what can be tested on the current Internet. The testbeds of-
fered include:
• PlanetLab Europe, offering access to over 1000 nodes
distributed worldwide, based on the PlanetLab system;
• NITOS, an OMF-based wireless testbed consisting of
45 nodes equipped with a mix of Wi-Fi and GNU-radios;
• w-iLab.t wireless mesh and sensor network infrastruc-
ture of 180 nodes, including 20 mobile nodes;
• Two IMS testbeds, supporting carrier-grade next
generation network services, for performing diverse
converged media experiments;
• ETOMIC, a high-precision network measurement
testbed featuring dozens of Internet-connected nodes
synchronized via GPS;
• .SEL, a hybrid delay-tolerant opportunistic networking
testbed;
• ns-3, a free open-source discrete-event network
simulator; and
• HEN, which allows emulation of rich topologies in
a controlled fashion over switched VLANs that
connect multiple virtual machines.
PARTNERS: Core: UPMC (FR) (Coordinator), Cosmote (EL)
Creative Systems Engineering (EL), ELTE (HU), ETH Zurich,
(CH) EURESCOM (DE), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (DE), HUJI (IL),
iMinds (BE) INRIA (FR), NICTA (AUS), TU Berlin (DE), UAM (ES),
UCL (UK), Università di Pisa, (IT), University of Patras, (EL),
University of Thessaly (EL), Waterford Institute of Technology
(IE). 1st Open Call: Universidad de Murcia (ES), Budapest
University of Technology and Economics (HU), Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NO), NTUA (EL),
Politechnika Warszawska (PL), Orange Polska (PL). 2nd Open
Call: TU München (DE), CNIT (IT), Universidad Politecnica de
Catalunya (ES), Deutsche Telekom AG (DE), Portugal Telecom
Inovacao (PT).
DistributionofOpenLabtestbedsinEurope.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.ict-openlab.eu
OpenLab

PARTNERS: Core: UPMC (FR) (Coordinator), Cosmote (EL)
Creative Systems Engineering (EL), ELTE (HU), ETH Zurich,
(CH) EURESCOM (DE), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (DE), HUJI (IL),
iMinds (BE) INRIA (FR), NICTA (AUS), TU Berlin (DE), UAM
(ES), UCL (UK), Università di Pisa, (IT), University of Patras,
(EL), University of Thessaly (EL), Waterford Institute of Technol-
ogy (IE). 1st Open Call: Universidad de Murcia (ES), Budapest
University of Technology and Economics (HU), Norwegian Uni-
versity of Science and Technology (NO), NTUA (EL), Politech-
nika Warszawska (PL), Orange Polska (PL). 2nd Open Call: TU
München (DE), CNIT (IT), Universidad Politecnica de Cata-
lunya (ES), Deutsche Telekom AG (DE), Portugal Telecom Inova-
cao (PT).
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Chapter 4
FACILITY PROJECTS – CALL 10

FLEX (FIRE LTE testbeds for open experimentation) aims at
contributing a crucial missing piece in FIRE’s infrastructure puz-
zle: cellular access technologies and Long-Term Evolution (LTE).
FLEX’s experimentation environment will feature both open
source platforms and configurable commercial equipment that
span macro-cell, pico-cell and small-cell setups. FLEX will build
upon current FIRE testbed management and experiment con-
trol 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 estab-
lishment of both real and emulated mobility functionalities on
the testbeds. FLEX will organize two Open Calls, aiming to at-
tract research groups to conduct sophisticated experiments, test
innovative usages or provide functional extensions of LTE test-
beds.
How does it work?
FLEX will establish LTE resources by means of access and core
network in existing FIRE facilities thus reducing the integration
effort. The LTE resources deployment will take place at the wire-
less testbeds of NITOS in Greece, w—iLab.t in Belgium 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 or-
der to support the LTE specific resources, so as to provide a user
friendly way for the experimenter to remotely access the test-
beds and evaluate new ideas and protocols.
Key objectives
The main objectives of the project can be summarized in the fol-
lowing:
• Provide a truly open and highly configurable experimental facil-
ity that uses LTE resources;
• Fully integrate the LTE resources with existing FIRE infra-
structure; and
• Create the circumstances for innovation in the field of 4G net-
works.
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FLEX

The FLEX portal can be reached at http://www.ﬂex-project.eu
where valuable information on how to conduct experiments and
use the infrastructure is included. FLEX will organize two Open
Calls, one at M6 and one at M14 of the project. The goal of these
calls is to attract proposals for innovative usages of the deployed
facilities, sophisticated experiments or even functional exten-
sions of the LTE components. The calls have been planned to
take place early, in order for provide enough time for the new
partners to be integrated in the consortium and provide meaning-
ful contributions.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Prof.
Leandros Tassiulas, Univer-
sity of Thessaly
EXECUTION: From
2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
PARTNERS: University
of Thessaly (Greece) (Co-
ordinator), 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).
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Figure 4.1 Demonstration of supported experiments for
FLEX’s infrastructure.
http://www.ﬂex-project.eu/
infrastructure; and
• Create the circumstances for innovation in the
4G networks.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.flex-project.eu
FLEX

Oceans and lakes cover 71% of the Earth surface, and play a key
role for the equilibrium of many earth systems, including 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 monitoring, 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 unprecedented
monitoring and exploration of marine environments, extending
the concept of The Future Internet (i.e., the so called “Internet
of Things”) to the underwater domain.
How does it work?
SUNRISE concerns developing innovative solutions for network-
ing smart devices to monitor and control the marine environ-
ments. Several underwater platforms, including unmanned mo-
bile robots, will be deployed in five different marine areas includ-
ing 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 environ-
ment and take any action, if needed. SUNRISE will enable for
the first time an accurate monitoring of large marine areas ‘in
real time’.
SUNRISE directly addresses the FIRE objectives providing inno-
vative technologies for open underwater experimental facilities.
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SUNRISE
Movie 4.1 SUNRISE Demo @ICT2013 6.-8.11. 2013.

Key objectives
• Develop innovative solutions to bring the Internet to marine
environments; and
• Enable the cooperation of static and mobile platforms for en-
hanced monitoring, control and exploration of the underwater
world.
The five SUNRISE facilities should be accessible at the end of
the first year of project. User participation at any level will be
eased by a user-friendly web interface, enabling the connection
to remote underwater devices, to request measurements, and to
remotely monitor the status of marine areas.
The SUNRISE project will also extend its infrastructure through
two Open Calls. The first one will be launched after 12 months
from the beginning of the project and the second one after 18
months.
Project facts
C O O R D I NAT O R :
Chiara Petrioli, Univer-
sity of Rome 
“La Sapienza”
EXECUTION: From
2013-09-01 to 2016-08-31
PARTNERS: Univer-
sity of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) (Coordinator), Evologics Gmb
(Germany), NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Ex-
perimentation (Italy), Nexse s.r.l. (Italy), SUASIS Underwater Sys-
tems Technology Limited (Turkey), The Research Foundation of
State University of New York (University at Buffalo) (U.S.A.), Uni-
versidade do Porto (Portugal), Universiteit Twente (The Nether-
lands).
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Figure 4.2 SUNRISE federated testing infrastructure.
http://fp7-sunrise.eu/
15
be interconnected wirelessly, through prevailing underwater
communicationtechnologies(e.g.,acousticandoptical).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
themarineenvironmentandtakeanyaction,ifneeded.SUN-
RISE will enable for the first time an accurate monitoring of
large marine areas ‘in real time’.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome
“La Sapienza”
PARTNERS: University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)
(Coordinator), 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).
SUNRISEfederatedtestinginfrastructure.
MOREINFORMATION:
fp7-sunrise.eu
SUNRISE

CLOMMUNITY addresses the obstacles for communities in
bootstrapping, running and expanding community-owned net-
works 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 com-
puting resources and dynamic network conditions. On the plat-
form 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 serv-
ice prototypes in a cyclic participatory process of design, devel-
opment, experimentation, evaluation and optimization, tailoring
these to the specific social-technical challenges of community
networks. The existence of this community cloud should allow
end-users to find cloud applications within the community net-
work, without needing to consume them from the Internet,
which could ultimately lead to cloud ecosystems in communities.
• Development of the Guifi-Community-Distro, which contains
common services and applications; and
• Deployment of the community cloud in the Guifi community
network.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Felix
Freitag, UPC
EXECUTION: From
2013-01-01 to 2015-06-30
PARTNERS: UPC
(Spain) (Coordinator),
KTH (Sweden), UNESCO
(France), Guifi.Net (Spain), SICS (Sweden).
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CLOMMUNITY
http://clommunity-project.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
http://clommunity-project.eu
CLOMMUNITY

The EULER (Experimental UpdateLess Evolutive Routing) pro-
ject designs and experimentally evaluates novel dynamic
Internet-wide routing models and algorithms by taking into ac-
count its possible evolution and enhancements. These novel rout-
ing schemes aim to address the functional and performance lim-
its of current Internet-wide routing in terms of i) cost of topol-
ogy and policy dynamics, ii) computational complexity (both in
time and space) and iii) memory complexity (both in time and
space).
How does it work?
The project iteratively designs specialized routing models and al-
gorithms for Internet-wide routing, experimentally evaluates
their functionality and performance, and compares them to exist-
ing routing protocols, namely the Border Gateway Protocol
(BGP).
EULER has produced a novel geometric information routing
scheme, unifying information and traﬃc routing, positioned as a
paradigmatic alternative to overlay/CDN and NDN/CCN ap-
proaches. The proposed routing scheme exploits the geometric
properties of the Internet topology by associating to content
identiﬁers (names) of a content locator (coordinate) taken out of
a hyperbolic metric space from which a routing path can be de-
rived without requiring knowledge of non-local information.
EULER has also designed and developed a novel dynamic mul-
ticast routing scheme (referred to as GCMR for Greedy Com-
pact Multicast Routing) designed to perform independently of
the underlying unicast routing protocol. This multicast routing
scheme positions itself thus as an alternative to the PIM/mBGP
routing scheme currently deployed in the context of IPTV
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EULER
Movie 5.1 EULER Demo: GCMR Experiment at the Hands-On
FIRE! 8-10 May 2013 / FIA-Dublin.

within an Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) network. The ﬁrst
demonstration was conducted at the Hands-On FIRE! event at
the FIA-Dublin on May 2013.
Project facts
Dimitri Papadimitriou,
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Ant-
werpen (Belgium)
EXECUTION: From
2010-10-01 to 2014-06-30
PARTNERS: Alcatel-
Lucent Bell Antwerpen (Belgium) (Coordinator), INRIA
(France), iMinds (Belgium), Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
(France), Université Catholique 
de Louvain (Belgium), University of Patras (Greece), Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain).
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http://www.euler-ﬁre-project.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
www.euler-fire-project.eu
EULER

3D-LIVE develops and experiments a User Driven Mixed Real-
ity and Immersive (Twilight) platform connected to EXPERIME-
DIA facilities in order to investigate the Future Internet (FI)
broadband capacity to support real-time immersive situations,
and to evaluate both the Quality of Experience (QoE) and Qual-
ity of Service. The combination of FIRE testbeds and Living
Labs enables both researchers and users to explore 3D/Media
technologies and IoT in real and virtual environments and in live
situations. Combining both FI technology and Tele-Immersion
market pull establishes new requirements for Internet technol-
ogy and infrastructure, and advances
the creation and adoption of innova-
tive FI Immersive services.
How does it work?
3D-LIVE experiments and evaluates the Twilight Platform and
3D Tele-Immersive Environments in skiing, running and golfing
scenarios. The selected FIRE facility is EXPERIMEDIA Schlad-
ming. Of particular interest is the EXPERIMEDIA advance-
ment in new methods and algorithms for content processing tar-
geting the efficient delivery of augmented reality to mobile de-
vices and 3D processing for on the fly reconstruction of live
events in indoor geolocalised spaces.
The Project has developed a model and a methodology suitable
for involving users in the design loop of Future Internet applica-
tions at an earlier stage: the resulting applications are exactly
what the users require. Prototypes for a Twilight Tele-Immersive
Environment have been developed allowing users dispersed geo-
graphically to practice their favourite sport as if they were to-
gether.
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3D-LIVE
Movie 5.2 3D LIVE - Golfing Scenario.

Project facts
COORDINATOR:
Marco Conte, Collabo-
rative Engineering
EXECUTION: From
2012-09-01 to 2015-02-
28
PARTNERS: Collaborative Engineering (Italy) (Coordinator),
ARTS (France), University of Southampton (UK), Cyberlightning
(Finland), Sportscurve (Germany), CERTH (Greece).
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Movie 5.3 3D LIVE - Jogging Scenario.
http://3dliveproject.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
http://3dliveproject.eu
3D-live

ALIEN extends the OpenFlow control framework of OFELIA
and its architecture to support the abstraction of network infor-
mation of equipment that are alien to the OpenFlow technology
such as optical network elements, legacy layer2 switches, net-
work processors and programmable hardware (FPGA), thereby
building strong foundations for Software Defined Networks
(SDN).
How does it work?
The ALIEN project aims to provide an experimentally verified
OpenFlow Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for describing
network device capabilities and controlling their forwarding be-
haviour by a set of unified interfaces for different types of net-
work equipment. The HAL decouples hardware-specific control
and management from the network-node abstraction mechanism
(i.e. OpenFlow). It hides the device complexity, as well as tech-
nology and vendor specific features, from the Control Plane. The
HAL is split into two sub-layers: 1) Cross-Hardware Platform
Layer providing node abstraction, virtualization and communica-
tion mechanisms and 2) Hardware Specific Layer, composed as a
set of hardware drivers, realizing atomic network instructions
for various network platforms/devices.
The project has delivered a definition and the detailed specifica-
tion of the HAL architecture that makes the implementation of
OpenFlow on any non-OpenFlow equipment easier by providing
a software framework for the development of hardware drivers
for various “alien” network elements.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Ar-
tur Binczewski, Instytut
Chemii Bioorganicznej
PAN PCSS
EXECUTION: From
2012-10-01 to 2014-09-30
PARTNERS: Instytut
Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS (Poland) (Coordinator), Uni-
versity College London (UK), University 
of Bristol (UK), Poznan University of Technology (Poland),
EICT(Germany), Universidad Del Pais Vasco Ehu (Spain), Dell
France (France), Create-Net (Italia).
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ALIEN
http://www.fp7-alien.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
http://fp7-alien.eu
ALIEN

Audio sensors are cheap and often easy to deploy. With the grow-
ing power of processing and networking capabilities it is possible
to exploit audio data for a broad range of applications. There is
great potential for RTD on intelligent (acoustic) solutions based
on acoustical sensor networks to support a myriad set of applica-
tions of high (social, business, etc.) value.
How does it work?
Two FIRE facilities, SmartSantander and HobNet have an in-
stalled base of sensors, networked together, capable of support-
ing advanced research in intelligent
acoustics solutions. This enables
“Ears on FIRE”, Experimenting Acoustics in Real environments
using Innovative Testbeds (EAR-IT) realising distributed intelli-
gence powered by acoustics. To explore, validate and confirm the
RTD possibilities of using audio data, EAR-IT uses testbed capa-
bilities of the HobNet project for indoor environments; benefits
from SmartSantander offerings including applications on energy
efficiency, etc. run in both large-scale outdoor and indoor smart
city environments. EAR-IT validates main research lines and de-
livers innovative services and applications targeting (but not lim-
ited) to smart-buildings and smart-cities.
The Acoustic Processing Unit (APU) within EAR-IT has been
developed. The APU comes with increased processing power via
the utilization of an embedded processing platform to process
complex algorithms with high quality audio. Several APUs were
successfully deployed in the FIRE test bed Smart-Santander in
the city of Santander (Spain) with successful experiments on
Events detection and Traffic monitoring using sounds. APUs
were also deployed in Smart Building at Mandat (Geneva).
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EAR-IT
Movie 5.4 Ear-It: Sounds for Smarter Future Internet.

Project facts
COORDINATOR: Pe-
dro Maló, UNINOVA
EXECUTION: From
2012-10-01 to 2014-09-30
PARTNERS: UNI-
NOVA (Portugal) (Coor-
dinator), Fraunhofer-IDMT (Germany), Easy Global Market
(France), MANDAT International (Switzerland), Universidad de
Cantabria (Spain), LTU (Sweden), Wuxi Smart Sensing Stars
(China).
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http://ear-it.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
http://ear-it.eu
EAR-IT

ECO2Clouds investigates strategies that can ensure effective ap-
plication deployment on the cloud infrastructure and reduce the
resultant energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
How does it work?
ECO2Clouds provides a timely, challenging and highly innova-
tive approach to cloud computing service delivery by addressing
the following issues:
• Develop cloud application programming interface extensions 
and mechanisms to collect eco-metrics at infrastructure and
VM level, and quantify the environmental impact of execution
at infrastructure and application level;
• Investigate the key environment, quality and cost parameters
needed to underpin a holistic approach to multi-cloud applica-
tion deployment;
• Develop evaluation mechanisms and optimization algorithms
to assess different parameter configurations and their influence
in energy-efficient cloud sourcing and application-deployment
strategies; and
• Integrate carbon-aware mechanisms into the FIRE facility Bon-
FIRE so as to test, validate and optimize the eco-metrics, mod-
els and algorithms developed and improve the FIRE offering.
In its first year the ECO2Clouds project developed:
• a monitoring infrastructure to assess energy consumption and
real time environmental impact in terms of CO2 for hosts and
virtual machines;
• a scheduler for BonFIRE to allocate virtual machines on the
basis of quality of service constraints, energy efficiency and en-
vironmental impact; and
• application deployment optimization tools based on fore- casts
on energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
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ECO2Clouds

Project facts
Julia Wells, Atos
EXECUTION: From
2012-10-01 to 2014-09-30
PARTNERS: Atos
(Spain) (Coordinator),
University of Manchester
(UK), The University of Edinburgh (UK), niversitaet Stuttgart
(Germany), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Inria (France).
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http://eco2clouds.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
http://eco2clouds.eu
ECO2
CLOUDS

EVARILOS addresses major problems of indoor localization re-
search: The pitfall to reproduce research results in real life sce-
narios suffering from uncontrolled RF interference, and the
weakness of numerous published solutions being evaluated under
individual, not comparable and not repeatable conditions. Accu-
rate 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 interference conditions.
How does it work?
EVARILOS develops a benchmarking methodology enabling ob-
jective experimental validation of and fair comparison between
state-of-the art indoor localization solutions, which does not
only consider accuracy metrics, but also complexity, cost, energy,
and, most importantly, RF interference robustness metrics.
Next, the project improves the interference robustness of local-
ization solutions through (a) multimodal approaches leveraging
different localization methods; (b) introducing environmental
awareness and cognitive features; (c) leveraging the presence of
external interference. Finally, the EVARILOS benchmarking
methodology and interference-robust localization solutions will
be validated in two real-life application scenarios: healthcare in a
hospital setting and underground mining safety. The outcome,
the EVARILOS bench-
marking suite will be implemented in CREW and TWIST facili-
ties and be publically available under open source licenses.
The main result of the first project year is the EVARILOS
Benchmarking Handbook and the announcement of the EVARI-
LOS Open Challenge for the best localization solution to pro-
mote the EVARILOS benchmarking methodology.
Project facts
Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin
EXECUTION: From
2012-11-01 to 2014-12-31
PARTNERS: TU Ber-
lin (Germany) (Coordina-
tor), Televic Healthcare
(Belgium), SICS (Sweden), Advantic Sistemas y Servicios (Spain),
iMinds (Belgium).
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EVARILOS
http://www.evarilos.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
www.evarilos.eu
EVARILOS

The Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) is a new
Internetwork architecture whose fundamental principle is that
networking is only Inter-Process Communication (IPC). RINA
reconstructs the overall structure of the Internet, forming a
model that comprises a single repeating layer, the DIF (Distrib-
uted IPC Facility), which is the minimal set of components re-
quired to allow distributed IPC between application processes.
RINA supports inherently, and without the need of extra mecha-
nisms, mobility, multi-homing and Quality of Service, provides a
secure and configurable environment, motivates for a more com-
petitive marketplace and allows for a seamless adoption. IRATI’s
goal is to achieve further exploration of this new architecture.
IRATI will advance the state of the art of RINA towards an ar-
chitecture reference model and specifications that are closer to
enable implementations deployable in production scenarios.
How does it work?
The IRATI project will evolve the RINA architecture reference
model and draft, incomplete specifications in order to enable
RINA deployments that can potentially obsolete TCP/IP in the
near future. To achieve this main goal, IRATI will design and im-
plement a RINA prototype on top of Ethernet, targeted to the
Linux platform. This prototype will be validated in the OFELIA
facility by assessing on how it addresses the limitations of TCP/
IP in a set of use cases around data-centre networking and net-
work operators.
After Year 1 IRATI has achieved the completion of Prototype 1,
allowing the creation of simple DIFs over Ethernet, validated at
the i2CAT and iMinds OFELIA islands. During Year 2 the proto-
type will be enhanced in the areas of routing, data transfer and
overall performance; targeting multi-island experiments of
RINA over Ethernet but also over TCP and UDP.
Project facts
COORDINATOR:
Sergi Figuerola, i2CAT
EXECUTION: From
2013-01-01 to 2014-12-
31
PARTNERS: i2CAT
(Spain) (Coordinator), NextWorks (Italy), iMinds (Belgium), In-
teroute Communications (UK), Boston University (US).
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IRATI
http://irati.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
http://irati.eu
IRATI

OFERTIE addresses an emerging class of distributed applica-
tions known as Real-Time Online Interactive Applications
(ROIA). The project is using Software-Defined Networking
(SDN) principles to introduce new mechanisms to manage the
network allowing network traffic to be controlled and business
conflicts to be resolved within and across multiple data centres
and/or ISPs.
How does it work?
OFERTIE will extend the SLA-based management and software
APIs, integrating with the OpenFlow, the programmable net-
working technology under-pinning the OFELIA experimental fa-
cility (described on page 7). The enhanced SLA-based manage-
ment system will be used to control the use of computational re-
sources by application processes running on the OFELIA test-
bed, and our new API will enable the OpenFlow to control the
traffic flows across the network. The testbed will allow a variety
of business models to be explored.
OFERTIE has documented the business challenges and models
for leveraging emerging SDN technology; the reports are avail-
able on the OFERTIE web at www.ofertie.eu. Movie 5.5 explains
the benefits of SDN.
The technical achievements include additions to the open source
network virtualisation platform OpenNaaS, and a new API for
ROIA developers, which together can simplify the task to create
applications for improved application performance, as demon-
strated with Spinor’s Shark3D real-time, multi-user virtual world
editor on the OFELIA testbed.
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OFERTIE
Movie 5.5 Ofertie Project Presentation

Project facts
C O O R D I N AT O R :
Paul Walland, University
of Southampton
EXECUTION: From
2012-10-01 to 2014-09-30
PARTNERS: Univer-
sity of Southampton
(UK) (Coordinator), i2CAT (Spain), SPINOR (Germany), In-
teroute Communications (United Kingdom), 
Turk Telekomunikasuyon (Turkey), Westfaelische Wilhelms-
Universitaet Muenster (Germany).
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http://www.ofertie.org/
MOREINFORMATION:
www.ofertie.org
OFERTIE

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions currently do not provide de-
pendable performance. Embedded wireless sensors and actuators
are deeply affected by their often hostile environment. Radio in-
terference from other wireless equipment and electrical appli-
ances impairs communication; temperature and humidity varia-
tions affect battery capacity and electronics. RELYonIT closes
this gap by providing a systematic framework and toolchain to
enable dependable IoT applications by taking into account all
relevant environmental properties and their impact on IoT plat-
forms and protocols.
How does it work?
Environment-aware IoT protocols will be developed and auto-
matically configured to meet application-specific dependability
requirements. Analyzing and modeling environmental properties
and their impact on IoT platforms and protocols requires experi-
mentation on a large number of different platforms under widely
varying environmental conditions. RELYonIT will not only ex-
ploit the scale and diversity of the existing IoT facilities WISE-
BED and SmartSantander, but will extend them to allow repeti-
tion of an experiment under identical environmental conditions
to enable a systematic study of how IoT performance is affected
by relevant parameters.
In the first year, two testbed extensions called TempLab (con-
trolled temperature conditions) and JamLab (controlled interfer-
ence patterns) have been developed and used to develop models
of how the environment affects to the IoT platforms. Initial
environment-aware routing and MAC protocols for the IoT us-
ing these models have been devised and experimented with.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Kay
Römer, TU Graz
EXECUTION: From
2012-10-01 to 2015-01-31
PARTNERS: TU Graz
(Austria) (Coordinator),
Worldsensing (Spain),
Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands), Acciona In-
fraestructuras (Spain), SICS Swedish ICT (Sweden), Lancaster
University (UK).
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RELYonIT RELYonITDependability for the Internet of Things
http://www.relyonit.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
www.relyonit.eu
RELYonIT

SOCIAL&SMART is a research project using the housekeeping
scenario to experiment a pervasive Future Internet network pro-
viding real services to a wide population by operating connected
appliances. The goal is to set up a Social Network of Facts
(SNoF) where members share knowledge in order to automati-
cally generate smart instruction lists (recipes) electronically dis-
patched 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 negotiated
through a domestic middleware and processed by the SNoF
through a set of computational intelligence tools. They consti-
tute the Networked Intelligence of this ecosystem, which proﬁts
from a huge knowledge base consisting of appliance technical
sheets, best practices and the entire log of previous transactions.
The recipe evaluation by the task requesters is the main social
capital of the SNoF feeding the learning algorithms to produce
smart recipes.
Main achievements/results
Interfacing boards and protocols to connect appliances to the
Internet have been realized. The domestic middleware is in a
trial stage, SNoF is under design. 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 virtu-
ally evaluate the executed recipe.
Project facts
COORDINATOR:
Bruno Apolloni, Univer-
sita Degli Studi di Mi-
lano (Italy)
EXECUTION: From
2012-11-01 to 2015-04-30
PARTNERS: Universita Degli Studi di Milano (Italy) (Coordi-
nator), 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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SOCIAL&SMART
http://www.sands-project.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
www.sands-project.eu
SOCIAL&SMART

STEER investigates the emerging community-centric, digitally-
based ecosystem referred to as “Social Telemedia”, a cross- breed-
ing of social networks and networked media. Social Telemedia is
enabled through a new network middleware framework devel-
oped within STEER that provides an operational environment
customized to support various innovative experiments.
How does it work?
STEER defines innovative uses cases that combine media distri-
bution with social network information generated and ex-
changed during various events among members of dynamically
created communities. These use cases will be hosted by STEER
experimental facilities comprised of smart houses and mobile de-
vices and complemented by OpenLab and EXPERIMEDIA pro-
ject facilities. This will eventually lead to the instantiation of a
Social-Aware Media Enabled Cloud (STEER Architecture) of us-
ers and component facilities that not only implements new re-
search findings but will also support extensive experimentation
in order to investigate the correlations between various kinds of
information.
Main achievements/results
The main achievements are the STEER Architecture, and the
definition of the two use cases: Storytelling and Augmented Live
Broadcast. These use cases enable users at an event to produce,
share, and enjoy personal media experiences with other members
of their community. The first experiment has already been car-
ried out in the Schladming Ski area where the storytelling use
case was validated by playing out a realistic scenario where a
number of friends attended the popular Nightrace ski event and
involved their friends at home, who could follow their story
through the storytelling system.
Project facts
COORDINATOR:
Odysseas Koufopavlou,
University of Patras
EXECUTION: From
2012-09-01 to 2014-11-
30
PARTNERS: University of Patras (Greece)(Coordinator), ADB
Broadband (Italy), University of Southampton, IT Innovation
(UK), Bitnomica (The Netherlands), TNO (The Netherlands),
Lancaster University (UK).
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STEER
http://fp7-steer.eu/
MOREINFORMATION:
http://fp7-steer.eu
STEER

Chapter 6
RESEARCH PROJECTS - CALL 10

The Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) project
aims to transform the Future Internet Research and Experimen-
tation (FIRE) testbed facilities into learning resources for higher
education. Through FORGE, traditional online courses will be
complemented with interactive laboratory courses. FORGE will
also allow educators to eﬃciently create and use FIRE-based
learning experiences through our tools and techniques. And,
most importantly, FORGE will enable equal access to the latest
ICT systems and tools, independently of location and at low
cost.
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 in-
clude video, webcasts, podcasts and eBooks, which can contain
multimedia and interactive segments. FORGE will produce inter-
active learning resources targeting a wide range of media and de-
vices in order to maximize its impact on the eLearning commu-
nity with remote laboratories and experiments.
Key Objectives
• Study and develop new processes and approaches to online
learning based on the integration of FIRE facilities and eLearn-
ing technologies;
• Inject into the higher education learning sphere the FIRE port-
folio of facilities and tools;
• Introduce the learning community to Experimentally Driven
Research; and
• Increase the overall accessibility and usability of FIRE facili-
ties through the layering of how-to-use resources over the
FIRE platforms.
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FORGE
Figure 6.1 The FORGE course design framework.

Project facts
C O O R D I N AT O R :
John Domingue (The
Open University)
EXECUTION: From
2013-10-01 to 2016-10-31
PARTNERS: The Open
University (UK) (Coordi-
nator), University of Patras (Greece), iMinds (Belgium), GRNET
(Greece), University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris (France), Trin-
ity College Dublin (Ireland), NICTA (Australia).
http://ict-forge.eu/
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PARTNERS: Mandat International (CH) (Coordinator),
University of Geneva (CH), Computer Technology Institute &
Press Diophantus (GR), University of Surrey (UK), Technical
University of Lulea (SW), Alexandra Institute (DK) (KR),
University of Southampton (UK), DunavNET d.o.o. (RS).
PARTNERS: The Open University (UK) (Coordinator), University
of Patras (Greece), iMinds (Belgium), GRNET (Greece),
University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris (France), Trinity College
Dublin (Ireland), NICTA (Australia).
MOREINFORMATION:
www.iotlab.eu
IoTLab
MOREINFORMATION:
http://ict-forge.eu
FORGE
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IoT Lab is a European Research project which aims at research-
ing the potential of crowdsourcing to extend Internet of Things
(IoT) testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments
with more end-user interactions.
How does it work?
The future of IoT research will require closer interactions be-
tween the researchers and the society in order to better address
societal needs and challenges, including end-user acceptance.
This will require new approaches for experimentation that will
become more pervasive, leaking out from the labs into the real
world. IoT Lab will serve this future by contributing to pave the
way to new experimental approaches with innovative “privacy-
friendly” crowd sourcing technologies, multidisciplinary ap-
proaches and new research schemes, such as crowd-sourcing
driven research.
Key Objectives
1. Crowdsourcing mechanisms and tools enabling testbeds to
integrate and use third parties resources (e.g. mobile
phones);
2. Virtualization of crowdsourcing and testbed components;
3. Ubiquitous Interconnection and Cloudiﬁca-
tion of the test-beds resources to provide an on-line plat-
form of Testbed as a Service (TBaaS);
4. To research potential crowdsourcing participants interests,
drivers and barriers to adoption;
5. “Crowdsourcing-driven research” as a new model: 
the research initiated, guided and assessed by the crowd;
6. Analyzing the potential Economic dimension of crowd-
sourcing testbed: markets and business models; and
7. Performing multidisciplinary experiments including end-
user driven experiments through crowdsourcing.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Man-
dat International, Sébas-
tien Ziegler
EXECUTION: From Oc-
tober 2013 to September
2016
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IoT Lab
http://www.iotlab.eu/
22
Key Objectives
1. Crowdsourcing mechanisms and tools enabl
to integrate and use third parties resources (e
phones);
2. Virtualization of crowdsourcing and testbed
components;
3.Ubiquitous Interconnection and Cloudificatio
beds resources to provide an on-line platform
as a Service (TBaaS);
4.To research potential crowdsourcing particip
interests, drivers and barriers to adoption;
5.“Crowdsourcing-driven research” as a new m
the research initiated, guided and assessed b
6.Analyzing the potential Economic dimension
sourcing testbed: markets and business mod
7. Performing multidisciplinary experiments inc
end-user driven experiments through crowd
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Mandat International, Sébastien Z
EXECUTION: From October 2013 to September 20
PARTNERS: Mandat International (CH) (Coordinato
University of Geneva (CH), Computer Technolog
Press Diophantus (GR), University of Surrey (UK)
University of Lulea (SW), Alexandra Institute (DK
University of Southampton (UK), DunavNET d.o.
will produce interactive learning resources targeting a wide
range of media and devices in order to maximize its impact
on the eLearning community with remote laboratories and
experiments.
Key Objectives
• Study and develop new processes and approaches to
online learning based on the integration of FIRE facilities
and eLearning technologies;
• Inject into the higher education learning sphere the FIRE
portfolio of facilities and tools;
• Introduce the learning community to Experimentally
Driven Research; and
• Increase the overall accessibility and usability of FIRE
facilities through the layering of how-to-use resources
over the FIRE platforms.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: John Domingue (The Open University)
PARTNERS: The Open University (UK) (Coordinator), University
of Patras (Greece), iMinds (Belgium), GRNET (Greece),
University Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris (France), Trinity College
Dublin (Ireland), NICTA (Australia).
MOREINFORMATION:
www.iotlab.eu
IoTLab
MOREINFORMATION:
http://ict-forge.eu
FORGE

PARTNERS: Mandat International (CH) (Coordinator), Uni-
versity of Geneva (CH), Computer Technology Institute & Press
Diophantus (GR), University of Surrey (UK), Technical Univer-
sity of Lulea (SW), Alexandra Institute (DK) (KR), University of
Southampton (UK), DunavNET d.o.o. (RS).
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Chapter 7
RESEARCH PROJECTS –
INTERNATIONAL

Testbed-oriented international cooperation on SDN research
across continents can serve as a strong foundation for advanced,
high-impact programmable network research work. Researchers
can validate their novel network applications and solutions in
world-class testbeds, capitalizing on resources from different ad-
ministrative and geographically remote facilities. In this context,
FELIX, the joint EU-Japan research project, addresses SDN test-
bed federation between key research labs in the field.
How does it work?
The primary objective of the FELIX project is to create a com-
mon framework in which users can request, monitor and manage
a slice provisioned over distributed and distant Future Internet
experimental facilities in Europe and Japan. FELIX, a joint ef-
fort of two independent but closely-cooperating consortia
(FELIX-EU in Europe, FELIX-JP in Japan), builds strong founda-
tions for a federation framework by further developing emerging
technologies and SDN control frameworks (e.g. Open Grid Fo-
rum’s NSI and OFELIA OCF) for the practical applicability in
the project. The implemented use cases will promote unique ca-
pabilities of the new federation framework.
FELIX is currently defining a common framework for federated
SDN Future Internet (FI) testbeds, which are dispersed across
continents (Europe and Japan). This framework will enable its
user to:
1. Dynamically request and obtain resources across different
testbed infrastructures;
2. Manage and control the network paths which connect the
federated SDN testbed infrastructures; and
3. Execute distributed applications on the federated infrastruc-
ture.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Artur
Binczewski, Instytut Chemii
Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS
EXECUTION: From
2013-04-01 to 2016-03-31
PARTNERS: Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN PCSS (Po-
land) (Coordinator), Nextworks (Italy), Fundacio Privada I2CAT
(Spain), SURFnet (Netherlands), European Center for Informa-
tion and Communication Technologies (Germany), iMinds (Bel-
gium). 57
FELIX-EU
http://www.ict-felix.eu/
developing emerging technologies and SDN contro
works (e.g. Open Grid Forum’s NSI and OFELIA OC
practical applicability in the project. The impleme
cases will promote unique capabilities of the new fe
framework.
FELIX is currently defining a common framework f
ated SDN Future Internet (FI) testbeds, which are d
across continents (Europe and Japan). This framew
enable its user to:
1. Dynamically request and obtain resources acros
different testbed infrastructures;
2. Manage and control the network paths which co
the federated SDN testbed infrastructures; and
3.Execute distributed applications on the federated
infrastructure.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Artur Binczewski, Instytut Chemii Bioorgan
PAN PCSS
PARTNERS: InstytutChemiiBioorganicznejPANPCSS(Po
(Coordinator),Nextworks(Italy),FundacioPrivadaI2CAT
SURFnet(Netherlands),EuropeanCenterforInformation
CommunicationTechnologies(Germany),iMinds(Belgiu
MOREINFORMATION:
www.ict-felix.eu
FELIX-EU

FIBRE is encouraging collaboration between Brazil and Europe
in the area of Future Internet (FI) applied research through the
establishment of an intercontinental large-scale federated test-
bed facility. The project brings together diﬀerent technologies:
OpenFlow, wireless and optical communications. The facility will
remain operational after the end of the project and will be open
for experimenters.
How does it work?
FIBRE builds a federation of IT and networking devices com-
posed of independent resources located in 13 remote test-beds in
Europe and Brazil. Resources are aggregated through a set of in-
terfaces and data types that allow the interoperation of the slice-
based network substrates. The physical devices deployed in FI-
BRE are virtualized in order to be shared between diﬀerent
users/experiments. A dedicated “per-slice” SDN controller allows
the experimenter to test and validate new network applications
and routing strategies in an isolated environment. The FIBRE
federated architecture will allow users to access the testbed
through an integrated interface for either experimental or con-
trol planes.
A new facility of FI testbeds has been established in Brazil from
scratch, while the testbeds of the European partners have been
extended with state-of-the-art equipment (OpenFlow switches,
optical and wireless extensions). The testbeds have been physi-
cally interconnected through GÉANT and transatlantic circuits,
while functional federation has relied on tools widely adopted in
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FIBRE
Movie 7.1 Showcases over the FIBRE testbed at Hands-On
FIRE! / FIA-Dublin event 8-10 May 2013.

the FIRE community. Three large scale pilot applications have
been designed and developed as proof of concept use cases.
Project facts
COORDINATOR:
Sebastia Sallent, i2CAT
foundation
EXECUTION: From
2011-06-01 to 2014-07-
31
PARTNERS: i2CAT
(Spain) (Coordinator), Nextworks (Italy), U. Bristol (UK), UPMC
(France), UTH (Greece), NICTA (Australia), UFPA, CPqD,
RNP, UFF, UFG, UFPE, UFRJ, UFSCar, UNIFACS and USP
(Brazil).
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http://www.ﬁbre-ict.eu/
23
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Sebastia Sallent, i2CAT foundation
PARTNERS: i2CAT (Spain) (Coordinator), Nextworks (Italy),
U. Bristol (UK), UPMC (France), UTH (Greece), NICTA
(Australia), UFPA, CPqD, RNP, UFF, UFG, UFPE, UFRJ,
UFSCar, UNIFACS and USP (Brazil).
ewski, Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej
01 to 2016-03-31
BioorganicznejPANPCSS(Poland)
(Italy),FundacioPrivadaI2CAT(Spain),
uropeanCenterforInformationand
gies(Germany),iMinds(Belgium).
OREMATION:
-felix.eu
MOREINFORMATION:
www.fibre-ict.eu
FIBRE

Chapter 8
RESEARCH PROJECTS —
INTERNATIONAL — CALL 10

Mobile Empowerment for the Socio-Economic Development in
South Africa. Mobile empowerment based on mobile technolo-
gies allows the development and implementation of new busi-
ness models and new business opportunities targeting micro en-
terprises 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 applications, innovative
low-cost internet delivery mechanisms and aﬀordable mobile
technologies to unlock new mobile business opportunities, espe-
cially 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 knowl-
edge of on-going processes, to support decision making, and to
increase business opportunities. Ultimately the business case of
South African micro entrepreneurs delivering edutainment to ru-
ral consumers serves as a showcase for broad based economic ac-
tivities at the bottom of the economic pyramid in the developing
world.
Key objectives
In essence the MOSAIC 2B framework will provide technolo-
gies to implement:
• Low-cost mechanisms to deliver multimedia content via mo-
bile devices;
• Mechanisms to identify and protect the copyright of the multi-
media content delivered;
• Mobile business services to suit the needs of micro-
entrepreneurs (e.g. Edutainment services to rural communi-
ties);
• Multi-cultural mobile interfaces; and
• User-friendly visualization and analysis tools to integrate, 
correlate, fuse, analyze, process real-time data.
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MOSAIC 2B

Project facts
COORDINATOR:
Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker
(GraphicsMedia.net)
EXECUTION: From
2013-10-01 to 2015-09-30
P A R T N E R S :
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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http://mobile-empowerment.org/
24
University of Madrid (Spain); FireServ (Austria);
Brazilian Consortium: UFBA, USP, MTM, COFIC.
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).
MOREINFORMATION:
www.rescuer-project.org
RESCUER
MOREINFORMATION:
www.mobile-empowerment.org
MOSAIC2B

Incidents occurring during large-scale events and in industrial ar-
eas may have a huge impact on human lives, property, and the en-
vironment. Fast reaction is vital in order to minimise physical
damages as well as damages to the public image of the involved
organisations. The main challenge for a command centre is to
quickly obtain contextual information about the emergency situa-
tion. As mobile devices are widely used and connected to the
Internet, RESCUER exploits crowd-sourcing information and
mobile technologies to address this challenge.
How does it work?
RESCUER will provide a smart and interoperable computer-
based solution with the following components:
1. Mobile Crowdsourcing Solution: to support eyewitnesses
and first responders to provide information to the command
centre;
2. Data Analysis Solutions: to integrate data from different op-
erational forces as well as to combine, filter, and analyse
crowdsourcing and open data information;
3. Emergency Response Toolkit: to provide relevant informa-
tion in appropriate format and time to the command centre;
and
4. Communication Infrastructure: to support the information
flow between the crowd and the command centre.
Key objectives
• Design of a user interface and interaction model that support
safe and efficient provision of information;
• (Semi-)Automatic fusion, aggregation and analysis of multime-
dia data;
• Optimised aggregation of intuitive metaphors for visualisation
and manipulation of information;
• Customised communication of the incident and its conse-
quences targeted to the audience; and
• Development of a peer-to-peer communication method to sup-
port ad-hoc communication.
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RESCUER

Project facts
COORDINATOR:
Karina Villela, Fraunho-
fer IESE
EXECUTION: From
2013-10-01 to 2016-03-31
PARTNERS: Euro-
pean Consortium: Fraun-
hofer IESE (Coordinator), DFKI and Vomatec (Germany); Uni-
versity of Madrid (Spain); FireServ (Austria); Brazilian Consor-
tium: UFBA, USP, MTM, COFIC.
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http://www.rescuer-project.org/
24
PARTNERS: European Consortium: Fraunhofer IESE
(Coordinator), DFKI and Vomatec (Germany);
University of Madrid (Spain); FireServ (Austria);
Brazilian Consortium: UFBA, USP, MTM, COFIC.
dia.net GMBH (Germany)
DisneyCompanyGmbH(Switzerland),
- CENTRO DE COMPUTAÇÃO
-USE Africa PTY LTD (South Africa),
outh Africa), INFUSION KNOWLEDGE
Africa).
MOREINFORMATION:
www.rescuer-project.org
RESCUER
ORERMATION:
mobile-empowerment.org

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