1. IBBT:
Interdisciplinary Institute for
Broad Band Technology
iLab Technical Test Centre Workshop
Dr. M. Claire Van de Velde
Director Technology Transfer & Business
Development

2. Programme
14.00-14.30: Introduction on iLab
14.30-15.00: Technical overview
15.00-15.15: Break
15.15-16.15: Use cases
16.15-17.15: Demos and tour
17.15: Drink
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3. Our Mission
develop highly competent multidisciplinary
human capital
interdisciplinary demand-driven basic
research
focused on ICT and broadband
in cooperation with business and government
(local and international)
providing solutions to complex problems
better meet society’s future challenges
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4. Social-economic context
Potential of ICT:
1. Enhancing living quality
2. Enhancing Growth and competitivity of our economy:
Contribution of IBBT:
Improve competitivity from R&D by promoting
networking large companies, SMEs, public and
semi public institutions and knowledge
institutions
Focus on application of which the business model
is anchored in the European society
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5. Our mission: highly-competent
multidisciplinary human capital
content
legislation
user
network
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6. Demand driven basic research
in selected application domains
eHealth
new media
Companies
Government
Non-profit
eGovernment mobility
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enabling technologies

7. Research programming:
complementary projectmodels
ISBO : Interdisciplinary Strategic Basic
Research, with international scope and
active follow-up by companies, and
O&O GBO financed by IBBT
GBO: Collaborative Basic Research,
ISBO executed by IBBT in in close
GBO O&O collaboration with companies with
complementary business models, and co-
O&O GBO financed in a 50-50% ratio
O&O : bilateral competitive research and
i-lab development, defined and financed by
partner companies
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8. Our plans for iLab
iLab Technical: in Ghent, focused on
technical aspects
iLab Forum: in Ghent, focused on
demonstrations of developed
technologies (under construction)
iLab CUO : in Leuven, focused on
usability research
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9. Location
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10. IBBT
“ICT- Incubation”
Incubation centre
Office centre
Flexible office
Remote office
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11. http://www.ibbt.be

12. Introduction on iLab
Strategy of iLab
Technical Part
Piet Demeester
piet.demeester@intec.ugent.be

13. Outline
Global Strategy
iLab Today
Mission Statements
iLab
Worldwide: today and tomorrow
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14. iLab Global Strategy
Focused to ensure critical mass
and to be best of class in Europe
and competitive worldwide
Targeted towards promising
research areas with strong
industrial relevance
Connected locally to industry and
IBBT groups and globally for
worldwide collaboration
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15. iLab Global Strategy
Open to industry residents
Future proof by design
Flexible and adaptable to support a
range of research projects (GBO, ISBO,
EU, bilateral, IWT, etc.)
Sustainable with regard to human
resources and recurrent investments
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16. iLab Today
Support of research activities within a
range of projects
Collaboration examples:
GBO – ISBO: Coplintho, E-Paper, FIPA, IPEA,
MADUF, GeoBIPS, TR@INS, Armad@, T-Case, WBA,
MCDP, …, QoE, VIN
O&O (IWT, bilateral): IWT-Champ (Alcatel), IWT-
OSLU (Newtec), IWT-Easy-Wireless (Televic), NIKO
European: MUSE, NOBEL, Citizen Media,
Phosphorous, Integrail, Magnet
Residents: NIKO, VRT, Porthus
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17. iLab Today
Generic infrastructure applicable in
many projects (e.g. test equipment:
Smartbits, NX2, Optiview, Avalanche, Opera;
terminals/ networks/ servers)
Ad hoc infrastructure to support
specific projects (e.g. cubes GeoBIPS,
DVB-H Maduf, Satellite OSLU, Home gateway
NIKO) Also (partially) funded by companies
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18. iLab Mission Statements
End to End Multimedia QoS (MS1)
Supporting audio, video and data
In a wireless and wired access
environment
Considering network/content/terminal
Virtual and Intelligent Networked
Environments (MS2)
virtual storage/computing/information
resources
Intelligent personalized context aware
environment
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19. iLab MS1: End to End Multimedia QoS
Examples:
Network based QoS support in wired (GBO-
FIPA, IST-MUSE, IST-NOBEL) and wireless (GBO:
WBA, GeoBIPS, Armad@, Tr@ins, ISBO: QoE, IWT-OSLU,
IWT-Champ, …) home, access and backbone
Content and terminal based QoS support
(audio and video) (ISBO-QoE, GBO-MADUF, GBO-
WBA, SCONE, …)
Performance evaluation of audio, video and
data (IWT-Champ, IWT-OSLU, SCONE, …)
…
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20. iLab MS2: Virtual and Intelligent
Networked Environments
Examples:
Grid computing (IST- Phosphorous, GBO-FIPA,…)
Thin Client (ISBO-QoE, IWT Fade-HOME, …)
WSCAN (Wireless Sense, Compute, Actuate
Networks) (GBO: WBA, MultiTr@ns, IM3, …)
Context awareness (GBO-T-Case, IST-Citizen Media, …)
MyNet: Virtual Private Ad Hoc Networks (VPAN)
(ISBO-VIN, GBO-Coplintho, IST-Magnet, …)
Virtual Communities (GBO: VACF, ASCIT, E-HIP,
A4MC3, …)
…
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21. iLab : Virtual Wall
Generic test environment for advanced
network and service evaluation
> 100 nodes (PC based, 4x1 Gb/s interfaces)
interconnected via Gb/s VLAN Ethernet
switches and a display wall (e.g. 20 monitors for
experiment visualization)
Node functionalities: terminal, server, network
node, impairment node
Connected to: test boxes for wireless
terminals, generic test equipment, simulation
nodes (for combined emulation/simulation), …
FAI (Full Automatic Install) for fast context
switching (e.g. 1 week experiments), remote
access from all IBBT sites, …
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22. iLab Virtual Wall
Examples of experiments:
- MediaGrid
- Agile and personalized storage
- Thin Clients
- Video coding/decoding/transcoding
- SOA (Service Oriented Architectures)
- User controlled networks
- Network security
- Pan-European experiments
- …
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23. iLab : Large Scale WSCAN
250 nodes wireless meshed/ad-hoc network
(low data rate, e.g. 802.15) for WSCAN support
(Wireless Sense/ Compute/ Actuate Networks)
Different sensor and actuator types plugged
in wireless nodes, generic compute nodes
Connected to iLab virtual wall, high bitrate
wireless network, test equipment, …
Collaboration with e.g. imec.nl (Holst)
…
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24. iLab Large Scale WSCAN
Examples of experiments:
- AmI, Ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Things
- eHealth, logistics, building management,
emergency, urban sensing, vehicular networks, …
- Sensing for context awareness
- Self configuration, routing, robustness, task
delegation, power optimization, …
- User experiments
- Pan-European experiments
- …
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25. What happens in US ?
www.emulab.net
(Utah)
www.winlab.rutgers.edu
( incl. ORBIT wireless
testbed, Rutgers)
whynet.ucla.edu
(UCLA)
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26. What happens in Europe ?
Pan-European Laboratory for NextGeneration
Networks and Services
www.panlab.org (IST; Celtic)
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27. Next Generation Internet: GENI
GENI (Global Environment for Network
Innovations): www.geni.net
GENI is an experimental facility being planned
by the NSF, in collaboration with the research
community. It's goal is to enable the research
community to invent and demonstrate a
global communications network and related
services that will be qualitatively better than
today's Internet
Infrastructure budget : 350 M$, 2009-2013
(includes development of infrastructure)
Research on top of GENI funded by e.g. NSF
program FIND (Future Internet Design)
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28. Conclusions
iLab Technical: Generic technology lab
in support of current and future IBBT
research programs with industry
Complementary to industry labs
Leading position in Europe
In line with worldwide developments
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