1. FUTEBOL
When optical meets wireless
FUTEBOL
Federated Union of Telecommunications Research
Facilities for an EU-Brazil Open Laboratory
EUBrasilCloudForum Concertation Meeting
Brasilia, April 18th , 2018
José Marcos Nogueira - UFMG

2. • The main goal of FUTEBOL is
• to develop and deploy research
infrastructure,
• and an associated control framework for
experimentation,
• in Europe and Brazil,
• that enables experimental research at the
convergence point between optical and
wireless networks.
Project

3. Consortium
• European
institutions:
– 3 academic
– 2 industry
• Brazilian
institutions:
– 5 academic
– 2 industry
• 60+ people
involved

4. The focus area
FUTEBOL’s focus is on converged wireless-optical experimentation.
The project focuses on three use cases of relevance to researchers in
industry and academia working on the design and development of future
communications networks:
● UC1:The impact of broadband wireless on
optical backhauling
● UC2: The design of SDN infrastructure for
wireless-optical integration
● UC3: The interplay between wireless and
optical for IoT

5. Use cases and experiments
Use cases explored
through experiments using
FUTEBOL infrastructure

6. Infrastructure - Testbeds
• University of Bristol (UNIVBRIS)- Bristol is Open (BiO)
– City-driven digital innovation as a City Experimentation as a Service (CEaaS)
• Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (VTT) - VTT Converging
Networks Laboratory
– 5G, cognitive network technologies, network management, Internet of Things,
future internet technologies, QoS/QoE and media content analysis
• Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
– FIBRE Isle has structure for integrated optical/wireless experiments

7. Infrastructure - Testbeds
• Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES)
– MetroVix (50km perimeter optical metropolitan ring network) for integrated optical/wireless
experiments between Europe and Brazil
• Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
– CD/CONNECT has access to a cognitive radio testbed based on the Implementing Radio In Software
(Iris) software-defined radio (SDR) system
• Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)- WINET (Wireless Networks research group)
– Devices for wireless research, ranging from areas such as infrastructured networks (WiFi, 3G, 4G),
Internet of Things, sensor networks and cognitive radios.

8. Equipments
TCD

9. Equipments
Iot at UFMG

10. The expected/achieved results
• Control Framework
A unique control framework for converged optical/wireless
experimentation will directly advance telecommunications by federating
testbeds in Brazil and Europe.
• Open Call
Publication of this call: August 31st, 2017
Proposal submission cutoff date: November 20th, 2017
Notification of acceptance: December 6th, 2017
Submission of the final project report: October 1st, 2018

11. Open Call
Proposals selected for advanced support:
1. Testing Adaptive Scaling for Evolved Packet Core in the FUTEBOL Research Infrastructure –
Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
2. NovaGenesis – ICT Lab-Inatel, Brazil
3. AAHCCaVI: Adaptation Aware Hybrid Client-Cache: a smart pre-fetching scheme for DASH for
Regular Videos and Immersive Contents – University of Missouri- Kansas City, USA
Proposals selected for basic support:
1. Evaluating Wireless Body Area Network MAC Protocols Power Consumption (WBAN) – Federal
University of Viçosa, Brazil
2. Experiments in Cognitive Radios – Federal University of Lavras, Brazil
This is an important phase for the project because experimenters may test the resources
available in FUTEBOL’s testbeds and provide their feedback. Results shall appear starting from
October 2018.

12. The main assets (apart from the
testbeds)
▪ Reports the dissemination and exploitation activities executed
within the first 24 months of the project
▪ 58 papers
▪ 16 invited talks
▪ 9 workshops (Europe and Brazil)
▪ 28 YouTube videos
▪ 3 newsletters
▪ 1 contribution to 3GPP
▪ Links with other projects: FIRE, eWine, Wishfull, and Fed4Fire
▪ Experience in working in research project with many intermediate
deliverables an reports with firm deadlines, as well in working in
cooperation with many partners spread over Brasil and Europe. (At
least for the Brazilian partners).

13. Recommendations for further actions
either in research or policy
• The ability to virtualize and abstract communication
resources, dynamically reconfigure the network, and
capability to share of licensed spectrum will create major
regulatory and policy challenges that need further
investigation and discussion.
• The need to keep the testbeds working and open to
experiments
• More research on spectrum sharing, focusing mainly on
Brazil, a really big country with large rural areas.

14. Futebol meeting year 2 in Belo Horizonte

15. Thank you!
http://www.ict-futebol.eu
FUTEBOL has received funding from the European Union's Horizon
2020 for research, technological development, and demonstration
under grant agreement no. 688941 (FUTEBOL), as well from the
Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI)
through RNP and CTIC.

16. An example: The interplay between
wireless and optical networks for IoT
Adaptive cloud/fog computing for IoT, according to network
capacity and service latency requirements