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Second Future Internet Cluster Workshop
15 June 2010 -
Florence - Italy

will be held back to back with the 19th Future Network and Mobile Summit

More information, click here    /   see the agenda

Report from the 1st workshop available here

*** NEW *** Report available here

Important notice: Should you wish to attend the FI cluster meeting only (and not the entire Mobile Summit), you need to contact the Mobile Summit secretariat (Miriam Cunningham) to set a special fee against your profile to enable you to register at the €50 rate. Please note that this option is not available automatically on line. 

Title Short Abstract Author Presentation
Track 1: Addressing Wireless Access and Mobility in the Network of the Future
Mobility in the Future Internet: the 4WARD Innovations The FP7 project 4WARD is promoting a mobility concept integrated in the service and network infrastructure of a Future Internet. Starting from a business-motivated analysis of mobility aspects in future networks, we present a summary of the main project achievements and findings with respect to mobility: a data management for mobile objects in “networks of information”, a connectivity management for maintaining generic mobile communication, and innovative supporting mechanisms for integrated mobility, like topology discovery, group-size estimation and virtualization of wireless resources and networks. We conclude the presentation with an overview of the mobility related proof-of-concept validation and demonstrations that show how the novel concepts may work together.

M. Soellner

Alcatel Lucent Deutschland

with Peter Schefczik (ALUD), Philippe Bertin (FT), Guozhi Wei (FT), Xiaofei Zhang (LIP6), Thi-Mai-Trang Nguyen (LIP6), Jukka Mäkelä (VTT), Susana Pérez (RBTK), Anders Eriksson (EAB), Anna-Maria Biraghi (TI), Chris Foley (TSSG), Miguel Ponce de Leon (TSSG), Christian Dannewitz (UPb), Thorsten Biermann (UPb)

Supporting Mobility with an Information Centric Network Architecture The Internet was not designed with mobility or multicast in mind, both of which are currently inadequately handled by 'add-on' solutions. To remedy this, we consider a publish-subscribe based information-centric architecture, in which information identity is decoupled from location and multicast is the norm. In the context of the FP7 ICT project PSIRP, we investigate the potential benefits of multicast and information-location decoupling with respect to mobility. In addition to the main clean-slate thrust of the project, we also consider and discuss mobility support in an overlay variant of the envisioned publish-subscribe architecture.

K. Katsaros, N. Fotiou, G. Xylomenos, G.C. Polyzos

Mobile Multimedia Laboratory -Athens University of Economics and Business

Quality of Experience Feedback for Seamless Selection of Wireless and Mobile Networks

The 'Always Best Connected' (ABC) concept is at the heart of seamless communications, providing vertical handovers of data streams from network to network in order to maximize application performance and thus user satisfaction, i.e. Quality of Experience (QoE). In the context of network virtualization, seamless communications helps to decouple communication requests from communication resources in the way that the user does not need to know which resource is used. Traditionally, ABC has been expressed as function of network-level Quality of Service (QoS) parameters such as loss. In this contribution, we take a step to include QoE information and in particular user-initiated QoE feedback to further instrument user-centered provisioning of ABC. We refer to seminal work performed within the FP6/7 NoEs Euro-NGI, Euro-FGI and Euro-NF, and a concrete approach taken by the FP7 STREP PERIMETER. We expect to point out directions for future holistic quality management schemes, with user experience as a novel and mandatory ingredient and to blow a breach for user-related performance issues in the context of emerging technologies.

M. Fiedler

Blekinge University of Technology

Track 2:   Security and Privacy in the Network of the Future
Security and Privacy in the Network of the Future: the 4WARD Approach

The FP7 4WARD IP is an information-centric architecture built around ideas of publish / subscribe, allowing the receiver of information control over inflow. Naming the information objects detached from the originating hosts is done using hashes of content, which allows inherent integrity checking. The 4WARD naming of information objects additionally detaches the originating owner from the information object’s content-based naming.

The 4WARD architecture contains security-sensitive parts related to virtualization, to management, and to a new transport concept called the generic path. While finding information will be plagued by problems already identifiable in the existing internet, distribution of information will have multiple solutions, due to the information-centric approach of intelligent caching. The networking propositions deal with the conflicting interests of vested interests. There are security challenges in providing particular characteristics, e.g. QoS, to an infrastructure, where self-management and self-configuration places requirements on parties that have been reluctant to share business-related resource information. A border-crossing enforcement of agreements, and understanding of fairness, accountability and privacy needs will be key components in building the fine-grained trust needed for networks of the future.

C. G. Schultz

Oy L M Ericsson Ab

Security Aspects of the PSIRP Publish/Subscribe Architecture Information-centric internetworking is a promising alternative to the current Internet architecture. The PSIRP (Publish-Subscribe Internet Routing Paradigm) project aims at designing, prototyping, and evaluating an information-centric internetworking approach, based on publish-subscribe primitives rather than on send-receive. Our clean-slate approach supports scalability and efficiency for the distribution of massive amounts of information. Security properties, such as availability, authorization and authenticity of information elements are provided by design and not as add-on features. This contribution highlights the security aspects of PSIRP, illustrating the security advantages inherited by the publish-subscribe paradigm, as well as the innovative security mechanisms developed in this project.

G. F. Marias, N. Fotiou,                  G.C. Polyzos

Mobile Multimedia Laboratory -Athens University of Economics and Business

Identity based Architecture for Secure Communication in Future Internet In this paper we propose to enhance the Next Generation Internet by creating a scalable digital communication infrastructure that mirrors the structure of the real world: people talk to people, objects, objects between themselves and in general entities denoted by digital identities communicating with each other. We propose to build this Next Generation Internet by starting from the digital identity and creating a view in the communication sphere which is singular, unique, and optimized for that particular digital identity. With identity as the end point of the communications, we build an enabler that supports security, multi-domain policy negotiation and fine-tuning the desired addressing.

To achieve this global view, we first need an architectural identity plane allowing entities to address each other by means of an intuitive, “identity to identity” approach. Second, we need an evolved routing scheme capable of routing on such identities. Third, the overall process would need to be supported by an intelligent control plane in charge of managing domain-to-domain issues.

A. F. Gómez Skarmeta

Universidad de Murcia

Amardeo Sarma and                 Joao Girao

NEC Laboratories Europe