WP n°	WP title	WP description (short version)	Complete WP description	WP Leader
JRA 1.1	Horizontal and Vertical Integration of Access Technologies	The purpose of this work package is the definition of feasible and convergent access architectures for the future generation internet. Within this general framework, the focus will be on the interplay among multiple and heterogeneous access technologies cooperating to provide flexible and ubiquitous access to end users. The final goal is the provide guidelines on the design of effective access networks, providing the final users with enhanced connectivity experience. To this end, this WP will address issues related to Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning, security management, network management/control, and mobility management.		Matteo Cesana
JRA 1.2	Metro and Core architectures	The work package will deal with architecture for metro and core network for future generation network. In this framework several network technologies shall be considered including (G)MPLS, PBB-TE, Ethernet, and Optical based networks.Moreover interworking issues among such technologies both in multi-layer and multi-domain scenarios shall be analyzed in order to provide new solutions. This WP shall carry out the activity in collaboration with other JRAs considering as input solutions (e.g. routing, traffic aggregation methods, etc.) developed in other WPs, and providing feedback to such WPs in order to assess the solution in specific network scenarios. Control plane and management issues shall be addressed as well.		Joel Rodrigues
JRA 1.3	Beyond IP Networking	NON-ACTIVE SINCE JULY 2009		Daniel Kofman
JRA 1.4	New Management Architectures	NON-ACTIVE SINCE JULY 2009		Paul Mueller
JRA.1.5	Self-organized Systems, New Networking Paradigms and Edge Networks	This workpackage focuses on future network paradigms, like ad-hoc networks, wireless mesh and sensor networks, opportunistic networks, delay-tolerant networks, network coding, collaborative and cooperative networking. One of our main goals is to exploit the beneficial properties of self-organizing and bio-inspired architectural approaches, like self-properties, autonomy, scalability, adaptability, robustness, etc. to advance the development of such future network paradigms.		Hermann De Meer
JRA 1.6	Overlays for Network Control and Support of Evolved Services Infrastructures	The work package will develop and evaluate overlays for routing, control and evolved services in the Future Internet. The future system will derive its applications, services and infrastructures from participation and dynamic contributions, either by providers or users. These resources will be made available and can be disappear within short time scales, while the future system needs to be highly reliable and has to show unpreceded performance. Hence, a major objective of this work package is also to evaluation the performance of the new mechanisms and to give engineering guide lines for them.		Kurt Tutschku
JRA 1.7	New Service Architecture	One of the major benefits of the Internet today is the instant access to lots of data and hence information covering nearly all kind of topics. Furthermore online accessible data is also referenced, integrated, rated and even dynamically processed and modified by others resulting in new types of information. Accessing data on the Internet is very common today and makes local copies of data more and more dispensable.		Paul Mueller
JRA 2.1	Reliable and Efficient Communication in Self-organized  Networks	This workpackage aims to coordinate partners’ research activities in the research areas related to reliable and efficient communication in self-organized networks documenting and sharing knowledge with respect to existing approaches, identifying new challenges to be addressed and, most importantly, collaborating on various related research topics. These topics include cross-layer design and optimisation in wireless networks, development of various mechanisms to support cooperation in self-organised networks including mechanisms for global objective achievement while nodes seek their own objectives, trust mechanisms for identifying/isolating mishbehaving nodes, and application of network coding techniques to networks that exhibit self-organized behaviour.		Leandros Tassioulas
JRA 2.2	Traffic Engineering, Mechanisms and Protocols for Controlled Bandwidth Sharing	It is expected that JRA 2.2 will focus on defining the network paradigms that will dominate the future Internet, identifying the Traffic Engineering functions to address these new paradigms; such tasks will involve outlining the new challenges imposed by new networking approaches such as the availability of multi-homed terminals, overlapping coverages, the always-best-connected paradigm and social networking at any architectural layer.		Claudio Casetti
JRA 2.3	QoS in Multiservice Multitechnology Wireless Networks	The Euro-NF vision of the future wireless Internet access is motivated by two current trends: the ever increasing demand for ubiquitous broadband communications and services, and the dramatic increase in the number of devices with wireless networking capabilities. Users will expect access to transparent communication capabilities anywhere, anytime and on any device: in the office or on the move, on the laptop, cell phone or an increasingly diverse set of embedded devices. Realising this vision requires technological advances in many areas including: improved management of the current infrastructure; new radio technologies for exploiting the spectrum efficiently, increasing coverage and capacity in a flexible and cost-effective manner; novel communication protocols and applications that fully utilize offered bandwidth and cope with channel variations and disruptions		Mikael Johansson
JRA 2.4	Routing and Traffic Management in a Multi-Provider Context	Focusing on Inter-domain/inter-carrier issues and models, this workpackage aims at solving current routing paradigm limitations by proposing methods and protocols for an efficient automated and dynamic E2E service management. The solutions will be investigated both in terms of technological components to manage services across several carrier infrastructure and in terms business models, including regulation and socio economic issues. It thus relates to identified objectives of the FP7 by “enabling seamless end to end network and service composition and operation across multiple operators and business domains” and proposing “Technologies and systems architectures for the Future Internet, aimed at overcoming the expected long term limitations of current internet capabilities, architecture and protocols, driven by needs defined in previous sections.		Jean-Louis Rougier
JRA 2.5	Design of Optimal Highly Dependable Networks	This workpackage integrates research on robustness of protocol designs, design of protection schemes and mechanisms, recognition of structural vulnerabilities, recovery strategies, and techniques for their analysis and evaluation. It also integrates or interacts with dependability-related research in the areas of monitoring, autonomous networking, user perception and network economy.		Ilkka Norros
JRA 2.6	Measurements and Traffic Awareness	The characteristics of Internet traffic are becoming more and more complex due to the large and growing diversity of applications, the drastic differences in user behaviours, the complexity of traffic generation and control mechanisms and the increasing randomness of the quality of the links, of the mobility of users and devices as well as the topology of networks. Therefore, traffic measurements and analysis play a critical role in successfully enabling the future Internet.		Rui Valadas
JRA 2.7	Advance Quantitative Methods	The central objective of the present work package is to developadvanced quantitative models, methods, and techniques for designing, allocating resources, evaluating performance and delivering adequate service quality in next-generation communication networks in general and the Internet in particular. The intended activities and tasks may be broadly categorized in five closely interrelated areas: 1. Stochastic spatial models, connectivity properties, scaling laws 2. Performance models and resource allocation protocols for novel network paradigms and applications 3. Stability and performance evaluation of bandwidth-sharing networks 4. Rare events, large-deviation approaches, and simulation techniques 5. Integer-programming approaches for network design		Sem Borst
JRA 3.1	Internet Governance: Towards a new Cooperation Model	The objective of this WP is to look deeper into the socio-economic, political, cultural and legal implications of issues related to the governance of the Internet. New technical Internet standards, protocols and codes for the NGNs and growing convergence leads challenges established political and legal mechanisms. The WP is aimed to make a contribution to the development of innovative and effective regulation for the NoF which requires new forms of coordination and policy-making on the global level. Freedom of expression, Intellectual property rights, Network Neutrality, fight against cybercrime, Access and development, protection of privacy and security will be considered in this context as well as new communication services dubbed as “Web 2.0” and “the Internet of things” which offer  great opportunities but create also serious risks of abuse.		Wolgang Kleinwachter
JRA 3.2	SLAs, Pricing, Quality of Experience	The recent growth of Internet has been marked by the fact that Internet is a federation of separate cooperating IP networks rather than a single large developing infrastructure. Moreover, according to the way Web and other services have evolved, each provision of an end-to-end service instance, is the outcome of the cooperation among multiple players, each of which has his own incentives. Therefore, the partners of the JRA will study and integrate their research on a variety of models aiming to study such economic and incentive issues and to design relevant mechanisms in order to influence the strategies of selfish players towards serving the social goal. Such mechanisms may include a congestion control mechanism for traffic flows, a pricing and routing mechanism for Autonomous Systems, an incentives mechanism (e.g. based on reputation and reciprocation) for nodes in a mobile ad hoc network, etc.		Costas Courcoubetis / George Stamoulis
JRA 3.3	Cost Models	The WP aims at establishing cost models in the new context of multi-service multi-platform networks. The main issues will be the definition of the correct cost in the light of the technology neutrality paradigm, cost sharing principles in densely interconnected environments, and the development of parametric cost models for fast platform selection.		Maurizio Naldi
JRA 3.4	Trust, Privacy and Security	This WP will contribute towards understanding and appraising the current Internet security, privacy and trust models, architectures and protocols and identifying the challenges for the Network of the Future in these areas. It will also serve as an instrument in defining policy requirements or questions and recommendations for future research directions.		George Polyzos
JRA.S	Specific Joint Research Projects	Specific Joint Research Projects aim at improving knowledge in targeted topics considered of main importance, with a significant innovation potential and not sufficiently covered at present. They should be sharply focused, preferably on disruptive ideas on the networks of the future, and designed to gain new knowledge and explore the need for more research effort, anticipating scientific and technological needs (that, for example, could motivate the proposal of FP7 projects in coming calls). Specific Joint Research Projects furthermore aim at shaping collaboration between participants (institutions), where new constellations of participants that have not collaborated so far are especially encouraged. In particular, joint publications should be targeted. The minimum of Euro-NF participants is three. Per project, at most one external participant (institution) can be invited to participate, which has to be justified by a specific well-identified expertise that is missing in the Euro-NF consortium. The allocated budget can be used to invite the partner to the meetings of the project. More information, click here		Markus Fielder