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Luis Rodríguez-RosellóHead of Unit “Future Networks”

Information Society and Media DGEuropean Commission

Strategic Relevance of the Internet Science NoE to future Research, DAE and Horizon 2020:

the Future Networks perspective

Network of Excellence on Internet Science

21/12/2011

Converged and Optical Networks

Cellularand beyond

Ad-Hoc Mesh Relay

Broadcast

ApplicationServer

Operator A

Gateway

Operator B

Public Internet

Object and Sensor Networks

Optical Switching

Optical Transmission

PersonalSpace

ApplicationServer

High Speed Broadband Access

The Network of the Future Internet architecture designed for broadband fixed and mobile access

Future Internet Technologies

Radio Access and Spectrum Use

Main trends affecting research and innovation in the communications networks area

Societal drivers:

Urbanisation Smart cities

MobilityInformation availability

Social networksPrivacySecurity

Energy efficiencyDemographic trends

HealthcareEducation

…

Research & Technology drivers:

Capacity/EfficiencyService/Content centricity

Virtualisation & “Cloudification”Cognition

Context awarenessManageability

Self-organisationSelf-optimisation

Cross-layer optimisationFlexibility

Smart environments, Sensors M2M…

Democratisation of the NetworkDemocratisation of the Network

Towards a Seamless Information Space Towards a Seamless Information Space

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• Common sensor and actuator information infrastructure across cities

– provides secure and reliable access to sensor and actuator information services for multiple players, and so that information can be efficiently shared across ”verticals”, this provides application enablement

People

Things

Light

TemperatureHumidity

Wind

Information

Environm

ent

Internet

Service

3D InternetNoise

Gas

Utilities

N

S

EOW

Crowd, community, family

Facilities

f

Traffic

Seismograph

• Sensor information enablement– aggregation and collection of data– directory services– data brokering and service composition– information federation– privacy and integrity protection– access policy enforcement– accounting and revenue,....

Image: SENSEI project, FP7 215923

Trend: Smart environments enabled by networked

sensors (“real world” Internet, context awareness…)

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Trend: Green ICT/Low energy NetworksUltrafast, highest performance

Wireless and Radio Networks

Strong incentive for Energy efficient radio, as radio network represents about 90% of operators OPEX

Energy consumption of Mobile Networks is growing fast

Uneven load: 10% sites carry 50% traffic, room for optimisation;

Requires holistic approach: components, traffic optimization, protocols…Multi layer issue

ICT research: EARTH, target to decrease energy consumption in radio access by 50%

Optical networks

Strong potential for energy efficiency; Despite all technology improvements, router energy will become unsustainable beyond 2020 because of traffic increase FTTH could lead to a bottleneck at the core network Calls for optical architecture with lowest possible switching layer, traffic aggregation, all optical end-to-end architecture (requires radio over fiber interfaces)

Towards multiple, cognitive, elastic, adaptive, seamless, E2E Wireless and Optical Networks

The interplay with the NoE Internet Science The interplay with the NoE Internet Science

towards towards smartsmart innovation innovation

i) Interoperability/open standards as important as ever so as to avoid silos/ fragmentation; M2M, IoT… which impact on society/economy/key services and infrastructures?

ii) Research with strong innovation orientation: Future Internet architectures need to enable new usages, new business models, new governance and meet (new?) societal needs;

iii) Europe can build on its telecommunications and “applications/services” strengths, but also on its researchers and social assets and take a leading role in ICT-enabled smart growth… linking via policies into social-economic goals

iv) Need for critical mass; involvement of new players beyond ICT boundaries: networks’ theory; complexity theory, social construction of technology, games’ theory, social networks…;

v) User driven open innovation, large scale test-beds;•The NoE on Internet Science should help in putting the future networks research within the broader picture

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Thank you for your attention!

Luis Rodríguez-RosellóHead of Unit

“Future Networks” European Commission, DG INFSO, Brussels

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/future-networks