Activities
FP7 Projects
| Project Name | Short Description | Home Page |
| 2020 3D Media | The main object of 2020 3D Media is the development of new technologies to support the acquisition, coding, editing, networked distribution, and display of stereoscopic and immersive audiovisual media, capable of providing novel and more compelling forms of entertainment both for home and for public grounds. The users of the resulting technologies will be both media industry professionals across the current film, TV and ‘new media’ sectors producing programme material as well as the general public. | www.20203dmedia.eu |
| 4NEM | 4NEM is a Specific Support Action under EU Framework Programme 7 in the IST Priority which supports the Networked and Electronic Media (NEM) Initiative. NEM is one of the European Industrial Initiatives, also known as Technology Platforms, established by relevant key European stakeholders, which address the convergence of media, communications, consumer electronics, and IT as a wide opportunity for future growth, by taking advantage of generalized broadband access, increased mobility, availability of richer media formats and contents, as well as new home networks and communications platforms. | www.nem-initiative.org |
| 4WARD | Addressing Architecture and Design for the Future Internet. The need for structural changes in the Internet is becoming increasingly evident. 4WARD is combining a set of radical architectural approaches building on a strong mobile and wireless background to design inter-operable and complementary families of network architectures. | www.4ward-project.eu |
| ADAMANTIUM | The predominant candidate for current trend of multimedia services convergence with mobile/fixed networks and broadcast-interactive applications is the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). IMS entails novel business opportunities for pioneering and emerging multimedia services, such as IPTV and VoIP video call applications. However, this strong commercial interest on this promising convergent IMS environment is balanced by the lack of efficient user/customer-centric network management mechanisms. ADAMANTIUM proposes an IMS-compatible Multimedia Content Management System (MCMS) focused on performing dynamic cross layer adaptations for optimization of the user experience in terms of perceptual quality for IPTV and VoIP services. This multimodal management system will be applied in an integrated and coherent way along all the network layers and delivery-chain nodes based on a user/customer-centric approach rather than a typical engineering one. Towards this, the proposed management system will make use of advanced IMS-compatible PQoS and NQoS monitoring and adaptation mechanisms across the network delivery-chain, enhancing in this way the current IMS management functions by providing perceptual awareness to them. ADAMANTIUM MCMS will be implemented and demonstrated on an actual IMS platform installed over a UMTS access network, where VoIP-based and IPTV applications over IMS services will be provided. | www.ict-adamantium.eu |
| AGAVE | AGAVE developed solutions for open end-to-end service provisioning based on the notion of Network Planes that may be interconnected across multiple providers to create Parallel Internets tailored to service requirements. The project investigated a range of Traffic Engineering techniques to realise Network Planes. A lightweight QoS approach was developed, based on the principles of differentiated routing with inherent load balancing and resilience, without requiring universal deployment of differentiated forwarding. | www.ist-agave.org |
| ANA | The ANA Project aims at exploring novel ways of organizing and using networks beyond legacy Internet technology. The ultimate goal is to design and develop a novel autonomic network architecture that enables flexible, dynamic, and fully autonomous formation of network nodes as well as whole networks. Universities and research institutes from Europe and Northern America are participating in this project. The resulting autonomic network architecture will allow dynamic adaptation and re-organisation of the network according to the working, economical and social needs of the users. This is expected to be especially challenging in a mobile context where new resources become available dynamically, administrative domains change frequently, and the economic models may vary. | www.ana-project.org |
| ASPIRE | ASPIRE Project (Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications) will change the current RFID deployment paradigm, through introducing and boosting a shift towards royalty-free RFID middleware, while also placing the middleware at the heart of RFID infrastructures. In this paradigm a great deal of an RFID's solution intelligence is place on the middleware, which is freely offered to end-users (particularly SMEs). Accordingly, the RFID middleware can integrate with low-cost hardware, as well as with legacy IT and networking infrastructures of the networked enterprise. To support this paradigm ASPIRE will develop and deliver a lightweight, royalty-free, programmable, privacy friendly, standards-compliant, scalable, integrated and intelligent middleware platform that will facilitate low-cost development and deployment of innovative fully automatic RFID solutions. | www.fp7-aspire.eu |
| AUTOI | The current Internet has been founded on a basic architectural premise: a simple network service is used as a universal means to interconnect intelligent end systems. The end-to-end argument has served to maintain this simplicity by pushing complexity into the endpoints. The very success of the Internet is now creating obstacles to future innovation. | www.ist-autoi.eu |
| AVANTSSAR | Driven by rapidly changing requirements and business needs, IT systems and applications are undergoing a paradigm shift: components are replaced by services, distributed over the network, and composed and reconfigured dynamically in a demand-driven way into service-oriented architectures. | www.avantssar.eu |
| AWISSENET | AWISSENET (Ad-hoc personal area network & WIreless Sensor SEcure NETwork) is a project focused on security and resilience across ad-hoc PANs and wireless sensor networks. AWISSENET motivation is to implement and validate a scalable, secure, trusted networking protocol stack, able to offer self-configuration and secure roaming of data and services over multiple administrative domains and across insecure infrastructures of heterogeneous ad-hoc & wireless tiny sensory networks. | www.awissenet.eu |
| CARMEN | CARMEN, CARrier grade MEsh Networks, will study and specify a wireless mesh network supporting carrier grade triple-play services for mobile/fixed network operators. Future operator networks will be comprised of a common core network and several access networks, and the CARMEN access network will complement other access technologies by providing a low cost and fast deployment mesh network access technology. The project proposes the integration of heterogeneous wireless technologies in a multi-hop fashion to provide scalable and efficient ubiquitous quad-play carrier services. | www.ict-carmen.eu |
| CASAGRAS | We are a key group of international partners representing Europe, the USA, China, Japan and Korea who has joined a strategic EU funded 7th Framework initiative that will look at global standards, regulatory and other issues concerning RFID and its role in realising an “Internet of Things. | www.rfidglobal.eu |
| C-CAST | Project Context Casting (C-CAST) main objective is to evolve mobile multimedia multicasting to exploit the increasing integration of mobile devices with our everyday physical world and environment. | www.ict-ccast.eu |
| CHIANTI | CHIANTI is developing technologies for enabling effective, robust, and cost-efficient communication services in challenging network environments, e.g., for providing a productive and stable Internet access to passengers in high-speed trains. Different to many existing approaches, CHIANTI is developing technologies that do not require a complete network coverage. Instead, CHIANTI will provide perceived seamless connectivity despite disruptions, changing network characteristics etc. and will thus enable users on the move to use today's and future network more productively. | www.chianti-ict.org |
| CHORUS | CHORUS is a Coordination Action which aims at creating the conditions of mutual information and cross fertilisation between the projects that will run under Strategic objective 2.6.3 (Advanced search technologies for digital audio-visual content) and beyond the IST initiative. | www.ist-chorus.org |
| COIN | By 2020 enterprise collaboration and interoperability services will become an invisible, pervasive and self-adaptive knowledge and business utility at disposal of the European networked enterprises from any industrial sector and domain in order to rapidly set-up, efficiently manage and effectively operate different forms of business collaborations, from the most traditionally supply chains to the most advanced and dynamic business ecosystems. | www.coin-ip.eu |
| COMPAS | COMPAS - Compliance-driven Models, Languages, and Architectures for Services The COMPAS project will design and implement novel models, languages, and an architectural framework to ensure dynamic and on-going compliance of software services to business regulations and stated user service-requirements. COMPAS will use model-driven techniques, domain-specific languages, and service-oriented infrastructure software to enable organizations developing business compliance solutions easier and faster. | www.compas-ict.eu |
| CONTENT | The CONTENT Network of Excellence targets a key area of Information Society Technologies, namely Content Delivery Networks for Home Users, as an integral part of Networked Audio-Visual Systems and Home Platforms. CONTENT aims to build the European Research Area in this important communication topic by integrating a group of experts with the purpose of taking forward the state of the art and increasing European leadership in Content Networks. The overall goal of the CONTENT Network-of-Excellence is to integrate the research efforts of the members to address the technical challenges at the different system levels to enable easy-to-install and easy-to-use AV services in and between homes. In particular, the main technical objective will be to boost the potential of European Community Networking by improving Content Distribution infrastructures for the delivery of live (streaming) content and interactive stored content, and by integrating, in an open way, tools and mechanisms that would enable the curation of multimedia assets and their subsequent access for the benefit of the communities of users, producing a set of appropriate services for them, both in the context of the “long tail” or applied to (re-purposed) assets created by traditional broadcasters. | www.ist-content.eu |
| CuteLoop | The strategic objective of the CuteLoop project is to explore how Intelligent Networked Devices such as enhanced RFID-based systems and Global Navigation Satellite Systems, can be used to effectively "integrate customers within an Integrated Enterprise". It is intended to realise a novel software agents and services approach for promoting and facilitating the realisation of highly flexible and dynamic business interconnections for agile coordination in business networks, having customers as key drivers. | www.cuteloop.eu |
| DAIDALOS II | The Daidalos vision is to seamlessly integrate heterogeneous network technologies that allow network operators and service providers to offer new and profitable services, giving users access to a wide range of personalised voice, data, and multimedia services. 46 partners from industry and academia are ambitiously working to achieve this vision. | www.ist-daidalos.org |
| DICONET | The main scope of DICONET is to examine and develop a novel approach to optical networking, providing a disruptive solution for the development of the core network of the future. The proposed solution offers ultra high speed end to end connectivity with quality of service and high reliability through the use of optimised protocols and routing algorithms that will complement a flexible control and management plane providing flexibility for the future network infrastructure. The key innovation of DICONET is the development of a dynamic network planning tool residing in the core network nodes that incorporates real-time measurements of optical layer performance into IA-RWA algorithms and is integrated into a unified control plane. This tool serves as the key enabler for providing automated rapid network reconfiguration capability as oppose with currently deployed slow planned provisioning and reconfiguration mechanisms. In addition our approach provides advance network resiliency features not currently available by any equipment vendor. | www.diconet.eu |
| E3 | The End-to-End Efficiency (E3) project is an ambitious FP7 EC Large Scale Integrating Project (IP) aiming at integrating cognitive wireless systems in the Beyond 3G (B3G) world, evolving current heterogeneous wireless system infrastructures into an integrated, scalable and efficiently managed B3G cognitive system framework. The key objective of the E3 project is to design, develop, prototype and showcase solutions to guarantee interoperability, flexibility and scalability between existing legacy and future wireless systems, manage the overall system complexity, and ensure convergence across access technologies, business domains, regulatory domains and geographical regions. | ict-e3.eu |
| ECODE | ECODE (Experimental COgnitive Distributed Engine) will develop, implement and validate experimentally a cognitive routing system. This system will use cognitive techniques to provide a routing system able to meet the future Internet challenges. The project gathers networking and machine learning experts to address these challenges efficiently. In architectural phase one, the cognitive routing system is designed and prototyped. In phase two, we consider three representative sets of use cases to evaluate the benefits of machine learning techniques to improve . | www.ecode-project.eu |
| eCRYPT II | ECRYPT II - European Network of Excellence for Cryptology II is a 4-year network of excellence funded within the Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Programme of the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) under contract number ICT-2007-216676. It falls under the action line Secure, dependable and trusted infrastructures. ECRYPT II started on 1 August 2008. Its objective is to continue intensifying the collaboration of European researchers in information security. | www.ecrypt.eu.org |
| EFIPSANS | The EFIPSANS project aims at exposing the features in IP version six protocols that can be exploited or extended for the purposes of designing or building autonomic networks and services. What this means is, a study of the emerging research areas that target desirable user behaviours, terminal behaviours, service mobility, e-mobility, context-aware communications, self-ware, autonomic communication/computing/networking will be carried out, and out of these areas desirable autonomic(self-*) behaviours in diverse environments e.g. end systems, access networks, wireless versus fixed network environments will be captured and specified. Appropriate IPv6 protocol or architectural extensions that enable the implementation of the captured desirable autonomic behaviours will be sought and specified. A selected set of the specified autonomic behaviours will be implemented and demonstrated. Also, technical reports on the concrete IPv6 feature combination scenarios including any new extensions used to implement the selected set of autonomic behaviours will be presented. The vision is that, the specified autonomic behaviour specifications, the identified exploitable IPv6 features and new protocol and architectural extensions will one day be standardized in the long run (after the first 3 years of EFIPSANS) i.e. maturing from being drafts to standards. | www.efipsans.org |
| EIFFEL | The EIFFEL initiative is a Support Action (SA) proposed for the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The EIFFEL SA is all about mobilizing European researchers to discuss and debate on the future of the Internet towards the development of the future networked society. For this purpose, the EIFFEL SA will setup of a pan-European discussion forum and technical think-tank on enabling conflict-free, talented and scientific-oriented discussions around the future of the Internet. It is a non-competitive forum oriented towards technology and interest on building the trajectories for the future network society. Its overall objective is to provide a place for discussing and exchanging ideas and research trajectories on the future of the Internet architecture and governance building as a foundation of the future networked society. | www.fp7-eiffel.eu |
| EMANICS | EMANICS addresses the scalability, dynamics, security and automation challenges that emerge towards the management plane of the future Internet and complex services running on top of it. | www.emanics.org |
| eMOBILITY CA | The strategic objective of the eMobility CA project is to facilitate the emergence of a common understanding, between the European sector actors, leading to agreed road-maps and contributing to the global competitiveness of the European telecommunications sector on the following key challenges the need to integrate the road-maps of the mobile and wireless sector with those of the health, transport and the environment sectors. | www.ist-emobility.org |
| ETNA | ETNA aims to analyze, design and validate future metro and core networks based on low cost and secured Ethernet technology that will serve as a basic transport layer of future communication networks. The consortium is comprised of six partners from Finland, UK, and Israel each with different technological expertise. | www.ict-etna.eu |
| EU-MESH | EU-MESH's goal is to develop, evaluate, and trial a system of software modules for building dependable multi-radio multi-channel mesh networks with QoS support that provide ubiquitous and ultra-high speed broadband access. The system will be based on a converged infrastructure that uses a wireless mesh network to aggregate the capacity from both subscriber broadband access lines and provider fixed broadband links to form a virtual capacity pool, and provide access to this capacity pool for both stationary and mobile users. It will support low operation and management costs, through novel configuration and management procedures that achieve efficient usage of both the wireless spectrum and fixed broadband access lines. This will increase the competitiveness of existing providers, lower the barrier for small enterprises to enter the mobile broadband access market, and enable innovative services. | www.eu-mesh.eu |
| EURO-NF (NoE) | Future networks became a central topic with a major debate concerning whether moving towards the new networked society will be evolutionary or disruptive. In the future networked society, the physical and digital worlds will merge based on the massive usage of wireless sensor networks. Objects will be able to identify and locate themselves and to communicate through radio interfaces. Self-organized edge networks will become more and more common.... | eurongi.enst.fr/en_accueil.html |
| FAST | FAST aims at providing an innovative visual programming environment that will facilitate the development of next-generation composite user interfaces. It constitutes a novel approach to application composition and business process definition from a top-down user-centric perspective. | fast.morfeo-project.eu |
| FEDERICA | The FEDERICA project will create a European wide technology agnostic infrastructure made of Gigabit circuits, transmission equipment and computing nodes capable of virtualization to host experimental activities on new Internet architectures and protocols. | www.fp7-federica.eu |
| FIREWORKS | FIREworks is a support action that brings together various explorers and players of the future internet. It facilitates and develops a forum for stakeholders in Europe and beyond to work for the future internet research involving large-scale experimentation, and for common premises required for this research. The European approach to boost research is to connect and federate experimental resources, enable joint research, and increase the use of existing facilities for even competing design prospects of the future internet architecture and technologies. | www.ict-fireworks.eu |
| FORWARD | FORWARD is an initiative by the European Commission to promote the collaboration and partnership between Academia and Industry in their common goal of protecting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures. Communication networks and computers are under constant Cyber-threats from malicious users and organizations that use viruses, worms, spyware, botnets, spam, and phishing, to harm the European citizens and organizations. | www.ict-forward.eu |
| HURRICANE | HURRICANE aims to provide concrete networking system answers to the question how an optimized handover operation is performed between two cooperative RATs that constitute potential business cases for both Telecom Operators and Broadcasters in the context of a FMC communications environment. | www.ict-hurricane.eu |
| HAGGLE | Haggle is a new autonomic networking architecture designed to enable communication in the presence of intermittent network connectivity, which exploits autonomic opportunistic communications (i.e., in the absence of end-to-end communication infrastructures). | www.haggleproject.org/index.php/Main_Page |
| INSPIRE | INSPIRE wants to produce innovation, aiming at studying, designing and developing innovative building blocks to be put under, between and together ICT security systems and process control systems in the specific domain of the LCCIs, in this way improving the overall robustness of the whole ICT infrastructure. | www.inspire-strep.eu |
| INTERSECTION | INTERSECTION Project aims to enhance the European potential in the field of security by assuring the protection of heterogeneous networks and infrastructures. Project activities started January 1st 2008 and will be completed in 24 months. | www.intersection-project.eu |
| IRMOS | Design, develop and validate a Service Orientated Infrastructure which will allow the adoption of interactive real-time applications, and especially multimedia applications, enabling their rich set of attributes (from time-constrained operation to dynamic service control and adaptation) and their efficient integration into the infrastructure. | www.irmosproject.eu |
| iSURF | Today’s competitive and demanding world of business requires new networked applications and services capable of interoperation across variety of business domains and organizations of all sizes. iSURF project will provide an intelligent collaborative supply chain planning network. | www.srdc.com.tr/isurf/ |
| KiWi | The topic of the project KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki is knowledge management with Social Software and Semantic Web technologies. The main objective of the project is the development of a Semantic Social Software platform following the "wiki philosophy" that can serve as base for the implementation of many different kinds of Social Software applications that share content and functionality. The KiWi technologies will be evaluated in two use cases, project knowledge management and software knowledge management, and a public showcase demonstrating the use of KiWi in a community platform. | www.kiwi-project.eu |
| m CIUDAD | Imagine what kind of applications become possible when our mobile devices do not only present data but provide valuable information to other users. Suppose that you are able to create instant services with information, contents and knowledge with your mobile device and in your mobile device. And suppose that this knowledge can be used remotely by other users in a simple way, with their mobile devices. m:Ciudad provides user-friendly creation tools in the mobile, an optimised execution environment, a model for knowledge warehouse, a proposed specific searching engine and a set of business models for mobile users, for service providers and for third parties, mainly SMEs. | www.mciudad-fp7.org |
| MASTER | In the near future, enterprises and organizations will make use of Service Oriented Architectures in their IT infrastructures and applications, relying on multiple services to compose others. In such iterated service outsourcing scenarios, the Assurance, Trust and Security requirements will be more complex to manage and satisfy. MASTER provides the methodology and tools to achieve security compliance in such scenarios. | www.master-fp7.eu |
| MOBITHIN | MobiThin will address all important blockers for the wide adoption of the wireless thin client computing paradigm. These include technological issues. In addition to making substantial scientific and technological progress in these areas, MobiThin project will demonstrate an integrated solution for the wireless thin client scenario. | www.mobithin.eu/homepage.asp |
| MobileWeb2.0 | MobiWeb2.0 addresses the usability and interoperability issues that are holding back mobile Web access today. It will focus on mobile Web 2.0 applications based on technologies such as Ajax that can significantly increase the usability of mobile Web applications. MobiWeb2.0 builds on 3GWeb, an FP6 project which focused on improving traditional browsing on mobile devices. | www.w3.org/2008/MobiWeb20/ |
| MOMENT | The MOMENT (Monitoring and Measurement in the Next Generation Technologies) project (STREP) seeks to reaching optimum access to traffic monitoring infrastructures as for flexibility, power and friendly (universal) interface. Namely it will produce a mediator between users (academic, telcos, ISP, etc) and a series of previous EU-funded FP6 projects infrastructures for measuring IP traffic. Thus it intends • To create added value from single monitoring and measurement infrastructures by the integration of the results • To define a mediator architecture providing a unified interface using a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) for Future Internet applications. • To research on semantic representation and retrieval of measurement and monitoring information as a foundation of MOMENT Such objectives imply developing an ontology for semantic querying (that is under standardization process) as well as a unified interface to different formats that allows for complex queries to be tested in particular case studies: Post mortem analysis, SLA verification, etc. | www.fp7-moment.eu |
| MUGGES | The MUGGES project proposes the usage of GNSS technology as a driver of the Location Based Services Mobile User-Generated social service paradigm, which represents a very clear current trend of business innovation. The mobile terminal will evolve to become also a server. When put into exploitation directly by using the mobile device, a mobile user will provide constantly updated information, relevant to other users instantaneous interest and current context, in particular with location tagging. The project will develop the basic components and market-ready MUGGES applications to permit the provision, remote discovery and access of information from a mobile device to a mobile device, by means of the "location" attribute of context as key service and content characterization. a full evaluation of the components and business models brought forward by MUGGES, i.e. social mobile location-aware user-generated services, will be carried out through a trial. This trial will remain open after the project ends, providing a long-term behavioural assessment on the adoption of the GNSS-based technology for the proposed mobile exploitation scenarios, where location clearly adds value. The subsequent analysis of the data will provide valuable information for the widespread deployment of this innovative type of mobile GNSS-based solutions in Europe in further steps. | www.mugges-fp7.org |
| N4C | Many regions do not have access to the optical fibres, copper cables and radio waves linking up the world’s networks. Remote regions are often vast and sparsely populated, with a relatively poor economic base so that deployment of conventional access technologies is not viable. Combined with the huge distances involved, this means that constant connectivity will not be made available in these regions. N4C aims to use existing, novel technologies in these remote areas by creating an 'opportunistic networking architecture' (ONA) to exploit these communication opportunities and to set up two test beds in Swedish Lapland and Kocevje region of the Slovenian mountain. | www.n4c.eu |
| NanoDataCenters | Historically, content distribution in the Internet has relied on a client-server model. This model has shaped all Internet legacy applications such as the web, electronic mail messaging, and FTP. For the past ten years, we have seen content distribution solutions that have evolved from classical client-server models, through distributed caching, to Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), and more recently peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. NaDa (Nanodatacenters) is the next step in data hosting and in the content distribution paradigm. By enabling a distributed hosting edge infrastructure, NaDa can enable the next generation of interactive services and applications to flourish, complementing existing data centres and reaching a massive number of users in a much more efficient manner. | www.nanodatacenters.eu |
| NAPA-WINE | TV services over the Internet can be provided either exploiting IP multicast functionalities or relying on a pure end-to-end (P2P) approach. The first technique unfortunately, will only work on a network infrastructure controlled by a single broadband operator due to limitations of IP multicast facilities. On the contrary, the P2P approach has been successfully exploited to overcome these limits and can potentially offer a scalable planetary infrastructure. Recently, several P2P-TV systems started to show up, with the last generation offering High Quality TV (P2P-HQTV) systems, providing a ubiquitous access to the service. These same potentialities of P2P-TV systems constitute a worry for network carriers since the traffic they generate may potentially grow without control, causing a degradation of quality of service perceived by Internet users or even the network collapse (and the consequent failure of the P2P-HQTV service itself!). | www.napa-wine.eu |
| N-CRAVE | The simple, yet disruptive idea of Network Coding (NC) is that nodes will no more only forward but also process and mix the incoming independent information flows. The revolutionary paradigm has the potential of realizing multi-fold performance gains. It is thus expected to change the way we perceive, architect, organize and control networks and foretells deep impact in a wide range of areas such as network topology formation, error resilience, resource sharing, flow control interactions, and tasks such as content delivery, network monitoring and security. | www.n-crave.eu |
| NESSI 2010 | ICT-based services will fuel economic growth and well-being of citizens in the future of our society. In order to speed up this movement, NEXOF-RA, the NESSI flagship strategic Project within the EU Seventh Framework Programme, is building an Open Reference Architecture for service frameworks through a collaborative process. | www.nessi-europe.eu |
| NEXOF-RA | NEXOF-RA (NEXOF Reference Architecture) project is the first step in the process of building NEXOF the generic open platform for creating and delivering applications enabling the creation of service based ecosystems where service providers and third parties easy collaborate. NEXOF-RA main results will be the Reference Architecture for NEXOF, a proof of concept to validate this architecture and a roadmap for the adoption of NEXOF as a whole. To build the specifications for the Open Framework Architecture, an open process has been defined to allow the involvement of all relevant initiatives and organizations concerned on building a Reference Architecture for the “Future of Internet”. | www.nexof-ra.eu |
| OneLab2 | The OneLab2 (An Open Federated Laboratory Supporting Network Research for the Future Internet) project provides an open federated laboratory, built on PlanetLab Europe, which supports network research for the future internet. The OneLab2 project leverages the original OneLab project's PlanetLab Europe (PLE) testbed and its international visibility to make this facility a reality. OneLab2 partners operate PlanetLab Europe, extending PlanetLab service across Europe, and federating with other PlanetLab infrastructures worldwide. The project integrates new features and technologies into the system. In particular, Onelab2 enhances the testbed-native network monitoring service that supports experiments. The project directly involves pilot projects that are potential customers of the testbed, trying out novel ideas in both real-world and synthetic environments. OneLab2 is building PLE gateways to unusual, cutting-edge networking environments. Moreover, OneLab2 is pushing forward a federation model that enables PLE to serve as a basis for a future highly heterogeneous communications environment. | www.one-lab-2.org |
| OPEN | OPEN (Open Pervasive Environments for migratory iNteractive services) is a VII Framework EU STREP project, which aims to develop an environment, which provides people with the ability to continue to perform their tasks when they move about and change their interaction device. The main goal of the OPEN project is to provide a general and open migratory service platform solution based on a sound and innovative scientific approach developed by a multidisciplinary consortium combining the expertise of three technological world leaders, three well known research organisations and one SME. | www.ict-open.eu |
| OPNEX | OPNEX, Optimization Driven Multihop Network Design and Experimentation, delivers the first approach of principle to the design of architectures and protocols for multi-hop wireless networks. Systems and optimization theory is used as the foundation for algorithms that provably achieve full transport capacity of wireless systems. Subsequently, a plan for converting the algorithms termed in abstract network models to protocols and architectures in practical wireless systems is given. Finally a validation methodology through experimental protocol evaluation in real network test-beds is proposed. | www.opnex.eu |
| OPUCE | OPUCE aims at bridging advances in networking, communication and information technology services towards a unique service environment where personalized services will be dynamically created and provisioned by the end-user itself regardless of ambiance and location. | www.opuce.tid.es |
| P2P-NEXT | The P2P-Next integrated project will build a next generation Peer-to-Peer (P2P) content delivery platform, to be designed, developed, and applied jointly by a consortium consisting of high-profile academic and industrial players with proven track records in innovation and commercial success. | www.p2p-next.eu |
| PARADISO | The PARADISO project identifies strategic research directions on network and service infrastructures in the hypothesis of a disruptive paradigm concerning global societal developments. This possible paradigm shift, which more and more analysts are evoking worldwide, is based on the vision that, in order to avoid major worldwide crises, all countries (developed, emerging, and developing ones) will need to agree, sooner or later, on an alternative way forward and make their societal development models converge. | www.paradiso-fp7.eu |
| PERIMETER | "PERIMETER’s" main objective is to establish a new paradigm for user-centricity in advanced networking architectures. In contrast with network-centric approaches, user-centric strategies could achieve seamless mobility driven by actual user needs rather than simply business considerations. Putting the users at the centre rather than the operator enables them to finely control the way their identity, preferences and credentials are sued. Furthermore seamless mobility is streamlined according to user preferences, enabling mobile users to be “Always Best Connected” (ABC) in multiple-access multiple-operator networks of the Future Internet. | www.ict-perimeter.eu |
| PERSIST | Current trends in the design of pervasive systems have concentrated on the problem of isolated smart spaces (such as smart homes) via a fixed infrastructure. This is likely to lead to the evolution of islands of pervasiveness separated by voids in which there is no support for pervasiveness. The vision of PERSIST is of a Personal Smart Space, which is associated with the portable devices carried by the user and which moves around with him/her, providing context-aware pervasiveness to the user at all times and places. The Personal Smart Space will cater for the needs of users, adapting to their preferences and learning new ones as these arise. The objective of PERSIST is to develop Personal Smart Spaces that provide a minimum set of functionalities which can be extended and enhanced as users encounter other smart spaces during their everyday activities. They will be capable of learning and reasoning about users, their intentions, preferences and context. They will be endowed with pro-active behaviours, which enable them to share context information with neighbouring Personal Smart Spaces, resolve conflicts between the preferences of multiple users, make recommendations and act upon them, prioritise, share and balance limited resources between users, services and devices, reason about trustworthiness to protect privacy and be sufficiently fault-tolerant to guarantee their own robustness and dependability. | www.ict-persist.eu |
| PetaMedia | PetaMedia is a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme. FP7 is a key tool to respond to Europe's needs in terms of jobs and competitiveness, and one of its goals is to maintain leadership in the global knowledge economy. | www.petamedia.eu |
| PHAROS | The PHAROS mission is to advance audiovisual search from a point-solution search engine paradigm to an integrated search platform paradigm. This platform will be built on an innovative, open, and distributed architecture that enables consumers, businesses and organisations to unlock the values found in audiovisual content. | www.pharos-audiovisual-search.eu |
| PICOS | PICOS has the mission to investigate mobile communities and their services. Especially regarding aspects like privacy and identity management as well as technical and economical aspects. | www.picos-project.eu |
| PII | PII develops and deploys effective mechanisms and technologies to enable a functioning federation of existing testbeds. This will provide added value to users of existing local testbeds, and it will prove that federation is a model for the establishment of a long-term sustainable, large-scale and diverse testing infrastructure for (tele-)communications technologies, services and applications in Europe. | www.panlab.net |
| PRIMELIFE | Individuals in the Information Society want to protect their autonomy and retain control over personal information, irrespective of their activities. Information technologies hardly consider those requirements, thereby putting the privacy of the citizen at risk. Today, the increasingly collaborative character of the Internet enables anyone to compose service and contribute and distribute information. Individuals will contribute throughout their life leaving a life long trail of personal data. | www.primelife.eu |
| PRISM | The PRISM project will demonstrate the operation of a traffic monitoring architecture whose technical design guarantees privacy preservation. Our challenge is to break, with specific reference to network monitoring, the commonly accepted dichotomy between privacy and utility that underlies most of the applications and services devised to operate on personal or user-related data. The goal of our project is to investigate how it is possible to preserve the customers’ privacy, by avoiding disclosure of raw captured data even inside the controller domain itself, while preserving the possibility of running monitoring applications, including the possibility to detect and react to attacks and trace back abuses (thus improving public security). The PRISM technology aims at being fully legally compliant with data privacy protection regulation on one side, and to the security legislation on the other side. | www.fp7-prism.eu |
| PSIRP | The PSIRP project aims to develop, implement, and validate an information-centric internetworking architecture based on the publish-subscribe paradigm, which appears to be one of the most promising approaches to solving many of the biggest challenges of the current Internet. | www.psirp.org |
| RESERVOIR | Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers is a European Union FP7 funded project that will enable massive scale deployment and management of complex IT services across different administrative domains, IT platforms and geographies. The project will provide a foundation for a service-based online economy, where - using virtualization technologies - resources and services are transparently provisioned and managed on an on-demand basis at competitive costs with high quality of service. | www.reservoir-fp7.eu |
| RESUME-NET | RESUMENET (Resilience and Survivability for future networking: framework, mechanisms, and experimental evaluation is to host original research work that will systematically embed resilience into future Internet. | www.ict-fireworks.eu/fire-projects/resumenet.html |
| SAPIR | SAPIR extends the power of web searches beyond centralized text and metadata searches to include distributed audio-visual content. Today, Web searches are dominated by search giants such as Google, Yahoo, or MSN that deploy a centralized approach to indexing and utilize text-only indexes enriched by page rank algorithms. Consequently, while it is possible to search for audio-visual content, the search is limited to associated text and metadata annotations. Supporting real content-based, audio-visual search requires media-specific understanding and extremely high CPU utilization, which would not scale in today’s centralized solutions. SAPIR aims at breaking this technological barrier by developing a large-scale, distributed P2P architecture that will make it possible to search audio-visual content using the query-by-example paradigm. Considering that a picture is worth a thousand words, an image taken by a cell phone can be used to find information. For example, search for a monument using its photo or search for a full song using its melody. Combining these search hints with optional metadata annotations and user and social networking contexts will provide the next level of search capabilities with precise retrieved results. | www.sapir.eu |
| S-CUBE | S-Cube, the European Network of Excellence in Software Services and Systems, will establish an integrated, multidisciplinary, vibrant research community. This will enable Europe to lead the software-services revolution, thereby helping shape the software-service based Internet which is the backbone of our future interactive society. | www.s-cube-network.eu |
| SEA | Towards the Future Media Internet age, SEA (SEAmless Content Delivery) project aims to offer a new experience of seamless video delivery, maintaining the integrity and wherever applicable, adapting and enriching the quality of the media across the whole distribution chain. SEA motivation is to implement a context-aware networking delivery platform, by focusing on four key principles: a) Multi-layered/-viewed content coding b) Multi-source/-network content streaming offering on-the fly content adaptation c) Cross-network/Cross-layer optimisation. d) Content and user privacy protection. | www.ist-sea.eu |
| SELF-NET | Self-NET (Self-Management of Cognitive Future InterNET Elements) is a Specifc Targeted Research Project (STREP) of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission, addressing the experimental research pillar of the Strategic Objective ICT-2007.1.6 "New paradigms and experimental facilities" from Challenge 1 "Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures". | www.ict-selfnet.eu |
| SemSorGrid4Env | The main objective of this project is to specify, design, implement, evaluate and deploy a service-oriented architecture and middleware which allows application developers to build open large-scale semantic-based sensor network grids for environmental management. Such architecture and middleware will enable the rapid development of thin applications (e.g., mashups) that require real-world real-time data coming from heterogeneous sensor networks, making it possible to use sensors for other environmental management purposes than those that they were originally expected to have (hence reducing sensor network deployment costs) and to combine their real-time data with historical data from other data sources, opening possibilities of improving current decision-making procedures in a variety of situations (emergencies, monitoring, etc.). | www.semsorgrid4env.eu/home.jsp |
| SENDORA | Dynamic spectrum allocation has become a key research activity in wireless communications field and in particular a key technology for "The Network of the Future" objective proposed in ICT Work Programme 2007. Following these current trends towards dynamic spectrum allocation, the SENDORA project (started in January 2008 for 3 years) develops innovative techniques based on sensor networks, that will support the coexistence of licensed and unlicensed wireless users in a same area. The SENDORA project ideas stem from recent fundamental works on cognitive radio technology. | www.sendora.eu |
| SENSEI | In order to realise the vision of Ambient Intelligence in a future network and service environment, heterogeneous wireless sensor and actuator networks (WS&AN) have to be integrated into a common framework of global scale and made available to services and applications via universal service interfaces. SENSEI creates an open, business driven architecture that fundamentally addresses the scalability problems for a large number of globally distributed WS&A devices. It provides necessary network and information management services to enable reliable and accurate context information retrieval and interaction with the physical environment. By adding mechanisms for accounting, security, privacy and trust it enables an open and secure market space for context-awareness and real world interaction. | www.ict-sensei.org |
| SERVFACE | Service-oriented Architectures are tailored and used for business applications across several enterprises. Services provide access to business data and allow managing business workflows. They flexibly integrate functionality across platforms and providers by using web service technology. However, these services are not directly used by end users. User interfaces together with complex control logic must be developed as an additional layer on top of services. This development step is insufficiently supported by methodologies and tools. Instead, user interfaces are designed manually for service interfaces and business processes. | www.servface.org |
| Service WEB 3.0 | Even after four decades of rapid advances, computing is currently subject to revolutionary changes at all levels, including hardware, middleware, network infrastructure, but more importantly intelligent applications.Emerging technologies such as the Semantic Web or Web Services transform the Internet from a network of information to a network of knowledge and services. The number of services which will be offered on the Internet is expected to rise dramatically in the next few years. It is the mission of Service Web 3.0 to address these emerging developments and contribute to the implementation of framework programmes and their projects, and support the preparation of future community research and technological development. | www.serviceweb30.eu/cms/ |
| SHAPE | The SHAPE project aims to support the development and realization of enterprise systems based on a Semantically-enabled Heterogeneous service Architecture (SHA). SHA extends Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) with semantics and heterogeneous infrastructures (Web services, Agents, Semantic Web Services, P2P and Grid) under a unified service oriented approach. To achieve this the consortium of the SHAPE project will develop a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) tool-supported methodology and will take an active role in the standardization of metamodels and languages for SHA. | www.shape-project.eu |
| sISI | The Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI) is an industry-led action forum designed to bring together all aspects related to satellite communications. ISI addresses broadcasting, broadband, and mobile satellite communications, as well as their convergence, in integration within the global telecommunication network infrastructure. ISI supports all forms of space communication and space exploitation. ISI is a Technology Platform included in the seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. | www.isi-initiative.org |
| SLA@SOI | Launched on June 2nd, 2008, our project is committed to research, engineer and demonstrate technologies that can embed SLA-aware infrastructures into the service economy. | www.sla-at-soi.eu |
| SMARTLM | Current software licensing practices are limiting the acceleration of Grid adoption. Indeed, the rapid emergence of service and virtualization environments requires a rapid evolution in licensing models. SmartLM will provide a generic and flexible licensing virtualization technology for new service-oriented business models across organization boundaries. | www.smartlm.eu |
| SMART-NET | The SMART-Net concept is based on a decentralised vision in which access infrastructure is partly distributed across the network, allowing reduction of service cost and significant increase of performance. A key objective of the project is to make available comprehensive and configurable experimental facilities for investigation of future wireless networks. This is achieved by deploying simulation and real-life Testbeds based on advanced Radio Access Technologies. | www.ict-smartnet.eu |
| SMOOTH-IT | The Internet traffic is still doubling approximately every 18 month; and up to 80% of this traffic is stemming from Peer-to-Peer applications. This traffic is created by overlay network-based applications. The available bandwidth of end-nodes is also increasing. Thus, overlay-based applications will become more and more interesting and diversity of such applications will increase. Therefore, a slow paradigm shift from centralized offered services to services offered by end-nodes is happening. For today's Telecommunication Service Providers (telco) and Internet Service Providers (ISP) the issue arises, how to control and manage network traffic stemming from overlay-based applications. | www.smoothit.org |
| SOA4All | SOA4All (Service Oriented Architectures for All) is a Large-Scale Integrating Project funded by the European Seventh Framework Programme, under the Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering research area. SOA4All is endorsed by the Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI). SOA4All aims at realizing a world where billions of parties are exposing and consuming services via advanced Web technology: the main objective of the project is to provide a comprehensive framework that integrates complementary and evolutionary technical advances (i.e., SOA, context management, Web principles, Web 2.0 and semantic technologies) into a coherent and domain-independent service delivery platform. |
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| SOCRATES | Future communication networks will exhibit a significant degree of self-organisation. The principal objective of introducing self-organisation, comprising self-optimisation, self-configuration and self-healing, is to effectuate substantial operational expenditure (OPEX) reductions by diminishing human involvement in network operational tasks, while optimising network efficiency and service quality. The SOCRATES (Self-Optimisation and self-ConfiguRATion in wirelEss networkS) project aims at the development of self-organisation methods to enhance the operations of wireless access networks, by integrating network planning, configuration and optimisation into a single, mostly automated process requiring minimal manual intervention. |
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| SWIFT | SWIFT (Secure Widespread Identities for Federated Telecommunications) is a European Union funded project of the 7th Framework Programme. The project leverages identity technology as a key to integrate service and transport infrastructures for the benefit of users and the providers. It focuses on extending identity functions and federation to the network while addressing usability and privacy concerns. | www.ist-swift.org |
| TA2 | The future of family interaction. How can technology help to nurture family-to-family relationships? This is the question asked by the collaborative project. Together Anywhere, Together Anytime (TA2).For many people, families form the key social unit. Many of our enduring experiences, holidays, celebrations and moments of fun and laughter are framed as family events. This is something that current technology does not address well: modern media and communications serve individuals best, with phones, computers and electronic games devices tending to be individually owned and providing individual experiences.TA2 seeks to redress this imbalance, by exploring how technology can support group to group communication. | www.ta2-project.eu |
| TAS3 | TAS³ aims to have a European- wide impact on services based upon personal information¸ which is typically generated over a human lifetime and therefore is collected & stored at distributed locations and used in a multitude of business processes. | www.tas3.eu |
| TECOM | The Trusted Embedded Computing (TECOM) project, an EU-funded consortium of eleven partners, aims at developing trusted computing solutions for embedded platforms, which means, that TECOM ensures especially the security and safety of embedded computing systems and infrastructures. | www.tecom-project.eu |
| THINKTRUST | As the Information Society continues to develop and to grow, there is a very strong need to develop 'smart', i.e. intelligent and user-friendly, ICT security environments that take full account of the values of liberty, democracy and privacy in our societies, while providing necessary Trust, Security and Dependability. | www.think-trust.eu |
| TRILOGY | The aim of the Trilogy project is to develop new solutions for the control architecture of the Internet and remove the known and emerging technical deficiencies while avoiding prejudging commercial and social outcomes for the different players. The focus is the generic control functions of the Internet - the neck of the hour-glass but for control. Our architectural design activities focus on a radical approach to develop a Future Internet for the next 20+ years. This design is tempered and refined by considering the need for incremental deployment. | www.trilogy-project.org |
| VICTORY | VICTORY is a EC co-funded research project which will develop an innovative, distributed search engine, introducing MultiPedia search and retrieval capabilities to a standard (PC-based) and a mobile P2P network. A MultiPedia object is defined as a 3D object along with its accompanied information i.e. 2D views, text, audio, video. | www.victory-eu.org/victory |
| VITAL++ | VITAL++ will combine and experiment with the best of the IMS-like control plane functionality and P2P technology giving rise into a new communication paradigm that will bring a wide range of benefits. The key to achieving this objective, is to put this paradigm under strenuous experimentation, carried out under realistic network conditions using popular applications. To this end, VITAL++ is putting together a pan-European testbed comprised of existing geographically distributed test sites integrated by IMS technology. This will be thoroughly tested by reference content applications and services that use P2P technology as a means for their distribution and achieving satisfactory QoS levels through network resource optimisation algorithms rather than non-scalable QoS reservation operations. | www.ict-vitalpp.upatras.gr |
| WISEBED | WISEBED (Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds) will provide a multi-level infrastracture of interconnected testbeds of largescale wireless sensor networks for research purposes, pursuing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the aspects of hardware, software, algorithms, and data. This will demonstrate how heterogeneous small-scale devices and testbeds can be brought together to form well-organized, large-scale structures, rather than just some large network; it will allow research not only at a much larger scale, but also in different quality, due to heterogeneous structure and the ability to deal with dynamic scenarios, both in membership and location. | www.wisebed.eu |
| WOMBAT | The WOMBAT project aims at providing new means to understand the existing and emerging threats that are targeting the Internet economy and the net citizens. To reach this goal, the proposal includes three key workpackages: (i) real time gathering of a diverse set of security related raw data, (ii) enrichment of this input by means of various analysis techniques, and (iii) root cause identification and understanding of the phenomena under scrutiny. The acquired knowledge will be shared with all interested security actors (ISPs, CERTs, security vendors, etc.), enabling them to make sound security investment decisions and to focus on the most dangerous activities first. Special care will also be devoted to impact the level of confidence of the European citizens in the net economy by leveraging security awareness in Europe thanks to the gained expertise. | www.wombat-project.eu |