The separate report of the architecture sessions is available for download.

Caretakers: Alex Galis, Alex Gluhak, Marcus Brunner, Henrik Abramowicz, Theodore Zahariadis, Stefano De Panfilis - MANA, FCN, RWI, FISO Working Groups

During previous FIAs several discussions have taken place about the architectures for the Future Internet. Several reference models are under development by different groups, requirements and research challenges for architectures have been set. During FIA Valencia there will be a 6.5 hours track on architectures (consisting of three different sessions) trying to advance this work, aiming at a consolidated reference architecture, which can be presented during FIA Ghent.

The first session will focus on the need for a new architecture for the Future Internet, and its design goals. This will be followed by the presentation of several existing reference architectures. Each speaker will try to relate his/her reference architecture to the others. Finally, there will be a presentation about the evaluation criteria of an architecture. How can you compare different architectures? This will be the introduction to a broad discussion with the audience on how to draw closer to one "European" reference architecture for the Future Internet.

• Introduction & Objectives of the FI Architecture track & Session no.1 (2 min) Alex Galis - University College London
• FI Design Goals (Functional and architectural metrics; Cost performance metric potentially from different stakeholder perspectives) Dimitri Papdimitriou – Alcatel- Lucent Dimitri.Papadimitriou(at)alcatel-lucent.com (15 min)
• Example FI Reference Models:
• Future Converged Network Reference Model - Consequence of novel access technologies Mikail Popov – Acreo AG Mikhail.Popov(at)acreo.se (15 min)
• Radio Networks - Panagiotis Demestichas - University of Piraeus pdemest(at)unipi.gr (10 min)
• RWI Reference Model - Srdjan Krco – Ericsson,  srdjan.krco(at)ericsson.com (10 min)
• MANA Reference Model - Alex Galis – University College London a.galis(at)ee.ucl.ac.uk - (10 min)
• FCN Reference Model - Theodore Zahariad – Synelixis zahariad(at)synelixis.com (10 min)
• FISO Reference Model - Stefano Depanfilis - Engineering stefano.depanfilis(at)eng.it (10 min)
• How to evaluate and compare architectures Kurt Tutschku - University of Vienna kurt.tutschku(at)univie.ac.at (15 min)
• Q&A Session 1 (27 min)

The second session will show concrete results of various European projects on architectures. Several evolutionary approaches will be presented, but also clean(er)-slate ones. In several of the areas identified by the reference models (networking, virtualisation, identity, content delivery) of the previous sessions, the audience is able to find out one or two concrete examples of what the future Internet architecture might be. This session again ends with a discussion on how to build on these results to achieve a European reference architecture for the Future Internet.

• Introduction to Session 2 (2 min) Marcus Brunner - NEC
• Polymorphic Internet
  • ANA project view: Christian Tschudin - University of Basel christian.tschudin(at)unibas.ch (13 min)
  • 4WARD project view: The 4WARD System Model - Defining Network Architectures for Future Networks - Martin Johnsson – Ericsson martin.johnsson(at)ericsson.com (13 min)
• Virtual Infrastructures (Network, Service, Storage): What is the role of abstraction? How far are we from commercial world? Are we achieving transparency? Validated promises / Results? Management/Operations of Virtual infrastructure
  • Service Computing Clouds - RESERVOIR project Yaron Wolfstal -IBM wolfstal(at)il.ibm.com (13 min)
  • Virtual Networks - 4WARD project: Djamal Zeglache - Télécom SudParis, Institut Télécom djamal.zeghlache(at)int-edu.eu (13 min)
  • Management of Virtual Infrastructure - AutoI project - Alex Galis - University College London a.galis(at)ee.ucl.ac.uk (13 min)
  • Sustainable Identity Framework for the Future Internet - SWIFT project - Armadeo Sarma -NEC Sarma(at)nw.neclab.eu (18 min)
• Content based Networking
  • Publish-Subscribe networking PSIRP project - Arto Karila - Helsinki Institute for Information Technology arto.karila(at)hiit.fi (13 min)
  • Content delivery SEA project – Giovani Pau - UCLA gpau(at)cs.ucla.edu (13 min)
  • Media centric networking - Adolfo M. Rosas - Telefonica TID arosas(at)tid.es (13 min)
• Q& A Session 2 (26min)

The third session focuses on how to move forward with these research results to standardisation bodies and to take up by a community. Several standardisation bodies that are working on Future Internet will explain the objectives and scope of their work. An alternative way of disseminating results could be through the use of open source solutions. And finally, a proposal will be made on a competition comparing future Internet architectures, in analogy to the well-known RoboCup. 

All these three sessions should lead to an action plan on how to achieve a common view with a roadmap on a European Future Internet Architecture."

• Introduction to Session 3 (2 min) Henrik Abramowicz - Ericsson
• Move FI Research into practice - closing the standardisation gap - Didier Bourse - Alcatel-Lucent Didier_Arnaud.Bourse(at)alcatel-lucent.com (17 min)
• Standards Organizations
  • ITU-T SG 11 Focus Group on Future Networks Takashi Egawa – NEC  t-egawa(at)ct.jp.nec.com (17 min)
  • ETSI ways of standardizing Future Networks Ultan Mulligan - ETSI ultan.mulligan(at)etsi.org (17 min)
  • ETSI FI Architecture ISG - Industrial Specifications Group Guillermo Cisneros - UPM gcisneros(at)etsit.upm.es (17 min)
• How to make use of Open Source (as alternative way of creating “standards”) / What facilitators are required (directory, IPR problems) Rui Aguiar - University of Aveiro ruilaa(at)ua.pt (17 min)
• FI tournament: Competition & Cooperation - How to Steer Internet Evolution - Tanja Zseby - Fraunhofer Fokus Tanja.Zseby(at)fokus.fraunhofer.de (17 min)
• "EU Initiative:  Towards architectural design principles and a reference architecture for the Future Internet"  - Arian Zwegers EU INFSO Arian.ZWEGERS(at)ec.europa.eu (5 min)
• Q&A Session 3 (20 min)
• Wrap-up: Architecture Track - FIA caretakers (12 min)
  (Documenting reference models/architecture + Define a time line /Working Groups)