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4WARD - Architecture and design for the future Internet (4WARD)

Funded under 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme)

Research area: ICT-2007.1.1 The network of the future

Coordinator
Contact Person: Name: LUNDGREN, LARS
Tel: +46-8-50877216
Fax: +46-8-4042252
Email: Contact
Organisation: ERICSSON AB
164 80   STOCKHOLM
SWEDEN

Project description

Today's network architectures are stifling innovation, restricting it mostly to the application level while the need for structural change is increasingly evident. The absence of adequate facilities to design, optimise and interoperate new networks currently forces a convergence to an architecture that is suboptimal for many applications and that cannot support innovations within itself, the Internet.

4WARD overcomes this impasse through a set of radical architectural approaches built on our strong mobile and wireless background.. We improve our ability to design inter-operable and complementary families of network architectures. We enable the co-existence of multiple networks on common platforms through carrier-grade virtualisation for networking resources. We enhance the utility of networks by making them self-managing. We increase their robustness and efficiency by leveraging diversity. Finally we improve application support by a new information-centric paradigm in place of the old host-centric approach. These solutions will embrace the full range of technologies, from fibre backbones to wireless and sensor networks.

The 4WARD results will allow new markets to appear, redefining business roles and creating new economic models. We will establish the Future Internet Forum as a leading standards body, enabling these new markets and opening them for old and new players alike, increasing opportunities for competition and cooperation and creating new products and services.

These goals can only be achieved by gathering a strong, industry-led consortium of the leading operators, vendors, SME, and research organisations, with the determination, skills, and critical mass to create cross-industry consensus and to drive standardisation. The project is designed for multiple phases; the first one will establish the core concepts and technologies and last for two years. The planned effort of about 2200 person months corresponds to the strategic importance of this endeavour.


Project details
Project Acronym: 4WARD
Project Reference: 216041
Start Date: 2008-01-01
Duration: 24 months
Project Cost: 23.25 million euro
Contract Type: Collaborative project (generic)
End Date: 2009-12-31
Project Status: Execution
Project Funding: 14.45 million euro

Participants
ERICSSON CANADA INC CANADA
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY UNITED STATES
NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS OY FINLAND
NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS GMBH & CO. KG GERMANY
SIEMENS PROGRAM AND SYSTEM ENGINEERING SRL ROMANIA
UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA CLUJ-NAPOCA ROMANIA
TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ISRAEL
UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 FRANCE
WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IRELAND
UNIVERSITAET BREMEN GERMANY
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG GERMANY
ALCATEL - LUCENT FRANCE FRANCE
ALCATEL LUCENT DEUTSCHLAND AG GERMANY
THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY UNITED KINGDOM
FUNDACION ROBOTIKER SPAIN
OY L M ERICSSON AB FINLAND
GROUPE DES ECOLES DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS FRANCE
VALTION TEKNILLINEN TUTKIMUSKESKUS FINLAND
TELEKOMUNIKACJA POLSKA S.A. POLAND
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY UNITED KINGDOM
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOGSKOLAN SWEDEN
FRANCE TELECOM SA FRANCE
NEC EUROPE LTD UNITED KINGDOM
ERICSSON GMBH GERMANY
FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V GERMANY
UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN GERMANY
UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE (TH) GERMANY
TELECOM ITALIA SPA ITALY
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE FRANCE
SICS, SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AB SWEDEN
PORTUGAL TELECOM INOVACAO SA PORTUGAL
TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA UNIPERSONAL SPAIN
UNIVERSITAET BASEL SWITZERLAND
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN GERMANY
INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO PORTUGAL
Record Control Number: 85316
Update Date: 2009-11-18 09:53:44.0

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