Presentations from the FIRE week, Lulea
Read the report from the working group on modular federation of FIRE Facilities "Towards a collaboration and high-level federation structure for the FIRE Facility"
Presentations from the FIRE infoday
Offering of the FIRE Facility prototype projects for running and new research projects in FP7:
FIRE - Future Internet Research & Experimentation
The Internet is much more than a communication system. New and unexpected Internet-enabled applications and services make tremendous use of emerging technologies and at the same time shape new requirements for future ones. At a global level, the Internet is becoming more and more the backbone of modern economy and society, to the point where new generations from industrialized countries cannot even conceive a world without Internet.
FIRE is associated with ICT objective 1.6 "Future Internet Experimental Facility and Experimentally-driven Research", part of Call 5 which closed on 26 October 2009, with a budget of 50 M€. Evaluations are ongoing.
Due to these multiple interactions, the Internet has become a complex system, a living and evolving entity, where any technological development affecting its future may have multifaceted and even unexpected consequences, at any technological, social or economic level. Therefore, new proposals for Internet architectures, protocols and services should not be limited to paperwork, as they need early experimentation and testing in large-scale environments, even though some of these ideas might be implemented only in the long-term.
The FIRE - Future Internet Research and Experimentation - Initiative is addressing this need, gearing itself towards creating a multidisciplinary research environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms.
FIRE is promoting the concept of experimentally-driven research, joining the two ends of academic-driven visionary research and industry-driven testing and experimentation. To make this approach a reality, FIRE aims to create a dynamic, sustainable, large scale European Experimental Facility, which is built by gradually connecting and federating existing and new testbeds for emerging or future internet technologies.
The ultimate goal of FIRE is to boost European innovation and its competitive role in defining Future Internet concepts. The first wave of FIRE projects was launched in summer 2008, with a budget of Euro 40M. Under ICT, the 2009/10 Work Programme highlights the strategic importance of the Future Internet and re-emphasises the role of experimentally-driven research, by increasing the budget for FIRE and giving new opportunities for innovative projects.
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last update 2009-11-12