Future Networks Projects
Around 90 projects have been launched since the beginning of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), following the calls for proposals FP7-ICT-Call 1 and FP7-ICT-Call 4and FP7-ICT-Call 5 under the "Network of the Future" Objective1.1. The projects are grouped into a flexible set of clusters of common interest, to develop synergies and critical mass. Three clusters address the topics of Future Internet Architectures and Network Management, Radio Access and Spectrum (RAS), and Converged and Optical Networks (CaON).
The FP7 future networks research largely relates to the technological roadblocks and socio economic scenarios identified by the Net!Works (formerly eMobility), ISI and Photonics 21 European Technology Platforms (ETPs).
In essence, during the first quarter of 2008, 46 projects resulting from the FP7 ICT Call1 have started work in these three areas, representing an investment in research of 200 million € of EU funding. In January 2009, a second set of 24 projects resulting from the FP7 ICT Call 4 were launched in the RAS and CaON areas, representing more than 110 million € of EU investment. Between July and December 2010, a third set of 21 projects resulting from the FP7 ICT Call 5 were launched mainly in the Future Internet area, for an amount of 80 million € of EU funding.
The projects make intensive contributions to the research, innovation and standardisation of Future Internet infrastructure, through both evolutionary and totally novel approaches. In addition to the technical aspects, the economic and social implications of the current and future networking architectures and efficient use of radio spectrum are also important. Furthermore, the Future network infrastructures should provide seamlessly end to end connectivity and access and therefore will have to support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile/satellite and broadband network technologies.
In addition to the table below providing a quick overview of the current FP7 Future Networks project portfolio, you may also find additional information on EU research projects of this area during FP7 and FP6 in the following publications: FP7- ICT - Call5 Project Project Portfolio, FP7-ICT- Call4 Project Portfolio, FP7-ICT-Call1 Project Portfolio, Future Internet Technologies and Architectures, FP6-IST Projects & Cluster Results for Network & Communication Technologies
| Project Number |
Project Acronym |
Instrument | Project Title | Project Factsheet | Project Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 216041 | 4WARD | IP | Architecture and Design for the Future Internet | 509KB | 360KB |
| 248654 | ACCORDANCE | STREP | A converged copper-optical-radio OFDMA-based access network with high capacity and flexibility | 653KB | 391KB |
| 212352 | ACROPOLIS | STREP | Advanced coexistence technologies for radio optimisation in licensed and unlicensed spectrum | 479KB | 577KB |
| 212352 | ALPHA | IP | Architectures for fLexible Photonics Home and Access networks | 265KB | 2.574KB |
| 216856 | ARAGORN | STREP | Adaptive reconfigurable access and generic interfaces in radio networks | 148KB | 290KB |
| 247223 | ARTIST4G | IP | Advanced Radio Interface Technologies for 4G Systems | 431KB | 444KB |
| 216404 | AUTOI | STREP | Autonomic Internet | 172KB | 348KB |
| 248523 | BeFEMTO | IP | Broadband Evolved FEMTO Networks | 1011KB | 636KB |
| 216863 | BONE | NoE | Building the Future Optical Network in Europe | 155KB | 661KB |
| 248267 | BuNGee | STREP | Beyond Next Generation Mobile Broadband | 610KB | 300KB |
| 248577 | C2POWER | STREP | Cognitive radio and Cooperative strategies for POWER saving in multi-standard wireless devices | 397KB | 790KB |
| 248272 | CARE | CA | Coordinating the Antenna Research in Europe | 336KB | 1589KB |
| 214994 | CARMEN | STREP | CARrier grade MEsh Networks | 230KB | 1.281KB |
| 216462 | C-CAST | STREP | Context Casting | 539KB | 1.347KB |
| 258542 | ceFIMS | CSA | Coordination of the European Future Internet Forum of Member States | 658KB | 124KB |
| 257422 | CHANGE | STREP | A Network Architecture for Innovation | 627KB | 719KB |
| 216714 | CHIANTI | STREP | Challenged Internet Access Network Technology Infrastructure | 160KB | 809KB |
| 258644 | CHRON | STREP | Cognitive techniques find its way into the Optical Networks | 1,3MB | 5,4MB |
| 215477 | CODIV | STREP | Enhanced Wireless Communication Systems Employing Cooperative Diversity | 133KB | 233KB |
| 248560 | COGEU | STREP | COgnitive radio systems for efficient sharing of TV white spaces in EUropean context | 499KB | 520KB |
| 216203 | DaVinci | STREP | Design And Versatile Implementation of Non-binary wireless Communications based on Innovative LDPC Codes | 154KB | 316KB |
| 216338 | DICONET | STREP | Dynamic Impairment Constraint Networking for Transparent Mesh Optical Networks | 515KB | 1.341KB |
| 216248 | E3 | IP | End-to-End Efficiency | 635KB | 1.304KB |
| 247733 | EARTH | IP | Energy Aware Radio and NeTwork TecHnologies | 967KB | 677KB |
| 258454 | ECONET | STREP | low Energy COnsumption NETworks | 878KB | 1,8MB |
| 215549 | EFIPSANS | IP | Exposing the Features in IP version Six protocols for designing/building Autonomic Networks and Services | 1.002KB | 237KB |
| 216068 | EIFFEL | CSA | Laying the foundation for Future Networked Society | 164KB | 97KB |
| 214089 | eMobility CA | CSA | Creating roadmaps for the European telecommunications sector | 135KB | 75KB |
| 257516 | CA | eMobility NetWorld | 671KB | 1.066KB | |
| 248567 | ETICS | IP | Economics and Technologies for Inter-Carrier Services | 366KB | 546KB |
| 215462 | ETNA | STREP | Ethernet Transport Networks, Architectures of Networking | 323KB | 762KB |
| 215320 | EU-MESH | STREP | Enhanced, Ubiquitous, and Dependable Broadband Access using MESH Networks | 323KB | 762KB |
| 216366 | Euro-NF | NoE | Euro-NF, Anticipating the Network of the Future - From Theory to Design | 122KB | 488KB |
| 215669 | EUWB | IP | EUWB - Coexisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology | 337KB | 1.176KB |
| 258512 | EXALTED | IP | EXpAnding LTE for Devices | 808KB | 2,2MB |
| 257262 | EX-FI | CA | Expanding the European Future Internet Community | 692KB | 3.783KB |
| 258378 | FIGARO | STREP | Future Internet Gateway-based Architecture of Residential Networks | 1.4MB | 3.517KB |
| 248351 | FARAMIR | STREP | Flexible and spectrum-Aware Radio Access through Measurements and modelling In cognitive Radio systems | 574KB | 1527KB |
| 257118 |
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CSA | Future Integral SatCom Initiative | 619KB | 794KB |
| 257263 | FLAVIA | STREP | FLexible Architecture for Virtualizable wireless future Internet Access |
765KB | 402KB |
| 249142 | FIVER | STREP | Fully-Converged Quintuple-Play Integrated Optical-Wireless Access Architectures | 1845KB | 912KB |
| 248891 | FREEDOM | STREP | Femtocell-based netwoRk Enhancement by intErference managEment and coorDination of infOrmation for seaMless connectivity | 831KB | 479KB |
| 215533 | FUTON | IP | Fibre optic networks for distributed, heterogeneous radio architectures and service provisioning | 157KB | 319KB |
| 248657 | GEYSERS | IP | Generalised architEcture for dYnamic infraStructure sERvices | 453KB | 727KB |
| 216006 | HURRICANE | STREP | Handovers for Ubiquitous and Optimal Broadband Connectivity among Cooperative Networking Environments | 156KB | 269KB |
| 248993 | LOLA | STREP | Achieving Low-Latency in Wireless Communications | 388KB | 308KB |
| 247706 | MAINS | STREP | Metro Architectures enablINg Sub-wavelengths | 914KB | 401KB |
| 258053 | MEDIEVAL | STREP | MultimEDia transport for mobIlE Video AppLications | 964KB | 1MB |
| 213952 | MIMAX | STREP | Advanced MIMO systems for maximum reliability and performance | 312KB | 240KB |
| 216946 | MobiThin | STREP | Intelligent distribution of demanding services and applications to mobile thin client devices | 198KB | 394KB |
| 212430 | MobiWeb2.0 | CSA | Mobile Web 2.0 | 134KB | 64KB |
| 215225 | MOMENT | STREP | Monitoring and Measurement in the Next generation Technologies | 191KB | 255KB |
| 247176 | MONET | STREP | Mechanisms for Optimization of hybrid ad-hoc networks and satellite NETworks | 341KB | 388KB |
| 216541 | Multi-Base | STREP | Multi-Base - Scalable Multi-tasking Baseband for Mobile Communications | 196KB | 232KB |
| 215252 | N-CRAVE | STREP | Network Coding for Robust Architectures in Volatile Environments | 136KB | 1.229KB |
| 216715 | NEWCOM++ | NoE | Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications++ (NEWCOM++) | 207KB | 1.626KB |
| 249025 | OASE | IP | Optical Access Seamless Evolution | 540KB | 247KB |
| 213311 | Omega | IP | OMEGA | 243KB | 2.083KB |
| 258300 | ONE | STREP | Towards Automated Interactions between the Internet and the Carrier-Grade Management Ecosystems | 532 KB | 1,6 MB |
| 257385 | ONEFIT | STREP | Opportunistic networks and Cognitive Management Systems for Efficient Application Provision in the Future InterneT | 577 KB | 518KB |
| 211887 | PHYDYAS | STREP | PHYDYAS: physical layer for dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio | 406KB | 633KB |
| 216173 | PSIRP | STREP | Publish-Subscribe Internet Routing Paradigm | 141KB | 128KB |
| 257217 | PURSUIT | STREP | Publish Subscribe Internet Technology | ||
| 248454 | QOSMOS | IP | Quality of Service and MObility driven cognitive radio Systems | 497KB | 777KB |
| 248303 | QUASAR | STREP | Quantitative Assessment of Secondary Spectrum Access | 615KB | 375KB |
| 217014 | ReDeSign | STREP | Developing cable network architectures & technologies for the near & distant future | 236KB | 1.114KB |
| 216751 | REWIND | STREP | RElay based WIreless Network and standarD - REWIND | 317KB | 647KB |
| 215282 | ROCKET | STREP | Reconfigurable OFDMA-based Cooperative Networks Enabled by Agile Spectrum Use | 364KB | 1.227KB |
| 249060 | SACRA | STREP | Spectrum and energy efficiency through multi-band Cognitive Radio | 334KB | 204KB |
| 257448 | SAIL | IP | SAIL: Scalable & Adaptive Internet soLutions | 822 KB | 1.947KB |
| 248268 | SAMURAI | STREP | Spectrum Aggregation and Multi-User MIMO: Real-world Impact | 557KB | 339KB |
| 248001 | SAPHYRE | STREP | Sharing Physical Resources – Mechanisms and Implementations for Wireless Networks | 678KB | 652KB |
| 217122 | SARDANA | STREP | Scalable Advanced Ring-based passive Dense Access Network Architecture | 268KB | 3.144KB |
| 216076 | SENDORA | STREP | Sensor Network for Dynamic and Cognitive Radio Access | 257KB | 576KB |
| 258138 | SESERV | CSA | Socio-Economic SERVices for European research projects | 1,2 MB | n/a |
| 215923 | SENSEI | IP | SENSEI - Integrating the Physical with the Digital World of the Network of the Future | 576KB | 243KB |
| 216104 | SFERA | CSA | Structural Funds for European Regional Research Advancement | 181KB | 334KB |
| 215134 | sISI | CSA | sISI - Support action to the Integral Satcom Initiative | 919KB | 283KB |
| 216259 | SmoothIt | STREP | Simple Economic Management Approaches of Overlay Traffic in Heterogeneous Internet Topologies | 241KB | n/a |
| 216284 | SOCRATES | STREP | Self-Optimisation and Self-Configuration in Wireless Networks | 136KB | n/a |
| 258457 | SPARC | STREP | Split architecture carrier class future networks | 000KB | 1.354KB |
| 247674 | STRONGEST | IP | Scalable Tunable and Resilient Optical Networks Guaranteeing Extremely-high Speed Transport | 444KB | 414KB |
| 257740 | TREND | NoE | Towards Real Energy-efficient Network Design | 272KB | 629KB |
| 216372 | Trilogy | IP | Trilogy: Re-Architecting the Internet | 440KB | 2.106KB |
| 216785 | UCELLS | STREP | Ultra-wide band real-time interference monitoring and CELLular management Strategies | 254KB | 1.169KB |
| 257418 | ULOOP | STREP | User-centric Wireless Local-Loop | 617KB | 777KB |
| 257513 | UniverSelf | IP | UniverSelf | 1,9MB | 252KB |
| 216312 | WALTER | STREP | WALTER: Specifying, testing and improving interoperability of broadband radio devices | 370KB | 1.142KB |
| 217033 | WHERE | STREP | WHERE: Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators | 1.215KB | 420KB |
| 217033 | WHERE2 | STREP | Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators - Phase 2 | 978KB | 320KB |
| 215167 | WiMAGIC | STREP | Worldwide Interoperability Microwave System for Next-Generation Wireless Communications | 423KB | 84KB |