The Future of Internet
Challenge 1
Trends and ways forward
The Future Internet research activity in ICT in FP7 is largely reflected in the objectives of «Challenge 1» under the 2007-2008 work-programme. Given that the limitations of the Internet are deeply rooted in the architectural design and its protocols and mechanisms, the expected work aims at complementing/revisiting the network science foundations of the Internet, not only for its novel system components like wireless or sensors networks, but aiming at advanced approaches as appropriate to architectures and protocols driven by the need for general mobility, scalability, new forms of routing, connectivity in a generalised wireless environment, to be coupled later with their validation in large scale testing and interconnected environment.
The work of exploratory nature is expected to address how various classes of new requirements constrain the foreseeable evolution of the internet and identify the corresponding long term solutions.
1 Introductory Remarks: Towards the Future Internet (its governance, neutrality and technical challenges)
2 Governance and policy issues in the future Internet
3 State of Play: Running FP6 Projects
4 Presentation of FP7 Challenges and Instruments
5 The European Technology Platforms and the Future Internet
6 The EIFFEL think tank’s view on the future networked society
7 Research and Experimentation testbeds
8 Additional discussion comments
This website summarises the key issues of the presentations and the discussions that took place in the Information Day.
It also includes a White Paper from the EIFFEL think tank that was established in July 2006 as a group of individual researchers, upon an initiative of the European Commission DG Information Society and Media, with the intention to address questions as to the how such an ambitious goal as defining the Future Internet can be achieved within the context of pan-European and global, research. Furthermore, all the presentations that were given are also included.
Sequence of the workshop presentations
In this context Directorate D organised an Information day on the Future of Internet 15 December 2006, in Brussels. The meeting brought together experts from academia and industry, the European Technology Platforms (ETP’s) in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) area (i.e. eMobility, ISI, NEM and NESSI) and the EIFFEL Future Internet Think Tank.