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Information day on the Future of Internet
Brussels 15 December 2006 from 10 am to 5 pm
Venue: Centre Borschette
Introduction
Internet has been extraordinarily successful and is now a critical part of our economy’s infrastructure. However its limitations due to the design made in the seventies start hampering its potential. Evolutionary improvements to the current network will help sustaining up to a point the growth of the Internet, but are not seen as being enough to face the deep rooted weaknesses of Internet as regards mobility, scalability, wireless generalisation and security.
Indeed the Future Internet should be able to sustain by one or many orders of magnitude higher the number of people, devices and objects connected (billions—perhaps even hundreds of billions of users, sensors, tags, processes, micro controllers, etc. ), ensure efficiency, security and trust in transaction for new services, incorporate mobility and universal connectivity in its conception, include the technical features for easy operations and management including guarantees for privacy, multiparty governance and delivery of new services .
The Future Internet research activity in ICT in FP7 is part of challenge 1 and the first call will be early 2007. Given that the limitations of the Internet are deeply rooted in the architectural design and its protocols and mechanisms, the expected work aims at revisiting the network science foundations of the Internet, not only in its novel system components like wireless or sensors networks , but aiming at advanced approaches 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 will address how various classes of new requirements constrain the foreseeable evolution of the internet and identify the corresponding long term solutions.
The objective of this information day is to present and discuss views and understandings of which and how research long term solutions should be addressed to ensure European scientific and industrial leadership for the Future Internet.
Contact information: Mr Remy Bayou