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FIRE FOR LIFE
Networks are the neural system of our society - we barely brief without connectivity, unplugging would discon-
tinue the society and its individuals being part of it, as it is organised today. Yet, the Internet keeps revolutionizing
the world - the way we function, interact, behave and evolve for more. Equally, we revolutionize the Internet - the
way it functions, interacts, behaves and evolves. Our needs, usage and visions push it into the Nets of Future. The
Internet is consequently a complex and evolving entity where any technological development, no matter how
small, may have multifaceted and even surprising consequences.
Humans are heuristic and discover through experimentation. Any research into new ways of approaching the
Internet from the most fundamental level simply cannot be limited to paperwork. Early and realistic experimenta-
tion and testing in a large-scale environment is required, even though some of these ideas may only be imple-
mented in the long-term.
What is FIRE?
The Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE - Initiative is addressing the need to experiment with
networks, creating a multidisciplinary environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly innova-
tive and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms. FIRE offers a discipline, a platform and
tools for trying out innovative ideas for the Future Internet. FIRE is promoting the concept of experimentally-driven
research, combining visionary academic research with the wide-scale testing and experimentation that is required
for industry. Several initiatives, at EU Member States level and also worldwide (US, Japan etc.) already exist and
need more synergies among them. FIRE helps to create a dynamic, sustainable, large-scale European Experimen-
tal Facility, which is constructed by gradually connecting and federating existing and upcoming testbeds for Future
Internet technologies.
The FIRE facility is open – LET’s use it!
The FIRE Facility projects are building a variety of network experimentation infrastructures and tools with different
characteristics. Various structures, tools and features are already available, first sets of open trials called upon and
running; all facilities are subject to development in a demand-driven way. While Open Calls have come to stay -
stay tuned for each facility provider launching regularly new Open Calls - the most recent FIRE actions are targeted
at providing sustainable host and support for the already built and constantly evolving FIRE Facility. This means
that “FIRE QoS” is materialising: services and tools remain available beyond the lifetime of the respective project.
BonFIRE, Ofelia, SmartSantander and TEFIS have by far committed to continue offering their platform; others still
running are working on federation that can foster a long-living FIRE!
This publication gives an insight into what is real and usable today in FIRE. FIRE Facility projects funded by the
European Commission under FP7 ICT Objective 1.6, are presented here, with a focus on examples of experimenta-
tion. The FIRE outcome is open and public for all experimenters who find the facilities offered suited to their R&D
needs. The FIRE Facility projects invite you as exploratory users: profit from the experimentation and help shaping
the FIRE Facility according to your needs!
We hope to spark your enthusiasm. Jointly we can light up the Future Internet, because FIRE is open and alive.
At your service,
FIRE OFFICE TEAM
FIRE information portal: www.ict-fire.eu
Information about the activities of the European Commission on FIRE - Future Internet
Research and Experimentation, and about all FIRE projects at cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire/
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SUCCESS STORIES
4 BONFIRE: TurboCloud: Accelerating desktop virtualisation with virtual path slice technology
5 BONFIRE: VCOC: Reliable healthcare services with clouds offering as guaranteed Quality of Service
6 CREW: Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Wireless Application inside Aircraft Cabins
7 CREW: Cognitive radio experiments in the CREW facilities (1st Open Call results)
8 EXPERIMEDIA: MEDIAConnect for skiers in Schladming
9 OPENLAB: SFA and FITeagle federation framework
10 OPENLAB: Video streaming over the federated NITOS OneLab infrastructure
11 SMARTSANTANDER: Social Web of Things
12 SMARTSANTANDER: SACCOM
13 TEFIS: Innovative Dynamic QoE Provisioning Framework for Mobile Applications
FACILITY PROJECTS
14 FED4FIRE
16 BONFIRE
17 CONFINE
18 CREW
19 EXPERIMEDIA
20 OPENLAB
RESEARCH PROJECTS
21 3D-LIVE — ALIEN
22 CITYFLOW — CLOMMUNITY
23 EAR-IT — ECO2
CLOUDS
24 EVARILOS — IRATI
25 OFERTIE — RELYONIT
26 SOCIAL&SMART — STEER
COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTIONS
27 AMPLIFIRE — FUSION
28 FIRE STATION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

SUCCESS STORY BY BONFIRE
Participants
Cloudium Systems, Limerick (Ireland)
RedZinc, Dublin (Ireland)
Challenge
Today desktop virtualization is offered as a local area solution.
Replacing desktop PCs with thin clients and porting the pro-
cessing power and operating system to the cloud offers ben-
efits often called Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS). These benefits
include lower total cost of ownership per desktop unit and re-
duced systems administrations costs. However, most desktop
virtualization installations are today based on a ‘local cloud’
and the economy of scale of the public cloud is not included in
the cost equation. Moreover, there are constraints of the public
Internet scenario related to Quality of Experience (QoE): in the
absence of guarantees related to bandwidth and delay, the vid-
eo rendered by desktop virtualization server hardware will be
subject to image degradation and image stuttering. How can
QoE be provided and over what type of environment?
Solution
The project focused on seeking a controlled network path
between server and clients and measuring the QoE for vari-
ous applications. The objective was to create a Service Level
Agreement (SLA) for DaaS. The experiment was implement-
ed on the virtual wall part of BonFIRE. The BonFIRE platform
is attractive due to the ability of the virtual wall to emulate a
wide area network. The key ingredients of BonFIRE which sup-
ported the experiment are BonFIRE’s network components’
(1) ability to inject loss and delay into a network topology (2);
the capabilities and support of the software based click router.
BonFIRE’s support to assemble a router with Quality of Ser-
vice (QoS) support and hierarchical scheduler was essential to
the experiment. Red Zinc’s Velox software was used to create
Virtual Path Slices (VPS) through the network while Cloudiums
desktop virtualisation technology was used to execute various
performance benchmarking programmes over the infrastruc-
ture to profile QoE.
The principal finding from the experiment is that Desktop-
as-a-Service (DaaS) requires a controlled network to provide
an acceptable user experience. DaaS can be provided by using
the VPS technology on infrastructure with the following char-
acteristics or a Service Level Agreement (SLA):
• At least 5 Mbps of bandwidth
• A maximum of 50 ms delay
• A maximum of 3% packet loss
FIRE contribution
The BonFIRE facility provides the Turbo Cloud experiment with
a diverse array of hardware on which to execute performance
benchmarks and to test applications accessed in a controllable
anduniformmanner.BonFIRE’sabilitytocreatenetworkconfig-
urationswithcontrolledbandwidthanddelaywascriticalforthe
experiment. Moreover, the ability to request deployments with
the same specifications repeatedly is important for the different
experiment phases.
TURBOCLOUD:ACCELERATING DESKTOP VIRTUALI-
SATION WITH VIRTUAL PATH SLICE TECHNOLOGY
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EmulationofpublicInternetonBonFIREinfrastructure.
BONFIRE

SUCCESS STORY BY BONFIRE
VCOC: RELIABLE HEALTHCARE SERVICES AS
GUARANTEEDQUALITYOFSERVICECLOUDSOFFERING
Participants
Fundación Centro Tecnológico de Supercomputación
de Galicia (CESGA) (Spain)
Challenge
New tools to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses
demand high computing capacity which is not available inside
hospitals. Frequently, they are offered as external services and
need reliable software and computing infrastructures to fulfill
the expectations of health professionals. Therefore, these ser-
vices require a reliable Cloud infrastructure with high Quality of
Service(QoS),whichmustworkeveninthecaseoffailureofone
provider.AgeneralvalidatedandrobustCloudframeworkisim-
perative for provisioning Cloud services in the health sector.
Solution
CESGA has designed a Virtual Cluster Architecture which
adapts itself to the required QoS. The general Virtual Cluster
has two main head nodes, named “master” and “shadow”,
which control the execution of the user application, provide the
computing nodes with a replicated NFS file system, and moni-
tor the performance of the application to make decisions about
elasticityofthecluster.Basedonthisgeneralarchitecture,three
different configurations can be deployed on Cloud depending
on the demanded QoS: 1) Single-site Virtual Cluster which is
deployed on a single physical location, and includes only the
master and the computing nodes; 2) Distributed virtual cluster
whereonlymasterandcomputingnodesarelaunched,butthe
latter are distributed among two sites (or Cloud providers); and
3) Fault Tolerant Virtual Cluster which is deployed on two sites
to be resilient to site failures. In the last configuration if one site
fails, the survived part of the cluster will recover the situation,
and by applying the elasticity rules, it can enlarge itself to pro-
vide the results to the final user on-time. A key component of
the architecture is the performance application monitor, which
retrieves information about the execution of the application
and makes decisions about the elasticity of the Virtual Cluster.
If performance is lower than the required global performance,
it deploys more computing nodes and adds them to the Virtual
Cluster automatically.
FIRE contribution
CESGA’s Virtual Cluster Architecture has been developed and
tested in the BonFIRE’s Federated Cloud. By using BonFIRE’s
Portal, its quick test of different configurations, CESGA could
designandimplementtheVirtualClusterArchitecture.BonFIRE
Experiment Manager was used for making intensive studies in
severalsituations:a)deploymentinasinglesite,b)deployment
in two sites, c) deployment by using elastic enlargement of Vir-
tual Cluster triggered by performance application monitoring,
and d) simulation of failover and recovering. Network influence
in the final application execution was analyzed in the Virtual
Wall where network parameters such as bandwidth and laten-
cy can be managed on demand. In comparison to other IaaS
commercial providers, the BonFIRE infrastructure provides de-
tailed Information on its configuration, description of hardware
and deployment logs, which are not usually available. This all
gives a unique advantage for speeding up research in Clouds.
FIREB
SchemaoftheVirtualClusterArchitectureontwoCloudsites(left)andperformanceofthe
applicationbeforeandafterfailuresimulationonBonFIRE.
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SUCCESS STORY BY CREW
Participants
iMinds (Belgium)
imec (Belgium)
EADS (France)
Challenge
Wireless intra-aircraft communication is expected to be the
enabler for more flexible avionic systems and the reduction
of weight and cost in system installations. An alternative to
the usage of a dedicated frequency band for wireless intra-
aircraft avionics could be the usage of a virtually unregulated
Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band. Cognitive radio
techniques could be used to increase system robustness in the
likely case of interferences in this kind of frequency bands. A
cognitive wireless cabin management system is discussed as
a use-case for the validation of this approach.
Solution
CREW allows experimenters to execute experiments on sev-
eral CREW sites throughout Europe (see www.crew-project.
eu). In addition, CREW has also developed a mobile testbed to
run experiments in those environments that are hard to char-
acterize in any of the existing CREW test sites. In this specific
case, the mobile testbed was set up in a realistic mock-up of
an Airbus A340. The mobile testbed is built around the con-
trol software and embedded PCs available in the CREW test-
bed in Ghent (iMinds w-iLab.t). The mobile testbed was used
to collect sensing data from several types of spectrum sens-
ing devices available in CREW, such as the advanced sensing
agents developed by imec based on the flexible Scaldio RF
chips, USRP2 hardware platforms with WBX frontends and
running the Iris reconfigurable radio software from TCD, and
VSN nodes based on CC2500 series transceivers developed
by JSI. In the plane, reproducible wireless signals and wireless
interference signals were generated. The different sensing de-
viceswereusedtodetecttheenergyofwirelesssignalsandthe
interference at different positions in the plane.
FIRE contribution
The measurement results achieved thanks to CREW show,
among other things, that even relatively cheap spectrum sens-
ing devices are able to reliably strong and continuous signals
at any location in the plane, that weak signals might be missed
even with the more high-end sensing devices, and that fre-
quency selecting fading effects can be observed inside the
cabin. The interference scenarios, which are now captured in
the aircraft cabin, can in the future be used to further develop
a Cognitive Wireless Aircraft Cabin Communication System
that can operate in unregulated ISM bands and that is robust
against interference from passenger devices.
More information: http://www.crew-project.eu/ and in the pa-
per “Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Wireless Applications
Inside Aircraft Cabins” by Christoph Heller, Christian Blümm et
al, which was presented at the Digital Avionics Systems Con-
ference (DASC) in Williamsburg, VA, USA, October 2012.
SPECTRUMSENSINGFORCOGNITIVEWIRE-
LESSAPPLICATIONSINSIDEAIRCRAFTCABINS
Left:AircraftCabinMock-Up(wirelessenvironment)-Right:Embedded
PC,partofthemobiletestbed,mountedonafoodtrolley. Multiplesensing
devicesareattachedtothemobileCREWtestbed.
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CREW

SUCCESS STORY BY CREW
Participants
University of Durham (UK
Technische Universität Ilmenau (Germany)
Tecnalia (Spain)
Thales (France)
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
imec (Belgium)
iMinds (Belgium)
Technische Universität Berlin (Germany)
EADS (Germany)
Challenge
Only few institutes/companies are able to execute complex
cognitive radio experiments with advanced equipment and
different types of nodes with their own means. Via the Open
Calls of the CREW project, experimenters can benefit from the
open access to the various advanced wireless test facilities and
cognitive components.
Solution
Device sensitivity and environment measurements (by Uni-
versity of Durham): Cognitive radio (CR) relies on sensing its
environment to identify unoccupied frequencies. The success
of CR depends on the sensitivity of the used devices to detect
the primary user, and the environment which can cause the
signal to be undetectable due to either blockage by buildings
or terrain or due to the presence of multiple paths connecting
the transmitter to the receiver. To avoid causing interference to
the primary user, the experiments at Durham University tested
several devices to identify their sensitivity and measured three
environments: the air cabin at EADS, TUB and iMinds.
CCA agent in a CSMA MAC using Iris (by Technische Uni-
versitat Ilmenau): This experiment resulted in the integration
of the imec sensing engine (SE) as a clear channel assessment
(CCA) agent into a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) based
medium access control (MAC) protocol implemented on the
basis of Iris. In particular, the experiment shows how the MAC,
in conjunction with the SE, coordinates access to the shared
medium and allows a live video conference over the system.
Collaborative spectrum sensing (by Tecnalia): Information
of different sensors at different locations is integrated to have
a picture of the spectrum occupation. Measurements from the
different sensors are integrated through different algorithms in
order to feed a data base of spectrum occupation. Users on a
dynamic spectrum access system could connect to this data
base and know which frequency bands are already occupied
and which are free and could therefore be employed by them.
Different CREW testbed facilities have been mixed in order to
build this system.
FIRE contribution
The experiments that are described here were made possible
within the first Open Call of the CREW project, via open access
to the various advanced wireless test facilities and cognitive
components. Participation in the project has been extremely
interesting and fruitful for the Open Call partners. First of all, it
has provided a great opportunity to test and validate some of
their advanced cognitive radio technical developments, which
would have been extremely difficult without CREW. CREW has
givenaccesstoadvancedcognitivecomponentsinasingleset-
up. Additionally, it has allowed the partners to learn great les-
sons about testbed usage.
COGNITIVERADIOEXPERIMENTSINTHECREW
FACILITIES(1STOPENCALLRESULTS)
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SUCCESS STORY BY EXPERIMEDIA
Challenge
Information technologies are changing our behaviors yet “tra-
ditional” ways to study systems and their benefit to the eco-
system (e.g. business model through surveys) are limited due
to the dynamic nature of usage. Observation of Future Internet
systems and community behaviors requires the development
of an experimental system that is deployed in a real context
and used by a proper community.
Solution
EXPERIMEDIA offers a testbed for the development of Future
Media Internet services that engages real communities of us-
ers. It gives the opportunity to monitor the Quality of Experi-
ence and Quality of Service in real time and have a direct feed-
back on the interest and usage.
EXPERIMENTATION with Skiers
in Schladming
In Schladming, a world championship skiing location, tourists
are demanding innovative solutions that improve the experi-
ence whilst at the location and remotely. EXPERIMEDIA tech-
nologies deployed in Schladming aim to attract new visitors to
the region, improve the visitor retention rates and contribute to
a positive economic development of the region.
One experiment, MEDIAConnect, is enhancing the experience
of existing products and services through novel mobile inter-
faces. An augmented reality mobile application allows users
to quickly navigate the ski slopes’ using a 3D interactive pano-
rama from an existing 2D poster panorama located at the ski
lifts. Rich content (photos and videos) is associated with points
of interest in the scene that can be viewed as the user moves
through the scene. The application allows user to better under-
stand and anticipate the slopes inclinations in preparation for a
day on the slopes.
FIRE contribution
EXPERIMEDIA allows experimenters to set up experiments
quickly and access a community of usage within a real context
using a Future Media Internet infrastructure. The experiment-
ers can draw their conclusions on real use cases and identify
the strength and weaknesses of novel interfaces such as aug-
mented reality services. EXPERIMEDIA offers a platform that
links and integrates data generated by different system com-
ponents, simplifying the development and provisioning of the
experiment. The data collection is dynamic and in real time al-
lowing observation of large populations of users. MEDIACon-
nect is helping Schladming to understand how the Future Me-
dia Internet can enrich tourists’ experiences when interacting
with local products and services.
MEDIACONNECTFORSKIERSINSCHLADMING
Schladmingisalargeskiresort;hereitshowsthe2Dmapsofthe
completedomainthatisusedbyallskiers.Itdoesnotgivetodaydaily
informationandpointofinterestfortheskiers.
Augmentedviewoftheskislopesontheright(picturesshowsactualmap
onleftandmobilephoneviewonright).
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EXPERIMEDIA

SUCCESS STORY BY OPENLAB
SFA/FITeagleinterworkingarchitecture.
Participants
Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany)
TU Berlin (Germany)
University of Patras (Greece)
Challenge
Worldwide multiple experimentation testbeds aim at provid-
ing researchers access to heterogeneous, scalable and geo-
graphically distributed resources, capable of interconnecting
and integrating multiple testbeds. In this context one goal of
OpenLab is to facilitate the early use of testbeds by adopting
and adapting proven technologies such as the Slice-Based
Federation Architecture (SFA) control framework, which has
been agreed to be the ground-laying architecture for the
OpenLab federation due to its a) lightweight of requirements
for its adoption, b) wide international usage, and hence c)
reach, availability and support of modules and components
for federation.
Solution
FITeagle provides an extensible framework to seamlessly in-
terconnect testbeds and dynamically aggregate their resourc-
es, it provides to its end-users functionality to transparently
control experiments using a wide range of resources from
available testbeds. FITeagle provides interoperability with oth-
er federation frameworks, such as SFA in this case presented.
FIRE contribution
TheFITeagleextensionsforOpenLabarestructuredindifferent
phases, each one implementing different features to intercon-
nect FITeagle managed or compliant testbeds. Firstly, an SFA-
based testbed was controlled by using the FITeagle framework
through its respective user interface (VCT Tool). The successful
deployment of the network measurement tool Packet Track-
ing on dynamically provisioned interconnected virtual nodes
was demonstrated on the OpenLab General Assembly meet-
ing in Thessaloniki in June 2012 by using Fraunhofer FOKUS
FUSECO and TUB experimentation resources. In the second
phase the setup was reversed: by the FITeagle-based testbeds,
the FUSECO IMS and UoP IMS testbeds were controlled with a
SFA-related user tool (SFI). This was demonstrated in October
2012 at the OpenLab 1st-year-review meeting in Madrid. In the
thirdphaseaSFAgraphicaluserinterface(MySlice)willbeused
to demonstrate an even more deep integration of the FITeagle
framework in SFA-based federations at the beginning of 2013.
The prospects include integration of heterogeneous resources
from the IMS testbeds with e.g. PlanetLab or LTE-enabled re-
sources.
SFAANDFITEAGLE
FEDERATIONFRAMEWORK
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translate requests
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New: Aggregate Manager
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OpenLab

SUCCESS STORY BY OPENLAB
Participants
University of Thessaly (Greece)
UPMC (France)
INRIA (France)
NICTA (Australia)
Challenge
Openlab designs and develops a federation framework that
enables experimentation with heterogeneous resources
across Europe. Special efforts have been made for federa-
tion between wireless and wired testbeds. SFA (Slice Federa-
tion Architecture) aims at providing a minimal interface that
enables testbeds of different technologies and/or belonging
to different administrative domains to federate without losing
control of their resources. Experimenters are able to combine
all available resources and run advanced networking experi-
ments of significant scale and diversity. On the other hand,
OMF (Control and Management Framework) is a framework
for controlling, instrumenting and managing wireless test-
beds.
Solution
As a proof of concept for this wired (SFA) and wireless (OMF)
federation techniques, a representative experiment was built
exploiting NITOS and PlanetLab Europe (PLE) nodes. In this
setup, the last hop wireless NITOS node requests video trans-
missionfromaremotePLEnode(CentralCoordinatorServer).
This server relays the request to all its peer nodes (named
Cache Servers), the Cache nodes ping the wireless remote
client and report their delays back to their Central Coordina-
tor Server. The Coordinator replies to the client with the host-
name of the Cache server that reports the lowest end to end
delay. Upon the selection of the appropriate Cache Server, the
video streaming service is enabled. In order to ensure that the
quality of the streaming services remains uninterrupted, the
peer nodes continue to ping the wireless client at certain time
intervals and report these values back to their Coordinator.
Through this procedure, the Coordinator is able to detect any
possible performance degradation in the wired part that links
the various servers to the public Internet (i.e. congestions in-
ducing higher delays, fallen links) and therefore inform any of
the redundant Cache servers to start their streaming services,
and report back to the end client the new hostname of the ac-
tive Cache Server that currently offers the highest available
video quality.
FIRE contribution
NITOS, a wireless testbed, and PlanetLab Europe (PLE) as a
result of OpenLab are federated through OMF and SFA, giv-
ing the experimenter the ability to run large scale networking
experiments, combining wireless and wired resources across
Europe. A so-called SFA wrapper for OMF has been devel-
oped in order to interconnect the two federation architectures.
VIDEOSTREAMINGOVERTHEFEDERATED
NITOSONELABINFRASTRUCTURE
SuccessfulvideotransmissionfromaremotePlanetLabEuropenode
toNITOSnode.
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SUCCESS STORY BY SMARTSANTANDER
Participants
CRS4 (Italy)
University of Reading (UK)
University of Cantabria (Spain)
Telefónica (Spain)
Challenge
Onceacity-wideInternet-of-ThingsinstallationsuchasSmart-
Santander (the project envisions the deployment of a total
20,000 sensors in Belgrade, Guildford, Lübeck with 12,000 de-
ployed in the city of Santander), exploiting a large variety of
technologies is up and running it is important to provide tools
that enable all stakeholders (citizens) to perform data logging,
data harvesting, stream data mining, inter-object communi-
cations, data adaptation and service orchestration including
automation and actuators control.
Solution
TheCityScriptsprojectisaimedatintegratingandexperiment-
ing a web of things scenario in which sensors and actuators in
the city have a digital counterpart and can eventually be used
to compose sensor data with social networks and other online
data sources. An important aspect of this project is the provi-
sionofapersonalworkspaceinwhicheachusercancompose
public data from city sensors with personal data from his/her
own personal devices, actuators and services and with those
shared in her/his social circle.
The goal of the experiment is two-fold: on the one hand we
experience architecture issues and solutions through the inte-
gration of two distinct platforms born with different aims; on
the other hand, the experiment opens the system to users and
facilitates gathering their feedback both in a qualitative and in
a quantitative manner through eliciting feedback and gather-
ing statistics and metrics.
FIRE contribution
The CityScripts platform will support end-users in rapid ex-
perimentations with city data, generated in the Santander
infrastructure, with an innovative social web-based platform
where real and virtual things communicate. Furthermore the
provision and integration of the Hydra LinkSmart Context
Awareness Framework will complement the existing capabili-
ties of the SmartSantander project with real world awareness
and reasoning.
University of Cantabria is committed to keep the Smart-
Santander portal and infrastructure active with the support
of Santander City Council and Telefónica. This is compulsory
because smart services already running in the city are sup-
ported on top of it.
CITYSCRIPTS:SOCIAL WEB OF THINGS
IN SMARTSANTANDER
AscreenshotoftheuserworkspaceinCityScriptswebuserinterface.
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SUCCESS STORY BY SMARTSANTANDER
Participants
Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
CERTH (Greece)
University of Surrey (United Kingdom)
Challenge
A key challenge of SACCOM is to verify the scalability of a
cooperating objects middleware, a product of the recently
completed FP7 STREP project POBICOS (“Platform for Oppor-
tunistic Behavior in Incompletely Specified, Heterogeneous
Object Communities”). The POBICOS platform supports the
development and execution of so-called opportunistic perva-
sive computing applications. These (a) are developed without
full knowledge of which sensor or actuator resources will be
available at runtime, and (b) take the best advantage of what-
ever sensors and actuators happen to be available in a specific
target object community. While POBICOS has been success-
fully deployed in a real-life smart building with several tens of
nodes, further evaluation is needed, with a particular empha-
sis on its scalability to large installations. In fact, a successful
large-scale deployment has been identified as a prerequisite
to the commercial exploitation of the POBICOS platform. The
objective is to find an existing indoor sensor/actuator network
(SAN) of several hundred nodes, deploy the PPE over the SAN
and test extensively.
Solution
Smart Campus, a SmartSantander testbed in the University
of Surrey (Guildford, UK) is an ideal sensor/actuator network
for testing POBICOS scalability. Smart Campus features about
200 IoT nodes. IoT nodes are equipped with a multi-modal
sensingunit(withsensorsofnoise,motion,light,temperature,
andvibration),aswellwithanenergymeter.Asthenodesmay
be too resource-constrained to run POBICOS natively, they
were made to speak a lightweight sub-POBICOS protocol to
introduce their sensors and actuators to a server-based POBI-
COS proxy environment (PPE). For each such sub-POBICOS
node, there was a dedicated proxy process expose the node’s
resources to POBICOS applications, as if it were a native POBI-
COS node. Performance of the entire system was being moni-
tored, with emphasis on the responsiveness of the proxy en-
vironment (PPE).
FIRE contribution
While the primary objective is to stress test the PPE, the ex-
periment, in effect, stress tests the underlying Smart Campus
facility as well. Smart Campus performance is separately re-
corded and reported. Importantly, SACCOM demonstrates
that the SmartSantander testbed architecture allows experi-
mentation with independently developed, sophisticated mid-
dleware platforms.
SACCOM:SOFT ACTUATION OVER
COOPERATING OBJECTS MIDDLEWARE
ThearchitectureofPOBICOSoverSmartCampus,aSmartSantandertest-
bedintheUniversityofSurrey,UK(SPN–sub-POBICOSnodesoftware).
MOREINFORMATION:
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>SuccessStories
>SmartSantanderSmartSantander

SUCCESS STORY BY TEFIS
Participants
ICCS (Greece)
VELTI (Greece)
Challenge
Instead of viewing QoE as an off-line a priori mapping between
users’subjectiveperspectiveoftheirservicequalityandspecif-
ic networking metrics, QUEENS (Dynamic Quality User Expe-
rience ENabling Mobile Multimedia Services) establishes, as-
sesses, and prototypes a novel framework for extending QoS
(Quality of Service) to QoE (Quality of Experience) in mobile
wireless networks, placing emphasis on mobile on-demand
multimedia applications.
Solution
The QUEENS experiment is structured in four phases, each one
utilizing a different set of different FIRE testbeds accessible via
theTEFISsingle-accesspoint(www.tefisproject.eu)-thatallows
to justify, evolve, and prototype this dynamic QoE provisioning
framework for mobile applications.
Thefirstphasegathersthespecificationsandrequirements,
as well as obtains real users’ perspective towards the success-
ful prototyping and deployment of the proposed dynamic QoE
mechanism. For this phase Botnia Living Lab resources were
used.
ThesecondphaseevaluatesQUEENSmethodologyforinte-
grating the dynamically altered QoE-aware users’ service utility
functions, as derived from Phase 1, into the resource allocation
process of: a) heterogeneous wireless networks towards en-
hancing overall system performance, and b) video servers (on
demand multimedia application servers) towards maximizing
overallserviceperformance(i.e.,minimizationofresponsetime,
maximization of the number of ongoing sessions, etc.). In real-
izing the above goal, regressive and stress tests in large scale
environments offered by PlanetLab Europe (PLE) are essential.
In Phase 3, the proposed mobile QoE-aware multimedia ap-
plication is prototyped and end-to-end validated via SQS IMS
Testbed to assure its compliance with the reference protocols
and standards, as well as its interoperability on a realistic envi-
ronment. This phase allows to highlight the envisioned mecha-
nism’s interconnection, co-operation and seamless integration
with existing architectures and systems (e.g. 3GPP/LTE).
The final phase, focuses on the related business aspects of
the proposed framework for all the involved actors. This will be
achievedviaenablingourIMS-awareapplicationprototype,de-
signedandoperatedbySQSIMStestbed,overtheBotniaLiving
Lab testbed.
FIRE contribution
TEFIS provides QUEENS with the following added values:
• Single login for multiple testbeds
• Storage of experimental data in unique virtualized location
• Support to locate, select and exploit different testbed
resources
• Ability to search for and interrogate related experiments
It was observed (and quantified accordingly) that a) when us-
ersarepromisedanexcessofnetworkresourcestheirexpecta-
tions grow, b) increased background noise reduces users’ ex-
perience by approximately 10% independently of the content
or its quality, and c) users focus on quality independently of the
importance of the content to themselves.
The TEFIS platform currently offers Open Access for
a) testbeds to offer their services through it, and b) experi-
menters to benefit the testing services available by the six
connected testbeds.
DYNAMICQOEPROVISIONINGFRAME-
WORKFORMOBILEAPPLICATIONS
UserinterfaceforQoEcapturing.
MOREINFORMATION:
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Tefis

The goal of the Fed4FIRE project (www.fed4fire.eu) is to fed-
erate the different FIRE facilities using a common federation
framework. The federation framework enables innovative ex-
perimentsthatbreaktheboundariesofthesedomains.Itallows
experimenters to more easily find the right resources to trans-
late their ideas into actual experiments, to easily gain access
to different nodes on different testbeds, to use the same ex-
perimenter tools across the different testbeds etc. This means
that the experimenters can focus more on their research tasks
than on the practical aspects of experimentation. The benefits
of federation for the infrastructure providers are e.g. the reuse
common tools developed within the federation, reach of larger
community of experimenters through the federation, etc.
As depicted in the figure, there are currently 13 testbeds in-
volved in the Fed4FIRE federation, introducing a diverge set of
Future Internet technologies. During the course of this project
evenmoretestbedswilljointhefederationsincetwoopencalls
will be launched that aim to allocate budget to selected candi-
date testbeds for inclusion in the Fed4FIRE project. These open
calls will be launched in May 2013 and 2014. In a similar man-
ner, open calls for experiments that use the provided Fed4FIRE
federation will be launched at the same times.
How does it work?
The Fed4FIRE federation architecture is characterized by a
preference for distributed components. This way, the federa-
tion would not be compromised if, in the short or long term,
individual testbeds or partners would discontinue their sup-
port of the federation. The general policy is that experimenter
tools should always be able to directly interact with the differ-
ent testbeds, and should not be obliged to pass through some
central Fed4FIRE component. However, some non-critical
central federation-level components are also included in the
architecture for convenience purposes. For instance, when an
experimenter tool is used for resource discovery, reservation
and provisioning, it will retrieve the lists of available resources
directlyfromthedifferentFed4FIREtestbeds,anditwilldirectly
requestthesetestbedstoreservespecificresourcesortoprovi-
sion them. Experiment control tools (which ease the execution
of complex experiment scenarios) and experiment monitoring
frameworks are other example cases where the experimenter
tool will directly interact with the testbed.
A critical aspect in such a highly distributed approach is the
adoption of common interfaces in the federation, and making
sure that every member of the federation is fully compliant with
them. Therefore, Fed4FIRE is developing a new software tool
that focuses on acceptation testing of the required interfaces
for testbed federation: jFED. This test suite enables the rigorous
testing and integration activities that are needed when federat-
ing a highly heterogeneous set of testbeds with the intention
to realize a fully operational federation. jFED focuses on logical
testsforallstepsoftheexperimentworkflowandaddsinterface
testsandnegativetesting(arethingsbreakable?)whereneeded.
In the context of resource discovery, reservation and provi-
sioning, the adoption of the Slice-Based Federation Architec-
ture(SFA)isakeyelementinFed4FIRE.Therefore,thefirstfocal
point of jFED is the support of manual and automatic nightly
testing of the entire SFA API (including the Aggregate Man-
ager, Slice Manager and Registry APIs). This testing functional-
ity is entirely developed in Java, allowing greater flexibility in
development of both the test suite and future Java SFA client
tools. For the manual testing of the SFA interface of any given
testbed, both a command line and a graphical user interface
are provided. The automatic (nightly) testing of testbeds is run
from within a Jenkins platform, posting the test reports on a
website and sending emails in case of problems. The test suite
will be released as open source software, and will easily allow
for extensions through a plugin system. This way, other impor-
tant Fed4FIRE federation interfaces will also be added to the
testing suite as the project continues. The Federated Resource
Control Protocol (FRCP) is such an interface; another example
will be the adopted interface for identity authentication.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Piet Demeester, iMinds
EXECUTION: From 2012-10-01 to 2016-09-30
PARTNERS: iMinds (Belgium) (coordinator), University of
Southampton IT Innovation (UK), UPMC (France), Fraunhofer-
FOKUS (Germany), TU Berlin (Germany), University of
Edinburgh (UK), INRIA (France), NICTA (Australia), Atos (Spain),
University of Thessaly (Greece), NTUA (Greece), University of
Bristol (UK), i2CAT (Spain), EURESCOM (Germany), DANTE
(United Kingdom), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), NISA
(Republic of Korea).
FED4FIRE
FACILITY PROJECTS
MOREINFORMATION:
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Fed4FIRE

FACILITY PROJECTS
FIREFACILITIES
Overviewofthetestbedscurrently
belongingtoFed4FIRE.
Thetablebelowgivesageneralsummaryofthemaintopics
onwhichthevariousFIREfacilitiesfocustheiractivities.
APPLICATIONS Media
Clouds / Grids
Wireless /
Sensors
Transport
IMS
Fixed / Wired
eHealth
Service Delivery
Platforms
Compute /
Storage
Peripherals /
DeviceINFRASTRUCTURES
SERVICES
DEMAND
ENABLINGTECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH,DEVELOPMENTANDOPERATION
I N T E R N E T U S E R S
FIREB

FACILITY PROJECTS
The BonFIRE project designs, builds and operates a multi-site
cloud facility to support applications, services and systems
research. It offers an experimental facility which enables
large-scale experimentation of systems and applications,
evaluation of cross-cutting effects of converged service and
network infrastructures and assessment of socio-economic
and other non-technological impacts. BonFIRE currently of-
fers free Open Access for experimentation.
How does it work?
The BonFIRE cloud facility is based on an Infrastructure-as-
a-Service delivery model with guidelines, policies and best
practices for experimentation. It has a federated multi-plat-
form approach, providing interconnection and interopera-
tion between novel service and networking testbeds. It offers
advanced services and tools for services research including
cloudfederation,virtualmachinemanagement,servicemod-
elling, service lifecycle management, service level agree-
ments, quality of service monitoring and analytics.
The BonFIRE project provides innovative methods for
describing, deploying, managing, executing, measuring and
removing experiments. These methods include uniform test
description and deployment descriptors for all scenarios
(including cross-cutting tests), federation of cloud resources
in different administrative domains that provide BonFIRE
with physical resources, and user-friendly interfaces at the
facility’s entry point.
BONFIRE
FIREB
Three key test scenarios are envisaged:
1. Extended cloud: the extension of current cloud offerings
towards a federated facility with heterogeneous virtual-
ized resources and best-effort Internet interconnectivity
2. Cloud with emulated network implications: a controlled
environment providing an experimental network emula-
tionplatformtoservicedevelopers,wheretopologycon-
figuration and resource usage is under full control of the
experimental researcher.
3. Extended cloud with complex physical network impli-
cations: investigation of federation mechanisms for an
experimental cloud system that interconnects individual
BonFIRE sites with other FIRE facilities.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Josep Martrat, Atos
PARTNERS: Atos (Spain) (coordinator), The University of
Edinburgh (UK), SAP AG (Germany), Universitaet Stuttgart
(Germany), Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany), iMinds
(Belgium), UCM (Spain), i2Cat (Spain), Hewlett-Packard
(UK), 451 Research (UK), TU Berlin (Germany), University of
Southampton IT Innovation (UK), INRIA (France), Instytut
Chemii Bioorganicznej Pan (Poland), Nextworks (Italy),
Wellness Telecom (Spain), RedZinc Services (Ireland),
Cloudium Systems (Ireland), CESGA (Spain), CETIC
(Belgium), University of Manchester (UK), ICCS/NTUA
(Greece), Televes (Spain), SZTAKI (Hungary), IN2 (UK),
University of Patras (Greece).
TestingexperimentsselectedinopencallsandOpenAccess.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.bonfire-project.eu
Bon4FIRE

FACILITY PROJECTS
CONFINE (Community Networks Testbed for the Future In-
ternet) provides an experimental facility that supports and
extends experimentally-driven research on Community-
owned Open Local IP Networks (COPLANs), which are al-
ready successful in developing Internet access in many ar-
eas of Europe and the world. The project takes an integrated
view on these innovative community networks, offering a
testbed that federates the resources of several COPLANs,
each hosting between 500–20,000 nodes, along with a
greater number of links and even more end-users.
How does it work?
CONFINE’s testbed, community-lab, integrates and extends
three existing community networks: Guifi.net (Catalonia,
Spain), FunkFeuer (Wien, Austria) and AWMN (Athens,
Greece).Thesefacilitiesareextremelydynamicanddiverse,
andsuccessfullycombinedifferentwirelessandwired(opti-
cal)linktechnologies,fixedandmobileroutingschemesand
management schemes, running multiple self-provisioned,
experimental and commercial services and applications.
The testbed is an innovative model of self-provisioned, dy-
namic and self-organizing networks using unlicensed and
publicspectrumandlinks.Itoffersunifiedaccesstoanopen
testbed with tools that allow researchers to deploy, run,
monitor and experiment with services, protocols and appli-
cations as part of real-world community IP networks. This
integrated platform provides user-friendly access to these
emerging COPLAN networks, supporting any stakeholder
interested in developing and testing experimental technolo-
gies for open and interoperable network infrastructures.
The CONFINE facility, through federation and virtualiza-
tion, allows experimental validation of varied scenarios. For
example, the cooperation and comparison between nodes
using diverse mesh routing protocols (e.g. OLSR, Batman,
Babel); self-managing (or autonomic) application protocols
that adapt to the dynamic conditions of nodes, links and
routes in these networks; network self-management or co-
operative and decentralized management; the adaptation
of services such a VoIP (live video streaming) to low band-
width wireless networks.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Leandro Navarro, UPC
PARTNERS: Core: UPC (Spain) (coordinator), guifi.net
(Spain), FunkFeuer (Austria), Athens Wireless Metropolitan
Network (Greece), OPLAN (UK), Pangea (Spain),
Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany), iMinds (Belgium).
1st open call: CNIT (Italy), Freie Universität Berlin - FUB
(Germany), INESCP (Portugal), University of Luxembourg
(Luxembourg), University of Trento (Italy).
CONFINE
CONFINEisanentrypointforexperimentationonafederationofrealcommunitynetworks,includingGuifi.net,
FunkFeuerandAWMN,shownhere.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.confine-project.eu
Confine

FACILITY PROJECTS
The CREW project facilitates experimentally-driven research
onadvancedspectrumsensing,cognitiveradioandcognitive
networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spec-
trum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands.
How does it work?
The CREW platform federates four individual wireless test-
beds, built on diverse wireless technologies: heterogeneous
ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) radio, heterogeneous
licensed radio (TV-bands), cellular networks (LTE) , and wire-
less sensors. The offerings of these geographically distrib-
uted testbeds are federated, and improved with the addition
ofstate-of-the-artcognitive sensing equipment.The platform
offers users a common portal with a comprehensive descrip-
tion of the functionalities of each individual testbed together
with clear user guidelines. The facility also includes a bench-
marking framework that enables experiments under con-
trolled/ reproducible test conditions, and offers universal and
automated procedures for experiments and performance
evaluation. This allows fair comparison between different
cognitive radio and cognitive networking concepts.
The combined expertise, software and hardware that is
available in the CREW federated platform allows the experi-
mental optimization and validation of cognitive radio and
cognitive networking concepts in a diverse range of scenari-
CREW
os,includingbutnotlimitedto:radioenvironmentsensingfor
cognitiveradiospectrumsharing,horizontalresourcesharing
between heterogeneous networks in the ISM bands, coop-
eration in heterogeneous networks in licensed bands, robust
cognitive sensor networks, and measuring the impact of cog-
nitive networking on primary cellular systems.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Ingrid Moerman, iMinds
PARTNERS: iMinds (Belgium) (coordinator), imec (Belgium),
Trinity College Dublin, (Ireland), TU Berlin (Germany),
TU Dresden (Germany), Thales (France), EADS (Germany),
Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia).
1st Open Call: University of Durham (UK), Technische
Universität Ilmenau (Germany), Tecnalia Research &
Innovation (Spain).
2nd Open Call: University of Thessaly (Greece), National
ICT Australia (Australia), Instituto de Telecomunicações
(Portugal), CMSF-Sistemas de Informação (Portugal), CNIT
(Italy), WINGS ICT Solutions (Greece).
TheCREWfederatedplatformanditsadvancedcognitivecomponent.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.crew-project.eu
CREW

FACILITY PROJECTS
Offering collective and participative experiences to real-world
and online communities is at the heart of the Future Media In-
ternet (FMI) and forms an essential part of entertainment, col-
laborative working, education, product and service innovation
and advertising. “Smart communities” include hundreds of
professionals, tens of thousands at live public events and mil-
lionsonline,andunderstandingtheircomplexityanddynamics
is essential for FMI research.
EXPERIMEDIA aims to explore the new forms of social in-
teraction and rich media experiences enabled by the FMI. The
project will develop and operate a unique facility that offers re-
searchers what they need for large-scale FMI experiments, and
in particular for socio-technical experimentation of networked
media systems conducted in the real world. The state-of-the-
art Future Internet testbed infrastructure offered will support
large-scale experimentation of user generated content, 3D In-
ternet, augmented reality, integration of online communities
and full experiment lifecycle management.
How does it work?
EXPERIMEDIA will target the research community in the FMI,
workingwithstakeholderssuchasvenuemanagement,broad-
casters, content and service providers, and application devel-
opers(includingmobile).Thefacilitywillallowthemtogainval-
uableinsightintohowFutureInternettechnologiescanbeused
and enhanced to deliver added value, legally compliant, media
experiences to consumers. Users can then take advantage of
threeculturallyimportant“smartvenues”offeredbythefacility
where they are not only able to access state-of-the-art testbed
resources in an environment where real-world consumers pro-
vide demand and participation in experiments, they also have
access to the necessary experts to help them design, execute
and analyse innovative socio-technical experiments; gain an
understanding of how and why participants and communities
behave the way they do; access an open infrastructure through
which new media services can be developed and tested; and
verify and validate how network media systems produce the
desired social experiences, commercial value, and validated
legal compliancy.
EXPERIMEDIA
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Michael Boniface, University of
Southampton IT Innovation
PARTNERS: Core: University of Southampton IT Innovation
Centre (UK) (coordinator), Institute of Communication and
Computer Systems (Greece), Atos Origin (Spain), Joanneum
Research Forschungsgesellschaft (Austria), Bearingpoint
Infonova (Austria), Idrima Meizonos Ellinismou (Greece),
Schladming 2030 (Austria), Centre D’alt Rendiment Esportiu
De Sant Cugat Del Valles (Spain), KU Leuven (Belgium), La
F@brique du Futur (France), TII (Sweden).
1st Open Call: IN2 search interfaces development Ltd
(UK), STI International GmbH (Austria), University of
Graz (Austria), University of Peloponnese (Greece), Henri
Tudor Research Center (Luxembourg), University of Vigo
(Spain), STT Engineering and Systems (Spain), Poznan
Supercomputing and Networking Center (Poland).
EXPERIMEDIAoffersaFIREfacilityforexperimentsin
socialinteractionandrichmediaexperiences.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.experimedia.eu
Experimedia

FACILITY PROJECTS
OpenLab brings together the essential ingredients to build an
open,general-purpose,sharedexperimentalfacility,whichal-
lows European industry and academia to innovate today and
assess the performance of their solutions. OpenLab builds on
and improves Europe’s early and successful FIRE prototypes,
increasing their offering both in diversity and scale, impor-
tantlyworkingonthesustainabilityoftheseR&D&Iresources.
OpenLab has pioneered the collaboration with EIT ICT Labs,
which enables the exchange and shared objectives between
the three bases: education, research and innovation. The joint
effort, FITTING, has brought OpenLab into KIC nodes, em-
bedding the facility’s main components and resources in the
involvedICTLabsco-locationcenters,candidatingforsustain-
able facility hosting in the future.
How does it work?
OpenLab deploys the software and tools that allow a selec-
tion of advanced testbeds to support diverse applications and
protocols in more efficient and flexible ways. The project de-
livers control and experimental plane middleware to facilitate
early use of these testbeds by researchers in industry and
academia, exploiting its own proven technologies, developed
notablyintheOneLabandPanlabprojects,aswellasdrawing
upon other initiatives’ best work, such as the Slice Facility Ar-
chitecture (SFA) control framework and OpenFlow switching.
OpenLab extends FIRE facilities with advanced capabilities in
the area of mobility, wireless, monitoring and domain inter-
connections, incorporating technologies such as OpenFlow.
OpenLab offers access to a wide range of testbeds, providing
an infrastructure for experiments that go beyond what can be
tested on the current Internet. The testbeds offered include:
• PlanetLab Europe, offering access to over 1000 nodes dis-
tributedworldwide,basedontheprovenPlanetLabsystem
• NITOS, an OMF-based wireless testbed consisting of 45
nodes equipped with a mix of Wi-Fi and GNU-radios
• w-iLab.t wireless mesh and sensor network infrastructure
of 180 nodes, including 20 mobile nodes
• Two IMS telco testbeds, supporting carrier-grade next
generation network platforms that can connect to the pub-
lic PSTN and IP phone services, and can explore merged
media distribution
• ETOMIC, a high-precision network measurement testbed
featuring dozens of Internet-connected nodes synchro-
nized via GPS
• .SEL, a hybrid delay-tolerant opportunistic networking
testbed
• ns-3, a free open-source discrete-event network simulator
• HEN, which allows emulation of rich topologies in a con-
trolled fashion over switched VLANs that connect multiple
virtual machines
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Serge Fdida, UPMC
PARTNERS: Core: UPMC (France) (coordinator), Cosmote
(Greece) Creative Systems Engineering (Greece), ELTE
(Hungary), ETH Zurich, (Switzerland) EURESCOM (Germany),
Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany), HUJI (Israel), iMinds (Belgium)
INRIA (France), NICTA (Australia), ETS (Canada), TU Berlin
(Germany), UAM (Spain), UCL (United Kingdom), Università
di Pisa, (Italy), University of Patras, (Greece), University of
Thessaly (Greece), Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland).
1st Open Call: Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Budapest
University of Technology and Economics (Hungary),
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway),
NTUA (Greece), Politechnika Warszawska (Poland), Orange
Polska (Poland).
OPENLAB
DistributionofOpenLabtestbedsinEurope.
MOREINFORMATION:
www.ict-openlab.eu
OpenLab

RESEARCH PROJECTS
3D-LIVE develops and experiments a User Driven Mixed
Reality and Immersive (Twilight) platform connected to EX-
PERIMEDIA facilities in order to investigate the Future Inter-
net (FI) broadband capacity to support real-time immersive
situations, and to evaluate both the Quality of Experience
(QoE) and Quality of Services. The combination of FIRE test-
beds and Living Labs enables both researchers and users
to explore 3D/Media technologies and IoT in real and virtual
environments and in live situations. Combining both FI tech-
nology and Tele-Immersion market pull establishes new re-
quirements for Internet technology and infrastructure, and
advances the creation and adoption of innovative FI Immer-
sive services.
How does it work?
3D-LIVEexperiments and evaluates the TwilightPlatformand
3D Tele-Immersive Environments in skiing, running and golf-
ing scenarios. The selected FIRE facilities are EXPERIMEDIA
CAR and Schladming. Of particular interest is the EXPERIME-
DIA advancement in new methods and algorithms for con-
tent processing targeting the efficient delivery of augmented
reality to mobile devices and 3D processing for on the fly re-
construction of live events in indoor geolocalised spaces.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Marco Conte, Collaborative Engineering
PARTNERS: Collaborative Engineering (Coordinator) (Italy),
ARTS (France), University of Southampton (UK), Cyberlightning
(Finland), Sportscurve (Germany), CERTH (Greece).
ALIEN extends OpenFlow control framework of OFELIA* and
its architecture to support abstraction of network information
of equipment that are alien to the OpenFlow technology such
as optical network elements, legacy layer2 switches, network
processors and programmable hardware (FPGA), thereby
building strong foundations for Software Defined Networks
(SDN).
How does it work?
ALIENadoptstheconceptofNetworkOperatingSystem(NOS),
a distributed system running on top the hybrid, heterogeneous
network infrastructure, which utilizes a novel hardware descrip-
tion language as well as a functional abstraction mechanism
for uniform representation of any type of network hardware
and their capabilities/functionalities that doesn’t support Open-
Flow (i.e. alien hardware). The language will describe capabili-
ties of hardware, input and output signal format, and topology
information to describe the pipelining of actions on specific
hardware. The abstraction mechanism will hide hardware com-
plexity as well as technology and vendor specific features from
OpenFlow control framework.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Artur Binczewski, Instytut Chemii
Bioorganicznej Pan
PARTNERS: Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Pan (Poland)
(Coordinator), University College London (UK), University
of Bristol (UK), Poznan University of Technology (Poland),
EICT(Germany), Universidad Del Pais Vasco Ehu (Spain), Dell
France (France), Create-Net (Italia).
3D-LIVE ALIEN
MOREINFORMATION:
http://3dliveproject.eu
3D-live
MOREINFORMATION:
http://fp7-alien.eu
Alien
* Note: OFELIA OpenFlow islands will be open to use on a
reciprocal base. More information at: http://www.fp7-ofelia.eu/.

RESEARCH PROJECTS
CityFlow creates a multi-autonomous-system signalling
overlay on OFELIA*. CityFlow unites an existing NSIS signal-
ling stack, along with an existing multi-autonomous-system
Virtual Path Slice controller, and the OFELIA OpenFlow exper-
imental facility, thereby extending OpenFlow with signalling
and multi-domain interworking on a multi-autonomous-sys-
tem topology. CityFlow utilizes Virtual Wall facility to emulate
a city broadband network with up to 100 nodes, and models
the network based on best practices as observed in public in-
ternet production networks.
How does it work?
The first CityFlow experiment verifies the inter-working of
NSIS and the VPS Controller with OpenFlow. The second ex-
perimentmeasurestheperformanceofthecontrolplanewith
high signalling load and identify what Busy Hour Connection
Attempt (BHCA) performance can be achieved. The third ex-
periment measures the resilience of the virtual path slice in
the context of high background traffic load for uni-directional
and bi-directional traffic. Final experiment investigates dif-
ferent failure scenarios. The showcase will demonstrate the
benefit of signalling for two use cases: true HD video; and a
HD video-to-video for real-time interactive traffic.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Rob Baxter, University of Edinburgh
PARTNERS: University of Edinburgh (UK) (coordinator), One
Source Consultoria Informatica (Portugal), RedZinc Services
(Ireland), iMinds (Belgium).
CLOMMUNITY addresses the obstacles for communities in
bootstrapping, running and expanding community-owned
networks that provide community services organised as com-
munityclouds.Thisconcernsthemanagementofalargenum-
berofdecentralized,low-cost,unreliablenetworkingresources
(storage and home computing). CLOMMUNITY delivers a dis-
tributed platform to support and facilitate the design and oper-
ationofelastic,resilientandscalableserviceoverlaysanduser-
oriented services built over these underlying services, thereby
providing a good quality of experience at the lowest economic
and environmental cost.
How does it work?
CLOMMUNITY utilizes CONFINE’s community networking
testbed, the participation of large user communities (20000+
people) and software developers from several community net-
works,byextendingexistingcloudserviceprototypesinacyclic
participatoryprocessofdesign,development,experimentation,
evaluation and optimization for each challenge. The consortium
has two community networks with a large number of end-us-
ers and developers, who use diverse applications (e.g. content
distribution, multimedia communication, community participa-
tion), service providers, research institutions and a recognized
internationalorganisationforthedisseminationoftheoutcome.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Felix Freitag, UPC
PARTNERS: UPC (Spain) (coordinator), KTH (Sweden), UNESCO
(France), Guifi.Net (Spain), SICS (Sweden), Funkfeuer (Austria).
CITYFLOW CLOMMUNITY
MOREINFORMATION:
www.cityflow.eu
MOREINFORMATION:
http://clommunity-project.eu
CityFlow Clommunity
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Audio sensors are cheap and often easy to deploy, with the
growing power of processing and networking capabilities it
is possible to exploit audio data for a broad range of applica-
tions. There is great potential for RTD on intelligent (acoustic)
solutions based on acoustical sensor networks to support a
myriadsetofapplicationsofhigh(social,business,etc.)value.
How does it work?
Two FIRE facilities, SmartSantander and HobNet have an
installed base of sensors, networked together, capable of
supporting some advanced research in intelligent acoustics
solutions.Thisenables“EarsonFIRE”,ExperimentingAcous-
tics in Real environments using Innovative Testbeds (EAR-IT)
realising distributed intelligence powered by acoustics. To
explore, validate and confirm the RTD possibilities of using
audio data, EAR-IT uses testbed capabilities of the HobNet
project for indoor; benefits from SmartSantander offerings
including applications on energy efficiency, etc. run in both
large-scale outdoor and indoor smart city environments.
EAR-IT validates main research lines and delivers innovative
services and applications targeting (but not limited) to smart-
buildings and smart-cities.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Pedro Maló, UNINOVA
PARTNERS: UNINOVA (Portugal) (coordinator),
Fraunhofer-FOKUS (Germany, Easy Global Market, MANDAT
International (Switzerland), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain),
LTU (Sweden), Smart Sensing Stars (China).
ECO2
Clouds investigates strategies that can ensure effective
application deployment on the cloud infrastructure and reduce
the resultant energy consumption and CO2
emissions. Cloud
providers operate under different regulatory frameworks and
cost structures in relation to environmental policies and energy
value-chains. Optimising the way key assets, such as applica-
tion logic and databases are deployed, is constrained by a set of
non-functional requirements such as quality, privacy and cross-
platform,service-levelagreements.Todate,littleisknownabout
how to incorporate carbon emissions and energy consumption
into application development and deployment decision models.
The need for novel deployment strategies becomes more evi-
dent when an application spans multiple clouds.
How does it work?
ECO2
Cloudsprovidesatimely,challengingandhighlyinnova-
tive approach to cloud computing service delivery by taking
on the following issues:
• Developcloudapplicationprogramminginterfaceextensions
and mechanisms to collect eco-metrics at infrastructure and
VMlevel,andquantifytheenvironmentalimpactofexecution
at infrastructure and application level
• Investigate the key environment, quality and cost parameters
needed so as to underpin a holistic approach to multi-cloud
application deployment
• Developevaluationmechanismsandoptimizationalgorithms
to assess different parameter configurations and their influ-
ence in energy-efficient cloud sourcing and application-de-
ployment strategies
• Integrate the carbon-aware mechanisms into FIRE facility Bon-
FIRE so as to test, validate and optimize the eco-metrics, mod-
els and algorithms developed and improve the FIRE offering.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Julia Wells, Atos
PARTNERS: Atos (Spain), University of Manchester (UK),
The University of Edinburgh (UK), Universitaet Stuttgart
(Germany), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Inria (France).
EAR-IT ECO2
CLOUDS
MOREINFORMATION:
http://ear-it.eu
MOREINFORMATION:
http://eco2clouds.eu
EAR-IT
ECO2CLOUDS

RESEARCH PROJECTS
EVARILOS addresses major problems of indoor localization
research: The pitfall to reproduce research results in real life
scenarios suffering from uncontrolled RF interference, and the
weakness of numerous published solutions being evaluated
under individual, not comparable and not repeatable condi-
tions. Accurate and robust indoor localization is a key enabler
forcontext-awareFutureInternetapplications,wherebyrobust
means that the localization solutions should perform well in di-
verse physical indoor environments under realistic RF interfer-
ence conditions.
How does it work?
EVARILOS develops a benchmarking methodology enabling
objective experimental validation of and fair comparison be-
tween state-of-the art indoor localization solutions, which does
not only consider accuracy metrics, but also complexity, cost,
energy, and, most importantly, RF interference robustness met-
rics. Next, the project improves the interference robustness
of localization solutions through (a) multimodal approaches
leveraging different localization methods; (b) introducing en-
vironmental awareness and cognitive features; (c) leveraging
the presence of external interference. Finally, the EVARILOS
benchmarking methodology and interference-robust localiza-
tion solutions will be validated in two real-life application sce-
narios: healthcare in a hospital setting and underground mining
safety. The outcome, the EVARILOS benchmarking suite will be
implemented in CREW and OpenLab facilities and be publically
available under open source licenses. We will further issue an
open challenge for the best localization solution to promote the
EVARILOS benchmarking methodology.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin
PARTNERS: TU Berlin (Germany) (coordinator), Televic
Healthcare (Belgium), SICS (Sweden), Advantic Sistemas y
Servicios (Spain), iMinds (Belgium).
The Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) is a new
Internetwork architecture whose fundamental principle is
that networking is only inter-process communication (IPC).
RINA reconstructs the overall structure of the Internet, form-
ing a model that comprises a single repeating layer, the DIF
(Distributed IPC Facility), which is the minimal set of compo-
nents required to allow distributed IPC between application
processes. RINA supports inherently and without the need
of extra mechanisms mobility, multi-homing and Quality of
Service, provides a secure and configurable environment,
motivates for a more competitive marketplace and allows for
a seamless adoption. IRATI’s goal is to achieve further explo-
ration of this new architecture. IRATI will advance the state
of the art of RINA towards an architecture reference model
and specifications that are closer to enable implementations
deployable in production scenarios.
How does it work?
The IRATI project will evolve the RINA architecture reference
model and draft, incomplete specifications in order to enable
RINA deployments that can potentially obsolete TCP/IP in the
near future. To achieve this main goal, IRATI will design and
implement a RINA prototype on top of Ethernet, targeted to
Linux and FreeBSD platforms. This prototype will be validat-
ed in the OFELIA* facility by assessing on how it addresses
the limitations of TCP/IP in a set of use cases around data-
centric networking and network operators.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Sergi Figuerola, i2CAT
PARTNERS: i2CAT (Spain) (coordinator), NextWorks (Italy), iMinds
(Belgium), Interoute Communications (UK).
EVARILOS IRATI
MOREINFORMATION:
www.evarilos.eu
Evarilos
MOREINFORMATION:
http://irati.eu
Irati

RESEARCH PROJECTS
OFERTIE addresses an emerging class of distributed appli-
cations known as Real-Time Online Interactive Applications
(ROIA). Today there is no effective means whereby an appli-
cation can manage the network over which it runs, such that
business conflicts can be resolved when the application is
distributed across multiple data centres and/or accessed via
multiple ISPs, providing a mutually acceptable balance that
meets users’ expectations of performance economically and
sustainably for all service providers.
How does it work?
OFERTIE will extend SLA-based management and APIs, in-
tegrating with OpenFlow, the programmable networking
technology under-pinning the OFELIA* experimental facility.
The enhanced SLA-based management system will be used
to control the use of computational resources by application
processes running at each OFELIA site, and use OpenFlow to
controlroutingdecisionsateachnetworkswitch.TheOFELIA
testbed will host the study on how programmable networks
can be used to support appropriate technical solutions, and
which business models would be able to use these solutions
in an economically sustainable fashion.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Paul Walland, University of Southampton
PARTNERS: University of Southampton (UK)
(coordinator), i2CAT (Spain), SPINOR (Germany),
Interoute Communications (United Kingdom), Turk
Telekomunikasuyon (Turkey), Westfaelische Wilhelms-
Universitaet Muenster (Germany).
Internet of Things (IoT) solutions currently do not provide
dependable performance. Embedded wireless sensors and
actuators are deeply affected by their often hostile environ-
ment. Radio interference from other wireless equipment and
electrical appliances impairs communication; temperature
and humidity variations affect battery capacity and electron-
ics.RELYonITclosesthisgapbyprovidingasystematicframe-
work and toolchain to enable dependable IoT applications by
taking into account all relevant environmental properties and
their impact on IoT platforms and protocols.
How does it work?
Environment-aware IoT protocols will be developed and au-
tomatically configured to meet application-specific depend-
ability requirements. Analyzing and modeling environmental
properties and their impact on IoT platforms and protocols
requires experimentation on a large number of different plat-
forms under widely varying environmental conditions. RELY-
onITwillnotonlyexploitthescaleanddiversityoftheexisting
IoT facilities WISEBED and SmartSantander, but will extend
them to allow repetition of an experiment under identical en-
vironmental conditions to enable a systematic study of how
IoT performance is affected by relevant parameters.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Kay Römer, University of Lubeck
PARTNERS: University of Lubeck (Germany) (coordinator),
Worldsensing (Spain), Technische Universiteit Delft (The
Netherlands), Acciona Infraestructuras (Spain), SICS (Sweden),
Lancaster University (UK).
OFERTIE RELYONIT
MOREINFORMATION:
www.ofertie.org
MOREINFORMATION:
www.relyonit.eu
Ofertie RELYonIT
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Social&Smart is a research project using the housekeeping
scenario to experiment a pervasive Future Internet network
that provides real services to a wide population. The goal is to
devise an infrastructure allowing all appliances in the home
to speak to a middleware where any user can easily create
cognitiveandscalablesolutionsinthecloudtomanagethem.
It offers a knowledge management milieu where the user in-
teracts with a social network.
How does it work?
At a local scale, things (appliances and hubs) would com-
municate wirelessly with one another in order to exchange
both IDs and commands. At a global level, thousands of dif-
ferent appliances would get integrated into one network.
Social&Smart experiments this on Crew, OpenLab and
SmartSantander, respectively. From an abstract perspective
the previous layers constitute the infrastructure where Inter-
net-of-Thing and Internet-of-People merge to realize a user
community.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Bruno Apolloni, Universita Degli Studi
di Milano
PARTNERS: Universita Degli Studi di Milano (Italy), Amis
Druzba za Telekomunikacije (Slovenia), NTUA (Greece),
Cartif (Spain), Arduino (Switzerland), UPV (Spain), Libelium
Comunicaciones Distribuidas Sociedad (Spain), Gorenje
(Slovenia).
STEER addresses community-centric digitally-based ecosys-
tem referred to as “Social Telemedia”, a cross-breeding of so-
cial networks and networked media. Social Telemedial flour-
ishesonanewnetworkmiddlewareframeworkthatcombines
STEER engineers an operational Social Telemedia environ-
ment customized to support various innovative experiments.
TheseexperimentsinvestigatetheintrinsicnatureoftheFuture
Social Telemedia Lifecycle that revolves around communities,
revealing new properties and patterns, creating new insights,
and, exploring the synergy between Social Informatics and
Networked Media delivery and its impact on user experience.
How does it work?
STEER will contribute new experimental facilities such as
smart houses and mobile devices, it will develop a Social-
Aware Media Enabled Cloud architecture and integrate with
OpenLabandEXPERIMEDIAprojectfacilities.STEERwillalso
performjointinternationalexperimentsasoneofitspartners,
University California Davis, USA, which has recently being
awarded a GENI-related project of the NSF programme.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Odysseas Koufopavlou, University of Patras
PARTNERS: University of Patras (Greece), Adb Broadband
(Italy), University of Southampton (UK), Jacco Reynoud
Taal - Sponge Peer-To-Peer Video Technologies Bitnomica
(the Netherlands), TNO (the Netherlands), Lancaster
University (UK).
SOCIAL&SMART STEER
MOREINFORMATION:
www.sands-project.eu
Social&Smart
MOREINFORMATION:
http://fp7-steer.eu
STEER

The objective of the AmpliFIRE Support Action is to prepare
FIRE for year the 2020, in strengthening the exploitation and
impact creation capacities of Future Internet Research and
Experimentation (FIRE) facilities. AmpliFIRE enhances the
awareness for FIRE-enabled research and innovation op-
portunities in the business community, in societal domains
and in the existing FIRE community. AmpliFIRE develops a
sustainable vision for 2020 of Future Internet research and
experimentation including the role of FIRE facilities, and sets
out a transition path from the current situation towards 2020.
It conducts an assessment of today’s FIRE capabilities, iden-
tifying the gaps relative to the 2020 demands and identifying
how capabilities must evolve. AmpliFIRE proposes the capa-
bilities, collaboration models and service offering portfolios
so that by 2020, FIRE facilities would be the backbone of Eu-
ropean research and innovation ecosystems. Based on Key
Performance Indicators, AmpliFIRE monitors the technical,
operational and organizational conditions necessary to re-
alise benefits, impact and sustainability of the Europe-wide
Future Internet experiment facility.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Hans Schaffers, Aalto University
PARTNERS: Aalto University (Finland) (coordinator), Martel
(Switzerland), University of Southampton (UK), InterInnov
(France), LTU (Sweden), iMinds (Belgium), Telefónica (Spain),
Hebrew University (Israel).
AMPLIFIRE FUSION
The goal of the FUSION project is to bring SMEs that have
needs in testing new applications together with these FIRE
testbeds. The FIRE facilities will at their turn benefit from the
specific requirements expressed by those SMEs, thanks to
FUSION. The FUSION project provides an exchange portal
whereby SMEs through their clusters can present their test-
ing requirements. The portal lines up these requirements
with the testing capabilities available on the testbeds. FU-
SION will provide a series of engagement activities with
clusters integrating SMEs or ultimately with SMEs. These en-
gagement activities will discuss the testbeds capabilities, the
SME testing requirements and application market opportuni-
ties, to enable collaboration and dissemination of information
and to report on their findings. Finally, FUSION will present
a roadmap and series of recommendations for ongoing test-
ing of applications on the facilities. The clusters integrating
SMEs with inadequate or no testbeds facilities, will not need
to spend money developing their own. They can benefit from
the expertise of people who have developed and worked on
these world-class research facilities.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Jean-Charles Point, JCP Consult
PARTNERS: JCP-Consult (France) (coordinator), Martel
(Switzerland), QuartzsPark (Ireland), RedZinc Services
(Ireland).
MOREINFORMATION:
www.ict-fire.eu/home
/amplifire.html
MOREINFORMATION:
www.sme4fire.eu
AmpliFIRE
FUSION

FIRESTATIONprovidestheFIRE(FutureInternetResearchand
Experimentation) Initiative with an active hub that matches,
guides and co-ordinates demand for - and offering of - ex-
perimentation facilities in the context of future networks and
services.
FIRE STATION contains a FIRE Office and a FIRE Architec-
ture Board. The FIRE Office serves as the single contact point
and the mediator when looking for either the right experimen-
tal resources or new customers for the facilities. The FIRE
Architecture Board involves all FIRE facility builders to jointly
decide on the strategy and means to co-ordinate and facili-
tate the development of FIRE Facility offerings to support the
evolving needs of the customers. FIRE STATION increases the
globalcollaborationbetweenrelevantstakeholders,promotes
anexperimentally-drivenapproachinFutureInternetresearch
and intensifies the usage of experimental facilities, ultimately
speeding up the development process of new systems and
services.
The purpose of FIRE STATION is to join forces to allow for
themostefficientbilateral(and multilateralwhen andifappro-
priate) collaboration, reduce duplication of work, share experi-
encesandbestpracticesandworkforthefutureofexperimen-
tal research.
Project facts
COORDINATOR: Martin Potts, Martel
PARTNERS: Martel (Switzerland) (coordinator),
UPMC (France), EURESCOM (Germany), GARR (Italy),
iMinds (Belgium), InterInnov (France), University of
Southampton IT Innovation (UK), University of
Lübeck (Germany).
FIRESTATION
LAYOUT: MARKO MYLLYAHO, WWW.MARKOMYLLYAHO.COM
The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official European Commission’s view on the subject. The research
leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 2007-2013, ICT objective 1.6) under grant agreement
257439 FIRE STATION.
Links
FIRE information portal: www.ict-fire.eu
Information about the activities of the European Commission on
FIRE - Future Internet Research and Experimentation:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ﬁre/
MOREINFORMATION:
www.ict-fire.eu/firestation
FIRESTATION
FIRE
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