Transcript Euro NGI – FP6 Hearings

Euro-NGI – General Presentation
09 June 2004
Design and Engineering of the
Next Generation Internet
Towards convergent multi-service networks
Content
Euro-NGI domain
 Main addressed topics
 Quality of the consortium
 Summary of main assets
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Main targets
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Network of Excellence (IST FP6 NoE program)
 General
NoE targets: integrate the European research effort,
build a virtual center of excellence, disseminate
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Euro-NGI main target
 The main objective of the Euro NGI network is to
create and maintain the most prominent European
centre of excellence for Next Generation Internet
design and engineering,
 acting as a “Collective Intelligence Think Tank”,
representing a major support for the European
Information Society industry and leading towards a
European leadership in this domain.
General Profile
 57
institutions, 173 researchers, more than 300
PhD students, 18 countries
(seewww.eurongi.org for the list)
 Leader: GET(Groupe des Ecoles de
Télécommunications)-France
 5 000 000 Euros – 3 years
 Starting Date: December 1st, 2003
Domain: Next Generation Internet (NGI)
 What
is NGI?
 The
NGI will view multi-service/multimedia,
mobility, convergence (services and fixed-mobile),
Quality-of-Service and variable connectivity as the
norm.
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technology to network architectures and
services
 The
recent technological advances will lead to
exploitable innovative services once the integration
of these technologies through innovative
architectures is achieved.
Domain: Next Generation Internet (NGI)
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Technology diversity explodes
 Requirement
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to deal with the corresponding complexity
Instant high bandwidth connectivity
 Future
high-speed wire-line and wireless access technologies
 Makes difficult to forecast traffic and thus to apply existing
traffic engineering methods.
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Investigation is required in new multi-technology
architectures.
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is understood today that new design, planning, dimensioning
and management principles are needed.
Domain: Next Generation Internet (NGI)
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The design of those architectures is a
multidisciplinary problem requiring a variety of
competences.
 These
competences exist today in Europe but require to be
integrated.
 This integration will allow Europe to become a leader in the
NGI and to absorb the existing gap in Internet technologies and
usages between Europe and North America.
Main addressed topics
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In this context, the main topics addressed by the NoE
are:
 Mastering
the technology diversity (vertical and horizontal
integration) for the design of efficient and flexible NGI
architectures.
 Providing required innovative traffic engineering architectures
adapted to the new requirements and developing the
corresponding appropriate quantitative methods.
Organization of Research Activities
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Joint Research Activities: 6
JRA and 25 WPs for which
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 Specific workshops
 Advanced tools for
communication and sharing of
information
 Management Committees in
charge of controlling that
integration is achieved
Architectural Domains
Core
Fixed
Access
Mobile
Access
IP
Networking
Services
Overlays
Network Architecture Evolution, Technology Integration,
Control, Managing the diversity
Traffic Engineering, Traffic Management, Congestion
Control and End to End QoS
Optimisation of Protected Multi-Layer Next Generation
Networks: Topology, Layout, Flow and Capacity Design
Experimentation and Validation Through Platforms
Modeling, Quantitative Methods and Measurements
Socio-Economic Aspects of the Next Generation Internet
Research Domains
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Integration and
rationalization of research
efforts
Large working groups have
been created
Workshops have been
scheduled
The field for cross fertilization
between activities and
workpackages has been
prepared
Quality of the consortium
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Integration of research efforts of two research
communities
 Network
& services architectures - Traffic engineering &
quantitative methods
 Both from the academia and the industry
Quality of the consortium
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Consortium
 51
Research Centres/Universities
 4 Telecom Operators (France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom,
Telenor and Telefónica)
 1 major Manufacturer (Alcatel)
 1 Institution with an important experience in technology transfer
(Coritel, a partnership between Ericsson Lab Italy and three
Universities)
 1 SMEs involved with the take-up of new technologies (Infosim).
 1 Institution with a very important experience in organisation
and management (CDC).
Very strong relationship with industry
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Alcatel
Cisco
Ericsson
HP
IBM-NY
Intel
Italtel
Juniper
Lucent
Marconi
Motorola
NEC Europe
Nokia
Philips
Quallcomm
Siemens
Solinet
ST Microelectronics
Teletel
Thales
Thomson
4Plus Technologies
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Algonet
AT&T, AT&T Labs
Bouygues Telecom
British Telecom
Deutsche Telecom
France Telecom
Netway
OTE
Portugal Telecom
Sonera
Sprint
Telefonica
Telia
TNO telecom
Vodafone
Through YRP: NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, etc.
Experience in European Projects, examples
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ACTS: AROMA, BBL, BIDS, BTI, COBNET, DIANA, EXPERT,
LEVERAGE, OLYMPIC, PANEL, PETERPAN, REFORM,
IST: @DAN, AQUILA, BISANTE, CANDLE, CODIS, DAVID,
DBGLOBE, EUNICE, EVOLUTE, FABRIC, HARMONICS,
HELINET, IASON, LION, MOICANE, MOEBIUS, MOBY DICK,
MMAPPS, OBANET, PACWOMAN, RECSYS, REPOSIT, SCAMPI,
TELEREGIONS, TEQUILA, TONIC, TORRENT, UNIVERSAL,
WINE
COST projects: COST 214, COST239, COST224, COST242, COST257,
COST 263, COST266, COST 279
Esprit: ALCOM, ALCOM II, ALCOM-IT, BISANTE, CATSERVER,
CIME, CNMA, DAMS, EMMUS, LCOM-FT, QMIPS
Eurescom projects: P615, P709, P901, P1014, P918, P1006, P1112
RACe projects: 1022, 2001, 2024
Information Technology for European Advancement (ITEA) projects:
Ambience
Copernicus projects: MOCOMTEL, KNIXMAS, ATMIN, IDEMCOP
Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) projects: ALAPEDES
European Space Agency (ESA): TPSAT
Quality of the consortium
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Example of member’s excellence
 Prof. Augusto
Casaca is Chairman of the IFIP-TC6 (Communication
Systems).
 Dr Jim Roberts is one of the two co-chairs of Infocom 2003
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probably the most important conference in the networking area;
 Prof.
Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. mult. Paul J. Kuehn is the President of the
ITC International Advisory Council (IAC)
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the most important conference in the traffic engineering domain;
 Prof.
Phuoc Tran-Gia is one of the co-chairs of ITC18 (2003);
 Infocom best paper award in 1999, 2001 and 2003
 Prof. Jean-Yves Le Boudec is an associate editor for IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking,
 Prof François Baccelli was awarded the 2002 France Telecom prize
of the French Academy of Sciences;
 Mr Manuel Villén Altamirano has chaired the ITU-T Working Party
of Traffic Engineering (Working Party 3/2) from April 1999 to
December 2002.
Integration
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Situation before and after the first two years of the
integration process, examples:
 Establishment of
a Knowledge Roadmap
 Interconnection and sharing of platforms/tools/facilities and
coordination of software development
 Building collective intelligence through Advanced
Communication Tools
 Collaboration with cognitive and social behavior experts for the
implementation and evaluation of the collective intelligence
 Increase of the mobility for researchers and PhD students
 Creation of European graduated courses program for PhD
students and of Summer Schools
Euro NGI VCE should become a main actor
in its domain by the first two years
Summary: main assets
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Strategic Domain: Next Generation Internet
 Social
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and economic impact
Deals with the design of the required NGI innovative
architectures
 Complex
problem of integrating the various heterogeneous
technologies into end-to-end architectures that supports existing
and future services in an efficient and reliable way
 Do not concentrate in one specific technology
Summary: main assets
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Integrates renowned researchers of 2 scientific
communities:
 "network
architecture" and "traffic engineering and related
quantitative methods”
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Key element of several successful stories in the US west coast
Strong relationship with industry
 Strong Joint Program of Activities
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 Impact
on research, technology transfer and knowledge
dissemination, post-graduate studies, etc.
 More than 50 workpackages
 A strong organization
Contacts
 www.eurongi.org
 [email protected]
(Project leader)
 [email protected] (Network Evolution
workpackage leader.