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MIT Communications
Futures Program
A cross-cutting examination of the
telecommunications industry
Overview
• The CFP is a partnership between university and
industry.
• Our vision is to define the roadmap for the
communications industry and study its impact on
adjacent industries.
• Our members cut across the entire communications
value chain
British Telecom
Cisco
Comcast
France Telecom
Futurewei
Motorola
Nokia Siemens Networks
Samsung
Telecom Italia
Telefónica
Telmex
Leadership
An interdisciplinary team from MIT heads the program
• Charles Fine, Chrysler LFM Professor, MIT
Sloan School of Management
• David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, MIT
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory
• Andrew Lippman, Senior Research Scientist,
MIT Media Laboratory
• David P. Reed, Adjunct Professor, MIT Media
Laboratory and HP Fellow, Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories
Charles Fine
David Clark
Andy Lippman
David Reed
Operations
Working Groups
• Industry participants engage closely with faculty in the research and provide
valuable input into the direction and content of the program.
• Co-chaired by faculty and industry sponsors.
• Groups are launched as new issues emerge and disbanded as issues become
less relevant or research is completed.
• Regular meetings (face-to-face and/or concall)
All-member meetings
• Held at MIT & Sponsor location
• Bi-annually, 2 days
• Working group reporting, guest speakers, workshops
Research
• All research (papers & presentations) are available exclusively to CFP
members on our Web site: http://cfp.mit.edu
Current Working Groups
Value Chain Dynamics
Interconnection
Charlie Fine
• Examine the impact of shifting
network functionality on various
industries
Bill Lehr
• Analyze interconnection issues in
NexGen multi-provider networks
including overlays and peering
Viral Communications
Spectrum Policy
Andy Lippman & David Reed
• Invent and prototype scalable,
user-designed communications
systems with no centralized
infrastructure or management
Privacy & Security
Karen Sollins
• Examine the value of
authenticated identity inside the
network
Bill Lehr
• Design solutions to facilitate the
transition to a future with both
flexible-licensed and openaccess spectrum
Value Chain Dynamics
Charlie Fine & Natalie Klym, MIT
Roberto Saracco, Telecom Italia
Contact:Natalie Klym, [email protected]
The communications industry is being disrupted as intelligence and control – once
centralized -- shift to the edges of the network. This working group seeks to
understand the business models and economics associated with these changes
in network functionality, and has developed a methodology for systematically
exploring the technology, business, and policy dynamics of new business models.
Topics of investigation include:
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Social networking
The future of television
Digital music distribution
The evolution of RFID networks
VOIP
Location-based services
Core-Edge methodology & toolkit
Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman & David Reed, MIT
Contact: Deb Widener, [email protected]
Viral communication is about building scalable, user-designed communications
systems that need no centralized infrastructure or management. The objective of
this working group is to invent and prototype viral networking technologies. Much
of the research addresses a fundamental rethinking of radio in a context of
inexpensive, programmable parts that scale though cooperation. This working
group serves as a steering committee for the research, and also suggests or
develops applications.
Topics of investigation include:
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Structures and protocols for P2P, edge and social networks
Connectivity in both physical and virtual spaces
Scalable radio technology
Cognitive networking
Privacy & Security
Karen Sollins, MIT
Contact: Karen Sollins, [email protected]
It is easy to think of security as a technical problem, but it is important to remember
that the roots of some of our hardest problems are social. We trade off security for
usability and features, and we get viruses. We protect the privacy of users and we
prevent efficient identification of those who misbehave. The purpose of this working
group is to consider issues of security and privacy in the larger context of social,
economic, and regulatory considerations.
Topics of investigation include:
– Authentication mechanisms: DKIM, SIP, Web Services, 3GPP, Radius, etc.
– Authentication identifiers: examination of I3, HIP, categorization of identities
that require identification
– Security and Privacy evaluation framework for evolving communications
paradigms
• Roadmap of evolution of communications paradigms from point-topoint to time and space separated information or content networking
• Components of framework (layered architecture for analysis;
identification; interests; contexts; policies)
Interconnection
Bill Lehr, MIT
Contact: Bill Lehr, [email protected]
This working group focuses on interconnection in NexGen multi-provider
networks. Research addresses a mix of topics, ranging from empirical research
on the implications of broadband traffic growth (for network architecture, QoS
provisioning, and investment); theoretical research on economics of networks
(interconnection incentives, antitrust, and 2-sided market theory); and NexGen
business models (overlay networks, wholesale platform services, evolution of
peering and interconnection). The work will be organized into a series of subtasks under the umbrella of the Interconnection WG which will be coordinated via
periodic conference calls, email (and website), and in-face meetings scheduled to
coincide with CFP Plenaries and otherwise as needed.
Topics of investigation include:
– Service provider interconnection business practices and policy
– Traffic measurement and decentralized network management
Spectrum Policy
Bill Lehr, MIT
Contact: Bill Lehr, [email protected]
Traditional models for managing radio spectrum are incompatible a future that
entails decentralized, distributed, and dynamic frameworks for sharing spectrum
among devices, applications, network infrastructure, and end-users. Supporting
the future wireless ecosystem will require new public/private institutional, legal,
and market mechanisms. Our goal is to design practical solutions to facilitate the
transition to a future where spectrum sharing is accomplished via markets rather
than regulatory fiat—for a future with both flexible-licensed and open-access
spectrum.
Topics of investigation include:
– Market mechanisms for spectrum management
– Building the ecosystem to commercialize dynamic spectrum access
technology
What our members have to say…
The CFP has created a valuable and unique forum for the exchange of
ideas and developments between industry representatives and recognized
academic masterminds. The program has led to deep research and a rich set of
tools to help bring CFP ideas inside corporations.
– Dirk Trossen, BT Research
The CFP provides us, for the first time, with an examination of
technology innovation that intersects with business innovation. The combined
participation of industry and academia directly benefits the analysis of the
complex scenarios faced by the telecommunications industry today. The ideas
and results of the CFP provide valuable input to our internal discussions on our
firm's strategic direction.
– Roberto Saracco, Telecom Italia
The ideas generated in the CFP are a major source of validation for
internal projects. The consensus of the group has enormous power.
– Marie Jose Montpetit, Motorola
Membership
Associate Member
Full Member
• $200K/year ($100K for Media Lab
sponsors)
• 3-year commitment
• Up to 6 participants at CFP events
• Unlimited participation in working
groups
• One-on-one interaction with faculty
members
• Affiliate member status of the
Media Lab
• Limited IP access
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Available to small organizations
$100K/year
2-year commitment
Up to 2 participants at CFP events
Unlimited participation in working
groups
• One-on-one interaction with faculty
members
Contact information
Communications Futures Program
The Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
32-G820
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617-253-6002
Fax: 617-253-2673
For more information about the program please contact our Executive Director,
Natalie Klym at [email protected].
For administrative assistance, please contact Sue Perez at [email protected]
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