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Project Acronym Fed4FIRE Project Title Federation for FIRE Instrument Large scale integrating project (IP) Call identifier FP7-‐ICT-‐2011-‐8 Project number 318389 Project website www.fed4fire.eu

D9.2 – First dissemination activity report and revision of plan

Work package WP9 Task Tasks 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3 Due date 31/03/2014 Submission date 12/05/2014 Deliverable lead Halid Hrasnica (Eurescom GmbH) Version 1.0 Authors Halid Hrasnica (Eurescom GmbH) , Wim Vandenberghe

(iMinds), Florian Schreiner (Fraunhofer FOKUS), Carlos Bermudo Abad (i2CAT)

Reviewers Piet Demeester and Peter Van Daele (iMinds) Abstract This deliverable describes the different dissemination

activities of the Fed4FIRE consortium, as well as the actions taken to raise public awareness. These activities can be split up into different categories being: Raising public awareness, scientific dissemination, liaison and cooperation with other organizations and projects and training activities

Keywords Public awareness, dissemination, publications, training, liaison

FP7‐ICT‐318389/EUR/R/PU/D9.2

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Nature of the deliverable R Report X

P Prototype D Demonstrator O Other

Dissemination level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants

(including the Commission)

RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commision)

CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission)


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Disclaimer The information, documentation and figures available in this deliverable, is written by the Fed4FIRE (Federation for FIRE) – project consortium under EC co-‐financing contract FP7-‐ICT-‐318389 and does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. The European Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.


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Executive Summary The Fed4FIRE project has a clearly defined dissemination strategy and has been updating this strategy through this first phase of the project. The strategy is centered on 4 lines and these are listed below:

• Raising public awareness through • Scientific dissemination in publications and demonstrations at exhibitions • Liaison and cooperation with other organizations and projects • Training activities

All of these activities are equally important but are targeting different aspect of the dissemination plan. Public awareness is raised through the project website which also serves as the main information platform regarding the project itself, but also contains all relevant information regarding the Open Calls issued by the Fed4FIRE project. Based on the experience form the first Open Calls which have been issued, the project website is not the main channel through which interested partners in the Open Calls are attracted, but it serves a critical role in the process as a collection point for all relevant information. Results of the project and general findings originating from the project activities are disseminated through scientific journals and international conference sand events as well as participation in workshops and exhibitions. These channels provide access to the community which is served by Fed4FIRE and which will benefit of its activities. This community is however also kept in touch with Fed4FIRE, even on an international scale, by establishing contacts with fellow organizations, projects and initiatives around the world. Most of these contacts originate form personal contacts, previous collaborations between these organizations and partners of the Fed4FIRE project, but also new initiatives have been taken and are fostered for future continuation. Finally Fed4FIRE also establishes materials and channels through which experimenters and future users of the facilities can receive training, both through supporting documents as well as hands-‐on training workshops. As mentioned above this dissemination plan is constantly updated to contain actual information but also plans for future activities.


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Table of Contents 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 6 2 Public awareness activities .............................................................................................................. 7

2.1 Project website ........................................................................................................................ 7 2.1.1 Providing information on the Fed4FIRE project .............................................................. 8 2.1.2 Information on Open Calls .............................................................................................. 8 2.1.3 Information exchange platform ...................................................................................... 8

2.2 Promotion material ................................................................................................................. 8 2.3 Representation at relevant events .......................................................................................... 9 2.4 Project workshops ................................................................................................................. 10

2.4.1 GENI-‐FIRE workshop (Cfr. Milestone M9-‐6 First annual project workshop) ................. 10 2.4.2 Testbed Interoperability Workshop Cfr. Milestone M8.1 International workshop on sustainable standardization for facility federation) ...................................................................... 13

3 Scientific dissemination ................................................................................................................. 16 3.1 Publications ........................................................................................................................... 16

3.1.1 Conference proceedings ............................................................................................... 16 3.1.2 Articles in journals and magazines (reviewed). ............................................................. 16 3.1.3 Recent submissions ....................................................................................................... 17

3.2 Demonstrations / participation at exhibitions ...................................................................... 17 3.2.1 ICT event 2013, Vilnius, 6-‐8 November 2013 -‐ Federation in action ............................. 17 3.2.2 FIA event 2014, Athens, Greece, 18-‐20 March 2014 -‐ Common federation framework for FIRE 17

4 Liaison and cooperation ................................................................................................................ 19 4.1 FIRE collaboration ................................................................................................................. 19 4.2 Liaison with GENI .................................................................................................................. 19 4.3 Other liaisons ........................................................................................................................ 21

4.3.1 FI-‐PPP ............................................................................................................................ 21 4.3.2 EIT-‐ICT Labs ................................................................................................................... 21 4.3.3 Incentives towards SMEs ............................................................................................... 21

5 Training activities .......................................................................................................................... 22 5.1 Training for 1st Fed4FIRE Open Call ....................................................................................... 22 5.2 Support for experimenters and proposers ............................................................................ 23

6 Outlook ......................................................................................................................................... 25


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1 Introduction This deliverable describes the different dissemination activities of the Fed4FIRE consortium, as well as the actions taken to raise public awareness. These activities can be split up into different categories and will be discussed along these categories in the remainder of this document:

• Raising public awareness through o the project website o the compilation of promotional material o representation at selected events o organization and participation at specific workshops

• Scientific dissemination in publications and demonstrations at exhibitions • Liaison and cooperation with other organizations and projects • Training activities


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2 Public awareness activities

2.1 Project website Already at the start of the project, the Fed4FIRE consortium has set up a public website (www.fed4fire.eu, Figure 1). The original setup was reported in the deliverable D9.1 and this website has now been maintained, further developed and more material was added to the site.

Figure 1: Fed4FIRE website – snapshot in May 2014

The website mainly serves 3 objectives:

• Providing public information on the project, consortium and activities • Providing detailed information on the Open Calls issued by the Fed4FIRE project • Information exchange platform


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2.1.1 Providing information on the Fed4FIRE project To serve the first objective, the website provides general information about the project, overview of its organization and partners, publications made and the public project deliverables, as well as actual news and related recent and upcoming events. Specific webpages describe of the individual testbeds and tools for monitoring and performing experiments as provided by the project. Further testbeds / infrastructures included in the project as result of the 1st Fed4FIRE Open Call for additional project partners are also added to the website. The “user stories” section is dedicated to experiences from the experiments performed by external users and experimenters included in the project consortium after the 1st Open Call. Here, the first inputs are provided and will be continuously updated until the experiments from the Open Call are completed (target is end 2014)

2.1.2 Information on Open Calls The second objective to operate this website is to use it for promotion of the Fed4FIRE Open Calls and to serve as an information point for providing detailed information regarding participating in these calls for anybody planning to submit a proposal. This was implemented for the 1st Open Call and was continued for the Open Call SME – 1 and will continue for the 2nd Open Call and subsequent SME-‐calls. The dedicated webpages include all necessary information for the proposers to help them to understand the Call objectives and related formal requirements of the Call. The pages also include various related documentation and guidance documents as well as the proposal template. The website also provides a submission portal used to collect proposals for the open calls and further related information from the proposers, ensuring that the proposals and the related data can be updated by the proposers until defined deadlines.

2.1.3 Information exchange platform Furthermore, the Fed4FIRE website is used as main communication hub of the project, where all inquiries received to the project contact e-‐mail address are guided to the right consortium members to provide the answers. Of course, the communication hub is used as first contact point for helpdesk established to support the proposers for the project open calls. In addition, the website includes a Frequently Asked Questions section where all questions and answers relevant to the open calls are gathered.

2.2 Promotion material In order to support the public awareness activities, the project created corresponding marketing material, which have been updated from time to time and/or adapted to be presented at various occasions as appropriate. The marketing material includes project flyers, posters, and newsletters. Selected material is provided on the project website. Furthermore, in order to reach as wide research community as possible, the Fed4FIRE promotional activities have been carried out with other projects from the FIRE area, by using communication channels established by the FIRE umbrella projects and corresponding FIRE website (www.ict-‐fire.eu), FIRE newsletters, and further publications.


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2.3 Representation at relevant events Representations of the Fed4FIRE project at various events, which includes talks/presentations, participation in panel discussions, etc., are listed below.

• Invited talk: “Supporting the experiment lifecycle with MySlice”; J. Augé, L. Baron, T. Friedman, S. Fdida; GENI Engineering Conference, GEC15 -‐ Oct. 23-‐25, 2012 -‐ Houston, TX, USA

• “Towards an integrated portal for networking testbed federation, an open platform approach”, Loïc Baron, Jordan Augé, Timur Friedman, Serge Fdida; FIRE Engineering workshop, Nov 6-‐7, 2012, Ghent, Belgium

• “Federation for FIRE”, Piet Demeester; FIRE Engineering workshop, Nov 6-‐7, 2012, Ghent, Belgium

• “The iLab.t technology centre: supporting experimental research by industry and SMEs”, Stefan Bouckaert, Brecht Vermeulen, Piet Demeester; FIRE Engineering workshop, Nov 6-‐7, 2012, Ghent, Belgium

• Fed4FIRE poster at the FUSECO Forum, Nov 2012, Berlin • “Introduction to the Fed4FIRE Federation” Wim Vandenberghe, presented at the OpenLab

Workshop "Enabling the OneLab facility", Feb 2013, Les Arcs, France • Participation at FIA event in Dublin, May 2013

• Pre-‐FIA workshop "FIRE Vision 2020" • Hands-‐on-‐FIRE exhibition and demonstration • Panel in the EU-‐US Innovation Platforms session at FIA Dublin, May 2013 • Fed4FIRE training workshop

• “Some developments about the Future Internet in Europe”; S. Fdida; 8th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies (CFI 2013) in Beijing on June 6th 2013

• Invited talk: “Some development about the Future Internet in Europe”; S. Fdida, J. Augé, M.O. Buob, L. Baron, T. Friedman; CFI'2013, The 8th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies, June 5-‐7, 2013, Beijing, China

• "Fed4FIRE: Federation for Future Internet Research and Experimentation"; P. Demeester; presented at the 36th Asia Pasific Advanced Network (APAN) meeting in KAIST, Daejeon, Korea on 21 August 2013.

• Poster: “MySlice, the portal solution for FIRE facilities”; L. Baron, J. Augé, C. Scognamiglio, M.Y. Rahman, T. Friedman, S. Fdida (UPMC) S. Avakian, A. Garcia, M.A. Larabi, T. Parmentelat, F. Saint-‐Marcel (INRIA), B. Vermeulen (iMinds), D. Stavropoulos, H. Niavis (UTH), Jose F. de Rezende (UFRJ); GENI Engineering Conference, GEC18, October 27-‐29, 2013, Brooklyn, New York, USA

• Invited talk: “The OneLab facility and intercontinental federation”; S. Fdida, L. Baron; Federation Tool Support session at GENI Engineering Conference, GEC18, October 27-‐29, 2013, Brooklyn, New York, USA

• "Testbed federation: Architecture, infrastructure and applications"; B. Puype; presented at the EU-‐Korea workshop in Seoul, Korea on 30 September 2013

• Several presentations regarding different Fed4FIRE aspects given at the GENI-‐FIRE workshop organised by Fed4IRE in Leuven, Belgium on 14/15 October 2013 (see section 2.4, or milestone M9.6 “First annual project workshop” for more details).


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• "Federation for FIRE -‐ Fed4FIRE develops a common federation framework"; poster presentation at the closing event of the Belgian IWT SymbioNets project in Ghent, Belgium on 15 October 2013

• Presentation of the Fed4FIRE training material for facility providers at the kick-‐off meeting of the IP7 IoT Lab project in Geneva on 16 October 2013

• "Introduction to Fed4FIRE"; W. Vandenberghe; presented at the SDN Concertation workshop in Brussels, Belgium on 30 January 2014

• “Working towards the SFA Common Aggregate Manager API v1”; W. Vandenberghe, B. Vermeulen, presented at FIA Athens, Greece on Monday March 17th 2014

• “Supporting federation with the jFed framework”; W. Vandenberghe, B. Vermeulen, presented at FIA Athens, Greece on Monday March 17th 2014

• “Interview on the Collaboration between FIRE and GENI”; W. Vandenberghe, presented at FIA Athens, Greece on Tuesday March 18th 2014

• “1st Fed4FIRE Competitive Call for SME Experimenters”; P. Van Daele, presented at FIA Athens, Greece on Monday March 17th 2014

• “jFed toolkit, Fed4FIRE, Federation”; B. Vermeulen, W. Van de Meerssche, T. Walcarius, presented at the GENI Engineering Conference (GEC) 19 in Atlanta, USA on Wednesday March 19th 2014

2.4 Project workshops

2.4.1 GENI-‐FIRE workshop (Cfr. Milestone M9-‐6 First annual project workshop) On 14 and 15 October 2013, Fed4FIRE organized its first annual workshop to stimulate collaborations between GENI and FIRE researchers. The workshop took place in Leuven, Belgium, and was attended by 38 participants (participation on invitation only). Next to members of the organization, each community was represented by a group of 15 carefully selected participants. Invitations were based on relevant expertise. The following topics were discussed: experiments, general aspects (architecture, API’s, terminology), resource description, policies, data plane and education. Several concrete opportunities for collaboration were identified and initiated (joint definition of an ontology for resource description, joint specification of a new version of the SFA Aggregate Manager API, ...) .The discussions also allowed the participants to identify specific opportunities for collaborations based on visits of US researchers at specific EU partners (which can be funded by NSF), or by setting up joint experiments remotely. This workshop was the first one in a series of three. The next one will take place in May 2014, in Boston, USA. Note that this workshop corresponds with the first annual project workshop that Fed4FIRE planned to organize according to the project’s DoW. Therefore more details regarding this workshop can be found in the document regarding milestone M9.6 “First annual project workshop”). In this deliverable D9.2 we briefly want to highlight the outcomes of the different sessions, which can be summarized as follows: Experiments: • Benefits of federation

o Experiments across diverse testbeds o Geographic diversity, coverage


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o Very large scale experiments • Challenges in federation

o Differences in interfaces, RSpecs, … o Diversity in testbeds – impact on APIs, RSpec, … o Supporting users with different expertise o Trust, authorization and policies across testbeds

• Action items o Diversity: experiments focusing on diversity o Unifying APIs, Rspecs, etc (see other sessions) o User interfaces, usability – multiple levels of abstractions?

General • Merging APIs: merge OpenSFA and GENI efforts / documents • Speaks-‐for vs delegated credentials : maybe not so different • Conformance testing: cross-‐testing (US-‐EU) useful, common test plans valuable • Tool / interface driven design: usability – we have enough users to drive this Rspecs • Adoption of semantically rich descriptive mechanism appears inevitable, need to find a way

forward. Goal is to find an evolution path that works for most. • Action items

o Jointly define upper ontology based on existing (sometimes implicit) information models (Rspec, ndl-‐owl, indl). Continue work on domain specific ontologies (e.g. wireless)

o There is already a mailing list. o Define/extend translations to support RSpec (ORCA codebase available as example or as

ready service) o Define API (SFA/GENI) extensions to support transition/parallel use of semantic-‐ and

purely syntactic based resource descriptions (e.g. ListResources, createSlice) o Open questions/issues

! Standardisation? ! Design of new tools ! Workshop to discuss the challenges of using different description mechanisms

(UvA is a volunteer to organize this in Amsterdam if desired) Policies • We should be pragmatic in defining policies supporting FIRE/GENI experiments

o Acknowledge different objectives and constraints o Identify show stoppers (e.g. Cuban industry partners) o Ideally need a general umbrella policy for joint FIRE/GENI experiments but case by case

policies may be required • We will focus on policy technologies necessary for federated identity management and

authorization o Work should make FIRE/GENI experiments easier


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• We plan to (subject to resources) o Assess the parallel developments in FIRE/GENI o Understand current and future policy decision points o Publish a joint comparison paper of technologies with architectural implications o Implement proof of concepts supporting a selected FIRE/GENI experiment

Data plane • VLAN Layer2 based DataPlane Federation/Stitching will continue to be the main technology

for "per slice" isolation • These Layer2 paths/topologies will need to go over many different types of networks, exchange

points, and other infrastructures not formally part of GENI or FIRE • Regardless of lower layer network infrastructure, the "hand-‐off" to slices will look like simple

vlans • There is likely value in being able to characterize these actual lower lever provisioned

technologies and features • This may be useful to assist in experiment repeatability and/or for understanding experiment

results • There was also discussion of using TCAM space in addition to Flowspace as a partitioning

mechanism • US, GENI, EU, FIRE groups need to spend more time working on the details how to accomplish

stitching with the following expectations: o some networks will be statically provisioned o some networks will be dynamically provisioned, with a variety of network control APIs

(OSCARS, OESS, NSI, IDCP, AutoBAHN) o some dynamic networks, but not all, will have a GENI AM API "covering" their dynamic

API • The initial work with stitching between iMinds, ION, and GENI Resources is promising • This should be expanded to include GEANT and other network resources in Europe Education • Identify right level of abstraction for educators

o Make FIRE/GENI simple for instructors to use o Templates available in various forms, including lab contents

• Connect contents to infrastructure projects o E.g. FORGE and GENI Cinema

• Tools offered / suggested o Content + platform: FORGE, GENI Cinema o Lab environment: RAVE, LabWiki o Experiment Design: Design Expert, Minitab

• Methodology o Reproducible experiments o Best practice for lab resource management


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2.4.2 Testbed Interoperability Workshop Cfr. Milestone M8.1 International workshop on sustainable standardization for facility federation)

The Testbed Interoperability Workshop has been organized in cooperation with the OpenLab project in Athens, 17 March 2014, as one of the pre-‐FIA workshops at the Future Internet Assembly. It is linked to milestone M8.1 “International workshop on sustainable standardization for facility federation” of the Fed4FIRE project. Focus of the workshop The Internet is one of the key enablers to tackle the societal grand challenges considered within the Horizon 2020 programme addressing so-‐called non-‐ICT sectors such as Health, Energy, Transport, Inclusion, etc. It is of utmost importance that the evolution of the Internet (the “Future Internet”) takes into account these grand challenges and that the research and development in this domain gets access to advanced tools and experimental infrastructures to validate new solutions at different levels, including applications needed and developed by the mentioned sectors. FIRE is approaching experimentation from two angles: the “FIRE facilities”, i.e. testbeds or groups of testbeds that offer services to experimenters for advanced Future Internet related experimentations; and “FIRE research projects”, which investigate new concepts and issues in relation with Future Internet, and can also, perform Future Internet experimentations. Supporting a wide range of innovative experimentations allows the right pieces to be put together, where FIRE can be considered as a critical enabler serving wide ICT and non-‐ICT research communities. In this context the Fed4FIRE and OpenLab projects take the initiative to organise a workshop that will give the opportunity to interested experts meet and discuss the different aspects of the endeavour. In particular this workshop will focus on standardisation, experience reports from experimentation, and tools for experimentation. The targeted audience are owners and operators of experimental infrastructures for the Future Internet, Standardisation experts that seek to apply common tools and approaches for managing the experiments, and researchers applying an experimentally driven research towards systems and services for the Future Internet. This workshop follows on two successful past workshops, namely the FIRE research workshop that took place in Budapest in May 2011 and the FIRE engineering workshop that took place in Ghent in December 2012. Target audience

• Owners and operators of experimental infrastructures for the future Internet • Standardisation experts that seek to apply common tools and approaches for managing

experiments • Researchers applying an experimentally driven research towards systems and services for the

future Internet Format of the workshop Four presentation sessions:

• Reports from experiments • Standardisation of key operation aspects for FIRE facilities • Experimentation results from the research community • Common tools for managing and controlling experiments as well as data collection


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Workshop agenda 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome, Opening (Halid Hrasnica, Eurescom, Fed4FIRE) 9:15 – 10:30 Reports from experiments

• SAViNE experiment, Dr. Chrysa Papagianni, Prof. Symeon Papavassiliou • OFERTIE: Experiments with ROIAs on OFELIA SDN infrastructures, Dr. Tim Chown • Experiences with large-‐scale routing experimentation on FIRE facilities, Wouter Tavernier -‐

iMinds, EULER 11:00 – 13:00 Standardisation of key operation aspects for FIRE facilities

• Resource brokering system, Dr. Chrysa Papagianni, Prof. Symeon Papavassiliou • The NOVI Experience on Federating Diverse FI Platforms, Prof. Vasilis Maglaris • Working towards the SFA Common Aggregate Manager API v1, Wim Vandenberghe -‐ iMinds,

Fed4FIRE • Common Cognitive Radio language, a CREW-‐GENI collaboration, Dr. Carolina Fortuna • Federated Future Internet Testbeds in China, Xu Guibao, EU-‐China Fire project • A standardization effort towards an internet of testbeds, Loïc Baron, OpenLab project

14:00 – 15:00 Panel and open discussion on standardisation (moderator: Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom, OpenLab) – main conclusions from the discussion:

• Authentication: why using X.509 and not using openid or something similar which are simpler? Here, it is alos important not to create “yet another authentication process” for various testbed set-‐ups and federations.

o It was concluded that the open id can be used for first experimenter access, e.g. to access a first information level of a testbed federation. However, the distribution of concrete rights to access the testbed resources have to be organized by an authority (e.g. federation) or the individual testbeds. In order to establish the necessary trust, this decision might be delegated to the testbeds, which also keeps a certain level of their independency.

• X.509 is suited well for authentication outside of the context of website single sign-‐on. It was agreed that X.509 is a bit complex approach, but the complexity of the implementation is not recognized from the experimenter side, where they basically download a certificate file from a website, and hands that over to the experimenter tool or SSH client. Given the target audience of FIRE experimenters having a certain level of needed technical skills, this approach seems to be acceptable.

• Information models / Resource representation o Particularly, the inclusion of location information of the resource might be a problem

in some cases in respect to various privacy issues. Probably, the most pragmatic solution is to ensure no obligation for the testbeds to publish this kind of information. Of course, the testbeds can publish the information where this is useful and possible for them. Here, various levels of service and resource description can


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apply, which can be provided to the experimenters at various stages of the experiment configuration and negotiations.

• Licensing models o Different models have been discussed; such as GNU and Apache types of, but the

main question was do we need harmonization among the testbeds? The conclusion was that the tool developers should make the decision, of course, by considering impact of the decision in respect to usage of the tools.

15:00 – 15:40 Experimentation results from the research community

• OpenLab-‐Eclectic: A new tool for testbed management for Peer-‐to-‐Peer (P2P) pplications, Sree Harsha

• EXPRESS: Implementing an SDN infrastructure over a federation of OpenLab testbeds , Stefano Salsano

16:00 – 17:20 Common tools for managing and controlling experiments, as well as data collection

• Supporting federation with the jFed framework, Wim Vandenberghe -‐ iMinds, Fed4FIRE • Controlling experiments, Thanasis Korakis • XIFI -‐ eXperimental Infrastructure for the Future Internet , Federico Facca

17:20 – 18:00 Panel and open discussion on tools (moderator: Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom, OpenLab) Main conclusions from the discussion:

• Extensive discussion was dedicated to the fact that the FIRE tools were not adopted by FI-‐PPP in the scope of the XiFi project. One of the reasons is that the XiFi project is focusing provision of the Generic Enablers developed by the FI-‐WARE project. Furthermore, the scope of the FI-‐PPP and targeted community of application developers might be different from typical FIRE research community. However, the option for using or adapting the FIRE tools in the FI-‐PPP and XIFI still needs to be explored.

• There is clearly a possibility for convergence, where Fed4FIRE project could look into the XiFi APIs (basically the FI-‐WARE enablers) as a possible northbound API for the recently introduced tools. On the other hand, the XiFi project could elaborate if for some of the generic enablers would be valuable to control the underlying resources in more detail.

• An action point to start up a dialogue between both projects and to try to arrange a sessions/workshops at upcoming occasions was agreed.


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3 Scientific dissemination This section lists the publications in scientific journals and at international conferences and events. Invited papers are specifically listed as well as recent submissions for which acceptance notifications have not been received at the time of writing. Besides these publications, Fed4FIRE has also been active at exhibitions and events with a booth.

3.1 Publications

3.1.1 Conference proceedings • “Architecture for the Heterogeneous Federation of Future Internet Experimentation

Facilities”; W. Vandenberghe, B. Vermeulen, P. Demeester, A. Willner, S. Papavassiliou, A; Gavras, M. Sioutis, A. Quereilhac, Y. Al-‐Hazmi, F. Lobillo, F. Schreiner, C. Velayos, A. Vico-‐Oton, G. Androulidakis, C. Papagianni, O. Ntofon and M. Boniface; Future Network & Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal on July 3-‐5 2013

• “Design and Assessment of a Reputation-‐based Trust Framework in Wireless Testbeds Utilizing User Experience”; A. Kapoukakis, C. Pappas, G. Androulidadkis and S. Papavassiliou; submitted and accepted for the 12th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-‐NOW 2013), Wroclaw, Poland on July 8-‐10 2013

• “Network Reliability -‐ the Role of Excellence in Network Operations”; D. Davies; 10th International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), Ghent 1-‐3 April 2014

• “The GEO-‐Cloud Experiment: Global Earth Observation System Computed in Cloud”, J. Becedas; IMIS2014, accepted for The Eighth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing, July 2-‐4, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

• “Sustaining a Federation of Future Internet Experimental Facilities" Jan Van Ooteghem, Steve Taylor, Paul Grace, Felicia Lobillo, Mikhail Smirnov, Piet Demeester; accepted for ITS2014 (22-‐ 25 June 2014)

• “Health Monitoring of Federated Future Internet Experimentation Facilities”, T. Walcarius, W. Vandenberghe, B. Vermeulen, P. Demeester, D. Davies, accepted for EuCNC 2014, Bologna (23 -‐ 26 June 2014)

• “Monitoring and Measurement Architecture for Federated Future Internet Experimentation Facilities”, Y. Al-‐Hazmi, T. Magedanz, accepted for EuCNC 2014, Bologna (23 -‐ 26 June 2014)

3.1.2 Articles in journals and magazines (reviewed). • “Tools to foster a global federation of testbeds”; J. Augé, T. Parmentelat, N. Turro, T.

Friedman; Computer Networks -‐ Special issue on Future Internet Testbeds, 2013 • “Fed4FIRE: experimenting today with the Internet of tomorrow”; W. Vandenberghe, P. Van

Daele, H. Hrasnica and P. Demeester, FIRE Magazine, February 2014


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3.1.3 Recent submissions • “Future Internets Escape the Simulator”, Mark Berman, Piet Demeester, Jae Woo Lee, Kiran

Nagaraja, Michael Zink, Didier Colle, Dilip Kumar Krishnappa, Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Henning Schulzrinne, Ivan Seskar, Sachin Sharma; Communications of the ACM

3.2 Demonstrations / participation at exhibitions

3.2.1 ICT event 2013, Vilnius, 6-‐8 November 2013 -‐ Federation in action At the ICT event 2013 in Vilnius, 6-‐8 November 2013, together with OpenLab , Fed4FIRE prepared a demonstration on “Federation in action: Robots’ Dance – a demonstration of shared use of best of breed test infrastructures supporting Future Internet Research and Experimentation”. The scenario presented was called Collaborative robot control, representing a sophisticated robot machines equipped with the latest remote control, management and monitoring technology to enable an experimenter to design almost arbitrary experiments involving robot machines. The scenario involved the following steps: 1. Use a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to discover available robots 2. Reserve the available robots that are needed for the experiment 3. Use the Robot Dashboard (a Web GUI) to draw the path along which the robot should move,

including path validation (e.g. to avoid collisions) 4. The validated path is introduced in the Experiment Description 5. The Experiment Description is translated into a control sequence for the robot 6. The control sequence is transmitted to the robot 7. Start experiment execution 8. Manage the interaction with the robot during experiment execution 9. Use a GUI to retrieve monitoring data from the robot 10. Terminate experiment execution, collect and analyse data 11. Release robot reservation The presented scenario was enabled by the following testbeds:

• w-‐iLab.t: wireless tesbed operated by iMinds • NITOS: Network Implementation Testbed using Open Source code, operated by the

University of Thessaly • PlanetLab Europe: A world-‐wide platform for Internet developers operated in a distributed

fashion and managed by Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) • NEPI: A Network Experimentation Programming Interface, for life-‐cycle management of

network experiments provided by Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

• OMF: The Object Management Framework for controlling, instrumenting, and managing testbeds maintained by National ICT Australia (NICTA)

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The common federation framework for FIRE is under development in the Fed4FIRE project and is being widely adopted by a large number of experimentation facility providers and different experimenter communities in the area of Future Internet Research. The framework incorporates state-‐of-‐the-‐art technologies in the areas of experiment life-‐cycle management, monitoring and trustworthiness in order to support powerful experiments, and was presented at the FIA event 2014 in Athens. The exhibition covered the following aspects:

• Demonstration of the Fed4FIRE framework: at the time of this exhibit, the first development cycle of the project had finished and the corresponding framework was already operational. Live demonstrations of an experiment using this framework and illustrating the advantage of federating different testbeds were held at the booth. These covered the entire lifecycle of the experiment including finding appropriate resources, designing and running the experiment itself. The demo has also shown the use and control of the resources of your experiment during the experiment and illustrated how measured data can be retrieved from the experiment.

• Possibility to try the framework yourself: visitors interested in trying the federation tools out for themselves also had the opportunity to do so at the booth. A dedicated setup was present on which the visitors could actually try out the tools that were shown to them in the demonstration.

• Open call for experimenters and new facilities: this call was be open at the time of this exhibit. At the booth we will provide more information about this call, and we were present for face-‐to-‐face discussions with all interested parties including academia, research institutions, industry and SMEs.

• Background information about the project: using posters and continuously running PowerPoint presentations we provided some background information about the project (open call experiments, architecture of the framework, available testbeds, available user tools, etc).


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4 Liaison and cooperation

4.1 FIRE collaboration From the beginning of the project, tight relations with other projects in the FIRE area were kept. Together with the OpenLab project, the Fed4FIRE project prepared the demonstration at the ICT event 2013 in Vilnius (November 2013) as well as organized the FIRE-‐GENI and the Testbed interoperability workshops, as presented above. A particular attention was paid to discussions on experiences from the FIRE projects (OpenLab, BonFIRE, SmartSantander, CREW, OFELIA) on the performed Open Calls. In accordance with the gathered feedback, the Fed4FIRE, in agreement with the Project Officer, implemented its 1st Open Call for additional project partners, where a modified and more suitable proposal template has been used aiming at better integration of the accepted proposals in the Fed4FIRE project work plan. Furthermore, in order to increase participation of the SMEs in the FIRE Open Calls, the Fed4FIRE project established a new simplified mechanism for a dedicated SME Open Call for Experiments and published the first Call of this type in February 2014. The project also plans to implement further three SME Calls until the project end. Finally, representatives of the Fed4FIRE project were continuously involved in wide FIRE activities, such as participation and contributions to the activities of the FIRE Architecture Board (Firestation and Amplifire). Fed4FIRE has also worked together with the CSA Fusion in order to reach-‐out to SMEs (especially for the open calls for experiments).

4.2 Liaison with GENI Fed4FIRE is responsible for the organization of the GENI-‐FIRE collaboration that has been recently enhanced. The mission of this collaboration was established in a “Joint Statement of Interest”:

“The EU and US research communities wish to perform collaborative research, on the basis of equality and reciprocity, in areas of mutual interest, which may be characterized as (a) investigations of the research infrastructures suitable for hosting at-‐scale experimentation in future internet architectures, services, and applications, and (b) use of such infrastructures for experimental research. We envision that our collaboration will encompass joint specification of system interfaces, development of interoperable systems, adoption of each other’s tools, experimental linkages of our testbeds, and experimentation that spans our infrastructures. We further envision that students and young professors from the US and EU will visit each other and collaborate deeply in these activities, in hopes of sparking friendships and life-‐long research collaborations between the communities.”

A first workshop was organized in Leuven (Belgium) on 14 and 15 October 2013 (see above: “project workshops”). A second workshop is organized on 5 and 6 May 2014 in Cambridge (USA). Both workshops are closed workshops with 15 participants from EU and 15 participants from US. The agenda will covers 4


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sessions: (1) SDN networking, (2) Wireless networking, (3) Measurement and Instrumentation, (4) Control & Interop and Experimenter Support. From the US side, there was a SAVI proposal accepted that allows US researchers to participate to the workshops and that allows the support of exchange of researchers. In parallel the Fed4FIRE project reserved a maximum budget of 100 k€ for collaboration of European stakeholders with GENI research groups in the US. The absolute maximum a project partner could request is 20 k€, which could be spread over several collaborations, where the maximum a single proposal could request is also 20 k€, but this should involve multiple Fed4FIRE partners. The proposals have to show a clear link to the Fed4FIRE project activities in general. Further rules and conditions for submitting the proposals, performing the planned work, and reporting on the projects outcome have also been defined and agreed within the project consortium and with the Project Officer. Similar initiatives where taken by other FIRE projects. Currently the following collaborations have been established:

1. Deniz Gurkan, U of Houston (Levent Dane) Hagen Woesner, EICT European Center for Information and Communication Technologies,

Germany 2. Michael Zink, U Mass (Amherst) Prof. Serge Fdida, LIP6 laboratory at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris;

[Fed4FIRE financially supported] 3. Violet Syrotiuk Arizona State University (Eric Van Egmond) Ilenia Tinnirello, Informatics and Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Palermo,

Palermo, Italy 4. Kuangching Wang, Clemson University Paul Mueller at Kaiserslautern, Germany 5. Ilya Baldin, RENCI (Yufeng Xin) Symeon Papavassiliou, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece 6. Deep Medhi, University of Missouri–Kansas City( Xuan Liu, Doctoral Student) Prof. Stefano Secci, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France 7. Kaiqi Xiong, Training Workshop in Belgium Brecht Vermeulen, iMinds/University of Ghent, Timur Friedman, UPMC [Fed4FIRE financially

supported] In addition Fed4FIRE partners (UPMC and/or NICTA and/or iMinds) participated in most of the GEC GENI meetings in the US during the whole duration of the Fed4FIRE project (GEC 12 – GEC 19). At the FIA meeting in Dublin (2013) there was meeting with the GENI GPO (Chip Elliot and Mark Berman), Fed4FIRE representatives and the FIRE unit. The major agenda was setting up a more formal collaboration between GENI and FIRE. This resulted amongst others in the workshops (see 1.4) and the exchange of researchers (see above).


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4.3 Other liaisons

4.3.1 FI-‐PPP The Fed4FIRE project also contributed to the FI-‐PPP data base on testing and experimental infrastructures – XiPi database at http://www.xipi.eu/auto-‐info-‐update -‐ where the concept of facility monitoring via OMSP from Fed4FIRE (i.e. FIRE technology in a FI-‐PPP context) has been ported. In addition there was consultation with the EC FIRE unit and with FI-‐PPP about possible further steps in the collaboration.

4.3.2 EIT-‐ICT Labs At the FIA-‐Dublin there has been consultation with the EIT-‐ICT Labs about possible collaboration. Further collaboration will be strengthened by the recently started CSA CI-‐FIRE.

4.3.3 Incentives towards SMEs iMinds organised a half-‐day event together with IWT called "Collaboration and support opportunities for SMEs to develop their next generation ICT / Internet product". It was held in Brussels on 16 May 16th 2013, and included a session in which Fed4FIRE and its recently launched Open Calls were presented. Furthermore, iMinds is regularly organizing events with SMEs and based on these contacts, specific SMEs were contacted in relation to the general and SME Open Call.


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5 Training activities

5.1 Training for 1st Fed4FIRE Open Call Fed4FIRE training session and open calls workshop, dedicated to the 1st Fed4FIRE Open Call for additional project partners has been organized on 7 May 2013 at Future Internet Assembly, held in Dublin. For those who were not able to travel to Dublin the workshop was broadcasted LIVE on the Internet. Focus of the training session: The goal of the Fed4FIRE IP project (www.fed4FIRE.eu) is to develop open and easily accessible experimentation facilities to the FIRE communities, with a wide focus on fixed and wireless networks, services and applications, and combinations thereof. To this end, a common federation framework is developed providing simple, efficient and cost effective tools and methodologies to support experimenters in running high-‐quality experiments. At this event the Fed4FIRE IP project shared information on its first open call for (1) experiments and (2) additional testbeds. (1) Fed4FIRE was looking for innovative experiments from industry and academia that can run on the federated Fed4FIRE experimentation facilities encompassing 13 infrastructure and service testbeds (fixed and wireless networks, Open Flow/SDN facilities, cloud services,...). (2) In addition Fed4FIRE also looked for additional testbeds that could strengthen and complement the current Fed4FIRE offering. Experimenters and testbed owners that are selected as part of this open call received funding from the European Commission to carry out the required work. Through the Open Call, the experimenters got the opportunity to get first-‐hand information from the tesbed owners that are currently part of the federation and learn how Fed4FIRE can be used to support your research. The benefits for joining the federation have been presented for the testbed owners. The expected audience of the training workshop included a wide range of communities (including universities, research institutes and small or large companies). In order to stimulate the participation of SMEs, the FUSION project1 also supported this workshop.

1 SMEs are developing new protocols, devices, applications and services, which could benefit from large scale validation on testing facilities. The goal of the FUSION project (http://www.sme4fire.eu/) is to bring SMEs that have needs in testing new features together with the FIRE testbeds. FUSION provides an exchange portal whereby SMEs through their clusters can present their testing requirements. The portal lines up these requirements with the testing capabilities available on the testbeds. FUSION provides a series of engagement activities with clusters integrating SMEs or ultimately with SMEs. These engagement activities will discuss the testbeds capabilities, the SME testing requirements and application market opportunities, to enable collaboration and dissemination of information and to report on their findings. SMEs with inadequate or no testbeds facilities, will be able to benefit from what is already available and from the expertise of people who have developed and worked on these world-‐class research facilities. This type of fusion will enable greater awareness, collaboration, networking and cohesion between SMEs and the testbed facilities groups leading to greater innovation and competitiveness in European ICT industry.


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Scope of the training workshop agenda: Fed4FIRE Overview and objectives – Available testbeds, Objectives of the Open Call Experimenter training

• Benefits for experimenters • Architecture • Capabilities of the testbeds • Access to the testbeds • Deploying and controlling experiments • Collecting measurements and monitoring data

Facility provider training

• Benefits for facility providers • Architecture • Requirements for joining the federation • Integration options and access control for users • Long term sustainability plans

Open Call procedure

• tentative call text and budget • eligibility criteria • timeline of the call • financial aspects and provisions • evaluation process and criteria • IPR issues

Specific SME training session

• SME requirements for test infrastructures • FUSION: Support of SME participation in the Fed4FIRE open calls • The FUSION SME Portal

5.2 Support for experimenters and proposers As already mentioned in Sec. 2.1, one of the main purposes of the project website was promotion and maintenance of its Open Calls. The dedicated webpages include all necessary information for the proposers to help them to understand the Call objectives and related formal requirements of the Call. The pages also include various related documentation and guidance documents as well as the proposal template:

• Template for proposals • Training/tutorial material for experimenters • Training/tutorial material for new facility providers • "GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS participating in a competitive call for additional beneficiaries in an

ICT Integrated Project or Network of excellence"


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• "GUIDANCE NOTE for project coordinators planning a competitive call for additional beneficiaries in an ICT Integrated Project or Network of excellence"

The communication hub, established at the project website through its contact e-‐mail address is used as first contact point for helpdesk established to support the proposers for the project open calls. In addition, the website includes a Frequently Asked Questions section where all questions and answers relevant to the open calls are gathered. Furthermore, the website provides a submission portal used to collect proposals for the open calls and further related information from the proposers, ensuring that the proposals and the related data can be updated by the proposers until defined deadlines. Beside the mentioned documentation accompanying publication of the Open Calls, the project established extensive tutorials for experimenters on various aspects of the Fed4FIRE Federation, which is also linked to the project website (http://www.fed4fire.eu/tutorials.html). Of course, these tutorials target the potential Open Call proposers but are also provided for a wide related research community to understand how the Fed4FIRE facilities and tools can be used generally in the future and beyond the project Open Calls.

Figure 2: Fed4FIRE documentation and tutorials – entry point on the website

Finally, in order to provide further support for the experimenters using the Fed4FIRE testbeds and tools, a Fed4FIRE experimenter discussion forum has been established at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fed4fire-‐experimenters.


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6 Outlook In the upcoming period April – December 2014 (project months M19 – M27), the Fed4FIRE project will continue to follow its dissemination plan, as is laid down in the project deliverable D9.1 “Initial Activity Plan” and in the Fed4FIRE Description of Work. As the deadline for the 2nd Fed4FIRE Open Call for additional project partners is set to 2 July 2014, the main requests of the Open Call applicants for support and training material are expected in the period May/June 2014. In that respect, a specific documentation site is set-‐up and is still further populated (http://doc.fed4fire.eu). In addition there will be specific support for questions from possible applicants. The project liaison activities on global, European, and national levels will continue, targeting FIRE, FI-‐PPP, EIT-‐ICT and GENI initiatives as well as related initiatives on the national levels. In particular, re-‐establishment of collaborations in the scope of the Horizon 2020 programme will be elaborated, in particular targeting the respective FIRE+ activities. With respect to the GENI-‐FIRE collaboration, a next workshop is planned in May 2014 and a further workshop will take place in the week 17-‐21 November 2014 (in Europe). This workshop will be held in Paris. At that stage there will be a hand-‐over to a CSA that will focus a.o. on the GENI-‐FIRE collaboration. In respect to collaboration with FI-‐PPP programme, the Fed4FIRE project is aiming at organisation of facilitated discussions with the XiFI project (eXperimental Infrastructures for the Future Internet) on reuse of the FIRE results in the FI-‐PPP domain, possibilities to apply FIRE tools in context of the FI-‐PPP, and to elaborate on various further collaboration opportunities among Fed4FIRE, including other FIRE activities, and the FI-‐PPP. The contest for the best experiment, as planned in the original Fed4FIRE Description of Work, are considered as not appropriate and, therefore, are removed from the project plan in its latest amendment, as well as all related activities. Finally, among others, the main targeted events in the next dissemination period (until end of 2014) identified by the Fred4FIRE project are:

• EuCNC’2014 (European Conference on Networks and Communications), on 23-‐26 June 2014, Bologna, Italy

• ECFI-‐2 (2nd European Conference on the Future Internet), on 17/18 September 2014 in Munich, Germany

• 5th FUSECO Forum, on 13/14 November 2014 in Berlin, Germany Furthermore, the project will consider participation, including related preparations of its representation, for the Net Futures Conference, to be held in 2015, which will replace Future Internet Assemblies, held in 2014 and past years.

Documents

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