Future Internet:Some ideas from CINI

Giorgio Ventre

Università di Napoli Federico II

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Consorzio Interuniversitario

Nazionale per l’Informatica

www.consorzio-cini.itwww.comics.unina.it

Il Consorzio Interuniv. Naz. per l’Informatica

• Public Consortium of 31 Italian Universities

• Departments of Computer Science and Computer Engineering

• ~1100 faculty, ~1000 PhD students and postdocs

• Activity: research, technological transfer, consultancy

Future Internet

• Future Internet is about digital contents and personalized services

• You cannot have a “Future Internet” deployed– If you do not involve people, industry,

government– If you do not provide BB connectivity– If you do not offer novel software services

Future Internet issues

• ICT technologies are the kernel of the Future Internet

• They evolve rapidly, hence frontier research is important

• Three megatrends:– Internet of things (connectivity)– (Open source) software architectures and

middleware – Internet of people (personal services and social

applications)

Connected Society

RFID

Wi-Fi

Green IT

location-based services

Mobile computing

Sw Infrastructures

Search engines

SOA

Testbeds

Cloud computing

Semantic Web

Education

EntertainmentE-commerce

Internet of people

E-government

Megatrends

Social Networking

SaaS

IaaS

E-health User Generated Content

NGN2

CINI priorities for FI• IP ++• Research on service oriented systems (NESSI)

– Innovative software architectures for future Internet• Infrastructures for virtualization (of middleware, of services)

– Knowledge-intensive social software technologies for communities (of people, of companies, of the public sector)

• Research on embedded software (ARTEMIS)• ICT Security, including homeland security• Educational issues: skills & professional gaps• Green ICT and energy-aware computing• Legal issues in the future internet: novel QoS, trust, privacy,

IPR schemas for Future Internet, network neutrality

Two recent examples

• ComCast to acquire NBC– Entertainment as the killer application– TV 2.0 still to be defined– Not new: look at BT ADSL traffic after Halo 2

release

• Social Networks in Corporate World– Linkedin, Facebook can be used not only for

dating– Spread and link the Company Knowledge

Future Internet: a “tabula rasa”

• We try to follow a “clean slate” approach to break-through innovation in the Internet architecture

• We need a new Internet that necessarily has to be– Open– Scalable– Reliable and dependable– Diverse in contents and formats of media– Transparent to both service providers and users

• We must encourage innovative thinking in Academia and Industry

• We need support from governments

Architectural challenges

• Dependability improvement of complex and distributed critical networked systems, e. g. air traffic management, railway control, and homeland security systems

• Dependability assessment of wireless sensor networks used to monitor LCCIs (Large Complex Critical Infrastructures)

• Novel mechanisms for traffic measurement, routing and forwarding within the future Internet

• Algorithms and protocols for overlay network services• Novel resilient paradigms for the future Internet

The role of testbeds• We need the availability of effective and open

testbeds– Improve the availability of broadband to reliably

interconnect networking research facilities – Fund network testbeds and demonstrators

• Look at Geni and PlanetLab– Incentive Industries (…and convince

Governments) to go towards the creation of services and applications

• Mobile, seamless BB access• Cloud Computing • e-Health and e-Gov applications• Media and Entertainment Industry

A Future Internet for our Economy

• By designing, experimenting, and teaching the Future Internet we will support the recovery of the EU economy– Fund and support research and training on

new software and network architectures– Support the open source development and

deployment of new services and applications– Help Universities (…and SME) to go Internet

scale exploiting knowledge-intensive services