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Future Internet Visions: An Opportunity forIreland
Future Internet Visions:An Opportunity for Ireland
Mícheál Ó FoghlúExecutive Director Research TSSGWaterford Institute of Technology
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Author / TSSG
• Co-founder of TSSG with Willie Donnelly and Eamonn de Leastar in1996, joined by Barry Downes in 2003.
• TSSG Ethos is to support a critical mass of activity at all stages ofthe innovation lifecycle: basic and applied research,commercialisation, and spin-out/spin-in real commercial activity
• TSSG metrics:– Size: 160 researchers– Funding: €50M 1996-2008– Publications: 50 per annum (2006, 2007, 2008)– Projects: 45 active, 70 completed (October 2008)– No. 1 in Ireland for EU ICT Engagement (FP6 & FP7)– No. 1 in Ireland for EI Informatics Commercialisation (10 spin-out/spin-in
companies, 60 new regional jobs created)– HEA PRTLI Cycle 3 and Cycle 4 Funding– SFI Development, PI Cluster and Research Frontiers Awards
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Structure
• Introduction• EU Future Internet• TSSG’s Engagement in EU Future Internet• Opportunities for Irish Companies and
Researchers
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SECTION
• Introduction• EU Future Internet• TSSG’s Engagement in EU Future Internet• Opportunities for Irish Companies and
Researchers
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Introduction: Overview
• What exactly is the Internet and why has itbeen successful?
• What threatens this continued growth andsuccess?
• How can visions on the Future Internetaddress these threats?
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Introduction: Generative Internet
• [Zittrain 2006] of Oxford Internet Institute andHarvard Law School
• Generative Internet =– Services/applications/middleware (Web/REST, other
distributed software)– Inter-networking (TCP/IP suite)– Local networks (Ethernet)– Devices (end node PC, routers/switches)
• You Need Network(s) & Services & Devices[Zittrain, 2006] http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/119/may06/zittrain.shtml
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Introduction: Standards
• Services/Middleware:– XML: W3C, OASIS, OMG, …
• Inter-networking– TCP/IP, http: IETF, Internet Society
• Networks:– Ethernet/WiFi/WiMAX: IEEE– Telecommunications: ITU-T, ETSI, 3GPP, …
• Devices:– Equipment manufacturers’ de facto standards e.g. IBM PC
compatible (arguably success of ICT driven by Moore’s Law)
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Introduction: ISOC Internet Model
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Introduction: Ownership
• Who builds, maintains and ownsnetworks?– Telecommunications operators/carriers
• Who sells internet connectivity:– Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
• But also important are:– Enterprise/corporate networks– Enterprise/government networks– Home networks
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Introduction: Culture Clash
• Internet-centric view– Everything is on “public” Internet using TCP/IP– All services are over this infrastructure– Many key software elements open source (bind, sendmail,
apache, Linux, …)– Telecoms networks may enable some connectivity– Expectation of many “free” services (and use of “free” software)
• Telecommunications view– Migration of private telecom networks to “private” TCP/IP– Allows same infrastructure to support fixed/mobile convergence– Backwards compatibility with existing voice service infrastructure– IMS as architecture to encapsulate this– Interface to “public” Internet problematic and insecure– Expectation that all services are billable
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Introduction: Threat IPv4 Depletion
• Internet-centric expect TCP/IP to be core to their view ofthe Future Internet – the Future Internet is just theInternet (promise more of the same, lots of free serviceswith variable reliability)
• Telecoms expect TCP/IP to be core to IMS – FutureInternet is the Internet technologies deployed usingadded security/accounting/QoS (promise of no morespam, but fewer free services)
• BUT availability of new IPv4 addresses due to dry up in2010! One key enabling infrastructure has reached itscapacity!
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Introduction: IPv6
• Solution to IPv4 address depletion isadoption of IPv6
• One view of Future Internet is business asusual with IPv6 instead of IPv4
• No other new solution can be designed,agreed and deployed within the timeframe– so we all must move to IPv6 regardlessof our longer term views
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Introduction: Summary
• The Internet is made up of networks, inter-connectivity(TCP/IP), services and devices
• The core driver has been the cheap hardware for end-user devices and network devices
• Many of the core software elements have beendeveloped as open source
• Hardware is cheaper than people, so over time genericnetworking (IP) and generic software (C/C++/Java)replace specialised vertical market segments (e.g. 3Gnetworks use Unix servers)
• The main inter-networking protocol IPv4 has nowreached the end of its usefulness and we need tomigrate to IPv6
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SECTION
• Introduction• EU Future Internet• TSSG’s Engagement in EU Future Internet• Opportunities for Irish Companies and
Researchers
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EU Future Internet - Funding Programme
• January 2007– Launch of FP7 (2007-2013)– €50 billion over 7 years - largest research funding
programme in the world• FP7 ICT calls so far
– ICT Call 1 (deadline: May 2007)<- Call 1 was main relevant call
– ICT Call 2 (deadline: Oct 2007)– ICT Call 3 (deadline: Apr 2008)
• All funded activities that come under “FutureInternet” banner have organised to cross-fertilise
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EU Technology Platforms (Future Internet)
• eMobility– Mobile & Wireless Communications
• NEM– Networked Electronic Media
• NESSI– Software Services
• EPoSSS– Platform for Smart Systems Integration
• ISI– Integral Satellite Communications
http://cordis.europa.eu/technology-platforms/home_en.html
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EU Future Internet: 1 Challenge, 6 Areas
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EU Future Internet: Projects Calls 1, 2, 3
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EU Future Internet - FI Assembly
• March/April 2008 (Slovenia: Bled)– Future Internet Assembly– Bled Declaration
http://www.fi-bled.eu/Bled_declaration.pdf
• December 2008 (Spain: Madrid)– Future Internet Assembly
• May 2009 (Czech Republic: Prague)– Future Internet Assembly
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SECTION
• Introduction• EU Future Internet• TSSG’s Engagement in EU Future Internet• Opportunities for Irish Companies and
Researchers
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TSSG in FP7 FI (9 Projects; 3 EU-TPs)
• Area 1: “Future Networks”– 4WARD– EFIPSANS– AUTOI– eMobility Technology Platform: board members
• Area 2: “Services Architectures”– PERSIST– NESSI Technology Platform: members
• Area 3: “Networked Media Systems”– NEM Technology Platform: board members
• Area 4: “Internet of Things”– No involvement as yet - interest in sensor networks
• Area 5: “Security”– Inco-Trust– THINK-TRUST– No Technology Platform, but TSSG play strategic role
• Area 6: “Experimental Test Facilities”– PANLAB II– Perimeter– Vital++
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Irish Funding: HEA
• HEA PRTLI Cy 3: M-Zones 2002-2007– Partners: TCD, CIT– Managing smart spaces
• HEA PRTLI Cy 4: FutureComm 2007-2011– Partners: UL, NUIM– Managing future communications networks
and services
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Irish Funding: SFI
• SFI Development Award 2003-2004– TSSG
• SFI PI Cluster: AMCNS 2004-2008– Autonomic Management of Communications
Networks and Services– Basic research into self-* approaches
• Model-driven approaches to network management• Bio-inspired approaches to network management
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Irish Funding: Enterprise Ireland
• Commercialisation awards CF-TD, PoC• EI ILRP: IMS ARCS• EI Equipment Funding: Testbed for IMS• EI support funding for FP7 engagement
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TSSG: Standards
• W3C (mobile content initiatives, widgets)• JCP (widgets, mobile development)• TM Forum (telecom management)• ACF (autonomic management)• ETSI (telecom management)• IETF/Internet Society (mobility, SIP,
SHIM6)• IEEE (cognitive radio, software defined
radio)
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SECTION
• Introduction• EU Future Internet• TSSG’s Engagement in EU Future Internet• Opportunities for Irish Companies and
Researchers
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EU ICT thematic area: 7 Challenges
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EU FP7 Calls 4 & 5
• The Future Internet is focused on the first ofthese challenges “Pervasive and TrustworthyNetwork and Service Infrastructures”
• This was mainly open in Calls 1 and 2, and willbe open again in Calls 4 and 5
• Work Programme to be launched in LyonNovember 2008http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2008/index_en.htm
• Followed by an FP7-ICT Proposers' Day 200922 January 2009, Budapest, Hungary
• Enterprise Ireland will organise local Irish eventsto promote the calls
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Irish Advantages
• English speaking - English is working languageof nearly all projects
• Globalised - open to external partnerships• Track record of Irish success stories in previous
framework programmes• Strong indigenous and FDI ICT base• Opportunity to bridge North American knowledge
with European knowledge• Opportunity to develop Asian links• Enterprise Ireland support structures for
academic and industrial participation
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Conclusion
• The Internet is about more than networks – it is aboutnetworks, services and devices
• The Internet is threatened by shortage of IPv4 addresses• The future of the Internet is a contested space,
particularly between telecoms operators and those withan Internet-centric view
• The future research has to go beyond these immediateissues and envision a new future
• Some of this is clean slate (design from scratch) andsome is evolutionary (grown from what we have)
• There are many opportunities for Irish companies andresearchers to engage in these debates
• Irish IPv6 Summit, Dublin Castle, 28th Jan 2009
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Questions
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Additional Information
[Zittrain, 2006] “The Generative Internet”Harvard Law Review Vol 119 pp. 1974--2040.
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