Building the Future Internet through FIRE

The Internet as we know it today is the result of a continuous activity for improving network communications, end user services, computational processes and also information technology infrastructures. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for the human-being by offering complex networking services and end-user applications that all together have transformed all aspects, mainly economical, of our lives. Recently, with the advent of new paradigms and the progress in wireless technology, sensor networks and information systems and also the inexorable shift towards everything connected paradigm, first as known as the Internet of Things and lately envisioning into the Internet of Everything, a data-driven society has been created. In a data-driven society, productivity, knowledge, and experience are dependent on increasingly open, dynamic, interdependent and complex Internet services. The challenge for the Internet of the Future design is to build robust enabling technologies, implement and deploy adaptive systems, to create business opportunities considering increasing uncertainties and emergent systemic behaviors where humans and machines seamlessly cooperate.

Martin Serrano, Nikolaos Isaris, Hans Schaffers

PART I: The Next Generation Internet with FIRE 1 European Challenges for Experimental Facilities 2 Next Generation Internet Research and Experimentation PART II: Experimentation FACILITIES Best Practices and Flagship Projects 3 Fed4FIRE - The Largest Federation of Testbeds in Europe 4 APlatform for 4G/5GWireless Networking Research, Targeting the Experimentally-Driven Research Approach - FLEX - 5 MONROE: Measuring Mobile Broadband Networks in Europe 6 PerformNetworks: A Testbed for Exhaustive Interoperability and Performance Analysis for Mobile Networks 7 Large Scale Testbed for Intercontinental Smart City Experiments and Pilots - Results and Experiences 8 BonFIRE: A Multi-Cloud Experimentation-as-a-Service Ecosystem 9 EXPERIMEDIA - A Multi-Venue Experimentation Service Supporting Technology Innovation through New Forms of Social Interaction and User Experience 10 Cross-Domain Interoperability Using Federated Interoperable Semantic IoT/Cloud Testbeds and Applications: The FIESTA-IoT Approach 11 Combining Internet of Things and Crowdsourcing for Pervasive Research and End-user Centric Experimental Infrastructures (IoT Lab) 12 Describing the Essential Ingredients for an Open, General-Purpose, Shared and Both Large-Scale and Sustainable Experimental Facility (OpenLab) 13 Wireless Software and Hardware Platforms for Flexible and Unified Radio and Network Control (WiSHFUL) PART III: Research PROJECTS and CASES Using Experimentation TESTBEDS 14 Estimating the Dimension of YourWireless Infrastructure by Using FIRE Testbeds 15 An Experiment Description Language for Supporting Mobile IoT Applications 16 Recursive InterNetwork Architecture, Investigating RINA as an Alternative to TCP/IP (IRATI) 17 FORGE: An eLearning Framework for Remote Laboratory 18 Triangle: 5GApplications and Devices Benchmarking 19 Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (ARCFIRE, Large-scale RINA benchmark on FIRE) 20 ARMOUR 21 Enabling a Mobility Back-End as a Robust Service (EMBERS) 22 F-Interop - Online Platform of Interoperability and Performance Tests for the Internet of Things 23 Q4Health: Mission Critical Communications Over LTE and Future 5G Technologies PART V: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION on Research and Experimentation 24 WAZIUP: Open Innovation Platform for IoT-Big Data in Sub-Sahara Africa 25 Understanding the Challenges in the Optical/Wireless Converged Communications Federated Union of Telecommunications Research Facilities for an EU-Brazil Open Laboratory (FUTEBOL) 26 ECIAO: Bridging EU-China Future Internet Common Activities and Opportunities 27 EU-US Collaboration in FIRE 28 FESTIVAL: Heterogeneous Testbed Federation Across Europe and Japan 29 TRESCIMO: Towards Software-Based Federated Internet of Things Testbeds 30 Federated Experimentation Infrastructure Interconnecting Sites from Both Europe and South Korea (SmartFIRE)