19 May 2010, 8:45 - 10:30

Keynote 1: Dr. Max Lemke, European Commission, (EC), Europe

Dr. Max Lemke is the Deputy Head of Unit for “New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities” in the Directorate General Information Society and Media of the European Commission. In particular, he is responsible for building the European FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation Facility under the ICT Programme, and for promoting new Internet-based services in smart cities using the methodology of open innovation under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme. Max Lemke is also involved on the Commission side in supporting the discussion on a Future Internet Public Private Partnership.

Since 1995, Max Lemke has worked as scientific officer in research and development programmes for the Commission, e.g. in the domains “High Performance Computing and Networking” in Esprit 4, and “Communication, Computation, Networking” as well as “Trust and Security” in FP5-IST. From 2002 – 2006, as Deputy Head of Unit he was responsible for building a new strategic objective on "Grid Technologies".

Before joining the Commission, Max Lemke has worked in research and industry in Germany (GMD and SUPRENUM), the US (University of Colorado in Boulder), the UK and Belgium (Smith System Engineering). With a Doctorate in Natural Sciences from the University of Düsseldorf, a Diploma in Mathematics from the University of Bonn, and 2 year of studies at Colorado State University, he has a scientific background in numerical mathematics, parallel computing, and software engineering.

The role of experimentation in Future Internet Research: FIRE and beyond

Abstract: The second wave of projects under the FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation initiative will start around summer. FIRE will expand around its two dimensions: The scope of the experimental facilities will be reinforced and expanded beyond its current network focus to offer as well resources for experimentation on higher services levels as well as on sensor networks. New FIRE research projects will innovatively use the FIRE facility or contribute to the expansion of its scope and functionality. Major issues to be addressed in the future are sustainablility, high-level federation, and user-friendliness. The role of experimentation in Future Internet research has been widely recognised. In the planned Public Private Partnership on the Future Internet, experimentation will have a major role.

Keynote 2: Chip Elliott, GENI Project Office, BBN Technologies

Chip Elliott is Project Director for GENI, the National Science Foundation's virtual laboratory for exploring future internets at scale. He is Chief Engineer at BBN Technologies and an AAAS and IEEE Fellow with over 85 patents issued and pending. Mr. Elliott has served on many national panels and has held visiting faculty positions at Dartmouth College, Tunghai University in Taiwan, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

GENI - Global Environment for Network Innovations

Abstract: The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a suite of research infrastructure components rapidly taking shape in prototype form across the US. It is sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, with the goal of becoming the world’s first laboratory environment for exploring future Internets at scale, promoting innovations in network science, security, technologies, services, and applications.

GENI will allow academic and industrial researchers to perform a new class of experiments that tackle critically important issues in global communications networks:

• Science issues―we cannot currently understand or predict the behavior of complex, large-scale networks
• Innovation issues―we face substantial barriers to at-scale experimentation with new architectures, services, and technologies
• Society issues―we increasingly rely on the Internet but are unsure that can we trust its security, privacy or resilience

GENI will enable researchers to explore these issues by running large-scale, well-instrumented, end-to-end experiments engaging substantial numbers of real users. These experiments may be fully compatible with today’s Internet, variations or improvements on today’s Internet protocols, or indeed radically novel “clean slate” designs.

Starting in October 2009, the GENI project has begun to pave the way to such experiments by a “mesoscale” build-out through more than a dozen US campuses, two national backbones, and several regional networks. If this effort proves successful, it will provide a path toward more substantial build-out.

GENI is being created as a series of rapid prototypes via spiral development so that hands-on experience with early experimentation and trials can drive its evolution. Rather than build a separate, parallel set of infrastructure “as big as the Internet,” current plans call for GENI-enabling existing testbeds, campuses, regional and backbone networks, cloud computation services, and commercial equipment.

This talk presents current status and plans for GENI, but leaves plenty of time for discussion and brain-storming, both for the eventual infrastructure suite and for prototypes that are now being built and integrated.

Keynote 3: Prof. Phuoc TRAN-GIA, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

Phuoc Tran-Gia is professor and director of the Institute of Computer Science, the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Previously he was at academia in Stuttgart, Siegen (Germany) as well as industries at Alcatel (Stuttgart) and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (Zurich, Switzerland).

Professor Tran-Gia was active in several EU framework projects an COST actions.  He is also founding director of the multi-university Nortel's "Center of Network Optimization". He is consultant and cooperation project leader with Siemens (Munich, Berlin), Nortel (Texas), T-Mobile International (Bonn), France Telecom (Belfort), Bosch (Stuttgart), Datev (Nuremberg).

His current research areas include architecture and performance analysis of communication systems, and planning and optimization of communication networks. Phuoc Tran-Gia is also founder of Infosim (Würzburg, Germany) and Infosim Asia Pacific (Singapore), specialized in IP network management products and services.

He currently works on funding strategies and initiatives towards Next Generation Internet within the European Union and with the German Ministry of Research and Education. He is currently coordinator of the project German-Lab (G-Lab), which is funded by BMBF, aiming to foster experimentally driven research to exploit future internet technologies.

G-Lab Project: Concept and Federation Issues

Abstract: Currently, we are witnessing fast-moving activities towards next generation network. A number of experimental facilities are initiated in several countries, e.g in the US, EU, Japan etc. The talk will present basic approaches and contributions of the project German-Lab (G-Lab), which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). This project is aiming to build a cluster in Germany to foster experimentally driven research to exploit future internet technologies. Current activities and problems in the course of federating those experimental platforms will also be addressed.

20 May 2010, 13:15 - 15:30

Keynote 4: Akihiro Nakao, University of Tokyo, Japan

Prof. Akihiro Nakao received B.S.(1991) in Physics, M.E.(1994) in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He was at IBM Yamato Laboratory/at Tokyo Research Laboratory/at IBM Texas Austin from 1994 till 2005. He received M.S.(2001) and Ph.D.(2005) in Computer Science from Princeton University. He has been teaching as an Associate Professor in Applied Computer Science, at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo since 2005. He has also been an expert visiting scholar/a project leader at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) since 2007.

CoreLab and VNode : Design and Development of TestBeds for Future Internet Supporting Network Virtualization

Abstract: Network testbeds for developing, deploying, and experimenting with future network services have evolved as recent rapid progress in virtualization technology. We have been developing network testbeds called CoreLab and VNode for conduct experiments with network protocols, services and architectures based on network virtualization. We will introduce the recent design and development of our testbeds in Japan for research on future networks.




 

Keynote 5: Bernard Barani, European Commission, (EC), Europe

Bernard Barani graduated with an engineering degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne in 1982. He then served as system communications engineer first in industry and then with the European Space Agency where he held responsibilities for novel satcom programmes definition and implementation. Since October 94, he has been with the DG INFSO of the European Commission and has held several head of sectors positions covering research for wireless and audio visual systems. He is currently with the "Converged Networks and Services" Directorate of DG INFSO, covering European research in the fields of network, media, software and RFID/enterprise technologies. In his position of assistant to the Director, he is responsible for overall research and policy co-ordination of the Directorate, which is integrated through the "Future Internet" research theme.

European Future Internet Research: Towards a Future Internet Public Private Partnership

Abstract: Research on Future Internet in Europe has taken accrued importance over the last couple of years, and has now become a visible priority in many Member States and world-wide. The EU ICT research framework takes a wide ranging approach and covers a multiplicity of technologies and environment that may influence Internet developments in the future. Work cover notably technologies related to future networks, networked media systems, distributed web services, trust and security, sensor and RFID platforms, these technologies being reflected at the experimental level through the FIRE initiative. The intention is now to leverage this research work in the context of smart application, with essential societal infrastructure more tightly integrated with the Internet through advanced technologies likes sensor or content delivery platforms. This is the objective of the "Future Internet Public Private Partnership" currently proposed by the Commission, which will investigate how infrastructure (e.g energy grid, urban mobility management system, on line health systems) can be made smarted through more systematic integration with Internet networking and data processing capabilities. The presentation will hence cover the PPP technological focus, the expected results and impact, and the participation opportunities.