Future Internet
What are YOU going to do with it?
Arian Zwegers
European Commission
Information Society and Media Directorate General
Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures Unit
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What is the Future Internet?
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What does the Future Internet
look like?
Internet of Services, Service Web 3D Internet
Trust
Security
Networks of the Future
Sources: 3GPP, 3GPP2, Qualcomm, WiMAX Forum
http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/EXPORT/DL/38496.pdf Internet of Things
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/
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What does the Future Internet
look like?
Internet of Services, Service Web 3D Internet
Trust
Conway’s Law:
“organisations which design
systems are constrained to
produce systems which are copies of
the communication structures of these
organisations” (1968)
Security
Networks of the Future
Sources: 3GPP, 3GPP2, Qualcomm, WiMAX Forum
http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/EXPORT/DL/38496.pdf Internet of Things
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/
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Overview
• General
• Viewpoints
– Networks
– (Contents, Media)
– Services
– Things
– (Trust, Security)
– (Experimental Facilities)
• For each of the viewpoints
– Internet developments
– Problems and opportunities
– Work Programme 2009-10
• Conclusions
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World Internet Penetration
Rates by Geographic Regions
248 / 337
20 / 34
385 / 800
139 / 576
42 / 197
579 / 3,776
51 / 955
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Current/emerging problems
and opportunities
• Current Internet was never designed to be a critical
part of an economy’s infrastructure
• Net-delivered services are reshaping the world
(search, media, games, social networking, etc.)
• Tripling of the number of people connected (1 3 B)
• Addition of billions—perhaps even hundreds of
billions—of devices (sensors, tags, micro controllers)
• User generated content leads to a massive increase
of creative flow of content and processes
• Balance the perceived need for control with the
creativity that spawns innovation—and profit?
• Towards tethered appliances or generative
technology?
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Are WE going to act or not?
Framework Programmes
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7th Framework Programme
(2007-2013)
Biotechnology
2. Food, Agriculture
Production Techn.
4. Nano, Materials,
COOPERATION
Research
8. Socio-economic
6. Environment
7. Transport
10. Security
5. Energy
1. Health
9. Space
3. ICT
€ 32 B
€ 7.5 B
IDEAS European Research Council
PEOPLE Marie Curie Actions
€ 4.7 B
Research Research for Regions of
Research Science in International
CAPACITIES Infrastruc- the benefit of Know-
Potential Society Co-operation
tures SMEs ledge
€ 4.2 B
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ICT Work Programme 2009-2010
~2 B€ total
i2010 Socio-economic goals
Flagships
Digital Towards ICT for ICT for
Libraries sustainable Mobility, Independent
and and Environmental Living,
ETPs Content personalised Sustainability Inclusion
healthcare and Energy and
Efficiency Governance
Network and
Technology roadblocks
Service
Future and Emerging
Infrastructures
Technologies
Cognitive Systems,
Interaction,
Robotics
Components,
Systems,
Engineering
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Challenge 1 “Pervasive and Trustworthy
Network and Service Infrastructures”
Call 4 Call 5
80 MEuro 37 MEuro
The Future Internet
1.3 Internet of Things
1.5 Networked Media
and Enterprise
and 3D Internet
environments Call 5
1.4 Trustworthy ICT
Call 5 110 MEuro
90 MEuro 1.2 Internet of Services,
Software and Virtualisation
Call 4
110 MEuro
1.1 Network of the Future
Call 5
Call 5 1.6 Future Internet experimental facility 80 MEuro
50 MEuro and experimentally-driven research
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Networks
Technology evolution: citius, altius, fortius
• Ever increasing data rates
• More and more going mobile
1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Standard IEEE 802.16e deployment Wimax
3G STD
Multiple 3G releases NGMN 3G LTE deployment
3G R&D – early Trials
3G evolution
World Radio Conference
standardization deployment
R&D – early Trials 4G Systems
Standardization
IMS/SIP TISPAN
R&D – early Trials NGN
BT announces 21 CN, first
massive NGN deployment plan
Future Internet
US 09/11, reflection
on Internet Security Standardization? Deployment ?
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Networks
Problems and opportunities (1/2)
• Choking of networks
– Need for ever higher end-to-end data rates
– Need to overcome segmentation of access and core networks
Converged infrastructures in support of Future Networks
(CP)
Ultra high capacity optical transport/access networks
Converged service capability across heterogeneous access
• Issues with radio access networks
– Limited spectrum availability
– Many different radio access technologies
Spectrum-efficient radio access to Future Networks
(CP)
Next-generation mobile radio technologies
Cognitive radio and network technologies
Novel radio network
Obj 1.1 Instruments: IP, STREP
Call 4
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Budget CP: 110 M€, min. 50% to IPs

Networks
Problems and opportunities (2/2)
• Structural limitations of the current Internet architecture
– More applications, devices, and edge networks to be supported
– Original architectural principles are violated
– ISPs put in place traffic shaping to optimize network use
– Net neutrality debate – no gain, no pain
– Architectural ossification
Future Internet Architectures and Network Technologies (CP)
Novel Internet architectures and technologies
Flexible and cognitive network management and operation frameworks
Note: migration paths and coexistence
Note: clean slate or evolutionary approaches
Note: third country partnership
• Lack of coordination of current and future research
Coordination/Support actions and
Networks of Excellence (CSA, NoE)
Obj 1.1 Instruments: IP, STREP, NoE, CSA
Call 5 Budget CP: 71 M€, min. 50% to IPs
Budget NoE: 6 M€
80 M€
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Contents
Level of interaction increases: Experience IT
• Virtual World Platforms
• Confluence of trends
Level of Interaction
• New business perspectives
Inside
Connected
Individual
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Contents
Problems and opportunities (1/2)
• Opportunities in offering multimedia content and services
– Taking into account user contexts
– Taking into account network and device characteristics
– Distribution of graphics content and processing between network and terminals
Content aware networks and network aware applications (CP)
– Architectures and technologies for converged and scalable networking and delivery
of multimedia content and services
– Maintaining the integrity and quality of media across media life cycle
• 3D Internet open issues
– Performance issue, high demand for processing power, graphics engines, bandwidth
– Need for new classes of protocols, development tools, modelling and simulation
– Multiple identities
– Interaction virtual worlds and integration with business
– Opportunity: adoption of virtual workplaces by industry?
3D Media Internet (CP)
– Architectures and technologies for Future Media Internet
and 3D processing
– Technologies for 3D content representation
– Architectures and technologies ensuring that 3D augmented
worlds are tightly coupled to the physical world
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Contents
Problems and opportunities (2/2)
• Open issues in mobile search
– Future user and service requirements including ubiquitous access (fixed/mobile)
– Handling the context of search (e.g. geographical awareness)
– Addressing search as a packaged offer, integrated with networked services
– Capturing the semantic aspects of search
Networked search and retrieval (CP)
– Networked technologies and architectures with repositories and cached content
– Adaptive technologies based on relevance or contextual and user feedback
• Opportunities in TV
– TV definitely goes digital, High Definition, and Internet
– TV might go IPTV, and broadcasting might go to handhelds, but business models
are uncertain
– Beyond the horizon is 3D Television, digital cinema directly to the home, and
SuperHiVision
Immersive media experiences beyond HDTV and electronic cinema (CP)
• Lack of coordination of current and future research efforts
Networks of Excellence (NoE)
Support measures (CSA)
Obj 1.5 Instruments: IP, STREP, NoE, CSA
Call 4 Budget CP: 70 M€, min. 50% to IPs
Budget NoE: 6 M€
80 M€
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Budget CSA: 4 M€

Services
Connected IT services: Fit for active service?
A multitude of connected IT services, which
are offered, bought, sold, used,
repurposed, and composed by a
worldwide network of service providers,
consumers, aggregators, and brokers
- resulting in -
a new way of offering, using, and
organising IT supported functionality
Number of Web services found by SEEKDA
Adapted from SAP Research, 2008, and SEEKDA, 2008
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crawler during the past 25 months

Services
Problems and opportunities
• Issues with service architectures and platforms
– Existing web-based service front-ends are based on monolithic, inflexible, non-
context-aware, non-customizable and unfriendly UIs
– How to deal with many, many diverse services?
– How to manage many, diverse underlying hardware and software resources?
Service Architectures and Platforms for the Future Internet (CP)
– Service front ends
– Open, scalable, dependable service platforms, architectures, and specific platform
components
– Virtualised infrastructures
• Issues with very large, dynamic, open service networks
– From design time to run-time
– Quality of open systems without fixed system boundaries
– Opportunities with open source software and service engineering?
Highly Innovative Service / Software Engineering (CP)
– Service / Software engineering methods and tools
– Verification and validation methods, tools and techniques
– Methods, tools and approaches specifically supporting the development,
deployment and evolution of open source software
• Lack of coordination of current and future research efforts
Coordination and support actions (CSA)
ICT
Obj 1.2 Instruments: IP, STREP, CSA
Call 5 Budget CP: 107 M€, min. 50% to IPs
110 M€
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Budget CSA: 3 M€

Things
Connected stuff: what your beer tells your phone
• Connecting objects and locations in the real
world to information on the web
• Pervasive computing, wearable computing,
Smart dust, Machine-to-Machine (M2M)
communication
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Things
Problems and opportunities
• Open issues in linking the physical and virtual worlds
– Current architectures do not allow a wide range of application scenarios
– Governance
– Standards
– Spectrum
Architectures and technologies for an Internet of Things (CP)
– Architectures and technologies using information from the virtual and
physical worlds and allowing action on the physical world
– Optimised technologies covering distribution of intelligence
– Architectural models enabling an open governance scheme of the
Internet of Things
– Note: third country partnership
• Opportunity to use Future Internet technology in networked
business
Future Internet based Enterprise Systems (CP)
• Lack of coordination of current and future research efforts
International co-operation and co-ordination (CSA)
Obj 1.3 Instruments: IP, STREP, CSA
Call 5 Budget CP: 35 M€, at least 2 IPs
37 M€
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Trust, Security
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
• World view original Internet design
– Cooperating administrators and mutual trust
– Receiver is willing to receive whatever the sender
is sending
• But
– Spam, phishing, botnets, malware, virus etc
– Lack of trust leads to opportunity and transaction
costs
• Current architectures are open to security
breaches, privacy invasion and identity theft
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Trust, Security
Problems and opportunities (1/2)
• Security in Network Infrastructures
– Limited resilience of and across heterogeneous
networks
– Security as an add-on
– Limited data gathering and analysis for understanding
and preventing cyber threats
Trustworthy Network Infrastructures (IP)
– Trustworthy network infrastructures as well as
communication, computing and storage infrastructures
– Trustworthy platforms and frameworks for
autonomously monitoring
and managing threats
– Note: attention to usability,
societal acceptance, and other aspects
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Trust, Security
Problems and opportunities (2/2)
• Security in service infrastructures
– Need to assure security level, privacy, and regulatory
compliance
Trustworthy Service Infrastructures (IP)
– Trustworthy and privacy protecting service systems,
platforms and infrastructures
– Interoperable frameworks for identity management
– Note: attention to usability, societal acceptance, and
other aspects
• Various security concerns and enabling technologies
Technology and Tools for Trustworthy ICT (STREP)
• Lack of coordination of current and future research
Networking, Coordination and Support
(NoE, CSA)
Obj 1.4 Instruments: IP, STREP, NoE, CSA
Call 5 Budget CP: 80 M€, min. 50% to IPs
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90 M€

Experimental facilities
Problems and opportunities
• Need to support research on the Future Internet
(technologies and services), allowing for:
– Large scale experimentation
– Experimentation with systems based on cross-layer or
non-layered approaches
– Direct involvement of user communities
– Multidisciplinary experimental research
– Assessing socio-economic impact of Internet changes
Building the Experimental Facility and stimulating its
use (IP)
– FIRE Components
– FIRE Users
Experimentally-driven Research (STREP)
Coordination and Support actions (CSA)
Obj 1.6 Instruments: IP, STREP, NoE, CSA
Call 5 Budget CP: 45 M€, 25 M€ IPs, 20 M€ STREPs
ICT50 M€
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Timetable
• Publication WP2009-10 in November 2008
• FP7-ICT Proposers' Day 2009
– Budapest, 22 January 2009
• Preparatory workshops and information
days
– Different Objectives, different approaches
• Call 4
– Publication: 18 November 2008
– Submission deadline: 7 April 2009
• Call 5
– Publication: June 2009
– Submission deadline: 22 September 2009???
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/budapest_2009/index_en.htm
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Future Internet Bled conference
31 March – 2 April 2008
• Bled declaration
– Signed by 76 Challenge 1
projects from call 1 and 2
– Various aspects of Future
Internet
– How to continue towards
Madrid, Dec 2008?
• Future Internet Assembly
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ICT 2008 Lyon
25-27 November 2008
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Future Internet Assembly –
ServiceWave Conference
Madrid, 9-13 December 2008
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Conference ”The Future of
the Internet”
Prague, 11-13 May 2009
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And now what?
WE have a problem!
What are YOU going to do about it?
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Call for Action
• Participate in the debate
– Participate in preparatory workshops
– Update research lines
– See the whole elephant
– Consider submission of proposals
• Familiarise yourself with ongoing research
– Participate in ICT 2008
– Have a look at Future Internet websites
– Attend information days
– Know the key players
• “The Future Internet is OUR future”
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Future Internet
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Draft Work Programme
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E-mail
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