Prof. T. Magedanz (Fraunhofer FOKUS/TU Berlin) was speaker: "Understanding Future Internet Technologies enabling Smart City Implementations in Emerging Countries – Lessons learned from the DAAD UNIFI Projekt between Germany, Chile, South Africa, Vietnam and Thailand“, Keynote at
DAAD Network Meeting, University Partnerships for development: The role of computer Science & Ecology, Organized by: DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, Bremen, Germany, 19-21 September 2016

Presentation download here

The Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) is the continent’s leading ICT conference where Industry, Academia and Operators converge. It provided a platform for academic and industry partners to share ideas, current work and future research directions. Based on the long successful cooperation among FOKUS, TU Berlin and the University of Cape Town, the demos showed the usage of the OpenMTC platform in different IOT Use Cases. Three use cases, namely smart home energy management; environmental monitoring and emergency services using remote robotic control were showcased.

The team at UCT is Neco Ventura, Joyce Mwangama, Nyasha Mukudu, Nataizya Sikasoti, John Lewis and Fredrick I Chisanga.

The SoftFIRE project consortium is happy to announce the first open call for experimenters interested in NFV and SDN technologies. The different partners of the SoftFIRE project consortium have been quite busy in the last months building a federated infrastructure based on open source technologies like FITeagle, Open Baton, and OpenStack. This infrastructure brings together different heterogenous testbeds providing SDN and NFV capabilities for experimenting with Programmability, Security, and Interoperability aspects in order to boost the developments of a 5th Generation of Mobile Networks. In addition, some testbeds offer Radio Access Technologies in order allow experimenters using Mobile Devices attached to a geographically distributed mobile network infrastructure.
Fraunhofer FOKUS and TU Berlin are leading the activities related with the infrastructure instantiation: FITeagle will offer a FIRE-based northbound interface to 3rd parties who wants to program their experiments in an automated way, while Open Baton will serve as NFV Orchestrator for setting up different network slices on top of a distributed OpenStack-based infrastructure. Finally, OpenDayLight and ONOS will be integrated and offered to experimenters in order to instantiate virtual networks on top of the distributed SDN Infrastructure offered by JolNET (the Telecom Italia testbed).

The SoftFIRE project is now ready to receive proposals for experiments to be carried out on the Federated Testbed. There are at least two objectives which have to be fulfilled by experimenters interested in submitting a proposal: either enhancing the testbed developing or testing new functionalities, or producing and validating new services, systems and applications that can benefit of such distributed SDN/NFV infrastructure.

Get in touch with us:
Lorenzo Tomasini: lorenzo.tomasini [at] tu-berlin.de
Björn Riemer: bjoern.riemer [at] fokus.fraunhofer.de

Project website: www.softfire.eu

The 2nd OPNFV Summit, June 20-23 in Berlin, Germany, was a great success with 620 people in attendance from the NFV ecosystem. 300 attendees joined for the Design Summit that included events with ARM NFV Ecosystem, FD.io/DPDK, ONOS + CORD, ONF, OPEN-O and OpenDaylight.

During these days there were several interesting discussions on the upcoming projects and research items in NFV and SDN. This year is considered the Orchestration year, where many interesting projects around ETSI MANO have been launched by different organizations. This is generating discussions and debates in the international communities. It is still unclear if/what will be a convergence towards a common information/data modeling of virtualized network functions and services. The initiative has been represented by Prof. Thomas Magedanz who gave an interesting presentation about the Open Baton project and its important role in the emerging federated SDN testbeds. Considering the fragmentation of the current ecosystem, it is rather important to have solutions which are easily extensible and flexible enough to accommodate several use cases. Open Baton, with its second release is modeled around an event-driven architecture; it provides several mechanisms for supporting different use cases. The upcoming integration with the ONOS platform will allow the instantiation of end-to-end virtual networks for the initial prototypes of network slicing concepts.

More details about the presentation: Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz presented "Open Baton in the 5G Berlin Initiative and Emerging Federated SDN Testbeds" during the Research and Future Track.

The presentation outlines:

• Understanding the role of SDN/NFV/MEC within emerging 5G Testbeds
• Introducing the 5G Berlin Testbed and the Fraunhofer FOKUS OpenXXX Toolkits
• Open Baton enabling dynamic VNF Placement in emerging SDN/NFV-based 5G Testbeds
• Open Baton as Keynabler for setting up federated SDN Testbeds across Europe
• Outlook: The IEEE SDN initiative on Open Source Toolkits and federated SDN Testbeds

Download the presentation (PDF, 26 MB).

For more information about Open Baton, visit: http://openbaton.org

For a recap of the 2nd OPNFV Summit, visit: https://www.opnfv.org/opnfv-summit-2016-event-recap

On 3-4 May 2016, twenty thought leaders from the IEEE SDN Initiative, EIT Digital, service providers, industry and academia gathered for a two-day workshop in San Francisco, California to discuss the idea of a Federated Testbed (FTB) that would allow accelerated development of SDN and NFV as two important components of 5G era networks.

A new, international Open Testbed Community (OTC) emerged from an intensive workshop on federated testbeds that took place in San Francisco the week of May 3rd. This workshop was spearheaded by leaders from the IEEE SDN Initiative1 and EIT Digital2 . As we move from the era of protocols to the era of innovation in the global Information and Telecommunication ecosystem there is an opportunity to consolidate disjointed development efforts. This opportunity will leverage Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) for agile, robust, interoperability between SDN islands. The workshop culminated in a significant intent to start an Open, Federated Testbed (OFTB) by interconnecting three existing centers of expertise based in the USA and Europe. The outcome of these efforts will be reported in the Berlin5GWeek event in November 2016. The workshop brought new collaboration and support for the IEEE SDN Initiative that is building an engineering catalog of testbeds, toolkits and software that can be rated by the technical community. They will also track testing requests to better coordinate effective use of OTC resources and prioritize testing. This nicely complement the effort of EIT Digital to expand the Federated Testbed (FTB) started in 2016 and under expansion that can be used to stimulate innovation in the area of 5G and future communications services.

• IEEE SDN & EIT Digital: Federated Testbeds Workshop
• Read the full workshop report
• Berlin5GWeek

The TEAM newsletter will keep you informed on the TEAM community achievements and success stories, ICT related news and upcoming events on a regular basis.

Read it here!

The Title of the PhD is: “Application-derived Communication Protocol Selection in M2M Platforms for Smart Cities"
Supervisors have been Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz (Technische Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Ventura (University of Cape Town), and Prof. Dr. Küpper (Technische Universität Berlin).
Asma Elmangosh had a scholarship from Lybia and worked the last 4 years on this interesting Smart City topic and published numerous papers on the FOKUS OpenMTC extensions. She will leave us and wants to continue her academic career. The TUB AV and FOKUS NGNI Teams wish her success for the future.

On the 21st and 22nd of March Ronald Steinke, Thomas Günther and Alexander Willner joined the plenary meeting of the project EMBERS (Enabling a Mobility Back-End as a Robust Service) in Aveiro, Portugal. The innovation project aims to bring the Citibrains SmartCity backend solution to market by testing and extending it within the two FIRE facilities FUESCO Playground in Germany (using the standard compliant OpenMTC framework) and the FIT IoT-Lab in France (using a wide range of programmable sensors).

EMBERS Project Website here

Our researchers Dr. Stefan Covaci and Tran Quang Thanh participated at the
3rd ARCADIA Pleary Meeting in Galway, Ireland at the Insigth Center for
Data Analytics (DERI).
They gave a successful "on-line" Demo of our FIWARE Security Enablers
UseCase, in which the TU researchers have integrated the FI-STAR Testbed
(Secure Telemonitoring App using the FI-STAR / FIWARE Security and Privacy
Enablers deployed on our Back-End DC and Front-End) with OpenBaton. Next
step will be the replacement of OpenBaton with the ARCADIA Smart
Controller (once this will be released in Apr. 2016) and the benchmarking
of the performance and capabilities of the ARCADIA Smart Controller
against other orchestrators. They have also presented their intermediate
results concerning the deliverable D4.2 and the Risk Assessment (TUB
responsibility for both).
The next presentation of the demo will be at the NetFUtures 2016 Event in
the ARCADIA booth in Brussels, on 21-23 April 2016.

The #Berlin5GWeek is the week were three of the biggest conferences in the context of the upcoming 5G, the IEEE CSCN'16, the IEEE 5G Summit and the FOKUS FUSECO FORUM, are taking place in the Institute Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin.

IEEE CSCN 2016 – IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking, October 31 to November 2, 2016
CSCN’16 will deliver a rich technical program discussing the future of mobile communications systems, offering four distinguished keynotes, two panels and a dozen of technical sessions. The sessions consist of technical papers reviewed and selected by an international technical program committee representing both academia and industry, with a strong standardization background. Call for Papers

IEEE 5G Summit 2016 – 5G Prototyping - Emerging Testbeds, First Trials, and Relevant Standards, November 2, 2016
This one-day summit will provide a platform for industry leaders, innovators and researchers from the industry and academic community to collaborate and exchange ideas in this emerging technology that may help in driving standards and rapid deployment.

Fraunhofer FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2016 – Getting ready for 5G
Understanding 5G Application Drivers and Technology Evolution towards Softwarized 5G Networks, November 3 to 4, 2016
Join more than 250 colleagues and experts from all over the world, including operators, global analysts, standard bodies and manufacturers to learn, share, network and experience everything you need to know about the new trends, developments and impacts of 5G and related technologies. Benefit from the Fraunhofer FOKUS FUSECO Forum tradition of established tutorial and workshop streams, interactive afternoon workshops, international conferences and demonstrations!
Hosted and organized by: Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, General Chair: Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS

Call for Speakers and Sponsoring
If you are interested in speaking at the event or supporting and sponsoring options, please contact us at: info[at]fuseco-forum.org

Watch the impressions of FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2015!

Starting mid February 2016 Prof. Thomas Magedanz is spending a two month
sabbatical at the Electrical Engineering Faculty at the University of
Cape Town as part of the DAAD UNIFI Project. The target is to speed up
the new IEEE SDN initiative's Work Group on Open Source toolkits for
5G/SDN/NFV/MEC together with the team of Prof. Neco Ventura.

"Semantic-Based Management of Federated Infrastructures for Future Internet Experimentation"

The research of this thesis has focused on interoperability between
heterogeneous, distributed systems. The thesis applied research
originated from the Semantic Web to address the challenge of information
exchange between federated testbeds for Future Internet experimentation.
The thesis provides a formal information model, an abstract
architecture and a proof-of-concept implementation for the semantic life
cycle management of distributed experiments across multiple interfaces,
data models and infrastructures.

The ARCADIA project aims to provide a novel reconfigurable by design highly distributed applications’ development paradigm over programmable infrastructure. The main objective is to facilitate application developers to develop software that is able to take advantage of the underlying infrastructure, while in parallel support the deployment and dynamic configuration of applications in an optimal and autonomic manner.

The ARCADIA partners are working on delivering the first version of the novel, powerful tool that will allow software developers to take full advantage of the modern network and computer infrastructures. The majority of these infrastructures offer a wide range of configuration options and capabilities that can be programmed using the suitable commands or applications. Nowadays, the behaviour of devices and equipment can be deeply affected programmatically, concerning their energy efficiency, their flexibility in adapting to changing conditions and their functionality in general. But in most cases, this also requires a deep knowledge of vendor specific tools or technology specific parameters, while it is not humanly possible to intervene every time a new situation has arisen.

The ARCADIA platform will introduce an innovative way of tackling such issues. The basis will be a model describing all the characteristics of the infrastructure and the related actions that can be performed. The model will also include a great variety of application features that the developer would like his application to have. By using a well defined annotation language, the developer will be in position to label the application needs and to control its behaviour in a high level way. E.g. if requirement for only local access is set, the platform will automatically make the necessary network security settings and will restrict the incoming and outgoing traffic of the application.

The main role in this process belongs to the Smart Controller, the entity that includes functionality for configuring, deploying and reconfiguring if needed a Highly Distributed Application. In particular, it has the ability of interpreting the ARCADIA metadata and translating it into specific actions concerning the underlying resources. There is also the capability to communicate with another Smart Controller in case more resources are needed, without any human intervention. And of course, the platform is monitoring everything so as to guarantee that the optimum configuration has been selected, the application requirements are met and any policies set by the infrastructure provider are respected.

The partners of the project consortium envisage that the final outcome will offer to application developers the desired simplicity in building solutions with enhanced flexibility, availability and security characteristics. It is expected that ARCADIA platform will be warmly adopted by the programmers community, since it can provide independence from vendor specific tools, reduced product development costs and accelerated time to market, as well as access to useful network and service functions in a unified and easy to use way, just by incorporating some relevant annotations into the source code, according to the ARCADIA software development paradigm.

Project Partners:

• Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland (NUIG), Ireland
• Stiftelsen SINTEF (SINTEF), Norway
• Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Germany
• Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy
• Univerza v Ljubljani (UL), Slovenia
• GIOUMPITEK– MeletiSchediasmosYlopoiisi kai Polisi Ergon Pliroforikis EPE (UBITECH), Greece
• WINGS ICT Solutions Information & Communication Technologies EPE (WINGS), Greece
• MAGGIOLI SPA (MAGGIOLI), Italy
• ADITESS Advanced Integrated Technology Solutions and Services Ltd (ADITESS), Cyprus

Contact:

Dr. Stefan Covaci
stefan.covaci [at] tu-berlin.de

PhD students, postdocs and personal wishing to apply for a mobility scholarship between Europe and Japan and the Republic of Korea can now apply to the programme Technologies for information and communication, Europe - East Asia Mobilities (TEAM) up until the 25th of April 2016. This Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme funded by the European Commission, focusing on Information Technology and Communication (ICT), aims to stimulate discussion among six European* and six Asian** world-class institutions.

The purpose of TEAM is to create a community of excellence in ICT, bringing together doctoral and post-doctoral students as well as academic and administrative staff from twelve institutions. It will fund 110 mobility scholarships ranging from one to twelve months, of which 72 are destined for Europeans. The beneficiaries of this programme will have their plane tickets paid and will receive a monthly allowance for the duration of their stay.
The first call for proposal of this project has already allowed 16 candidates to accomplish their research in a partner institution. The second call, launched in November 2015, will close on the 25th of April 2016 and will allow academic mobilities to take place within the 2016-2017 academic year.
This partnership composed of the higher education institutions, research institutions and industrial partners is designed to guide young talent towards the internationalization of their careers and the acquirement of new skills. TEAM also promotes the exchange of good practices between the leading scientists of the partnership as well as the establishment of joint programmes, in both research and education.

* The six European partner universities: Pierre Marie Curie University (France), Aalto University (Finland), Technische Universität Berlin (Germany), University of Trento (Italy), Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain ) . ** The six Asian partner universities: Chungnam National University (Republic of Korea), Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (Republic of Korea), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Republic of Korea), Keio University (Japan), Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan), Tokyo University (Japan).

Contact:
Dr. Stefan Covaci
Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Telekommunikationssysteme AV - Architekturen der Vermittlungsknoten
stefan.covaci [at] tu-berlin.de

More information: www.team-mundus.eu

The OpenMTC team delivered the OpenMTC Rel. 4 upgrade to the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan and conducted two days hands-on training for the NCTU R&D team and students. The NCTU has been using the OpenMTC for teaching students the M2M/IoT technologies and for M2M/IoT R&D projects since release 1.

The Open Baton project provides several components for building a complete environment fully compliant with the NFV specification.

The Consortium is pursuing the integration of experimental facilities, testbeds and laboratories into a Federated testbed in the context of FIRE+.

Focus on three major key aspects: interoperability, programmability, and security. These properties will be analysed in terms of efficiency, functional responsiveness, end to end latency and generally end to end QoS. FOKUS and TUB will integrate the 5G-Playground in this large scale testbed. The 5G-Playground will provide on demand deployments of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) providing a fully virtualised 5G-enabled core network using the NFV environment implemented by the Open Baton tool.
Consortium: EIT Digital (Coordinator), Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Reply, Technical University Berlin, Telecom Italia, University of Surrey

"Unification of Monitoring Interfaces of Federated Cloud and Future Internet Testbed Infrastructures"

The research of this thesis has focused on monitoring and measurement services across federated, heterogeneous ICT infrastructures.
The thesis addresses the challenge of the exchange of monitoring data across the federation due to the variety and heterogeneity of the tools and interfaces used.
The thesis provides an architecture for the unification of monitoring interfaces to enable a unified data representation across federated, heterogeneous infrastructures, accompanied with an ontology-based information model.

“Digital Convergence and Seamless Connectivity for everyone and everything –  Bringing 5G, SDN/NFV and M2M/IOT together”

The final review meeting of the Future Internet Social and Technological Alignment Research project (FI-STAR), which is an EU project within the framework of FI-PPP, was successfully completed. The ultimate objectives of the project are to validate FI-WARE technologies in live environments and testing in real world healthcare, wellness and ambient assisted living situations and to build related cloud-based infrastructures. It will become self-sufficient after the end of the project and will continue as a sustainable business model with several partners. Based on the results of FI-STAR, Fraunhofer FOKUS is going to maintain a FI-WARE-based infrastructure along with upcoming projects.
For more information about FI-STAR please visit: www.fi-star.eu.

The “Enabling a Mobility Back-End as a Robust Service (EMBERS)” is a new H2020 project that was kicked off on 18 December in Paris and will last for three years. EMBERS aims at providing an integrated open infrastructure based on a smart parking and a smart management solution. The infrastructure is going to be offered via a variety of generic interfaces, including oneM2M, ETSI M2M, OMA LWM2M and FI-WARE NGSI. Fraunhofer FOKUS is going to contribute to the project based on the OpenMTC and FUSECO playground: www.open-mtc.org.

The DAAD-UNIFI meeting took place in Berlin at the Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute from November 3rd to November 6th, 2015. 28 participants from 11 countries participated.

Purpose of the University Future Internet, UNIFI, project is to establish sustainable teaching and research infrastructures in the areas of Future Internet through global collaboration among academic institutions facilitating researchers particularly master and PhD students to work together on state of the art technologies. These infrastructures are based on state of the art open source toolkits and additional Software packages which are publicly available. The initiative is happy to announce the expansion of new associations and partnerships stretching all over the world including Japan, Mexico, Colombia, Finland, Hungary, among other countries. Visit our videos to learn more about UNIFI, its founding members and new associates. Become part of the Unify Community here.

UNIFI 1.0 Review 2015 Video
UNIFI 2.0 Preview 2015 Video

TRESCIMO stands for Testbeds for Reliable Smart City Machine-to-Machine Communication for Smart Cities, with a lifespan from January-2014 to December 2015. The combined technology from I2CAT (Spain), CSIR (South Africa), Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany), Technical University of Berlin (Germany), University of CapeTown (South Africa), Eskom (South Africa), ABS (Israel)  made possible to build and run a smart environmental monitoring trial in Sant Vicenç dels Horts, near Barcelona, Spain and a smart energy trial in Guateng, near Pretoria, South Africa.

Apart from the trials, the project features also a Proof-of-Concept for enabling large-scale deployments to easily configure and switch the load of the data collectors in order to preserve the reliability and scalability of the service. The concept is called end-to-end programmable networking and was implemented by extending the EU and South African smart devices from both the trials, to interface with the Open5GMTC server that distributes the data collectors among the end devices using LWM2M device management protocol.

Another impressive result was enabling research and development activities for students in both South Africa and Germany through the usage of OpenSDNCore, OpenMTC and FITeagle. As a following up activity FITeagle will integrate with OpenBaton to have a open-source set of toolkits available worldwide for FIRE experiments.

On the 23rd of November, the project presented 4 demonstrations, one for each of the above mentioned R&D directions, at a special FIRE session workshop at the Department of Science and Technology (DST), South Africa, Pretoria, motivating new future collaborations between EU-SA for mutual goals.

Video regarding the EU trial and the Proof-of-concept

The ARCADIA project aims to provide a novel reconfigurable by design highly distributed applications’ development paradigm over programmable infrastructure. The main objective is to facilitate application developers to develop software that is able to take advantage of the underlying infrastructure, while in parallel support the deployment and dynamic configuration of applications in an optimal and autonomic manner.

Read here the whole Press Release.
For more information contact: arcadia [at] av.tu-berlin [.] de

On the 24th and 25th of June Alexander Willner joined the 10th EAI International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TRIDENTCOM) in Vancouver, Canada and presented "The Open-Multinet Upper Ontology - Towards the Semantic-based Management of Federated Infrastructures", "FITeagle: A Semantic-based Infrastructure Management Framework", and "Creating a Sustainable Federation of Cloud-Based Infrastructures for the Future Internet - The FIWARE Approach".

Prof. Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer FOKUS/TU Berlin) was invited to give a talk with the title "Smart Communication Toolkits and Testbeds for Industry and Academia enabling the rapid Prototyping of Emerging Smart City Applications" at The Sirindhorn International School of Engineering (TGGS) at King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand.
More information about the event here. 

Almost 8.000 Chapter downloads have been counted so far – when do you download your chapter?
More about the education book at: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642415685#otherversion=9783642415692

On the 30th of April 2015 Yahya Al-Hazmi and Alexander Willner joined the 2nd Fed4FIRE review meeting in Gent, Belgium. They successfully demonstrated the semantic handover between the resource provisioning and monitoring phase of the federated experiment life cycle using FIRE standard APIs implemented by FITeagle. The subsequent discussions with the EC reviewers were fruitful and the importance of the work and the appealing visualization was acknowledged. Overall, the Fed4FIRE review was positive to two major outcomes: First, tools have to be more user friendly. Second, the project officer urged to get in contact with the Cloud, IoT, M2M, 5G and Industry 4.0 community to design and execute experiments in these contexts using Fed4FIRE.

On the 23rd of April Alexander Willner joined the FLEX open call kick-off meeting in Volos, Greece, and presented the FLEXCARE project which aims to provide a TUB/FOKUS operated LTE/5G testbed environment (FUSECO Playground) to experimenters in the FIRE community. Further the NITOS wireless testbed has been visited which is shown in the provided picture.

On the 24th of April Alexander Willner, Fantaastic CTO, was invited to give a talk about "A lean and agile approach for businesses" on the 2nd CI-FIRE Industry Workshop on Future Internet Testing - Opportunities for European Businesses.

The 5th generation mobile network – "5G" – will play an important role in the communications systems of the future. Self-driving cars, Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, the Tactile Internet for wireless, real-time control of machines: all of these visionary topics need a quantum leap in the efficiency, service scope and availability of mobile communication infrastructure and networks. Fraunhofer FOKUS and Fraunhofer HHI are contributing with their comprehensive know-how and solutions to a consortium of manufacturers, carriers and research institutions, who are working on prototypes for early-stage 5G communications infrastructure and features, and are aiming to implement these into the 5G Berlin test bed.

Read our press release here.
More information on 5G Berlin can be found here: www.5g-berlin.de

Fraunhofer FOKUS NGNI competence center is proud to announce its 5G Playground.
The 5G Playground is an R&D common ground were researchers and engineers, around the world, are able to build together the future 5G environment. It allows for interoperability testing, and for the evaluation, validation and demonstration of their ideas, solutions and prototypes. The playground consists of a comprehensive set of tool kits addressing the most novel technological advances towards 5G.
Fraunhofer FOKUS is actively searching for partners from operators and vendors, as well as academic partners interested in participating in the build-up of the emerging 5G ecosystem. Whether you are developing a future element of the 5G solution, envisioning a new concept or even a novel use case, the 5G Playground is the right place to validate, demonstrate and realize your projects or solutions.
The following Toolkits are part of the 5G Playground:
Open5GCore
OpenSDNCore
Open5G-MTC
More information here: 5G Playground
Contact: Marius Corici, E-Mail

Fraunhofer FOKUS NGNI competence center is very happy to present a new toolkit as part of its 5G Playground testing environment.
Within the 5G environment a huge number of devices will be connected to the network, using different communication requirements (delay/capacity), different communication patterns (on exceptional events, regular, continuous), different reliability requirements and information trust levels. Easy remote management/administration/calibration will also be needed.

Open5GMTC is a practical implementation based on ETSI M2M, oneM2M and OMA LWM2M standards with the main target of achieving more flexibility, programmability, resilience, faster response and security within a 5G environment for the Machine to Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IOT) communication.
More detail here: Open5G-MTC
Contact: Andreea Ancuta Corici, E-Mail 

As part of the Open5GCore developments, the benchmarking tool as well as the correspondent core network has been extended to support evaluation and assessment of handover procedures, opening the way towards a comprehensive qualitative evaluation of different core network solutions, concepts and prototypes. Additionally, the benchmarking tool can be used for evaluating the opportunity of deploying mobile network components on top of cloud infrastructures.
More information on the Open5GCore Toolkit here: www.open5gcore.org
Contact: Marius Corici, E-Mail

OpenSDNCore network functionality was extended with a Service Function Chaining (SFC) solution inspired by the IETF standards. The SFC solution enables the dynamic deployment of virtual network functions across multiple data centers and constitutes the basis of further research in the area of cloud network elasticity, resilience, load balancing and high availability.
More information on the OpenSDNCore Toolkit here: www.opensdncore.org
Contact: Marius Corici, E-Mail

The Health Device Profile (HDP) Bluetooth Device Adapter is a component of the protocol adapter, which handles Android devices supporting the Bluetooth HDP as well as the Zephyr BioHarness. These protocols enable healthcare and fitness device usage models, e.g. runners using biosensors for monitoring fitness goals, a chronic condition patient with a biosensor, etc.
 
These devices also implement the ISO 11073 family standards promoted by the Continua Alliance.
This work was carried out with the support of the FI-STAR project (“Future Internet Social and Technological Alignment Research”), an integrated project funded by the European Commission through the 7th ICT - Framework Program (318389).
More information: IoT Laboratory https://github.com/theIoTLab and FI-STAR http://fistar.eu

Fraunhofer FOKUS announces the integration of two of its most powerful platforms: The Open Machine Type Communications (OpenMTC) platform and the Open Software Defined Networking Core (OpenSDNCore) platform.
OpenSDNCore is a practical implementation of the future network evolution paradigms, realizing Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) concepts, providing early prototyping of a service enablement platform on top of common infrastructure components.
This integration enables a dynamic cloud deployment of M2M services using OpenMTC based on OpenSDNCore. M2M back-end as a Service is already being used within the Smart City TRESCIMO testbeds (Test-beds for Reliable Smart City Machine to Machine Communication).
Learn more at www.opensdncore.org and www.trescimo.eu

The ARCADIA project had its Kick-Off Meeting on 26.01.2015 in Athens. The event took place at the premises of UBITECH, the project coordinator. TU Berlin presented the work plan for the activities they are leading. The results of ARCADIA will contribute to a new generation of PaaS Orchestrators and programmable IaaS resources, benefiting the development and provisioning of highly distributed applications.
 
‪Project site: http://www.arcadia-framework.eu/
Contact: Dr. Stefan Covaci E-Mail

After officially opening the Conference on March 23rd 2015, at the Egg Conference Center in Brussels, the High Representative EU Commissioner visited the exhibition and took time to receive a detailed briefing on the progress of the FI-STAR project with a focus on the uptake of the FI-STAR technology by industrial stakeholders. At the end of his visit, the high Commissioner thanked the FI-STAR Management A. Gavras, S. Covaci and J. Turpie for their dedication and asked DG CNECT Director M. Campolargo to personally inform him about the projects' evolution.

Project site: www.fi-star.eu
Contact: Stefan Covaci E-Mail

The Universities for Future Internet, UNIFI, an initiative from the Chair for Next Generation Networks of the Institute for Telecommunications at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany has grown its community to 20 members. The newly joining members are leading universities from Europe, South Asia, South America and Africa.
The on-boarding of the new UNIFI partners guarantees a higher degree of efficiency and effectiveness gains in research, innovation and teaching of Next Generation Networks and Future Internet technology and a higher involvement in the local markets facilitated by „blueprints“ of industrial partnership projects based on common OpenXXX toolkits.

Project website: http://daad-unifi.org/unifi-partnership-programme/
Contact: Dr. Stefan Covaci E-Mail

On the 25th and 26th of March Ronald Steinke and Alexander Willner presented the TRESCIMO project (Testbeds for Reliable Smart City Machine to Machine Communication) at the NetFutures conference in Brussels and demonstrated the underlying Smart Infrastructures as a Service approach live using a large Lego house model and OpenStack based OpenMTC virtualization.

On the 9th of March Alexander Willner presented two papers about the semantic management of federated Interclouds on the 4th International IEEE Workshop on Cloud Computing, Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) in Tempe, Arizona, USA. Further, as a panelist, he discussed existing Intercloud architecture implementations in ongoing projects and future directions.

OpenMTC team will be presented at the Internet of the Things Applications Europe 2015. This event will be held at the Estrel Berlin Convention Center on April 27-28th 2015. The conference will address various technological business technologies and present different approaches that pave the way for enabling innovations based on M2M and IoT open platforms, as well as some of the successfully stories that have been developed at Fraunhofer FOKUS based on the OpenMTC. Additionally to the conference, on April 27th there will be a tour in the Fraunhofer FOKUS laboratories to show the capacities of the OpenMTC via two demos: Remote Control of Robots and Smart Building Sensing.

The 10th KuVS Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms (NGSDP) Workshop/Fachgespräch was hosted at Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS in Berlin, Germany on March 16, 2015 with the theme "Virtualization Impacts on Service Delivery Infrastructures – SDN, NFV and Clouds".

Around 30 experts from German, Swiss, Polish and Italian academia and industry joined the interactive workshop to discuss innovative ideas, concepts and results in the scope of 5G, SDN and NFV. 13 speakers presented their work in four sessions. Each session ending with a highly interactive Q&A panel. As part of the workshop, Fraunhofer FOKUS demonstrated its Open5GCore and OpenSDNCore toolkits.

See the KuVS NGSDP Minutes here

The last FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2014 has been a great success with around 250 international experts.
Become part of this year's event and join the Tutorials, Workshops and Conference, hands-on live demonstrations and in depth technical Discussions with Fraunhofer FOKUS, TU Berlin and fellow experts.
Hosted and organized by: Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS
General Chair: Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS

More Information about FUSECO Forum 2015 here.

See the Event Minutes here.

The FLEXCARE project adds significant value to the EU FP7 FLEX project, by providing highly relevant new capabilities to experimenters in the field of LTE research and beyond (5G).

It is addressing the following two objectives:
1. Testbed extensions to the FLEX infrastructure by using Advanced Open LTE interfaces, that will be made interoperable with the existing FIRE control and management tools adopted by FLEX and
2. Testbed software enhancements, by means of building tools for supporting experimentation with the LTE equipment, which will be fully integrated with the existing tools.

FLEXCARE aims at extending the FLEX infrastructure with a new LTE testbed facility, namely the FUSECO Playground testbed. This allows significant extension and enhancement of the FLEX project infrastructure allowing for new possibilities of mobile broadband (2G, 3G, LTE, WiFi) experiments.
Furthermore, FLEXCARE adds new capabilities supporting 5G research within Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN). These capabilities are realized through our OpenSDNCore and Open5GCore toolkits that will allow to instantiate orchestrated LTE functions (e.g. PDN-GW, S-GW, MME) virtualized and software-based as well as to separate the control plane from the user plane using the OpenFlow technology.
The major goal of the integration of the FUSECO Playground into the FLEX architecture is to provide remote access to these resources and services to FLEX experimenters. The FUSECO Playground is powered by the FITeagle toolkit which is developed by TUB, who  is also leading and participating in the standardization efforts for the next GENI/FIRE APIs and resource descriptions.

Fraunhofer hosted the FIESTA kickoff meeting in Berlin on February 12th and 13th. With 14 partners, the project aims to provide an experimental infrastructure for enabling IoT testbed/platforms operators to interconnect their facilities in an interoperable way based on the European FIRE testbeds. Furthermore, FIESTA is going to facilitate researchers and solution providers to design and deploy large scale integrated applications that transcend the (silo) boundaries of individual IoT platforms or testbeds. The OpenMTC team at FOKUS is going to bring the OpenMTC into such federated infrastructure as an integral element of the FUSECO Playground.

Trying to summarize 5G technologies in 10 minutes, Fraunhofer FOKUS has released a set of 3 short videos which present our perspective on the 5G requirements, use cases and technologies, and how to reach relevant research results with lower effort by deploying realistic testbeds based on comprehensive toolkits such as Open5GCore and OpenSDNCore.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

A Fraunhofer initiative for collaborative research towards 5G:
5G -Access, -Core & Xhaul Technology to be tested in one Place
5G Berlin contributes in the global research arena being a place to have 5G related researchers join their effort, interact across disciplinary borders and test latest technologies, system components and applications in a real world setup.

For more information please contact us at Email

Visit 5G Berlin

Professor Thomas Magedanz talked about: "Towards Unified M2M/IOT Platforms for efficient Smart City Implementations – Status Quo and Practical Ways Forward" at the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) of the National Science and Development Authority (NSTDA), Science Park, January 7, Bangkok, Thailand

The first call for applications of the TEAM project has been launched on November 10^th and is open until February 1^st.

The TEAM project brings together world class higher education and research institutions as well as industrial partners in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. As an Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Programme, the TEAM partnership provides a platform for joint research and academic exchange by offering scholarships to talented junior and senior ICT researchers for a mobility in Europe or Japan and the Republic of South Korea.

As TEAM - partner, the TU Berlin / AV is offering Doctorates, Post-doctorates, Academic & Administrative Staff of the TEAM partners (including TU Berlin) the opportunity of studying and/or doing research in the field of ICT.

Find out more at www.team-mundus.eu and apply online at www.team-mundus.eu/scholarships/academic-offers/

Contact: Dr. Stefan Covaci (stefan.covaci@tu-berlin.de)

The DAAD – UNIFI project held this year its annual workshop hosted by the TU Berlin on the premises of the Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute in Berlin, Germany.

During the workshop, the UNIFI partners discussed the achievements to date and the further plans and were given the opportunity to participate in a number of interactive demonstrations of the TU-Berlin and FOKUS teaching and research facilities. For the first time, new partners from Indonesia (Telkom University), South Africa (Rhodes University) and Colombia (Universidad de los Andes) were attending the workshop and expressed their interest in joining the UNIFI community as associate partners. The DAAD-UNIFI partners and associate partners participated also to the co-located Fokus Fuseco Forum 2014 conference  and exchanged valuable insights with leading European peers in the Future Internet and Next Generation Networks space.

Contact: Dr. Stefan Covaci (stefan.covaci [at] tu-berlin.de)

FI-STAR Technical Director delivers popular eheatlh tutorial , keynote speach and is awarded outstanding service award

HealthCom’14 in Natal, Brazil between 15th and 18th of October 2014

15th of October tutorial „Future Internet Platform Centered eHealth Service Delivery“ was presented by Dr. Stefan Covaci, FI-STAR Technical Director and Senior Solutions Architect Future Internet Services Platforms, Technical University Berlin.

The tutorial was very well attended and besides presenting the use of the FI-PPP technology for decentralised ehealth services in smart cities, the tutorial provided insights on the effectiveness and efficiency gains achieved by the different stakeholders and across supply-chains centered on the FI-STAR ‘eHealth Platform Provider’.

A practical, hands-on example of the development and the deployment of a generic health-telemonitoring application using the FI-STAR platform, was given on-line using a VPN connection from Stefan’s mobile in Natal to the App-developer and App-administrator in the  FI-STAR Development Portal and to the FI-STAR Administrator Portal in the Reference Deployment Environment in TUBIT data center in Berlin.

The performance of this remote-access to the FI-STAR Reference Deployment Environment in Berlin demo was excellent and convinced the audience about the viability of the FI-STAR technical and business models. At the end of the tutorial Stefan was awarded the IEEE Communications Society Tutorial Instructor Diploma.

On 16th of October, FI-STAR Technical Director Stefan Covaci gave a key-note speech as a participant in the panel – “Emerging eHealth Applications:big data, analytics, telemedicine and mHealth” (http://www.ieee-healthcom.org/panels.html). At the end of the panel session, Stefan was awarded the IEEE Communications Society appreciation diploma.

At the end of Health’Com14 the FI-STAR contributions and the participation of FI-STAR representatives was highly appreciated and IEEE Communications Society “Outstanding Service Awards” were made to FI-STAR’s Stefan Covaci and Maria Joao Barros.

Furthermore FI-STAR’s Stefan Covaci and Anastasius Gavras were invited to act as Programme Committee Members of the next Health’Com15 which is to be held in Boston, USA.

Finally the proposal from TUM and TUB presented by FI-STAR Medical Director Professor Christoph Thuemmler, to host the 2016 edition of Health’Com in Munich, Germany was accepted. All in all a very successful Health and Technology conference where FI-STAR delivered. We look forward to the Boston and Munich conferences. 

The ERASMUS MUNDUS Projects „TEAM“ had its kick-off meeting on 6-7 October at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France.
“TEAM – Technologies for Information and Communication, Europe – East Asia Mobilities” is an European Commission Erasmus Mundus Action 2 / Strand 2 Mobility Project aiming at developing new and innovative technologies, enhancing carrer prospects of young researchers and competitiveness of researchers, promoting intercultural understanding and increasing the attractiveness of European higher education. Until the end of 2017, leading East-Asian universities from Japan (University of Tokyo, Keio University, Nara Institute of Science & technology) and South Korea (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & technology, Gwangiu Institute of science & Technology, Chungnam National University)and leading European universities (Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France), Technische Universität Berlin (Germany), Aalto University (Finland), Eötvös Lorand University (Hungry), University of Trento (Italy), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)), will engage in exchanging PhDs, Post-Docs and staff members according to mutually-recognised academic and research programmes.
Together with UPMC, TUB was co-initiator of the project and is represented in the Consortium Management Board by Prof. Thomas Magendanz  and Dr.-Ing. Stefan Covaci as scientific representative and project leader.  As industrial associate partner of TUB / AV, the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS contributes with its NGNI Laboratories and industrial  R&D  agenda, to the implementation of the project-plan. Thematic foci of TUB / AV within “TEAM” are sind 5G, Software Defined Infrastructures / Software Defined Networks / Network Function Virtualisation, Machine to Machine Communications / Internet of Things and Future Internet Usage Areas.
“TEAM” is well positioned on TUB / AV roadmap  for academic international co-operations, as a natural follow-up of the DAAD-sponsored project “UNIFI” with partner-universities from Thailand, Viet Nam, South Africa and Chile (www.daad-unifi.org).
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Stefan Covaci (stefan.covaci [at] tu-berlin.de)
Project URL: www.team-mundus.eu.

Julius Mueller defended successfully his PhD thesis "Flexible Cross
Layer Optimization for Fixed and Mobile Broadband Telecommunication
Networks and Beyond" in the electrical engineering and computer sciences
faculty at the TU Berlin on September 29, 2014.

Reviewers have been Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz (TU Berlin, Germany),
Prof. Axel Küpper (TU Berlin, Germany), Prof. Wolfgang Kellerer (TU
Munich, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Raake (TU Berlin, Germany)
chaired the evaluation committee.

Deutschlandfunk interviewed researcher Julius Müller about 5G and the work of Fraunhofer FOKUS on that. Listen to the radio report here (in German):

http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/5g-netzwerk-hunger-nach-bandbreite.684.de.html?dram:article_id=291616

The joint workshop "How to push research boundaries and gain competitive edge", organised by CI-FIRE, EIT ICT Labs and its project FanTaaStic was held on 27 June in the Zamansky Tower at UPMC in Paris.

The workshop was an opportunity to learn about the FanTaaStic Brokerage Service which is intended to connect users and experimenters with testbed owners. The FanTaaStic platform will be trialled until the end of 2014 and launched commercially thereafter. The technical and non-technical pre-requisites for being able to offer testbed resources (such as FIRE facilities) for research, education or busuiness purposes, via the FanTaaStic Brokerage Service, were explained.

The second plenary meeting of the TRESCIMO project was held from 26-28 May 2014 in Heidelberg. After interesting technical discussions a more detailed architecture has been specified. We're pleased to see CSIR as an additional TRESCIMO testbed and the interconnection between the testbed will start soon. For enabling local testing, sensor hardware was presented and exchanged between the partners. Finally, the project management and the dissemination has been reviewed and we're excited to work on the realisation of our ambitious project within the next couple of month.

Guest Commentary by Dr. Adel Al-Hezmi (Fraunhofer FOKUS) in Funkschau. Kommunikationstechnik für Profis: “Das Internet der Dinge macht Städte schlau", May 2014:

Read the full article by Adel Al-Hezmi (in German) here. 

We are pleased to announce you that the XIFI project is organizing its first training session on May 15, 2014 at Fraunhofer FOKUS premises, Berlin, Germany.

This first training session is dedicated to developers (of FI-PPP Use Case projects, Web Entrepreneurs, Start-Ups) who want to use the XIFI Infrastructures and services to run their experimentations (e.g. new FI-PPP based services).

The session will cover:

• Presentations - XIFI architecture and capacities
• Demonstrations and case studies (e.g. on XIFI Infrastructure, Showcases based on XIFI infrastructure and FI-WARE GEs)
• Practical examples potentially including practice / tutorials

The session will take place at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Auditorium 2 from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM (CEST) on May 15, 2014.

Please register at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/xifi-first-training-session-tickets-11343551869

or send an email to: edu@fi-xifi.eu

Registration Ends: May 15, 2014 9:00 AM

You are very welcome!

* XIFI (https://www.fi-xifi.eu) is a project of the European Public-Private-Partnership on Future Internet (FI-PPP) programme. In this context XIFI is the project responsible for the capacity building part of the programme. The Future Internet Public-Private Partnership, short: FI-PPP, is a European programme for Internet-enabled innovation.

From April 7 – 9 , Prof Magedanz has delivered his annual UNIFI lecture in the Department of Electrical Engineering (http://www.ebe.uct.ac.za) and the Centre for Broadband Networks (http://coe.uct.ac.za). This year the lecture title has been "Future Internet Impacts on Next Generation Telecommunication Services and Network Infrastructures“.

This year the lectures covered most recent Smart City ICT platforms, such as SDN, NFV, IoT, M2M, Cloud technologies as well as Cloud based SDPs. The lecture series also pointed out the use of the Fraunhofer FOKUS / TU Berlin OpenXXX toolkits and Testbeds (Playgrounds) enabling "Testbed as a service" and "Testbed to go“ approaches for advanced academic and industry research and prototyping in the aforementioned technology fields.

Marius Corici and Giuseppe Carella joined FIA 2014 in Athens. They presented to the community the last achievements of the MCN project, particularly with hands-on demonstration of the future flexible access, core and services deployments in an end-to-end scenario proving the feasibility of complex virtualised network infrastructures.

This year the three day DAAD Unifi Lecture was entitled "Future Internet Impacts on Next Generation Telecommunication Services and Network Infrastructures“ and covered topics such as:

1. Smart Cities, Future Internet Technologies and the Network of the Future
2. Internet of Things and Machine to Machine Communications
3. Cloud-based Service Delivery Platforms and Networks 

Around 45 students attended the lectures.

The European project NUBOMEDIA researches how new technologies such as computer vision, augmented reality, 3D video or multisensory data can be used for creating novel communication paradigms going beyond phone calls and video conferences.

Traditional communication services act just as mere information transport systems. For example, when we perform a phone call, we just receive the speech signal coming from the person at the other end of the line. However, new techniques such as computer vision, augmented reality and the advanced processing of audio-visual flows allow creating novel communication paradigms useful in diverse areas such as e-Health, security, defence, video games or smart TV.

Prof. Luis Lopez, form URJC, presents it in this way: “We can imagine, for example, WebRTC video conferences for telemedicine where the own network infrastructure offers biometric information extracted from the computational analysis of patients’ video and speech. We may also think about social video games where users connect through smartphones and tablets to interact with virtual objects and characters embedded into their exchanged streams. When looking to advertising, we envision personalized commercials where the end-user is embedded as the main character of the spot. Applications for security and defence are also numerous when considering person-to-machine communication models combined with computer vision techniques for people or object detection and tracking.”

These types of services are not currently mainstream due to the traditional lack of capability on networks. However, in the last few years, the emergence of high bandwidth access technologies, such as fiber or 4G, is making possible their mass adoption. Nevertheless, the creation of such services still requires very important infrastructure investments and development efforts that are not compatible with reasonable business models, and this is why they are not popular. NUBOMEDIA has the objective of addressing this problem by creating a cloud platform allowing small enterprises and individual programmers to develop their very own interactive multimedia communication services without significant investments or efforts and in a secure, efficient and scalable way. NUBOMEDIA plans to expose a number of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to end developers suitable for creating a next generation of multimedia services where the information exchange is enriched through processing capabilities such as face detection and recognition, interaction with virtual objects, 3D scenario reconstruction, advanced video mixing, video recording and recovery, etc. From the perspective of programmers, the NUBOMEDIA infrastructure just behaves as an infinite supercomputer where the processing capabilities can elastically increase to adapt to the load offered by end users.

To foster innovation and catalyse the emergence of a whole ecosystem of applications and users around NUBOMEDIA, all research results of the project will be released as open source software following flexible licenses such as LGPL or Apache.

NUBOMEDIA is coordinated by Rey Juan Carlos University and has distinguished research and industrial partners including the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, the Technical University of Berlin, the Stefan cel Mare Suceava University, the VTT Institute, Telecom Italia, ZED Worldwide, LiveU, Visual Tools and Naevatec.

NUBOMEDIA has been funded by the European Commission under 7^th Framework Programme objective ICT-2013.1.6: Connected and social media.

Antonio Manzalini, Roberto Saracco, Cagatay Buyukkoc, Prosper Chemuouil, Sławomir Kukliński, Andreas Gladisch, Masaki Fukui, Wenyu Shen, Masakatsu Fujiwara,Katsuhiro Shimano, Eliezer Dekel, David Soldani, Mehmet Ulema, Walter Cerroni, Franco Callegati, Giovanni Schembra, Vincenzo Riccobene, Carmen Mas Machuca, Alex Galis, Julius Mueller:

"Software-Defined Networks for Future Networks and Services - Main Technical Challenges and Business Implications", White Paper based on the IEEE Workshop SDN4FNS (Trento 11th – 13th November, 2013), Version 2.2 – 26th January 2014, http://sites.ieee.org/sdn4fns/whitepaper/

The AV team is looking for self-motivated students for working in interesting topic like cloud computing and Future Internet Testbeds. More detailed information here.

TRESCIMO is a project about Testbeds for Reliable Smart City Machine-to-Machine Communication. It started with a Kick-Off Meeting from 13-15 January 2014 in Cape Town. Eight partner organisations take part in the integrating project under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP 7). More information about the project here.

The objective of FI-STAR project is to establish early trials in the Health Care domain building on Future Internet (FI) technology leveraging on the outcomes of FI-PPP Phase 1 projects. During the 4th FUSECO Forum, FI-Start project has demonstrated the validation of different Generic Enablers (GE) by means of two end-to-end service scenarios. The first scenario focuses on patient monitoring application, where a patient requires observation of his/her health status by means of measured values (e.g. heartbeats). Therefore, such data is first showed to the patient locally on his mobile phone and simultaneously sent periodically to a medical service center, where they can track patient heart rate in a real-time through a web-browser. In the second scenario, if the patient heartbeats above certain threshold (e.g. higher than 75 beats), then an emergency call is automatically established between the patient and the fixed health assistance service or to even dynamically to the nearest one.

FFF 2013 was the fourth event of the FOKUS FUSECO Forum series and looked at fixed and mobile Next Generation Networks Evolution towards virtualized network control and service platforms and seamless Cloud-based H2H and M2M applications. More than 200 participants from 30 nations joined the event. So again we followed our tradition and incorporate new trends within the established tutorial and workshop streams on day one, such as Network Virtualisation and Open Flow, cloud-based human-to-human (H2H) and machine-to-machine (M2M) service provision, as well as recent advances in WebRTC and HTML5 technologies.

With participation of more than 50 guests and speakers the international FI-PPP workshop successfully provided a comprehensive overview of the status of all currently running projects of the FI-PPP programme.

The second day united the different tracks of the previous day under the main theme of this year´s FFF by a full day conference "Smart Communication Platforms for Emerging Smart Cities" which featured 18 presentations from various international network operators and standardization bodies.

Details on the program and impressions from the event can be obtained from the FUSECO Forum website here. Due to the huge success, the FOKUS FUSECO Forum series will be continued in Asia in summer 2014 and again in Berlin end of November 2014.

On the FiSTAR project plenary meeting in Edinburgh, UK, 18-20 Nov 2013, Hakan and Adel prepare the demonstration setup for the EU project review, where it was well received.

The demo presented the interaction among selected FI-WARE Generic Enablers (GEs) in the context of secure healthcare sensor data aquisition and processing. Three scenarios were defined, evaluating IoT and IDM GEs.

In the first, demonstrating a patient monitoring use case, the heart rate is monitored and shown locally on an Android smartphone. The latter also hosts a protocol adapter for forwarding the data to IoT Gateway, delivering the data according to their priority and status of the Connection Davice Interface (CDI). An IoT broker aggregates the data and forwards them to the Context Broker, which allows the web-based application to visualise them.

The second scenario initiates an emergency call according to certain thresholds. When the heart rate triggers the threshold, the IoT Gateway forwards the data to the IoT broker with a high priority, thus the application can initiate an emergency call session to the clinical services automatically.

The third scenario illustrates the FI-WARE Identity Management (IDM) and Access Control, allowing to define dedicated roles (such as doctors and patients) and allocate policies, e.g. who can access which data, accordingly.

On IEEE LCN in Sydney, Dr Tom Pfeifer from TU Berlin, Germany, chaired the new IEEE M2MCIP workshop on 24 Oct 2013, focusing on the emerging trend of Machine-to-Machine communication, providing the connectivity in the Internet of Things. The workshop provided a platform for researchers and practitioners to address and discuss challenges and proposed solutions to the open and upcoming issues in M2M, as state-of-the-art solutions and work in progress. Thus, the workshop, well visited with 40 attendees, consisted of a blend of an excellent keynote speech, given by Prof. Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales as well as six technical papers, sparking a round-table discussion in an interactive workshop atmosphere.

Hakan Coskun, Tom Pfeifer: "Time Division Configuration Multiplexing of Wireless Interfaces" 38th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2013, Sydney, Australia, Oct 21-24, IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings

Hakan Coskun, Tom Pfeifer, Asma Elmangoush, Adel Al-Hezmi: "Open M2M Data - Position Paper" 1st IEEE Workshop on Machine to Machine Communications Interfaces and Platforms, M2MCIP 2013 Oct 24, Sydney, Australia, in conjunction with IEEE LCN, IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings

Oct 14-17. Dr.-Ing. Tom Pfeifer from TU Berlin, Germany, gave a three-day guest lecture in the HUST MSc class for computer communications, covering the development of the Internet of Things, its Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication backbones, open platforms and application areas in smart cities and smart environments. The visit was complemented by talks to the Mobifone labs about collaboration in research and development.

Evolution of Telecommunication Services. The Convergence of Telecom and Internet: Technologies and Ecosystems. Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS) 7768, E. Bertin, N. Crespi, T. Magedanz (Ed.), Springer Verlag, 2013 More information about the book here

The International Post-Doc Initiative (IPODI) of the Technische Universität Berlin awards 21 two-year fellowships to outstanding international researchers. The programme is co-funded by the Marie Curie Programme of the European Union (Co-funding of Regional, National, and International Programmes) and is open to all fields of research represented at the TU Berlin. It addresses all excellent female researchers regardless of their nationality or age. Researchers returning from periods of international mobility (researching outside Germany), intersectoral mobility (working in the private sector) or non-academic mobility (e.g. after parental leave) are especially encouraged to apply.

For more information please click here.

AV Project Kick-Off on Monday, October 21 in room 6.009 6th floor at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 10589 Berlin

In the 2013 Interdisciplinary Symposium at the University of Rostock, Germany, "Too much smartness - how much assistance do we need", Dr. Tom Pfeifer was invited for the introductory talk. He presented a keynote titled "Smart inside, Smart outside, Smart for whom? Yesterday, today, tomorrow." and participated in the panel discussion.

The talk started with a historical perspective of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, and the lessons learnt in the past 20 years, to analyse the current paradigm shift towards fewer but more intelligent devices and converging smart environments.

It concluded that new value chains will be enabled by open communication platforms.

http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/3481.html

The symposium was organised by the research group MuSAMA (Multimodal Smart Appliance Ensembles for Mobile Applications).

Dr.-Ing. Tom Pfeifer presented the OpenMTC platform in an invited talk on the ANGA COM Congress 2013 in Cologne, titled "Machine Communication Platforms for Smart Home Applications", and participated in the following Panel discussion.

The talk was particularly successful as it demonstrated a solution to integrate the heterogeneity of Smart Home approaches discussed beforehand by industry players such as Cisco, Samsung, Microsoft, Google, and the German Cable operators, in the Connected Home Summit.

http://www.angacom.de/

You can download the presentation slides here:
Machine Communication Platforms for Smart Home Applications

Dr. T. Pfeiffer is Guest Editor for Special Issue of Computer Communications:
“Current and Future Architectures, Protocols, and Services for the Internet of Things”, Call open for Sep 15, 2013. Amsterdam (NL): Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., North-Holland, ISSN: 0140-3664. Call for Papers

The FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2012 minutes are available in the online IEEE Global Communication Newsletter (May 2013), now.

You can download them here: http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/gcn/pdf/gcn0513.pdf

The project started officially on 1. April 2013, and all participants of the project gathered in Rome from 15-17 April 2013 to discuss the approach and agree on the concrete next work items. It was the first time that all project participants gathered in one room to exchange their plans, align their ideas and listen to presentations about the FI-PPP programme overall as well as the impact the FI-WARE architecture has on the work of XIFI.

XIFI is the project in the Public-Private-Partnership on Future Internet (FI-PPP) that is responsible for the establishment of the infrastructure capacity that will enable the development and deployment of countless new service and applications for the future Internet across Europe.

The meeting was hosted by the co-ordinating organisation, Telecom Italia, at its premises in Rome. More than 60 participants attended the meeting.

May 21-22, 2013. Prof. Thomas Magedanz, visiting Professor at the university of Cape Town and full Professor at the Technical University Berlin, Germany gave a two day lecture entitled: “Next Generation Network (NGN) to Future Internet (FI) Evolution for Smart City Communications –Understanding the Roles and Relationships between APIs, IMS, EPC and MTC within emerging Smart City Platforms” at the Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Payathai Road, Bangkok, Thailand.

It investigates the suitability of the Fi-Ware platform, developed in the Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) framework, in field trials of seven different e-health scenarios, in seven different EU countries.

As a novelty, it introduces the hybrid cloud approach, protecting sensitive patient data in a state-of-the-art cloud architecture, by separating the public and the private part of the cloud functionalities.

Special Tutorial by Prof. T. Magedanz: “Smart City Communication: M2M standards, applications and platforms” at Maritime Park and Spa resort, Krabi,Thailand, May 16th 2013."

Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz took part in todays UC Lab opening ceremony at IT Telkom in Bandung, Indonesia. UC Lab is a part of Telkom Institute of Technology and it is a leading international research centre in the field of communication technology, where research, industry, and customers can benefit from its creativity process. For more information please click here.

Prof. Thomas Magedanz presented a keynote entitled ”Smart Communication Platforms for Prototyping Smart City Applications” at the International Conference of Information and Communication Technology (ICoICT) in Bandung, Indonesia, March 20 2013.

http://icoict.org

FOKUS at M2M Alliance

AV at M2M Alliance

TU Intern reports on M2M Communication.

Read the full article on page 8: http://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/a70100710/Fotos/TU_intern/2013/Januar/tui01_2013.pdf

Guest Commentary by Dr. Sebastian Wahle (Fraunhofer FOKUS) in Funkschau. Kommunikationstechnik für Profis: "Neue Standards bringen Wind in den M2M-Markt", February, 2013:

Read the full article by Sebastian Wahle (in German) here. 

MobileCloud-Networking has now officially started on 1.Nov. 2012. TU Berlin and Fraunhofer are both part of the project. Next week will be an introduction of the OpenEPC to selected partners of the MCN consortium at FOKUS.

For more information, visit: www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/ngni/projects/current_projects/mobilecloud_networking/index.html

OpenEPC Release 4 now available

With its OpenEPC software, Fraunhofer FOKUS provides a testbed toolkit that enables prototyping of seamless IP connectivity-related features like QoS (Quality of Service) and charging, mobility management, access control and security for 3GPP and non-3GPP wireless network technologies including 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), 3G, 2G and WLAN. OpenEPC Rel. 4 is now delivered to customers and partners around the globe. As main new feature the testbed can be equipped with real devices and radio networks mirroring the operator network very close to reality.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, head of the FOKUS competence center Next Generation Network Infrastructures (NGNI) and professor within the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty at the Technische Universität Berlin, explains: “We are very proud to provide OpenEPC Release 4 to our customers and partners. OpenEPC was successfully introduced in 2010 with lots of functional extensions demanded by customers during the last two years. With Rel. 4, the toolkit has reached its functional maturity state. It mirrors the operator network very close to reality as it interconnects smoothly with cost-efficient radio network equipments and enables connectivity for common mobile devices. I’m convinced that OpenEPC will reduce the gap between research and development and networks which are already in practical use by enabling the efficient realization of meaningful testbeds.”

The toolkit is scalable starting from a complete core network in a single box, up to medium-scale distributed proof of concept testbeds. OpenEPC Rel. 4 is available under a multitude of paid binary, source code, or redistribution licenses.

For further information please click to the press release of OpenEPC-Release 4

On November 20, 2012, Prof. Thomas Magedanz, head of the Competence Center NGNI and professor at the TU Berlin, has taken up his visiting professorship at the Faculty of “Physical and Mathematical Sciences” of the University of Chile with a three-day lecture series on “Next Generation Network (NGN) to Future Internet (FI) Evolution”.

Prof. Thomas Magedanz has taken up his visiting professorship at the Faculty of “Physical and Mathematical Sciences” of the University of Chile in Santiago de Chile with a three-day series of lectures on the topic “Next Generation Network (NGN) to Future Internet (FI) Evolution – The role of SDPs, EPC, IMS, MTC for Smart City Communication Needs” on November 20, 2012.  The lecture series was aimed at graduate students in Masters and PhD programs and, for the time being, will be continued annually until 2015. The Faculty has been existing since the University was founded in 1842. Today, 4500 undergraduate and 1000 graduate students study at this institution. At the Faculty of “Physical and Mathematical Sciences” alone, more than 60 laboratories are available for purposes of research and teaching. In these labs, teaching staff and students work closely together with Chilean telecommunications service providers.  

Chile is an interesting partner country for German telecommunications as well as information and communication technology (I&C) research, as it has a small but very competitive telecommunications, entertainment and I&C market. Companies have a great interest in testing new technologies and introducing them in their own country, as well as in the large neighboring countries Brasil and Colombia. In order to further strengthen the partnership between Germany and Chile, and to expand it to other research fields and Latin American countries, Fraunhofer FOKUS has, like other research institutions, recently opened an Innovation Office in Santiago de Chile.  

Technologies for a „Next Generation Network“ and „Future Internet“ enable a seamless communication between stationary and mobile devices and thus play a significant role in the development of an innovative and adaptive telecommunications infrastructure for newly emerging Smart City applications. For example, the researchers want to implement a „Smart Campus“ at the University of Chile with the help of toolkits from the Competence Center NGNI.  

Aside from his visiting professorship at the University of Chile, Prof. Magedanz has also been holding a visiting professorship at the University of Cape Town in South Africa since 2007.

Further Information:
Innovation Office Chile
University of Chile, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

By Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, General Chair, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS, IEEE Senior Member, Germany

The 3rd international FOKUS Future Seamless Communication (FUSECO) Forum themed “Convergence of Human-to-Human and Machine-to-Machine Communications within Emerging Open Smart City ICT Infrastructures – Using Open APIs, RCS, IMS, MTC, EPC, and LTE as Enablers for Emerging Future Internet Application Domains” has been held at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, Germany on November 15-16, 2012 with big engagement of IEEE Comsoc members acting as tutorial speakers and chairmen at the event. The event was attended by around 200 industry and academic experts from more than 30 nations, which represents an increase of the number of attendees of 25% compared to the last year´s event. The FUSECO Forum is a unique annual event, providing a networking and technical discussion platform for international network operators, standardization development organizations, and leading academic organizations dealing with the evolution of service control platforms for fixed and mobile next generation networks towards Smart Cities. In this context the FUSECO Forum took a holistic view on global Long-term Evolution (LTE) rollout and coincident deployment of Evolved Packet Core (EPC) platforms, the usage of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) for the provision of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and emerging Rich Communications Services (RCS), competing with successful over the top (OTT) voice and video services, as well as machine to machine (M2M) / machine type communication (MTC) services and platforms and their role within emerging smart city information and communication platforms and the Future Internet.

Follow the link to read the full text: Event Minutes 2012

The first dates for the courses "Hot Topics NGN & FIT" and "NGNs & FIT" (projects WW+SS) are online. 

Hot Topics NGN & FIT
Thursday, 18.10.2012 at 16:00 in room FR 0512A
Hot Topics @ ISIS

NGNs & FIT (projects WW+SS):
Fr, 26.10.2012 at 14:30 in room 6.009 6th floor at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 10589 Berlin - Presentation of topics by supervisor and group forming by students
NGNs & FIT @ ISIS

Enabled by the DAAD Project University Future Internet (UNIFI) there will be lecture by Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz (TU Berlin/FhG FOKUS, Germany) at UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE ,Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica (DIE) on November 20 – November 22, 2012:
“Next Generation Network (NGN) to Future Internet (FI) Evolution - The role of SDPs, EPC, IMS, MTC for Smart City Communication Needs”

See the detailed lecture plan here

We have integrated OpenMTC with the Smart Information
Sharing service allowing the aggregation of sensor data into
big data clouds.
Additionally, the service provides a converged M2M and
human-to-human service by notifying services and personal
devices on update of information.
www.open-mtc.org

T. Magedanz: “From Fixed-Mobile Convergence towards total ICT Convergence in the Future Internet – on the Role of Unified Smart City Control and Communication Platforms and related R&D Testbeds”, Keynote at the Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2012 themed "The Internet of Things - Smart Homes & Cities"... Evolution or Tsunami?, Fancourt in George, Western Cape, South Africa, September 4, 2012, http://www.satnac.org.za/

1st Workshop on Future Internet in Academia has successfully taken place on Aug 3, 2012 as part of ICCE 2012 in Hue (Imperial City of Vietnam), Vietnam between Aug 1-3, 2012, www.icce2012.org. Chaired by Dr. Stefan Covaci (Technische Universität Berlin) and Prof. Nguyen Thanh (Hanoi University of Science and Technology), this workshop brought together key academic, industrial and governmental players to discuss UNIFI topics. The workshop was organized around 6 key-notes and a panel discussion.

1st UNIFI Workshop minutes: please click here

UNIFI presentations: please go to daad-unifi.org/publications/presentations/

Prof. Thomas Magedanz held an UNIFI Guest lecture at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). Topic of the lecture: “NGN2FI Evolution – Understanding NGN Control and Service Platform Evolution towards Smart Cities”.
For more information please click here. 

Register today to benefit from the early bird tariff (till August 31, 2012):


www.fuseco-forum.org/registration

„Convergence of Human-to-Human and Machine-to-Machine Communications within Emerging Open Smart City ICT Infrastructures – Using Open APIs, RCS, IMS, MTC, EPC, and LTE as Enablers for Emerging Future Internet Application Domains“

The preliminary program is now available at:

www.fuseco-forum.org

FUSECO Forum invitation flyer

If you are interested in speaking, sponsoring or supporting options, please contact: Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz: thomas [dot] magedanz [at] fokus [dot] fraunhofer [dot] de

Building upon the great success of OpenIMS and OpenEPC, Fraunhofer FOKUS, supported by Technische Universität Berlin, released a new Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication platform: OpenMTC. This platform is inspired by the ETSI TC M2M specifications, namely TS 192.921 and TS 102.690. OpenMTC consist of a gateway service capability layer (GSCL) to support a variety of different sensor technologies and a network service capability layer (NSCL) to integrate with other service platforms and to support heterogeneous application domains such as Utilities, Transport & Logistics, Automotive, and Smart Cities.

www.open-mtc.org

The department AV (Department of Telecommunication Systems) at Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) is leader and coordinator in a new DAAD partnership program starting under the name of UNIFI. Together with universities from South Africa, Chile , Thailand and Vietnam TUB/AV is working on sustainable academic structures in Next GenerationNetwork Infrastructures and Future Internet technology at universities in developing countries from the southern hemisphere.

→ www.daad-unifi.org

On April 04, 2012 the 6th Workshop Next Generation Service Delivery Platform (NG SDP) has been organized by Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, Germany. Around 40 workshop participants discussed the topic of "M2M impacts on SDP Evolution". We are more than happy to continue this successful series of events attracting experts from industry, academia, and standardization. The workshop covered different aspects ranging from SDP IoT event integration and vertical M2M applications to cloud computing and M2M traffic influence on mobile networks. Also, a live demonstration of the OpenMTC platform developed by Fraunhofer FOKUS and TU Berlin was shown during the lunch break. The final agenda including links to all presentations can be found below. The next workshop of this series with the topic "Cloud-based Service Platforms for the Future Internet" is planned to be held in October 2012 at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Winterthur, Switzerland.

Prof. Magedanz  was one of the key speakers at the SDP Asia 2012 in Singapore.

In his speech “Future Internet Impacts on SDP Evolution – Towards Open APIs for Emerging Smart City Applications” he explained the role of IP Multimedia Subsystem, Machine Type Communication, Evolved Packet Core and related Open APIs within emerging Smart City SDPs.

In front of an international audience of experts and leaders Prof. Magedanz calls the Smart Cities Concept the Future Internet Show Case and he described the requirements of  Smart Cities communication infrastructures.

Ir. Ahmad Tri Hanuranto, M.T., Rector of Institut Teknologi Telkom and Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin, signed an MoU for establishing, expanding, and broadening partnerships in terms of research, educational technology, academic and business Incubators, and consultations.

The signing procedure was performed right before the “Ubiquiteous Cloud Bali” project kick off meeting in Kuta, Bali, witnessed by the two Telkom Indonesia Board of Director members Indra Utoyo, Director of IT Solution and Strategic Portfolio and Ermadi Dahlan, Director of Network and Solutions.

Telkom Institute of Technology (IT Telkom) - formerly called STT Telkom – is the first institution in Indonesia that focuses on the field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). IT Telkom graduates have been prepared to be skilled and business-oriented experts in the field of ICT to meet the demands of the rapidly developing Indonesian ICT industries. IT Telkom is projected to be a World Class University in 2017, targeting to be an excellent international university in ICT, be the agent of change in the development of highly intelligent and competitive human resources, and contributes to the advancement of a prosperous Indonesian society. To achieve these visions, there are Polytechnic, Business Education, and Business Incubator onsite the campus of IT Telkom.

www.ittelkom.ac.id

The 2nd international FOKUS Future Seamless Communication (FUSECO) Forum themed “From FMC toward Total Convergence: New Applications and Platforms for Converging Mobile and Fixed Next Generation Networks and the Emerging Future Internet” has been held in the Fraunhofer Forum in the center of Berlin, Germany on November 17–18, 2011.
The event was attended by around 200 industry and academic experts from more than 30 nations.

To download all presentation slides please visit:
→ www.fuseco-forum.org/download

Detailed event minutes of FFF 2011 can be found here:
→ www.fuseco-forum.org/minutes

A selection of pictures of FFF 2011 is available here:
→ www.fuseco-forum.org/pictures

Sebastian Wahle defended successfully his PhD thesis “A Generic Framework for Heterogeneous Resource Federation” in the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty at the TU Berlin on November 15, 2011.

Reviewers have been Prof. Dr. Magedanz (TU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Müller (TU Kaiserslautern), Prof. Dr. Tutschku (Universität Wien, Österreich). Prof. Dr. Küpper (TU Berlin) chaired the evaluation committee.

Fraunhofer FOKUS hosted the 10 Years SER Conference - Celebrating 10 Years of Open Source Innovations in VoIP

On the 2nd of September 2011, the Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute had the pleasure of marking the 10th anniversary since the of the SIP Express Router project, by hosting a day long conference to celebrate the milestone. The free-of-charge event has been organized together with the project's community and was set to be a success even before it started, as all the available seats have been filled with an amazing pace.

Read more about this event

Fraunhofer FOKUS hosted the 10 Years SER Conference - Celebrating 10 Years of Open Source Innovations in VoIP

On the 2nd of September 2011, the Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute had the pleasure of marking the 10th anniversary since the of the SIP Express Router project, by hosting a day long conference to celebrate the milestone. The free-of-charge event has been organized together with the project's community and was set to be a success even before it started, as all the available seats have been filled with an amazing pace.

Read more about this event

The ETSI TC INT and the ETSI Centre for Testing & Interoperability are organising the fourth IMS Plugtests™, taking place from 9-16 November 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
This year ETSI will focus on the interoperability of 3GPP IMS Rel 8 equipment, RCS, ENUM, AGCF and IPv4/v6 interworking. The purpose of this event is to assess: 

·    the interoperability of core IMS networks, 
·    the interoperability of application servers,
·    the quality of IMS core networks and their conformance to IMS specifications,
·    and to provide feedback to standardization.

An event not to be missed, if you want to be sure your products are fit for the market!Click here to view all  the event's  details: http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/IMS/IMS4.htm

FI-WARE Large Scale Project Launched

The internet market has become an important element of the european and worldwide economy and is growing constantly, outperforming most other market segments. In order to provide the ground for the emerging market demands in the internet economy, the European Commission has launched the FP7 Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) on May 3rd with the Kickoff of the FI-WARE large scale Project in Madrid. During the four day meeting, the course and main objectives for the project have been settled.
In the scope of FI-WARE, the core platform for the Future Internet is going to be defined and realized by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees.
The Fraunhofer institute FOKUS is a partner in FI-WARE and will significantly define and realize architectural components for the Network and Service Access in the Future internet.
FOKUS has a strong competence in the area of fixed and mobile network architectures of 3G and 4G, which make their OpenEPC software and the open testbed for Future Seamless Communication (FUSECO) valuable building blocks for Future Internet Testbeds in FI-WARE.

FI-PPP und FI-WARE  at the EUC:

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/lead/fippp/index_en.htm
http://www.fi-ppp.eu/
http://www.fi-ware.eu/



Special Interest Group Functional Composition Meeting 10-11.May at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin The German Lab Special Interest Group on Functional Composition with partners from the Universities of Karlsruhe, Kaiserslautern, Ilmenau, Berlin and Alcatel Lucent will meet at Fraunhofer FOKUS for a two day workshop. The goal of this workshop is to define a cross project definition of interfaces between application and network within Future Internet architectures.

Fraunhofer FOKUS and Vodafone: Cooperation for the mobile Future Internet
Mobile broadband services – Connecting humans and machines

Crosslinking all ‘things’ and ‘services’ impose in the Future Internet new challenges to control infrastructure and service platforms. Network operators and manufacturers worldwide are looking for high-performance technologies for delivering applications over mobile broadband networks.
To develop technologies for a seamless multi-modal connection between humans and machines, Fraunhofer FOKUS is cooperating with the mobile phone operator Vodafone. The two partners enable fast and efficient implementation of new applications that allow the exchange of information between vehicles and humans. One focus is the prototypical implementation of automotive applications over LTE, which are developed in the context of the BMBF project CoCarX.
Fraunhofer FOKUS has provided the two testbed infrastructures OpenIMS Core and OpenEPC to the Vodafone Multivendor Test Center (MVTC). "The by us developed OpenEPC allows the deployment of applications and cloud-based services over LTE and UMTS networks," explains Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS. The OpenIMS Core provides the technological basis to develop new multimodal applications close to practice.
The developed OpenIMS and OpenEPC based applications are presented for the first time at the closing event of CoCarX, on 25 May 2011 at the Vodafone Test & Innovation Center in Duesseldorf.

www.openimscore.org
www.opensoaplayground.org
www.openepc.net



Prof. Magedanz talks about Smart Cities at BITKOM

Prof. Dr. T. Magedanz: “Smart Cities als Anwendungsdomäne für das Internet der Zukunft - Smart City Anforderungen an eine nahtlose Kommunikationsplattform", Podiumsdiskussionsbeitrag auf der 5. BMU/UBA/BITKOM Jahreskonferenz: „Green IT für die Stadt der Zukunft“, Hauptstadtrepräsentanz Deutsche Telekom AG, Berlin, 18. Mai 2011
http://www.bitkom.org/de/veranstaltungen/102_67292.aspx


Packet Tracking Software Release 0.9 available

With the effort of the Technical University (Chair AV) the Packet Tracking Software known from the SIGCOMM 2010 Demo and a Tutorial Video is now made available online on the Platform for Free Tools for Future Internet Research and Experimentation (www.free-t-rex.net) and on the FOKUS Website (www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/track). The Packet Tracking Software allows the visualization of packet paths and the experienced transmission quality in a multihop network. Packet Tracking is currently used in Planetlab, VINI, and G-Lab in order to help researchers to analyze and validate their experiments.


Prof. Magedanz lecturing his annual NGN course in Cape Town

Prof. Magedanz lecturing his annual NGN course “Service Delivery Options on top of converging Fixed and Mobile Next Generation Networks in regard to the Future Internet (about EPC, IMS, SDPs, Cross Layer composition and related Testbeds)“ for Master and PhD Students at the Department of Electrical Engineering (www.ebe.uct.ac.za) and the Centre for Broadband Networks (coe.uct.ac.za) at University of Cape Town, February 9-11, 2011


The FOKUS Network Research (NET) competence center has been merged into the FOKUS competence center Next Generation Network Infrastructure (NGNI) in the beginning of 2011. This integration is mainly motivated by the fact, that many research and development synergies exist in the emerging field of Next Generation Network to Future Internet Evolution. The former NET group has gained an outstanding knowhow and global reputation in the field of future internet technologies, particularly in the fields of monitoring and measurements, providing the foundation for new networking concepts, such as self organising networks and cognitive networking. Combining this knowhow and the related software tools with the existing NGNI expertise in the context of telecommunication and internet convergence and the related testbed infrastructure tools will reveal a comprehensive offer of research and development skills to our partners and customers. More detailed information can be found on the NGNI website in the near future.

Julius Mueller (TU Berlin) is member in the ETSI group on IMS Network Testing (INT). Julius Mueller and Dragos Vingarzan (Fraunhofer FOKUS) have been selected as experts for Specialist Task Force VN (ETSI/INT) on Update of IMS NNI Test Specifications for 3GPP R9 RCS 3.0 and IMS&EPC.

Tridentcom Book now available:

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering <http://www.springerlink.com/content/1867-8211/>, Volume 46, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1
Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities
6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Link


Since December 2010 Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz is Editorial Board Member (Associated Editor) of the Springer Journal for Wireless Networks (WINET), The Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information, ISSN:  1022-0038  (print version), ISSN:  1572-8196  (electronic version), http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11276.

M-Days – "The Home of Mobile", Frankfurt, Germany, 27-28 January, 2011, Prof. T. Magedanz, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS is panelist "Mobile Communication/LTE"


The 3rd IEEE International Open NGN and IMS Testbeds Workshop (ONIT 2011) - "Next Generation Networks Evolution Towards Future Internet" is held in conjunction with COMPSAC, the IEEE Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. COMPSAC 2011 will be held in Munich, Germany, July 18-22. Papers due March 1st, 2011

Further Information:
Workshop website
Call for papers (PDF)
Conference website

Panlab wins Future Internet Award
The FP7 project PII was selected among 32 submissions to win the Future Internet Forum (FIF) award for the best initiative that is currently running and nearing completion. The pan-European testbed federation platform prototyped by PII builds upon a federation framework and the resource brokering system "Teagle" whose development is lead by Fraunhofer FOKUS.
According to the Judging Panel, Panlab was "innovate and exemplar" and would have a "high impact". The award was officially presented at the closing plenary of the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) in Ghent on December 17, 2010.
For more information see:
ceFIMS site...
Teagle site...

Niklas Blum has successfully completed his defense of his doctoral thesis entitled "Formalization of a Converged Internet and Telecommunications Service Environment" on the 2nd of December 2010. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz and Prof. Dr. Tiziana Margaria-Steffen from University of Potsdam.

Symposium
T. Magedanz, Session Chair "Kommunikation" at Fraunhofer Symposium 2010 »Netzwert«, Sheraton München Arabellapark, Munich, Germany, Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2010, https://symposium.fraunhofer-events.de/

FIRE conference Ghent
As part of the Future Internet Conference Week (see here) the FIRE conference Ghent takes place at the 15th of December 2010. Thomas Magedanz speaks in the Panel of the FIRE workshop. (Link)

New Books now available:

Y. Cai, T. Magedanz, M. Li, J. Xia, C. Giannelli (Eds.): Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering (LNISCT), LNISCT No. 48, ISSN 1867-8211, ISBN-10 3-642-17757-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, ISBN-13 978-3-642-17757-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2010. Cover. Available here.

T. Magedanz,  J. Chase, T. N. Huu, A. Gavras (Eds), Recent Advances in Testbeds, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering (LNISCT), LNISCT No. 46, ISSN 1867-8211, ISBN-10 3-642-17850-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, ISBN-13 978-3-642-17850-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2010. Available here.

TRIDENTCOM 2011
7th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities
17-19 April 2011, Shanghai, China
www.tridentcom.org

Fraunhofer FOKUS FUSECO Forum now on a regular basis
As the 1st FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2010 (FFF 2010) has been a great success, Fraunhofer FOKUS and the Chair "Next Generation Networks (NGN)" from TU Berlin decided to make it a series event. Therefore the preparations for the 2nd FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2011 have already started. Please mark your calendars for FFF 2011 on November 17-18, 2011, in Berlin and stay tuned for more details on www.fuseco-forum.org/2011!

Fraunhofer FOKUS 1st FUSECO Forum 14th and 15th of October

The FUSECO FOUM  is an interactive two day event that represents a technologically focused follow-up to the famous FOKUS IMS Workshop series. IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) has united SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) based control in IP networks, EPC (Evolved Packet Core) has the potential to become the common control platform for any IP application. From the technical maturity and global recognition points of view, EPC stands today where IMS stood five years ago. Therefore it is the right time to launch a new workshop series to create global awareness in academia and industry. The new FOKUS FUSECO Forum is continuing the famous FOKUS IMS Workshop series by concentrating on a key enabling technology for future communication. More information: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/fokus_events/ngni/fuseco_forum_2010/index.html

3rd GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch on NG SDPs

The 3rd GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch on NG SDPs will be held on the 14th of October at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Auditorium 3, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin.  The main topic is  “Towards SDPs for the Future Internet”. Prof. Magedanz is in the steering committee and the TU Berlin will present QoS aware Cross-Layer Service Delivery Platform. Look for more details here

ICIN 2010 held from  11-14th of October in Berlin

The ICIN 2010 topic is "Weaving Applications into the Network Fabric - The Transformational Challenge". The ICIN is held at the Deutsche Telekoms Representative Office and Park Inn Hotel in Berlin. Prof. Magedanz and Julius Müller will present a Tutorial "How Smart will Future Bit Pipes be?" about Service Enablement Options in NGNs and the Emerging Future Internet by Comparing EPC, IMS, and Open APIs. http://www.icin.biz/

2011 International Workshop on networks and Service Security 

Prof. Thomas Magedanz is part of the Technical Programm Committee at the 2011 International Workshop on networks and Service Security which is held in conjunction with 4th IFIP NTMS conference on 7-10th of February 2011 in Paris, France. The paper submission deadline is the 30th of October 2010. http://www.ntms-conf.org/nss2011/


Teagle Federation Tutorial held at Future Internet Symposium

Konrad Campowsky and Sebastian Wahle presented the Teagle Tutoiral on Resource Federation at the Future Internet Symposium in Berlin. The slides are available for download here

Fraunhofer FOKUS and the FUSECO Playground in the German Press

Researchers at Fraunhofer FOKUS are working on Network Infrastructures for the Future that can deal with exponentiell increasing mobile data volumes, enable services within the network and provide seamless comunnication. See the full press release in german: 
www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/ein-spielplatz-fuer-forscher/1908292.html

LTE ASIA 2010 - 06.09.2010
"Mastering the LTE Applications Challenge – Understanding the Importance of the Evolved Packet Core for flexible seamless Broadband Service Provision” T. Magedanz
Tutorial “Seamless Mobile Broadband Service Provision beyond LTE - Getting started with the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC) - Basics, Standards, Architecture, and Capabilities”
Xinnovations 2010 - 13.09.2010
“Auf dem Weg zum mobilen Breitbandinternet der Dienste - Nahtlose Integration von WLAN, UMTS und LTE im Fraunhofer FUSECO Playground” T. Magedanz
Cloud Mobility 2010 - 15.09.2010
“Scalable Storage in the Cloud: Are Mobile Broadband Networks Ready? T. Magedanz

Updating List of NGNI Talks:
http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/ngni/index.html#news

NGNI2FI Event Vortrag
„Auf dem Weg zum mobilen Breitbandinternet der Dienste - Nahtlose Integration von WLAN, UMTS und LTE im Fraunhofer FUSECO Playground“, Xinnovations 2010, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 13. - 15. September 2010, www.xinnovations.de/start.html oder www.xinnovations.de/internet-der-dienste-2010.html


FIS 2010 Federation Tutorial
A tutorial "Federation of Future Internet Research & Experimentation (FIRE) Facilities – “Teagle” as a Tool for Generic Resource Federation" will be held on the Future Internet Symposium 2010 by Sebastian Wahle and Konrad Campowsky.
www.fis2010.org/program/tutorials-menu

EUROVIEW presentations
On the Euroview 2010 in Würzburg (02.-03.August 2010) there  will be the following presentation with AV TU contributions.
Generic Resource Federation - Mechanisms and Prototypes Serving the FIRE and FI PPP Visions. Wahle, Magedanz
Mediation between Service and Network Composition. Siddiqui, Henke, Günther, Magedanz, Müller
Addressing Security in a Cross-Layer Composition Architecture. G-LAB DEEP partners.
http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/euroview/2010/program.shtml

GENI GEC8 presentation
The presenation "Open Source Teagle: A potential framework for GENI and FIRE experimental facility federation?" will held on July 21st at the GENI GEC8 meeting by Prof. Magedanz. 
http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/Gec8Agenda

NSF/FIRE Workshop
On 11-12 May 2010 a NSF/FIRE Workshop on Federating Computing Resources was held in Princeton, NJ where an extended abstract submitted by Sebastian Wahle was accepted. The workshop minutes will be available shortly.   

KUVS Workshop Future Internet
The 5th GI/ITG Kuvs workshop on Future Internet took place in Stuttgart on the premises of Alcatel Lucent on the 9th of June 2010. The AV co-authored papers "Scenarios for a Future Internet based on Cross-Layer Functional Composition" and "Federation Interoperability – Dealing With Heterogeneity"
Sebastian Wahle, Thomas Magedanz, Konrad Campowsky were presented.

Tridentcom 2010
This year’s Tridentcom held in Berlin, 18-20 May, was a big success with around 130 attendees, featuring the ONIT workshop, two on-site Tutorials (Future Internet Technologies and Getting started with Teagle), and a 2-day technical program covering 11 sessions. Several keynotes from high level FIRE and GENI representatives gave an interesting insight into current and upcoming activities around Testbeds and Experimental Facilities for the Future Internet. We hope to see you again at Tridentcom 2011.


2nd GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch on NG SDPs
The second KuVS “NG Service Delivery Platforms & Service Overlay Networks” expert´s talk on May 6, 2010 at Telefónica o2 Germany in Munich continued the success of the kick-off meeting in Berlin in November 2009.
Around 50 attendants from industry and academia joined the meeting and lively discussed about “Profiting from SDP Capabilities to Deliver Services”. The program consisted of one keynote presentation from Telefónica, five talks from industry and six talks from universities. Presentation slides and pictures are available on the homepage.
Note that interested researchers from academia and industry are welcome to join this open KuVS discussion group!


Invitiation  FUSECO Tutorial - for free
Right before TridentCom 2010, Berlin's FUSECO Playground as joint lab initiative of Fraunhofer FOKUS, the Fraunhofer HHI and the Dt. Telekom Laboratories will present a half-day tutorial which will provide an overview of the future mobile networks and the corresponding 3GPP standards related to the Long Term Evolution (LTE) and the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) followed by first demonstrations established as part of the FUSECO Playground.

More Information Flyer.
Register for free under www.fuseco-playground.org/epc-tutorial

Berlin-Brandenburg forscht für Europa
Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Europawoche 2010, der KMU-Woche 2010 und des Berliner Wissenschaftsjahres „Berlin-Brandenburg forscht für Europa“ Halbzeit 7. Forschungsrahmenprogramm und Vorstellung der Knowledge and Innovation Communities an der TU Berlin
06. Mai 2010 im Ludwig Erhard Haus, Fasanenstr. 85, 10623 Berlin (Kant-Atrium)
Programm PDF
Der Lehrstuhl AV präsentiert das Projekt PII


Upcoming Talk: Ringvorlesung Universität Stuttgart
T. Magedanz: „Mehrwertdienste über LTE und Co – Die Rolle des Evolved Packet Core (EPC) in der nächsten Generation des Mobilfunks“, Gastvortrag in der NEXUS Ringvorlesung, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, June 15, 2010
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Poster Presentation of G-Lab DEEP project at Tridentcom 18-20th May:
The poster "G-Lab Deep: Cross-layer Composition and Security for a flexible Future Internet" with contributions of AV Berlin will be presented at the 6th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities.


3. Berliner Signaturkonferenz in Kooperation mit dem Fraunhofer Innovationscluster „Sichere Identität“
13.-14. April, Umweltforum Berlin Auferstehungskirche GmbH
Pufendorfstr. 11
AV will be there in the context of it IdM activities to present this GUIDE flyer


Upcoming Talk: 4. Essener Workshop "Neue Herausforderungen in der Netzsicherheit": Sichere Mobilität und Dienstnutzung in künftigen Netzen der ITG-Fachgruppe 5.2.2 (Sicherheit in Netzen)
15.-16. April, Universität Duisburg/Essen
Florian Deinert: "Ein Telco Identity Enabler Konzept zur Verwaltung nutzerspezifischer Daten innerhalb von NGNs"
Workshop Website


KUVS SDP FG Special Issue is now available:
Praxis in der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation (PIK), Fachzeitschrift für den Einsatz von Informationssystemen, ISSN: 0930-5157, e-ISSN: 1865-8342, 33. Jahrgang, Heft 1, 2010, De Gruyter SAUR Verlag, Germany, www.degruyter.com/pik
Editorial: Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms and Service Overlays, W. Kelerer, T. Magedanz, pp.1-2


Chapter for FIA Valencia Book accepted
The chapter "Conceptual Design and Use Cases for a FIRE Resource Federation Framework" authored by Sebastian Wahle, Thomas Magedanz, and Anastasius Gavras will appear in the IOS Press book "Towards the Future Internet - Emerging Trends from European Research" in April 2010.
For a preview of this article please contact Sebastian Wahle


EFII Whitepaper
On 2nd February, the European Future Interent Initiative (EFII) released the White paper on the Future Internet PPP Definition. PDF
This document is intended to convey the vision of the European Future Internet Initiative (EFII) for the Future Internet dedicated call (PPP). Please visit the EFII website.


FIA Valencia, April 2010
The next Future Internet Assembly will meet in Valencia, Spain on 15-16 April 2010 in the frame of the IV conference on the FP7.
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TRIDENTCOM 2010
The paper "Interoperability in Heterogeneous Resource Federations" authored by Konrad Campowsky, Thomas Magedanz, and Sebastian Wahle has been accepted at the International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2010). Publication is scheduled for May 2010 by ICST/Springer.
www.tridentcom.org


NOMS 2010
The paper "Resource Management in Large Scale Experimental Facilities - A Technical Approach to Federate Panlab and PlanetLab" authored by Konrad Campowsky, Thomas Magedanz, and Sebastian Wahle has been accepted as a short paper to be presented in the poster sessions of NOMS 2010.
www.ieee-noms.org For a preview of the paper please contact Sebastian.Wahle[at]fokus.fraunhofer.de.


FUSECO Workshop
AV and FOKUS will organize the FUSECO Workshop as part of the Globecom 2010. For more information please have a look at www.fuseco-workshop.org.