FNS Related Initiatives
- Future Internet Network Design (FIND) :
- Global Enivironment for Network Innovations (GENI) :
- Future Internet (EIFFEL) :
- Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) :
- Internet2 :
Recent technological advances and breakthroughs in various component and network technologies have yielded unprecedented quest for providing low cost and high quality ubiquitous broadband services, virtually any where any time. These sources of achievements in the 21st century in turn have led to profound transformations essentially in all aspects of communications, ushering in revamped, highly-scalable “on-demand” pervasive service provisioning paradigms over converged network infrastructures and service markets. The continuing maturation and declining costs of these emerging technologies have given the service providers an opportunity to reduce OPEX/CAPEX, ROI, and to increase the revenue and profit margins. As new technologies emerge, it is essential for service providers to evaluate various alternative technologies that can be used to provide continued and value added services with the possibility of introducing new innovative services at lower cost and higher quality. Several goverment and industry driven intiatives have recently started addressing several challenges related to future networked society and are listed below:
FIND (Future Internet Design) is a major new long-term initiative of the NSF NeTS research program. FIND invites the research community to consider what the requirements should be for a global network of 15 years from now, and how we could build such a network if we are not constrained by the current Internet -- if we could design it from scratch. FIND solicits research across the broad area of network architecture, principles, and mechanism design, aimed at answering these questions. The philosophy of the program is to help conceive the future by momentarily letting go of the present - freeing our collective minds from the constraints of the current state of networking. The intellectual scope of the FIND program is wide.
GENI is an experimental facility called the Global Environment for Network Innovation. GENI is designed to allow experiments on a wide variety of problems in communications, networking, distributed systems, cyber-security, and networked services and applications. The emphasis is on enabling researchers to experiment with radical network designs in a way that is far more realistic than they can today. Researchers will be able to build their own new versions of the “net” or to study the “net” in ways that are not possible today. Compatibility, with the Internet is NOT required. The purpose of GENI is to give researchers the opportunity to experiment unfettered by assumptions or requirements and to support those experiments at a large scale with real user populations.
The EIFFEL initiative is a Support Action (SA) proposed for the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). The EIFFEL SA is all about mobilizing European researchers to discuss and debate on the future of the Internet towards the development of the future networked society. For this purpose, the EIFFEL SA will setup of a pan-European discussion forum and technical think-tank on enabling conflict-free, talented and scientific-oriented discussions around the future of the Internet. It is a non-competitive forum oriented towards technology and interest on building the trajectories for the future network society. Its overall objective is to provide a place for discussing and exchanging ideas and research trajectories on the future of the Internet architecture and governance building as a foundation of the future networked society.
Within FP7, the Commission is preparing the launch of the FIRE "Future Internet Research and Experimentation" initiative. By addressing future challenges for the internet such as mobility, scalability, security and privacy, this new experimentally driven approach is challenging the mainstream perceptions for future Internet development. FIRE has two related dimensions: on one side, promoting experimentally-driven long term, visionary research on new paradigms and networking concepts and architectures for the future Internet; on the other side, building a large scale experimentation facility to support both medium and long term research on networks and services by gradually federating existing and new testbeds for emerging or future internet technologies.
Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996. Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunites that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet