European Network Technologies Connecting the Digital Society Future Networks EU Research for the ubiquitous ultrafast Internet of the future enabling every European to have a broadband connection to the digital society (Digital Agenda for Europe) and a strong competitive supporting industry Future Internet Technologies Radio Access and Spectrum Use Converged and Optical Networks

Main trends affecting research and innovation in the communications networks area Societal drivers: Urbanisation Smart cities Mobility Information availability Social networks Privacy Security Energy efficiency Demographic trends Healthcare Education … Research & Technology drivers: Capacity/Efficiency Service/Content centricity Virtualisation & “Cloudification” Cognition Context awareness Manageability Self-organisation Self-optimisation Cross-layer optimisation Flexibility Smart environments, Sensors M2M …

Clean Slate/ Visionary Internet Evolutionary Internet Motivations years old internet architecture, host centric -- Not design to natively support mobility, security, QoS… -- Issues solved from overlay perspective; -- multiple approaches proposed to develop new Internet architectures: ICN, CCN, NDN…Idea: decouple content from access port; -- Still unsolved problems: scalability is typical; applicability to large range of applications Objectives --Further validate innovative architectural approaches; -- Solve unsolved remaining issues; -- get closer to deployment, validate migration paths. Novel Internet Architectures

 ICT 5. Smart Networks and novel Internet Architectures (23 M€) Novel architectural and networking approaches to information delivery and access Key functionalities: Security, trust, mobility and scalability (built-in) Impact: Strengthen the EU datacom/telecom industry Contribution to industrial strategies and roadmaps Establish links with international initiatives Contribution to large scale trials Type of Action: Research and Innovation – Small projects

Motivations, technological building blocks for: -- Flexibility in both optical and wireless networks, -- higher rates, access and core; -- application to novel usage scenarios (e.g. data centres connectivity, novel user driven scenarios..) -- New frequency bands and spectrum usages (both fiber and wireless) -- satellite role and contribution Smart network technologies

 ICT 6. Smart optical and wireless network technologies 1/2 Innovative network technologies addressing the increasing traffic and the multiplicity of usages (29 M€) Optical networks - Flexible management - Very high speed transmission and access - Efficient data center architectures Scalability, cost and energy efficiency Wireless networks - New paradigms for wireless connectivity - Flexible use of spectrum - Addressing usage diversity Hybrid (terrestrial/satellite) infrastructure for extensive coverage and resilience

ICT 6. Smart optical and wireless network technologies 2/2. Expected impact: - Strengthen current EU industrial capabilities on wireless and optical - Reduce energy consumption (10x) - Higher spectrum efficiency, lower radiation - Support new applications and services - Community building, coordination with national initiatives (Support Actions) Type of action: Research and Innovation – Small projects Support Actions (2M€) Support to dissemination, standardisation, international cooperation, industrial roadmapping, etc

Inducement Prizes Network Technologies a) Breaking the optical transmission barriers Maximise the fiber transmission capacity per channel b) Collaborative sharing of spectrum Novel methods for decentralised spectrum management Impact : - Stimulate high-level scientific work - Attract new organisations - Create ICT awareness on public and young researchers Type of action: Prizes (2X 1 M€)

We hope to see you at the following related sessions:  6 November :00-16:45 (Room 1): ICT 14 Advanced 5G Network Infrastructure for Future Internet (Bernard Barani)  7 November :50-17:35 (Room 1): ICT 5 & ICT 6 Smart Networks and novel Internet Architectures/Smart optical and wireless network technologies (Philippe Lefebvre)  7 November :50-15:35 (Room 2): ICT 29 Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects (Werner Steinhoegl/Peter Friess) Network Technologies at ICT 2013: Create, Connect, Grow 6-8 November 2013, Vilnius