Europe needs a Strategic Experimental Infrastructure for Future Internet Research & Experimentation (FIRE+) available to experiments of any size, complexity, or networking technology.
The Future Internet Research and Experimentation – FIRE – initiative is addressing exactly this need to experiment with networks, by creating a multidisciplinary test environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms.
FIRE offers a methodology, an infrastructure and tools to try out innovative ideas for the Future Internet. It is creating a dynamic, sustainable, large-scale European Experimental Infrastructure, which is constructed by gradually connecting and “federating” existing and upcoming test beds for Future Internet technologies.
In addition, in FIRE we promote the concept of the experimentally-driven research, combining visionary academic research with the wide-scale testing and experimentation that is required for the industry.
EU funded projects
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3D Living Interactions through Visual EnvironmentsThe 3D-LIVE project aims to develop and experiment a User Driven Mixed Reality and Immersive (Twilight) platform connected to EXPERIMEDIA facilities in order to investigate the Future Internet (FI) broadband capacity to support Real-Time immersive situations as well as evaluating both the Quality...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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3DTV Content SearchAs 3DTV emerges, 3DTV content started already being accumulated in 3DTV broadcasters and 3D video production houses. Its volume will soon rise tremendously. Such content already started being posted in the web, as already done for 2D audiovisual material. Furthermore, with the advent of 3D mobile...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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A Community networking Cloud in a boxCommunity networking (also known as bottom-up networking) is an emerging model for the Future Internet across Europe and beyond where communities of citizens can build, operate and own open IP-based networks, a key infrastructure for individual and collective digital participation. The CLOMMUNITY...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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Abstraction Layer for Implementation of Extensions in programmable NetworksALIEN will deliver an innovative network abstraction mechanism targeting the control and management convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous network elements building strong foundations for Software Defined Networks.To achieve this, ALIEN proposes to adopt the concept of Network Operating...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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Accessing Dynamic Networked Multimedia EventsThe main goal of inEvent is to develop new means to structure, retrieve, and share large archives of networked, and dynamically changing, multimedia recordings, mainly consisting here of meetings, video-conferences, and lectures. Several partners of the inEvent consortium have indeed access to (and...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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Amplifying Future Internet Research and Experimentation for a Sustainable FutureThe objective of the AmpliFIRE Support Action is to prepare FIRE for year 2020, in strengthening the exploitation and impact creation capacities of Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities. It brings the concept of open innovation into the world of FIRE, involving...Funding schemeCoordination and support actionProgramme codeFP7
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Architecture and Applications of Green Information Centric NetworkingInformation Centric Networking (ICN) is a new paradigm where the network provides users with named content, instead of communication channels between hosts. Research on ICN is at an early stage, with many key issues still open, including naming, routing, resource control, security, privacy and a...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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Building service testbeds on FIREBonFIRE will design, build and operate a multi-site Cloud prototype FIRE facility to support research across applications, services and systems at all stages of the R&D lifecycle, targeting the services research community on Future Internet.\nThe BonFIRE vision is to give researchers in...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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CALIPSO: Connect All IP-based Smart Objects!Smart Objects and the Internet of Things provide unparalleled means toconnect the physical world with the digital world, enabling importantapplications such as Smart Infrastructures, Smart Cities, and SmartToys. But existing systems are typically proprietary and tailored toone specific application...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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ClouT: Cloud of Things for empowering the citizen clout in smart citiesClouT's overall concept is leveraging the Cloud Computing as an enabler to bridge the Internet of Things with Internet of People via Internet of Services, to establish an efficient communication and collaboration platform exploiting all possible information sources to make the cities smarter...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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Cognitive Radio Experimentation WorldThe main target of CREW is to establish an open federated test platform, which facilitates experimentally-driven research on advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spectrum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands.\nThe CREW...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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Community Networks Testbed for the Future InternetCommunity networks are an emerging and successful model for the Future Internet across Europe and far beyond. The CONFINE project complements existing FIRE infrastructure by establishing a new facility built on the federation of existing community IP networks constituted by more than 20,000...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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Content and cOntext aware delivery for iNteraCtive \nmultimEdia healthcaRe applicaTiOnsDuring the last century, significant scientific progress has more than doubled the average lifetime of developed countries inhabitants. This amazing result is the indirect consequence of X-rays discoveryin 1901, of antibiotics in the late 20s, of advances in surgery with the first heart transplant...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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CONVERGENCEDesigned to route information between computers, the Internet is evolving into an Internet of services, media and "things" (devices and other "Real World Objects" connected to or tracked via the Internet). In this new Internet, the main interest is no longer on machines but on...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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Cooperative Networking for High Capacity Transport ArchitecturesCONECT proposes a holistic network design approach that drastically enhances performance in wireless networks by unlocking the hidden potential of the broadcast wireless medium. Information and communication theory, and protocol design engineering are used as the foundations for developing provably...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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Coordination and Integration of Future Internet Research Experimentation Activities in EuropeCI-FIRE will support a broader and deeper coordination and integration of Future Internet Research Experimentation (FIRE) activities on EU and Member State level in order to enable the sustainable use of FIRE facilities.<br/>To this purpose, CI-FIRE will analyse the sustainability potential...Funding schemeCoordination and support actionProgramme codeFP7
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Coordination of European Future Internet Forum of Member States and the Collection and Sharing of Research Data to Enhance and Promote National CooperationSignificant resources are being deployed in research at the European and Member State (MS) levels to bolster Europe's position as the global leader in Future Internet (FI) research. There is a strong consensus that this should continue in order to maintain the fostering of European...Funding schemeCoordination and support actionsProgramme codeFP7
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Cost Effective Integration and Fusion of SME Communities with Network Research Tools and FacilitiesSMEs are developing new applications and services, which could benefit from testing facilities. There are number of FIRE testbeds, which have been developed and are ongoing in the European research community. The goal of the FUSION project is to bring SMEs that have needs in testing new...Funding schemeCoordination and support actionProgramme codeFP7
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ECO2Clouds: Experimental Awareness of CO2 in Federated Cloud SourcingEcological implications of the rapid proliferation of cloud-based IT infrastructures form an important gap in the current state of the art in both research and practice. Addressing this gap is vital for sustainable future developments in cloud computing. ECO2Clouds will investigate strategies that...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7
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Embedding P2P technology in Next Generation Networks: A New Communication Paradigm & Experimentation InfrastructureEmerging types of applications, rich in user-created or provider-created content, enabled by P2P technology, with high demands for network resources are rapidly changing the landscape of network requirements and operations creating new challenges in network and service management, configuration,...Funding schemeCollaborative project (generic)Programme codeFP7