CERN openlab Whitepaper on Future IT Challenges in Scientific Research

This whitepaper describes the major IT challenges in scientific research at CERN and several other European and international research laboratories and projects. Each challenge is exemplified through a set of concrete use cases drawn from the requirements of large-scale scientific programs. The paper is based on contributions from many researchers and IT experts of the participating laboratories and also input from the existing CERN openlab industrial sponsors. The views expressed in this document are those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect the view of their organisations and/or affiliates

Building the Future Internet through FIRE

The Internet as we know it today is the result of a continuous activity for improving network communications, end user services, computational processes and also information technology infrastructures. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for the human-being by offering complex networking services and end-user applications that all together have transformed all aspects, mainly economical, of our lives. Recently, with the advent of new paradigms and the progress in wireless technology, sensor networks and information systems and also the inexorable shift towards everything connected paradigm, first as known as the Internet of Things and lately envisioning into the Internet of Everything, a data-driven society has been created. In a data-driven society, productivity, knowledge, and experience are dependent on increasingly open, dynamic, interdependent and complex Internet services. The challenge for the Internet of the Future design is to build robust enabling technologies, implement and deploy adaptive systems, to create business opportunities considering increasing uncertainties and emergent systemic behaviors where humans and machines seamlessly cooperate

Building the Future Internet through FIRE

The Internet as we know it today is the result of a continuous activity for improving network communications, end user services, computational processes and also information technology infrastructures. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for the human-being by offering complex networking services and end-user applications that all together have transformed all aspects, mainly economical, of our lives. Recently, with the advent of new paradigms and the progress in wireless technology, sensor networks and information systems and also the inexorable shift towards everything connected paradigm, first as known as the Internet of Things and lately envisioning into the Internet of Everything, a data-driven society has been created. In a data-driven society, productivity, knowledge, and experience are dependent on increasingly open, dynamic, interdependent and complex Internet services. The challenge for the Internet of the Future design is to build robust enabling technologies, implement and deploy adaptive systems, to create business opportunities considering increasing uncertainties and emergent systemic behaviors where humans and machines seamlessly cooperate

Extensión Semántica de OML (Semantic-OML)

OpenLab es un proyecto europeo dentro del séptimo programa marco (FP7) que pretende proporcionar un conjunto bancos de pruebas para realizar experimentos en redes a gran escala. Los bancos de pruebas incluyen equipamiento de red y herramientas para obtener medidas de retardos y pérdidas de paquetes, uso de ancho de banda de enlace, seguimiento de paquetes, etc. Sin embargo, cada herramienta de monitorización obtiene, clasifica y organiza las medidas de la red de forma diferente. En la mayoría de los casos estas medidas proporcionan información similar pero estructurada de forma distinta, lo que hace necesario definir y utilizar la ontología MOI definida por la ETSI de forma que se homogenice el esquema conceptual. Por ello, el objeto de este Trabajo Fin de Máster es, partiendo de la ontología MOI, plantear la extensión y mejora de la biblioteca OML, utilizada en los bancos de prueba para recopilar las medidas de red. En OML se definen los denominados puntos de medida, que con la extensión desarrollada almacenarán las medidas en bases de datos semánticas mejorando de esta forma el rendimiento y estandarización de la ontología.OpenLab is a European project of the Seventh Framework Program (FP7) that aims to provide a set of testbeds to perform experiments in large-scale networks. The testbeds include network equipment and tools to measure delays and packet losses, link usage bandwidth, package tracking, etc. However, each monitoring tool obtains, classifies and organizes the network measurements differently. In most cases these measurements provide similar information but structured in other way, making it necessary to define and use the MOI ontology defined by ETSI so the conceptual schema is homogenized. Therefore, the aim of this Master Thesis is, based on the MOI ontology, to provide the extension and improvement of the OML library, used in the testbeds to collect the network measurements. In OML, the so-called measuring points are defined, which will store the measurements in semantic databases with the developed extension, thus improving performance and standardization of the MOI ontology

SALCER´s Project

SALCER (in Spanish: Sistema de Asesoramiento y Localización de Centrales de EnergíaRenovables) could be translated as Counseling and Location of Renewable Energy Power Station´s System. Its objective is to develop a system capable of finding the most suitable place for the construction of renewable power stations, taking into account such things as: budget, topography, amount of energy needed, among others. The most relevant aims of the project are: study of a certain variety of renewable energy technologies, designing an accurate topology system, restraining decisions to demand forecasts and finally performance of an energy plan for a specific region

Creating a Worldwide Network For the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) and Related Experimental Environments

Many important societal activities are global in scope, and as these activities continually expand world-wide, they are increasingly based on a foundation of advanced communication services and underlying innovative network architecture, technology, and core infrastructure. To continue progress in these areas, research activities cannot be limited to campus labs and small local testbeds or even to national testbeds. Researchers must be able to explore concepts at scale—to conduct experiments on world-wide testbeds that approximate the attributes of the real world. Today, it is possible to take advantage of several macro information technology trends, especially virtualization and capabilities for programming technology resources at a highly granulated level, to design, implement and operate network research environments at a global scale. GENI is developing such an environment, as are research communities in a number of other countries. Recently, these communities have not only been investigating techniques for federating these research environments across multiple domains, but they have also been demonstration prototypes of such federations. This chapter provides an overview of key topics and experimental activities related to GENI international networking and to related projects throughout the world

Building the Hyperconnected Society- Internet of Things Research and Innovation Value Chains, Ecosystems and Markets

This book aims to provide a broad overview of various topics of Internet of Things (IoT), ranging from research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies, nanoelectronics, cyber-physical systems, architecture, interoperability and industrial applications. All this is happening in a global context, building towards intelligent, interconnected decision making as an essential driver for new growth and co-competition across a wider set of markets. It is intended to be a standalone book in a series that covers the Internet of Things activities of the IERC – Internet of Things European Research Cluster from research to technological innovation, validation and deployment.The book builds on the ideas put forward by the European Research Cluster on the Internet of Things Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, and presents global views and state of the art results on the challenges facing the research, innovation, development and deployment of IoT in future years. The concept of IoT could disrupt consumer and industrial product markets generating new revenues and serving as a growth driver for semiconductor, networking equipment, and service provider end-markets globally. This will create new application and product end-markets, change the value chain of companies that creates the IoT technology and deploy it in various end sectors, while impacting the business models of semiconductor, software, device, communication and service provider stakeholders. The proliferation of intelligent devices at the edge of the network with the introduction of embedded software and app-driven hardware into manufactured devices, and the ability, through embedded software/hardware developments, to monetize those device functions and features by offering novel solutions, could generate completely new types of revenue streams. Intelligent and IoT devices leverage software, software licensing, entitlement management, and Internet connectivity in ways that address many of the societal challenges that we will face in the next decade

Detailed specifications for first cycle ready

FP7 Fed4Fire project deliverable D5.1This deliverable D5.1 is the first deliverable of WP5, describing the specifications for the first development cycle