Technical infrastructure for a Pan-European federation of testbeds

The Pan-European laboratory - Panlab - is based on federation of distributed testbeds that are interconnected, providing access to required platforms, networks and services for broad interoperability testing and enabling the trial and evaluation of service concepts, technologies, system solutions and business models. In this context a testbed federation is the interconnection of two or more independent testbeds for the temporary creation of a richer environment for testing and experimentation, and for the increased multilateral benefit of the users of the individual independent testbeds. The technical infrastructure that supports the federation is based on a web service through which available testing resources can be queried and requested. The available resources are stored in a repositor y, and a processing engine is able to identify, locate and provision the requested testing infrastructure, based on the testing users' requirements. The concept is implemented using a gateway approach at the border of each federated testbed. Each testbed is an independent administrative domain and implements a reference point specification in its gateway

A New Architecture for Reduction of Energy Consumption of Home Appliances

This paper presents work in progress by the AIM consortium [AIM, 2008] in developing and demonstrating a new information and communication technologies (ICT) architecture for modelling, virtualising and managing the energy consumption of home appliances, supporting Europe’s Action Plan on Energy Efficiency [EC, 2006] of using the opportunities offered by ICT to achieve technology-driven energy efficiency gains. The architecture aims at fostering a harmonised technological frame for profiling and optimizing the energy consumption patterns of home appliances. The intention is to offer users a number of standalone- and operator-based residential services that will allow them to manage efficiently the energy consumed in households. To make these services possible the frame adopts a generalised method for household appliances management, which is based on an accurate modelling of operational modes of appliances and the ability of the home network to switch on or off even some of their internal functions without limiting their control just to the active or stand-by states As a pilot application, the appliances being considered for the first implementation of the architecture are: - White goods, such as refrigerators, ovens, washing machines, dryers; - Audiovisual equipment, such as TVs, DVDs, Set-top-Boxes; - Home communication devices, such as wireless routers, DECT phones, residential gateways, modems. The requirements defined for the architecture concern mainly usability aspects of power management functions, integration with the home network and service deployment. The two major challenges are (i) energy saving and (ii) architecture’s long-term sustainability

Network domain federation - infrastructure for federated testbeds

This document describes a generic approach on how to federate networking domains . Network federation is a model for the establishment of a largescale and diverse infrastructure for communication technologies, services and applications. A federation of network environments can generally be seen as an interconnection of two or more independent network domains for the creation of a richer environment and for the increased multilateral benefits of the users of the individual domains. This paper discusses testbed federation as a concrete example for network domain federation and outlines a technical architecture framework as the result from the IST FP6 Panlab Specific Support Action