E-NEXT Emerging Networking Experiments & Technologies www.ist-e-next.net Strategic Objective: Networked Audio Visual Systems and Home Platforms September 2004 - Barcelona
E-NEXT Overview September 2004 1 What is E-NEXT?
E-NEXT Overview September 2004 2 Where is E-NEXT?
E-NEXT Overview September 2004 3 Who is E-NEXT?
E-NEXT Technical Working Groups Security Broadcast Technologies [Graph] Theory Mobile and Ambient Networking Self-Aware & Scalable Networking 4G Wireless Technologies Performance Engineering Content Networking Grid Applications Service Aware Networking Optical Networking E-NEXT Overview September 2004 4
SATIN Doctoral School Sponsoring the best Ph.D.s in Europe Co-direction of Thesis between two E-NEXT sites Short term scientific missions to improve cross-fertilization Two year schollarship, providing a support of 12,000 Euros/year of additional funds Competitive call with blind peer evaluation First call already awarded Doctoral Summer school to present fresh research results E-NEXT Overview September 2004 5
E-NEXT Conferences MIPS QofIS NGC ICQT E-NEXT Overview September 2004 6
CoNEXT 2005 in Toulouse www.co-next.net E-NEXT Overview September 2004 7
Other E-NEXT Results Publications on Joint Research Results Special number of Computer Communications Short Term Scientific Missions International PhD Tribunals Joint distributed courses and more E-NEXT Overview September 2004 8
E-NEXT Overview September 2004 9 Why E-NEXT?
E-NEXT Overview September 2004 10 www.ist- e-next.net
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E-NEXT Consortium Overview Critical mass 41 institutions 154 researchers 101 PhD Candidates International Coverage 14 European Union states 3 Future EU member states 4 IST Associated states Background on European Integration COST-237 -> COST-263 & COST-264 Vth FP Network of Excellence E-NET Many Research Projects in collaboration E-NEXT Overview September 2004 12
E-NEXT Objectives Reinforce European scientific and technological excellence in the networking area through a progressive and lasting integration of research capacities existing in the European Research Area Convergence between Mass-media / Entertainment technologies and Internet technologies To change the way we currently perform our research One-stop shopping for research, training and technology transfer E-NEXT Overview September 2004 13
E-NEXT Management Structure WP1 Network coordination Arturo Azcorra, U. Carlos III, azcorra@it.uc3m.es José Félix Kukielka, U. Carlos III, kukielka@it.uc3m.es WP2 Joint research Serge Fdida, LIP6, Serge.Fdida@lip6.fr WP3 Integration and training Ioannis Stavrakais, U. Athens, istavrak@di.uoa.gr WP4 Distributed work environment Mikhail Smirnow, FhG Fokus, smirnow@fokus.gmd.de WP5 Spreading excellence David Hutchison, Lancaster U., dh@comp.lancs.ac.uk WP6 Dissemination Fernando Boavida, U. Coimbra, boavida@dei.uc.pt E-NEXT Overview September 2004 14
E-NEXT Overview September 2004 15 E-NEXT Objectives Research: convergence between Massmedia/Entertainment and Internet technologies Interworking Scalability Auto-configuration Integration: virtual research center Harmonization of member s research activities Sharing Research Infrastructures: GRID environments Exchange of personnel: Short Scientific Missions Distributed Work Environment: INSTANT PUBLISHING European Doctoral School: key thesis jointly supervised Spreading Excellence Collaboration with institutions outside the network Setting up a programme for training of key personnel Dissemination
E-NEXT Technical Focus Networked audio-visual devices and home platforms Technical Working Groups Scalable networking Content networking Self-Aware networking Service-Aware networking Mobile and Ambient networking E-NEXT Overview September 2004 16
E-NEXT Technical Focus [Graph] Theory Performance Engineering Security Digital Broadcast Technologies Programmable Networks Emerging Network Experiments & Technologies Grid Applications 4G Wireless Technologies Optical Networking E-NEXT Overview September 2004 17
E-NEXT Members (I) Spain: U. Carlos III de Madrid (CO) CCABA/U. Politecnica de Catalunya Telefonica I+D DIT/U. Politecnica de Madrid United Kingdom Lancaster University U. Cambridge University College London France U. Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris 6 INRIA LAAS/CNRS EURECOM E-NEXT Overview September 2004 18
E-NEXT Overview September 2004 19 E-NEXT Members (II) Germany Fraunhofer Fokus Technical University Darmstadt U. Mannheim U. Braunschweig Portugal: U. Coimbra Portugal Telecom Inovacao ISCTE Greece U. of Athens U. of Patras Italy: U. di Napoli Federico II Politecnico di Torino U. Pisa CINI Consortium
E-NEXT Members (III) Belgium U. Liege U. Catolique du Lovain The Netherlands Delft University of Technology U. Twente Sweden Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan SICS Finland Helsinki University of Technology Tampere University of Technology Austria Telecommunications Research Center Vienna E-NEXT Overview September 2004 20
E-NEXT Overview September 2004 21 E-NEXT Members (IV) Denmark Technical Univeristy of Denmark Ireland University College Cork Poland U. Krakow Cyprus University of Cyprus Hungary Technical University of Budapest Switzerland ETH-Zurich Norway University of Oslo Iceland U. Reykjavik