Dr Ioannis Psaras presented the GreenICN work on “Name-Based Replication Priorities in Disaster Cases” at the Department of Informatics of the University of Sussex on the 26th of February 2014. Members of the group where our work was presented is active in the area of DTN and ad hoc communications and are also keen on the ICN paradigm. The audience (of around 15 people) liked the idea of name-based replication and the discussion focused around the adoption of our proposed scheme in some of their projects.

The COMSNET (http://www.comsnets.org/archive/2014) was held in Bangalore, India from the 7th of January till the 10th of January, 2014. K.K. Ramakrishnan was part of the panel titled “Telling gold from pyrite: Promising research direction or hype ?” and represented GreenICN (http://www.comsnets.org/archive/2014/panel_discussions.html). The goal of the panel was to understand how to identify if an emerging technology is a hype or a promising research direction. The case studies considered were AI, P2P, CCN, Cloud, BigData and SDN.

The following is a list of all the panelist:

1. Romit Roy Choudhury,  Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA
2. Krishna Gummadi , Head of Network Systems Research, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany
3. Rajat Moona, Director General, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
4. Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, USA
5. K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Fellow and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs-Research, USA,

Take a look at ACM-ICN-2014-Conference for details. Dirk, a GreenICN partner is a TPC co-chair. Moreover, GreenICN partners are part of the Steering committee as well as the TPC.

Prof. Tohru Asami presented GreenICN at the 12th MCPC Mobile Solutions Fair 2013.

“MCPC Mobile Solutions Fair” has been held for the promotion of mobile

computing and the development of the mobile market, and is evaluated as
an only one mobile professionals’ exhibition in Japan. The URL of this
fair is as follows.
http://www.mcpc-jp.org/fair2013/index.html

12th MCPC Mobile Solutions Fair 2013 is held in TEPIA (Association for
Technological Excellence Promoting Innovative Advances), 2-8-44,
Kita-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0061, Japan, Tokyo. It is sponsored by
Mobile Computing Promotion Consortium (MCPC), co-sponsored by Japan
Electronic and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA),
and supported by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the National
Federation of Societies of Commerce and Industry, National Federation of
Small Business Associations, Communications and Information network
Association (CIAJ), IT Coordinator Association (ITCA), Embassy of UK,
Embassy of Canada , Korea Trade -Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA)
Tokyo IT support center, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the
Inter-Embassies IT & Mobile Forum (IEMF), and ASP-SaaS – cloud
Consortium (ASPIC).

Prof. Asami, presented it as a special lecture from 10:30 to 11:30 on Friday, November 22, 2013 just after the talk by the opening speech by Mr. Hideo Fudeda, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. The audience size was about 250 participants in the hall and about 30+ participants watching via TV screens.

IETF 88 is currently being held in Vancouver, Canada (3-8 November). The ICNRG working group met on the 3rd and 6th of November. Jan seedorf represented the GreenICN members at the ICNRG WG and presented the updated version of the Disaster Draft and the work done by the CNIT team related to Video Delivery.

To represent the GreenICN project and exchange research findings and ideas, Mayutan Arumaithurai visited the Future Networks FP7 Concertation and Clusters Meetings in Brussels on the 22nd and 23rd of October 2013.

On the 22nd of October, there was a Energy workshop organized by the Future Internet (FI) Cluster (http://fi-cluster.futureinternet.eu/), where the various FP7 projects presented how their project deals with energy efficiency. Mayutan also shortly presented the GreenICN project, which is one of the new projects in the FI cluster and briefly mentioned how we aim to tackle energy efficiency.

The 23rd of October was the main event where they briefly touched upon Horizon 20-20 and about the EU conference (EUCNC) to be held from the 23rd till 26th of June 2014 and will accept papers related to ICN.

For further details, see the official website of the12th FP7 Concertation Meeting on Future Networks

Nicola Blefari Melazzi presented  on behalf of GreenICN in the Korea-EU Workshop (Eu-Korea Workshop): Exploring common research interests in the Future Internet and Cloud, 30 September & 1st of October 2013, Seoul, ROK. The title of his talk was “Information Centric Networking: Changing the Internet from Within?” and was well received. See slide set: Korea-EU workshop Blefari GreenICN 30-9-13