Archives

The Future Networks FP7 Concertation and Clusters Meetings

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

Adhoc GreenICN meeting at ICNP 2013

The 21st edition of ICNP, ICNP 2013, was held at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Göttingen, October 7-10, 2013. The Project coordinator of GreenICN, Prof. Xiaoming Fu was the General co-chair. Of special highlight was the notion of Information Centric Networking (ICN). ICNP’13 had a specific session on ICN and the panel was centric to “The Future of Information-Centric Networking”, where experts from the academia and industry raised various opinions and prospects on this future Internet technology.

GreenICN participants participated in the Demo (1 accepted Demo) as well as Poster session (2 accepted Posters), see List of accepted Posters, Demos at ICNP 2013 Poster/Demo session.  Moreover, an ad-hoc meeting was organized for GreenICN members, both from EU and Japan on Thursday as well as Friday. A special highlight was that these meetings were attended by all the members of the advisory committee from the EU side.

ICN focus at ICNP 2013

Since 1993, the annual IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) has established itself as one of the premier conferences in the computer networking field. ICNP deals with all aspects of communication protocols, including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. ICNP is a highly competitive conference in computer science, where only around 10-20% top ranked papers are selected from all submissions, based on the double-blind reviews by its program committee composed of highly reputed international scholars in the field of computer networking.

The 21st edition of ICNP, ICNP 2013 (http://icnp13.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/), is one of the most successful events in ICNP history – it attracted highest number of participants (more than 150 registered attendees) and a highest number of submissions (252), with a highest number of full paper presentations (46). It was held at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Göttingen, October 7-10, 2013, where forefathers of computer science like Profs. Carl Friedrich Gauss, David Hilbert, Emmy Noether and Von Neumann taught or worked. It is first premium international conference organized by the young Institute of Computer Science, which was founded 11 years ago. Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu of the Institute of Computer Science served as General Co-Chair, together with Dr. Volker Hilt of Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent. Prof. Dr. Dieter Hogrefe, director of the Institute of Computer Science, was the conference finance chair/treasurer.

Of special highlight was the notion of Information Centric Networking (ICN), a key innovation in the area of future Internet. ICNP’13 had a specific session on ICN and the panel was centric to “The Future of Information-Centric Networking”, where experts from the academia and industry raised various opinions and prospects on this future Internet technology. In this domain, the University of Goettingen is coordinating a new EU research project GreenICN  – Architecture and Applications of Green Information Centric Networking, which aims to address upcoming challenges of energy efficiency and disaster management with ICN.

Four workshops as well as PhD forum will be held on Monday, October 7th, 2013:

  • 8th Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec)
  • 3rd Int’l Capacity Sharing Workshop (CSWS)
  • 3rd Workshop on Rigorous Protocol Engineering (WRiPE)
  • 2nd Int’l Workshop on Vehicular Communications and Applications (VCA)

Distinguished keynote speakers were:

  • Prof. Anja Feldmann (T-Labs/TU Berlin, Germany, recipient of the 2011 Leibniz price of the German Research Foundation, DFG), “On the importance of Internet eXchange Points for today’s Internet ecosystem”
  • Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T Labs-Research, USA, IEEE Fellow and AT&T Fellow), on “Networking Cloud Data Centers: Providing Dependable Storage and Computation”

Nicola presents GreenICN at Korea-EU Workshop, 30 September & 1st of October 2013, Seoul, ROK.

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