FIRE News

In Call 5 there was an objective for new FIRE proposals. In these days we are expecting to hear news which new IPs are accepted. We are warmly welcoming these new projects to join FIRE community. We believe that these new IPs will make FIRE initiative more stronger.

Please find below some information coming events and conferences, which might be useful for you.

FIRE community has planned to participate following events:


ETSI Workshop on Future Internet Technologies Standardization, Sophia Antipolis
10-11.3.2010
http://www.etsi.org/WebSite/NewsandEvents/FNT/FutureNetworkTechnologies.aspx

The future internet public-private-partnership.  Nice, France
12.3.2010
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/events/fippp/index_en.htm

Seventh GENI, Engineering Conference, RENCI, Cape Hill, NC
16-18.3.2010
http://www.geni.net/?p=1626

The 5th Annual Celtic Event 2010
12-13.4.2010
http://www.celtic-initiative.org/Events/Celtic-Event10-Valencia/welcome.asp

the 4th EU Conference on the Seventh Framework Programme
13-14.4.2010
http://www.r2sconference.eu/

Future Internet Assembly, Valencia, Spain
15-16.4.2010
http://www.r2sconference.eu/sideEvents_fia.php

TridentCom 2010, Berlin
18-20.5.2010
http://www.tridentcom.org/docs/TridentCom-2010-CFP.pdf

Future Network & Mobile Summit, Florence
16-18.6.2010
http://www.futurenetworksummit.eu/2010/

FIRE Week
28.6.-1.7.2010
http://www.ict-fireworks.eu/home.html

Eighth International Network Conference (INC 2010) , Heidelberg
6-8.7.2010
http://www.inc2010.org/

ICT 2010, Brussels
27-29.9.2010
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2010/index_en.htm

FIA Stockholm

FIRE community cruised from Helsinki to Stockholm with good winter breeze. Our high topic was experimental research. ECODE, N4C,, WISEBEd/OPNEX and  PanLab/PII projects were presented.  We had good discussion in seminar and took action points from the following topics:

-          How to run experiments=> publish white paper

-          Define definitions/terminology

-          Describe segments of different used/stakeholders

-          What is experimentally driven research?

-          Create performance of metrics systems

FIRE sessions at the FIA Stockholm At the FIA Stockholm the FIRE initiative organized two cross-topic sessions as well as a FIRE plenary session. The schedule of the sessions was as follows:

*       23 November 2009, 11.15 - 12.45 -  Methodology: How to apply experimentally driven research<http://www.ict-fireworks.eu/events/fire-events/fia-stockholm/experimentally-driven-research.html>
*       23 November 2009, 16:30 - 18:00- Deploying on the FIRE facilities<http://www.ict-fireworks.eu/events/fire-events/fia-stockholm/deploying-on-fire.html>
*       24 November 2009, 09:00 - 11:00 - FIA Stockholm, FIRE plenary session - Usage of facilities<http://www.ict-fireworks.eu/events/fire-events/fia-stockholm/fire-plenary-session.html>

FIA presentations link is: (http://www.ict-fireworks.eu/news/view/article/fia stockholm-1.html)

FIA Valencia

We are engaged in the organization of one session at the next Future Interenet Assembly, 16 April 2010 in Valencia with a focus on the test and experimental facilities.

The proposed topics for FIRE seminar are :

·         White paper and portfolio analysis discussion

·         FIRE International and networks

·         Call 5 Project presents

·         PPP

More updated agenda of all sessions is here:

http://www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly/valencia-april-2010/session-agendas.html

FIRE Weeks

FIRE Weeks will be organized from 28.6-1.7.2010 July in Barcelona.  The week program will consist of reviews and conference. The conference will be organized on Wednesday 30th June. The preliminary topics are Portfolio analysis of Calls 2& 5 and introduction of new IPs.

ICT 2010

FIRE community encourages all projects to submit a proposal to "CALL FOR PROPOSALS- ICT 2010 NETWORKING EVENT". How to submit a networking session proposal:

Follow our step-by-step instructions

<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2010/networking/call/apply/index_en.htm> to send us your contribution.

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2010/networking/call/apply/index_en.htm

The call for proposals for networking sessions will close on 15 April 2010 at 12h00 CEST.

Coming conferences

VISA 2010
2nd Workshop on Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures
In Conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM'10
New Delhi, Aug-Sept 2010, http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2010/workshops/visa/

SMART EVENT 2010
The Innovation Forum for Mobility and Trusted Technologies & Services
September 22-24, 2010 - Sophia Antipolis French Riviera - www.smart-event.eu<http://www.smart-event.eu>
The GEC 7 registration deadline is now at hand.
Please take a moment to sign up now.  Here's a link:
http://www.geni.net/?p=1626

GEC 7 is hosted by Duke University & RENCI, and will take place March 16 - 18, 2010 at Duke in Durham, North Carolina.

Call for papers

eChallenges e-2010 Conference and Exhibition
27 - 29 October 2010, Warsaw, Poland, www.echallenges.org/e2010/default.asp?page=c4p<http://www.echallenges.org/e2010/default.asp?page=c4p>

Workshop on "Next Generation Mobile Networks":

Packet Core Evolution and Seamless Multimedia Application Platforms", Miami, Florida, USA, December 10th, 2010, www.ngmn-workshop.org<http://www.ngmn-workshop.org> as part of IEEE Globecom 2010 "Moving into the age of Mobile Interactivity", www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2010/<http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2010/>

Publication

In February issue of Nature magazine features a 3-page article on "Four Ways to Reinvent the Internet", highlighting the ideas of Keren Bergman, Jon Turner, & Felix Wu, all of whom are very active in the GENI project.
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100203/full/463602a.html