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Coordination: setting the scene

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ACCA Objectives:    The ACCA coordinates  and  integrates  within  harmonised  R&D  programme targeting new proactive initiative within FET major studies in the  area  of self-organisation (self-management, self-healing, self-awareness,  etc.)  in application  to  a  network  element's  autonomic behaviour   exposed   by innovative   (cross-layer    optimised,    context-aware,    and    securely programmable) protocol stack in its interaction with numerous  often-dynamic network communities.

B-T-H Objectives:  The main aims of BEYOND-THE-HORIZON are to: <>identify advanced strategic areas and grand science and technology challenges related to ICT;discuss the scientific, commercial and social importance of these challenges; draw basic research directions in ICT and related disciplines for addressing the above challenges; design roadmaps for making advances in these areas with a timeframe of fifteen years; identify new frontiers for ICT basic research, and boundaries between “pure ICT” research and other disciplines; identify the potential for cross-fertilization of research in disciplines involved in these areas; establish communication and cooperation mechanisms within and beyond Europe in order to facilitate and support the formation and functioning of a related scientific community during the project lifecycle in a field characterised by rapid and continuous evolution. Relevant . Relevant  B-T-H Working Groups Pervasive Computing and Communications Software Intensive Systems

S&AC Projects

The following projects have been retained as the implementation of the Situated and Autonomic Communication proactive initiative of IST FET The projects are expected to start early in 2006

BIONETS Objectives: Biologically-inspired approach (from nature and society) to localised autonomic communication services without central control Allowing high-level services to evolve spontaneously

ANA Objectives: Novel network architecture (beyond IP) enabling flexible and autonomic formation of network nodes according to working, economic and social needs Focused on adaptation and reorganization of the network

Haggle Objectives: Cross-layer network architecture exploiting intermittent connectivity Supporting opportunistic networking paradigm (delivery of messages based on store and forward exploiting situated information)

CACADAS Objectives: The project is  set to demonstrate an innovative architectural vision based on self-organized distributed components for the provisioning of autonomic and situation-aware communication services.

Relevant NSF Projects  

• NSF GENI - Global Environment for Networking Investigations (not started yet)
• NSF FIND - Future Internet Network Design (call for proposals ends March 2006)
  • Presentations for the first meeting of FIND are on-line at the agenda page

Relevant Running Projects

CATNETS Objectives: One of the main problems of future Grid network technology is the efficient provisioning of services to clients by a scalable and dynamic resource allocation (matching) mechanism. The objective of CATNETS is to determine the applicability of a decentralized economic self-organization mechanism for resource allocation in application layer networks.

Relevant Past Projects

CADENUS Objectives: The primary goal of the project was to develop, implement, validate and demonstrate a framework for the configuration and provisioning of end-user services with QoS guarantees in Premium IP networks (eg. for voice over IP). Sub-objectives are: To investigate the system-related architectures for implementing Premium IP network transport services to deliver end-user services with QoS. To specify and realise a framework for end-user services having a range of call features and with QoS guarantees. To develop a system implementing the framework which enables the efficient delivery of services by new enterprises and traditional operators. To trial and demonstrate end-user services with QoS guarantees via this framework. To disseminate the results in standards bodies and to the industry in general. The project has concluded. Public deliverables are available on-line.