DAVINCI codes – Design And Versatile Implementation of Non-binary wireless Communications based on Innovative LDPC Codes

is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) under EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7) that aims at developing theoretical tools and framework around Non-Binary Wireless communications based on new LDPC codes, whilst enabling and achieving new requirements from IMT-Advanced Systems, thus resulting into viable real-world future technology.

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The CHANGE project addresses a central problem of today’s Internet: its size and scope make innovation through the introduction of new core network technologies very difficult. The Internet suffers from “ossification”. Even minor changes only happen through the accretion of point solutions that embed knowledge in the network, optimizing today’s applications at the expense of tomorrow’s.

The goal of CHANGE is to reinvigorate innovation on the Internet, in order to better support current services and applications and enable those of tomorrow. This will be achieved by introducing a common concept of a flow-processing platform, instantiated at critical points in the network. Although the platform and its interfaces are common, the processing performed must be programmable, allowing the network to evolve and support the needs of rapidly changing applications. Such platforms can be built from commodity hardware – e.g. x86 servers and commodity switching chipsets –, and are both scalable and powerful while retaining the flexibility to quickly introduce processing primitives.

These platforms form the basis for CHANGE, but the vision is larger. The goal is an architecture that combines multiple communicating flow processing platforms to provide innovative end-to-end services to applications. Thus, conventional traffic flows can be processed at varying degrees of granularity, and application-specific virtual network overlays can be constructed, without impacting other network services or traffic. The aim is to do this within an architectural framework that allows application developers and network operators to reason about the emergent end-to-end behaviour. To validate the architecture, we will implement and deploy a set of novel and diverse applications and services.

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EIFFEL – Evolved Internet Future for European Leadership

The EIFFEL initiative is a Support Action (SA) for mobilising European researchers to discuss and debate the future of the Internet.

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eMobility – Coordination Action

The strategic objective of the eMobility CA project is to facilitate the emergence of a common understanding, between the European sector actors, leading to agreed road-maps and contributing to the global competitiveness of the European telecommunications sector on the following key challenges:

• the need to integrate the road-maps of the mobile and wireless sector with those of the health, transport and the environment sectors,
• the need to extend the eMobility Strategic Research Agenda to cover new technologies,
• the need to support the definition of a European perspective on the Future Internet, positioning these views in the
• international context, and
• the need to build the opportunities to use Structural Funds to develop leading edge markets in Europe, promoting the take-up of the RandD output of collaborative projects.

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EX-FI – Expanding the European Future Internet Community

EX-FI is a Specific Support Action under EU Framework Programme 7 in the IST Priority which supports the European Future Internet research activities.

The project goal is to expand the European Future Internet Community by establishing a partnership scheme and by facilitating discussions among the stakeholders, in order to specify a number of usage areas and to indentify major R&D challenges.

FIRESTATION – Future Internet Research and Experimentation
Firestation provides the globally known FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) Initiative with an active support hub that guides and coordinates the demands and requirements of experimentation in the context of future networks and services.