Main trends affecting research and innovation in
the communications networks area
Societal drivers:
Urbanisation
Smart cities
Mobility
Information availability
Social networks
Privacy
Security
Energy efficiency
Demographic trends
Healthcare
Education
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Research & Technology drivers:
Capacity/Efficiency
Service/Content centricity
Virtualisation & “Cloudification”
Cognition
Context awareness
Manageability
Self-organisation
Self-optimisation
Cross-layer optimisation
Flexibility
Smart environments, Sensors M2M
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Novel Internet Architectures
Clean Slate/
Visionary Internet
Motivations
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- 30 years old internet architecture, host centric
- Not design to natively support mobility, security, QoS…
- Issues solved from overlay perspective;
- multiple approaches proposed to develop new Internet architectures:
ICN, CCN, NDN…Idea: decouple content from access port;
- Still unsolved problems: scalability is typical; applicability to large range
of applications
Objectives
Evolutionary
Internet
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-Further validate innovative architectural approaches;
- Solve unsolved remaining issues;
- get closer to deployment, validate migration paths.
 ICT 5. Smart Networks and novel
Internet Architectures (23 M€)
•Novel architectural and networking approaches to
information delivery and access
• Key functionalities:
• Security, trust, mobility and scalability (built-in)
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Impact:
Strengthen the EU datacom/telecom industry
Contribution to industrial strategies and roadmaps
Establish links with international initiatives
Contribution to large scale trials
• Type of Action:
• Research and Innovation – Small projects
Smart network technologies
Motivations, technological building
blocks for:
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- Flexibility in both optical and wireless networks,
- higher rates, access and core;
- application to novel usage scenarios (e.g. data centres
connectivity, novel user driven scenarios..)
- New frequency bands and spectrum usages (both fiber
and wireless)
- satellite role and contribution
ICT 6. Smart optical and wireless network
technologies
1/2
Innovative network technologies addressing the increasing
traffic and the multiplicity of usages (29 M€)
• Optical networks
• - Flexible management
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- Very high speed transmission and access
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- Efficient data center architectures
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Scalability, cost and energy efficiency
• Wireless networks
• - New paradigms for wireless connectivity
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- Flexible use of spectrum
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- Addressing usage diversity
•Hybrid (terrestrial/satellite) infrastructure for extensive coverage and resilience
ICT 6. Smart optical and wireless network
technologies
2/2
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• Expected impact:
• - Strengthen current EU industrial capabilities on wireless and optical
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- Reduce energy consumption (10x)
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- Higher spectrum efficiency, lower radiation
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- Support new applications and services
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- Community building, coordination with national initiatives (Support Actions)
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Type of action:
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Research and Innovation – Small projects
Support Actions
(2M€)
Support to dissemination, standardisation, international cooperation,
industrial roadmapping, etc
Inducement Prizes
Network Technologies
• a) Breaking the optical transmission barriers
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Maximise the fiber transmission capacity per channel
• b) Collaborative sharing of spectrum
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Novel methods for decentralised spectrum management
• Impact:
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- Stimulate high-level scientific work
- Attract new organisations
- Create ICT awareness on public and young researchers
• Type of action: Prizes
(2X 1 M€)