Projects

GÉANT is Europe’s leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure and services for the benefit of research and education, contributing to Europe’s economic growth and competitiveness. The organisation develops, delivers and promotes advanced network and associated e-infrastructure services, and supports innovation and knowledge-sharing amongst its members, partners and the wider research and education networking community. It currently reaches over 50 million users at 10 000 institutions across Europe, and more than 100 countries worldwide. The EU-funded GN4-3 is the third specific grant agreement under a framework partnership agreement (FPA) between the GÉANT Consortium and the European Commission. It aims to help take European research to the next level, promoting scientific excellence, access and re-use of research data.

Funding Agency: H2020-EU – EXCELLENT SCIENCE – Research Infrastructures
Duration: 01/01/2019-31/12/2022

ACROSS project aims at evaluating, demonstrating, and further evolving a novel resource control mechanism for Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) based on Markov Random Fields (MRF) concept and Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology, and inspired by the principles of autonomic cross-layered protocol stacks, while utilizing the capabilities of the ORCA federation. Among ACROSS’s primary goals is to enable application of the proposed MRF-based decision-making methodology in real scenarios, and exploit the benefits of diverse testing features provided by ORCA for facilitating the realization of flexible, optimized and efficient wireless networks of the Future Internet paradigms. ACROSS will utilize ORCA facilities for a multitude of purposes, including the study of the impact of primary network users on secondary SDR-based CRNs, the effect of physical layer parameters of SDR devices on the proposed cross-layer mechanism, and eventually increase the TRL of our framework bringing it closer to industrial adoption. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/06/2018-30/11/2018

MESON aims at: (i) the design and prototype implementation of a new network slicing architecture that will provide faster and safer access to network functions and content dispersed across multiple slices, and (ii) the development of techniques for the dynamic placement of slice components for faster reactions to sudden load variations. Given the incentives for collaboration among Virtual Network Operators (VNOs), MESON will develop mechanisms for inter-slice communication, based on peering agreements established between the VNOs (similar to the peering agreements of Internet Service Providers). Inter-slice communication will go beyond content access, enabling applications to utilize functions and services deployed across multiple slices in order to improve their performance and/or security.

Funding Agency: General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT)
Duration: 01/10/2018-31/10/2021

IoT2Edge aims to promote scientific excellence in the areas of edge computing and semantic interoperability in IoT environments through novel experimentation based on the RAWFIE federated testbed infrastructure. IoT2Edge will develop the respective supportive software (SSW) in support of the experiments that will evaluate the proposed solutions. This SSW can also enhance the current RAWFIE architecture increasing its openness and improving its performance. The IoT2Edge semantic interoperability mechanisms will be based on open specifications and standards (of ETSI and W3C for example) and will be pluggable on top of the RAWFIE platform. The edge computing modules aim to enable dynamic offloading of resource intensive processes from both cloud and mobile edge to achieve resource usage optimisation. The proposed mechanisms will be evaluated via demanding experiments driven by an IoT-enabled emergency detection use case. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/03/2018-31/03/2019

Assuming the data graph obtained by analyzing data dependencies in Future Internet of Things (IoT), CREDIT will investigate the correlation between sensor networks and the emerging data graph for different topologies from the FIESTA-IoT platform, with the goal to respond to the rather critical and challenging question of whether such correlations, if existing, can be used in developing applications in the emerging cognitive IoT environment. CREDIT will exploit a recently developed framework for big network data analytics, namely Hyperbolic Data Analytics (HDA). The goal is to determine hidden correlations in the network-data graphs and identify the most important sensors-measurements in the employed testbeds. For demonstration purposes, a smart energy management application based on ambient sensory data provided by FIESTA-IoT will be considered. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/02/2017-31/08/2017

PRODUCER aims at delivering a set of innovative ICT tools that focus on supporting various stages of the documentary creation phases, ranging from the user engagement and audience building, to the final documentary delivery. Apart from the key objective of reducing the overall production cost and time, enabling small documentary production houses (SMEs) to increase their market share and competitiveness, our project would result in: a) providing greater creativity and productivity to documentary creation professionals, stimulated by new production sophisticated tools that enable searching, annotating, editing, personalizing professional and user generated content, b) enhancing viewers’ experience and satisfaction by generating multi-layered documentaries, and delivering to the viewer personalized services, and c) facilitating the promotion of the documentaries to investors. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/01/2017-30/06/2018

The Fed4FIRE+ project has the objective to run and further improve Fed4FIRE’s “best-in-town” federation of experimentation facilities for the Future Internet Research and Experimentation initiative. Federating a heterogeneous set of facilities covering technologies ranging from wireless, wired, cloud services and open flow, and making them accessible through common frameworks and tools suddenly opens new possibilities, supporting a broad range of experimenter communities covering a wide variety of Internet infrastructures, services and applications. Fed4FIRE+ will continuously upgrade and improve the facilities and include technical innovations, focused towards increased user satisfaction (user-friendly tools, privacy-oriented data management, testbed SLA and reputation, experiment reproducibility, service-level experiment orchestration, federation ontologies, etc.). It will open this federation to the whole FIRE community and beyond, for experimentation by industry and research organisations, through the organization of Open Calls and Open Access mechanisms The project will also establish a flexible, demand-driven framework which allows test facilities to join during the course of its lifetime by defining a set of entry requirements for new facilities to join and to comply with the federation.

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/01/2017-30/06/2022

Up2U focuses on K12 education, moreover the last years of secondary school. We hope that with the creation of Up2Universe, an innovative digital ecosystem will facilitate a more effective usage of digital content in the classrooms and beyond. Hybrid learning scenarios will help students advance their skills and also enjoy learning. We plan to address project based and peer-to-peer learning scenarios and support collaborative and personalised studying. Our main goal is to develop a toolkit that will be sustainable, and teachers and students can make good use of it in the long run. We will work on developing an applicable business plan that allows new members to join the Up2Universe easily and thus form a federated marketplace for the learning community.

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/01/2017-30/06/2020

In the SAMANT project we aim to adopt generic/common, thus universal solutions, for tackling issues related to semantic aware management of federated infrastructures. To this end, SAMANT will equip RAWFIE with open-source tools that will allow experimenters to discover and select available RAWFIE testbeds and their resources in order to build experiments. The RAWFIE software stack will be enhanced with functionalities related to discovery, booking, provisioning/release of resources, while addressing authentication and authorisation issues at the federated environment. Semantic web technologies will be used to describe the federated infrastructures and support the lifecycle of unmanned vehicles. The proposed software enhancements are (i) testbed-tier specific, using software for the aforementioned management operations, and (ii) cross-layer, spanning the RAWFIE middle, data and front end tiers, supporting such operations at the federation level. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/09/2016-31/12/2018

In UNIQUE, we aspire to evolve, implement and experiment with a unified utility-based framework based on both QoS (network-centric) and QoE (user-centric) features and parameters, which allows to enhance, formulate and improve various advanced network operations in mobile broadband (MBB) infrastructures (network selection, offloading, resource allocation, etc.). The proposed methodology and intended MONROE software extensions are expected to be provided as services to future experimenters that desire to investigate their own mechanisms and protocols. UNIQUE targets at two key runs of experiments and respective software extensions, depicting the operation and benefit of the proposed utility-based framework, i.e., a) utility-based access network selection, and b) utility-based concurrent multipath routing and traffic control. They aim at demonstrating the power of the proposed framework for key user-desired and bandwidth intensive network services and applications, such as multimedia downloading. 

Funding Agency: Information Society Technologies, EU, H2020
Duration: 01/06/2016-28/02/2018