ICT-2007.1.6: New Paradigms and Experimental Facilities

Target outcome

1. Advanced networking approaches to architectures and protocols, designed to cope with increased scale, complexity, mobility and requirements for security, resilience and transparency of the Future Internet coupled with their validation in large scale testing environments based on a combination of physical and 'virtual' infrastructures.
   
   
2. Interconnected test beds addressing novel distributed and reconfigurable protocol architectures; novel distributed service architectures, infrastructures and software platforms; and advanced embedded or overlay security, trust and identity management architectures and technologies. Test beds for systems that provide trusted access to eservices with users requiring no administration and security skills.
   
   
3. Coordination and support actions for:
   1. standardisation and conference support;
   2. coordination with related national or regional programmes or initiatives.

Expected Impact

• Strengthened European position in the development of the Future Internet.
• Wider take-up of technological developments in networks and service infrastructure facilitated by a comprehensive validation of the technological and service choices.
• Global consensus towards standards and strengthened international co-operation through interconnected test beds and interconnection capabilities offered to third countries.
• Higher confidence in the secure use of the Internet through test beds enabling trusted access to e-Services.

Funding schemes CP, NoE, CSA