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long-term research priorities in Future and
Emerging Technologies
from Situated and Autonomic Communications to
Pervasive Computing and Communications
Fabrizio Sestini Future and Emerging
Technologies DG Information Society European
Commission
a research initiative in future and emerging
communication paradigms and technologies to
reshape the way we communicate and interact in 15
- 20 years
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IST - Future Emerging Technologies

• More exploratory and visionary, high-risk
  research
• Helping new IST-related ST fields and
  communities to emerge
• Majority Academic Research partners
• Role of Industry
• Complementary to
• other IST strategic objectives
• other FP6 Anticipating ST needs / frontier
  research (new fields / multidisciplinary work)
• Open scheme openness to unforeseeable ideas
• Continuous submission call
• total FP6 120 M
• Proactive initiatives critical mass where focus
  is needed
• e.g. beyond robotics, complex systems
  research, situated and autonomic
  communications
• total FP6 200 M

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FET Scope and Proactive Initiatives

• Emerging Nanoelectronics

• Advanced Computing Architectures

• Quantum InformationProcessing Communication

• Global Computing

Core ICT

• Situated Autonomic Communications

• Disappearing Computer

• Beyond Robotics

• Complex Systems

• Presence and Interaction in Mixed Reality
  Environments

• Bio-Inspired IntelligentInformation Systems

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FET FP7 consultation

• preliminary reports have been published on the
  website of Beyond the Horizon
• a coordination action that is compiling input
  from the research community for future research
  initiatives on FET
• your comments are invited through the
  consultation forum at www.beyond-the-horizon.net
• open until March 31st, 2006
• to provide comments on the content of the
  document
• to point out omissions or inaccuracies
• to provide arguments for or against a proposed
  research topic
• to suggest additional topics
• post your comments openly to the Forum
• (or email myself if you prefer to keep them
  private)
• We are also interested in your views on programme
  implementation issues
• e.g., on appropriate duration and size of
  projects, issues of interdisciplinarity,
  continuity of support, evaluation criteria and
  process, relations to other initiatives, etc.

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FET FP7 consultation

• Subjects of the consultation
• Pervasive Computing and Communications
• Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies
• Security, Dependability and Trust
• Bio-ICT Synergies
• Intelligent and Cognitive Systems
• Software Intensive Systems
• Quantum Information Processing and Communication
• Complexity research
• accessible through the FET consultation forum
  http//www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/id.htm
• You may also contribute ideas for new research
  directions
• novel and mobilise multidisciplinary research
  teams
• address research of a long-term nature
• have the potential to become a future FET
  pro-active initiative in FP7
• not restricted in scope as for a single research
  project

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An example SAC timeline

• 22 July 2003 First brainstorming meeting
• New Communication Paradigms for 2020
• 3-4 March 2004 Consultation Meeting on
  "Communication Paradigms for 2020"
• 45 external experts representing university,
  industry, telecom operators and research centers
• Outcome background document on Situated and
  Autonomic Communications
• 1 October 2004 Coordination Action on Autonomic
  Communication (ACCA) start
• 1 December 2004 Call launch (20 Meuro)
• 8 December 2005 Autonomic Communication Forum
  launch
• 22 March 2005 Deadline for proposals
• 1 August 2005 negotiation of 4 selected
  proposals (out of 12 submitted)
• Joint negotiation meeting, will have joint events
  and reviews
• 1 January 2006 start of the 4 selected
  Integrated Projects

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Situated and Autonomic Communications

• Situated Communications
• Context-Aware (i.e. reacting locally on context
  changes), local
• Ranging from sensor networks to virtual networks
  of humans
• Considering strategic needs (social or economic,
  not only technological, e.g. privacy)
• Autonomic Communications
• network elements autonomously interrelated and
  controlled, learning the desired behaviour
• self- (organising, managing, evolving, healing,
  protecting, implementing)
• radically distributed
• technology independent
• Self-organisation needs broad interdisciplinary
  approach
• software and hardware developments, radio
  technology advances, design methodology, control
  theory, formal methods, distributed systems
  research, complexity theory, game theory,
  sociology, etc.

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Goal and Objectives

• Goal communication/networking should become
  task- and knowledge-driven and fully scalable
• Objectives
• To define a self-organising communication network
  concept and technology that can be situated in
  multiple and dynamic contexts
• defining decentralised optimisation strategies
• benefiting from cross-layer or non-layered
  approaches
• To study how social or commercial strategic needs
  impact on future communication paradigms, and how
  networks and applications can support society and
  economy
• to develop networking technologies
  (hardware/software combinations) that can evolve
  and create maximal synergy with the other types
  of non-technological networks that constitute
  their context

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Key Requirements

• security and trustworthiness of this distributed
  communication system
• by embedding security and trust rules in network
  functionality at modelling and design phases
• overall stability and resilience of the network
• as it evolves (growing not constructing future
  networks)
• positive interactions which the new communication
  paradigms will have on human and social aspects
• in relation to ambient intelligence and more in
  general to future sensorized societies

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SAC projects
New Architectures
Common research issues Security, resilience,
self- (organisation, evolution,healing, )
interaction of new paradigms with society
Situated Services
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SAC Project Partners

• Universities Basel, Athens, Lancaster, Oslo,
  Pierre et Marie Curie, Liege, London (Imperial
  College, LSE), Budapest, Berlin, Basel, Aachen,
  Ulster, Kassel, Trento, Bruxelles (ULB), Modena e
  Reggio Emilia, Uppsala, Cambridge, SUPSI
• Research Centers ETH, VTT, Fraunhofer,
  Create-NET, Hamburger ITC, Eurecom, EPFL, CNR
• Industries Nokia, NEC Europe, Intel Research
  Cambridge, Sun Microsystems Iberica, Thomson
  Research
• Telecom Operators Telecom Italia, Telekom
  Austria, British Telecom

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Bio-Inspired Computing Computational Biology
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HAGGLE - No alternative to global services
Internet Phone
Today
OR
Today
OR
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
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SAC for FP7 Re-thinking the IP model

• How can autonomous networks coexist / be mapped
  on / live with the classical Internet?
• Challenges
• Huge number (billions) of nodes in a huge number
  of networks
• Mobility of users and networks
• Mobile IP (or MIPv6) imposes too much overhead
• Service-centric networks invalidate the
  source-destination approach of the Internet
• Where is my service?
• Who could be my customer?

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Summary Key points for autonomic networking in
FP7

• What does autonomous mean the degree of
  autonomicity is inverse to the degree of
  involvement of human operators
• Scenario Wireless devices will outnumber humans
  by several orders of magnitude
• increasingly high complexity of the internet,
  increasingly high demands being placed on it
  (complexity management and maintenance effort -
  but ANs are not any less complex!)
• disconnected operation is common (ad-hoc,
  opportunistic, trust and privacy)
• (Millions of) Localized ad-hoc services,
  user-situated (non-IP model, semantic addressing)
• Need Self-aware, self-diagnosing,
  self-correcting
• security and robustness, to enable pervasive
  computing
• protecting the network from traffic surges,
  failures (traffic unpredictable, only 10
  legitimate, impossible for human operators to
  cope with dramatic surges)
• self-awareness learning as a crucial component
  to reduce human intervention
• Bio-inspired (non deterministic) approaches for
  self-evolution and self-management
• 1st generation bio-inspired systems are
  self-contained, specific, isolated bio-inspired
  algorithms
• 2nd generation are at system level (systems
  biology, genetic engineering )
• SAC has a headstart on the NSF GENI initiative,
  we should maintain this advantage
• including testbeds and research components on how
  we build networks and distributed systems in the
  next 20 years
• no necessity of compatibility to allow innovation
  
• bridge the gap between mobile wireless and sensor
  nets
• enable control and management of other critical
  infrastructure (e.g. powergrid)
• enable new class of societal-level services and
  applications

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BTH TG1 Pervasive Computing and
CommunicationsVision and Challenges (Vienna
Workshop, Aug 2006)

• Systems of Self-managing Artefacts (Alois
  Ferscha, Peter Druschel)
• Aware Environments and Context Recognition (Paul
  Lukowicz)
• (Natural) Interaction and Usability (Antonio
  Krüger)
• Bio-based Paradigms (Imrich Chlamatch)
• Manageable Information (Giovanni Cortese)
• Measurements, Models and Benchmarks for Pervasive
  Computing Systems(Maria Papadopouli, Maria
  Grazia Vigliotti)
• Ambient Informatics (Jim Crowley)
• In-Body Pervasive Computing (Joe Paradiso)
• Search Challenges for Pervasive Computing and
  Communication Environments(Pavel Zezula)

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Consolidated Challenges (December 12)

• Societal Artefacts
• Future Pervasive Computing and Communication
  systems will establish service landscapes
  manifested by technology rich artefact formations
  and environment islands, cooperatively and
  coordinately attempting goals while exhibiting
  society-like behaviour (goal tribes)
• Evolve-able Systems
• Pervasive Computing and Communication system
  populations will have to exhibit viability, i.e.
  the ability to harmoniously live and to coexist
  with existing and future systems generations, as
  well as evolvability, i.e. the ability to develop
  and to improve grown from their origin and
  driven by their goals
• Future Aware Behaviour
• Way beyond current claims of Pervasive Computing
  and Communication systems for context awareness,
  next generation systems will have to have a
  certain anticipation of the future contexts of
  their use, i.e. must be able to predict or
  foresee possible (and likely) near and far future
  scenarios
• Human Computer Confluence
• The gap between the physical world of atoms and
  the digital world of bits has almost ceased to
  exist, challenging interactions embodied in
  artefacts, into environments or even into the
  human body

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Pervasive Computing and Communications
Visionary Systems Challenges
Networked Societies of Artefacts
Going beyond their capability to localize and
recognize other artefacts as well as humans and
their intentions, "societal" artefacts will have
to share competencies, to act in a sensitive,
proactive, and responsive way according to the
perceived and anticipated needs, habits, and
emotions of the users with society-like
behaviour. Coordinated goal oriented artefact
communities are supposed to be the interface,
via which humans will ultimately be served
Systems of Self-managing Artefacts, goal tribes
enhancing communication fabric of societies
harnessing dispersed content space aware
models opportunistic networking
Evolve-able Systems
Pervasive Computing and Communications
environments require the systems to grow from
their origin driven by their goals. This ability
to evolve is a key feature in order to cope with
the continuously changing contexts, conditions,
and purpose of their use, systems must become
self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing
and self-protecting, from a hardware and software
point of view. Research must go beyond the
current state of the art in context-awareness and
become future-aware in the sense that the system
has a certain anticipation of future contexts of
its use, e.g. through sensors
Aware Environments//Context Recognition viability
// evolvability systems future aware
behaviour adaptive to unforeseen situations
long-term, forward evolution Bio-based
Paradigms, non-deterministic // stochastic
approximation fundamental issue of scale
invisible, implicit, embodied or even implanted
interaction between humans and system components.
post-tangible user interfaces that make use of
several sensors and are able to change to adapt
their physical properties to the current
situational context of users. .. displays will be
available in all sizes and will compete for the
limited attention of users. .. connecting IT
directly with the human sensory and neural system
in terms of in-body interaction and intelligent
prosthetics
Human Computer Confluence
(Natural) Interaction and Usability invisible,
implicit, embodied, implanted user experience
// qualitative aspects
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the floor is yours speak up!

• your comments are invited through the
  consultation forum at www.beyond-the-horizon.net
• open until March 31st, 2006
• to provide comments on the content of the
  document
• Is this likely? Concretely described? Useful?
  Ethical? Desirable? Are there alternative
  scenarios?
• to point out omissions or inaccuracies
• to provide arguments for or against a proposed
  research topic
• to suggest additional topics
• post your comments openly to the Forum
• (or email myself if you prefer to keep them
  private)

fabrizio.sestini_at_cec.eu.int
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