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Leone: From global measurements to local management (LEONE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Finland,Germany,Spain,Belgium,Switzerland,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3801512.0
EU funding (EUR): 2759000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The Leone project is a 30-month long STREP targeting “Future Networks” within the 7th Framework programme. The project addresses “Novel Internet architectures, management and operation frameworks”. The goal of the Leone project is to research and develop an innovative network management framework that has two novelties: • It is focused on Quality of Experience: Probes sited alongside end users measure performance and functionality to websites and test servers, both local and distant. • It integrates multi-dimensional information: It combines measurements made by probes in the local ISP, probes in other ISPs, control plane information etc. These two novelties enable network management to focus on improving the user’s experience of the Internet in a world of highly distributed and increasingly meshed applications. We research, prototype and validate through trials several tools that instantiate our framework: • New tests running on the probes, to measure Quality of Experience. We build on the existing global platform of our partner SamKnows, which already has several thousand probes in the homes of broadband customers, by deploying 150 probes in partner ISP networks. • Analysis to determine the cause of degradation of Quality of Experience. The tool combines the multiple viewpoints provided by the multi-dimensional data, in order to isolate which part of the Internet or service infrastructure has failed or needs to be upgraded. • Visualisation of the measurements and analysis results. • Integration of the measurements and analysis results into existing network management tools, exemplified by the tool of our partner MG-Soft. • Automatic repair of the problem, where possible in some scenarios. Within the project’s lifetime, we disseminate our results, standardise at the IETF, and influence regulators to define performance metrics that take account of quality of experience.

Keywords: network management,global measurement platforms,probes,quality of experience,multi-dimensional data integration,root cause analysis,visualisation,automatic repair
Utilization of Industrial By-products and Waste in Environmental Protection (NO-WASTE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Finland,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 419500.0
EU funding (EUR): 419500.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Environmental pollution is a global problem. Unsustainable production of goods, improper treatment of the waste, emissions to air and water, and inadequate legislation causes growing problems to human beings and nature. The urgent need for reducing environmental load coming from industry, agriculture and communities demands for novel ways of thinking. NO-WASTE collaboration will attack to this current problem by developing environmentally sound and sustainable possibilities to utilize and valorise different wastes and emissions. The aim is to create valuable new products and renewable energy to minimize the waste as well as emissions to air and water. As a tool to achieve this aim, catalysis plays an important role. In addition, the sustainability of the each planned utilisation case will be evaluated. The cases are related to hydrogen and synthesis gas production from waste, utilization of CO2, organic gases and agricultural waste, and development of new products created by optimized hydrothermal carbonization process. This ambitious aim and wide operational area demands for extensive collaboration, but also forms a great possibility to widen the network after NO-WASTE. The exchange months during this four years program grows up to 205 months and the planned transnational network brings together experts of different disciplines from Finland, France, Germany, Brazil, Morocco and China. During the collaboration a solid basis for further collaboration will be established.

Keywords: env 6: waste utilization,catalysis,hydrothermal carbonization,renewable energy,clean technology,adsorption.
Phase Change Memory Advanced universal Switches through Thin alteRnating laYers (PASTRY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4400621.0
EU funding (EUR): 3067901.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Charge storage has been the main physical mechanism supporting all solid state mass storage memories until now, both DRAM and FLASH. However none of the two main memory types appear to fully satisfy system requirements, DRAM because of its volatility and large power dissipation, and FLASH because of its slow programming speed and large block organization. PCM technology is a promising candidate to target the “universal memory” matching most of the properties of FLASH and DRAM. However, to realize the full potential of PCM two crucial memory characteristics have to be improved: programming current and switching speed. The new memory concept investigated in the project is based on engineered Chalcogenide SuperLattices (CSL) that should allow realizing the memory switching with a modification in the bonding nature instead of the energy expensive melting process, bringing about a significant reduction of both transition times and programming currents. Despite the convincing experimental evidence the physical mechanism is not yet understood. The project aims at exploiting the potential of CSL-PCM memory cells, starting from an atomistic understanding of switching in CSL materials through experiments and physical model development, leading to new insights for CSL engineering. Optimization of the CSL device will be achieved through the development of a test vehicle allowing the benchmark among different stacks, based on “universal memory” electrical performance targets. A large array, realized at 4X technology node, will be fabricated and integration issues will be addressed. Scalability to the 2X node will be also evaluated to demonstrate the capability to become a real “universal memory” also for the next generations of memory chips. At the end of the project a first “universal memory” chip at the state of the art technology node will be available with an expected direct impact on the solid state memory market.

Keywords: emerging memory-pcm-universal memory-ssd-data storage-non volatile-reliability-chalcogenide superlattice
Energy Demand Aware Open Services for Smart Grid Intelligent Automation (SMARTHG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Denmark,Spain,Belarus,Germany,Denmark,Israel,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4663472.0
EU funding (EUR): 3299998.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

SmartHG will develop economically viable Intelligent Automation Software services gathering real-time data about energy usage from residential homes and exploiting such data for intelligent automation pursuing two main goals: minimise energy usage and cost for each home, support the Distribution Network Operator (DNO) in optimising operation of the grid. SmartHG rests on the following four pillars. First, Internet-based open standard protocols enabling effective communication between: i) home devices (e.g., sensors, smart appliances, local generators, electric vehicles, energy storage) and SmartHG services; ii) SmartHG services and DNO software systems; iii) any pair of SmartHG services. This will enable development of hardware device-independent energy services, possibly on the basis of the services already available. Second, user-aware SmartHG services focusing on residential homes. Such services will measure home energy usage and local generation (e.g., from renewable sources), forecast it and actuate home devices (both loads and generators) in order to minimise the home energy bill and usage (local optimisation) with respect to a given price policy computed to attain global (grid level) optimisation. Third, demand-side aware SmartHG services focusing on the grid. Such services will compute individual (yet fair) price policies for each single home taking into account user preferences while optimizing grid operations. Grid safety for such price policies will be formally verified using model-checking-based techniques. Furthermore, such SmartHG services will increase grid reliability by estimating and controlling (using price policies) voltages and currents in internal unmonitored nodes of the grid. Fourth, SmartHG case studies in Kalundborg and Minsk will enable thorough technical, environmental and economical evaluation of project results. Finally, SmartHG consortium consists of three highly qualified and multidisciplinary clusters comprising: four research institutions focusing on Computer and Electrical Engineering, four Energy Service SMEs, two DNOs and a municipality. The resulting synergies will ensure the success of the project as well as the wide dissemination and the effective exploitation of the project results.

Keywords: smart grid
Liberalism in Between Europe and China (LIBEAC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Italy,Czechia,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 588000.0
EU funding (EUR): 588000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Reflecting on the issues of EU-China relationships, aims at developing a new understanding of liberalism in its economic, political and social dimensions. It involves a comparative analysis of the cultural differences in its interpretation and of the political discrepancies in its enforcement, in particular with respect to economic, social and environmental rights in China and Europe in Modern times. It is a multidisciplinary project based on a comparative study of European and Chinese political philosophy and political economy, legal practice and philosophy of right. The project stands at the confluence of two major issues for the European Union, in terms of internal policies as well as external actions: 1/ the position and role of the European Union in the World and 2/ the present and future of Human Rights. The first issue, on liberal civil society and the various types of market-enhanced economies, brings concerns such as the World Trade Organization put forth recently when rebuking China’s application to be reckoned as a “market economy”. It relates to the new partnerships that the European Union is building with China in the globalized World and in the aftermath of the sovereign debt crisis. Our project is comparative as it focuses both on relationships between the European Union and China in particular, and accommodates viewpoints from China’s neighbors The second issue, involving the present enforcement and future potential implementation and/or revision of Human Rights concepts, is addressed by focusing principally on the political, legal and economic aspects of the concept of Liberalism, regarded as made of several traditions, from social liberalism to liberal theories of economics. The project thus aims at disclosing cultural and political differences in terms of interpretation and of enforcement of “Liberalism” in China. LIBEAC is geared towards finding useful criterion for EU decision-making and thus als means Liberalism for Action.

Keywords: modernization,liberalization,policies,cultural differences,interpretation and enforcement of economic policies,social and environmental rights,europe,china,japan
Graphene-based Devices and Circuits for RF Applications (GRADE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,France,France,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5156629.0
EU funding (EUR): 3650992.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

GRADE is a three-year STREP proposal focused on advanced RTD activities necessary to demonstrate the proof-of-concept of novel graphene-based electronic devices operating at terahertz (THz) frequencies. We propose two different concepts with specific advantages. Graphene field effect transistors (GFET) use graphene as a high-mobility transistor channel. Alternative “graphene base transistors” (GBT) are novel hot-electron devices that use graphene sandwiched between two insulating layers, each in turn covered by a metal layer. Considering the unique high frequency characteristics of the GFET and the GBT, the consortium envisions innovative applications in communication, automotive, security and environmental monitoring. Low power wireless communication systems operating above 100Gbit/s or handheld portable THz sensor systems for detection of dangerous agents seem feasible with active devices operating in the THz regime. To be affordable for a broad range of consumers, THz devices must be scalable and integrated with silicon technology. GBTs and GFETs can fulfill this requirement. The proposed research enables the demonstration and assessment of these novel device concepts for future THz systems, and prepares their transition to semiconductor manufacturing. To achieve these goals, GRADE unites a powerful consortium: Four academic partners, two of them with a strong experimental background and excellent processing facilities, one focused on physics-based modelling and simulation and one specialized in compact modelling and circuit design. One research institute, which provides a professionally run pilot production clean room, state of the art processing and an entry point for graphene into manufacturing. One global semiconductor manufacturer willing to push their capabilities to enable the fabrication of integrated graphene RF circuits, including the integration on SiC and co-integration with pre-fabricated CMOS wafers.

Keywords: graphene,integration,transistor,hot electron transistor,field effect transistor,logic,compact model,manufacturing,circuit
Collaborative Open Market to Place Objects at your SErvice (COMPOSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Germany,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7405981.0
EU funding (EUR): 5356000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The COMPOSE project aims at enabling new services that can seamlessly integrate real and virtual worlds through the convergence of the Internet of Services with the Internet of Things. COMPOSE will achieve this through the provisioning of an open and scalable marketplace infrastructure, in which smart objects are associated to services that can be combined, managed, and integrated in a standardised way to easily and quickly build innovative applications. The COMPOSE project builds upon existing European research projects and ongoing standardisation activities to provide a comprehensive marketplace framework that will be able to cover the whole service lifecycle by integrating a number of innovative technological enablers in a coherent way. The project will develop novel approaches for virtualising smart objects into services and for managing their interactions. This includes solutions for managing knowledge derivation, for secure and privacy-preserving data aggregation and distribution, and for dynamic service composition advertising and discovering objects' capabilities and service provisioning and monitoring. The COMPOSE project is expected to give birth to a new business ecosystem, building on the convergence of the Internet of Services with the Internet of Things and the Internet of Content. The COMPOSE marketplace will allow SMEs and innovators to introduce new Internet of Things-enabled services and applications to the market in a short time and with limited upfront investment. At the same time, COMPOSE will allow major European players in the information and communication industry, particularly cloud service providers and telecommunications companies, to reposition themselves within new Internet of Things-enabled value chains. The COMPOSE consortium comprises twelve partners, including leading ICT companies, recognised academic and research excellence centres, a standardization body, as well as pioneering SMEs in Internet of Things-based innovative services

Keywords: "internet of things","internet of services",sensors,actuators,"service objects","services marketplace" "internet connected objects" "services composition"
A Community networking Cloud in a box (CLOMMUNITY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Sweden,France,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1903163.0
EU funding (EUR): 1450000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Community networking (also known as bottom-up networking) is an emerging model for the Future Internet across Europe and beyond where communities of citizens can build, operate and own open IP-based networks, a key infrastructure for individual and collective digital participation. The CLOMMUNITY project aims at addressing the obstacles for communities of citizens in bootstrapping, running and expanding community-owned networks that provide community services organised as community clouds. That requires solving specific research challenges imposed by the requirement of: self-managing and scalable (decentralized) infrastructure services for the management and aggregation of a large number of widespread low-cost unreliable networking, storage and home computing resources; distributed platform services to support and facilitate the design and operation of elastic, resilient and scalable service overlays and user-oriented services built over these underlying services, providing a good quality of experience at the lowest economic and environmental cost. This will be achieved through experimentally-driven research, using the FIRE CONFINE community networking testbed, the participation of large user communities (20000+ people) and software developers from several community networks, by extending existing cloud service prototypes in a cyclic participatory process of design, development, experimentation, evaluation and optimization for each challenge. The consortium has two representative community networks with a large number of end-users and developers, who use diverse applications (e.g. content distribution, multimedia communication, community participation) and also service providers (by SMEs and non-profit groups), research institutions with experience and prototypes in the key related areas, and a recognized international organisation for the dissemination of the outcome.

Keywords: community cloud,community networks,experimentally-driven research,self-management,scalability
Abstraction Layer for Implementation of Extensions in programmable Networks (ALIEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Poland,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1957616.0
EU funding (EUR): 1450000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

ALIEN will deliver an innovative network abstraction mechanism targeting the control and management convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous network elements building strong foundations for Software Defined Networks. To achieve this, ALIEN proposes to adopt the concept of Network Operating System (NOS), a distributed system running on top the hybrid, heterogeneous network infrastructure, which creates a global view of the network elements and their capability. The NOS of ALIEN will be based on control and management framework of OFELIA FIRE facility. ALIEN will extend OpenFlow control framework of OFELIA and its architecture to support abstraction of network information of equipment that are alien to the OpenFlow technology such as optical network elements, legacy layer2 switches, network processors and programmable hardware (FPGA). Building on its novel NOS, ALIEN introduces the concept of the control program paradigm, which operates on the global view of the network. and support new network technologies in layer0, layer1 and layer 2 both in core and access. The NOS of ALIEN utilizes a novel hardware description language as well as a functional abstraction mechanism for uniform representation of any type of network hardware and their capabilities/functionalities that doesn’t support OpenFLow (i.e. alien hardware). The language will describe capabilities of hardware, input and output signal format, and topology information to describe the pipelining of actions on specific hardware. The abstraction mechanism will hide hardware complexity as well as technology and vendor specific features from OpenFlow control framework. ALIEN project aims to experimentally verify its solution for describing network device capabilities and controlling its forwarding behaviour of all OpenFlow and non-OpenFlow capable hardware simultaneously.

Keywords: alien hardware,open flow,hardware abstraction,virtualization,experimentations,network control plane,architecture