Future Internet in Korea

Yanghee Choi
Seoul National University,
Future Internet Forumcontents
Future Internet activities in Korea
Research Trends

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Internet in Korea
 Wireline subscribers : 23.3 million (Oct. 2007)
 Cellular : 43 million
 Internet Users : 34.4 M (75.5%)
 IPv4 addresses : 58.8 M
 High speed Internet subscribers : 14.7 M(Nov.2007)
xDSL 31.8%
 cable modem 34.9%
 apartment LAN 28%
 FTTH 5.3%
 90.8% of all households
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Future Internet in Korea
 Ministry of Information andCommunications (MIC)
IITA (Institute for ITAdvancement) : R&D
planning and supervision BcN developed as theinfrastructure for the nearfuture National exploratory R&Dproject on Future Internetis launched in 2007
 “Future Internet” selected
as one of the Ten Strategic
Areas (from 2008)
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After BcN Explore, predict, forecast what will be after BcN(Broadband Convergence Network) National exploratory R&D project on FutureInternet is launched in 2007
 More R&D projects in 2008
 Testbed project will support R&D projects

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R&D projects
 Fundamental Technologies for Future Internet
2007 – 2009 (3 years)
4.4 M$

 Future Internet related Innovative Research

From 2008
3-5 year projects for universities (1-3 M$)
Calls will be out soon Robust Mobility Management Network Monitoring and Measurement at micro-level
 Personalized Service Architecture Security for Survivable Networks

 Center to produce high-quality researchers for FutureInternet (pending)

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Fundamental Technologies for Future Internet
Project details

R&D Planning (through Future Internet Forum)
Identify long-term R&D topics
 Predict the future technologies
 Promote collaborations
Work on selected research topics (universities)
Architecture Wireless ServicesParticipation to Standard Activities
IETF, ITU, IEEE, forum etc.
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Research Topics

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Future Internet Forum Established in 2006 to promote R&D
collaborations in Future networking
 Building research communities Working groups
Architecture Wireless Service Testbed
 Policy http://fif.kr
 Workshops, seminars, publications
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Testbed Research Council
Will be formed under FIF-Korea
Policy, guidelines for FI research,
implementation, and testbed
 Gov’t-industry-university-research institutes
 Technical recommendations
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FI (Future Internet) Events
 International Conferences“Internet of the Future”, July 20-22, 2006, Seoul, Korea
 International Future Internet Workshop 2007, July 9-10,2007, Seoul National University
 Future Internet Symposium 2008, June 19-20, Seoul,Korea (planned) Future Internet Camp
Aug. 20-22, 2007, Jeju Island
 Feb. 18-22, Seoul National University (with AsiaFI school)
 Aug. 25-28, Jeju Island (planned, with AsiaFI school)
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Harmonize with the international R&D
activities for FI
Focus on access & service
 Focus on wireless & mobile
 Focus on mid-term & long-termThree steps
R&D on Fundamental Technologies
 Integrated Projects
 National Testbed
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Integrated Projects for FI
A total solution for a given set of
requirements
Architecture, protocols, interfaces
 System, software/hardware implementations
 Will be put into the national/international
testbedsExamples
Emergency networks
 Content-centric network
 Broadcast network

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National Testbed
 Backbones withinternational links
KOREN
 KREONET Will be transformed toFI testbed
 Focus on
Mobile services
 Wireless access Heterogeneousnetworking

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Conclusions
 Internationalcollaboration isimportant Industry participation
is important Attracting smart
people is more
important Future Internet vs.
Future Network 4G, 5G ?
 Standards ?

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