The third ICN2020 meeting for EU took place in Prague, Czech Republic from 17th- 18th July 2017. Along with the EU members, the advisory committee members Tohru Asami and many of the ICN2020 Japanese partners also attended the meeting. The focus was mainly towards discussing the progress of the partners and the evaluation plan on the federated/local testbeds.
The ICN2020 projects e360 exhibit was mentioned in the newspaper on 16th June 2018. Please see the image below.
CEBIT is Europe’s Business Festival for Innovation and Digitization. It is the largest and most internationally represented IT fair in the world which took place from 11th-15th June 2018 in Hannover (Germany). It was held in Hannover, Germany from 11-15 June 2018. CEBIT 2018’s main focus is on business, leads and ideas. It was planned as a triple-punch event featuring exhibits, conferences and networking, covering the digitization of business, government and society from every angle. It showcased the power of a major tradeshow event, conferences in various inspirational formats, networking opportunities beyond compare, and the on-stage excitement and flair of a true festival. It was divided into four sections – d!conomy, d!tec, d!talk and d!campus – which represent an entirely new approach with the core focus on generating leads and business for all concerned. Major companies like Facebook, Intel, SAP etc., along with more than 200 companies participated in CEBIT 2018 and around 120 000 people visited the event.
University of Goettingen (Jacopo De Benedetto, Mayutan Arumaithurai, Xiaoming Fu), KDDI (Atsuhi Tagami, Kazuaki Ueda) and University of Rome (Giulio Rossi, Andrea Detti) created a demo for participating in CEBIT. The demo is called “e360: Panoramic Video Streaming via Edge-Computing and Future Internet”. 360-degree panoramic video streaming are becoming very popular, due to the affordable price of cameras and the natural experience given by specific visors like smartphones. The 360-degree video is also related to IoT and Industry 4.0, like security surveillance, equipment inspection and monitoring. The quantity of data produced by a panoramic video is far more superior to normal video, so more than in the past an optimization on the data transmission is required, particularly in the multicast-scenario when more than one client consumes the same stream at the same time. The demo aims to demonstrate how the use of futuristic communication such as ICN solutions comprising of edge computing and future Internet (FI) optimize the network utilization and how much panoramic video streaming can benefit from it. Our demo was showcased in the Niedersachsen booth in Hall 16 and booth 17. This turned out to be a very sucesseful event for ICN2020 and let good dissemination of the project. Our booth was visited by Herr Björn Thümler, Niedersächsen Minister for science and culture and article was published about our exhibit in the newspaper.
Check out the press release about the ICN2020’s e360 demonstration at the CEBIT 2018 event.
Click: ICN2020 CEBIT
One of the main goals of the ICN2020 project is taking information-centric networking from the research ecosystem directly to the real-world. It is done by of course the exploration of use-case scenarios and application development, but also and in particular by creating an environment that supports experimentation using global-scale platforms.
In the past years various ICN testbeds were proposed but, except some notable cases, the overall result is to obtain a closed environment and limited scenarios.
ICN2020 project efforts are not in the direction of proposing yet another testbed but instead to provide a platform as open as possible, enabling the possibility to interconnecting and federate existing testbeds, regardless of the specific ICN implementation or the software/hardware available.
The key tool for this ambitious goal is GÈANT Testbed Service (we already talked about GTS in a previous post).
The key features that makes GTS suitable for federated testbeds are:
The current efforts in the direction of a federated testbeds takes in consideration two of the main ICN Testbeds actually deployed, the NDN testbed (primarily in the US but with several nodes deployed all over the world too) and the CUTEi testbed (deployed in Japan and a few more countries ). Using GTS two primarly goals are intended to achieve by the ICN2020 project:
Some demonstrations were already held to show the effectiveness of ICN deployments on the GTS service and the possibility of testbed’s federation:
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The demo Retention for Disaster-Affected Networks using Content-Centric Networking will be presented at 21st ICIN (Innovations in Clouds, Internet and Networks) conference:
Abstract:
Maintaining communication and information sharing in a disaster situation is a challenging task. A typical consequence of a natural disaster is that communication networks get fragmented. Consequently, information published in one fragment is no longer reachable by users in the other fragments. A number of approaches have been proposed to facilitate information retention in the network, most of them reactive, e.g. using data mules. In this paper we propose proactive measures to share information within the network before it becomes fragmented using Information-Centric Networking (ICN). We have developed a system, using the Content-Centric Networking (CCN) protocol, which proactively replicates content across different parts of the network by taking into account how the network will potentially fragment in the future. We demonstrate the
content replication aspect of this system using 16 virtual CCN nodes distributed over 5 potential fragments called ”Communities”
During the ACM ICN 2017 conference we performed a demonstration for “360-degree panoramic video streaming“. The demonstration used a tiny PC (Raspberry Pi 3) as a publisher. This document show an adaptive frame rate control scheme considering the in-network cache and the publisher’s processing load.
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ICN2020 partners will present the paper titled NeMoI: Network Mobility in ICN in the COMSNETS 2018 conference to be held in Bangalore, India from January 3rd to 7th, 2018. The paper addresses Network mobility in ICN and provides an elegant solution with Mobile Agents for supporting consumer, producer and network-on-the-move mobility in ICN environment. Please see the complete list of publications by ICN2020 partners and the COMSNETS 2018 program for more details.
Please stop by and take a look at the ICN2020 Japanese website here.
The third ICN2020 meeting for EU took place in Prague, Czech Republic from 17th- 18th July 2017. Along with the EU members, the advisory committee members Lixia Zhang, Dirk Kutscher and many of the ICN2020 Japanese partners also attended the meeting. The focus was mainly towards discussing the progress of the partners with noticeable progress on the testbed related and first year review activities. The ICNRG chair David Oran also attended the meeting and provided us with his valuable inputs.
