from Situated and Autonomic Communications to Pervasive Computing and Communications

1. 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

2. IST - Future & Emerging Technologies • More exploratory and visionary, high-risk research • Helping new IST-related S&T fields and communities to emerge • Majority Academic – Research partners • Role of Industry • Complementary to • other IST strategic objectives • other FP6 ‘Anticipating S&T 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€

3. FET Scope and Proactive Initiatives ICT Systems & People Communications & Computing Intelligence & Cognition Components Research • 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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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

9. SAC projects BIONETS HAGGLE Opportunistic networking (cross-layer) Autonomic service evolution ANA CASCADAS Beyond IP self-org. Autonomic communication elements New Architectures Common research issues: Security, resilience, self-* (organisation, evolution,healing, …) interaction of new paradigms with society Situated Services

10. 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

11. 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?

12. 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 AN’s 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

13. 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

14. 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@cec.eu.int For further information: On IST: http://www.cordis.lu/ist On FET: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/comms.htm