Okay I know what an acroymn hell that headline is, so let me explain.
Under the stewertship of Ranganai Chaparadza (FOKUS) and with activite participation from Kevin Q. here at the TSSG and others from the FP7 ICT EFIPSANS project a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) called “Autonomic Network Engineering for the Self-Managing Future Internet” in short “AFI” has been established in ETSI.
The purpose of an ISG in ETSI is to offer a very quick and easy alternative to the creation of industry fora, that are focused on a very specific technology activity in this case for the AFI, autonomic network engineering.
In its first meeting the AFI will try to cover issues on how best to create an evolution path towards self-managing future networks.
The first AFI meeting will be held on the 26/27 of February, at the ETSI Secretariat in Sophia-Antipolis with the working agenda available at the AFI site: http://portal.etsi.org/afi
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TSSG as part of the new ISG: AFI at ETSI
February 27th, 2009Can open access lead to wide dissemination impact
February 22nd, 2009According to the results from research carried out at the University of Chicago, by James Evans and Jacob Reimer on Open Access and Global Participation in Science the answer is No for the 1st world and Yes for the developing world.
It is being reported that they found that on average when a publication was made available online in an open source format, it increased the citations of that article by about 8 percent but when articles are made available online in a commercial format citations increase by about 12 percent.. A situation which reverses for poor countries where open access articles are much more likely to be cited.
Further insight from one of the authors, James Evans is in this video below :
I’ve been thinking about this and what if you could have the best of both worlds Open Access in a Commercial Journal and then I came across Springer Open Choice, which seems to allow for articles to be distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License. I see this used to full effect by authors in this Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Journal: Special Issue on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications.
Which leads me to sign off on this topic with a pointer to GPeerReview, which is a (CLI) tool that allows peers to review articles and then to sign that review …. which is interesting.
Security threats, IPv4 address ownership and P2P traffic
February 15th, 2009Via Circle ID I picked up on this IBM X-Force(R) Trend and Risk Report for 2008. There’s plenty of insight from the Circle ID and IBM executive summary on the headliner treat items ….. sorry typo I meant to say threat items. What I took from the report was on page 40 and [drum roll, please] the most vulnerable operating systems as per usual is ………… Apple Mac OS X. No hang on, no that cannot be right, please explain this one! (Which was followed in the list by Linux Kernal, Sun Solaris and then well you know who).
I’m still scratching my head, well anyway the other item which has caught out my parents twice in the past year is this Scareware trend in malware which for me is just the lowest of scams and a real pain to remove once a machine has been caught. Unfortunately it looks like a trend that is not going to go away for 2009.
As for the shift to IPv6, well its interesting to see what’s happening in the current IPv4 world and according to this report by Gordon Cook were it is outlined how IPv4 numbers are becoming transferable and consequently property, a case is laid out as to how there is a new opportunity to “own” IPv4 addresses, and the report wonders how incumbent services and infrastructure providers are likely to respond. According to the report it looks like it is the beginning of the end for the current “open Internet”.
And finally the percentage of peer-to-peer file sharing traffic on the Internet is between 1.2% to 93%, mostly from your home network … or maybe on an academic campus network … or maybe just inconclusive, who knows?
Mosh, Ovi now which one is which for mobile social networking?
February 5th, 2009I’m slightly confused …. not unusual but really back in the Oct 2007, I mentioned my testing of Nokia’s Mosh site, which is nearly a year and a half in beta testing. Mosh has no bouncebackability neither in web nor mobile form and now there’s Nokia’s Ovi which has the phone syncing capability and the social sharing again but ……. really will it catch on?
Swinxs: great fun and programmable
February 1st, 2009Back in June of this year I spotted this odd looking kids games console, which for once was designed for active games both inside and outside. I was interested … very interested however back in June it was only available in a Netherlands shopping mall, no matter how much I looked for it online there was nothing doing. Then one day a month or so ago on a normal enough vist to the ELC (I was dragged in kicking and screaming) I spotted it ….. a Swinxs and I made an immediate purchace.
5 stars straight away, the kids love it, even my smallest (1 1/2 years old) as the console explains the games, recognises the players (RFID tags), and even referees the games too. Each player have their own coloured wristband, and Swinxs keeps track of their scores.
It comes with ten games and you can download more free from the Swinxs website, along with music and quizzes.
But that’s not all, no the biggest item for me is that you can design your own games. Now I’ve looked at the SDK, and the game design in the language SwinxsCoreTalk.
And for the obligatory “Hello World” first program here’s a link to the Swinx SDK tutorial on YouTube.
The language is purely state machine based, which brings me back to the good olde days of coding call processing modules for the EMX 2500 [pdf], and I’m in the planning stages of a Simon Says game.
I digress back to the kids ….. going by the ELC site reviews it looks like our kids are not the only ones enjoying Swinxs.
Speed Partnering EU style
January 22nd, 2009The ICT Proposers Day 2009 kicks off today and wow what an agenda [pdf]!
In order to browse the site I have found it easier to go straight to the 2009-2010 priorities section and from there work my way through the challenges.
As for the ICT Proposers’ Day 2009 :: Browse ideas section ….. well now I’m finding it hard to tell the wood from the trees!
Well to help out, there are a number of TSSG folks out in Budapest, like Alan offering ideas, and and John presenting our research work.
It should be an interest event.
Irish IPv6 Summit Jan 28th 2009 (Dublin Castle)
January 21st, 2009Its coming into the final week of preparation for the Irish IPv6 Summit, and there have been a ton of registration in the past week so don’t miss out [1]!
With the purpose of the event to raise awareness of the need for immediate IPv6 deployment, and the issues around such a deployment a well thought out programme is being presented in Dublin Castle. The summit includes a number of experienced panel speakers including Fred Baker (Cisco Fellow and Chair of the IETF Operations Group) and Detlef Eckert [pdf] (Advisor to DG-INFSO, EU Commission).
[1] For more information and registration details of the event, please visit http://www.ipv6.ie/summit2009/.
FIA Madrid 2008
January 21st, 2009No its not a round of the F1 calendar, but an assembly gathering of European researchers contributing to the vision of the Future Internet.
Full details on the agenda for the 2 day meeting along with all the presentations and position papers can be found on this link
From the plenary session I found the German G-Lab project as described by Volkmar Dietz, BMBF quite interesting.
The majority of my time was spent in the Management and Service Aware Networking Architecture (MANA) session.
There were invited talks from the US on “Future Internet of Networks and Services” where Jeff Chase (Duke University) and Suzanne Iacono (NSF) offered their view points.
For the panel session on Service-aware Networking Architectures, I found the item presented by George Pavlou (UCL, U.K.) – for evolutionary service-aware architectures the most enlightening. However in aspect I didn’t enjoy from this session was the fact that the agenda mentioned that the panelists should have a 10 min short presentation and then a Q+A ….. every speaker seemed to overrun their time which left the whole session seriously overran with impatience!
The third panel on the “Self-management of Future Internet” had a presentation by Marcus Bunner (NEC Research, Germany) – for In-network management, which very much follows up on our collaboration in the WP4 of the ICT 4WARD project.
Also there was Joe Butler (Intel, Ireland) – highlighting the SLA for service management research coming out of the ICT SLA@SOI project.
In the summary proceedings for this MANA session 11 questions as asked during the session were highlighted. Most interesting for me were the discussion on:
• What the changes are there in Management responsibilities for Future Internet.
• What the changes are there in relationships between Management and Governance.
• What the changes are there in accountability and responsibility in Future Internet.
• What the changes are there in relation to Management and Costs in Future Internet.
• What the changes are there in management technologies.
All will be fully answered and solved by the next event which is planned for Prague, May 11th-13th 2009.
Transformations Exhibit at the Science Gallery
January 8th, 2009In celebration of ten years of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI), the Higher Education Authority (HEA) hosted the Transformations exhibition in the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin from Thursday 27th November – Tuesday 2nd December.
The TSSG have been recipients of support from this programme and had the pleasure of presenting demonstrations from our research. Our exhibit was called the “Metropolitan Information Management System” and a number of TSSG staff worked extremely hard to highlight how our research has impacted on everyones day-to-day live; helping us to get around faster, to plan more effectively and to understand our environment.
The exhibit ‘Services in the City’ demonstrated to the visitors a scenario in which a person within the vicinity of a city centre could gain access to various information like shopping, child amenities, entertainment, directions to a location, details of the travel options etc., on their PDA or mobile phone.
This demonstration also marked the success of a PRTLI funded project called M-Zones which provided the basis and initial research that led to this vision of ubiquitous computing being pursued. The TSSG is currently involved in newly funded HEA project called “Serving Society: Management of Future Communications Networks and Services” or HEA FutureComm. This interdisciplinary project is investigating the relationship between technological and social trends/aspects in the future communication networks.
Back to the exhibit when you see how the set up of the demo looked before being constructed in the Science Gallery there were times when you wondered …… will this really be an interactive exhibit, however once the finished exhibit was in place it looked great, and people did come and interact!
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
FP7-ICT-2009-4 is open and closes on all fools day 2009
December 19th, 2008
EU FP7 call 4 is open and a good starting point is the main ICT page.
The topics being covered in this call include
* Challenge 1 – Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures
* Challenge 2 – Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics
* Challenge 3 – Components, systems, engineering
* Challenge 5 – Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
* Challenge 6 – ICT for Mobility, Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency
* Challenge 7 – ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
* Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Although you have to watch out, there are specific objectives from these challenges which are being addressed so have a good look at the call fiche.