ARCADIA
NeXtworking '07, the Second COST-NSF Workshop on Future Internet
From Fundamentals to Experiments
19.–20. April
2007,
at Technische Universität Berlin,
and Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
This workshop is sponsored by
the EU COST Strategic Activity ARCADIA
and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). It follows
the successful edition of NeXtworking '03,
which was also sponsored by COST-NSF
and was then focused on Exchanges and Trends in
Networking
. The workshop report will be furnished to the
COST-ICT (EU) and
NSF (USA), will be published in the
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications
Review and will be made publicly available to participants and
others via the workshop Web site. The report is expected to serve
as a guide for research towards a future Internet and the design of
experimental facilities.
Today the networking community faces the grand challenge of designing the networking environment for the next 10–20 years by re-designing the current Internet. To this end, we are observing major initiatives in Europe (COST ARCADIA, Autonomic Communications Initiative, Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) initiative, as well as relevant research agenda in various other research objectives in EU-IST Research Framework 7 (FP7)) and the USA (GENI-FIND). All such initiatives can benefit by bringing together key researchers from both sides of the Atlantic and have them discuss the fundamental challenges and enabling technologies for the future Internet. In addition, collaboration opportunities between EU and US researchers in this important research area are timely and will be promoted and the research funding agencies will be provided guidance into the key challenges their funding efforts should be focused on.
The workshop theme and technical focus is twofold: (a) Fundamental research challenges for the Future Internet; (b) Experimental Infrastructure as a vehicle for designing the Future Internet. Fundamental research challenges need to be identified and discussed, along with ways to designing and making available a flexible experimentation facility to test new ideas and paradigms. Experts capable of contributing to each or both themes will be invited and interactions between such experts are also sought as a vehicle for solidifying and enhancing Future Internet work by "theoreticians" and "experimentalists" in networking.
net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de