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Grant Agreement Number : 216366

Project Acronym : Euro-NF

Project Title : Anticipating the Network of the Future

– From Theory to Design

Funding Scheme : Network of Excellence

Start Date of Project : 01 January, 2008

Duration : 54 months (originally 36)

Deliverable Number : D.SEA.7.2.4

Version Number : 1.0

Title of Deliverable : Report on the Fourth Future Internet

Cluster Workshop

Contractual Due Date : July, 2011

Actual Date of Completion : September, 2011

Workpackage contributing to the Deliverable : SEA.7.2 – Concertation with European

Projects and Other Organizations

Lead Contractor for this Deliverable : BTH (partner 11)

Editor{s} : Markus Fiedler, Roman Weidlich

Nature of the Deliverable : (R/P/D/O)* R

Dissemination Level : (PU, PP, RE, CO)** PU

*Nature: R-report, P-prototype, D-demonstrator, O-other

**Dissemination: PU-public, PP-restricted to programme, RE- restricted to a group, CO-confidential

Project URL: http://www.euronf.org

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

http://www.euronf.org/

Project FP7 ICT N° 216366 – Euro-NF 30 September 2011

Deliverable N°: D.SEA.7.2.4

Dissemination level: PU 2

CONTENTS

1 GENERAL INFORMATION 3

2 MAIN OBJECTIVES 3

3 SCIENTIFIC CONTENT AND PROGRAMME 3

4 SPONSORS 5

5 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE 5

6 ORGANISING COMMITTEE 5

7 NUMBER AND LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 6

7.1 Number of Participants 6

7.2 List of Participants 6

8 COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY FOCUSING ON THE MAJOR OUTCOMES 7

8.1 Part 1: The impact of sustainability on ICT 7

8.2 Part 2: The impact of ICT on sustainability 8

8.3 Summary 9

9 OVERALL QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT 9

10 FINANCIAL ASPECTS 10

APPENDIX 1: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 11

APPENDIX 2: MATERIAL FOR DISSEMINATION 13




1 GENERAL INFORMATION

Workpackage Number: SEA 7.2

Full name of the event: Fourth Future Internet Cluster Workshop

Date: May 16, 2011

Place: Novotel Budapest Centrum, Budapest, Hungary

Web page for the event: http://euronf.enst.fr/p_en_Events_Concertati_INSTFP7_Clustermay_604.html

Partner in charge of the organization: Markus Fiedler (BTH, Partner 11)

Chairpersons: Phuoc Tran.Gia (UWUERZ, Partner 10)

Henrik Abramowicz (Ericsson AB)

2 MAIN OBJECTIVES

In the recent years, several initiatives have proposed views on what the networks of the future

could be. Recent concertation meetings were devoted to introduce the projects contributing to

this domain as well as their own visions and roadmaps. These meetings were fruitful as

facilitators for information exchange and for promoting synergies among the projects.

The natural next step was to propose to join forces in facing the key challenges to transform

these visions into reality, both from the scientific and technological as well as from the socio-

economic points of view. Considering the very broad scope of the networks of the future, it

appeared much more realistic and promising to address successively specific topics with a

broad potential impact for Europe through dedicated workshops, which would enable focused

exchange of information and views among experts with strong interest in the respective fields.

In close cooperation with the European Commission, Euro-NF promoted this idea and

revisited the format of the Future Internet Cluster meetings held under the auspices of the

Commission about every three months as part of the overall concertation process. This led to

the concept of Future Internet Cluster Workshops (FICW), three of which were held already

during 2010:

the first one at ETSI in Sophia-Antipolis on March 09, 2010;

the second one in Florence on June 15, 2010, collocated with the Future Network &

Mobile Summit;

the third one at the European Commission’s premises in Brussels on October 18, 2010.

The organizational and promotion support by the European Commission is gratefully

acknowledged.

3 SCIENTIFIC CONTENT AND PROGRAMME

The topics selected for the Fourth Future Internet Cluster Workshop address mutual impacts

of ICT and sustainability with societal, ecological and economical aspects. The two sessions

were as follows:

1. The impact of sustainability on ICT, addressing a.o. green computing and

networking; qualitative and quantitative impacts; energy savings; reduction of

emissions; quality and cost aspects; etc.;

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2. The impact of ICT on sustainability, addressing a.o. the potential of the use of ICT

upon societal, environmental and economical sustainability; smart grids; intelligent

transport systems; etc.

Each topic was assigned a half-day track, starting with a presentation session (keynote plus

five talks in the morning/four talks in the afternoon), followed by a coffee break and then by a

(moderated) discussion session.

Following a call in April 2011, the talks were chosen and invited by a programme committee

(PC) consisting of the Project Officer, members of the Euro-NF Steering Board, and

representatives from the Future Internet Cluster, cf Section 5.

Programme

Session 1: The impact of sustainability on ICT

09:00 Welcome

09:15 Keynote by Rahim Tafazolly, University of Surrey, UK:

―Green or Energy-Efficient?‖

09:45 Albrecht Fehske, TU Dresden, Germany/EARTH:

―The Global Footprint of Mobile Communications – The Ecological and Economic

Perspective‖

10:00 Ayman Radwan and Jonathan Rodriguez, Instituto de Telecomunicações,

Portugal/C2POWER:

―Green Communication and Sustainability Impact‖

10:15 Anna Tzanakaki, Athens Information Technology, Greece/GEYSERS:

―Power Considerations for ICT Sustainability: the GEYSERS Approach‖

10:30 Raffaele Bolla, CNIT, Italy/ECOnet:

―Low Energy Consumption Networks‖

10:45 Thomas Treutner, University of Vienna, Austria/Euro-NF SJRP SPEC:

―Energy monitoring and its impact on individual user privacy‖

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Discussion (Chairs: Phuoc Tran-Gia/Rastin Pries, University of Würzburg,

Germany/Euro-NF)

13:00 Lunch Break

Session 2: The impact of ICT on sustainability

14:15 Keynote by Peter Nou, VINNOVA, Sweden:

―Green ICT in Sweden‖

14:45 Werner Mohr, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany (TBD)/FINSENY:

―Smart Energy needs Smart Information Technology. Smart Information

Technology needs a Future Internet‖

15:00 Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden/ENRIMA:

―ICT Impact on Energy Efficiency – The EnRiMa Project‖




15:15 Christian Mastrodonato, D’Appolonia S.p.A. /Sporte2:

―Energy Efficiency for European Sport Facilities‖

15:30 Karin Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria/Euro-NF SJRP MOPP-NET:

―Environment-aware Navigation of Vehicles and its Impact on Mobility Modeling‖

15:45 Coffee Break

16:15 Discussion (Chair: Henrik Abramowicz, Ericsson, Sweden/SAIL)

17:45 Closing

4 SPONSORS

N/A

5 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Partner

Number

Partner

Acronym Contributor Name Contributor e-mail address

01 GET Daniel Kofman [email protected]

04 UNI WIEN Kurt Tutschki [email protected]

10 UWUERZ Phuoc Tran-Gia [email protected]

11 BTH Markus Fiedler [email protected]

13 AUEB-RC George Polyzos [email protected]

30 INESC ID Augusto Casaca [email protected]

34 AU Wolfgang Kleinwächter [email protected]

External EC Paulo de Sousa [email protected]

External Ericsson AB Henrik Abramowicz [email protected]

6 ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Partner

Number

Partner

Acronym Contributor Name Contributor e-mail address

11 BTH Markus Fiedler [email protected]

11 BTH Roman Weidlich [email protected]

10 UWUERZ Phuoc Tran-Gia [email protected]

10 UWUERZ Rastin Pries [email protected]

External EC Paulo de Sousa [email protected]

External Ericsson AB Henrik Abramowicz [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


















7 NUMBER AND LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

7.1 Number of Participants - External Participants: 27

- Euro-NF Members: 7

- 90 people were registered, 34 showed up

7.2 List of Participants

Partner

Number Organization (Acronym) Participant Name

External Ericsson AB Henrik Abramowicz

External LTU Christer Åhlund

External CNIT Raffaele Bolla

External U. of Southampton IT Innovation Centre Michael Boniface

External NEC Europe Ltd. Marcus Brunner

External John Day

External European Commission Paulo de Sousa

External Universitat Pompeu Fabra Albert Domingo

External Technical University of Dresden Albrecht Fehske

11 BTH Markus Fiedler

External i2CAT Sergi Figuerola

External Raffaele Giaffreda

4 UNI WIEN Karin Anna Hummel

External Kuehrer Medizintechnik GmbH Susanne Kuehrer

External D’Appolonia SpA Christian Mastrodonato

External Nokia Siemens Networks Werner Mohr

External European Commission Miguel Montarelo

External NTT Corporation Naohide Nagatsu

External VINNOVA Peter Nou

External CDT Jan Pettersson

External TSSG Miguel Ponce de Leon

10 UWUERZ Rastin Pries

20 IT Ayman Radwan

20 IT Jonathan Rodriguez

External TSSG Martin Serrano

External Stockholm University Janis Stirna

External University of Surrey Rahim Tafazoli

10 UWUERZ Phuoc Tran-Gia

4 UNI WIEN Thomas Treutner

External BME-TMIT Tuan Anh Trinh

External NTT Corporation Yukio Tsukishima

External AIT Anna Tzanakaki

External University of Debrecen Janos Vegh

11 BTH Roman Weidlich




8 COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY FOCUSING ON

THE MAJOR OUTCOMES

8.1 Part 1: The impact of sustainability on ICT The morning session was devoted to the topic ―The impact of sustainability on ICT‖. The

keynote by Rahim Tafazoli (University of Surrey, UK) with the title ―Green or Energy-

Efficient?‖ was followed by five talks:

1. Albrecht Fehske, TU Dresden, Germany/EARTH: ―The Global Footprint of Mobile

Communications – The Ecological and Economic Perspective;‖

2. Ayman Radwan, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal/C2POWER: ―Green

Communication and Sustainability Impact;‖

3. Anna Tzanakaki, Athens Information Technology, Greece/GEYSERS: ―Power

Considerations for ICT Sustainability: the GEYSERS Approach;‖

4. Raffaele Bolla, CNIT, Italy/ECOnet: ―Low Energy Consumption Networks;‖ and

5. Thomas Treutner, University of Vienna, Austria/Euro-NF SJRP SPEC: ―Energy

monitoring and its impact on individual user privacy.‖

An excerpt of the subsequent discussion, led by Phuoc Tran-Gia and Rastin Pries from

University Würzburg, Germany, is given in the sequel: There is a need to differentiate clearly

between power efficiency, energy efficiency and green technology. Traffic rates are growing

significantly, which entails more consumption and the risk to ―eat up‖ increases in efficiency

through increased traffic volumes – there is a challenge to consume less. Building for

capabilities that are not used most of the time is questioned; actually, user-related Quality of

Experience (QoE) may not be affected that much in the end if provisioning was reduced, but

this saving facility is limited by social acceptance. Measurements, models and instruments are

needed for evaluating efficiency, and incentives and reinforcement policies to reduce energy

consumption need to be investigated (e.g. pricing of energy cost). Energy saving is believed

to have a multiplicative effect, but putting green labels on equipment is not sufficient. A trend

to slim devices is needed, since high functionality (e.g. always on line) correlates with higher

power consumption. We need simpler devices that do fewer tasks in a more efficient way.

E.g., routers which work without cooling or networks with requirements which allow to turn

off parts of the network due to overheating (India). Redesign from scratch (the so-called

‖Green Slate approach‖) in order to really make a difference is required together with a

holistic approach, including addressing peoples’ behaviours by creating incentives for a

careful service use and avoidance of rebound effects.

Another problem is that the new generation of researchers do not know classical, theoretical,

analytical methods anymore sufficiently well; they stick to measurements and

simulations/test-bed evaluation, thereby neglecting comprehensive modelling and theory. The

community looks always on small parts of the problem field. Also, there should not exist a

strict research focus on large data-centers or small networks easily to investigate; the Internet

is a highly dynamic network ranging from core to edges. We always have to consider end-to-

end optimization; there is not much sense to optimize the data-center but abstract away the

access. This should be the final design goal for any theory about clean/green-slate.

We further must confess that standby power of devices is not avoidable, and that coverage in




cellular networks is costly and also not avoidable. Capacity is (still) cheap, but this is no

excuse for overprovisioning. The only way to save energy is to shut down systems – do we

need systems, running on highest availability that are always reachable?

There is no way in knowing if energy comes from a ―green‖ source. ICT should be driven

with green energy only, which implies that energy must be labelled. This also applies to all

kind of power consumption outside ICT. Also the life cycle of ICT counts to sustainability.

Another aspect is there are too many wireless networks in crowded areas like cities. This

leads to interferences between these wireless networks and increases traffic with

retransmissions. There is major management needed to overcome this up-growth.

Cloud Computing (CC) is to be expected to produce much signalling and off course data

transfer. The question is, if CC is really more energy efficient as local computing? CC means

better provisioning and management of hardware resources, but more transportation. The

power consumption moves from the host to the wire. Is optical technology the key enabler for

CC, much more than virtualization? Normally we have to keep system stable, but not the

degree of energy efficiency. Cloud Computing is a step back to mainframe computing and

virtualization is an excuse for bad operation systems (John Day).

Context awareness is intrusive, not only in terms of privacy. Context awareness also causes

signalling which is a form of rebound effect. Do we need so many contexts for future

services? The next question is how to create incentives that users consume services more

carefully? Are roaming costs a valid tool to overcome traffic? And is it efficient to operate

ordinary network equipment with add-on power-saving modes, rather than design new

equipment with already built-in power-saving optimized functions. Does it help to kill the flat

rate if we stipulate that energy efficiency with flat rate is not reachable at the edge?

8.2 Part 2: The impact of ICT on sustainability The afternoon session addressed the topic ―The impact of ICT on sustainability‖. It contained

a keynote by Peter Nöu (VINNOVA, Sweden) with the title ―ICT for sustainability in

Sweden‖, followed by four talks:

1. Werner Mohr, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany/FINSENY: ―Smart Energy needs

Smart Information Technology. Smart Information Technology needs a Future

Internet;‖

2. Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden/ENRIMA: ―ICT Impact on Energy

Efficiency – The EnRiMa Project;‖

3. Christian Mastrodonato, D’Appolonia S.p.A. /Sporte: ―Energy Efficiency for

European Sport Facilities;‖; and

4. Karin Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria/Euro-NF SJRP MOPP-NET:

―Environment-aware Navigation of Vehicles and its Impact on Mobility Modeling.‖

The subsequent discussion was led by Henrik Abramowicz, Ericsson, Sweden. The use of

ICT should modernise other areas. For instance, the automation of buildings promises many

savings, while challenges such as energy certification of equipment and common data

repositories need to be addressed. Both amounts and patterns of generated data are to be taken

into account and represent issues in particular for control applications. Thus, data aggregation

points should be considered, and data traffic models need to be investigated. Data originating

from smart metering could be aggregated on levels with different scope; house, district, city,

province, country. But how to handle the vast amounts of data of future smart houses and




facilities? Is it only signalling or data transfer, too? To find a holistic data model is more

important than the combination of small and existing data models of smart houses, facilities,

plants, etc. An uncertainty is how traffic of smart metering looks like. What are typical

sampling rates and which data is sampled – which traffic pattern origins in general from

future smart buildings? Privacy concerns and the possibility to sell data were mentioned, and

the differences between energy and telecom markets were highlighted. So, monitoring power

usage raises privacy issues which mean that the trade-off between privacy and service gain is

still unclear. It was asked which type of ICT is needed to satisfy the corresponding demands,

and, as in the morning session, the need for a holistic approach was pointed out. To be

smarter, more ICT and therefore more power has to be used. This leads to the curiosity that

ICT is in place to model and measure its own power consumption; the measurement itself

affects the result and you measure what you have built!

A completely other point of investigation are the Operating Systems (OS). It is not worth the

effort to develop power saving mechanisms of Operating System separately from that

addressed in applications. The networks stack built into the OS itself should cover power-

aware networking mechanisms, not the application. The application has to use pre-provided

and standardized power-functions of the OS to allocate and release resources. OS and

application power mechanisms can be seen as being decoupled!

8.3 Summary The 4

th FICW was attended by 34 persons and provided a set of impulses for the subsequent

FIA session on ―ICT and Sustainability‖, addressing:

1. the tremendous amount of data to come;

2. the need for measurements and models for energy and resource consumptions;

3. the question how to trigger a change of user behaviour;

4. the type of ICT needed to satisfy future demands.

9 OVERALL QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT

The 4th

FICW was mainly attended by non-Euro-NF delegates, most of them participating in

the Future Internet Week and in particular the FIA (May 17—19, 2011).

The overall format appeared to be well-adapted to the goal of triggering a brainstorming of

open (research) issues in the selected areas. Lively exchanges of points of view followed the

talks and continued during the discussion sessions.

The event generated the desired input to the FIA session on ―ICT and Sustainability‖ on May

18, 2011, and participants of the FICW fuelled the corresponding discussion.

Suggestions for future workshops would be to keep the format; in particular, the rather short

presentation time of 15 minutes appeared to have boosted the discussion. Co-location with

other events of the Future Internet Week at no cost for the delegates has however led to an

over-subscription with corresponding unnecessary cost in particular for catering as

consequence. One might think of either a registration fee or a restriction of the catering to

coffee breaks (i.e. no lunches) in the future.




10 FINANCIAL ASPECTS

Euro-NF supported its key contributors through the following flat grants, covered from the

respective partners’ budget:

Session chairs, acting also as rapporteurs: 1 200 € each (1 grant)

Discussion moderators,: 950 € each (1 grant)

Euro-NF Presenters: 700 € each (2 grants)

Furthermore, BTH (Partner 11) took care of the overall arrangements at a global cost of

4500 € (= 50 €/registered participant and 132 €/actual participant). This sum is also covered

from the Euro-NF budget.




APPENDIX 1: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

See also http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/fnc7/item-display.cfm?id=5773.

Call for Participation

Fourth Future Internet Cluster Workshop (FICW)

ICT and Sustainability

Monday, May 16, 2011

Novotel Budapest Centrum, Budapest, Hungary

The Fourth FIWC will be organised as a full-day event on May 16, 2011 in Budapest, Hungary, collocated with the Future Internet Assembly (FIA). It will disseminate its findings in a specific FIA session on ICT and sustainability later in the week.

Since March 2010, the European Commission and the FP7 Network of Excellence “Euro-NF” have organised three Future Internet Cluster Workshops (FICWs) on specific topics with a broad potential impact for Europe, ranging from Future Network Architectures (First FICW) via mobility and security (Second FICW) to socio-economic aspects of Future Internet (Third FICW). The upcoming Fourth FICW on ICT and Sustainability and the Fifth FICW on Future Network Architectures aim at an update and the discussion of the achievements of projects presented at the previous event as well as on the discussion of future work.

Technical Objectives

The topics selected for the Fourth Future Internet Cluster Workshop address mutual impacts of ICT and sustainability with societal, ecological and economical aspects:

Session 1: The impact of sustainability on ICT (addressing a.o. green computing and networking; qualitative and quantitative impacts; energy savings; reduction of emissions; quality and cost aspects; etc.)

Session 2: The impact of ICT on sustainability (addressing a.o. the potential of the use of ICT upon societal, environmental and economical sustainability; smart grids; intelligent transport systems; etc.)

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/fnc7/item-display.cfm?id=5773




Organisation of the workshop

The workshop will be structured as follows: Each devoted session will last one half-day, and each session will be composed of 2-4 oral presentations and additional poster presentations (to be announced). Both will be followed by a significant amount of brainstorming regarding the identification of key challenges.

As space is limited, we would like to invite potential attendees ASAP.




APPENDIX 2: MATERIAL FOR DISSEMINATION

Slides from the presentations are enclosed hereafter, and are also available on the Euro-NF

Web site at: http://euronf.enst.fr/p_en_Events_Concertati_INSTFP7_Clustermay_604.html

http://euronf.enst.fr/p_en_Events_Concertati_INSTFP7_Clustermay_604.html

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