EU – OneFit

Overall Scope

Key Information

Full name: Opportunistic networks and Cognitive Management Systems for Efficient Application Provision in the Future InterneT

Runs from: July 2010 – Dec. 2012 (30 months)

Website(s): http://www.ict-onefit.eu/

Summary

The OneFIT project will develop and validate the vision of opportunistic networks that are managed and coordinated with the infrastructure, by advanced cognitive systems. Validation will show enhanced wireless service provision and extended access capabilities for the Future Internet, through higher resource utilization, lower costs, and management decisions with a larger “green” footprint. OneFIT leads to better services for the user and creates market opportunities for manufacturers, operators and service providers. OneFIT efficiently addresses several technical challenges, and evolves, bundles and exploits different types of approaches, ranging from dynamic spectrum management and infrastructureless networks to social networks.

Objectives

• To design the Functional and System Architecture that will address the requirements deriving from the business and provision scenarios,
• To develop the appropriate “Control Channels for the Cooperation of the Cognitive. Management Systems” (C4MS) and realize standardization activities, and
• To develop the appropriate algorithms for enabling the opportunistic networks and realize the necessary validation activities for providing evidence on the efficiency of opportunistic networks and cognitive management systems for application provision in the Future Internet era.

Highlights

• The elaboration on business and application provision scenarios, derive requirements and technical challenges, and provide validation criteria that will drive the adoption of opportunistic networks and respective cognitive management systems in the Future Internet era,
• The design of the functional and system architecture that will address the requirements and the technical challenges,
• The development of the appropriate “Control Channels for the Cooperation of the Cognitive Management Systems” (C4MS),
• The development of the appropriate algorithms for enabling the opportunistic networks. (“Cognitive systems for Managing the Opportunistic Network”-CMON and “Cognitive management Systems for Coordinating the Infrastructure”-CSCI functionality),
• The realization of the necessary validation activities for providing evidence on the efficiency for application provision in the Future Internet era, and
• The realization of standardization activities and contribution to regulation activities.

R&D Scope

Scenarios in which efficient business and service offerings are enabled have been defined. These are cases requiring the resolution of congestion situations or the expansion of the coverage of the infrastructure, or involving localized application/service provision. More specifically, the scenarios are on:

• Expanding the coverage of the infrastructure,
• Resolving cases of congested access to the infrastructure,
• Operator-governed cost-efficient localized application, service, content provision,
• Traffic aggregation and bridging of opportunistic network with outside world, and
• Congestion handling in backhaul.

Expected Impact

Based on the expected impact from the Objective ICT-2007.1.1 “The Network of the Future” (EC Work Programme), the OneFIT project is targeting specific contributions to:

• Strengthened positioning of European industry in the field of Future Internet technologies and reinforced European leadership in mobile and wireless broadband systems optical networks cognitive network management technologies: OneFIT outcomes will shorten the time to deploy and market new services/ applications thus providing significant benefits for mobile operators and service providers. Furthermore, OneFIT will contribute to keeping the European Research into Cognitive networks at the forefront of the global research efforts,
• Increased economic efficiency of access/ transport infrastructures (cost/bit): OneFIT results are expected to have a significant impact on economic efficiency of access/ transport infrastructures (CAPEX and OPEX reduction, cost of management for customer relations),
• Global standards, interoperability and European IPRs reflecting federated and coherent roadmaps: Providing extensions to the infrastructure, the techniques expected to result from OneFIT will support interoperability, the opportunistic networks will allow bridging between infrastructure and devices that would not have been able to access the infrastructure directly,
• Wider market opportunities from new classes of applications taking advantage of convergence: Through the solutions of OneFIT, network operators and service providers are equipped to provide applications/ services in wide range of situations, and
• Accelerated uptake of the next generation of network and service infrastructures: Through the OneFIT technologies operators will be given the opportunity to provide and deploy a variety of new types of services in a shorter time frame.

Involved Constituency

The consortium contains 12 carefully selected partners from 8 European countries: Finland, Poland, Serbia, Greece, Spain, France, United Kingdom, and Germany. The diverse demographics of the partners in terms of both cultural and political landscapes adds to the strength of OneFIT and assists in developing solutions that are appropriate to all of the EU member states. The international orientation of most consortium members further helps to ensure that the solutions investigated and developed by OneFIT will also be appropriate and useful in other parts of the world, allowing global application and exploitation, thus strengthening the European Economy. The consortium consists of four equipment manufacturers, one operator, one regulator, two research institutes and four leading Universities. While the universities and research centers will ensure an extremely high level of innovativeness, the business orientation, regulatory input and the orientation to real-world markets that are brought in by the industrial partners, regulator and operator will ensure that the research and anticipated innovations will be useful and exploitable in the real world. In this way the structure of the consortium will enable to produce real-world results and facilitate the rapid commercialization of the project’s innovations.