SIB Council on Future Networks & Communications (SIB-FNC)
Keywords:
Hardware, Architecture, Infrastructure, Self Configurable
Scope:
The Future of the Internet - a theme for activities about future networks and the internet of things. The infrastructure/architectures and hardware of telecommunications.
Key-Challenges:
- Coexistence and cooperation of different access technologies
- Self-organization and re-configurability of communication networks
- Converged optical-wireless systems
- Control and management of service oriented plug and play next generation optical networks
- Capacity management
- Personalised services
Mission:
The SIB mission is to develop innovative solutions for interpretative wireless and optical communication systems in order to provide ubiquitous broadband access to end-users offering them seamless and adaptive connectivity in a cost-effective manner. Specifically, solutions towards flexible self-configuration network infrastructures for the Future Internet are targeted.
Description:
Research activities in the area of Future Networks are seen as the basis to deliver the next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and service infrastructures for communication, computing and media. This entails addressing the evolution from today's large legacy infrastructures towards new infrastructures by striking a balance between backward compatibility requirements and the need to explore disruptive architectures to build the future internet, mobile, broadband, and associated service infrastructures.
The target infrastructures will support networked and managed business and service convergence across a multiplicity of environments such as the home, businesses, or nomadic situations. The evolution drivers of this objective relate primarily to the technological evolution of ubiquitous mobile and broadband networks, in the context of converged and interoperable networked environments. This may consist of cognitive and reconfigurable networks wired and wireless or free space types with enablers towards true heterogeneous cooperating and coexisting communication systems, that eventually will merge the properties of short-range with wide-area, mobile with fixed and wireless with optical into one underlying network infrastructure where only services and applications are visible to the end-user.