SIB Council on Emerging IT Paradigms (SIB-EIP)
Keywords:
Testing, evaluation, test beds, theory, applications, experiments,
Scope:
To provide, capacity, facility and understanding to experiment, examine and test concepts for the future networks, software, architectures and services.
Key-Challenges:
- Building-up of excellence in novel ICT research themes;
- Maturing emerging research communities;
- Influencing and defining future industrial R&D topics;
- Development of new research communities and of new academic curricula;
- Promoting uptake of the research agendas at national or regional level;
- Developing strategic partnerships on international cooperation;
- Providing companies and SMEs deploying Next Generation Networks testing solutions;
- Translating research performed by the research areas into proofs of concept, demos and prototypes;
- Promoting the concept of experimentally-driven research,
- Creating multidisciplinary research environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms.
Mission:
The Internet is much more than a communication system. New and unexpected Internet-enabled applications and services make tremendous use of emerging technologies and at the same time shape new requirements for future ones. At a global level, the Internet is becoming more and more the backbone of modern economy and society, to the point where new generations from industrialized countries cannot even conceive a world without Internet. Due to these multiple interactions, this SIB seeks to investigate and engineer novel technological interactions by translating research results into solutions for real life applications.
Description:
The Internet has become a complex system, a living and evolving entity, where any technological development affecting its future may have multifaceted and even unexpected consequences, at any technological, social or economic level. Therefore, new proposals for Internet architectures, protocols and services should not be limited to paperwork, as they need early experimentation and testing in large-scale environments, even though some of these ideas might be implemented only in the long-term. The ultimate goal is to boost European innovation and its competitive role in defining Future Internet concepts.