Scalable and Adaptive Internet Solutions (SAIL)

The sixth quarterly newsletter from SAIL is now available. You can download the newsletter here (link).

In the newsletter you will find an overview of the achievements and activities within the SAIL project during the last quarter. In the “under the spotlight” section in this issue we highlight the upcoming SAIL Summer School in June this year.

You can subscribe to the quarterly newsletters from SAIL by entering your email address in the form below.

A new IRTF research group on Information-Centric Networking (ICNRG) has been chartered.

The distribution and management of named information is already today a major application in the Internet. Information-centric networking (ICN) is an approach to evolve the Internet infrastructure to directly support this use by introducing uniquely named data as a core Internet principle.

SAIL is already actively involved in ICN research, especially within the work package dealing with Network of Information (NetInf).

Dirk Kutscher (NEC) and Börje Ohlman (Ericsson) from SAIL will co-chair the ICNRG together with Dave Oran (Cisco).

The research group will provide a forum for the exchange and analysis of ICN research ideas and proposals, and the main objective of the ICNRG is to couple ongoing ICN research with solutions that are relevant for evolving the Internet at large. The ICNRG will provide an excellent platform for disseminating SAIL results on ICN.

Charter and participation information can be found at http://irtf.org/icnrg.

SAIL, together with three other FP7 projects (GEYSERS, SESERV and Euro-NF), has got the co-organised Workshop Cloud Networking – Technical and Business Challenges accepted at the Future Network & Mobile Summit (FuNeMS) 2012 in Berlin, Germany, 4-6 July.

Future Internet explained – today!

SAIL (Scalable and Adaptive Internet Solutions) has the pleasure to invite all interested students (MSc or PhD), post-doc and researchers to the SAIL Summer School.

During this week (June 25-28, 2012) you will get an unique insight in the latest research and trends around the Future Internet.

We all know Internet as an integral part of our daily lives. Internet has become a commodity, and is often viewed as a hot and modern technology. However, when you look into the technical details of how the Internet works, you find out that it is based on ideas and technologies that emerged more than 40 years ago. It is time for an upgrade!

The SAIL Summer School is open for students and researchers from all over Europe and the rest of the world. The program contains both lectures, hands-on exercises and keynote speakers. The SAIL Summer School will take place at the University of Cantabria. The program and further details are available at www.sail-project.eu/summerschool.

SAIL (Scalable and Adaptive Internet Solutions) is an EU-funded research project with 25 partners including leading ICT vendors, operators and universities. During two years SAIL has developed a number of key concepts for the Future Internet, and the SAIL Summer School gives you a unique opportunity to learn more about some of them.

In particular, we will cover topics such as Cloud Networking, Network Virtualization, Network of Information and Open Connectivity Services. The lectures will be carried out by top researchers in these areas. Additionally, there will be two keynote talks, given by reputable experts in the area.

Ph.D. students are invited to submit an extended abstract of their current research. Some contributions will be selected to be presented during a work-in-progress session. This offers an excellent opportunity for people working in these areas to exchange ideas with other colleagues on an open and informal environment. In addition, an award will be given to the best presented work.

To find out more and to register, please visit: www.sail-project.eu/summerschool

SAIL has released parts of the NetInf (Network of Information) ICN software as open source.

The package consists of different implementations of name-content binding validation algorithms for the NI URI format that SAIL members published earlier and additional protocol and NetInf router/client implementations.

The software is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/netinf/ and is licensed under Apache-2.0.

The fifth quarterly newsletter from SAIL is now available. You can download the newsletter here (link).

In the newsletter you will find an overview of the achievements and activities within the SAIL project during the last quarter. In the “under the spotlight” section in this issue we highlight the work carried out in the Prototyping theme.

You can subscribe to the quarterly newsletters from SAIL by entering your email address in the form below.

SAIL representatives Marcus Brunner (NEC) and Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs) have both been invited to organise Panel Sessions on ICN at IFIP/IEEE NOMS 2012 (16-20 April 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA).

Panel 1, April 17: Software-defined Networking. Chair: Marcus Brunner. The objective of this panel is to discuss Software-defined Networking and the impact it has for network control and management.

Panel 2, April 18: Information-Centric Network: which Impact on Network Design & Operations? Chair: Prosper Chemouil. This panel is intended to address issues in the scope of Network Operations and Management in an ICN context.

More detailed information can be found at the webpage of the panel sessions.

SAIL, together with renowned expert from the international network research community, is co-organizing the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Information-Centric Networking (ICN-2012) that will take place in Helsinki in August 2012.

Last year’s workshop was very successful for building a community for ICN and exchanging research results from different projects. This year’s workshop is particularly focusing on ICN architecture topics, specific algorithms and protocols as well as on results from implementations and experimentation.

The Call for Papers is available at the webpage of the workshop.