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Cloud Interoperability Workshop at the FP7 8th Concertation meeting

On October 6th at the Future Internet Cluster of the 8th FP7 Concertation meeting, SAIL organized a workshop on cloud interoperability for which I had the privilege to be the moderator.  Four panelists from different research areas accepted to participate … Continue reading

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Harvest from the Summer

For most people, summer means vacation, but this summer in SAIL we did more than enjoying the sun and the beach. Five important documents have been delivered to the EU commission and it is now your turn to enjoy the … Continue reading

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The multi-purpose door opener

How do we attract interest for our booth? How do we get people in a relaxed mood for an open and informal discussion? After all, that is the sole purpose of having a booth at venues like the recent Future … Continue reading

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What is the Grand Vision for European Network Research?

I just attended the Thursday plenary panel session of the Future Network and Mobile Summit where the topic was “Do we still need Research on Networking in Europe?”. The panel consisted of representative from major European equipment vendors, (Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia … Continue reading

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SAIL’s paper in IEEE Communications Magazine

Dissemination is an important aspect of any research project, namely if it belongs to the group of those funded by the European Commission. Not only does it enable the sharing of results with other researchers, but it also exposes one’s … Continue reading

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Model-Based Approach for Optimizing Media Server Deployments in Telco Clouds

By Uwe Naumann, Daniel Catrein, Heiko Perkuhn and Duong Quoc Trong Guest post: Duong Quoc Trong, master student at RWTH Aachen University, has just completed his thesis under the supervision and guidelines of Daniel Catrein and Heiko Perkuhn, Ericsson Research … Continue reading

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Cloud Networking @ First ASMONIA Workshop

By Dominique Dudkowski and Peter Schoo. On March 29, the first ASMONIA workshop took place in Heidelberg, Germany. ASMONIA (Attack analysis and Security concepts for MObile Network infrastructures, supported by collaborative Information exchAnge), sponsored by Germany‘s Federal Ministry of Eduation and … Continue reading

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Future of organizing research?

Since I was in Brussels anyway, I decided to attend the FISA Roadmapping Workshop on Mach 31. It had the usual presentations about possible future research topics, some of them more interesting than others, as usual. But a somewhat unexpected … Continue reading

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The SAIL leaflet

At the 2nd SAIL General Meeting I received a stack of three-cornered SAIL leaflets. By continuous experimentation on information spreading I found out that the “take away rate” of these leaflets from a desk is considerably higher if I unfold … Continue reading

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The book resulting from the 4WARD Project

It’s not every day that a group of colleagues in a project funded by the European Commission decides to take some extra work on themselves, and accepts the challenge of putting together in a book the project’s key results. Well, … Continue reading

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