Future Internet in France

Future Networks and Services (VERSO)

The ANR (Agenge Nationale de la Recherche) in France has a programme "Future Networks and Services" that addresses research on next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and service infrastructures and the interoperability between them. They will be used for applications centered on the communication between humans or machines (which can be communicating objects), computing and multimedia. Research projects may also be related to the interaction and cooperation between these applications.

Several technological networking testbeds exists in France, mainly funded by ANR or other agencies such as INRIA. Most of the ANR testbeds are related to low layers and physical technologies. However, a few are within close interest to FIRE.

IDROMEL: Impact of reconfigurable equipments for the next generation of wireless systems

The main objectives of IDROMel are:

• An impact assessment of reconfigurable equipment in the next generation of wireless systems
• To propose to the French and international R&D community an open architecture reconfigurable equipment

SenseLab: Very large open wireless sensor networks

The purpose of the SenseLab project is to deploy a very large scale open wireless sensor network platform. SenseLab's main and most important goal is to offer an accurate and efficient scientific tool to help in the design, development, tuning, and experimentation of real large-scale sensor network applications.  The SenseLab platform will be distributed among 4 sites and will be composed of 1,024 nodes. Each location will host 256 sensor nodes with specific characteristics in order to offer a wide spectrum of possibilities and heterogeneity. The four testbeds will however be part of a common global testbed as
several nodes will have global connectivity such that it will be possible to experiment a given application on all 1K sensors at the same time.

PERSYST II: Platform for tEst and Research on optical telecommunication SYSTems

PERSYST II  is a physical layer testbed and therefore only partially related to the FIRE topics. The platform will increase the bit rate of an earlier long haul wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) transmission system from 40 Gbps up to 170 Gbps, which corresponds to the next generation of WDM systems.