FIGARO Future Internet Gateway-based Architecture of Residential NetwOrks Catherine Rosenberg University of Waterloo Canada

2 FIGARO Future Internet Gateway-based Architecture of Residential Networks Start date: October 1 st 2010 (3 years) Funding scheme: Collaborative project THEME [ICT ] [The Network of the Future] Total cost: 8M€ EC contribution: 5.1M€ Partners: Technicolor R&D France (FR) Martel GMBH (CH) Universite Pierre et Marie Curie(FR) Politecnico di Torino (IT) Telefonica I+D (ES) Eurecom (FR) Philips Consumer Lifestyle (NL) TNO (NL) Guavus (IN) Home Automation Europe (NL) University of Waterloo (CA)

3 Future Internet services are rapidly moving towards an increasingly heterogeneous landscape with end users capable of creating, storing and delivering content and applications. To address this heterogeneity, FIGARO provides an evolutionary path to the Future Internet, departing from a centralized cloud-based architecture towards a federation of residential networks capitalizing on millions of residential networks to deliver content and services of the future. FIGARO

4 Remote Access Remote Access FIGARO Project Overview Today’s Internet: still a technology-centric core network Edge/Home Network Internet Core Edge/Home Network Future Internet will be user- and content-centric Edge/home networks becoming an integral part of the Internet Service convergence and additional sectors adopting Internet technologies Challenges are management of Converged network: cross-sector integration Content: to create, store, search, and retrieve content

5 Home/Edge Network FIGARO Gateway Health Care Devices FIGARO: Framework for future gateway-centric home networking Distributed content management Wireless home network optimization Integrated Monitoring FIGARO: Framework for future gateway-centric home networking Distributed content management Wireless home network optimization Integrated Monitoring Cross-sector Convergence Converged home automation and home networking Integration of eHealth

6 Objectives 6 Gateway-centric Figaro architecture Gateway-centric Figaro architecture Internal Federation - WiFi, Ethernet, PLC, MoCA, etc. - Function-specific networks e.g., wireless sensor networks, infrared radios Internal Federation - WiFi, Ethernet, PLC, MoCA, etc. - Function-specific networks e.g., wireless sensor networks, infrared radios External Federation - community network overlay - remote home network access - virtual home networks Monitoring & Management - Networks and applications - Troubleshooting Content Management - Store - Search - Access Content Management - Store - Search - Access Service Management - Energy mgmt - Home automation - e-health care Service Management - Energy mgmt - Home automation - e-health care Network & Federation - Access network federation - In-home optimization FIGARO will design a Future Internet gateway-based architecture centered on federated residential networking. In collaboration with Dr. Teixeira (LIP6/CNRS) In collaboration with Dr. May (Technicolor) In collaboration with Dr. Keshav (UW)

Internet Home networks are becoming complex Home networks monitoring

Questions How are homes connected to Internet? Which devices can we find in home networks? Does a home network impact the end-to-end performance? Goal Survey a large variety of home networks Study a large number of configurations Approach: First step HomeNet Profiler: a data collection tool for your home Will be shortly distributed to volunteers all over the world Second step: evaluating impact on e2e perofrmance

9 Home Network Optimization How can good performance be provided to specialized devices such as TV, gaming console at home when WiFi is used? We design a specialized AP for wireless home networks that arbitrates access to the medium so that specialized devices with throughput requirements are “protected", i.e., we attempt to impose some order in the network Features? o No modifications required for end devices o Based on Unsolicited CTS, scheduling and monitoring o Automatic Rate Adaptation is taken into account

10 Example: unsaturated case, no hidden terminals

It is not enough for our Internet community to work on: Reducing electricity use in data centers and telco infrastructure Usin Internet as a communication overlay Internet concepts can be used to smarten the grid: higher impact research! 11 Smart Grids: our hypothesis

Our proposition: ISS4E To apply our expertise in Information Systems and Sciences to find innovative solutions to problems in energy systems. We work in collaboration with researchers in related disciplines: we are part of WISE (Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy) partners in industry Goal: have impact both in Canada and around the world Initial focus is smart grids, where energy systems converge with information systems 12

Our Expertise Modeling, mathematical analysis, and system building using techniques from: Internet and information technology (planning, design, implementation, deployment, and management) Telecommunications (wireline and wireless communication systems) Distributed systems Stochastic analysis Large-scale simulation Data mining and machine learning Economics and game theory 13

1.Modeling and control of grid energy storage 2.Demand Response: a revisit based on Internet views (allows fine grained DR), Storage (EV and others), Distributed Generation, Elasticity (AP and VP) 3.Smart Home (in collaboration with Infosys and Microsoft) GW to appliances (control, measurement) Smart UPS 4.Impact of context Developed countries Developing countries 5.Tools Simulation Measurements: ENVIs, Sensors, I-smart Prototypes Ongoing Projects 14