UBITECH participates in the Genoa kick-off meeting (February 2-3, 2015) of the INPUT research project, officially started on January 1st, 2015. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 644672) and spans on the period January 2015 -December 2017. The INPUT Project aims at designing a novel infrastructure and paradigm to support Future Internet personal cloud services in a more scalable and sustainable way and with innovative added-value capabilities.
The INPUT technologies will enable next-generation cloud applications to go beyond classical service models, and even to replace physical Smart Devices, usually placed in users’ homes (e.g., set-top-boxes, etc.) or deployed around for monitoring purposes (e.g., sensors), with their virtual images, providing them to users “as a Service”. Virtual and physical SDs will be made available to users at any time and at any place by means of virtual cloud-powered Personal Networks, which will constitute an underlying service model. The INPUT Project will foster future-proof Internet infrastructures that will be “smarter”, fully virtualized, power vs. performance optimized, and vertically integrated with cloud computing, with a clear impact on OPEX and CAPEX of Telecoms, of Service Providers, and of end-users. At the same time, it will extend the programmability of network devices to make them able to host cloud service applications, which will cooperate with the ones in users’ terminals and datacenters to realize the aforementioned cloud services.
UBITECH will contribute to the definition of abstractions and the development of mechanisms for the support of “in-network” programmability in network devices, to the design and definition of the Service NorthBound Interfaces, and to the implementation of SDN-based network abstractions to support applications development and network-wide policy programming with energy-proportionality (as extension of current SDN and NFV primitives). Finally, UBITECH will lead all activities towards the realization of the set of proof-of-concept personal cloud applications that can be used as use-cases to validate the increased service flexibility and efficiency of the INPUT platform. In particular, UBITECH will undertake the responsibility of the development of the Personal Cloud Service Platform as well as the Service and the User applications for the collective sensor implementation.
