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Wireless Software and Hardware platforms for Flexible and Unified radio and network controL

ProjectDeliverableD9.2SecondDisseminationReport

Contractualdateofdelivery: 31-12-2016

Actualdateofdelivery: 23-12-2016

Beneficiaries: IMEC,TCD,CNIT,TUB,NCENTRIC,UFRJ

Leadbeneficiary: TCD

Authors: DiarmuidCollins(TCD),LuizDaSilva(TCD),PeterRuckebusch(IMEC),SpiliosGiannoulis(IMEC),IngridMoerman(IMEC),PierluigiGallo(CNIT),AnatolijZubow(TUB),IleniaTinnirello(CNIT),FabrizioGiuliano(CNIT),RobinLeblon(NCENTRIC)

Reviewers: PiotrGawłowicz(TUB)

Workpackage: WP9–Communication,dissemination&exploitation

Estimatedpersonmonths: 5

Nature: R

Disseminationlevel: PU

Version: 1.0

Abstract:Thispublicdeliverablereportsondisseminationactivitieswithinthesecondyearoftheproject.

Keywords:Dissemination,communication,promotion,publications,demonstrations,presentations

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Executive Summary ThisdocumentcompilesalldisseminationactivitiesforthesecondyearoftheWiSHFULproject.Weinclude a list of evidence, both pictorial andweb based,where available/applicable. Activities areorganizedintothefollowingcategories:

• Scientific publications: this category includes a list of publications in peer-reviewedinternational conferences (12 papers) and scientific journals (4 papers). Entries in thiscategoryincludeacitation,publicationtype,andabstract.

• White Papers: this category presents a list of published white papers contributed to byconsortiummembersin2016.

• Presentations:highlightsasetofpresentationspresentedbyWiSHFULpartners.• Keynotes: outlines details of keynote speeches presented in Wroclaw in Poland by

ProfessorLuizDaSilva,andUniversityofZaragozainSpainbyDr.JohannM.Marquez-Barja.• Demonstrations: this category presents a list of WiSHFUL project demonstrations at

conferences.• Meetings: Presents a list of FIRE Board and DWG Telco meetings and presentations

organizedandattendedbyconsortiummembers.• Tutorials and Training: outlines a training event about Game Theory and Dynamic

Spectrum Access presented in EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, and a tutorialpresentation on the WiSHFUL project at a consortium meeting in Paris, France, of theH2020eWINEproject.

• Conferences and Exhibitions: presents a summary of the participated conferences andexhibitions attended to by consortiummembers, which include EuCNC, NetFutures, and5GPPP.

• Newsletter, Website, and Videos: details are presented with statistics (where available)abouttheWiSHFULNewsletter,WebsiteandTutorialVideosdistributed.

• Standardisation activities: a summary of the interactions with ETSI are reported. MoredetailsontheseactivitiesarereportedinD9.3.

• OpenCalls:SummaryandresultsofthefirstthreeWiSHFULopencallsarepresented.Theopencallshaveattractedattentionfromawiderangeofresearchersandengineerscomingfrommorethan29UniversitiesandResearchInstitutesandalsofrom27SMEsand1largecompany.

• Year 3 Dissemination Plan: outlines the dissemination strategy including targetedconferencesandmeetings,andsoforthforYear3oftheproject.

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List of Acronyms and Abbreviations AFI AutonomicFutureInternet

BSS BasicServiceSet

CPU CentralProcessingUnit

CSMA/CA CarrierSenseMultipleAccesswithCollisionAvoidance

DCF DistributedCoordinationFunction

DOA DescriptionofAction

DSC DynamicSensitivityControl

FPGA FieldProgrammableGateArray

GITAR GenericextensionforInternet-of-ThingsArchitectures

IoE InternetofEverything

IoT InternetofThings

M2M MachinetoMachine

MAC MediumAccessControl

MB ModeratedBackoff

NGI NextGenerationInternet

NTECH NetworkTechnologies

OS OperatingSystem

RAN RadioAccessNetwork

RFNoC RFNetworkon-Chip

RRM RadioResourceManagement

SDN Software-DefinedNetworking

SDR SoftwareDefinedRadio

TAISC TimeAnnotatedInstructionSetComputer

TDMA TimeDivisionMultipleAccess

ToR TermsofReference

UPI UnifiedProgrammingInterface

WiFi WirelessFidelity

WLAN WirelessLocalAreaNetwork

WMP WirelessMACProcessor

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Table of contents

1 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 61.1Scope................................................................................................................................61.2KPIs...................................................................................................................................6

2 Scientific Publications ....................................................................................... 7

3 White Papers .................................................................................................... 14

4 Presentations ................................................................................................... 154.1Wirelessexperimentation&benchmarking....................................................................154.2FIREtestbedsenabling5Gexperimentation,byIngridMoerman....................................154.3WiSHFULOpenCallPresentation....................................................................................16

5 Keynote ............................................................................................................. 17

6 Demonstrations ................................................................................................ 186.1TowardsaMACProtocolAppStore.................................................................................186.2Demonstration of collaborative coexistence between IEEE 802.15.4e (TSCH) and IEEE

802.11technologies........................................................................................................186.3Demo - MAC Learning: Enabling Automatic Combination of Elementary Protocol

Components...................................................................................................................19

7 Meetings ........................................................................................................... 207.1FIREBoardMeetings.......................................................................................................207.2FIREDWGTelcomeetings...............................................................................................20

8 Tutorials and Training ..................................................................................... 218.1Tutorial:IntroductiontoGameTheoryappliedtoDynamicSpectrumAccess..................218.2Tutorial:OverviewoftheWiSHFULproject.....................................................................21

9 Conferences and Exhibitions ......................................................................... 229.1NetFutures2016Brussels................................................................................................229.2EuCNC2016Athens.........................................................................................................239.3SecondGlobal5GEventon9th-10thNovember2016,Rome(Italy)...................................24

10 Newsletter ......................................................................................................... 26

11Website ............................................................................................................. 27

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12 Videos ............................................................................................................... 2812.1 IrisVideo......................................................................................................................2812.2 WiSHFULShowcaseInfrastructure-InitiatedHandoverforIEEE802.11Networks.........28

13 Interaction with ETSI ....................................................................................... 29

14Open Calls ........................................................................................................ 3014.1 FirstOpenCall–Launched9thofDecember2015..........................................................3014.2 FirstOpenCall:Results(Deadline29thofJanuary2016)................................................3014.3 SecondOpenCall–Launched13thofMay2016............................................................3114.4 SecondOpenCall:Results(Deadline28thofOct2016)..................................................3114.5 ThirdOpenCall–Launched16thofSeptember2016.....................................................3214.6 ThirdOpenCall:Results(Deadline28thofOct2016).....................................................3314.7 OpenCallsPromotion...................................................................................................33

15 Year 3 Dissemination Plan .............................................................................. 3415.1 Year3KPIs...................................................................................................................3415.2 DisseminationConferences..........................................................................................3415.3 KeynotesPlannedinYear3..........................................................................................3415.4 Year3Newsletters.......................................................................................................3515.5 Training........................................................................................................................3515.6 SocialNetworking........................................................................................................3615.7 OpenCalls....................................................................................................................36

16 Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 37

17 References ........................................................................................................ 38

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1 Introduction

1.1 ScopeThis deliverable reports on the dissemination activities taking place during the second year of theproject. Its aim is to disseminate WiSHFUL project results, promote partner test facilities, andWiSHFUL’s open, flexible software platforms via thewebsite, regular newsletters, social networks,training events, tutorial videos, keynote presentations, conferences, demonstrations, publications,and so forth. It also aims to create awareness ofWiSHFUL among standardization and regulationbodiesandpolicymakers.Furthermore,thedisseminationgoalsoftheprojectservetodevelopanexploitation strategy for maintaining theWiSHFUL test facilities and software platforms after theproject’s completion.Where available, we have presented evidence of events taking place, alongwithestimatesofthenumberofattendeesreached.

WestartthisdeliverablebylistingtheKPIsforyear2oftheprojectasoutlinedintheDescriptionofAction(DoA).Section2presentsoverviewofallpublishedandacceptedScientificPublicationsduringM12toM24.Section3liststheWhitePaperscontributedtobyconsortiummembers.Sections4,5,6, 7, and 8 list Presentations, Keynotes, Demonstrations, Meetings, Tutorials and Training eventsattended and presented by project partners during Year 2. Section 9 summarizes Exhibitionsundertaken byWiSHFUL partners during 2016. Section 10, 11, and 12 present the disseminationactivityoftheWiSHFULprojectWebsite,TutorialVideos,thefirstprojectandNewsletterdistributed.Thisisfollowedbyasummaryoftheopencallscompletedinyear3inSection13.Section14outlinesthetentativeDisseminationplanforyear3.Finally,weconcludethisdeliverableinSection15.

1.2 KPIsThe following KPIs were defined in the DoA and were continuously monitored throughout thelifetime of the project. Table 1 presents the KPIs stated in the DoA for year 2 and the totalaccomplishedatmonth24oftheproject.

Year2(Target) Year2(Achieved)

Number of peer-reviewedpublications at high qualityconferences

10 12

Number of peer-reviewedpublications in well-establishedinternationalscientificjournals

4 4

Number of invitation askeynote speakers at renowninternationalconferences

2 2

Numberofexhibitions 2 3

Number of participants attrainings 15 20

Table1:KPImetricsforthedisseminationworkpackage

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2 ScientificPublicationsInthissectionwegiveanoverviewofallpublishedandacceptedscientificpublications.Publicationsthatarebeingpreparedorarestillunderreviewarenotlisted.

1. I. Tinnirello, M. Wentink, D. Garlisi, F. Giuliano, andG. Bianchi, "MAC Design on real 802.11Devices:fromExponentialtoModeratedBackoff",IEEEWoWMOM2016

PublicationType:Conference

Abstract: Abstract—In this paper we describe how a novel backoff mechanism calledModeratedBackoff(MB),recentlyproposedasastandardextensionfor802.11networks,hasbeenprototypedand experimentally validated on a commercial 802.11 card before being ratified. Indeed, forperformancereasons,thetimecriticaloperationsofMACprotocols,suchasthebackoffmechanism,areimplementedintothecardhardware/firmwareandcannotbearbitrarilychangedbythirdpartiesorbymanufacturersonly forexperimental reasons.Ourvalidationhasbeenpossiblethankstotheavailability of the so calledWirelessMAC Processor (WMP), a prototype of a novel wireless cardarchitecture inwhichMACprotocolscanbeprogrammedbyusingproperabstractionsandastate-machine formal language, which enable easy modifications of legacy operations. ExperimentalresultsareinagreementwithsimulationsandprovetheeffectivenessofModeratedBackoff,aswellasthepotentialitiesoftheWMPplatform.

2. N. Flick, D. Garlisi, V. R. Syrotiuk, and I. Tinnirello,"Testbed Implementation of theMeta-MACProtocol",CNERTINFOCOMWorkshop2016(papersoonavailable)

PublicationType:ConferenceWorkshop

Abstract:Themeta-MACprotocolisasystematicandautomaticmethodtodynamicallycombineanysetofexistingMACprotocolsintoasinglehigherlayerMACprotocol.Wepresentaproof-of-conceptimplementation of the meta-MAC protocol by utilizing a programmable wireless MAC processor(WMP)ontopofacommoditywirelesscardincombinationwithahost-levelsoftwaremodule.Theimplementation allows us to combine, with certain constraints, a number of protocols eachrepresentedasanextendedfinitestatemachine.Toillustratethecombinationprinciple,wecombineprotocolsofthesametypebutwithvaryingparametersinawirelessmeshnetwork.Specifically,wecombine TDMA protocols with all possible slot assignments. We demonstrate that animplementationofthemeta-MACprotocolovertheWMPrapidlyconvergestonon-conflictingTDMAslotassignmentsforthenodes.

3. P. Ruckebusch et al., "A Unified Radio Control Architecture for Prototyping Adaptive WirelessProtocols,"2016EuropeanConferenceonNetworksandCommunications(EuCNC),Athens,2016,pp.58-63.doi:10.1109/EuCNC.2016.7561005


Abstract:Experimentaloptimizationofwirelessprotocolsandvalidationofnovelsolutions isoftenproblematic,duetolimitedconfigurationspacepresentincommercialwirelessinterfacesaswellascomplexity of monolithic driver implementation on SDR-based experimentation platforms. Toovercome these limitations a novel software architecture is proposed, calledWiSHFUL, devised toallow: i)maximal exploitation of radio functionalities available in current radio chips, and ii) cleanseparationbetweenthelogicforoptimizingtheradioprotocols(i.e.radiocontrol)andthedefinitionoftheseprotocols.

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4. P.Gallo,K.Kosek-Szott,S.Szottand I.Tinnirello,"SDN@home:AMethodforControllingFutureWireless HomeNetworks," in IEEE CommunicationsMagazine, vol. 54, no. 5,pp. 123-131,May2016.doi:10.1109/MCOM.2016.7470946

PublicationType:Journal

Abstract:Recentadvancesinwirelessnetworkingtechnologiesareleadingtowardtheproliferationofnovelhomenetworkapplications.However, the landscapeofemerging scenarios is fragmenteddue to their varying technological requirements and the heterogeneity of current wirelesstechnologies. We argue that the development of flexible software-defined wireless architectures,including such efforts as thewirelessMAC processor, coupledwith SDN concepts,will enable thesupport of both emerging and future home applications. In this article,we first identify problemswith managing current home networks composed of separate network segments governed bydifferent technologies. Second, we point out the flaws of current approaches to provideinteroperability of these technologies. Third, we present a vision of a software-defined multi-technologynetworkarchitecture(SDN@home)anddemonstratehowafuturehomegateway(SDNcontroller)candirectlyanddynamicallyprogramnetworkdevices.Finally,wedefineanewtypeofflexibility enabled by SDN@home. Wireless protocols and features are no longer tied to specifictechnologiesbutcanbeusedbygeneral-purposewirelessSDNdevices.Thispermitssatisfactionoftherequirementsdemandedbyhomeownersandserviceprovidersunderheterogeneousnetworkconditions.

5. M.Kulin,C.Fortuna,E.DePoorter,D.Deschrijver,I.Moerman,“Data-DrivenDesignofIntelligentWirelessNetworks:AnOverviewandTutorial”,Sensors2016,16(6),790,doi:10.3390/s16060790


Abstract: Data scienceor “data-driven research” is a research approach that uses real-life data togain insightabout thebehaviorof systems. Itenables theanalysisof small, simpleaswellas largeand more complex systems in order to assess whether they function according to the intendeddesignandasseeninsimulation.Datascienceapproacheshavebeensuccessfullyappliedtoanalyzenetworked interactions in several research areas such as large-scale social networks, advancedbusiness and healthcare processes. Wireless networks can exhibit unpredictable interactionsbetween algorithms from multiple protocol layers, interactions between multiple devices, andhardware specific influences. These interactions can lead to a difference between real-worldfunctioning and design time functioning. Data science methods can help to detect the actualbehavior and possibly help to correct it. Data science is increasingly used inwireless research. Tosupport data-driven research in wireless networks, this paper illustrates the step-by-stepmethodology that has to be applied to extract knowledge from raw data traces. To this end, thepaper(i)clarifieswhen,whyandhowtousedatascienceinwirelessnetworkresearch;(ii)providesagenericframeworkforapplyingdatascienceinwirelessnetworks;(iii)givesanoverviewofexistingresearchpapersthatutilizeddatascienceapproachesinwirelessnetworks;(iv)illustratestheoverallknowledge discovery process through an extensive example in which device types are identifiedbased on their traffic patterns; (v) provides the reader the necessary datasets and scripts to gothroughthetutorialstepsthemselves.

6. P. Ruckebusch, J. Bauwens, B. Jooris, S. D.Giannoulis, E. De Poorter, I.Moerman,D.Garlisi, I.Tinnirello and P. Gallo, "Cross-Technology Wireless Experimentation: Improving 802.11 and802.15.4ecoexistence",201617thIEEEInternationalSymposiumon"AWorldofWireless,MobileandMultimediaNetworks"(WoWMoM),June21-24,Coimbra,Portugal

PublicationType:ConferenceDemoPaper

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Abstract: In this demowedemonstrate the functionalities of a novel experimentation framework,calledWiSHFUL that facilitates theprototypingandexperimental validationof innovative solutionsfor heterogeneous wireless networks, including cross-technology coordination mechanisms. Theframework supports a clean separation between the definition of the logic for optimizing thebehaviours of wireless devices and the underlying device capabilities, by means of a unifyingplatform-independent control interface and programming model. The use of the framework isdemonstratedthroughtworepresentativeusecases,wheremediumaccessiscoordinatedbetweenIEEE-802.11andIEEE-802.15.4networks.

7. S.Zehl,A.ZubowandA.Wolisz,"hMAC:EnablingHybridTDMA/CSMAonIEEE802.11Hardware",arXiv,2016.

PublicationType:arXiv

Abstract:Wepresent our currentwork-in-progress on the design and implementation of a hybridTDMA/CSMAmediumaccessarchitecture,hereafterreferredtoashMAC,whichcanbeusedontopof commercial IEEE 802.11 off-the-shelf hardware. The software only solution is based on thepopular Linux ATH9K softMAC driver and hence can be used with standard Linux systems usingAtheros basedwireless network devices. The proposed hMACexploits the standard 802.11 powersaving functionality present in the ATH9K device driver to enable control of the software packetqueues.ThisallowstheassignmentofTDMAtimeslotsonwirelesslinkandtrafficclassbasis.Whilethesolutionisplacedonly inthedevicedriver,theCSMA/CAfunctionalityonhardwarelevel isstillactive. This enables inter-working with standard unmodified 802.11 devices. We tested ourprototypical hMAC implementation in a small test-bed. Therefore, we implemented a centralizedinterferencemanagementschemeinwhichpairsoflinkssufferingfromahiddennodeproblemareassigned to TDMA time slots on a per-link basis. To show the benefits of the proposed hMACapproach we compared the results with standard 802.11 DCF and classical, i.e. per-node, TDMA.Finally,toenablecollaborationwiththeresearchcommunity,thehMACsourcecodeisprovidedasopen-source.

8. S.Zehl,A.Zubow,M.DöringandA.Wolisz,"ResFi:ASecureFrameworkforSelfOrganizedRadioResourceManagementinResidentialWiFiNetworks,"2016IEEE17thInternationalSymposiumonAWorldofWireless,MobileandMultimediaNetworks(WoWMoM),Coimbra,2016,pp.1-11,doi:10.1109/WoWMoM.2016.7523511


Abstract: In dense deployments of residential WiFi networks individual users suffer performancedegradationduetobothcontentionandinterference.WhileRadioResourceManagement(RRM)isknowntomitigatethiseffectsitsapplicationinresidentialWiFinetworksbeingbynatureunplannedand individually managed creates a big challenge. We propose ResFi - a framework supportingcreation of RRM functionality in legacy deployments. The radio interfaces are used for efficientdiscovery of adjacent APs and as a side-channel to establish a secure communication among theindividual Access Point Management Applications within a neighborhood over the wired Internetbackbone.WehaveimplementedaprototypeofResFiandstudieditsperformanceinourtestbed.Asa showcase we have implemented various RRM applications among others a distributed channelassignmentalgorithmusingResFi.ResFiisprovidedtothecommunityasopensource.

9. B.Jooris,J.Bauwens,P.Ruckebusch,P.D.Valck,C.V.Praet,I.Moerman,E.DePoorter,"TAISC:Across-platformMACprotocolcompilerandexecutionengine",ComputerNetworks,Volume107,Part2,9October2016,Pages315–326,doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2016.03.027(2016)

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Abstract: MAC protocols significantly impact wireless performance metrics such as throughput,energy consumption and reliability. Although the choice of the optimalMACprotocol depends ontime-varying criteria such as the current application requirements and the current environmentalconditions,MAC protocols cannot be upgraded after deployment since their implementations aretypically written in low level, hardware specific code which is hard to reuse on other hardwareplatforms.Toremedythisshortcoming,thispaperintroducesTAISC,TimeAnnotatedInstructionSetComputer, a framework for hardware independentMAC protocol development andmanagement.The solution presented in this paper allows describingMAC protocols in a platform independentlanguage,followedbyastraightforwardcompilationstep,yieldingdedicatedbinarycode,optimizedfor specific radiochips.Thecompiledcode isasefficient in termsofmemory footprintas custom-written protocols for specific devices. To enable time-critical operation, the TAISC compiler addsexact time annotations to every instruction of the optimized binary code. As a result, the TAISCapproachcanbeusedforenergy-efficientcross-platformMACprotocoldesign,whileachievingupto97%ofthetheoreticalthroughputatanoverheadofonly20µsperinstruction.

10. T.Kazaz,C.V.Praet,M.Kulin,P.Willemen,andI.Moerman,"HardwareAcceleratedSDRPlatformforAdaptiveAir Interfaces",ETSIWorkshoponFutureRadioTechnologies-Air Interfaces,27-28January2016,SophiaAntipolis,France


Abstract: Advanced 5G wireless infrastructure should support any-to-any connectivity betweendensely arranged smart objects that form the emerging paradigm known as the Internet ofEverything(IoE).Whiletraditionalwirelessnetworksenablecommunicationbetweendevicesusingasingletechnology,5Gnetworkswillneedtosupportseamlessconnectivitybetweenheterogeneouswirelessobjects,andconsequentlyenabletheproliferationofIoEnetworks.TotacklethecomplexityandversatilityofthefutureIoEnetworks,5Ghastoguaranteeoptimalusageofbothspectrumandenergyresourcesandfurthersupporttechnology-agnosticconnectivitybetweenobjects.Thiscanberealized by combining intelligent network controlwith adaptive software-defined air interfaces. Inordertoachievethis,currentradiotechnologyparadigmslikeCloudRANandSoftwareDefinedRadio(SDR)utilizecentralizedbasebandsignalprocessingmainlyperformed insoftware.With traditionalSDRplatforms, composedof separate radioandhostcommoditycomputerunits, computationally-intensive signal processing algorithms and high-throughput connectivity between processing unitsarehardtorealize. Inaddition,significantpowerconsumptionand large formfactormayprecludeanyreal-lifedeploymentofsuchsystems.Ontheotherhand,modernhybridFPGAtechnologytightlycouples a FPGA fabric with hard core CPU on a single chip. This provides opportunities forimplementing air interfaces based on hardware/software co- processing, resulting in increasedprocessing throughput, reduced form factor and power consumption, while at the same timepreservingflexibility.ThispaperexamineshowhybridFPGAscanbecombinedwithnovelideassuchasRFNetwork-on-Chip(RFNoC)andpartialreconfiguration,toformaflexibleandcompactplatformfor implementing low-power adaptive air interfaces. The proposed platformmerges software andhardwareprocessingunitsofSDRsystemsonasinglechip.Therefore, it canprovide interfaces foron-the-flycompositionandreconfigurationofsoftwareandhardwareradiomodules.Theresultingsystem enables the abstraction of air interfaces, where each access technology is composed of astructuredsequenceofmodularradioprocessingunits.

11. N.Kaminski,I.Moerman,S.Giannoulis,P.Gallo,A.Zubow,R.Leblon,I.Seskar,S.Choi,andJ.de

Rezende, "UnifiedRadioandNetworkControlAcrossHeterogeneousHardwarePlatforms",ETSI

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Workshop on Future Radio Technologies - Air Interfaces, 27-28 January 2016, Sophia Antipolis,France.


Abstract: Experimentation is an important step in the investigation of techniques for handlingspectrumscarcityorthedevelopmentofnewwaveformsinfuturewirelessnetworks.However,itisimpracticalandnotcosteffectivetoconstructcustomplatformsforeachfuturenetworkscenariotobe investigated. This problem is addressed by defining Unified Programming Interfaces that allowcommon access to several platforms for experimentation-based prototyping, research, anddevelopment purposes. The design of these interfaces is driven by a diverse set of scenarios thatcapturethefunctionalityrelevantto futurenetwork implementationswhiletryingtokeepthemasgeneric as possible. Herein, the definition of this set of scenarios is presented as well as thearchitecture for supporting experimentation-based wireless research over multiple hardwareplatforms.Theproposedarchitectureforexperimentationincorporatesbothlocalandglobalunifiedinterfaces tocontrolanyaspectofawirelesssystemwhilebeingcompletelyagnostic to theactualtechnology incorporated.Control is feasible from the low-level featuresof individual radios to theentirenetworkstack,includinghierarchicalcontrolcombinations.Atestbedtoenabletheuseoftheabove architecture is utilized that uses a backbone network in order to be able to extractmeasurementsandobservetheoverallbehaviourofthesystemundertestwithoutimposingfurthercommunication overhead to the actual experiment. Based on the aforementioned architecture, asystem is proposed that is able to support the advancement of intelligent techniques for futurenetworksthroughexperimentationwhiledecouplingpromisingalgorithmsandtechniquesfromthecapabilitiesofaspecifichardwareplatform.

12. J.Bauwens,B. Jooris,E.DePoorter,P.Ruckebusch,and I.Moerman, "TowardsaMACProtocolApp Store", demo abstract paper accepted for theInternational Conference on EmbeddedWirelessSystemsandNetworks,EWSN2016,Graz,Austria,February15-17,2016

PublicationType:ConferenceDemo

Abstract:InrecentyearstherehasbeenagrowinginterestintheInternet-of-Things(IoT),leadingtoanexpandingnumberofwireless environment andapplicationdomains inwhich IoTdeploymentsarerealized.Overthecourseofitslifetime,anIoTdevicewillbeexposedtodifferentenvironmentsand varying demands in terms of network throughput, latency, power consumption, etc. Forinstance,considerthecaseoftransportationandlogisticswheresensorswillbeattachedtogoods,palletsandcontainers,monitoringtheirrespectivestate.Thesenodesneedtoworkoptimallyeverystep of the supply chain: from frequent monitoring in densely packed warehouses to infrequentmonitoringduringoverseas transit.TheMediumAccessControl (MAC)playsamajor role inhowadevicehandlesthe(changing)applicationrequirementsandenvironment.Unfortunatelytodaythereis no one-size-fits-all MAC protocol that works well in all cases. This causes an ever increasingnumberofMACprotocolsthatareeachoptimizedforacertainapplication[1].Therehavealsobeensomehybridoradaptiveprotocolsdevelopedtocopewithdifferentenvironments[2],buteventheyhavelimitationsinreconfiguringtheparametersorchangingthebehaviourofMACprotocols.

13. P. Ruckebusch, E. De Poorter, C. Fortuna, & I.Moerman, (2016). GITAR: Generic extension forInternet-of-Things ARchitectures enabling dynamic updates of network and applicationmodules.AdHocNetworks,Volume36,Part1,January2016,Pages127–151


Abstract:TheInternet-of-Things(IoT)representsthethirdwaveofcomputinginnovationandrelieson small, cheap and/or energy efficient devices densely deployed in various spaces. Automatically

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managing, updating andupgrading the softwareon thesedevices, particularly thenetwork stacks,withnew, improvedfunctionality iscurrentlyamajorchallenge. InthispaperweproposeGITAR,agenericextensionforInternet-of-Thingsarchitectures,thatenablesdynamicapplicationandnetworklevelupgrades inanefficientway.GITARconsistsof fourdesignconceptswhichcanbeapplied toany operating system running on IoT/M2M devices. The proof of concept implementation in thispaperusestheContikiOSandtheevaluation,basedonanalyticalandexperimentalmethods,showsthatGITARi)isupto14%moreefficientintermsofmemoryusageandii)haslessorsimilarrun-timeCPUoverheadasstateoftheartsolutionswhileofferingupgradefunctionalitydowntothenetworklevel and iii) can reuse existing Contiki network protocols for dynamic updates without requiringmodificationstothecode.

14. E. Khorov, A. Kiryanov, A. Krotov, P. Gallo, D. Garlisi, I. Tinnirello. Joint Usage of DynamicSensitivity Control and Time Division Multiple Access in Dense 802.11ax Networks. In LectureNotesinComputerScience,Springer,Nov.2016

PublicationType:ConferencePaper

Abstract: It is well known that in case of high-density deployments, Wi-Fi networks suffer fromserious performance impairments due to hidden and exposed nodes. The problem is explicitlyconsideredbytheIEEE802.11axdevelopersinordertoimprovespectrumefficiency.Inthispa-per,we propose and evaluate the joint usage of dynamic sensitivity control (DSC) and time divisionmultipleaccess(TDMA)forimprovingthespectrumallocationamongoverlapping802.11axBSSs.Tovalidatethesolution,apartfromsimulation,weusedatestbedbasedontheWirelessMACProcessor(WMP),aprototypeofaprogrammablewirelesscard.

15. I. Tinnirello,D.Garlisi, F.Giuliano,V. R. Syrotiuk, andG. Bianchi. 2016.MAC learning: enablingautomaticcombinationofelementaryprotocolcomponents:demo. InProceedingsof theTenthACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation, andCharacterization (WiNTECH '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 89-90. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2980159.2980174


Abstract:Cognitionasawaytodealwiththechallengesoffuturewirelessnetworkshasbeenlargelyconsidered by the recent literature,with amain focus on physical layer adaptability and dynamicspectrumaccess. Inthisdemo,weshowhowasimplecognitionmechanismcanbealsoappliedattheMAC layer, by exploiting the emerging paradigm of programmablewireless cards. The idea isusing the formal definition of simple MAC protocol components and platform-independentrepresentationofchanneleventsgathered fromthewirelessnode, foremulating thebehaviourofprotocols which are not currently running on the network, learning about their expectedperformance,anddynamicallyreconfiguringthewirelessnode.Wedemonstratethatprogrammablenodes,employingourcognitionscheme,canfindinadistributedwayacon-conflictingschedulewithother neighbour nodes and can switch from contention-based to scheduled-based protocols as afunctionofthenetworkload.

16. A.Zubow,S.Zehl,A.Wolisz, “BIGAP -SeamlessHandover inHighPerformanceEnterprise IEEE802.11 Networks", IEEE Network Operations andManagement Symposium (NOMS), full paper,local,2016

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Abstract:EnterpriseIEEE802.11networksneedtoprovidehighnetworkperformancetooperatealargenumberofdiverseclientslikelaptops,smartphonesandtabletsaswellascapacityhungryanddelaysensitivenovelapplications likemobileHDvideo&cloudstorageefficiently.Moreover, suchdevices and applications require much better mobility support and higher QoS/QoE. Existingsolutions can either provide high network performance or seamless mobility but not both. Wepresent BIGAP, a novel architecture achieving both of the above goals. The former is achieved byassigningdifferentchannels toco-locatedAPs inorder to fullyutilize theavailable radiospectrum.The latter isachievedbyprovidingamechanismforbelowMAC-layerhandover throughexploitingtheDynamicFrequencySelectioncapabilityin802.11.InessenceBIGAPforcesclientstochangeAPwhilst they ’believe’ they are simply changing channel. BIGAP is fully compatiblewith 802.11 andrequires no modifications to the wireless clients. Testbed results demonstrate a significantimprovementintermsofnetworkoutageduration(whichis32xsmallerascomparedtostate-of-the-artsolutions)andnegligiblethroughputdegradationduringhandoveroperation.Inthiswayfrequentand seamless handover operations can take place thus supporting both seamless mobility andefficientloadbalancing.

17. P. Gawłowicz, S. Zehl, A. Zubow and A. Wolisz, " NxWLAN: Neighborhood eXtensible WLAN",arXiv,2016.

PublicationType:arXiv

Abstract: The increasedusageof IEEE802.11Wireless LAN (WLAN) in residential environmentsbyunexperiencedusers leads todense, unplannedand chaotic residentialWLANdeployments.OftenWLAN Access Points (APs) are deployed unprofitable in terms of radio coverage and interferenceconditions. Inmany cases the usage of the neighbor's APwould be beneficial as itwould providebetter radio coverage in some parts of the residential user's apartment. Moreover, the networkperformancecanbedramatically improvedbybalancingthenetwork loadoverspatiallyco-locatedAPs. We address this problem by presenting Neighborhood extensible WLAN (NxWLAN) whichenablesthesecureextensionofuser'shomeWLANsthroughusageofneighboringAPsinresidentialenvironments with zero configuration efforts and without revealing WPA2 encryption keys tountrustedneighborAPs.NxWLANmakesuseofvirtualizationtechniquesutilizingneighboringAPbydeployingon-demandaWirelessTerminationPoint (WTP)on theneighboringAPandby tunnelingencrypted802.11traffictotheVirtualAccessPoint(VAP)residingonthehomeAP.Thisallowstheclientdevicestoalwaysauthenticateagainst thehomeAPusingtheWPA2-PSKpassphrasealreadystored in the device without any additional registration process. We implemented NxWLANprototypicallyusingoff-the-shelfhardwareandopensourcesoftware.AstheOpenFlowisnotsuitedforforwardingnative802.11frames,webuiltsoftwareswitchusingP4 language.Theperformanceevaluation in a small 802.11 indoor testbed showed the feasibility of our approach. NxWLAN isprovidedtothecommunityasopensource.

18. S. Zehl, A. Zubow, A. Wolisz, "BIG AP - A Seamless Handover Scheme for High PerformanceEnterprise IEEE 802.11 Networks", IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium(NOMS),


Abstract:WedemonstrateBIGAP,anovelarchitectureprovidingbothhighnetworkperformanceaswellasseamlesshandover inEnterprise IEEE802.11networks.Theformer isachievedbyassigningdifferent channels to co-located APs to fully utilize the available radio spectrum. The latter isachievedbyprovidingamechanismforbelowMAC-layerhandoverthroughexploitingtheDynamicFrequency Selection (DFS) capability in IEEE 802.11. In essence BigAP forces clients to change APwhilst they ’believe’ they are simply changing channel. BIGAP is fully compatiblewith 802.11 and

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requiresnomodificationstothewirelessclients.

3 WhitePapersDuring Year 2 of theWiSHFUL project, several partners were involved in the creation of a whitepaper.Insummary,onewhitepaperwasproducedbetweenM12andM24oftheproject,whichwascreatedforapublicaudience.

1. Alexander Willner, Chiara Petrioli, Federico M. Facca, Ingrid Moerman, Johann M. Marquez-Barja, Josep Martrat, Levent Gurgen, Sebastien Ziegler, Serafim Kotrotsos, Sergi FiguerolaFernandez, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, Susanne Kuehrer, Thanasis Korakis, TimWauters, TimurFriedman. "Next Generation Internet Experimentation: Drivers Transforming Next GenerationInternetResearchandExperimentation."(June,2016).

PublicationType:WhitePaper

Website:https://www.ict-fire.eu/wp-content/uploads/Drivers-Transforming-NGI-Experimentation-Whitepaper-V1.0-Release.pdf

Abstract: In a world where competitive economies are increasingly dependent on innovativeapplicationof informationand communication technologies andwhere changes in technology andculturearehappeningrapidly,EuropemustremainattheforefrontoftheNextGenerationInternet(NGI). User-driven experimentation is now driving the evolution of the Internet. Europe’s publicinvestment policy must foster the creation of vibrant experimentation ecosystems that aresupportedbytheresearchanddevelopmentofopenexperimentationplatformsthatengagecitizensandcompanies in finding solutions, activatingbusinessmarkets, andaddressing important societalchallenges.

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4 Presentations

4.1 Wirelessexperimentation&benchmarkingWiSHFUL presented at NetFutures’16 in the Interoperability, Benchmarking & ExperimentationsessionbyIngridMoermanfromIMEC,GhentUniversity,aninvitedsessionspeaker1.Shepresentedthecurrentstateoftheart inwirelessexperimentation&benchmarkingbasedonresearchcarriedoutbytheWiSHFULproject.

PresentationTitle: Wirelessexperimentation&benchmarking

Dates: 20thApril2016

Presenter: IngridMoerman(IMEC-GhentUniversity)

Location: Brussels,Belgium

Evidence1: http://netfutures2016.eu/programme/interoperability-benchmaking-experimentation

Evidence 2(Presentation):

http://netfutures2016.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/NetFutures2016_IngridMoerman_Benchmarking.pdf

4.2 FIREtestbedsenabling5Gexperimentation,byIngridMoerman

Figure1:ParticipantsattheFIREForum2016on27thSeptember

TheFIRESTUDYorganisedtheFIREForum2016on27thSeptember,whichwascollocatedwiththeICT Proposers Day in Bratislava. IngridMoerman presented a presentation entitled: FIRE testbedsenabling5Gexperimentation-Figure1.

1 Benchmarking Session at NetFutures http://netfutures2016.eu/programme/interoperability-benchmaking-experimentation/

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PresentationTitle: FIREtestbedsenabling5Gexperimentation

Dates: 27thSeptember2016


Audience: 50 representatives from 42 different projects or organizations, including theEC.

Location: Bratislava,Slovakia

Evidence1: https://www.ict-fire.eu/mc-events/fire-forum-2016/

Presentation: https://www.ict-fire.eu/wp-content/uploads/Ingrid-Moerman.pdf

4.3 WiSHFULOpenCallPresentationIngridMoermanfromIMECmadeapresentationtoencourageparticipationinthe3rdWiSHFULopencall process to participants and FI project leaders at the FIRE Forum meeting held in Bratislava,Slovakia,seeFigure2.

PresentationTitle: WiSFHULOpenCallPresentation



Audience: 50 representatives from 42 different projects or organizations, including theEC.


Evidence1: https://www.ict-fire.eu/mc-events/fire-forum-2016/

Figure2:WiSHFULOpenCallPresentation

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5 KeynoteTrendsinSpectrumSharingforFutureWirelessNetworks

KeynoteTitle: TrendsinSpectrumSharingforFutureWirelessNetworks

Dates: Thursday8thSeptember2016

Presenter: LuizDaSilva

Location: Wroclaw,Poland

EMCEUROPE2016WROCLAW

Evidence1: http://www.emceurope.org/2016/files/EMCEurope2016_final_programme.pdf

Enabling5GFutureNetworks

PresentationTitle: Enabling5GFutureNetworks

Dates: 21stDecember2016

Presenter: Dr. Johann M. Marquez-Barja (CONNECT Centre for Future Networks andCommunications,TrinityCollegeDublin,Ireland)

Location: iNIT Jornadas 2016 (Intelligent Networks and Information TechnologyWorkshop)heldinUniversityofZaragoza,CampusTeruel,Spain

Evidence1: http://init.unizar.es/jornadas_init_2016/

Abstract: Abstract: 5G FutureNetworks base their evolutionon the coexistenceof theheterogeneousnetworktechnologies,enablingdynamicsolutionstofulfill theassortedconnectivityrequirementsoftheend-users.FutureNetworksrelyontwo main pillars: access and architecture. There are new radio technologiesthatwill provide an enhanced access network, these new radio technologieswill make use new waveforms and PHY techniques, such as mmwave ormassive MIMO techniques. Regarding the network architecture, the currentwireless and optical networkswill converge providing a seamless end-to-endarchitecture, through network slicing and virtualization techniques, which iscapabletoorchestrateandtotailoranetworktotherequestedservices.Thistalkwillprovideanoverviewofthecurrenttrendsof5GFutureNetworksfromboth perspectives: radio access and network architecture, includingstandardizationmatters.Moreover,duringthistalkcurrentresearchonfuturenetworkswillbediscussed,inparticular,theresearchbeingcarriedoutundertheH2020WiSHFUL,andtheH2020FUTEBOLprojectsfundedbytheEuropeanCommission.

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6 Demonstrations

6.1 TowardsaMACProtocolAppStoreAbstract:InrecentyearstherehasbeenagrowinginterestintheInternet-of-Things(IoT),leadingtoanexpandingnumberofwireless environment andapplicationdomains inwhich IoTdeploymentsarerealized.Overthecourseofitslifetime,anIoTdevicewillbeexposedtodifferentenvironmentsand varying demands in terms of network throughput, latency, power consumption, etc. Forinstance,considerthecaseoftransportationandlogisticswheresensorswillbeattachedtogoods,palletsandcontainers,monitoringtheirrespectivestate.Thesenodesneedtoworkoptimallyeverystep of the supply chain: from frequent monitoring in densely packed warehouses to infrequentmonitoringduringoverseas transit.TheMediumAccessControl (MAC)playsamajor role inhowadevicehandlesthe(changing)applicationrequirementsandenvironment.Unfortunatelytodaythereis no one- size-fits-all MAC protocol that works well in all cases. This causes an ever-increasingnumberofMACprotocolsthatareeachoptimizedforacertainapplication[1].Therehavealsobeensomehybridoradaptiveprotocolsdevelopedtocopewithdifferentenvironments[2],buteventheyhavelimitationsinreconfiguringtheparametersorchangingthebehaviourofMACprotocols.

Title: TowardsaMACProtocolAppStore

Dates: 15th–17thFebruary2016

Presenter: Jan Bauwens, Bart Jooris, Eli De Poorter, Peter Ruckebusch and IngridMoerman

Location: Graz,Austria

Evidence1: http://www.wishful-project.eu/sites/default/files/EWSN2016_TAISC_demo.pdf

Conference: Demo at the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems andNetworks,EWSN2016

6.2 Demonstration of collaborative coexistence between IEEE 802.15.4e (TSCH) andIEEE802.11technologies

ETSIorganisedaworkshopentitled“FromResearchToStandardization”on10-11May2016inETSIHeadquarters in Sophia Antipolis. It was organised in the context of the H2020 program of theEuropean Commission. The WiSHFUL team provided a demonstration of the collaborativecoexistencebetweenIEEE802.15.4e(TSCH)andIEEE802.11technologies.

Title: Demonstration of collaborative coexistence between IEEE 802.15.4e (TSCH)andIEEE802.11technologies

Dates: 10th–11thMay2016

Presenter: IngridMoerman,PieterBecue&PeterRuckebusch(IMEC–GentUniversity)

Audience: Unknown

Evidence1: http://www.etsi.org/news-events/events/1016-2016-05-ws-from-research-to-standardization

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6.3 Demo - MAC Learning: Enabling Automatic Combination of Elementary ProtocolComponents

Abstract:Cognitionasawaytodealwiththechallengesoffuturewirelessnetworkshasbeenlargelyconsidered by the recent literature,with amain focus on physical layer adaptability and dynamicspectrumaccess. Inthisdemo,weshowhowasimplecognitionmechanismcanbealsoappliedattheMAC layer, by exploiting the emerging paradigm of programmablewireless cards. The idea isusing the formal definition of simple MAC protocol components and platform-independentrepresentationofchanneleventsgathered fromthewirelessnode, foremulating thebehaviourofprotocols which are not currently running on the network, learning about their expectedperformance,anddynamicallyreconfiguringthewirelessnode.Wedemonstratethatprogrammablenodes,employingourcognitionscheme,canfindinadistributedwayacon-conflictingschedulewithother neighbour nodes and can switch from contention-based to scheduled-based protocols as afunctionofthenetworkload.

Title: MAC Learning: Enabling Automatic Combination of Elementary ProtocolComponents

Dates: 3rd–7thOctober2016

Presenter: IleniaTinnirello,VioletR.Syrotiuk,&GiuseppeBianchi

Location: NewYorkCity,NY,USA

Evidence1: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2980159.2980174

Conference: InProceedingsoftheTenthACMInternationalWorkshoponWirelessNetworkTestbeds,ExperimentalEvaluation,andCharacterization(WiNTECH'16).

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7 Meetings

7.1 FIREBoardMeetingsWiSHFULpartnerswerepresentattheFIREBoardmeetingsco-locatedwithNetFutures,2016.

FIREBoardMeetingCo-Locatedwith@NetFutures2016

Dates: 21stApril2016

Presenter: IngridMoermanandIMECTeam(IMEC–GentUniversity)

Audience: No.FIProjectsReached(Estimate27)

Evidence1: FIRE Board Meeting EventBrite NetFutures 2016:http://www.eventbrite.com/e/fire-board-meeting-2142016-registration-23227475003

FIREBoardMeeting,Bratislava,Slovakia

Dates: 21stApril2016



Audience: No.FIProjectsReached(Estimate30+)

Evidence1: FIRE Board Meeting Bratislava, Slovakia, on 28th of September 2016https://www.ict-fire.eu/mc-events/fire-board-meeting-by-invitation/

7.2 FIREDWGTelcomeetingsWiSHFULmembershaveattended themonthlyDWGTelcomeetingsheld throughout2016. ThesemeetingsallowWiSHFULpartnerstopromoteWiSHFULinitiatessuchastheOpencallsandreachanumber of different FI projects creating project awareness. Moreover, these meetings supportnetworkingopportunities amongother FI projects. Someevidence to support attendanceat thesemeetingsisavailableinthemeetingminutes234.

2DWG Telco meeting June 13th 2016 Meeting Minuteshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1vdeWwlRnNT5bIqxaUaybYjcCotXenrIg5j2a9mNLb7c/edit#heading=h.3xmwah2qarnc

3DWG Telco meeting 24th November 2016 Meeting Minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n44dS3Kjhcd-ozwEXv75RiLJglORxRtlL59jP9ikDOo/edit4DWG Telco meeting 11th May 2016 Meeting Minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FkGeb-PnipXeAn8xOR60tWz0KBs1OctVhOcY3hoHSOg/edit?usp=sharing

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8 TutorialsandTraining

8.1 Tutorial:IntroductiontoGameTheoryappliedtoDynamicSpectrumAccessProfessorLuizdaSilva(TrinityCollegeDublin)presentedalectureon“IntroductiontoGameTheoryappliedtoDynamicSpectrumAccess”5.TheLecturetookplaceattheSummerSchoolonSpectrumAggregationandSharingfor5GNetworks6,atEURECOM,SophiaAntipolis,France.ItwasorganizedbytheADELandSpeed5GH2020projects.

Dates: 17th-19thOctober2016


Audience: Approximately20people

Evidence1: http://www.euracon.org/images/sampledata/DaSilva_SSSAS5G.pdf

Evidence2: http://www.euracon.org/index.php/2013-02-12-09-41-49/sssas5g

8.2 Tutorial:OverviewoftheWiSHFULprojectIngridMoerman(IMEC)hasgivenatutorialpresentationontheWiSHFULproject”.ThepresentationtookplaceattheH2020eWINEplenarymeetingatThalesCommunication&SecurityinParis.


Presenter: IngridMoerman

Audience: Approximately15people

5 Introduction to Game Theory Applied to Spectrum Sharing – available athttp://www.euracon.org/images/sampledata/DaSilva_SSSAS5G.pdf6 (Indian) Summer School on Spectrum Aggregation and Sharing for 5G Networks – available athttp://www.euracon.org/index.php/2013-02-12-09-41-49/sssas5g

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9 ConferencesandExhibitionsIn this section, we present a summary of participated conferences and exhibitions attended byWiSHFULpartnersduringyear2oftheproject.

9.1 NetFutures2016BrusselsWiSHFUL participated at the NetFutures 2016 conference in April. Capabilities of the PortableTestbedweredemonstratedforthefirsttimetothegeneralpublicthroughseveralusecases.Theseincluded improving coexistence of heterogeneous wireless technologies that share the samespectrumsuchasIEEE802.11andIEEE802.15.4e.TheWiSHFULsoftwarearchitectureenablesreal-timereconfigurationofwirelessnetworksusingunifiedcontrolinterfaces,cross-technologycontrol,andmanagement.Theprojectwaspromotedon theNetFuturesconferencewebsite7and theFIRE2016leaflet8.PhotographicevidenceoftheboothandpresentationstokeyindividualsareavailableinTable2,Table3,andTable4.

Dates: 20th–21stApril2016


Audience: No.ParticipantsReached (Estimate200)basedon leafletsdistributed,demospresented,posterviews,etc.No.FIProjectsReached(Estimate30)

Evidence1: http://netfutures2016.eu

Evidence2: https://www.ict-fire.eu/wp-content/uploads/FIRE_Brochure2016-web.pdf

Table2:PicturesofWiSHFULboothandpostersatNetFutures2016

7http://netfutures2016.eu8https://www.ict-fire.eu/wp-content/uploads/FIRE_Brochure2016-web.pdf

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Table3:Dr.JimKurose,AssistantDirectoroftheNationalScienceFoundation(NSF)fortheComputerand

InformationScienceandEngineering(CISE),visitingtheWiSHFULBoothatNetFutures’16

Table4:Mr.AndrusAnsipVicePresidentfortheDigitalSingleMarketontheEuropeanCommissionfromthe

EuropeanCommission,visitingtheWiSHFULBoothatNetFutures’16.

9.2 EuCNC2016AthensEuCNC'2016 is the 25th edition of a successful series of technical conferences in the field oftelecommunications,sponsoredbytheEuropeanCommission.Theconferenceshowcasesthestatusof research in advanced networks and associated topics is presented in sessions, workshops,exhibitions, and demonstrations. The WiSHFUL project team participated with a booth anddemonstration (seeTable5) showcasing theuseof the first releaseof theportable testbedat thisexhibition. The portable testbed offers identical functionality (in terms of testbed access,provisioning of resources, experiment control, monitoring, etc.) to researchers and wirelessdevelopersasiftheywouldruntheirexperimentsinoneoftheadvancedwirelesstestbedsinafixedphysicalenvironment.

Dates: 27th–30thJune2016

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Location: Athens,Greece


Evidence1: http://eucnc.eu/2016/

Evidence2: http://www.eucnc.eu/2016/www.eucnc.eu/indexe637.html?q=node/134

Table5:WiSHFULBoothwithportabletestbedatEuCNC2016,Athens,Greece.

9.3 SecondGlobal5GEventon9th-10thNovember2016,Rome(Italy)TheWiSHFULteamattendedthe5GInfrastructurePublicPrivatePartnership(5GPPP)conferenceinRome, Italy, which was initiated by the EU Commission and industry manufacturers,telecommunicationsoperators,serviceproviders,SMEsandresearchers.Theaimofthisinitiativeisto deliver solutions, architectures, technologies and standards for the ubiquitous next generationcommunication infrastructures of the coming decade. The WiSHFUL team had a booth at thisexhibitionanddemonstratedtheportabletestbed–seeTable6.

Dates: 9th–10thNovember2016

Location: Rome,Italy.


Evidence1: https://5g-ppp.eu/

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Table6:PicturesfromtheSecondGlobal5GEventon9th-10thNovember2016,Rome(Italy)

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10 NewsletterThe WiSHFUL project published its first newsletter in October 2016. It is planned to release anewsletter every three months until the project’s completion. The first newsletter includesannouncementaboutrecentlyopenedOpenCall2fundingforexperimentsandextensionfrombothacademiaandindustry.ThenewsletteralsocontainsadescriptionofthebiggesteventsWiSHFULhasparticipatedin2016aswellasasummaryofthelatestPlenaryMeetingofWiSHFULthattookplaceinGent,Belgium.SeveralscreenshotsoftheOctobernewsletter9areavailableinTable7.

Table7:Screenshotsofthe1stWiSHFULNewsletterreleasedinOctober2016.

Metric Year1 Year2

Visitors: 323 3,363

Sessions: 581 7,406

PagesViews 1,422 20,703

Avg.SessionDuration: 01:51 03:03

Top5Countries: Belgium Greece, USA, Italy,Ireland

Belgium, Greece, Italy, Spain,USA

Table8:UserStatisticscollectedfromGoogleAnalyticsforthewww.wishful-project.euwebsite

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11 WebsiteAsstated in the firstdisseminationreport10, themainWiSHFULwebsite iswww.wishful-project.eu.Analytic information associated with this site, was captured using Google Analytics, see Figure 3.Typically, we notice an increase in visitor traffic to these websites during events such asNetFutures‘16(April),EuCNC‘16(June),5G-PPP‘16(November),FIREBoardForumsandMeetings(April and September 2016), and so forth. During Year 2 of the project, www.wishful-project.eurecordedanenormousincreaseinusertraffic.GoogleAnalyticscapturedthefollowingstatistics(seeTable8andFigure3).

Figure3:www.wishful-project.euwebsiteYear1vsYear2usertrafficcomparison

10http://www.wishful-project.eu/sites/default/files/images/review/WiSHFUL_D9.1_Lead_TCD_R_PU_2015-12-23_Final.pdf

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12 VideosTwoWiSHFULvideotutorialshavebeenreleaseinYear2oftheproject.TheseincludetheIRISVideotutorialandtheInfrastructure-InitiatedHandoverforIEEE802.11Networkstutorial.

12.1 IrisVideoVideoTitle: IrisshowcaseofWiSHFULintegration

Description: TutorialshowingtheuseoftheIrisWiSHFULUPIs

ReleaseDate: December2nd2016

URL: http://www.wishful-project.eu/sites/default/files/Short-Final-WebSite.mp4

12.2 WiSHFULShowcaseInfrastructure-InitiatedHandoverforIEEE802.11NetworksVideoTitle: WiSHFULShowcaseInfrastructure-InitiatedHandoverforIEEE802.11Networks

Description: DescriptionofInfrastructure-InitiatedHandoverforIEEE802.11Networks

ReleaseDate: 2016November

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtA91tZ9cCk

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13 InteractionwithETSITheWiSHFUL project supplied ETSIwith different types of contributions along several directionsandaddressingheterogeneoustaskgroups.In2016twopaperswerepresentedattheWorkshoponFutureRadioTechnologies–AirInterfaces[1,2],onedemonstrationoninter-technologycoexistence[3]andonepresentationattheNTECHtaskgroupforAutonomicnetworkengineeringfortheself-managing Future Internet (AFI) [4]. These activities and the consequent relations permitted toestablishmultiplecontactsbetweenWiSHFULandETSI.TheWiSHFULcontrolframeworkemergedas a potential enabler for the Generic Autonomic Network Architecture (GANA) proposed by ETSINETCH and further investigations will be run to check if WiSHFUL can be used to set a Proof ofConcept (PoC) of the GANA architecture. Relationship between WiSHFUL and ETSI is alsodemonstratedbythereferenceoftheETSIstandardarchitecturetotheWiSHFULproject[5].Furtherdetails on ETSI initiatives can be found in D9.3, which describes standardization and pre-standardizationactivities.

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14 OpenCallsOver the lifetime of the project, WiSHFUL will organise 5 Open Calls for wireless innovationexperimentsand2opencallsforextendingtheWiSHFULhardwareandsoftwareplatforms.ThefirstOpenCallforExperimentsandExtensionswaslaunchedon9thofDecember2015,thesecondOpenCall forExperimentswas launchedon13thofMay2016,and theThirdOpenCallwas launchedon16thofSeptember2016–seeFigure4.Currently,allOpenCallsforExperimentsandExtensionsareNOW CLOSED. However, the Next Call for Experiments (Open Call 4) is expected to be in earlyJanuary2017(dateofannouncement).

Todate, threeopencallshavebeen launchedandclosedproviding funding forexperimentationofSMEsandlargecompaniesaswellasresearchinstitutesanduniversities.TwoOpencallsincludedinparallel funding for extensions in terms of software modules but also of hardware platformssupportedaswellasnewtestbedstobeaddedtotheWiSHFULecosystem.Thefundingusedalreadyfor Open Calls is more than €1,560,000 from a total of almost €2,000,000. Our open calls haveattracted attention from a wide range of researchers and engineers coming from more than 29UniversitiesandResearchInstitutesandalsofrom27SMEsand1largecompany.

The remainder of this section summarises the first three Open Calls and promotion mechanismscompletedinYear2oftheproject.

Figure4:WiSHFULOpenCallstakingplaceinYear2oftheproject.

14.1 FirstOpenCall–Launched9thofDecember2015ThefirstOpenCallincludes2tracks,whichwas launchedonDecember9th,2015,atFIREForuminBrussels:

o Track1–Call forexperiments: this track targets advanced solutions for controllingwirelessnetworks using theWiSHFUL software platforms andunified programming interfaces (UPIs),andusingthefacilitiesandhardwaresupportedbytheWiSHFULConsortium.

o Track2–Callforextensions:thistracktargets(1)developmentofnewsoftwarefunctionalityfor the currently supported WiSHFUL software and hardware platforms, (2) adding newhardware that is compliant with the WiSHFUL software platforms, at least supporting theWiSHFUL unified programming interfaces, or (3) integration of new Fed4FIRE complianttestbeds that offer WiSHFUL software platforms that are compliant with the WiSHFULsoftwareplatformsanditsunifiedprogramminginterfaces(UPIs).

14.2 FirstOpenCall:Results(Deadline29thofJanuary2016)ThefirstopencallclosedonJanuary29th,2016at17:00Brusselstime.TheWiSHFULprojectreceived26proposals,ofwhich:

• 5proposalsforExperiments,category'InnovationbySME'• 7proposalsforExperiments,category'ScientificExcellence'• 14proposalsforExtensions

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Amongtheproposersare13universities,3researchinstitutes,9SMEs,and1largeenterprise.

The proposals originate from the following countries (in no particular order): Belgium, Germany,Greece,Italy,Macedonia,TheNetherlands,Portugal,Slovenia,SpainandSwitzerland.

Somestatisticsonthebudget:

Totalrequestforfunding:EUR1,679,375(oversubscriptionfactor:4)

• average requested funding for proposals for Experiments,category 'Innovation by SME':EUR39,494

• average requested funding for proposals for Experiments,category 'Scientific Excellence':EUR42,768

• averagerequestedfundingforproposalsforExtensions:EUR84,430

Afterathoroughreviewprocessbyexternalindependentreviewers,itwasfoundthatthequalityofmost proposals was good to very good. Due to budget limitations, only 8 proposals can receivefundingasaresultofthefirstopencall:

• Experiments,category'InnovationbySME':

o Albesmart (PT):Experimental assessment of WiFi coordination strategies in densewirelessscenarios[Patron:IMEC]

o Gridnet SA (GR):Enabling Agile Spectrum Adaptation in Commercial WLANDeployments[Patron:IMEC]

o StreamOwl (GR):Quality-of-Experience of video streaming in wirelessnetworks[Patron:IMEC]

• Experiments,category'ScientificExcellence':

o Freie Universität Berlin (DE):Wireless Channel-based Autonomous Key ManagementfortheIoT[Patron:TUBerlin]

o I2CAT (ES):SDN driven Joint Access Backhaul coordination for next generation denseWi-FiSmallCellnetworksviaWiSHFULAPIs[Patron:TUBerlin]

• Extensions:

o AdantTechnologies (IT):ReconfigurableAntennaSystemforWLANplatforms[Patron:CNIT]

o UniveristyofThessaly(GR):FIRELTEEXperimentationusingWiSHFUL[Patron:IMEC]o UniversityofPerugia(IT):DVB-TsoftwareradiotransmittereXtensionfor IRIS[Patron:

TCD]

14.3 SecondOpenCall–Launched13thofMay2016TheWiSHFULprojectannounceditssecondOpenCallforExperimentson13thofMay2016,targetingadvanced solutions for controlling wireless networks using the WiSHFUL software platform andunified programming interfaces (UPIs), and using the facilities and hardware supported by theWiSHFULConsortium.

14.4 SecondOpenCall:Results(Deadline28thofOct2016)ThesecondopencallclosedonJune24th,2016at17:00Brusselstime.TheWiSHFULprojectreceived13(eligible)proposals,ofwhich:

• 6proposalsforExperiments,category'InnovationbySMEs'• 7proposalsforExperiments,category'ScientificExcellence'

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Amongtheproposersare6universities,6SMEs,and1largeenterprise.

The proposals originate from the following countries (in no particular order): Belgium, France,Greece,Italy,TheNetherlands,Serbia,andSpain.

Somestatisticsonthebudget:

Totalrequestforfunding:EUR548,605(oversubscriptionfactor:2.6)

• average requested funding for proposals for Experiments,category 'Innovation by SMEs':EUR38,661

• average requested funding for proposals for Experiments,category 'Scientific Excellence':EUR45,234

Afterathoroughreviewprocessbyexternalindependentreviewers,itwasfoundthatthequalityofmost proposals was good to very good. Due to budget limitations, only 5 proposals can receivefundingasaresultofthesecondopencall:

• Experiments,category'InnovationbySMEs':

o Incelligent (GR):Experiments for the validation of predictive wireless networkmanagement[Patron:IMEC]

o Level7S.r.l.u(IT):PROvidingMobileEnviromentsToEndUsers[Patron:IMEC]o Modio Computing (GR):Machine-learning assisted control of wireless sensor

networks[Patron:IMEC]

• Experiments,category'ScientificExcellence':

o Delft University of Technology(NL):Energy-harvesting Low-power Wireless Bus forWSNs[Patron:IMEC]

o UniversityofMacedonia(GR):ControllingRadio-AwaredataFlows[Patron:IMEC]

14.5 ThirdOpenCall–Launched16thofSeptember2016The WiSHFUL project announced its third Open Call for Experiments and Extensions on 16th

September2016,targetingadvancedsolutionsforcontrollingwirelessnetworksusingtheWiSHFULsoftwareplatformandunifiedprogramminginterfaces(UPIs),andusingthefacilitiesandhardwaresupportedbytheWiSHFULConsortium.

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Figure5:ScreenshotoftheOpenCallfromthefirstWiSHFULNewsletter

14.6 ThirdOpenCall:Results(Deadline28thofOct2016)Onthedayofwritingthisdocument,theresultsfromthethirdopencallarenotavailable.

14.7 OpenCallsPromotionArchival information about the last three WiSHFUL Open Calls can be found at:http://www.wishful-project.eu/open-calls

OpenCallannouncementshavebeenpromotedviavariouscommunicationchannels,including:

o TheWiSHFULwebsiteo TheWiSHFULnewslettero PromotionatrelevantconferenceandexhibitionssuchasNetFutures,EuCNCand5G-PPPwith

demosattheexhibitionbooth.o PromotionviatheFIRENetwork

o FIREwebsite-https://www.ict-fire.euandhttps://www.ict-fire.eu/open-calls/o Monthly FIRE Communication at Dissemination and Communication Working Group

(DWG)telcomeetings,o FIREForum

o AnnouncementtootherrelevantEuropean&nationalprojectsviatheWiSHFULpartnerso Disseminationvianationalresearchandindustrialnetworks(e.g.IMECcommunicationletter)

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15 Year3DisseminationPlanThefollowingsectionoutlinesthedisseminationstrategyforYear3oftheWiSHFULproject.First,weidentifytheYear3KPIsidentifiedintheDOA.Next,weidentifyconferences,opencalls,events,socialnetworks,andsoforthtargetedtoreachhelpusreachthesedisseminationgoals.

15.1 Year3KPIsThe dissemination goals for year three, specified in the DOA, are outlined in Table 9.

Goal Year3(Target)

Numberofpeer-reviewedpublicationsathighqualityconferences 10

Numberofpeer-reviewedpublicationswellestablishedInternationalscientificjournals 5

Numberofinvitationaskeynotespeakersatrenowninternationalconferences 1

Numberofexhibitions 2

Numberofparticipantsattrainings 20

Table9:Year3KPImetrics

15.2 DisseminationConferencesWiSHFUL Consortium members plan to participate in the following conferences in 2017. Someconferences such as INFOCOM, DYSPAN, and EuCNC require demo paper publications to besubmitted.OtherconferencessuchasNetFuturesdonot.

Conference Date Website Presentation

DYSPAN2017 6th-9th March 2017,Baltimore,USA.

http://dyspan2017.ieee-dyspan.org

Demo(Paper)

INFOCOM2017 1st to4thofMay2017,Atlanta,GA,USA

http://infocom2017.ieee-infocom.org

Demo(Paper)

TNC2017

29th of May to 2nd ofJune,Linz,Austria

https://tnc17.geant.org/ Stand/Demo

IoTweek2017

6th to 9th June, inGeneva,Switzerland.

http://iot-week.eu/iot-week-2017

Stand/Demo

EuCNC2017 12th to 15th June, inOulu,Finland

http://www.eucnc.eu/ Demo(Paper)

NetFutures2017 28th to 29th of June,TheEgginBrussels

Detailstobeannounced Stand/Demo

15.3 KeynotesPlannedinYear3ThefollowingisadefinitiveofKeynoteconferencesplannedinYear3oftheproject.

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KeynoteTitle: TrendsinFutureWirelessNetworks(TentativeTitle)

Dates: June18to21,2017.

Conference The 2017 IEEE 18th International Conference on High Performance SwitchingandRouting


Location: UnicampConventionCenter,Campinas,SãoPaulo,Brazil

Evidence1: http://hpsr2017.ieee-hpsr.org/

15.4 Year3NewslettersWiSHFULpartners intendtopublishfourprojectnewsletters in2017.WehavealsobeeninvitedtopublishintheIEEESDNNewsletter.

ProjectNewsletters

Dates: Throughout2017,StartinginJanuary

Author: TrinityCollegeDublin

Audience: FIRENetwork

Publication: AvailableonWebsite:http://www.wishful-project.eu

Details: FourWiSHFULnewslettersareplanned for2017starting in January.TheywillbedistributedontheFIREdisseminationgroupnetwork.

Softwarisationofradiosandwirelessnetworks

Dates: Toappear:January2017

Author: Ingrid Moerman, Spilios Giannoulis, Eli DePoorter and Xianjun Jiao (GhentUniversity)

Audience: IEEECommunity

Publication: Invitedpaper:IEEESoftwareDefinedNetworks-SoftwarizationeNewsletter

Details: While SDR and SDN initially were parallel evolutions happening in isolatedresearchcommunities,severalEuropeanprojects,morespecificallytheH2020projects WiSHFUL, eWINE and ORCA are currently developing enablers tobridgethegapbetweenSDRandSDN.Theseprojectsofferadvancedsoftwareand hardware platforms in open state-of-the-art large-scale wireless testfacilities thatcanbeusedand furtherextendedbyacademic researchersandwirelessdevelopers.

15.5 TrainingDates: 18thto20thSeptember2017

Location: CNIT,Palermo,Italy.

ConferenceGeneralChair:

IleniaTinnirello(CNIT)

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Audience: TutorialforPhDStudents–howtouseWishful

15.6 SocialNetworkingSite: SMARTUS–SocialNetworkingsite

Audience: StatupcompaniesdistributedaroundEurope.

Goal: DistributeOpencallsannouncementsonthisnetwork.

15.7 OpenCallsAsdiscussedinsection0,theWiSHFULconsortiumwillorganize5OpenCallsforwirelessinnovationexperimentsand2opencallsforextendingtheWiSHFULhardwareandsoftwareplatforms.Partnerswillorganizetheoutstandingopencallsin2017.

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16 ConclusionsThe objective of this deliverablewas to report on the dissemination activities taking place duringYear 2 of theWiSHFUL project. Thiswas achieved by disseminating project results and promotingpartner facilities and the WiSHFUL framework by writing high quality scientific publications,dissemination on the website and social networks, attending conferences, presenting keynotes,trainingend-users,andsoforth.HighlightsfromYear2oftheprojectincludepresenting10papersatinternationallyrecognisedconferencevenues,publishing4papersinwell-establishedinternationallyrecognisedscientific journals,anddisseminatingourworkviakeynotepresentationsathighprofileacademic and industry meetings and events. Moreover, the WiSHFUL Open Call process ishighlighting the ease with which academia and industry partners can access and utiliseWiSHFULtestbedfacilities.Ourresearchandworkhasalsoreachedkeypolicyanddecisionmakingindividualssuch as Dr. Jim Kurose, Assistant Director of theNational Science Foundation in theUSA andMr.AndrusAnsip, Vice President for theDigital SingleMarket on the EuropeanCommission at eventssuch as NetFutures 2016. Furthermore, we have presented our work to individuals and bodiesinvolvedinacademia,industry,conferences,meetings,plenaries,trainingevents,andsoforth,whichwillhelpensurethelong-termexploitationandsustainabilityofWiSHFULprojectresearch,resourcesand results. Finally, we have outlined the dissemination strategy for Year 3 of the project byidentifying key conferences, events, meetings and so forth to promote the work completed byWiSHFULprojectpartners.

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17 References

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[2] T. Kazaz, C.V. Praet, M. Kulin, P. Willemen, and I. Moerman, “Hardware Accelerated SDR Platform for Adaptive Air Interfaces”, ETSI Workshop on Future Radio Technologies – Air Interfaces, 27-28 January 2016, Sophia Antipolis, France.

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