SoftFIRE Third Open Call Results The third SoftFIRE Open Call closed on October 18, 2017 at 17.00 Brussels CEST. The SoftFIRE project received 14 proposals of which 3 proposals addressed “Scientific Excellence” 11 proposals addressed “Industrial Innovation” Proposers came 7% from academia (Universities and Research Institutes) and 93% from enterprises (SMEs, industry) originating from following countries (in alphabetical order): France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Spain. The total requested funding was EUR 699.125,50 Following proposal passing the threshold in all criteria as well as the feasibility and eligibility check were selected: Category “Scientific Excellence” INFERNO: IoT Interoperability over Federated SDN/NFV Domains; Infolysis P.C. (GR) BOTSONFIRE: Mitigation of Botnets in Federated SDN/NFV Infrastructures for 5G; Universidad de Murcia (ES) SOFTBLAST: SoftFIRE BLockchAin SDN Technology; Intrasoft International SA (LU) Category “Industrial Innovation” HIGHPEP: High Performance OneM2M Edge Processing; Easy Global Market (FR) DUNE: Disconnecting Users from Network; Nemo Srl (IT) EXPERIENCE: Experimental Evaluation of Augmented Reality scenarios in 5G Cloud Environments; Intellia ICT Private Company (GR) BREEZE: Balancing Requests for Backend Zones; Infotech Srl (IT) SliceMon: Slice QoS Monitoring in a vCDN environment; Ubiwhere LDA (PT) NFVOB: NVF Framework testing with OpenBaton; Innovative Solutions Slawomir Pietrzyk (PL) 5GMEC: 5G MEC Caching; CityPassenger SA (FR) MONET: Monitoring Network Security in SDN/NFV environment; Montimage (FR) I-EVS: Enhanced Video Services for the Mobile Edge Computing in 5G environment; Italtel SpA (IT) FLEXNET: Flexible Networks; Tglobal Srl (IT) —————————————————————————————————————————————————- General Information and Call Objective The Third Open Call of the SoftFIRE project focuses on supporting experiments that focus on the concepts of interworking, interoperability, programmability across multiple testbeds running a federated and orchestrated virtual infrastructure, providing a single environment for experimentation. The proposed plan should address the following objectives: the production and/or validation of new services, systems and applications that benefit from network programmability as well as NFV and SDN technologies more generally AND/OR The development and validation of extensions to the current federated testbed or of new functionalities thereof. For example: testbed enhancements in terms of orchestration, control or virtualization capabilities and their real world evaluation over the federated infrastructure architectural extensions based on NFV/SDN or new functionalities, complying with the 5G notion. Experiments enabling benchmarking of the NFV/SDN components used in SoftFIRE. Extensions to SoftFIRE infrastructure by using open source SDN/NFV components, interoperable with the existing FIRE control and management tools adopted by SoftFIRE. The SoftFIRE project is now ready to receive proposals for experiments to be carried out on the Federated Testbed. For this purpose, the SoftFIRE Project invites interested parties in submitting experiment proposals that address above Objective. For this Open Call, SoftFIRE is especially interested in receiving proposals for experiments covering NFV security, SDN programmability, Security and software architecture evolution towards 5G. This does not limit experimenters to address also other topics in the realm of applications of NFV/SDN, Security, 5G. _____________________________________________________________________________ Project full name: SoftFIRE – Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization Testbed within FIRE+ Project number: 687860 Call identifier: SoftFIRE-OC3 Call title: Third SoftFIRE Open Call for Experiments Total Budget: € 850.000 Maximum Funding per proposal: € 50.000 Type of participants: The typical profile of participants is academics, industrial or SMEs active in the domain of NFV/SDN and 5G research and applications that need to run experiments to test, evaluate and optimize their solutions and applications. The rules of participation are indicated in SoftFIRE Third Open Call: https://p-v399m3.project.space/open-calls/ Duration of the experiment: The maximum allowed duration of each experiment is 3 Months; start of experiments: November 15, 2017 Language of the proposal: English Proposal submission: online submission through the portal Feasibility Check deadline: 4 October 2017 at 17:00 CET (Brussels time) Call deadline: 18 October 2017 at 17:00h CET (Brussels time) Proposal Template: Proposals must use the provided template (in Word format) Detailed Call Information: SoftFIRE Third Open Call Notification of Acceptance: 3 November 2017 Contact: opencall@softfire.eu Web address for further information: https://p-v399m3.project.space/open-calls/ For the feasibility check, it is mandatory that proposers get in contact with the SoftFIRE partners for the proposed experiment to discuss its feasibility within the SoftFIRE federated testbed and the related specific requirements. Each proposer must submit their draft proposal (mandatory) through the submission portal by 4 October 2017, at 17.00 CEST (Brussels time) (Sharp deadline). The draft proposal must contain at least Sections A, B and C fully completed. Feedback by the SoftFIRE consortium will be provided latest by 13 October 2017 and has to be indicated in Section D of the proposal template. ____________________________________________________________________________ Important documentation Third SoftFIRE Open Call document: SoftFIRE_OpenCall_Document Experiment Proposal Template document: SF_OpenCall1_ProposalTemplate A Handbook containing guidelines, rules and mechanisms governing the usage of the SoftFIRE Testbed for the Third Open Call: OC3_GuidelinesRulesAndMechanismsV3.0 (Please note that the project is continuously working on the update of the infrastructure; the more recent information can be found here)
