Demonstrators Desk
Event information and organization
The Demonstrators Desk aims at sharing methods, tools and platforms for development within the European Forum created through the Euro-NGI network of excellence.
But also non-Euro-NGI participants are welcome.
Currently, many laboratories (inside and outside the Euro NGI) have deployed platforms and tools limiting the usage to internal. Where these platforms and tools are shared, they become a key support for the research activities.
The Demonstrator Desk is set up so as to achieve the following goals:
- to inform the scientific community about existing platforms on specific topics, and open them to researchers for testing results in a way they could not afford independently from one another.
- to propose interconnection of these platforms for allowing new experimentations such as testing the scalability of proposed architectures, mechanisms and algorithms.
- as a large number of software developments are underway, duplication of work is significant. To spread out a common knowledge of software developments and tools is a good way to save money.
Objects that can be submitted are:
- network emulators,
- traffic generators for platforms experiments,
- measurement tools,
- simulation packages,
- demonstrators and prototypes.
Requirements for applicants
Applicants must be able to demonstrate the contribution given to one, or more, of the areas listed in the table below by means of:
- experimental platforms (demonstrating new services, validating protocols, architectures, assessing the interoperability between various network elements or architectures),
- simulation tools for measurements (characterizing the behaviour of traffic by means of measurements),
- performing experiments aiming at studying sophisticated traffic management procedures providing specified QoS levels (influence of shaping, traffic engineering of MPLS-based Diffserv, etc.).
Table of areas of interest:
| Integration of fixed and mobile networks | Network design tools |
| Evolution to a unified control plane | Platforms and test beds for traffic engineering |
| Evolution of the IP network architecture | Passive and active Measurements |
| Infrastructure and management for new services | Traffic characterization |
| Network management | Performance models for new traffic paradigms |
| Congestion control | Spatial modelling |
| Traffic management | Methods for network optimization and control |
| Traffic engineering | Numerical methods and simulation |
| Routing in next generation networks | QoS from the user perspective |
| QoS in wireless networks | Cost models and pricing |
| Multilayer optimization | Network security |
| Robustness of access networks | |
| Methods for network resilience | |
| Protection and restoration strategies and algorithm for next generation networks |
Final Participants List
To be completed
Application Procedure
Parties wishing to exhibit are requested to fill in the following application form.
Applications that do not correspond to the purposes of the Conference, will be rejected and the submitting party will be informed.
On the basis of the Demonstrator Description provided, Demonstrators will be selected. This description will not be published; it will only be used in the selection process. Additional documentation can also be provided in order to highlight the topics dealt with by the demonstrator and its own characteristics.
On the other hand, papers describing the demonstrators can be published in the conference. To this goal, they must be submitted as conference papers and they must undergo the submission process.
In addition to the demonstrator, brochures and/or panels can be provided for local distribution. The brochure shall be a single sheet presenting the exhibited work. The maximum allowed size is A4.
As far as panels are concerned, it is possible to support the explanation of the demonstrator by means of maximum 2 panels, of size A3. They will be put nearby the demonstrator area.
Video sequences can be provided through laptop support. The laptop, if any, shall be provided by you.
Information to exhibitors
Demonstrator equipment must be received in the conference location at least one week before the exhibition day. People responsible for the equipment must communicate, by e-mail, the occurred shipping to xxxx, with a list of all the materials.
Demonstrator setting up: April 13-15. The setting up does not include any help for the unpacking of the demonstrator stuff.
Demonstrator dismantling: April 21-22. The dismantling includes, on behalf of exhibitioners, the packing of all the stuff used in the exposition.
The space dedicated to the exhibition will be in the same rooms of The Ministry of Communications.
Payment of exhibition fee
No fee is due.
Shipping costs to send the equipments to the Conference and back will be covered by exhibitors.
Allocation of the stand
Stand allocation will be announced after the evaluation of all the submitted application forms. The allocation will be done considering the space needed by the equipment.
Deadlines
- Xxxxxxx:deadline of the application form.
- Xxxxxxx:data of the final participant list.
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