FIREworks: supporting the FIRE activities

The FIREworks Support Action coordinates and supports the interworking of testbed activities in Europe and their respective connections outside of Europe, mainly to North America and the Far East. FIREworks facilitates and stimulates the strategy development of two dimensions: - Promoting experimentally-driven, visionary research on new paradigms and networking concepts and architectures for the future internet. What research, what type of testbeds? - Building a large-scale experimentation facility to support both medium and long-term research on networks and services by gradually federating existing and new testbeds for emerging or future internet technologies. How to federate? FIREworks creates a sustainable forum for testbed actors in the area of the future internet, including networks and services: - A FIRE Office will be founded for serving the FIRE Community members in administrative issues, such as maintaining information on testbeds, enabling exchange of information within the Community, organising events, promoting testbeds and their development and raising awareness on FIRE - A FIRE Initiative will be launched to continue the work specified and started in the project The aim of FIREworks is to deliver required information between stakeholders, and specifically, between projects about the needs, prerequisites and criteria for experimentally driven research, and a roadmap for a European large-scale experimentation facility. FIREworks charts a map of testbed activities in Europe and studies their conditions for federation, acquiring understanding on the depth of possible and reasonable federation in the rich and diversified field of testing activities on new paradigms and networking concepts and architectures for the future internet. The ultimate objective of the FIREworks SA is to ensure both tighter collaboration of testbeds with the aim to improve overall testing features and provision of a higher number of testing services in Europe