NetLab

Title: Use Cases for Interconnected Testbeds and Living Labs

Coordinator: Dominique Guillois, e-mail: dguillois(at)images-et-reseaux.com

Involved countries: France, Finland, Sweden

European-wide aspiration for innovation towards job creation and business growth should be improved. We have to undergo national and regional changes in institutional, structural and financial matters that facilitate innovation-based growth for global competitiveness of the European Countries.

European strength has been based on cooperation and smart combination of diversified resources. The Panlab work was initiated to define the mechanism to engage test and research enabling resources into a common shared platform. On the other hand, the Living Labs concept has gained wide interest as it offers a research and innovation platform which can enhance economical, social and cultural systems cross-regionally and cross-nationally. Living Labs should - as integral elements of the European Network of Living Labs - be able to create European-scale experimentation platforms and pilot user groups for new services, business and technologies and thus help new market and industry creation together with technology oriented testbeds like Panlab.
The Panlab framework on interconnected testbeds is now producing some results and reflections about the different issues and gaps to solve when creating a European network of testbeds. There is clearly a need to build a first instantiation of such an interconnected test-bed in connection with Living Labs to progress in practice, experiment and validate the Panlab results.

The concept of the proposed project is to realise such a test-bed at a reduced scale, involving 3 different countries, that would serve as first platform for Panlab results, in other words to apply a “user centric design” paradigm for interconnected test-bed and get the stakeholders' (users, operators, industry, SMEs, content providers) feedback to the Panlab concept. The activities planned in the project are to define the requirements and architecture for such a platform, to study in relation Panlab the different related issues (organisation, business models, legal aspects, security, IP protection), to effectively realise an interconnection and integration of existing testbeds in 2 different countries together with 3 different Living Labs in 3 countries, and to develop 2 use cases (IMS, DVB-related) respectively to Panlab and to Living Labs scenarios. These use cases would allow validation of the different issues studied by the project in relation to Panlab and the integration with Living Labs.