EuroView 2010 : “ Visions of Future Generation Networks ”

On August 2nd – 3rd, 2010, the EuroView 2010 workshop on “Visions of Future Generation Networks” was held at the University of Würzburg. The event was sponsored by the European Network of Excellence Euro-NF [1], the German Information Technology Society ITG [2], and the International Teletraffic Congress ITC [3]. EuroView 2010 brought together Internet and network technology researchers, network providers, as well as equipment and device manufacturers. In 2010, the focus was on “Future Internet Design and Experimental Facilities” and on current efforts towards a Future Internet. Special sessions were organized reflecting the latest results of selected testbed expert groups as well as current and future national and international collaborative projects: (1) the German G-Lab project [4] offering a national platform for Future Internet studies, (2) the Future Internet Activities in the European Framework FP7 organized by Max Lemke, and (3) the GENI project [5] in US organized by Aaron Falk. A keynote talk was given by Lawrence Landweber on the challenges and paradigms emerging in the Future (Inter)Network.