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Future Internet services are rapidly moving towards an increasingly heterogeneous landscape 
with end users capable of creating, storing and delivering content and applications. 
To address this diversity, FIGARO proposes an evolvable Future Internet architecture 
based on gateway-oriented federation of residential networks. 

For more information, please see "About Figaro" and our project summary.

NEWS

• 9-11 May 2012: FIGARO participation to Future Internet Assembly (FIA) in Aalborg! See Calendar and Events section.
• 8 May 2012: Claudio Rossi (POLITO) presents "Load Balancing and Eco-Management for Federated Residential Gateways" and related FIGARO activities at the "GTTI for the Future - MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES meet YOUNG ITALIAN ICT RESEARCHERS" in Florence, Italy.
• 15 February 2012: Archi Delphinanto (TNO) received his PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology. The PhD thesis, “Network and Service Monitoring in Heterogeneous Home Networks”, is largely based on research performed in the FIGARO project. FIGARO participants Prof. Dr. Ernst Biersack (EURECOM) and Dr. Frank den Hartog (TNO) were both member of the PhD committee and participated in the public defense of the thesis.
• 10-13 January 2012: Technicolor presented two FIGARO demonstrators at their Consumer Electronics Show 2012 booth in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. One demonstrator showed the possibilities that running a Virtual File System on a Home Gateway can offer to providers and end users. The other introduced the CES visitors (153,000!) to the concept of having virtual machines running on set-top boxes.
• 27 september 2011: the paper "Experimentation of Multipath HTTP Streaming over Internet, NEM Summit 2011" by S. Gouache, G. Bichot, C. Howson (Technicolor) won the best paper award at the NEM Summit in Turin (Italy).
• 19-20 September 2011: Workshop on Distributed Storage, at Technicolor, Rennes (France). The workshop will discuss various research activities on P2P architectures for
  distributed storage (backup, sharing) and associated technologies (redundancy, security, 
  data placement...), including the work done within the FIGARO project context.
  More details on the program can be found online.
• Call for Proposals for IEEE CCNC 2012 / CES 2012 Demonstrators. 
  From 14-17 January 2012 the annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking
  Conference (CCNC) will be held in Las Vegas NV, USA. FIGARO is represented in the TPC
  and organizes the demonstrator session. To show a demonstrator at this conference,
  please send in a 2-page proposal by 30 September. Accepted proposals will be published
  in IEEE Xplore, and there will be a Demo Award. Selected demonstrators will also be
  shown at the adjacent Consumer Electronics Show (CES). 
• 25 May 2011 - TNO has won the Connected Home Global Summit 2011 Industry Award
  for "Best Innovation in Software Modularity and Applications for Home Gateways".
  The award was granted to TNO's "ALL-BEST" tool prototype for real-time probing of
  available bandwidths in home networks. The prototype was partly developed in FIGARO,
  and current work focusses on further improving the tool and integrating it in the overall
  FIGARO residential gateway architecture. The award is a recognition of the industrial
  relevance of FIGARO's work on home network diagnostics.
• HomeNets - ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Home Networks is held on 15 August 2011, in
  Toronto, Canada
• May 9, 2011 - Accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Magazine: Archi
  Delphinanto, Ton Koonen, and Frank den Hartog, Available Bandwidth Probing in Home
  Networks. Expected publication date: June 2011. 
• January 14, 2011 - FIGARO press release: FIGARO consortium members join forces to
  strengthen Europe’s position in Future Internet technologies and services -
  Enhancing the home gateway to make compelling services available on all relevant
  devices in the home. Paris (France), 14 January 2011 - The European FP7 project
  FIGARO - Future Internet Gateway-based Architecture of Residential Networks - held its
  kick-off meeting in Paris at the end of 2010. FIGARO is a strong and committed
  industry-driven consortium of leading European device manufacturers, operators,
  universities, research institutes and software companies. It focuses on investigating and
  demonstrating how the home gateway can strengthen the Future Internet, by enabling
  high quality multimedia experience as well as critical applications - such as remote
  care and energy management - which will provide considerable advantages both to
  industry and end-users... Read the full press release here. 
• December 1, 2010 - The paper "A New Metric for Admission Control in Multi-Rate 802.11
  WLANs" by C. Rossi, C. Casetti and C.F.Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino), carrying
  seminal work for FIGARO WP3 activities, was accepted to IEEE WONS 2011. 
• October 1, 2010 - FIGARO was successfully kicked off.