Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) is a program funded by the

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to do research on the

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, its prospects, and its future, a field known as "

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History

Some researchers met with government officials in Zurich in March 2007. The first FIRE projects started in 2008, with a budget of 40 million Euro from the seventh of the

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(FP7). This was known as "call 2". In 2010, a second set of projects with a budget of 50 million Euro included technologies such as

sensor network Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental c ...

cloud computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...

and

service-oriented architecture In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. By consequence, it is also applied in the field of software design where services are provide ...

s. A third wave of projects were funded in 2011. It included a web site and some conferences called a "Network of Excellence in InterNet Science". A joint project with

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called

Future Internet testbeds experimentation between BRazil and Europe Future Internet testbeds / experimentation between BRazil and Europe (FIBRE) is a research project co-funded by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Council for Scientific and Technological Development or CNPq) of ...

(FIBRE) had an organizational meeting in October 2011 in

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. In 2012, Call 8, with a budget of 25 million Euro, led to a fourth wave of projects which were expected to start in the Fall. The focus was on federation of FIRE facilities and on experimentation on existing facilities, with innovative applications. Call 10 of WP2013 was published 10 July 2012 (OJ C202) with deadline of 15 January 2013. The FIRE project funded a workshop on 21 September 2012 in

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called "FIRE in

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Federation for Future Internet Research and Experimentation

A follow-on project was called the Federation for Future Internet Research and Experimentation (Fed4FIRE). An Integrated Project in the 7th EU Framework Programme funded under grant agreement No 318389, it started in October 2012 and ran until September 2016.Fed4FIRE+
started in January 2017 and will run for 60 months, until the end of December 2021. The Fed4FIRE+ project is the successor of the Fed4FIRE project.

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* {{Cite web , title= FIRE , work= Project "portal" web site , url= http://www.ict-fire.eu/ , access-date= 2013-06-12 , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170402025207/http://www.ict-fire.eu/ , archive-date= 2017-04-02 , url-status= dead Internet architecture European Union and science and technology

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Federation for Future Internet Research and Experimentation

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