EU FP7 – Monitoring and Measurement in the Next generation Technologies (MOMENT)

It is clear that measurement and monitoring will be a key element in the management of future network infrastructures, both at the level of network equipment and also in the overall distributed control of the large scale Internet infrastructure. In the future, interoperability of monitoring and data collection capabilities can provide the support basis of seamless end-toend network and service composition and operation across multiple operators and business domains. During the last five years, important research initiatives emerged worldwide to tackle problems of Internet monitoring and data collection. In FP6, the EU ICT programme started several successful Internet measurement and monitoring efforts to boost European leadership within this emerging area. These projects have already passed the proof-of-concept stage and now key applications in future network management can be developed on their basis.

This project is aimed at integrating existing measurement and monitoring infrastructures towards a common and open, pan-European platform. This will be achieved through harmonisation of individual components, definition of common data format, development of unified interface, in order to provide flexibility to the design of future Internet applications.
On the other hand, the project will allow semantic representation and retrieval of measurement and monitoring information. Additionally, the project will develop and demonstrate a set of tools and applications for next generation networks taking advantage of the integrated approach.

Website: http://www.fp7-moment.eu/