Keynote speech

Impact of IPv6 on IoV – VoI
Prof. Latif Ladid
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, Université du Luxembourg

Abstract:
The public IPv4 address space managed by IANA (http://www.iana.org) has been completely depleted by Feb 1st, 2011. This creates by itself an critical challenge when adding new things and enabling new services on the Internet. Without publicly routable IP addressing, the Internet of Things and anything that’s part of Internet of Everything such as VoI and IoV would be greatly reduced in its capabilities and limit its potential success. Most discussions about IoE have been based on the illusionary assumption that the IP address space is an unlimited resource or it’s even taken for granted that IP is like oxygen produced for free by nature.

The introduction of IPv6 provide enhanced features that were not tightly designed or scalable in IPv4 like IP mobility, ad hoc services; etc catering for the extreme scenario where IP becomes a commodity service enabling lowest cost networking deployment of large scale sensor networks, RFID, IP in the car, to any imaginable scenario where networking adds value to commodity.

IPv6 deployment is now in full swing with some countries achieving over 50% penetration such as Belgium or the US with some 70 M users using IPv6 without even the users knowing it. Recently, Apple has required its apps developers to use IPv6 only for their apps staring June 1, 2016 which a great shot in the arm of IPv6.

There are many inflections points happening this decade to influence the design of first tangible IoV and VoI. It will be a combination of IoT, SDN-NFV, Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Big IoT Data and 5G to shift through to realising the paradigm shift from current research-based IoV and VoI to advanced IoV and VoI.

This talk will be devoted to analyze the transformative impact of IPv6 on VoI and IoV using the potential mix of IPv6-based IoT, SDN-NFV, Cloud Computing, Big Data and 5G and its advanced features, highlighting the challenges and solutions moving forward.

Bio:
Latif Ladid is a Senior Researcher at SnT. He worked/works on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects: 6INIT - First Pioneer IPv6 Research Project; 6WINIT, Euro6IX, (www.euro6ix.org); Eurov6; NGNi; Project initiator of SEINIT (www.seinit.org) and SecurIST.

Latif initiated EU project u-2010 to research Emergency & Disaster and Crisis Management (www.u-2010.eu), re-launched the Public Safety Communication Forum (www.publicsafetycommunication.eu), supported the new IPv6++ EU Research Project called EFIPSANS and the safety & Security Project using IPv6 called Secricom (www.secricom.eu), and co-initiated the new EU Coordination of the European Future Internet Forum for Member States called ceFIMS (www.ceFIMS.eu).

He holds the following positions: Founder & President, IPv6 FORUM (www.ip6forum.org), Chair, ETSI IPv6 Industry Specification Group (https://portal.etsi.org/tb.aspx?tbid=827&SubTB=827), IEEE Steering Committee Member: 5G, IoT, SDN, and Industry. Chair, IEEE ComSoC IoT subcommittee (http://cms.comsoc.org/eprise/main/SiteGen/TC_IOT/Content/Home.html/). Chair, IEEE ComSoC 5G subcommittee (http://cms.comsoc.org/eprise/main/SiteGen/TC_5GMWI/Content/Home.html?refer=18312&Site_Name=TC_5GMWI). Vice Chair, IEEE ComSoC SDN-NFV subcommittee (http://cms.comsoc.org/eprise/main/SiteGen/TC_SDN_NFV/Content/Home.html). Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society - ISOC (www.isoc.org). IPv6 Ready & Enabled Logos Program Board (www.ipv6ready.org). World summit Award Board Member (www.wsis-award.org). Research Fellow @ University of Luxembourg on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects.

Latif is also a Member of 3GPP PCG (www.3gpp.org), 3GPP2 PCG (www.3gpp2.org), Member of UN Strategy Council, and member of the Future Internet Forum EU Member States, representing Luxembourg.