The aim of the Workshop is to bring together researchers, engineers, and funding agency program managers who have experience in network design and operation, and have begun to think about the needs and design of the future Internet. The objective is to present and discuss the ongoing R&D initiatives and experimental facilities for the creation of new Future Internet Architectures using alternative approaches like Clean Slate and Incremental improvements considering several possible internet network use scenarios that include seamless mobility, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, internet of things and new paradigms like content and user centric networks. The workshop topic covers a wide area, and is intended to learn from the success stories and lessons from international Future Internet projects so far. The academic community and the national and international R&D institutions, participants of the event, will present their visions for future internet, will discuss the technologic trends for the next 5 to 10 years and will present their ongoing R&D activities. We expect to envision a research agenda from these discussions that will benefit the research community in general. At the same time, this research agenda should help drive the shorter term research and development in industry.

"Future Internet" is a worldwide hot topic. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for business development and social interactions. However, the immense growth of the Internet has resulted in additional stresses on its architecture, resulting in a network difficult to monitor, understand, and manage due to its huge scale in terms of connected devices and actors (end users, content providers, equipment vendors, etc.).

The Internet does not operate anymore in the trusted and cooperative environment for which it was originally designed, resulting in an enormous protocol patching effort that plagues the current Internet architecture and puts the long term evolution at risk. Security, survivability, and resilience are still weak links from the current TCP/IP architecture. Finally, emerging networking paradigms such as mobile ad hoc, sensor networks, content-driven paradigm, and Internet of Things, for which the Internet architecture in general and TCP/IP in particular are not appropriate.

A key challenge is how to incorporate these heterogeneous network technologies into the global information infrastructure. As a result, there is increasing agreement on the need to fundamentally re-think the Internet architecture, both from a clean-slate view, as well as how to make substantive improvements to the current architecture. Experimentally-driven research seems to be crucial to transfer the results from research projects to larger scale pre-operational networks. With this goal, initiatives like the EU FP7 Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) and the NSF Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI) have emerged to support the experimental validation of the Future Internet research community.

Triggered by such leading initiatives, the CPqD, with support of FUNTTEL (Brazilian Fund for Telecommunications Development) of Brazilian Ministry of Communications, has started to tackle this topic in order to help in building strategies for national development in this domain. Brazil is a country in process of rapid growth and industrialization, being considered an advanced emerging market. In terms of Internet usage, Brazil leads Latin America and in terms of electronic-services, e-government, electronic-voting and online payments, Brazil is a country with some very specific challenges that require the union of different agencies in order to coordinate the possible paths for implementing the Future Internet.

The workshop will take place at Fundação CPqD, the largest ICT R&D Center in Brazil, Campinas, São Paulo. It is organized by the Innovation and Research unit of CPqD and supported by FUNTTEL.