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Future Internet Research and Experimentation - FIRE

www.ict-fire.eu

Jacques MagenFIRE STATION:

jmagen@interinnov.com

Canada-EU Future Internet Workshop – 23 March 2011

Benefits of FIRE for Europe

The FIRE initiative creates an open research environment, which facilitates strategic research and development on new Internet concepts giving researchers an instrument to carry out large-scale experimentation on new paradigms

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FIRE has two interrelated dimensions:

• Experimentally-driven long-term, visionary research on new paradigms and networking concepts and architectures for the future internet

FIRE Research

FIRE Experimental Facility

Requirements

Validation

ResearchLarge ScaleExperiments

www.ict-fire.eu

• Building large-scale experimentation facilities to support both medium- and long- term research on networks and services by gradually federating existing and new testbeds for emerging or future internet technologies

FIRE: Future Internet Research and Experimentation

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FIRE Projects - All

OFELIA

Coordination and Support Actions

Experimentally-driven Research

MyFire

FIREBALLPARADISO 2

CREW

Users Users

TEFIS Smart Santander

BonFIRE

Building the Experimental Facility and stimulating its use

PII

VITAL++WISEBED

ONELAB2

OPNEX ECODE SMART-NETN4C

PERIMETER CONECT SELF-NETNanodatacenters

FIREworks

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Coordination & support actions Call 5IP Facility Projects Call 5 STREP Projects Call 5

Requirements

ValidationResearch

Large ScaleExperiments

FIRE Station

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FIRE Projects – Research

PlanetLab (OneLab2)Cognitive radio (CREW)

Open Flow (OFELIA)IMS (PII)

Services on Clouds/Grids(BonFIRE, TEFIS)Internet of Things

(WISEBED, SmartSantander)Core network (FEDERICA)

FIRE experimental Facilities:

ECODE

PERIMETER

N4C

Smart-Net

Self-Net

Vital ++

Resume-Net

Nanodatacenters

OPNEX

DTN

Smart Antennas

Self Mngt.

P2P / IMS

Network Resilience

Edge Infrastructure

User centric

Cognitive routing

Multi-hop wireless LAWA

CONECT

CONVERGENCE

EULER

HOBNET

NOVI

SCAMPI

SPITFIRE

Large-scale data

Flexible radio

Content centric

Routing

Smart buildings

Virtual infra.

Services on opport. networks

Internet of things

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FIRE Projects – Call 2 (completed)

Main Facility Projects• OneLab2: An open federated laboratory supporting

network research for the future Internet - the European part of PlanetLab

• PanLab – PII: Pan-European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation

• WISEBED: A number of independent sensor networks located at 9 locations throughout Europe

• FEDERICA1: Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing network Architectures

1 Not funded from the FIRE Programme

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FIRE Projects – Call 5 (started mid- 2010)

Facility Projects

• BonFIRE: Building service testbeds for Future Internet Research and Experimentation

• CREW: Cognitive Radio Experimentation World• OFELIA: OpenFlow in Europe – Linking

Infrastructure and Applications• Smart Santander: Environmental sensor

network in the Spanish city of Santander• TEFIS: Testbed for Future Internet Services

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What is new with the Call 5 FIRE projects

Expanded scope related to networking and far beyond:• Service architectures and clouds• Sensor networks• New networking issues:

Cognitive radio,OpenFlow

Increased emphasis on system level • Some FIRE research projects focus on system-level testing

Support for demand-driven open federation of facilities• Joint Architecture Board moderated by FIRESTATION• 20% of budget in each new facility project reserved for

federation between facilities

Coordination and Support Actions

Experimentally-driven Research

FIRE StationMyFire

FIREBALLPARADISO 2

CREW

Users Users

TEFIS Smart Santander

BonFIRE

Building the Experimental Facility and stimulating its use

PII

VITAL++WISEBED

ONELAB2

OPNEX ECODE SMART-NETN4C

PERIMETER CONECT SELF-NETNanodatacenters

FIREworksPARADISO

SCAMPI CONVERGENCE

HOBNET NOVI

CONECT EULER

LAWA SPITFIRE

Requirements

Validation

ResearchLarge ScaleExperiments

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Cognitive Radio Experimentation World

Objectives:

To build an open federated platform for experimentally-driven research on advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spectrum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands

The CREW facility will incorporate 4 individual wireless testbeds incorporating diverse wireless technologies (heterogeneous ISM, heterogeneous licensed, cellular, wireless sensor) augmented with state-of-the-art cognitive sensing platforms

www.crew-project.eu

CREW

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OpenFlow in Europe - Linking Infrastructure and Applications

Objectives:

To create a unique experimental facility that allows researchers to not only experiment on a test network but to control the network itself precisely and dynamically

The OFELIA facility is based on OpenFlow, a currently emerging networking technology that allows to virtualize and control the network environment through secure and standardized interfaces

www.fp7-ofelia.eu

OFELIA

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Smart Santander

Objectives:

To build a unique-in-the-world city-scale experimental research facility in support of typical applications and services for a Smart City

More than 20,000 sensors based on a real life Internet of Things deployment in an urban setting

www.smartsantander.eu

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FIRE Facility projects

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Cognitive radio Services SmartSantander

Smart Cities

IBBT Virtual Wall

SmartSantander

SensorsTEAGLE

IMS

Federated e-

infrastructue

ServicesOpen flow

Grid5000 OpenCirrus

/Clouds

PlanetLab

W I S E B E D

The FIRE “Use Cases” (1)Some ideas of what the existing testbeds have been used for:

FEDERICA has been used for experimenting with a multi-domain, multivendor network resource brokering system (called “Harmony”)

OneLab2 has been used for experimenting with a distributed (over 50 sites) overlay routing system for a wide variety of network applications ranging from routing to peer-to-peer file sharing (called “Egoist”)

Panlab – PII has been used for experimenting with end-to-end self-management in a wireless Internet environment, adaptive admission control and resource allocation algorithms, and enhanced Web TV services over mobile phones

WISEBED has been used for experimenting with two physically distant sensor networks that were combined into one single virtual network

The FIRE “Use Cases” (2a)

Some ideas of what the new testbeds could be used for:

BonFIRE is open for experiments that pose state-of-the-art research challenges in Cloud Computing. For example:

• Dynamic Service Landscape Orchestration for an Internet of Services • QoS-Oriented Service Engineering for Federated Clouds • Elasticity Requirement for Cloud Based Applications

CREW has 4 wireless testbeds across Europe, with advanced spectrum sensing solutions. These can be combined to allow industry and academia to evaluate wireless protocols and/or hardware in a controlled environment

OFELIA has 5 testbeds across Europe that create a distributed OpenFlow infrastructure of multi-layer and multi-technology. The experimental facility will offer access to diverse technologies, including Ethernet, optical and wireless domains. The islands are connected by multiple 1GE links to the GEANT network

The FIRE “Use Cases” (2b)

Some ideas of what the new testbeds could be used for:

SmartSantander has a unique city-scale experimental research facility that supports typical sensor (IoT) applications and services for a smart city

TEFIS has a Web portal that provides a single access point to different testing and experimental facilities. Initially, the TEFIS platform integrates 7 complementary experimental facilities, including network and software testing facilities

An example of a typical Use Case is a large scale SOA application for a huge travel-business eCommerce platform accessible both from Websites and Web Services

Status of International cooperation

A Chinese partner inTEFIS, OneLab and MyFIRE

A Japanese partner inOneLab2

Regular links to Korea

NanoDataCenter, Onelab2 and ResumeNet involveAustralian Partners

TEFIS and MyFIREinclude a Brazilian Partner

A Russian partnerIn MyFIRE

An Indian partnerIn MyFIRE

PanLab/PII involves aCanadian partner

OFELIA, ResumeNetAnd CONECT involveUS Partners

International cooperation under wayEU/JapanThe 3rd EU-Japan Symposium on Future Internet and New Generation Networks took place in October 2010 in Finland between the European and Japanese participants. A possible usage of FIRE facilities in Japanese research projects and vice versa is now foreseen.

EU/ USOn 1 October 2010 the 1st FIRE-GENI meeting took place in Brussels (further to many previous interactions). A joint experiment has been proposed: Large scale sensor deployments in both US and Europe, connected by programmable broadband network along with cloud computing services.

EU/BrazilA Call for Proposal has just closed –now expecting projects to start soon

EU / Canada: to be discussed!

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The FIRESTATION Support Action

FIRE Architecture BoardFederation between facility projects

Chairman + Moderator+ 1 representative per running facility project

+ representatives from other relevant projects

External Relations

Other test beds (outside FIRE EC projects)

External Experts Advisory Group

MyFIRESupport Action (BRIC, Standards, Business Models)

Research Projects / Users

Other initiatives (incl. GEANT,

NRENs, G-Lab, GENI, Asia FI,

FIA, FI-PPP, FIF, ETPs, etc.)

FIRE STATIONProject Mgt

FIRE OfficeEntry point from the outside

FIREBALLSupport Action

(Living Labs in the context of Smart Cities)

PARADISO2Support Action

(The socio-economics of the future Internet)

The FIRE Website www.ict-fire.eu (maintained by the FIRESTATION Support Action)

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Thank you for your attention

BACKUP SLIDES

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Objectives:

OneLab2 partners operate PlanetLab Europe (PLE), extend the PlanetLab service across Europe, and federate with other PlanetLab infrastructures worldwide. Their federation model enables PLE to be the basis for a future highly heterogeneous communications environment

The project provides an open, general-purpose, shared experimental facility, which is both large-scale and sustainable. It allows European industry and academia to innovate and assess the performance of their solutions

The project also integrates new features and technologies into the system. In particular, a network monitoring service that supports experiments

An open federated laboratory supporting network research for the future Internet

www.onelab.eu

OneLab

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Pan-European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation

Objectives:

PanLab - PII manages the interconnection of different distributed testbeds to provide services to customers for various kind of testing

PanLab - PII has a repository that stores testbed descriptions and testing results

PanLab - PII has a search and composition engine “Teagle” for mapping user requests to testbed resources and is being enhanced to automatically configure network resources in accordance with user requests

www.panlab.net

PanLab/PII

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WISEBED

Objectives:

WISEBED enables the evaluation and testing of Wireless Sensor Network systems and applications at large scale with great flexibility

9 individual testbeds are interconnected via the Internet

WISEBED offers interactive, secure, remote access to on-demand“virtual testbed” per-user instances. Each virtual testbed can combine (portions of) physical testbeds with virtual connectivity/topology, and also simulation environments

The project has a library of useful algorithms, mechanisms and protocols, and a software development kit that supports heterogeneity and dynamic reconfigurability

www.wisebed.eu

Wireless Sensor network test Beds

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Objectives:

FEDERICA provides a versatile technology-agnostic network infrastructure that runs over GÉANT and National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)

FEDERICA is comprised of Gigabit Ethernet circuits, Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching, and servers (V-Nodes) supporting virtualization

Virtual "slices" of FEDERICA's infrastructure (virtual circuits (up to 1Gb/s) and V-Nodes ) are allocated to researchers to conduct potentially disruptive experiments within a large production-quality substrate. These "slices" can include: Layer2 circuits or Layer3 IP configured circuits (IPv4, IPv6 unicast and multicast) and/or virtual system(s) and/or virtual routers

FEDERICA

www.fp7-federica.eu

Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in

Computing network Architectures

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Building servicetestbeds for Future Internet Research

and ExperimentationObjectives:

To build a multi site cloudfacility to supportapplications, servicesand systems research,targeting the future Internetof Services

To give researchers accessto a facility which enables largescale experimentation of theirsystems and applications

To evaluate the cross-cutting effects of converged service and network infrastructures

www.bonfire-project.eu

BonFIRE

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Objectives:

To build a multi site cloud open platform able to integrate existing and next generation testing and experimental facilities

To develop a connector model that enables facilities to be accessed and used in a unified manner using Web services

The TEFIS platform integrates 7 complementary experimental facilities, including network and software testing facilities, and user-oriented living labs

Testbed for Future Internet Services

www.tefisproject.eu

TEFIS

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FIRE plans under Work Programme 2011/12Call 7 (closing date: January 2011)• Maturing and expanding the FIRE Facility

Complimentary areasExtending and advancing early prototypes IPs only, 15 M€

• FIRE ScienceMultidisciplinary NoE in holistic FI research Overcome fragmentation and integrate life and human sciences 5 M€

Call 8 (tentative closing date: January 2012)• FIRE Federation

Implement a high level federation framework for all facilitiesMaking it self-sustainable towards 2015Develop credible business models assuming decrease of EU funding1 IP, 8M€

• FIRE Experimentation Challenging RTD, e.g. on holistic network and service architecturesInnovative usage of the FIRE facilitySTREPs only, 15 M€