Future Internet Research and Experiments EU vs USA

7 June, 2012

Róbert Szabó

Dept. of Telecommunications and Media Informatics Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Agenda

 My personal interpretation of the Open Platforms for Innovation session at FIA Aalborg Robert Szabo (BME-TMIT) 2

EU

 FI – PPP

Programs

USA

  GENI IGNITE Robert Szabo (BME-TMIT) 3

FI – PPP (EU)

       Industry driven initiative set to build an open Future Internet network and service platform Platform instances validation in large scale real-life trials Broad-based collection of Future Internet technical requirements Identification of legal, regulatory and standardization requirements Modeling novel business models and value networks New methods and tools to engage SMEs and foster entrepreneurship Explorative funding instrument to do research create communities Source: Dr. Petra Turkama, Aalto University, CONCORD CSA Robert Szabo (BME-TMIT) 4

GENI – Infrastructure (USA)

“Exploring Networks of the Future

The start of GENI campus expansion”

 GENI is a virtual laboratory for exploring future internets at scale  GENI opens up huge new opportunities  Leading-edge research in next-generation internets  Rapid innovation in novel, large-scale applications Source: Chip Elliott, GENI Project Director

EU vs US

 Universities and Campuses Vs.

Source: Dr. Petra Turkama, Aalto University, CONCORD CSA

Participant T ype (by EC funding)

7% 2% 20% 60% Robert Szabo (BME-TMIT) 3% 8% Res earch organis ations Public body SME Private com m ercial HES Other 6

How to Sponsor the Industry?

(incentives)  EU  Direct involvement  USA   By orders from the programs The research community decides what to use  what to order • E.g., Open Flow enabled switches and routers Robert Szabo (BME-TMIT) 7

GENI’s growing footprint

Source: Chip Elliott, GENI Project Director

GENI architecture

ISP Internet Metro Research Backbones g g GENI-enabled hardware Legend Layer 2 Data Plane Layer 3 Control Plane Regional Networks Campus g   Flexible network / cloud research infrastructure Also suitable for physics, genomics, other domain science   Support “hybrid circuit” model plus much more (OpenFlow) Distributed cloud (racks) for content caching, acceleration, etc.

Source: Chip Elliott, GENI Project Director

GENI “at scale”

 Suggest 100-200 US campuses as target for “at scale”  Both academia and national labs    GENI-enable the campuses Their students, faculty, staff can then “live in the future” using both today’s Internet and many experiments Build out backbones, regionals, and shared clouds to support the campuses Source: Chip Elliott, GENI Project Director

Enabling “at scale” experiments

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How can we afford / build GENI at sufficient scale?

 Clearly infeasible to build research testbed “as big as the Internet”    Therefore we are “GENI-enabling” testbeds, commercial equipment, campuses, regional and backbone networks

Students are early adopters / participants in at-scale experiments

Key strategy for building an at-scale suite of infrastructure HP ProCurve 5400 Switch NEC WiMAX Base Station GENI-enabled equipment GENI-enabled campuses, students as early adopters “At scale” GENI prototype Source: Chip Elliott, GENI Project Director

US IGNITE

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Science:

Advances in networking and systems research will be enabled through experimentation and explorations at scale on unique network infrastructure.

Innovation:

Leveraging previous NSF-investments in the GENI network will allow use of an open testbed available across the globe for experiments in future networks ; will enable deployment and evaluation of gigabit applications that were previously not possible.

Societal Benefit:

economic impacts.

Applications in national priority areas (e.g., health and wellbeing, emergency preparedness, advanced manufacturing, energy, education and workforce development, transportation) may have profound, long-term social and Source: Chip Elliott, GENI Project Director Robert Szabo (BME-TMIT) 12

US Ignite is now taking shape

Bridging CS Experiments to Next-Gen Applications in Cities GENI Research Infrastructure for Computer Scientists US Ignite Initiative Testbed for Next-Gen Applications Future commercial offerings

federation GENI members, policies, … US Ignite participants, policies, …

CS Research Campus and Lab Applied Research App creation teams Service creators CS Experiments Pre-commercial Applications Experimental Usage and Demonstrations Campus networks Municipal and commercial networks Regional and backbone networks Commercial Applications

IGNITE Arch Proposal

Existing head-end

Existing ISP connects Layer 2 Ignite Connect (1 GE or 10GE) Layer 3 GENI control plane Most equipment not shown Layer 2 connect to subscribers OpenFlow switch(es) Flowvisor Remote management Instrumentation Aggregate manager Measurement Programmable PCs Storage Video switch (opt)

New GENI / Ignite rack pair Home

FI PPP First Year Achivements

        Negotiation and implementation of FI PPP Collaboration Agreement and Governance structures Selection of Advisory Board Release the first set of requirements Release the first platform instances Cross-project collaborations in Working Groups and workshops Identification of potential test beds for experimentation Promotion of FI PPP in various forums and communities Building links and finding synergies with related initiatives Robert Szabo (BME-TMIT) 15

Conclusions

 Support research at Universities and Research Labs  Support experiments at campuses  Go large scale and open  Let the industry find profitable business in the above Robert Szabo (BME-TMIT) 16