Transcript Panlab II

Future Internet Research and
Experimentation
TNC’2009 Malaga
Susanna Avéssta, DIMES
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 Allowing European researchers to test new paradigms at large scale,
including interactions with end users and communities
Testbed
Testbed
Testbed
Testbed
Testbed
Testbed
 Internet as a complex system: need to promote strategic, advanced,
experimentally-driven, multi-disciplinary research on new internet concepts
validation
long-term
research
requirements
large scale
experimentation
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Support Action coordinating FIRE projects
FIRE Community
FIRE Initiative
 FIRE Office
 International relations
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FIRE Strategy
What research? What testbeds?
 How to federate?
Roadmap for FIRE Facility
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 Future Internet as a Complex System
 Cross-layer, multidisciplinary, system approach
 Need for testing on the experimental facility
 Visionary research on Internet protocols, architectures and
services
 Open, bottom-up approach
 Not necessarily backward-compatible
 Multidisciplinary, allowing cross-fertilisation, e.g. bio-inspired
principles, evolutionary concepts, economic principles, …
 Experimentally-driven research
 Not just paperwork: research, theories must be based on testbeds
and data-driven experiments
 Allowing identification of potential evolutionary transition paths
 People?
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PERIM
Best Connectivity &
Quality
PII
Control plane
functionality
User-centric approach
Vital++
Data-centric
networking research
P2P
Multi-RAT
SMART
OL2
NaDa
New routing
protocols/paradigms
Resum
N4C
DTN, ONA
WISEB
Multi-hop ad-hoc
WSN and mesh
network optimisation
OPN
ECOD
Resilience and
security approaches
Self-management
approaches
Self
Autonomic
configuration
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FP6: Early
design &
prototyping
FP7 – WP 2007/08:
Prototyping the concept
of federating testbeds
Next: Expanding the
concept & building the
facility
PARADISO
TESTBED PROJECTS
WISEBED
VITAL++
ONELAB2
PII
FEDERICA
FIREWorks
FIRE Facility
FIRE-Research:
New paradigms
Other Projects
FP7, MSs, …
Network of
the Future
• Open and dynamic
• Supporting academia and industry
• Proof-of-concept → pre-commercial tbs
• Understanding the socio-economic dim.
• Expand to include
service architectures
• Support experimentation
cutting across layers
• Enable socio-economic
impact assessment
• Broaden involvement of
large user communities
• Support sustainability
• Develop the facility in
close cooperation with
FIRE research projects
• Join forces in Europe
and collaborate
internationally
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 Bridging between FIRE Facility projects: OneLab2 and PII (Vital++,
WISEBED, FEDERICA)
 Identifying scope and target customers
 Use scenarios
 Identifying usage and potential need for cross-federation
 What use scenarios?
 How much usage?
 How implementable?
 Common nominators: umbrella or architecture?
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Physical Extent
Broad
Global Scope
Cloud
computing
Cloud
PII
Vital++
PLII
Federica
OL2
Speed
GENI
Delay tolerant
Aggregated information
Opportunistic communication
Bandwidth
Latency
WISEBED
Narrow
Devices, Things, PANs
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A federation is a union comprising a number of partially self-governing
regions united by a central ("federal") government under a common set
of objectives.
Interconnection of two or more independent testbeds for
 Creation of a richer environment for testing and
experimentation
 Increased multilateral benefits of the users of the individual
testbeds
Normally geographically dispersed
Owned by different organisations.
 However, considered as being part of a single resource
Dynamic and evolve over time based on the requirements of the
users
Common objectives – Added value!
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FIRE Facility the core of the European and global
testing market
High-quality test centre, trustworthy partner and
an integral part of European R&D in FI/NWGN
Reference point to the standardisation of the sector
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Neutral and independent
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Versatile services, well-productised activities, fast
processes, open but can be walled as needed
Good, well-reasoned and quality enhancing
control
Incubator of new innovations
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Autonomy of resource providers ensured
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From Serge Fdida, Panayotis Antoniadis and
Timur Friedman
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What do I want to achieve?
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Test a proposition, e.g.,
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Technology
New service
End user acceptance
A new business hypothesis (e.g., business model)
A new regulatory approach
with given objectives
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Openness of results
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Exclusive IPR
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Integration into larger facilities (for increased testing purposes)
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Scale of experiment
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Diversity of environment, e.g., locality, technologies, …
A means to the (customers') ends!
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Is A Facility…
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…A collection of test beds (each individually governed)?
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…A collection of test bed federations?
…A single test bed federation?
Or is it a toolkit to support the customers' needs with the ability to
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Build a federation that match the objectives at hand
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Build on working test beds but also allow to integrate its own
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Apply technologies proven to work (to a certain extent)
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Rely on a community of researchers and practitioners dealing
with similar (testing and research) problems?
A means to the (customers') ends!
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Is A Facility…
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…A collection of test beds (each individually governed)?
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…A collection of test bed federations?
…A single test bed federation?
Or is it a toolkit to support the customers' needs with the ability to
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Build a federation that match the objectives at hand
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Build on working test beds but also allow to integrate its own
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Apply technologies proven to work (to a certain extent)
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Rely on a community of researchers and practitioners dealing
with similar (testing and research) problems?
Provide a facility to the consumer that constitutes a toolkit
of methods and abilities by
 Building on a proven basis
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PlanetLab Europe (PLE) is a working federation of
test beds
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PlanetLab (PL) provides a proven and evolving
platform basis for experimentation
PL has gathered a large community of experimental
researchers worldwide to rely on
Building (and federating) actual test beds
Building a toolkit that helps customers in experiments
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PLC
PLE
Requires
PLJ
• flexible policy
framework
• a form of economic
model
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ANA/Haggle
Orbit
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Access rights of
PLE researches
on PLC nodes
Qu ickT ime ™ a nd a
de com pres sor
are nee ded to s ee th is p ictur e.
Access rights of
PLC researches
on PLE nodes
Current federation policy: “peering”
• Users from both facilities have the same access rights over the whole
infrastructure
•Both facilities apply the same local policy
But other federation policies are under investigation
PLE users are a subset of Federica users
A consumer-provider relationship?
We may have to constrain access of PLE users to the private
PlanetLab.
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Virtualization: Run concurrent experiments, support
services
Monitoring: Collect data and make them available
Legal: Responsibilities and liabilities, IPR, …
Benchmarking: Assessment of the results produced,
reproducibility
Security: Robust and secure facility
Economics: Of the facility, for the users, the operators, the
federation(s)
Federation
 Inter-operability framework
 Data and resource representation
 Control plane, resource management policies, incentives
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PlanetLab Europe
118 nodes, 59 sites, 20 countries, 318 registered users, 65 active slices
 Based on PlanetLab:
 +1000 nodes, 487 sites, 41 countries, 5030 registered users, 630 active
slices
 Growth 100 nodes per year
 New components
 WiFi links
 Emulated links (Dummynet boxes)
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NITOS
WiFi testbed, 23 nodes, OMF based
 Open to the Onelab2 partners
 Low level driver programming
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Access to SAC testbeds
SAC cloud composed of mobile devices, incl. GPS
 ANA, Haggle, DTNRG
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Access to Wireless testbeds
All based on OMF
 WiFi, WiMax, Mesh
 Open source wireless testbed toolkit
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Access to Computing Clusters
Everlab: 6 clusters, 89 hosts, 265 CPUs
 Access to other testbeds
 Slice-Based facility Architecture (SFA)
 FEDERICA, Glab
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New Components
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Emulation, Monitoring
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FIRE is a concept
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Experimentally-driven, multidisciplinary, FI research
Modular, dynamically developing supporting facility
OneLab approach
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Proven model for federation
Research and innovation incubator
Existing entity to get connected
Alone
Network power
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Web-site:
www.ict-fireworks.eu
Susanna Avéssta
Serge Fdida
Anastasius Gavras
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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