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FEDERICA status and achievements

Mauro Campanella GARR

Mauro.campanella@garr

.it

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FEDERICA at a glance

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What

: European Community co-funded project in its 7

th

Framework Program in the area “Capacities - Research Infrastructures”, 3.7 MEuro EC contribution, 461 PMs

When

: 1

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January 2008 - 30 June 2010 ( 30 months )

Who

: 20 partners , based on stakeholders on network research and management : 11 National Research and Education Networks, DANTE (G ÉANT2), TERENA, 4 Universities, Juniper Networks, 1 small enterprise (MARTEL), 1 research centre (i2CAT) - Coordinator: GARR (Italian NREN)

Where

: Europe-wide e-Infrastructure, connections open to external TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga 2

FEDERICA Vision

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An e-Infrastructure based on virtualization in both computers and network is a fundamental tool for researchers on Future (and current) Internet .

The facility should allow researchers a complete control of their set of resources in a “slice”, enabling disruptive experiments at all communication layers.

Particular care should be placed in reproducibility experiments and in the avoidance of complexity .

of the Such e-Infrastructure can be built on existing infrastructures using a practical approach and should be able to “federate” with other facilities.

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FEDERICA: an e-Infrastructure on NRENS e-Infrastructures

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Router/Switch Host for Virtual nodes Raw Ethernet 1Gbps (Fiber later)

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Infrastructure Status

DFN DE

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NORDUN ET SUNET KTH SE PSNC PL HEAnet IE SWITCH CH FCCN PT i2CAT ES GARR IT Red.es

ES CESNET CZ GRNET ICCS GR Hungarnet HU

TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga 1 Gbps Ethernet Each core PoP is equipped with a switch/router (Juniper) and two or more V-Nodes 5

Project Timeline

Jan 2008 June 2009 WWW.FP7-FEDERICA.EU

Jun 2010

Month 11

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Virtual Internet

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The Core Substrate - HW

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Switch: Juniper MX480, Dual CPU, 1 line card with 32 ports at 1Gb Ethernet. Virtual and logical routing, MPLS, VLANs, IPv4, IPv6, 2 of the 4 line cards have hardware QoS capabilities) V-Nodes: each is a 2 x Quad core AMD @ 2GHz, 32GB RAM, 8 network interfaces, 2x500GB disks, Virtualization SW FEDERICA substrate TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga 8

The Core Substrate - IP

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Management plane defined as an IP Autonomous System: AS : 47630 (public, no transit, peers with GARR, PSNC which announce the AS to GN2 and General Internet) active IP v4 : IP v6 : 194.132.52.0/23 2001:760:3801::/48 (public addresses) active (public) (to be configured soon) NRENs and Global Internet FEDERICA substrate TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga 9

Pictorial of creation of a Slice

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The user requests an Infrastructure made of L2 circuits, un-configured virtual nodes, to test a new BGP version. Creation of: 1. user credentials and authentication and a “Slice” 2. Virtual Gateway (in red) to bridge the user from outside into the slice 3. Create resources and connect them as specified by the user NRENs and Global Internet FEDERICA substrate (only CORE is shown) TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga 10

Offering “Slices” for “any” Research

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Using Virtualization technologies the FEDERICA e-Infrastructure creates “slices” composed by virtual resources ( circuits, nodes, routers ) The slices are configured according to users’ requests Possible use cases : - new routing protocols - behavior on the network of distributed applications Global Internet - Inter-domain services FEDERICA substrate (only core is shown) TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga 11

FEDERICA vs. other projects

Project: Operating system

Onelab2/ Planetlab

fixed

Emulab

Control of lower layers IP Physical delay and capacity choice guarantees of reproducibility User access limits Cost Scalability No Mandatory No No Almost none, at any time limited medium Almost none, at any time none large WWW.FP7-FEDERICA.EU

FEDERICA

fixed emulation used to connect then emulation emulation emulation User choice (almost any) control down to raw Ethernet Used to connect, then not needed Yes (up to 1 Gb) Yes regulated by a User Policy Board none limited TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga 12

The User Policy Board tasks

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- First contact point for users: - advises and clarifies initial questions and points to / clarifies issues in the compilation of the requested documents (User Information kit) - Receives the official requests from users and evaluates technically (not scientifically !) the proposals (with the support of technical experts) - Ensures the implementation of slices according to agreed schedule - Follows a user with a dedicated FEDERICA person through the user project lifetime - Receives user feedback TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga 13

Users

The project had its launch event end of November 2008.

We have the current users / projects ongoing approved: - Onelab and monitoring testing (ELTE Hungary) - Openflow tests (Stanford, Germany, Sweden, Italy) - Monitoring (Czech Rep. - Internal) - PHOSPHORUS project WWW.FP7-FEDERICA.EU

Pending requests from Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany Many requests for interconnection capabilities between initiatives and laboratories and some requests for optical testing TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga 14

Federating FEDERICA

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We should differentiate between various forms of federation: 1. integrated ( the facilities can be used as one with a inter-domain common control plane) 2. partially integrated (only part of the control is exchanged, e.g. calendar, AAA information) 3. overlay (each facility just uses the services of the other without a common control plane, just a data plane, there is an exchange of information related to monitoring, faults, and so on) All these possibilities present challenges … TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga 15

FEDERICA Data and Control Plane

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Access protocol : initially paper due to need for scheduling, security and technical agreements (no first come, first serve policy). Next step may be based on SOA (need standard representation of resources) Control plane is not fully automated and it is a set of tools and manual configuration (due to the combined network and system resources) NRENs and Global Internet

Network Layer substrate Data Link layer substrate Physical Layer substrate

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Slice Data and Control Plane

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NRENs and Global Internet

SLICE Application Layer SLICE Network Layer SLICE Data Link layer SLICE Physical Layer Network Layer substrate Data Link layer substrate Physical Layer substrate

TNC 2009, June 9th 2009 - Malaga May host any control plane Basic Data Plane is IP Ethernet Fibre and Copper IPv4 (and v6), AS 47630 Ethernet Fibre and Copper 17

Federating FEDERICA (cont)

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Having a common control plane in a multidomain environment is very difficult, as it places many constraints to each facility (in time, technology and developments).

Need to develop standard resources representation schemas virtual resources and virtual resource sets to exchange for services. The inter facility exchange of information and synchronization between facilities has to scale gracefully.

The Intra facility control plane is complex, due to resource scheduling and resources mapping from virtual topology (slice) to physical topology, especially if reproducibility or guarantees are mandated.

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FEDERICA - Onelab2 pre-federation

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OneLab nodes can be hosted in a slice. Those node have full control of their network interface and circuits up to the egress from FEDERICA into General Internet. The slice can contain also a “OneLab router”

Onelab Slice

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Conclusions

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An infrastructure based on virtualization , network and computing resources can offer a very useful platform for innovation and research at many (if not all) communication layers and can be realized on existing facilities .

The physical resources functionalities and infrastructure engineering should ensure the functionality to guarantee the “ quality ” of the virtualization for reproducibility.

Federation is of outmost importance (e.g. to access new technologies and to ensure a larger facility), but has many facets and complexities . A practical approach through a “supportive” or “pre-federation” is advised.

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References

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FEDERICA NRENs G ÉANT2 : : : http://www.fp7-federica.eu

http://www.terena.org/compendium http://www.geant2.net

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