TNC2009 Malaga Susanna Avéssta, DIMES 1 Future Internet Research and Experimentation

2 Allowing European researchers to test new paradigms at large scale, including interactions with end users and communities Testbed Internet as a complex system: need to promote strategic, advanced, experimentally-driven, multi-disciplinary research on new internet concepts requirements validation long-term research large scale experimentation

Support Action coordinating FIRE projects FIRE Community FIRE Initiative FIRE Office International relations FIRE Strategy What research? What testbeds? How to federate? Roadmap for FIRE Facility 3

4 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?

5 Best Connectivity & Quality User-centric approach Control plane functionality Data-centric networking research P2PMulti-RAT New routing protocols/paradigms DTN, ONA Multi-hop ad-hoc WSN and mesh network optimisation Resilience and security approaches Self-management approaches Autonomic configuration PII OL2 Vital++ WISEB PERIM NaDa Resum Self ECOD OPN N4C SMART

6 Next: Expanding the concept & building the facility 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 FP6: Early design & prototyping FP7 – WP 2007/08: Prototyping the concept of federating testbeds Open and dynamic Supporting academia and industry Proof-of-concept pre-commercial tbs Understanding the socio-economic dim. FIREWorks PARADISO FIRE-Research: New paradigms Network of the Future FIRE Facility Other Projects FP7, MSs, … ONELAB2 VITAL++WISEBED PII FEDERICA

7 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?

PII Cloud computing

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 9 Common objectives – Added value!

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 Neutral and independent 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 Autonomy of resource providers ensured 10

From Serge Fdida, Panayotis Antoniadis and Timur Friedman

What do I want to achieve? Test a proposition, e.g., Technology New service End user acceptance A new business hypothesis (e.g., business model) A new regulatory approach with given objectives Openness of results Exclusive IPR Integration into larger facilities (for increased testing purposes) Scale of experiment Diversity of environment, e.g., locality, technologies, …

A means to the (customers') ends! Is A Facility … …A collection of test beds (each individually governed)? …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 Build a federation that match the objectives at hand Build on working test beds but also allow to integrate its own Apply technologies proven to work (to a certain extent) Rely on a community of researchers and practitioners dealing with similar (testing and research) problems?

A means to the (customers') ends! Is A Facility … …A collection of test beds (each individually governed)? …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 Build a federation that match the objectives at hand Build on working test beds but also allow to integrate its own Apply technologies proven to work (to a certain extent) 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 PlanetLab Europe (PLE) is a working federation of test beds 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

? ? PLC PLE PLJ ANA/Haggle Orbit … Requires flexible policy framework a form of economic model

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 Access rights of PLE researches on PLC nodes Access rights of PLC researches on PLE nodes

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.

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

PlanetLab Europe 118 nodes, 59 sites, 20 countries, 318 registered users, 65 active slices Based on PlanetLab: nodes, 487 sites, 41 countries, 5030 registered users, 630 active slices Growth 100 nodes per year New components WiFi links Emulated links (Dummynet boxes) NITOS WiFi testbed, 23 nodes, OMF based Open to the Onelab2 partners Low level driver programming

Access to SAC testbeds SAC cloud composed of mobile devices, incl. GPS ANA, Haggle, DTNRG Access to Wireless testbeds All based on OMF WiFi, WiMax, Mesh Open source wireless testbed toolkit Access to Computing Clusters Everlab: 6 clusters, 89 hosts, 265 CPUs Access to other testbeds Slice-Based facility Architecture (SFA) FEDERICA, Glab New Components Emulation, Monitoring

FIRE is a concept Experimentally-driven, multidisciplinary, FI research Modular, dynamically developing supporting facility OneLab approach Proven model for federation Research and innovation incubator Existing entity to get connected 25 AloneNetwork power

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