1. Initiative for developing a New Generation Network Architecture ITRC 20 in Fukuoka October 5, 2006 Masaki Hirabaru Network Architecture Group New Generation Network Research Center NICT

2. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology2 Difference in NGNs Examples: Cell Phones > 2G > 3G > 4G? Internet > IPv4 > IPv6 > IPv? Next Generations New Generations Prof. Aoyama’s abbreviation: Next Generation Network = N X GN New Generation Network = N W GN

3. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology3 Conceptual Positioning of New Generation Network Architecture Present Network Revised NXGN New Generation Network (NWGN) 200520102015 Past Network Next Generation Network (NXGN) 2) modification 1) new paradigm

4. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology4 Related Projects NewArch: 2000-2003 Future-Generation Internet Architecture FIND: 2006- Future Internet Network Design, NSF NeTS Program, ~40M 2006 13 (3.7M) for FIND out of NeTS 41 (9.7M) Euro-NGI: 2003-6 EC FP6 Network of Excellence on Next Generation Internet GENI: 2008- Experimental Facility by NSF 2006 26 (31M), GPO 10M, GCC…, Facility 367M for 5 years CORE: see the next talk

5. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology5 Research Testbed NICT’s Formation Funding Program Director’s role New Generation Network Research Center (out of 7 research centers) Network Architecture Group (out of 4 research groups) JGN II Funded Research Projects Retarget every 5 years with continuity for long-term challenging research Area1Area2Area3 Architecture (cross-edge) Network Science

6. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology6 ~4 Tbps per fiber / link （ 40 Gbps x 100 waves ） Optical SW Bandwidth OPXC Path: 4T bps x 256 port = 1.0P Packet: 4T bps x 128 port= 0.5P DWDM Bandwidth ◇ IX Traffic: 100 Gbps→100 Tbps ◇ Access: 10 Mbps→10 Gbps ◇ Backbone Node ： Tbps→Pbps ◇ IX Traffic: 100 Gbps→100 Tbps ◇ Access: 10 Mbps→10 Gbps ◇ Backbone Node ： Tbps→Pbps Year 2015 Traffic at Backbone ~double per year Moor’s low Increasing trend at JPIX ‘99‘00‘01‘02‘03‘04‘05‘06 http://www.jpix.ad.jp/jp/techncal/traffic.html = 1,000 Wavelength Channel WDM Transmission = 64 Collective Wavelength Switching Year 2015 Forecast and Optical Technologies Experiments done at Keihanna OpenLab over JGN II

7. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology7 Technical Elements Developed P q P41 P42 P43 P44 P45 P46 P47 P48 l1 l2 l3 l4 l5 l6 l7 l8 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 P35 P36 P37 P38 P12 P13 P14 P15 P16 P17 P18 P23 P24 P25 P26 P27 P28 1Gbps 64 10Gbps Sender TTL = 64 63 req_ttl Router TTL = 63 Router TTL = 62 Receiver 1Gbps 3Gbps data 10Gbps1Gbps3Gbps 63 62 63 62 Parent host (a) L={a} G={b,c} L={a,b} G={c} L={a,b,c} G={ } Parent host (a) Signaling Data transmission PATH RESV P-ACK (ACK to parent) Host (c) Host (b) Lambda Network Parent host (a) Lambda Grid Environment Initial Calculation l1 Result OXC Host (b) l2 l3 Host (c) Optical Grid over Multi-point GMPLS Lightpaths 160 Gbps 2x2 Optical Packet Switch Prototype O(NlongN) Optical Parallel Pipelined Buffer Scheduler SIRENS (explicit router feedback mechanism) Antenna Authentication Server Home Agent PC VoIP Mobile router AP1 (router) AP2 (router) AP11 (router) The Internet camera The same channel (PDMA) Handover … AuthenticationIP address Subnet 1Subnet 2Subnet 3 Mapping Agent User a, b, c #1#2 #3 #N … Wide Shared Channel User a, b, c SIMPLE - Make-before-Break Handovers - PDMA (Packet Division Multiple Access)

8. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology8 What’s new? - example - 1) Limitation to Optical Devices Development on-going even in 2015 x Frequency conversion x Label (Address) look-up x Optical RAM 2) New Paradigm for Radio Frequency Usage User a, b, c #1#2 #3 #N … Wide Shared Channel User a, b, c PDMA (Packet Division Multiple Access) KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) Evolutional

9. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology9 3) Universal Access 1) Optical Grid Infrastructure 2) NGN Core High Performance Distributed Processing (e-business applications, e-Science applications) Optical Path SW Optical Packet SW Optical Transport Control Multi-point End-to-End All-optical Path User-oriented FMC Small Devices Peta bps class backbone, 10G bps access, and 100 billion devices: for diverse usages in the future human society Target Best effort Priority Control Optical Wave Sharing Research on New Generation Network Architecture - Toward the goal of optical path / packet integration - Grand design under common principles Photonic Network Ubiquitous Mobile Technical Elements Specific Architectures access Network Layer Sensors Optical Core Overlay Control Evaluation Optical-Wireless Testbed OPS Scalability High-end QoS guarantee multicasting

10. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology10 Capacity Scalability: up to 100 billion Flexibility, Reliability, Simplicity … Openness Core: ~ Peta Access: ~10G (FTTH) Functions User/Network Interfaces e.g.: 5 billion people x 20 devices per person Directions for New Generation Network Akari Project: initiated by NICT Network Architecture Group - a small light in the dark pointing to the future - All-Optical Wireless

11. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology11 Akari Project Designing the future, new generation network - pick up techniques for the future under the principles - integrate them with design methods Network science by Prof. Murata Ubiquitous by Prof. Morikawa Mobility by Prof. Teraoka Packet switching by Prof. Ohta Leader Dr. Hirabaru Dr. Harai, Dr. Morioka, and Dr. Inoue Dr. Inoue, Dr. Nakauchi, Dr. Xu, and Dr. Kafle Advisors Program Director Prof. Aoyama Executive Director Dr. Kubota

12. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology12 0607080910 Blueprint of New Generation Network 1511121314 JGN Testbed Field Trials & Deployments Innovation Overlay Testbed Universal Access Optical Grid NGN Core Photonic Network Optical & Wireless Experiments Optical Packet Switch Optical Packet ROADM Optical Label Processing New Generation Network Architecture Research Plan Architectural Design 06 Concept Design 07 Detail Design 08 Planning 09 Prototyping 10 Evaluation NICT and funded institutions including companies Outputs

13. (C) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology13 On-going plans - Invite architects into our research group to discuss on a topic. -Release the conceptual design at the end of this fiscal year. -Have a symposium in Nagoya in March 2007 (not approved yet). -Overlay symposium & workshop, Dec. 8-9, 2006 in Tokyo.