FIBRE & BEYOND

FIRE Workshop Brazil-EU cooperation in ICT Research and Development

Future Internet test beds / experimentation between BRazil and

EuropeEU Project nº 288356. CNPq Project nº 590022/2011-3

Sebastià Sallent

Aalborg, 8th May 2012

Index

• FIBRE at a Glance• Objectives• Architecture• Benefits

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Index

• FIBRE at a Glance• Objectives• Architecture• Benefits

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Overview

Create a common space between the EU and Brazil for

Future Internet (FI) experimental research into

network infrastructure and distributed applications, by

building and operating a federated EU-Brazil Future internet experimental facility

The project will design, implement and validate a shared Future Internet research facility between Brazil and Europe, supporting the joint Future

Internet experimentation of European and Brazilian researchers

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Partners

• FIBRE-EU • i2Cat, Coordinator• Nextworks (NXW),• Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)• University of Essex (UESSEX)• University of Thessaly (UTH) • National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA)

• FIBRE-BR• Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Coordinator• Brazil’s National Education and Research Network (RNP)• Telecommunications Research and Development Centre (CPqD) • Fluminense Federal University (UFF)• Federal University of Goiás (UFG)• Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar)• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)• Salvador University (UNIFACS)• University of Sao Paulo (USP)• University of Pernambuco (UFPE)

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Project at a glance

• Activities– The project is structured in six main activities– Three test beds

• Budget– Requested to the EC 1.09M€ – Requested to CNPq R$ 2.3 M€ in funding

• Duration– Start date: October 1st , 2011 – End date: March 31th, 2014. (30) months.

• 15 partners– FIBRE-EU 6 members– FIBRE-BR 9 members

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Index

• FIBRE at a Glance• Objectives• Architecture• Benefits

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Objective 1

Build a shared large-scale experimental facility that enables

experimentation on network infrastructure and distributed applications,

consisting in

a new testbed in Brazil and

an enhancement of the FP7 OFELIA facility and the basic wireless facility of FP7 OpenLab, the UTH

NITOS testbed, both in Europe.

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Brazil Facilities

• Create and operate FIBRE-BR that will experiment with new applications and control the network itself dynamically

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NINE GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED INSTITUTIONAL FACILITIES

L2 long distance network connections

SINGLE WIDE_AREA FI TESBED FACILITY

Brazil Facilities

• The structure of each Brazil node (Institutional Facilities, IF) is compose of:

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Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Wireless Optical Hybrid

• Openflow substrate• Control and Management Plane (CMF): OMF , OCF,..• Monitoring: Orbit, PerfSONAR

EU Facilities

• The EU large-scale experimental facilities are an extension and federation of the existing OFELIA, and Openlab projects.

• Two of the OFELIA testbeds (i2CAT and UEssex) and the UTH's NITOS testbed will be enhanced by

i) its enhance respective control frameworks ii) adding more physical resources to be able to cope with a bigger number of users and different use casesiii) adding more manpower to operate the facilities

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EU Facilities

• Enhancements of the OFELIA testbeds (i2CAT and U. Essex) and the UTH's NITOS testbed

OFELIA U. Essex

OFELIA I2Cat

UTH NITOS

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Objective 2

• Federate the Brazilian and European facilities, to allow researchers to use resources of both testbeds in the same experiment

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Large scale experimental facilities

• Federation of EU and Brazil FIBRE research infrastructures creating an intercontinental multi-domain, multi-layer and multi-technology experimental platform.

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North Atlantic route

RedCLARA-GEANT

• NOC Sau Paulo

NOC EUEssex-i2CAT

Objective 3

• Showcase the potential of the facility by demonstrating experimental network-enabled applications deployed on top of the federated facilities resources.

• Develop local and federated technology pilots and validate the developed local and federated FIBRE facilities through showcases, which have been pre-selected from a number of use cases

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Pilot applications

The expected applications to be showcased are:• Seamless Mobility for Educational Laptops• High definition (4K) content delivery across different sites• Bandwidth on Demand through OpenFlow GMPLS in the FIBRE facility.

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Objective 4

• Enhance the collaboration and exchange of knowledge between European and Brazilian researchers in the field of Future Internet

• To develop a project dissemination and communication strategy

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Index

• FIBRE at a Glance• Objectives• Architecture• Benefits

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FIBRE Workflow

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Control Framework

RM1

Users

Resource Managers

...

Resources available

RM2 RMN

User-definednetwork

User (experimenter) accesses CF of an island.

All islands topologies are visible.

User defines his network selecting resources from all islands.

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FIBRE architecture

Island 1

RM1 RM2

CF

Fed.

Island 2

RM1 RM2

CF

Fed.

User-definednetwork

Islandresources

Physical link

Island N

RM1 RM2

CF

Fed.

. . .

Resource Managers and Federation

Controller

Globalresources

Experimenters

OMF CMF

ProtoGENI/PlanetLab CMF

OFELIA CMF

FIBRE Components

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UI

Authentication and

authoritation

Policy Engine

Experiment Configurations

Instrumentation and Measurement

Resource Managers

Control commands

Control commands

Control commands

FederationModule

Experiment Results

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• FIBRE at a Glance• Objectives• Architecture• Benefits

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Benefits

• FIBRE is a showcase project in international collaboration in Future Internet– Demonstrate local capacity to collaborate with leading

European projects in this important area– Provide local experimental facilities for validating and

demonstrating new FI proposals– Provide opportunity for extension to and participation by

researchers from other Latin American countries– Promote involvement of and technology transfer to the

industrial sector, to prepare for Future Internet needs, especially involving OpenFlow and SDN approaches.

Expected Results

• Intercontinental slices of heterogeneous infrastructure to network researchers.

• A federated infrastructure automatically controlled by one or more CMFs

• High speed intercontinental links connecting the European and the Brazilian parts of the joint facility.

• Enhanced OFELIA Control Framework software• Enhanced OMF and OML software• Federation software and tools• Experimental network application software

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• Network of contacts between Brazilian and European partners• Internal and external links with similar initiatives• A set of federated infrastructures for users and researchers • Giving researchers the control over resources to define and

manage their own networks• Mainly a infrastructure available between continents• Standarization API• Resources available:

– Wired: optical fibre, GMPLS/WDM, Ethernet switches…– Wireles: WIFI, LTE, WiMax, …

http://www.fibre-ict.eu/

Expected Results

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FIBRE and Beyond

Towards a Mobile Smart City Infrastructure

betweenEU and Brazil

Future of Internet is Mobile

http://gigaom.com/2010/04/12/mary-meeker-mobile-internet-will-soon-overtake-fixed-internet/

Where the users will be in XXI Century?

Urban Population in Brazil % total, 1971/2012

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/brazil/urban-population-percent-of-total-wb-data.html

Growing population in urban areas will be growing worldwide

What we need is a Global Mobile Future

Internet Tesbed,

completing the fixed fibre tesbed!

Cloud + Mobile: main technologies for all kinds of urbanization

Towards Global Mobile Smart Cities Testbed

betweenEurope and Brazil

The next big cycle in computing history: SMART

Integrating wired and wireless infrastructures to provide SMART services

• The main objective is to provide SMART services

• In order to provide SMART services, it is required:• Capacity: mainly provided by wired technologies• Availability: mainly provided by wireless access

technologies (ubiquity)• High-capacity: WiMAX, LTE, WiFi, etc.• Low-capacity: Wireless Sensor Networks, ZigBee,

802.15.4, etc.

• Integrating wired and wireless infrastructures is not trivial if not properly designed

Integrating wired and wireless infrastructures to provide SMART services

Proposal:• Define, develop and validate a horizontal abstraction layer

that allows integrating both wired and wireless technologies in urban environments

• The solution will facilitate:• Easy integration of communication technologies (lower layers)• Easy development of vertical services and applications (higher

layers) that make use of any of the communication technologies• Independence of vendors, service providers, application

developers, etc.

• Validation of two specific vertical use cases:• Smart Mobility

• Objective: reducing traffic related problems in urban areas by deploying real time information systems.

• Energy Efficiency in Smart Buildings• Objective: improving sustainability and reducing energy consumed by

public authorities buildings by deploying tools for permanent energy monitoring and control.

Current smart city architecture defined in the city of Barcelona

Wireless Access

Front-End

Network Intelligence

Equipment Management

Transport Network

Data Management

Wireless Devices

Thank you for your attention

Sebastià Sallentsebastia.sallent@i2cat.net

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