1. The Vision of Future Internet according to SAIL
Thomas Edwall
Ericsson AB
Sweden
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2. Motivation, problem area
What will be taken for granted tomorrow?
Inspired by Van Jacobson et.al. in U.S. and the late Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996)
American physicist and philosopher
The Copernican Revolution (1957)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
• We are closing in on a Copernican revolution in communication!
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3. Motivation, problem area
In SAIL we are inventing what my grand-children will
take for granted!
• My grand parents generation: the phone system
– Networking = telephony
– Communications in the 60 -70s was telephony
Wires
• Current generation: the Internet
– The underlying connectivity path is taken for granted as ’somebody elses
problem’
– Put the goods in a container at point A and destine it to point B – wait for it
Nodes to arrive.
• My grand-children's generation: the information (and function) centric
network
– The underlying network is taken for granted as ‘somebody else's problem’
– Interested in the data, not who gave it to you
Data and its use – Present the name of the data to the network – just fix it, don´t care what
networking technology
Inspired by Van Jacobson et.al. in U.S. and the late Thomas Kuhn
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4. The SAIL Consortium
• EU Call FP7-ICT-2009-5 Large-scale IP
– Industry-led consortium of 25 partners
– Operators, vendors, and research institutes
– 12.4 mill. EUR EU funding in 2.5 years
• SAIL‘s main objective
– Design concepts and technologies for the
networks of the future
– Develop techniques to move from today’s
to future networks
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5. Research Objectives
SAIL fundamentals
On-demand usage of network resources
Three complementing concepts to enhance the existing Internet
• Network of Information (NetInf)
– Shift of focus from network nodes to
information objects
• Open Connectivity (OConS)
– Efficient use of multi-path, multi-protocol
and multi-layer networking – over any fixed
and mobile networks
• Cloud Networking (CloNe)
– Tying Cloud Computing and Network
Virtualization to offer a efficient, reliable
and secure solution
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6. Research approach, Methodology
A SAIL project-wide scenario! Putting all the pieces together
• Information-centric networking
• Flash crowd connectivity
• Inter-provider connectivity
• Cloud Networking
• Video
• Mobility
Stockholm, June 2010
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7. Research approach, Methodology (cont´d)
Global scenario – flash crowd
• User produces popular video
stream of event
• NetInf-repository streams data
to consumers
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8. Research approach, Methodology (cont´d)
Global scenario – Create repositories
• Popularity grows
• More repositories take copies
• Dynamically created by CloNe
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9. Research approach, Methodology (cont´d)
Global scenario – Producer crowd
• More producers of content for
same event
• More data streams need to be
multicast to different
repositories
• Handled by OConS
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10. Research approach, Methodology (cont´d)
Global scenario – Process content
• Video producer decides: Re-
create 3D information from
source crowd data
• Consumers decide to watch that
instead of 2D stream
• Heavy processing necessary
– CloNe needs to find and create
resources
– NetInf needs to recognize new data
– OConS needs to reconfigure data
flows
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11. Conclusion and outlook
Closing the gap between today´s and tomorrows networks
• We will make the results of Future Internet research applicable to the real world, ensuring
that there is no gap between today’s and tomorrow’s networks
• No significant technology advancement can be deployed overnight! We will present a mid-
term migration and deployment plan towards the Future Internet, supported by
experimentation, prototyping and studies of its socio economic impact.
– Cloud Networking (CloNe) will provide a distributed infrastructure with improved user experience
& system performance creating new ways to trade off connectivity, processing and storage
– Open Connectivity Services (OConS) will implement proof-of-concept protocols and mechanisms
for a better management of end-to-end and edge-to-edge data flows, offering its services through
open APIs
– Network of Information (NetInf) will evolve the Internet to directly support efficient content
distribution by introducing accessing uniquely named information as a core Internet principle
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12. Find out more!
• Visit us at www.sail-project.eu,
• read our blog at www.sail-project.eu/SailorsInn and
• follow us on Twitter (@SAILproject) to learn more.
• Use the QR-code to get SAIL into your phone.
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