1. International Workshop on Trends
In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
Federating Heterogeneous Test-beds
for Future Internet Research
Frederic Francois
(Research Assistant)
Frederic Francois
f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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2. International Workshop on Trends
In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
Outline:
1. Current Situation
2. Introduction to FED4FIRE
3. FED4FIRE Architecture
i. Resource discovery, reservation, provisioning and release
ii. Experiment control
iii. Measurements and monitoring
iv. Portal
4. Conclusions
Frederic Francois
f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
1. Many isolated test-beds which offer different but
complementary experimentation facilities
Frederic Francois
f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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1. Current Situation

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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
2. Users have to create an account on each facility and need to get
familiar with different user interfaces
3. There is no support for the inter-connection of the various test
beds for advanced experimentation
4. Experimenters lack tools to more efficiently control their
experiment and retrieve essential monitoring data
Frederic Francois
f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
Frederic Francois
f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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2. Introduction to FED4FIRE

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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
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f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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3. Objectives of FED4FIRE
1. To provide a transparent and unified way for experimenters to
discover, reserve, provision and release resources from all the
FED4FIRE test-beds
2. To allow experimenters to use their existing credentials (or
obtain a single credential) to access and use FED4FIRE test-beds
3. To provide monitoring data to both test-bed operators and
experimenters

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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
Frederic Francois
f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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4. To provide tools for test-bed operators to incorporate their test-
bed within the FED4FIRE framework
5. To design mechanisms through which test-beds can be inter-
connected on a data-plane level

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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
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f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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2. FED4FIRE Architecture

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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
Frederic Francois
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(i) Discovery, reservation, provisioning & release

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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
Frederic Francois
f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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Slice-based Federation Architecture (SFA)
1. API: Geni AM v3,
http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GAPI_AM_API_V3_DETAILS
2. XML-RPC over SSL with client authentication using certificates
Resource state diagram
API methods:
1.GetVersion
2.ListResources
3.Describe
4.Allocate
5.Renew
6.Provision
7.Status
8.PerformOperationalAction
9.Delete
10.Shutdown

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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
Frederic Francois
f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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SFA: RSpec
1. XML for resource/experiment description
(http://www.geni.net/resources/rspec/3/)
2. Three types:
i. Advertisement
ii. Request
iii. Manifest
3. Different domain-specific extensions to the Geni RSpec v3
exist today
4. Fed4FIRE is defining a novel ontology-based common RSpec

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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
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(ii) Experiment Control

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High Performance Network
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Experiment Control
1. Experiment control
i. Resource control mechanism
ii. Experiment controller
2. Federated Resource Control Protocol
(FRCP):
i. Common protocol for Resource
Control (RC)
ii. Efficient way to support RC in
heterogeneous federation:
a) Multiple test-beds
b) Multiple experiment
controllers

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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
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(iii) Measurements and Monitoring
1. Uniform reporting of
data through OML
streams
2. Freedom of choice
regarding M&M
tools
3. Collection and
storage: OML
framework
4. Visualisation and
analysis: Tophat

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High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
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(iv) FED4FIRE Portal (www.fed4fire.eu)
I. Provide information about the Fed4FIRE federation
i. Project itself
ii. First Level Support
iii. Test-beds directory
iv. Tools directory
II. Register new experimenters
III. Act as a client tool
i. Resource discovery, requirements, reservation,
provisioning and release
ii. Experiment control bridge

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FED4FIRE Portal Interactions with other components

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We hope to see you use the FED4FIRE facilities
once it becomes fully operational
Frederic Francois
f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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In Future Communications:
High Performance Network
Infrastructure for Future Internet.
Thank you, any questions?
Frederic Francois
f.francois@bristol.ac.uk
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