FEDERICA: Federated e-Infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing Network Architectures
Krzywania Radosław 1*, Dolata Łukasz 1, Szegedi Peter 2
1Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center,
ul. Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznań, Poland
2TERENA Secretariat, 468D Singel, 1017AW Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*e-mail: sfrog@man.poznan.pl
Received:
Received: 25 August 2010; revised: 27 October 2010; published online: 23 November 2010
DOI: 10.12921/cmst.2010.SI.01.19-33
OAI: oai:lib.psnc.pl:683
Abstract:
The FEDERICA project is to create a virtual network environment that is dedicated to investigate and trial novel network protocols and services, as well as Future Internet architectural concepts and emerging applications. With this purpose in mind, a technology agnostic network infrastructure that consists of transmission devices, gigabit connections, and computing resources has been created. The physical FEDERICA network footprint is mapped to the existing GÉANT network links and additional NREN connections and creates its own infrastructure on top that allows resource virtualisation. The project partners do research on novel resource virtualisation techniques as well as share their operational experiences on virtualisation capable infrastructures during the project lifetime. Within the framework of FEDERICA, close cooperation has been established with various standardization bodies such
as IETF, ITU-T, OIF, and IPsphere. Although, the main objective of the project is to create a physical environment that allows obtaining dedicated virtual slices of the infrastructure configured by the users, the project also facilitates information exchange, initiates technical discussions among the experts and disseminates scientific results primarily to national research and education network community. The FEDERICA project is partly funded by the European Commission under the INFRA-2007-1.2.2 “Deployment of e-Infrastructures for
Scientific Communities” call of the Seventh Framework Program. The FEDERICA project [1] has been devised to provide support and research on current and Future Internet technologies and architectures. The project is linked to the European FIRE initiative [2] and the European Future Internet Assembly [3]. Other similar initiatives exist worldwide, e.g. GENI [4] in the United States in Europe, and AKARI [5] in Japan.
Key words:
pan-European test bed, virtual network infrastructure, virtualisation
References:
[1] FEDERICA, Federated E-infrastructure DEdicated to Researchers Innovating in Computing Architectures. European Commission co-funded in the 7th Framework Work Programme, project n. RI-213107, http://www.fp7-federica.- eu/ and documents therein.
[2] Future Internet Research and Experimentation, http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire/
[3] Future Internet Assembly, http://www.future-internet.eu/
[4] Global Environment for Network Innovation, http://www.geni.net
[5] AKARI Architecture Design Project, http://akari-project.nict.go.jp/eng/index2.htm
[6] N.M.M.K. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba, Network Virtualization: State of the Art and Research Challenges. IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2009, 20-26 (2009).
[7] R. Krzywania at al., Deliverable DSA1.2: FEDERICA Infrastructure, 2009.
[8] GÉANT Network, http://www.geant.net
[9] http://www.juniper.net/customers/support/products/mx480.jsp
[10] http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/switching/-ex-series/ex3200/
[11] P. Szegedi et al., Deliverable NA2.2: FEDERICA User Community and Requirements.
[12] C. Cervelló-Pastor et al., Deliverable DJRA1.2: Solutions and protocols proposal for the network control, management and monitoring in a virtualized network context.
[13] A. Berna, Deliverable SA2.2: IP slice service Prototype.
[14] M. Lemay: An introduction to IaaS Framework. 5 August 2008, http://iaasframework.com
[15] E. Grasa. G. Junyent, S. Figurerola, A. Lopez, M. Savoie, UCLPv2: a network virtualization framework built on webservices. IEEE Commun. Mag. 46 (3), 126-134 (2008).
[16] V. Reijs, E .Grasa, The MANTICORE project: Providing Users with Logical IP Network Service. TERENA Networking Conference (2008).
The FEDERICA project is to create a virtual network environment that is dedicated to investigate and trial novel network protocols and services, as well as Future Internet architectural concepts and emerging applications. With this purpose in mind, a technology agnostic network infrastructure that consists of transmission devices, gigabit connections, and computing resources has been created. The physical FEDERICA network footprint is mapped to the existing GÉANT network links and additional NREN connections and creates its own infrastructure on top that allows resource virtualisation. The project partners do research on novel resource virtualisation techniques as well as share their operational experiences on virtualisation capable infrastructures during the project lifetime. Within the framework of FEDERICA, close cooperation has been established with various standardization bodies such
as IETF, ITU-T, OIF, and IPsphere. Although, the main objective of the project is to create a physical environment that allows obtaining dedicated virtual slices of the infrastructure configured by the users, the project also facilitates information exchange, initiates technical discussions among the experts and disseminates scientific results primarily to national research and education network community. The FEDERICA project is partly funded by the European Commission under the INFRA-2007-1.2.2 “Deployment of e-Infrastructures for
Scientific Communities” call of the Seventh Framework Program. The FEDERICA project [1] has been devised to provide support and research on current and Future Internet technologies and architectures. The project is linked to the European FIRE initiative [2] and the European Future Internet Assembly [3]. Other similar initiatives exist worldwide, e.g. GENI [4] in the United States in Europe, and AKARI [5] in Japan.
Key words:
pan-European test bed, virtual network infrastructure, virtualisation
References:
[1] FEDERICA, Federated E-infrastructure DEdicated to Researchers Innovating in Computing Architectures. European Commission co-funded in the 7th Framework Work Programme, project n. RI-213107, http://www.fp7-federica.- eu/ and documents therein.
[2] Future Internet Research and Experimentation, http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire/
[3] Future Internet Assembly, http://www.future-internet.eu/
[4] Global Environment for Network Innovation, http://www.geni.net
[5] AKARI Architecture Design Project, http://akari-project.nict.go.jp/eng/index2.htm
[6] N.M.M.K. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba, Network Virtualization: State of the Art and Research Challenges. IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2009, 20-26 (2009).
[7] R. Krzywania at al., Deliverable DSA1.2: FEDERICA Infrastructure, 2009.
[8] GÉANT Network, http://www.geant.net
[9] http://www.juniper.net/customers/support/products/mx480.jsp
[10] http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/switching/-ex-series/ex3200/
[11] P. Szegedi et al., Deliverable NA2.2: FEDERICA User Community and Requirements.
[12] C. Cervelló-Pastor et al., Deliverable DJRA1.2: Solutions and protocols proposal for the network control, management and monitoring in a virtualized network context.
[13] A. Berna, Deliverable SA2.2: IP slice service Prototype.
[14] M. Lemay: An introduction to IaaS Framework. 5 August 2008, http://iaasframework.com
[15] E. Grasa. G. Junyent, S. Figurerola, A. Lopez, M. Savoie, UCLPv2: a network virtualization framework built on webservices. IEEE Commun. Mag. 46 (3), 126-134 (2008).
[16] V. Reijs, E .Grasa, The MANTICORE project: Providing Users with Logical IP Network Service. TERENA Networking Conference (2008).
