Federating Heterogeneous Test-beds for Future Internet Research - Frederic Francois

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Federating Heterogeneous Test-bedsfor Future Internet Research

Frederic Francois(Research Assistant)

Frederic Francoisf.francois@bristol.ac.uk

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Outline:1. Current Situation2. Introduction to FED4FIRE3. FED4FIRE Architecture

i. Resource discovery, reservation, provisioning and releaseii. Experiment controliii. Measurements and monitoringiv. Portal

4. Conclusions

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1. Many isolated test-beds which offer different but complementary experimentation facilities

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1. Current Situation

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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

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2. Introduction to FED4FIRE

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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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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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2. FED4FIRE Architecture

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(i) Discovery, reservation, provisioning & release

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Slice-based Federation Architecture (SFA) 1. API: Geni AM v3,

http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GAPI_AM_API_V3_DETAILS2. XML-RPC over SSL with client authentication using certificates

Resource state diagram

API methods:1.GetVersion2.ListResources3.Describe4.Allocate5.Renew6.Provision7.Status8.PerformOperationalAction9.Delete10.Shutdown

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SFA: RSpec 1. XML for resource/experiment description (http

://www.geni.net/resources/rspec/3/)2. Three types:

i. Advertisementii. Requestiii. 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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(ii) Experiment Control

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Experiment Control 1. Experiment control

i. Resource control mechanismii. 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-bedsb) Multiple experiment

controllers

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(iii) Measurements and Monitoring1. 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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(iv) FED4FIRE Portal (www.fed4fire.eu)I. Provide information about the Fed4FIRE federation

i. Project itselfii. First Level Supportiii. Test-beds directoryiv. Tools directory

II. Register new experimentersIII. 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

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Thank you, any questions?

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