Application Innovations Enabling a Web 3.0 World

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Application Innovations Enabling a Web 3.0 World

David Bishop, Ph.D.LGS COO/CTO

December, 2009

LGS Proprietary, All Rights Reserved © LGS Innovations, LLC 2007 2April 21, 2023

Outline

Application Innovations Enabling a Web 3.0 World:

– Network-Aware Application Enablement

– Content Centric Networking

– Telco Virtualization


Networking

What is Service Infrastructure?

•Areas traditionally considered to defineService Infrastructure:

– Application-level protocols (e.g. SIP,HTTP, SOAP/XML, RTP, RTSP),

– Communication Architectures andMiddleware (e.g. IMS, A-IMS, NGN),

– Network Overlays,

– Cross-Domain Service Blending,

– Cloud Computing,

– Content Distribution & Delivery,

– Messaging.

Invent, analyze, and build disruptive technologies – related to distributed communications and computing infrastructures – that

provide a superior foundation for advanced networking products and services.

ServiceInfrastructure

Infrastructure

Applications


Towards Network-Aware Application Enablement Disruptive Technologies - Bridging Applications and Network

Circuit Switching Packet Switching

Client/ServerPeer-To-Peer &Cloud Computing

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Strict Separation ofApplications & Network


Towards Network-Aware Application Enablement Disruptive Technologies - Bridging Applications and Network

Circuit Switching Packet Switching

Client/ServerPeer-To-Peer &Cloud Computing

??? ???Bridging Applications& Network

Strict Separation ofApplications & Network

Break through the layered architecture, creating infrastructure elementsthat intertwine network knowledge and application knowledge

to tame the onslaught of content, devices, and service complexity.


Information Access in Today’s Network

• Today’s network: host-oriented data access

– Always assume end-to-end connectivity: content source requester

– Only knows finding/authenticating data according to the content source

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Content Centric Networking

• Simple, unified, flexible communication architecture

• Data is requested by name using any means available

• Any node that hears the request with a valid copy of the data can respond

• The returned data is signed, and optionally secured

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Content Centric Networking

• Key design philosophy

– Data has a name, not a location

– Improved data availability using data replication

– Robust to node mobility/failure, network failure, attacks

– Integrity and trust are derived from the data, not the channel it arrives on

– Anything that moves bits in time or space can and will be used to communicate

– Data access is not limited by network topology (or end-to-end connectivity)

• CCN removes many layers of management infrastructure

• Energy efficient content delivery in wireless networks:

– TODAY: one has to go through long-range wireless comms (3G, LTE)

• Even if one can get the same data from one’s neighbors using Bluetooth

– CCN: given named content, chooses an energy efficient interface


Telco Virtualization aka Cloud Computing

Today, equipment vendors are selling dedicated, specialized boxes to service providers.

Service providers build their networks from the ground up using dedicated equipment for services (e.g., LTE, IMS).

The hardware running these networks and services is dimensioned to meet the peak demand.

This model requires every service provider to build up the entire network stack and service infrastructure.

Resources need to planned very carefully according to the estimated future maximum demand.

Deployment of new capacity and services is a costly and slow process. Resources cannot be shared across services within a service provider and

across service providers creating inefficiencies.

The goal of Telco Virtualization is to overcome these limitations by enabling service providers to use commodity hardware to run own and hosted services.


The Evolution of Telco- and Web-Services

Network, computing Infrastructure

Connectivity

Application SW, Intelligence

Specialized Edge (RAN, ..)

Branding, Marketing, Customer

VZ AT&T Sprint

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Books.com

Early days of the Web: Application providers owned and operated servers,

applications and managed customers.

Traditional service providers: Own and operate infrastructure,

applications, spectrum, ensure connectivity and manage customer relations.

High initial investment, limited opportunities for changes and expansion.


Something is Changing…… A Move Away from Monolithic Systems

BrandMVNO

Ericsson

Sprint

HostingService

Classic Web Services: Buy server and network capacity from

Web-hoster. Develop applications and

manage customers. Web-hoster owns and

operates servers.

Development in service provider market: MVNO* provides phone service w/o

owning the infrastructure. Service providers outsource

operation and management of the network to vendors(e.g., Ericsson/Sprint).

Books.com

Flowers.com

Reduced market entry barrier and lower cost of operations.

*Mobile Virtual Network Operator


Web Services today: Develop applications and deploy

them on a cloud. Add resources on the go. Cloud operator owns and

operates infrastructure.

Telco Virtualization: Minimize specialized hardware to what

is necessary (e.g., DSLAMs, routers, radio towers).

Most Telco services are preformed in software running in clouds on commodity computers.

New services can be hosted on the cloud.

Tomorrow: Telco Virtualization

VZ AT&T Sprintxxx

Infrastructure_as_a_Service

Connectivity_as_a_Service

Telco Applications as_a_Service

CloudService

Books.com

Flowers.com

Very low initial costs, highly effective resource utilization, support for emerging business

models.


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Web Cloud

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Telco CoreInfrastructure

Dedicated Infrastructures

Enabling Telco VirtualizationNew Technology Leads to Resource Distribution


Inexpensive shared resources

Telco + Web Cloud

Virtual Telco

Inexpensive resources leveraging local network capabilities.


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Enabling Telco VirtualizationNew Technology Leads to Market Disruption

Key Disruptions- Telco hardware investment diversifies—buy more shared services and fewer dedicated resources, focused deployment of specialized hardware- Telco investment in software and services increases- New market landscape—new players enter market; holders of specialized and/or shared resources compete with traditional equipment vendors; telcos’ role divided/reduced

Key Disruptions- Telco hardware investment diversifies—buy more shared services and fewer dedicated resources, focused deployment of specialized hardware- Telco investment in software and services increases- New market landscape—new players enter market; holders of specialized and/or shared resources compete with traditional equipment vendors; telcos’ role divided/reduced

Developing Innovations to Enable Telco Virtualization•Software development/execution environment for dynamic task assignment to virtual resources

• Inherently scalable applications, applications dynamically reconfigure without disruption

•Algorithms to configure, assign, re-assign tasks/resources• Reliable execution on a collection of unreliable resources

•Algorithms to monitor tasks, resource work loads• Timely response to changing demands, assemble required resources in

real-time

Developing Innovations to Enable Telco Virtualization•Software development/execution environment for dynamic task assignment to virtual resources

• Inherently scalable applications, applications dynamically reconfigure without disruption

•Algorithms to configure, assign, re-assign tasks/resources• Reliable execution on a collection of unreliable resources

•Algorithms to monitor tasks, resource work loads• Timely response to changing demands, assemble required resources in

real-time


Summary and Conclusions

•Remarkable Set of Physical Layer Technologies are being Developed for Web 2.0/3.0 Networks

•However, the Networking Technologies are also Evolving with Fundamental New Concepts such as CCN and Telco Virtualization. At the end of the day, these may be more important than the physical layer technologies in terms of their impact on the web and how we will communicate using it.

•Together They are Enabling a World of Ubiquitous Communications

– Anywhere, Anytime

– Realize the Dream of Broadband Access to the Soldier, Sailor Airman or Marine

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