National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

RAWFIE(Road-, Air-, Water-based Future Internet

Experimentation)Experimenter Support in the RAWFIE Platform

Stathes Hadjiefthymiades Pervasive Computing Research Group

University of Athens

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Project Overview• Research and Innovation Action (RIA)

H2020 call: FIRE+ initiativeStart date 01/01/2015Duration: 48 months

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Partners

• 13 partners from 8 countries• Universities, Industry, SMEs• Technical partners

software/hardware providers

• Testbed operators• UxV Manufacturers• End Users

What is RAWFIE?• Federation of robotic devices:

o Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV), o Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and o Unmanned Sea Surface Vehicles (USVs).

Main Objectives• “Automated, remote operation of a large

number of robotic devices for assessing the performance of different technologies in networking, sensing and mobile/autonomic application domains.”

• Provide smart tools for conducting large-scale experiments on IoT

• Integrate cloud services and networking facilitieso Remote Control of moving nodes with real time

characteristics over cloud infrastructure

Innovations

Diversity

• Heterogeneous UxV test beds• Wide class of networking technologies

Extensibility

• Ease of incorporating additional technologies.

Virtualization

• Support Experimentation as-a-Service (EaaS)• Use of cloud services (PaaS / IaaS)

Sustainability

• Designed for long lifetime

• Main Actors• Multi-tier

Architecture• Interoperability

with other Federations –o Adoption of Slice-Based

Federation Architecture - SFA

• Possible re-used componentso EDLo MySlice Platformo OMF, Testbed Control,

Measurement and Management Framework

Experimenters

Testbed Operators

UxV manufacturers

RAWFIE multi-tier

Architecture

Why SFA?• Provides a secure common API to enable global

federationo Experiment Life-cycle functionalities:

• User authentication and authorization • Resource discovery• Resource reservations • Resource release

• Different technologies are federated with different administrative domains

RAWFIE SFA Workflow

SFA Client

Generic SFA

Wrapper

RAWFIE API

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Schedule

Database

1. MySlice plugin

2. Define RSpecs

3. Implement RAWFIE driver- Rspec parser2. Define RSpecs

4. Implement RAWFIE API

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o Portal o Experimentation suite

• Experimentation Description Language• Authoring tool• Booking tool• Launching tool• Monitoring tool

SFA Client

RAWFIE multi-tier

Architecture

Slice Manager

Aggregate

Manager

Registry

RAWFIE multi-tier

Architecture

o Experimenter Authorization o Testbed Directory o Experiment Manager

• Experiment Validation and Compilation• Data Analysis engine• Experimental Visualization• Launching Service

o System Monitoring

Generic SFA Wrapper

RAWFIE multi-tier Architecture

o Testbed software• Testbed Manager• Monitoring Manager• Network Manager• Resource Controller

o Testbed Resources

RAWFIE API

RAWFIE API

RAWFIE API

RAWFIE Experiment Description Language (Ver. 1.0 / Sept 2015) (1/6)

• Textual editor: Eclipse plugin• Technology: Xtext• Xtext: development of programming languages and

domain specific languages• Supported Features:

o Syntax Coloringo Content Assisto Validation and Quick Fixes

• A set of additional tools for syntactic and semantic validation will be provided

• Specific commands are developed for each EDL part

• EDL Partso Generic (similar to known programming languages)

• Constants, variables, vectors, literals• Statements (assignment, if, Switch, For, While)

o Experiment Management• Metadata (name, description, etc)• Execution management (stop, suspend, wait, etc)• Requirements (testbeds, nodes, location, etc)

o Planning / Guidance Management• Waypoints management • Timeline management (sequential or parallel execution, execution at

predefined intervals)• Data management

RAWFIE EDL (2/6)

• EDL Parts (cont.)o Coordination Management

• Metadata (type, etc)• Group Management

o Node Management• On Board Sensing

o Control Management (activation, deactivation, suspend)o Configuration Management (parameters definition, update, etc)o Data Management

• Communication Management (network interface, protocol, etc)

RAWFIE EDL (3/6)

• Parts of an Experiment BeginExperiment Metadata Section Requirements Section Declarations Section Execution Section EndExperiment• The Editor produces a set of files needed for

experiment executiono Example: Json file containing the location of each node at each time

instance

RAWFIE EDL (4/6)

• Example scriptMetadata Section

Requirements Section

Execution Section

Nodes Management

Group Management

Declarations Section

RAWFIE EDL (5/6)

• Textual Editor example

o Content assist example

o Error identification

RAWFIE EDL (6/6)

RAWFIE Experiment Scenarios

• Exploration & Assessment of Network Technologies Robustness

• Border Surveillance or Perimeter protection of large areas

Borders

Area -Camp

UxVs

OperationalCentre

DAY NIGHT THERAL CAMERARADAR

DAY NIGHT THERAL CAMERAMOTION SENSORACOUSTIC SENSORFLAME DETECTORCBRN SENSOR

CAMERA

MOTION SENSOR

CBRN SENSOR

FLAME DETECTOR

ACOUSTIC SENSOR

ALARM

ALARM

Borders

Area -Camp

UxVsUxVs

OperationalCentre

DAY NIGHT THERMAL CAMERARADAR

DAY NIGHT THERMAL CAMERAMOTION SENSORACOUSTIC SENSORFLAME DETECTORCBRN SENSOR

CAMERA

MOTION SENSOR

CBRN SENSOR

FLAME DETECTOR

ACOUSTIC SENSOR

ALARM

ALARM

Open Calls - How to get

involved?

• Expected third partieso UxV manufacturerso Test bed operatorso Experimenters

• Third parties fundingo 3.4 M € (up to 150K per project)o Estimation for 23 third parties in total

• Open Calls processo Third parties descriptiono Proposal submissiono Proposal evaluation by a field-experts poolo Contract with successful ideas

How to attract participants?

• RAWFIE websiteo Call for reviewerso Call for proposals

• Social Media campaignso Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

• Human networkso Participation to fora, conferences, workshops, conventions

• Emphasis on the self-sustainability of RAWFIEo Uniform interface for the experimenterso Larger pool of experimenterso Larger revenue for testbed operators and UxV vendors

Important dates• 1st Open Call: December 2015

o Submission deadline: February 2016o Notification for successful proposals: May 2016

• 2nd Open Call: December 2016o Submission deadline: February 2017o Notification for successful proposals: May 2017

Contact

Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, University of Athens, GREmail: shadj@di.uoa.gr

Website: www.rawfie.euLinkedIn: Rawfie ProjectTwitter: @rawfie_project

Upcoming Event: ICT Event , Lisbon

Questions

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