FIBRE project presented at the FIRE Workshop Brazil-EU cooperation in ICT during the FIA 2012 event in Aalborg.

1. FIBRE & BEYOND
FIRE Workshop
Brazil-EU cooperation in ICT Research and Development
Future Internet test beds / experimentation between BRazil and Europe
EU Project nº 288356. CNPq Project nº 590022/2011-3
Sebastià Sallent
Aalborg, 8th May 2012

2. Index
• FIBRE at a Glance
• Objectives
• Architecture
• Benefits
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3. Index
• FIBRE at a Glance
• Objectives
• Architecture
• Benefits
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4. Overview
Create a common space between the EU and Brazil
for
Future Internet (FI) experimental research
into
network infrastructure and distributed applications,
by
building and operating a federated EU-Brazil Future
internet experimental facility
The project will design, implement and validate a shared Future Internet
research facility between Brazil and Europe, supporting the joint Future
Internet experimentation of European and Brazilian researchers
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5. Partners
• FIBRE-EU
• i2Cat, Coordinator
• Nextworks (NXW),
• Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)
• University of Essex (UESSEX)
• University of Thessaly (UTH)
• National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA)
• FIBRE-BR
• Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Coordinator
• Brazil’s National Education and Research Network (RNP)
• Telecommunications Research and Development Centre (CPqD)
• FluminenseFederal University (UFF)
• Federal University of Goiás (UFG)
• Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar)
• Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
• Salvador University (UNIFACS)
• University of Sao Paulo (USP)
• University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
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6. Project at a glance
• Activities
– The project is structured in six main activities
– Three test beds
• Budget
– Requested to the EC 1.09M€
– Requested to CNPq R$ 2.3 M€ in funding
• Duration
– Start date: October 1st , 2011
– End date: March 31th, 2014. (30) months.
• 15 partners
– FIBRE-EU 6 members
– FIBRE-BR 9 members
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7. Index
• FIBRE at a Glance
• Objectives
• Architecture
• Benefits
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8. Objective 1
Build a shared large-scale experimental facility
that enables
experimentation on network infrastructure and
distributed applications,
consisting in
a new testbed in Brazil
and
an enhancement of the FP7 OFELIA facility
and the basic wireless facility of FP7 OpenLab, the UTH
NITOS testbed, both in Europe.
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9. Brazil Facilities
• Create and operate FIBRE-BR that will experiment with new applications
and control the network itself dynamically
L2 long distance network connections
SINGLE WIDE_AREA FI TESBED FACILITY NINE GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED INSTITUTIONAL FACILITIES
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10. Brazil Facilities
• The structure of each Brazil node (Institutional Facilities, IF) is compose of:
• Openflow substrate
• Control and Management Plane (CMF): OMF , OCF,..
• Monitoring: Orbit, PerfSONAR
FIBRE Common Resources
RNP Ipê
OF-enabled Switch Compute Servers
GIGA
To Fibre
Partners
Kyatera
NetFPGA Servers Orbit Nodes
Site-Specific Resources
Wireless Testbeds Optical Testbeds Other Internal Testbeds
Optical Testbeds (e.g. Emulab)
Wimax
Wi-fi APs
Type 1 Type 2 Type 3
Wireless Optical Hybrid
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11. EU Facilities
• The EU large-scale experimental facilities are an extension and federation
of the existing OFELIA, and Openlab projects.
• Two of the OFELIA testbeds (i2CAT and UEssex) and the UTH's NITOS
testbed will be enhanced by
i) its enhance respective control frameworks
ii) adding more physical resources to be able to cope with a bigger
number of users and different use cases
iii) adding more manpower to operate the facilities
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12. EU Facilities
• Enhancements of the OFELIA testbeds (i2CAT and U. Essex) and the UTH's NITOS testbed
OFELIA U. Essex
OFELIA I2Cat
UTH NITOS
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13. Objective 2
• Federate the Brazilian and European facilities, to allow
researchers to use resources of both testbeds in the
same experiment
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14. Large scale experimental facilities
• Federation of EU and Brazil FIBRE research infrastructures creating an intercontinental
multi-domain, multi-layer and multi-technology experimental platform.
NOC EU
Essex-i2CAT
North Atlantic route
RedCLARA-GEANT
• NOC Sau Paulo
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15. Objective 3
• Showcase the potential of the facility by
demonstrating experimental network-enabled
applications deployed on top of the federated facilities
resources.
• Develop local and federated technology pilots and
validate the developed local and federated FIBRE
facilities through showcases, which have been pre-
selected from a number of use cases
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16. Pilot applications
The expected applications to be showcased are:
• Seamless Mobility for Educational Laptops
• High definition (4K) content delivery across different sites
• Bandwidth on Demand through OpenFlow GMPLS in the FIBRE facility.
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17. Objective 4
• Enhance the collaboration and exchange of
knowledge between European and Brazilian
researchers in the field of Future Internet
• To develop a project dissemination and
communication strategy
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18. Index
• FIBRE at a Glance
• Objectives
• Architecture
• Benefits
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19. FIBRE Workflow
Users User (experimenter) accesses CF of
anisland.
Control Framework
RM1 RM2 ... RMN Allislandstopologies are visible.
Resource Managers
User defines
hisnetworkselectingresourcesfromallis
Resources available lands.
User-defined
network
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20. FIBRE architecture
Experimenters
Island 1 Island 2 Island N
CF CF CF
Resource Managers
and RM1 RM2 Fed. Fed. RM1 RM2 Fed. RM1 RM2
FederationControlle
r
Island
resources
User-defined
network
Global
resources ...
20 Physical link

21. FIBRE Components
Control
commands UI
PolicyEngi Authentication
and
OFELIA CMF ne
authoritation
Resource
Control Managers
commands ExperimentCo
nfigurations
OMF CMF Federation
Module
Control Instrumentation
commands ExperimentRe
and Measurement sults
ProtoGENI/PlanetLab CMF
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22. Index
• FIBRE at a Glance
• Objectives
• Architecture
• Benefits
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23. Benefits
• FIBRE is a showcase project in international collaboration in
Future Internet
– Demonstrate local capacity to collaborate with leading
European projects in this important area
– Provide local experimental facilities for validating and
demonstrating new FI proposals
– Provide opportunity for extension to and participation by
researchers from other Latin American countries
– Promote involvement of and technology transfer to the
industrial sector, to prepare for Future Internet needs,
especially involving OpenFlow and SDN approaches.

24. Expected Results
• Intercontinental slices of heterogeneous infrastructure to
network researchers.
• A federated infrastructure automatically controlled by one or
more CMFs
• High speed intercontinental links connecting the European and
the Brazilian parts of the joint facility.
• Enhanced OFELIA Control Framework software
• Enhanced OMF and OML software
• Federation software and tools
• Experimental network application software
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25. Expected Results
• Network of contacts between Brazilian and European partners
• Internal and external links with similar initiatives
• A set of federated infrastructures for users and researchers
• Giving researchers the control over resources to define and
manage their own networks
• Mainly a infrastructure available between continents
• Standarization API
• Resources available:
– Wired: optical fibre, GMPLS/WDM, Ethernet switches…
– Wireles: WIFI, LTE, WiMax, …
http://www.fibre-ict.eu/
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26. FIBRE and Beyond
Towards a Mobile Smart City
Infrastructure
between
EU and Brazil

27. Future of Internet is Mobile
http://gigaom.com/2010/04/12/mary-meeker-mobile-internet-will-soon-overtake-fixed-internet/

28. Where the users will be in XXI Century?
Urban Population in Brazil %
total, 1971/2012
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/brazil/urban-population-percent-of-total-wb-data.html

29. Growing population in urban areas
will be growing worldwide

30. What we need is a
Global Mobile Future Internet
Tesbed,
completing the fixed fibre
tesbed!

31. Cloud + Mobile: main technologies
for all kinds of urbanization

32. Towards Global Mobile
Smart Cities Testbed between
Europe and Brazil

33. The next big cycle in
computing history: SMART

34. Integrating wired and wireless
infrastructures to provide SMART services
• The main objective is to provide SMART
services
• In order to provide SMART services, it is
required:
• Capacity: mainly provided by wired technologies
• Availability: mainly provided by wireless access
technologies (ubiquity)
• High-capacity: WiMAX, LTE, WiFi, etc.
• Low-capacity: Wireless Sensor Networks, ZigBee,
802.15.4, etc.
• Integrating wired and wireless infrastructures is
not trivial if not properly designed

35. Integrating wired and wireless
infrastructures to provide SMART services
Proposal:
• Define, develop and validate a horizontal abstraction layer
that allows integrating both wired and wireless
technologies in urban environments
• The solution will facilitate:
• Easy integration of communication technologies (lower layers)
• Easy development of vertical services and applications (higher
layers) that make use of any of the communication technologies
• Independence of vendors, service providers, application
developers, etc.
• Validation of two specific vertical use cases:
• Smart Mobility
• Objective: reducing traffic related problems in urban areas by deploying
real time information systems.
• Energy Efficiency in Smart Buildings
• Objective: improving sustainability and reducing energy consumed by
public authorities buildings by deploying tools for permanent energy
monitoring and control.

36. Current smart city architecture
defined in the city of Barcelona
Front-End
Data Management
Network Intelligence
Equipment Management
Transport Network
Wireless Access
WirelessDevices

37. Thank you for your attention
Sebastià Sallent
sebastia.sallent@i2cat.net
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