This presentation presents a general overview of FP7 4WARD Project, its ideas, goals, and project structure and work

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The Way 4WARD to the Creation of a
Future Internet
Norbert Niebert, Stephan Baucke,
Ibtissam El-Khayat, Martin Johnsson,
Börje Ohlman, Henrik Abramowicz, Klaus
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Wuenstel, Hagen Woesner, Jürgen
Quittek, Luis M. Correia
IST/IT, Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
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Outline
Partners & Structure.
Why a Network of the Future?
Approaches in 4WARD.
Conclusions.
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Partners
Ericsson
Ericsson Nokia-Siemens-Networks
KTH VTT Alcatel-Lucent
SICS Deutsche Telecom
Ericsson
Nokia-Siemens-Networks
Tu Berlin
Canada
Univ. of Bremen
NEC Univ. of Karlsruhe
Univ. of Lancaster Finland
UNiv. of Paderborn
Univ. of Surrey
Ericsson Sweden
Norway
Telekomunikacja Polska
WIT
Siemens
Ireland TPUCN
Poland
UK
Germany
Alcatel-Lucent
France Telecom Romania
Austria
GET-INT Switzerland
LIP6 France
Technion
Italia
IST-TUL
Spain
PTIN
Univ. of Basel Israel
Telcom Italia
Robotiker-Tecnalia
US Telefonica
Rutgers
university
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Structure
WP6 NetInf
WP4
InNet
WP2
WP1 Mgmt
WP5 Formux New
BIRD
APC
WP3 Virtualisation
WP0 Project Management
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Why a Network of the Future?
(1)
Innovation is anyway outside the network ( g ,
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Skype, Zattoo, FaceBook).
We just learned that we have to move to all-IP. Is this
all wrong?
The Internet itself has always worked, and the IETF
will fix it if there are problems.
But,
But
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Why a Network of the Future?
(2)
There is a surge of unwanted traffic and management
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cost.
Will the IP world reasonably cover the Internet of
Information?
IP Internet was developed for copper. Is it the best
choice for the future optical-wireless world?
International activities have started: FIND (US), GENI
(US)
(US), Future Internet Assembly (EU), NICT (JP), FIF
(KR),
(KR) …
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The Network of the Future
as we know it
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Flexible and participatory – user and provider are
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dynamically attached roles.
Information centric rather than bit centric at the
network level.
level
Security that nevertheless keeps the generativity of
the network intact.
Low cost to access, deploy and operate.
access operate
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4WARD Principles
Tenet 1: Let 1000 Networks Bloom.
Tenet 2: Let Networks Manage Themselves
Themselves.
Tenet 3: Let a Network Path Be an Active Unit.
Tenet 4: Let Networks Be Information-Centric.
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The Facets of 4WARD
Combination of
Business Innovation
clean-slate
approaches to
address the
Network of the
Future.
Endpoint
Focus on
Forwarde
r
individual
Folding
Point
innovations in
Phase 1
(2 years).
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Business, Society and
Regulatory Drivers
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Focus of
4WARD:
Drive
innovations
into the
network layer
to create new
socio
socio-
economic
opportunities.
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Support the Network Architect
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The Virtual e2e Network
Deals with e2e
resource
virtualisation of
networking
resources.
Opens the
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possibility for
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more radical
innovation in the
network.
Enables migration
from current
Internet.
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Traditional Network
Management
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In network
In-network Management
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How we see connectivity today
Today’s networks are constructed as
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overlays from the ground up.
We have routing, addressing,
routing addressing
error/flow control on application, IP
and ethernet/optical/radio layer today.
Overlays and underlays are typically
not end-to-end.
end-to-end
Paths are visible inside a single layer
only.
onl
Is there something like a largest
common denominator, a generic
path?
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A new transport paradigm: the
generic path
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Organise cooperation among nodes in a path
O i ti d i th
Understand their existence, and signalling.
Structure cross-layer information Find out lower
topologies and their capabilities.
Control underlay topologies Multi-layer routing.
Mobility by generic path.
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The Network of Information
Architecture of a
Network of Information. A
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Information modelling.
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Basic dissemination B C
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mechanisms and
services.
Non-dissemination and
N di i ti d D
A E
delay-sensitive B B B
E E E E
services.
ser ices A A
A A
Evaluation of the C D
approach.
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Network of Information
Architecture Overview
A hit t O i
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Conclusions
4WARD addresses the problems of the Networks of
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the Future, and Future Internet.
A systems approach is taken for Future Internet
Internet.
Innovation and new business opportunities are
driven into the network layer.
layer
The mobile and wireless perspective is considered.
Networks architectures, virtualisation of resources,
in-network management, generic paths, and network
of information are the main concepts being
addressed.
We are open and interested in collaboration with
related international initiatives.
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