Gino Carrozzo

BonFIRE: A Multi-cloud Test Facility for Internet of Services Experimentation

BonFIRE offers a Future Internet, multi-site, cloud testbed, targeted at the Internet of Services community, that supports large scale testing of applications, services and systems over multiple, geographically distributed, heterogeneous cloud testbeds. The aim of BonFIRE is to provide an infrastructure that gives experimenters the ability to control and monitor the execution of their experiments to a degree that is not found in traditional cloud facilities.

Phosphorus grid-enabled GMPLS control plane (G MPLS): architectures, services, and interfaces

G2MPLS is a network control plane architecture that implements the concept of grid network services. In the framework of the 1ST Phosphorus project, GNS allows the provisioning of network and grid resources in a single step through a set of seamlessly integrated procedures. The implementation of GNS imposes a number of requirements in the control planes of the underlying network infrastructure. This article describes services such as GNS set up and restoration, GNS resource and service discovery, and advance reservation services, which are the main trigger factors of the G2MPLS control plane architectures. The article provides an overview of overlay architecture prior to turning to the main focus of the article, which is the integrated architecture through service procedures and the grid-enabled network interfaces provided by the Phosphorus project.

Towards the cross-domain interoperability of IoT platforms

The Internet of Things is evolving around a plethora of vertical platforms, each specifically suited to a given scenario and often adopting proprietary communications, device and resource control protocols. The emerging need for cross-domain IoT applications and services highlights the necessity of interoperability across IoT platforms for a unified and secure sharing of and access to sensing/actuating resources. This position paper describes the current state of the IoT landscape, the opportunities that appear towards its sustainable evolution as well as the challenges that need to be addressed. In this context, the vision and objectives of the H2020 symbIoTe project are also presented; symbIoTe aims at the interoperability of IoT platforms by offering a flexible interoperability framework that will allow i) vertical IoT platforms to cooperate, ii) collaborative IoT platforms to form IoT-platform federations for exchange of resources and iii) independent developers to create innovative and cross-domain applications.

Architectural approaches for the integration of the service plane and control plane in optical networks

This paper presents some instantiations of novel application-aware network architectures for emerging IT services and future Internet applications. It proposes and analyses network architectures where the Control and Service Planes are closely and seamlessly interacting with the applications. One instantiation, the Grid-GMPLS (G^2MPLS, as defined by the Phosphorus project) is presented, which implements the Network Control Plane (NCP) architecture for the support of Grid Network Services (GNS). The GNS allows the provisioning of network and HPC/Grid resources in a single-step through a set of seamlessly integrated procedures. In a second example of instantiation, a quite popular application in signalling, i.e. the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), is integrated with the Optical Burst Switched (OBS) network technology. The SIP-enabled OBS network can be used to manage application sessions and provide network and IT services according to application requirements. This paper investigates the requirements that these new integrated architectures impose on supporting network Control and Service Planes, and technologies, and discusses their possible implementations.

ORCHESTRA - Optical performance monitoring enabling flexible networking

An optical network, like any system, has to be observable before it can become subject to optimization, and this is the main capability that ORCHESTRA project introduces. ORCHESTRAs high observability will rely on information provided by the coherent transceivers that can be extended, almost for free, to operate as software defined optical performance monitors (soft-OPM). Novel digital signal processing (DSP) OPM algorithms will be developed and combined with a novel hierarchical monitoring plane, cross-layer optimization algorithms and active-control functionalities. ORCHESTRA vision is to close the control loop, enabling true network dynamicity and unprecedented network capacity efficiency.

Demonstration of low latency Intra/Inter Data-Centre heterogeneous optical Sub-wavelength network using extended GMPLS-PCE control-plane

This paper reports on the first user/application-driven multi-technology optical sub-wavelength network for intra/inter Data-Centre (DC) communications. Two DCs each with distinct sub-wavelength switching technologies, frame based synchronous TSON and packet based asynchronous OPST are interconnected by a WSON inter-DC communication. The intra/inter DC testbed demonstrates ultra-low latency (packet-delay <270 µs and packet-delay-variation (PDV)<10 µs) flexible data-rate traffic transfer by point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and multipoint-to-(multi)point connectivity, highly suitable for cloud based applications and high performance computing (HPC). The extended GMPLS-PCE-SLAE based control-plane enables innovative application-driven end-to-end sub-wavelength path setup and resource reservation across the multi technology data-plane, which has been assessed for as many as 25 concurrent requests.

Towards a Distributed SDN Control: Inter-Platform Signaling among Flow Processing Platforms

Todays Internet is a concatenation of IP networks interconnected by many distributed functions integrated into a plethora of highly specialized middleboxes. These elements implement complex network functions like firewalls, NATs, DPI, traffic scrubbing, etc. The product is a quite complex and rigid internetworking system in which network administrators and users cannot easily determine what is happening to traffic flows as they go toward destinations. SDN research and programmable network functions for flow processing and virtualization are unlocking the current scenario, though most of the COTS products generally support network functions only for virtual L2 switching over IP networks (e.g. VXLAN, GRENV, STT) and LAN based flow pinpointing. This paper presents a different perspective for implementing flow processing via distributed SDN controllers and inter-platform signaling. The distributed end-to-end service provisioning among adjacent flow processing platforms is implemented via a signaling framework in which the different actions/functions to be executed by each platform are described in a generic Flow Processing Route (FPR) object. The FPR is exchanged among the SDN controllers over the end-to-end network service path and contains information on routing rules and local flow processing actions to be instantiated at the different platforms. The proposed signaling architecture has been designed and implemented in the FP7-ICT CHANGE project. This paper reports on the key signaling architectural aspects and the developed signaling prototype.

EU Integrated Project PHOSPHORUS: Grid-GMPLS Control Plane for the Support of Grid Network Services

Over the past few years it has become evident that local computational resources cannot keep up with the demands generated by some users/applications and distributed computing using the concept of a computational grid is proposed as the solution. An example is emerging scientific applications that couple scientific instruments, data and high-end computing resources distributed on a global scale. The interconnection of such resources can be quite a challenging task, raising strict requirements for a suitable network infrastructure. Optical networks can support this type of applications offering a large amount of low cost bandwidth and a number of relevant research activities focus on optical network infrastructures utilizing GMPLS control plane for fast and automated provisioning of connections across multi-technology and multi- domain networks. phosphorus (lambda user controlled infrastructure for european research) is an FP6 EU funded Integrated Project that aims to address some of the key technical challenges to enable on-demand, end-to-end network services across multiple domains in a seamless and efficient way. More specifically, the network concept, the network control plane developments and test-beds of the project will make applications aware of their complete grid resources (computational and networking) environment and will be able to make adaptive and optimized use of heterogeneous network infrastructures connecting various high-end resources. As part of this work, phosphorus is concentrating on the development of a common and transversal control plane for the Grid network infrastructures, in which Grid and optical network resources will be controlled by the same control plane for provisioning and recovery purposes, seamlessly spanning across different control and management domains. By introducing a set of extensions to the standard GMPLS, the developed grid-GMPLS architecture introduces interfaces specific for grids, resulting in a more powerful network control plane solution. In this paper we will give an overview of phosphorus and present the grid-GMPLS control plane considerations and architecture, with focus on issues such as routing that will be implemented and demonstrated by the project.

Deployment and Interoperability of the Phosphorus Grid Enabled GMPLS (G2MPLS) Control Plane

Grid-GMPLS (G2MPLS) is conceived as a powerful network control plane solution that enhances the standard ASON/GMPLS architecture providing single-step resource reservation, co-allocation and maintenance of both network and Grid resources. This paper identifies and discusses the main issues and considerations that arise by network research and educational networks and network operators in order to facilitate the dissemination of G2MPLS control plane. Interoperability issues and backwards compatibility with existing network control planes centre the scope of this study, which intends to demonstrate the feasibility of adopting the proposed architectures.

Dynamic Reconfiguration in 5G Mobile Networks to Proactively Detect and Mitigate Botnets

Botnets are one of the most powerful cyberthreats affecting continuity and delivery of existing network services. Detecting and mitigating attacks promoted by botnets become a greater challenge with the advent of 5G networks, as the number of connected devices with high mobility capabilities, the volume of exchange data, and the transmission rates increase significantly. Here, a 5G-oriented solution is proposed for proactively detecting and mitigating botnets in a highly dynamic 5G network. 5G subscribers’ mobility requires dynamic network reconfiguration, which is handled by combining software-defined network and network function virtualization techniques.