WWW FP 7 -FEDERICA EU FEDERICA status and

WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU FEDERICA status and achievements Mauro Campanella GARR Mauro. campanella@garr. it TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga, Spain

FEDERICA at a glance What: WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU European Community co-funded project in its 7 th Framework Program in the area “Capacities - Research Infrastructures”, 3. 7 MEuro EC contribution, 461 PMs When: 1 st January 2008 - 30 June 2010 (30 months) Who: 20 partners, based on stakeholders on network research and management: 11 National Research and Education Networks, DANTE (GÉANT 2), TERENA, 4 Universities, Juniper Networks, 1 small enterprise (MARTEL), 1 research centre (i 2 CAT) - Coordinator: GARR (Italian NREN) Where: Europe-wide e-Infrastructure, open to external connections TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 2

FEDERICA Vision WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU An e-Infrastructure based on virtualization in both computers and network is a fundamental tool for researchers on Future (and current) Internet. The facility should allow researchers a complete control of their set of resources in a “slice”, enabling disruptive experiments at all communication layers. Particular care should be placed in reproducibility of the experiments and in the avoidance of complexity. Such e-Infrastructure can be built on existing infrastructures using a practical approach and should be able to “federate” with other facilities. TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 3

FEDERICA: an e-Infrastructure on NRENS e-Infrastructures WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU Router/Switch Host for Virtual nodes Raw Ethernet 1 Gbps (Fiber later) TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 4

Infrastructure Status WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU KTH SE SUNET NORDUN ET DFN DE SWITCH CH PSNC PL GARR IT HEAnet IE CESNET CZ Red. es ES FCCN PT i 2 CAT ES GRNET ICCS GR Hungarnet HU 1 Gbps Ethernet Each core Po. P is equipped with a switch/router (Juniper) and two or more V-Nodes TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 5

Project Timeline WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU June 2009 Jun 2010 Slices Jan 2008 Month 11 TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 6

Virtual Internet From physical to virtual WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 7

The Core Substrate - HW WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU Switch: Juniper MX 480, Dual CPU, 1 line card with 32 ports at 1 Gb Ethernet. Virtual and logical routing, MPLS, VLANs, IPv 4, IPv 6, 2 of the 4 line cards have hardware Qo. S capabilities) V-Nodes: each is a 2 x Quad core AMD @ 2 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 8 network interfaces, 2 x 500 GB disks, Virtualization SW FEDERICA substrate TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 8

The Core Substrate - IP WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU Management plane defined as an IP Autonomous System: AS : 47630 (public, no transit, peers with GARR, PSNC which announce the AS to GN 2 and General Internet) active IP v 4 : 194. 132. 52. 0/23 (public addresses) active IP v 6 : 2001: 760: 3801: : /48 (public) (to be configured soon) NRENs and Global Internet FEDERICA substrate TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 9

Pictorial of creation of a Slice WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU The user requests an Infrastructure made of L 2 circuits, un-configured virtual nodes, to test a new BGP version. Creation of: 1. user credentials and authentication and a “Slice” 2. Virtual Gateway (in red) to bridge the user from outside into the slice 3. Create resources and connect them as specified by the user NRENs and Global Internet FEDERICA substrate (only CORE is shown) TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 10

Offering “Slices” for “any” Research WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU Using Virtualization technologies the FEDERICA e-Infrastructure creates “slices” composed by virtual resources (circuits, nodes, routers) The slices are configured according to users’ requests Possible use cases: - new routing protocols - behavior on the network of distributed applications Global Internet - Inter-domain services FEDERICA substrate (only core is shown) TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 11

FEDERICA vs. other projects Project: WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU Onelab 2/ Planetlab Emulab FEDERICA fixed User choice (almost any) No emulation control down to raw Ethernet Mandatory used to connect then emulation Used to connect, then not needed Physical delay and capacity choice No emulation Yes (up to 1 Gb) guarantees of reproducibility No emulation Yes Almost none, at any time regulated by a User Policy Board limited none medium large limited Operating system Control of lower layers IP User access limits Cost Scalability TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 12

The User Policy Board tasks WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU - First contact point for users: - advises and clarifies initial questions and points to / clarifies issues in the compilation of the requested documents (User Information kit) - Receives the official requests from users and evaluates technically (not scientifically !) the proposals (with the support of technical experts) - Ensures the implementation of slices according to agreed schedule - Follows a user with a dedicated FEDERICA person through the user project lifetime - Receives user feedback TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 13

Users WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU The project had its launch event end of November 2008. We have the current users / projects ongoing approved: - Onelab and monitoring testing (ELTE Hungary) - Openflow tests (Stanford, Germany, Sweden, Italy) - Monitoring (Czech Rep. - Internal) - PHOSPHORUS project Pending requests from Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany Many requests for interconnection capabilities between initiatives and laboratories and some requests for optical testing TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 14

Federating FEDERICA WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU We should differentiate between various forms of federation: 1. integrated ( the facilities can be used as one with a inter -domain common control plane) 2. partially integrated (only part of the control is exchanged, e. g. calendar, AAA information) 3. overlay (each facility just uses the services of the other without a common control plane, just a data plane, there is an exchange of information related to monitoring, faults, and so on) All these possibilities present challenges … TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 15

FEDERICA Data and Control Plane WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU Access protocol : initially paper due to need for scheduling, security and technical agreements (no first come, first serve policy). Next step may be based on SOA (need standard representation of resources) Control plane is not fully automated and it is a set of tools and manual configuration (due to the combined network and system resources) Network Layer substrate NRENs and Global Internet IPv 4 (and v 6), AS 47630 snmp monitoring Data Link layer substrate Ethernet Physical Layer substrate Fibre and Copper TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 16

Slice Data and Control Plane SLICE Application Layer WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU May host any control plane Basic Data Plane is IP SLICE Network Layer Ethernet SLICE Data Link layer Fibre and Copper SLICE Physical Layer Network Layer substrate NRENs and Global Internet IPv 4 (and v 6), AS 47630 Data Link layer substrate Ethernet Physical Layer substrate Fibre and Copper TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 17

Federating FEDERICA (cont) WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU Having a common control plane in a multidomain environment is very difficult, as it places many constraints to each facility (in time, technology and developments). Need to develop standard resources representation schemas for virtual resources and virtual resource sets to exchange services. The inter-facility exchange of information and synchronization between facilities has to scale gracefully. The Intra-facility control plane is complex, due to resource scheduling and resources mapping from virtual topology (slice) to physical topology, especially if reproducibility or guarantees are mandated. TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 18

FEDERICA - Onelab 2 pre-federation WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU One. Lab nodes can be hosted in a slice. Those node have full control of their network interface and circuits up to the egress from FEDERICA into General Internet. The slice can contain also a “One. Lab router” Onelab Slice NRENs and Global Internet FEDERICA substrate TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 19

Conclusions WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU An infrastructure based on virtualization, network and computing resources can offer a very useful platform for innovation and research at many (if not all) communication layers and can be realized on existing facilities. The physical resources functionalities and infrastructure engineering should ensure the functionality to guarantee the “quality” of the virtualization for reproducibility. Federation is of outmost importance (e. g. to access new technologies and to ensure a larger facility), but has many facets and complexities. A practical approach through a “supportive” or “pre-federation” is advised. TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 20

References FEDERICA : WWW. FP 7 -FEDERICA. EU http: //www. fp 7 -federica. eu NRENs : http: //www. terena. org/compendium GÉANT 2 : http: //www. geant 2. net TNC 2009, June 9 th 2009 - Malaga 21