Past Projects
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Description
Internet is widely deployed almost over the world. However, new
transmission technologies and new applications change the patterns of
the traffic in the net. Moreover, new users with different profiles can
change the patterns of the traffic.
The knowledge of the Internet traffic characteristics is necessary to
optimize resources, to design the growth of the network, and to know
the usage that of the resources. The complexity of the traffic analysis
for a network is related to the amount of traffic carried, the topology
of the network, the number of users, and the degree of detail desired
to the reports.
There are other projects working on IP traffic measurement on
high-speed networks like CAIDA.
The main difference between MIRA and other traffic analysis projects is
the need of a full packet capture that implies a lower capture ratio.
The MIRA platform is mainly divided in two subsystems. The Traffic Capture Subsystem, collects samples of the traffic in a high-speed link. In fact, it is a modification of the OC3MON software for the PCA200 Fore ATM card adapter that provides periodic full IP packet samples. This traffic capture is done in a passive way, which means that it does not interfere the performance of the network. The other subsystem, the Traffic Analysis subsystem has different modules that extract different parameters of the network.
The results allow us to classify the traffic by application and/or server. As our capture system is not able to capture all the traffic, we get statistical results but correlating the captured data to historic data. A server not detected at one time, if its services persist in the network, will be detected later. A server of an unknown application, with large amount of data generated, will become more important if historic data of that server is accumulated. In that case it will be detected.Participants
This project has been developed jointly with: UC3M university, UPM university and TIDSA.
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The Spanish National Host comprises five organisations offering resources to ACTS projects. Telefonica has an experimental broadband network in Madrid, called RECIBA and this is supplemented by Universities in Madrid and Barcelona who have their own local broadband networks on offer and by the metropolitan area network in Barcelona. The host can offer multimedia conferencing, including multi-point, co-operative working, messaging and video retrieval as well as network connectivity. But, most importantly, the host also allows access to significant user communities that can be used by ACTS projects (or projects from other national or EU programmes) to perform operational trials or experiments of leading edge applications and services that involve real users. -
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MICC aims to introduce the use of on-site mobile communications as a way of improving the global competititevess of the European construction sector. Such communications are essential if quality, efficiency and safety are to be improved. MICC is defining a European wide solution which will enable all on-site organisations to radically improve management of the site through new mobile applications and services.
After laboratory and site experimentation of emerging technology, the project will perform advanced sample application experiments on four construction sites to demonstrate the viability of the architecture and the improvement in quality, efficiency and of the long-term economic efficiency of the European construction industry in competing in the international marketplace. The project is user-led and takes its direction from the fundamental requirements of the construction industry. The Consortium has set up a Project Industry Forum to cooperate closely with suppliers and communication network operators. The partners are already in contact with National Hosts.Duration
September 1995 - August 1998 (01/09/1995 - 31/08/1998)
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Project Website: http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=1428168
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The main objective of MEPHISTO is to apply the principles of network management (TMN) to advanced all-optical core networks, namely exploiting wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) for transmission and routing. To this purpose, the project will develop an innovative and generic information model for operation and management of optical networks and network elements. MEPHISTO will also adapt and develop management software applications to perform fault, configuration and performance management, according to this new information model. Finally, MEPHISTO will demonstrate and assess the developed management system both in an optical network emulation software and in the hardware prototype of an optical WDM ring network.Duration
July 1996 - June 1999 (01/07/1996 - 30/06/1999)
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Project Website: http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=1939757
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Description
MOON is a project in the scope of the second ACTS call and aims at the development of a framework for the management of the photonic layer of the future pan-European transport network. Key functionalities will be implemented in a field demonstrator network, called MOONET. Management of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical cross connects and WDM transmission links, spanning some hundreds of kilometres using optical in-line amplifiers, will be includedDuration
September 1996 - December 1998 (01/09/1996 - 31/12/1998)
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Project Website: http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=1940078
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Description
The key goal of the project is to design and implement an intelligent and dynamic DWDM switching all-optical network architecture. This network will be able to provide Bandwidth/Wavelength on Demand with QoS between the different nodes and the IP clients. The network architecture is based on the ASON (Automatically Switching Optical Networks) standard, with intelligent optical cross-connect (OXC) for routing and switching, and optical add-drop nodes. The optical devices will integrate tunable lasers, controlled initially by the Network Manager and later dynamically by the control plane. Thus, the control plane of the network, responsible for setting up, releasing and restoring a connection will be developed under the policies of the GMPLS. The management plane, initially used for establishing the connections and for monitoring all the network topology and equipment status will be implemented with the HP Openview management software. Duration
36 (12/12/2001 - 12/12/2004)
Contract number
TIC2000-0304-P4
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Project Website: http://carisma.ccaba.upc.edu
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Description
The objective of the InfoWin project is to provide the ACTS Information Window. This window allows information to flow from ACTS projects to the outside world, and also helps the outside world to be visible to the ACTS projects.
The window is intended to ensure that the work carried out in ACTS is timely and relevant. It ensures that ACTS participants keep an up-to-date view of the development of the market and its needs, and simultaneously it ensures visibility of the work carried out within ACTS.
To maximise the synergy to be obtained by carrying out the research and development of ACTS within the overall framework of a collaborative programme, the InfoWin project provides support for the internal communication of the ACTS programme, both within the projects and between projects and the Commission.
Duration
36
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Project Website: http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=1428535
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The Integrated Multimedia Project (IMMP) primarily studies the integration of interactive multimedia services and system architectures addressing both residential and business users and focusing on the overlaps and synergy between the two. The main focus is on investigating and using IP/ATM connections and using applications relevant to the business sector. The evolution towards new multimedia applications will take place in a step by step fashion with successful services developed only after extensive end-user evaluations. This process will be followed in the project emphasising end-user trials and the feedback from them. t is necessary for IMMP to conduct focused trials with selected services to understand the key ssues (technical, human and commercial) which will affect the successful deployment d end user acceptance of such services. Of particular relevance will be common new services that can be utilised in both business and residential areas.Duration
18
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Description
The primary objective of the Action is to devise possible architectures for the next generation of high capacity optical transport and also access networks. The target architecture should
o provide virtually unlimited end-to-end bandwidth regardless of distance enabling instant movement of huge amounts of data for applications,
o enable efficient and simple multicasting and broadcasting of broadband signals,
o be flexible and agile in order to accommodate abrupt and unpredictable traffic surges and to react instantaneously when failures occur, allowing seamless and errorless transmission of large data blocks,
o be transparent to all sorts of digital signals and protocols so that it would enable to accommodate a number of network types and services simultaneously or in succession deployed over time,
o trade bandwidth for simplicity to alleviate the complexity problem in the communication networks resulting mainly from the ever increasing amount of software residing in the networks that raises costs and lowers reliability of the networks.Duration
01/02/1999-31/07/2003
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Project Website: http://www.ure.cas.cz/dpt240/cost266/
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Description
LION aims at giving answers to Network Operators (N.O.) about interoperability of client transport networks (e.g. ATM, SDH, IP-based) over an optical server one recommended as Optical Transport Network (OTN). In particular, the major target is to design and test over a testbed a multi-layer resilient network in a multi-domain environment. First the N.O. requirements will be defined for envisaged multi-layer network scenarios. Cost-effective integrated resilience strategies will be investigated supported by planning evaluations. The ITU-T functional modelling will be adopted to define first the OA&M and management requirements and then specifications for interfaces between network clients and OTN and between OTN domains. An "umbrella" management architecture that enables integration of TMN, WBEM, and SNMP will be designed to allow N.O. to manage the network as a whole. The above requirements and specifications will be translated into systems and sub-systems implementation to test in a testbed.
The goal is to design and test a resilient and managed transport network realised by an OTN carrying different clients (e.g. SDH, ATM, IP-based) with interworking and interconnection between layer transport networks and domains. The identified requirements will be validated in a testbed where IP-routers and SDH equipment will be integrated over an OTN infrastructure. The following objectives will be met: define the interworking and interconnection requirements between client-server layer networks and domains; define the functional requirements of an IP-based transport network; enhance the functional architecture of an OTN to account for new emerging features (e.g. digital optical container); implement, integrate and test Network Node Interfaces (NNI) between transparent domains and Client Node Interfaces (CNI), both based on digital optical container; implement, integrate and test an "umbrella" management system over a testbed; to develop and test strategies for integrated resilience controlled by an overall OA&M and a management system adopting QoS demanding applications; make techno-economic evaluations of an IP-based network over an OTN.
The following milestones/results are foreseen: integrated multi-layer network requirements and scenarios; functional description of an integrated OTN carrying multi-clients; functional requirements and implementation of CNI and NNI based on digital optical container; design of an "umbrella" management architecture implemented with CORBA and WBEM; OA&M concepts in an integrated multi-layer network; resilience interworking strategies in multi-layer networks; multi-layer resilient network planning and evaluation; testbed validation experiments.Duration
48
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Project Website: http://www.telecom.ntua.gr/lion/
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Description
Main objective is to propose a Packet-over-WDM network solution, including traffic properties and management, based on optical packets and asynchronous transmission over metro and backbone distances. The project will capitalise on both optics and electronics to find out the optimum combination to reach multi-Tb/s capacity. To cope with the on-going convergence in the transport of voice, data and multimedia applications, the project will also define several classes of service, adapted to optical layer specifics. On the metro side, the project will consider a buffer-less network using a medium access control protocol. The backbone will be based on 10 Tb/s multi-layer (wavelength and packet) opto-electronic medium access control protocol with opto-electronic packet routers, incorporating core and edge functions. Finally, the project will demonstrate highly integrated optical and electronic devices, included in a sub-equipped experimental platform. Work description: A first task will be to tackle the network issues: - Define network requirements and functional specifications of the network elements; - identify a migration path from short-term approaches; - Carry out traffic studies to analyse IP traffic behaviour when transported over WDM, and propose optimised buffering schemes, access control protocols and routing algorithms taking into account a multi-QoS environment; - Investigate network management issues, such as interoperability between packet and WDM levels. A second task will be to investigate and implement the required network elements: - A network testbed will be implemented with its associated access control protocol to show a buffer-less multi-QoS optical packet metro network of capacity beyond 1Tb/s (2.5Gb/s line-rate); - A 10-Tb/s opto-electronic optical packet router (2.5/10Gb/s line-rate) incorporating gateway functions between metro and backbone will be implemented using a two-layer (wavelength and packet) approach; A third task will be to provide the required advanced components: - Fast and highly integrated optical space and wavelength switching modules, based on semiconductor optical amplifiers (up to 32 gates per module), and incorporating adapted high-speed electronic drivers; - electronics for clock recovery, buffering, and switching will be developed, based on SiGe and III/V technologies. Milestones: - Functional definition and migration path of optical-packet-over-WDM scenario - Analysis of traffic models and logical network performance; - Info-model of packet/WDM management; - Test-bed including metro network, optical packet router and interfaces to IP - New architectures and routing techniques, 40Gb/s studies; - Optical switch modules (32 gates); - Electronics for signal processing.Duration
1/7/2000 - 30/6/2003
Contract number
IST-1999-11742
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Project Website: http://cordis.europa.eu/data/PROJ_FP5/ACTIONeqDndSESSIONeq112422005919ndDOCeq581ndTBLeqEN_PROJ.htm
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Description
LONG aims to foresee and solve problems related to the design, configuration and deployment of Next Generation Telecommunication networks specially when new services and applications are carried out across them.
The new version of the IP protocol, IPv6, will become an integral part of these Next Generation networks. In addition to this, the proliferation of new high bandwidth and asymmetric access technologies, like ADSL and CATV, will also shape the network design of these Next Generation Networks. On the other side, applications must be aware of the advanced services provided by the networks and protocols, and must take into account the impact of the underlying network. LONG aims at gaining an in-depth knowledge in the design and deployment of IPv4/IPv6 transition scenarios, as well as in the operational inter-working when heterogeneous access (ADSL, CATV, ISDN) and transport (IP/ATM, IP/SDH, IP/WDM) technologies are in place. The integration of IPv6 with advanced network services will be validated in LONG.
On the other hand, LONG focuses on extending the framework of applications, so that they benefit from the services provided by these Next Generation networks. In order to achieve these goals, LONG faces the following objectives:
- To deploy a Next Generation testbed.
- To adapt and validate a representative set of applications to the Next Generation Network scenarios.
- To perform trials and experiments.
- To develop guidelines for migration of networks and applications and disseminate results.
Duration
1/12/2000 31/1/2003
Contract number
IST-1999-20393
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Project Website: http://long.ccaba.upc.edu/
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Description
SMARTxAC is a project carried out under a collaboration agreement between the Advanced Broadband Communications Center (CCABA) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and the Supercomputing Center of Catalonia (CESCA).
SMARTxAC aims to develop and deploy a passive measurement infrastructure and a real-time analysis system for high-speed links. Currently, SMARTxAC is being used for capturing and analyzing the traffic of the Anella CientÃfica (Scientific Ring). The Anella CientÃfica is the name of the Catalan R&D Network, which is managed by CESCA and connects about 50 Universities and Research Centers in Catalonia.
The tapped link is built from a pair of GigE links (one for each traffic direction) that connect the Anella CientÃfica to RedIRIS (Spanish R&D network) and to the global Internet. Current traffic volume on this link is about 600 Mbps and it is increasing day after day, so that data collection is facilitated by an Endace DAG 4.3GE measurement card. Full-traffic analysis at full-line rate is performed in real-time using the SMARTxAC analysis software developed at the Advanced Broadband Communications Center (CCABA) of the UPC.
A three hours GPS-synchronized and anonymized IP header trace was captured for the NLANR/PMA project in February 2004 using the capture point and collection platform in the Anella CientÃfica. This data set was published and can be downloaded at CESCA-I section of NLANR/PMA website.Duration
undefined (since 2003)
Participants
UPC, CESCA
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Project Website: http://www.cba.upc.edu/smartxac
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The overall goal of the IST project NOBEL is to find and to validate (experimentally) innovative network solutions and technologies for intelligent and flexible optical networks, thereby enabling broadband services for all. Specifically project main objectives are:
* to define network architectures, evolutionary guidelines and a roadmap for core and metro optical transport networks towards intelligent data centric solutions (based on optical and electrical switching, e.g. ASON/GMPLS);
* to identify main drivers for the evolution of core and metro optical networks supporting end-to-end broadband services, and to derive technical requirements in accordance to this;
* to study efficient traffic/network engineering and resilience strategies in multi-layer/domain/service networks and interworking issues;
* to assess and describe social and techno-economic aspects regarding the deployment of network solutions and technologies for intelligent and flexible optical networks;
* to evaluate solutions for providing end-to-end Quality of Service;
* to identify network architectures, concepts and solutions for advanced packet/burst switching;
* to propose simplified strategies for the end-to-end management and control of intra/inter-domain connections in multi-layers networks (e.g. IP over Optics);
* to find enhanced solutions and technologies for physical transmission in transparent optical networks;
* to identify the key functional requirements from the architectural, management, control and transmission viewpoints and translate them into specifications, feasibility studies and prototype realizations for multi-service/multi-layer nodes with flexible client and adaptable transport interfaces;
* to assess existing technologies, components and subsystems in terms of efficiency and cost-effectiveness, deriving requirements and specifications for next generation components and subsystems, with respect to the network solutions identified;
* to integrate the prototype solutions of for multi-service/multi-layer nodes into existing test beds for experiments on advanced functionalities.Duration
24 months
Participants
# Telecom Italia - TILAB - Italy # Alcatel SEL Ag - ASEL - Germany # Alcatel CIT - ACIT - France # Alcatel Italia - AITA - Italy # British Telecom - BT - UK # Deutsche Telecom - DT - Germany # Ericsson AB - ERICSSON - Sweden # Lucent Technologies Network Systems GmbH - LUGmbH - Germany # Lucent Technologies Nederland BV - LUBV - Nederland # Marconi Communications ONDATA GmbH - MCONDATA - Germany # Marconi Communications S.p.A. - MCSPA - Italy # Pirelli Labs - PLABS - Italy # Siemens - SIEMENS - Germany # Telefonica I+D - TID - Spain # TeliaSonera - TS - Sweden # T-Systems Nova GmbH - T-Systems - Germany # ACREO - ACREO - Sweden # AGH eng. UMM-University of Mining and Metallurgy - AGH - Poland # CISCO - CISCO - Belgium # Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia - CTTC - Spain # France Telecom - FT - France # FhG-HHI - FhG-HHI - Germany # Interuniversity MicroElectronics Center - IMEC - Belgium # Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation - NTT - Japan # National Technical University of Athens - NTUA - Greece # AIP-Politecnico of Milano - AIP - Italy # Scuola Superiore S.Anna - SAnna - Italy # Telenor - TELENOR - Norway # University College of London - UCL - UK # Budapest University of Technology and Economics - BUTE - Hungary # University of Stuttgart - UST - Germany # Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC - Spain # Ericsson Magyarorszag KFT - ETH - Hungary
Contract number
FP6-506760
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Project Website: http://www.ist-nobel.org/Nobel/servlet/Nobel.Main
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Description
The E-NEXT Network of Excellence targets a key area of Information Society Technologies, namely computer networking. Framework Programme 6 aims to develop the technological basis and the people-skills necessary to deliver the promise of the information revolution - new audio-visual services and products, electronic delivery of business, health, education, entertainment, government, science and so on - and this will fundamentally impact every aspect of life and work. The delivery of all of these e-endeavours depends entirely on computer networks.E-NEXT aims to integrate a critical mass of expertise and to re-structure research practice such that Europe can take a lead in computer networking and act as a world force in this area. The main objectives of this NoE will be: the development of a virtual research centre to integrate the world-class research of the members and to stimulate the exchange of personnel, the education and training of personnel inside and outside the network, the dissemination of research results and in general the spreading of excellence, and the stimulation of innovation by appropriate technology transfer into existing and new companies, both large and small.E-NEXT will achieve these objectives through its management structure consisting of network and country coordination committees, and six workpackages: network coordination, joint research, integration and training, distributed work environment, spreading excellence, and dissemination.E-NEXT is targeted at line 3.1.8 in the First Call for proposals, Networked Audio-Visual Systems and Home Platforms. This line aims to 'support the innovation and development of technologies for end-to-end interoperable audio-visual networks, services and applications'. E-NEXT will make a major contribution to these aims, as well as potentially contributing to other areas of IST, for example to Broadband for All, and to Research Networking.
Duration
1/1/2004 - 31/12/2006
Contract number
6FP-506869
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Project Website: http://www.ist-world.org/ProjectDetails.aspx?ProjectId=ff1e5f5f7d4a4173994872fcb9591266
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Description
The proposed Network of Excellence (NoE) aims at integrating and focusing the rich know-how available in Europe on optical communication and networks, both in universities and in research centres of major telecom manufacturers and operators. The set of available expertises ranges from optical technologies, to networking devices, to network architectures and protocols, to the new services fostered by photonic technologies. The NoE will contribute to the Strategic Objective Broadband for All, with a particular focus (quoting from the EC IST 2003-2004 Workprogramme at page 15) on low cost access equipment, on new concepts for network management, control and protocols, and on increasing bandwidth capacity in the access network as well in the underlying optical core/metro network (including in particular optical burst and packet switching).
The main technical focus of the NoE is to show which are the potential advantages of optical technologies in telecommunication networks with respect to electronic technologies. A strong integration among the participants to the NoE will favour a consensus on the engineering choices towards the deployment of costeffective optical technologies in networking that will support the future Internet, hopefully providing inputs to the standardization bodies and guidelines to the operators, as well as competitive advantages to European telecom equipment manufacturers.
Integration will be pursued primarily by establishing long-term collaborations among partners in terms of research, of infrastructures sharing, and of education and training. The main instruments to achieve these long- lasting collaborations are the regular exchange of researchers between partners, and the development of joint teaching programs and events.
Dissemination will be pursued by means of coordinated publication activities, offerings of training programs, organization of technical events, and interactions with other consortia in the same technical area. Research activities will mainly be carried out in research programs external to the NoE, both at the national and at the European levels. Well focused technical research programs will be activated internally to the NoE. Duration
24 months
Participants
e-Photon/ONe involves 37 partners, coming from 12 member states (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, United Kingdom), 3 candidate countries (Hungary, Poland, Turkey) and 2 third countries (Croatia, applicant country and target INCO West Balkan country, and Norway, associated country). The consortium is composed by 29 universities and other higher education institutes, 4 telecom operators, 1 manufacturer, 3 non-profit research centres.
Contract number
FP6-001933
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Project Website: http://www.e-photon-one.org/ephotonone/servlet/photon.Generar
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Description
Within the 6th Framework Programme, MUPBED was an integrated R&D project in the area "Research Network Infrastructure" of IST (Information Society Technologies) and it was partially funded by the European Commission. The main goal of the IST Project MUPBED was to integrate and validate, in the context of user-driven large-scale testbeds, ASON/GMPLS (Automatically Switched Optical Network/Generalised Multi Protocol Label Switching) technology and network solutions as enablers for future upgrades to European research infrastructures. This goal was pursued by creating a large experimental environment to assess the proposed network solutions, and that was offered as an open test platform to other European research projects and users. The testbed represented a multi-layer network based on IP/MPLS and ASON/GMPLS technologies, equipped with a unified control plane and designed to support the highly demanding applications of the European research community.
The main goal of the IST Project MUPBED is to integrate and validate, in the context of user-driven large-scale testbeds, ASON/GMPLS (Automatically Switched Optical Network/Generalised Multi Protocol Label Switching) technology and network solutions as enablers for future upgrades to European research infrastructures.
This goal will be pursued by creating a large experimental environment to assess the proposed network solutions, and that will be offered as an open test platform to other European research projects and users. The testbed will represent a multi-layer network based on IP/MPLS and ASON/GMPLS technologies, equipped with a unified control plane and designed to support the highly demanding applications of the European research community.
Some of the key project objectives are as follows:
* to identify service and network requirements of high-end applications for European research environments
* to define the ASON/GMPLS features matching the above requirements and enabling the penetration of broadband services in Europe
* to find and experimentally validate solutions for interoperability between different network domains
* to assess the ability of ASON/GMPLS solutions to support demanding research applications, such as Grid computing, through lab and field trials with a large user community (including NRENs)
* to develop guidelines for the introduction of ASON/GMPLS technologies and ultra-broadband services in future European research infrastructures
Taking advantage of the strong asset of existing testbeds, the MUPBED Project brings together leading European players from NRENs, operators, industry, research institutes and universities to ensure that all the aspects of advanced networking and emerging applications are covered. Different local testbeds will be interconnected to create a European-wide field trial, allowing the assessment of different applications and the impact of ASON/GMPLS technologies on future research network solutions.
Duration
1/7/2004 - 31/12/2007
Participants
UPC CCABA participated as "user community" for the testbed.
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Project Website: www.ist-mupbed.org
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The COST 291 Action Towards digital optical networks belongs to the COST Domain: Telecommunications Information Science and Technology. The primary objective of this action is to focus on novel network concepts and architectures exploiting the features of photonic technologies, to enable future broadband telecommunications networks (access, metro and core). It is aiming to propose a new generation of systems and networks that will accommodate the unpredictable growth of data traffic. The action was initiated by the High-speed networks and optical communications group of AIT and Prof. Ioannis Tomkos acts as Action Chairman. More than 28 partners contribute to the activities of the project (including several from new member states).Duration
01/07/2004-31/06/2008
Contract number
COST action 291
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Project Website: http://www.ait.edu.gr/cost291
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Duration
40
Participants
Fundació i2CAT
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The motivation of the EuQoS(End to end Quality of Service) project is to resolve the outstanding design issues presently associated with the delivery of end to end QoS service across heterogeneous networks. It is necessary to resolve these issues and accordingly upgrade the infrastructures so that new applications can be supported by the Internet and new service packages can be offered by operators, ISP and other service providers.Duration
01/09/2004-31/01/2008
Contract number
6FP-004503
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Project Website: http://www.euqos.eu/
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Description
The purpose of the CATARO project (a coordinated project for the evaluation o optical networks technologies and architectures) is to continue the studies carried out in two previous projects, namely TRIPODE (IP traffic transport over Optical networks: Designing and Evaluation, Ref.: TIC2002-04344-C02) and CARISMA (Connection and access to RedIRIS2 through a multi-channel optical ring, CICYT TIC2000-0304-P4-04). Thereby, the CATARO project consists of two subprojects, namely SENDERO (Designing and Evaluation of optical network architectures Ref.: TEC2005-08051-C3-01) and RINGING (GMPLS/ASON Intelligent Network: Integration of reconfigurable nodes, Ref.: TEC2005-08051-C3-02), which are summarized next.
The SENDERO subproject basically concerns the analysis aspects, design and performance evaluation of the network architectures based on optical technology having as objectives, on the one hand completing the subjects opened after finalization the TRIPODE project and on the other hand opening new topics, which interest is growing. Particularly, with respect to optical network architectures that could potentially be implemented in a short-term, it will continue working on control plane and routing algorithms for ASON (Automatically Switched Optical Networks) as well as will begin new topics like provisioning of new telecommunication services, which is required by emerging applications like Grid Computing and Storage Area Networks and inter-working the RPR (Resilience Packet Rings) with ASON networks. Regarding mediumterm architectures, the subproject will continue the subject of metropolitan area optical networks taking into consideration possible implementations of the first prototypes in public infrastructures and evaluation of the architectures more sophisticated. However, the principal objective of this block will be centred on the optical burst switching networks (OBS), the architecture which is gaining interest thanks to its both foreseeable strong benefits and future technological affordability. Finally, in the context of long-term network architectures, the subproject will continue the study on OPS (Optical Packet Switching) nodes functionality with a focus on QoS provisioning, moreover it will approach a study in scope of the whole network, particularly, focusing on a design of the control plane for OMPLS (Optical MPLS) networks, as well as in evaluation of the routing algorithms. At last, we will begin a new topic that consists of an adaptation the technique of optical packets commutation for designing the architectures for high performance computers.
The RINGING subproject concerns the design and building of a reconfigurable optical node with an advanced design, and its further integration into a real network to develop a field trial. The main objective of this subproject is the integration of reconfigurable optical nodes in the GMPL/ASON network, which has been obtained as a result of the CARISMA project. Thanks to the participation in TRIPODE, CARISMA, and FIRM (Field trial with Integrated ROADMs and GMPLS compliance, the CELTIC-EUREKA-2004 project, www.celtic-iniciative.org) projects, the know-how necessary for the implementation of the reconfigurable optical nodes is ready. The subproject is divided in two main blocks. The first one will be dedicated to building reconfigurable optical nodes, while in the other, the aspects of the integration of these nodes in an optical network which was constructed during the CARISMA project, will be treated. Introduction of the traffic engineering (TE) techniques into GMPLS/ASON networks, which will result in a network able to provide optical virtual private networks (OVPN) as well as suitable for working in a GRID environment of great importance in the next future, should be highlighted among the most important general objectives of this subproject. For the development of these last objectives also the participation in PROMISE (Provisioning and monitoring of optical services, CELTIC-EUREKA-2004 project) project will be useful.Duration
1/2006 - 12/2008
Participants
Advanced Broadband Communications Center (CCABA), Depts. of Computer Architecture (AC) and Signal Theory and Communications (TSC), UPC.
Contract number
TEC2005-08051
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Description
Leveraging all results obtained in phase 1, NOBEL phase 2 will consider the medium-term, long-term and extended long-term scenarios, focusing in particular on the last two, and will face with two major challenges. The first is the evolution of the data plane technology in order to reach an 'optimum techno-economic balance' between optical/electrical and circuit/packet routing and switching. The second is the evolution of the network control plane towards an unified control plane that is able of improving the seamless end-to-end network service capabilities in a flexible and scalable way. Moreover, NOBEL phase 2 will consider the opportunity deriving from the convergence of fixed and mobile services, analysing its impact on the metro and core parts of the network. To achieve the overall goals of NOBEL phase 2, the following main objectives were identified.
# Definition and demonstration of architectures for providing packet switched and circuit switched connections in an integrated network scenario. Identification of requirements and solutions for the core and metro networks supporting both fixed and mobile services.
# Study and evaluation of multi-layer traffic engineering and resilience schemes in different service and business scenarios to achieve cost-effective solutions. Effective Multilayer Traffic Engineering (MTE) solutions for the advanced network architectures developed in WP1 will be proposed by enhancing, updating and validating the concepts and solutions identified in NOBEL.
# Development of multilayer traffic models of new services and their use in traffic generators for the experimental activities carried out in WP1 and WP5 as well as for simulations in WP2 and WP3.
# Elaboration of new enhanced resilience mechanisms and evaluation of new case studies for medium term multi-layer scenarios and long-term multi-vendor networks (as defined in NOBEL), with integrated multi-layer concept.
# Techno-economic and cost-effectiveness analysis of network solutions and services.
# Identification, specification and assessment of NOBEL (phase 1) extended long term network architectures, concepts and solutions for the evolution of optical broadband core and metro networks to adapt the network and node structures to the dominating burst/packet type of data traffic (e.g. IPv4, IPv6 etc.) in order to provide the required flexibility, scalability, quality and reliability in the most effective way.
# Identification and development of enhanced, innovative solutions for the Control Plane (CP) and Management Plane (MP) and their collaboration in long term and extended long term network architectures, for end-to-end broadband services, with focus on CP issues in GMPLS networks.
# Evaluation of robust transport technologies and components by theoretical studies, technology assessments, and experiments. Implementation and verification of advanced network and node functionalities in dedicated laboratory experiments.Duration
24 months
Participants
# Telecom Italia - TI - Italy # Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG (formerly Alcatel SEL AG) # Alcatel-Lucent France (formerly Alcatel CIT) # Alcatel-Lucent Italia S.p.A. (formerly Alcatel Italia S.p.A. ) # British Telecommunications PLC - BT - UK # Ericsson AB - ERICSSON - Sweden # Lucent Technologies Network Systems GmbH - LUCENT GMBH - Germany has merged with Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG # Alcatel-Lucent Nederland BV (formerly Lucent Technologies Nederland BV ) # Ericsson GmbH - EDD - Germany # Coreoptics GmbH - COREOPTICS - Germany # Pirelli Labs S.p.A. - PIR - Italy # Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH (formerly Siemens Aktiengesellschaft) # Telefonica Investigación y Desarrollo Sociedad Anónima Unipersonal - TELEFONICA I+D - Spain # Deutsche Telecom AG - DTAG - Germany # ACREO AB - ACREO - Sweden # Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza Im. Stanislawa Staszica W Krakowie - AGH - Poland # CISCO Systems International BV - CISCO - Netherlands # Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya - CTTC - Spain # France Telecom - FT - France # Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. - FRAUNHOFER - Germany # Interdisciplinar Instituut Voor Breedbandtecchnologie VZW - IBBT - Belgium # Institute of Communications and Computer Systems - ICCS - Greece # CoreCom - Consorzio Ricerche Elaborazione Commutazione Ottica Milano - CORECOM - Italy # Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna - SSSA - Italy # Telenor ASA - TELENOR - Norway # University College of London - UCL - UK # Budapest University of Technology and Economics - BME - Hungary # University OF Stuttgart - USTIKR - Germany # Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC - Spain # Università degli studi di Padova - UNIPD - Italy # Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN - Italy # Politecnico di Torino - POLITO - Italy
Contract number
FP6-027305
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Project Website: http://www.ist-nobel.org/Nobel2/servlet/Nobel2.Main
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Description
The Network of Excellence e-Photon/ONe+ aims at integrating and focusing the rich know-how available in Europe on optical communication and networks, both in universities and in research centres of major telecom manufacturers and operators. This project built upon the experience gained within the previous NoE e-Photon/ONe, funded within the 1st IST call of FP6. The set of expertises available in the NoE ranges from optical technologies to networking devices, network architectures and protocols, new services fostered by photonic technologies. The NoE contributes to the Strategic Objective 'Broadband for All', with specific focus on low cost access and edge network equipment, for a range of technologies, including optical fiber, on new concepts for network management, control and protocols, and on increased bandwidth capacity, in the access network as well in the underlying optical core/metro network, including in particular optical burst and packet switching. The main technical aim of the e-Photon/ONe+ is to demonstrate and spread awareness of the potential advantages of optical technologies with respect to electronic technologies in both telecom networks and customer-controlled grids. The focus includes both incrementally improving and emerging optical technologies. In a joint effort, the participants to the NoE will work towards a consensus on the engineering choices for the deployment of cost-effective optical technologies as the foundation for the future Internet, with the strong intention to provide valuable inputs to the standardization bodies and guidelines to the operators, as well as competitive feedback to European telecom equipment manufacturers. Integration is pursued primarily by establishing long-term collaborations among partners in terms of research, of infrastructures sharing, and of education and training. The NoE provides the platform within which the main instruments to achieve these long-lasting collaborations, such as the regular exchange of researchers between partners, the involvement in coordinated research activities, and the development of joint teaching programs and events, will be effectively deployed. Dissemination is pursued by means of coordinated publication activities, of training programs implementation, of technical events and workshop organization, and of interaction with other consortia in the same technical area. Although research activities is mainly be carried out in research programs funded externally to the NoE, at both national and European levels, well-focused joint research programs will be activated and implemented internally to the NoE.
Duration
24 months
Participants
e-Photon/ONe+ involves 40 partners, coming from 14 member states (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom), 2 candidate countries (Croatia, Turkey) and an associated country (Norway). The consortium is composed by 30 universities and other higher education institutes, 3 telecom operators, 3 manufacturers, 4 non-profit research centres.
Contract number
FP6-027497
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Project Website: http://www.e-photon-one.org/ephotonplus
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Description
The CONTENT Network of Excellence targets a key area of Information Society Technologies, namely Content Delivery Networks for Home Users, as an integral part of Networked Audio-Visual Systems and Home Platforms.
CONTENT aims to build the European Research Area in this important communication topic by integrating a group of experts with the purpose of taking forward the state of the art and increasing European leadership in Content Networks. The overall goal of the CONTENT Network-of-Excellence is to integrate the research efforts of the members to address the technical challenges at the different system levels to enable easy-to-install and easy-to-use AV services in and between homes. In particular, the main technical objective will be to boost the potential of European Community Networking by improving Content Distribution infrastructures for the delivery of live (streaming) content and interactive stored content, and by integrating, in an open way, tools and mechanisms that would enable the curation of multimedia assets and their subsequent access for the benefit of the communities of users, producing a set of appropriate services for them, both in the context of the long tail or applied to (re-purposed) assets created by traditional broadcasters.
Duration
1/7/2006 30/6/2009
Participants
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (coordinator) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - CCABA Lancaster University Université Pierre et Marie Curie Universidade de Coimbra National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Technische Universität Darmstadt AGH University of Science and Technology Universitet i Oslo Delft University of Technology Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica - University of Napoli Associate Partners Microsoft Research Cambridge Philips Research Telefonica Publicidad e Información Danet GmbH Agilent Laboratories UK Alcatel-Lucent Nokia Research Center TECMATH / Blue Order TANDBERG ASA Google Switzerland GmbH NAVSHP Visionary Expert Group
Contract number
Priority 2-IST-NoE-038423
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Project Website: http://www.ist-content.eu//index.php
More information of the research activites carried out at UPC within the CONTENT project can be found here
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Description
As networks get faster and network-centric applications get more complex, our understanding of the Internet continues to diminish. New aspects of Internet behaviour emerge that are either unknown or poorly understood. Denial-of-service attacks, malicious self-replicating programs (worms) and viruses plague the Internet. All these indicate the need for better Internet traffic monitoring.
Network monitoring and measurement is increasingly regarded as an essential function for developing and supporting high-quality network services, building and improving innovative networking technologies, analyzing infrastracture trends and user behavior and improving the security of our cyber-infrastracture.
LOBSTER is a step towards providing an advanced pilot European passive Internet traffic monitoring infrastracture that will improve our understanding of the Internet and will contribute towards solving difficult performance and security problems. Based on appropriate abstractions and willing cooperation among points of presence, this proposal will contribute towards effectively monitoring the underlying network, providing early warning for security incidents, and providing accurate and meaningful measurements of performance.
The main goal of LOBSTER is to deploy an advanced pilot European Internet Traffic Monitoring Infrastracture based on passive monitoring sensors at speeds starting from 2.5 Gbps and possibly up to 10 Gbps. It also aims to develop appropriate data anonymising tools to prohibit unauthorised tampering with the original traffic data, and to develop novel applications to improve monitoring (such as traffic characterisation and zero-day worm spread detection). Another aspect will be to provide anonymised traffic data to interested network researchers and security analysts.Duration
Since october 2006
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Project Website: http://www.ist-lobster.org/
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UPC-CBA is part of the Archipelago measurement infrastructure. The primary goals of Archipelago (Ark) are to achieve greater scalability and flexibility than our current measurement infrastructure and to provide a step toward a community-oriented measurement infrastructure by eventually allowing collaborators to run their vetted measurement tasks on a security-hardened distributed platform. Ark is tailored specifically for network measurement, which allows it to be simpler and to more directly address the needs of network researchers than is usually the case with a general-purpose distributed experimental platform. The initial and primary focus of Ark is to continue the large-scale traceroute-based active measurements of the skitter infrastructure. In both role and implementation, Ark subsumes the skitter infrastructure and represents a natural evolution. Ark will evolve from the skitter infrastructure by a gradual process in which pieces of the former infrastructure are extended, enhanced, and/or replaced.
Duration
Since November 2006
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Project Website: http://www.caida.org/projects/ark/
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Monitoring and mining real-time network data streams is crucial for managing and operating data networks. The information that network operators desire to extract from the network traffic is of different size, granularity and accuracy depending on the measurement task (e.g., relevant data for capacity planning and intrusion detection are very different). To satisfy these different demands, a new class of monitoring systems is emerging to handle multiple arbitrary and continuous traffic queries. Such systems must cope with the effects of overload situations due to the large volumes, high data rates and bursty nature of the network traffic. This project presents the design and evaluation of a system that can shed excess load in the presence of extreme traffic conditions, while maintaining the accuracy of the traffic queries within acceptable levels. The main novelty of our approach is that it is able to operate without explicit knowledge of the traffic queries. Instead, it extracts a set of features from the traffic streams to build an on-line predictionmodel of the query resource requirements. This way the monitoring system preserves a high degree of flexibility, increasing the range of applications and network scenarios where it can be used. We implemented our scheme in an existing network monitoring system and deployed it in a research ISP network. Our results show that the system predicts the resources required to run each traffic query with errors below 5%, and that it can efficiently handle extreme load situations, preventing uncontrolled packet losses, with minimum impact on the accuracy of the queries results.
Duration
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Participants
UPC, Intel
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Project Website: http://loadshedding.ccaba.upc.edu/
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Description
The main objective of PASITO project is to provide a communication platform between universities and research centers from, and outside Spain to lay the foundations of a collaborative frame to develop their investigations.
The platform has been developed over the Rediris infrastructure but separating the experimental from the production network. This separation allow PASITO partners to test new technologies without affecting the production services. Nowadays the PASITO platform interconnect fifteen research centers and universities over all Spain.Duration
18 month
Participants
RedIRIS, UPC, I2CAT, CESCA, UPV, UM, UGR, CICA, UAM, UC3M, IMDEA, UPM, UVIGO, CESGA, EHU, I2BASK
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Project Website: http://www.rediris.es/proyectos/pasito/
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Description
The DICONET project is targeting a novel approach to optical networking providing a disruptive solution for the development of the core network of the future. It is the vision and goal of our consortium to provide ultra high speed end-to-end connectivity with quality of service and high reliability through the use of optimized protocols and routing algorithms that will complement a flexible control and management plane offering flexibility for the future network infrastructure.
Duration
01/2008 - 06/2010
Contract number
INFSO-ICT-216338
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Project Website: http://www.diconet.eu/
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Description
The BONE-proposal builds on the foundations laid out by the e-Photon/ONe projects in the previous Framework Programme. This Network of Excellence has successfully brought together over several years the research activities within Europe in the field of Optical Networks. The BONE-project intends to validate this effort by stimulating a more intensified collaboration, exchange of researchers and building on Virtual Centres of Excellence that can serve to European industry with education & training, research tools & testlabs and pave the way to new technologies & architectures.
The Network of the Future, which is the central theme of this Call, will have to cope with a wide variety of applications running on a wide variety of terminals and with an increasing number of connected devices and increasing speed and data-loads. Within this context, issues as convergence between mobile and fixed networks, or issues regarding the optimised broadband access in the last mile using a wide variety of technologies such as DSL, cable, WiMAX, WiFi, PLC,
are currently under investigation to adapt the current network to these increasing requirements for better performance.
The BONE-proposal looks further into the future and builds the final Network of the Future:
- a high capacity, flexible, reconfigurable and self-healing optical Core & Metro network which supports the transport of massive amounts of data
- a FTTx solution in which the x is as close as possible to the home, at the home, or even in the home. From this point the user is connected using terminal-specific technologies (wireless to handheld devices, fiber to home cinema, wireless to laptop, fixed connection to desktop,
)
- BONE clearly identifies the existence of the current technologies and also recognizes the fact that users also require the mobility of wireless access, but this mobile connection ends at a gateway or access points and from there a fixed connection is required and this fixed connection will finally be an optical link.Duration
36 months
Contract number
216863
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Project Website: http://www.ict-bone.ccaba.upc.edu/
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Description
Internet, considered as a system, has experienced an unforeseen growth and many local solutions (new applications and protocols and protocol enhancements) have been added. Each solution or protocol intends to solve a problem but independently of other enhancements and protocols. Each of the technologies has been designed as a standalone process not taking into account the inter-dependencies with other ones. Thus, despite the system is flexible enough scalability and performance issues are pushing it to its limits. The main goal of this project is to contribute in the design of technologies for a converged and pervasive Internet. The project aims to push new services and protocols into the network considering them as coupled processes. To do that, we will take into consideration four of the most relevant aspects that are currently of interest of the research community in this field. These are the optical transport, the ubiquitous connectivity, the application of a traffic analysis and monitoring techniques for the management and control of the network, and the security of communications. In order to address these aspects the project is structured in the following research activities: Architectures for the Pervasive Networking, Traffic monitoring and analysis, Converged Optical Networking Infrastructure, and Digital Identity and Electronic Signature, which coincide with of the different subareas of expertise of the Broadband Communication Systems research group that traditionally have exploited participating in separated projects. In this way, an additional benefit of the project will be the integration of these subareas increasing the consistence of the group.
Duration
12 months
Contract number
TEC2009-13252
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Description
FEDERICA is a two-and-a-half-year European project to implement an experimental network infrastructure for trialling new networking technologies.
This infrastructure is intended to be agnostic as to the type of protocols, services and applications that may be trialled, whilst allowing disruptive experiments to be undertaken. The aim is to develop mechanisms that will allow such experiments to be run over existing production networks without adverse effect.
The FEDERICA project supports research experiments on new Internet architectures and protocols by:
- Develop a versatile technology-agnostic network infrastructure that can run over existing production networks such as GÉANT2 and national academic networks. The aim being to allow innovative and/or disruptive technologies to be trialled.
- Develop solutions for allocating, controlling and managing virtualised network resources in a multi-domain infrastructure. This will include the FEDERICA Toolbench software.
- Identify users and researchers who may wish to take advantage of the FEDERICA infrastructure, and understand their needs and requirements. This includes liaising with other EC projects and research activities.
- Provide training and support to users of the FEDERICA infrastructure and tools.
- Contribute to standardisation activities.
- Disseminate the results of the project to NRENs, universities, research institutes, and other relevant initiatives.Duration
1/1/2008 - 30/6/2010
Participants
Consortium GARR (Italy); CESNET (Czech Republic); DANTE (based in UK); DFN (Germany); FCCN (Portugal); GRNET (Greece); HEAnet (Ireland); HUNGARNET (Hungary); Fundació i2CAT (Spain); ICCS (Greece); Juniper Networks (USA); KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden); Martel Consulting (Switzerland); NORDUnet (based in Denmark); Politecnico di Torino (Italy); PSNC (Poland); Red.es/RedIRIS (Spain); Siemens AG; SWITCH (Switzerland); TERENA (based in Netherlands); UPC (Spain).
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Project Website: http://www.fp7-federica.eu/
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Description
The CBA research group is member of the Spanish Observatory for IPv6 deployment
Duration
Jun 2009 - Jun 2012?
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Project Website: http://wiki.rediris.es/observatorio_ipv6/Portada
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Description
STRONGEST’s main goal is to design and demonstrate an evolutionary ultra-high capacity multilayer transport network, based on optimized integration of Optical and Packet nodes, and equipped with a multi-domain, multi-technology control plane, overcoming the problems of current networks that still provide limited scalability, are not cost-effective and do not properly guarantee end-to-end quality of service.
STRONGEST is an industry led project; the consortium brings together major European industrial players, leading Telecom operators, Universities and Research Centres and as such, it enables the necessary synergies and creates an ideal environment for innovation and development.
The European scale of the project is made necessary by the development of a new reality in which countries and federations are immensely and inextricably linked. To have a common view at European level is essential to apply the project’s outcomes.
A major impact from STRONGEST will be to strengthen the position of European industry in the field of Future Internet and to reinforce European leadership in optical networks technologies. The design of a more efficient transport network with reduced cost per bit and the particular attention to energy efficiency will turn into benefit to the entire Community.
Duration
36 months
Contract number
INFSO-ICT 247674
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Project Website: http://www.ict-strongest.eu
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Description
The Broadband Comunication Research Group (CBA) inside of the "Centre de Comunicacions de Banda Ampla" CCABA is collaborating in the GpENI iniciative. The project is providing a testbed arround the world for Future Internet Architecture Research. Researchers can experiment over a real environment, their protocols and new network architectures. CCABA, a part from using the testbed , is providing one of the nodes of the infraestructure of GpENI project.
Duration
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Project Website: https://wiki.ittc.ku.edu/gpeni/Main_Page
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Description
The EULER project is a 3-year STREP Project targeting Challenge 1 "Technologies and systems architectures for the Future Internet" of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project scope lies within the Objective ICT-2009.1.6 part b: “Future Internet experimentally-driven research”.
The main objective of the EULER exploratory research project is to investigate new routing paradigms so as to design, develop, and validate experimentally a distributed and dynamic routing scheme suitable for the future Internet and its evolution. The resulting routing scheme(s) is/are intended to address the fundamental limits of current stretch-1 shortest-path routing in terms of routing table scalability but also topology and policy dynamics (perform efficiently under dynamic network conditions). Therefore, this project will investigate trade-offs between routing table size (to enhance scalability), routing scheme stretch (to ensure routing quality) and communication cost (to efficiently and timely react to various failures). The driving idea of this research project is to make use of the structural and statistical properties of the Internet topology (some of which are hidden) as well as the stability and convergence properties of the Internet policy in order to specialize the design of a distributed routing scheme known to perform efficiently under dynamic network and policy conditions when these properties are met. The project will develop new models and tools to exhaustively analyse the Internet topology, to accurately and reliably measure its properties, and to precisely characterize its evolution. These models, that will better reflect the network and its policy dynamics, will be used to derive useful properties and metrics for the routing schemes and provide relevant experimental scenarios. The project will develop appropriate tools to evaluate the performance of the proposed routing schemes on large-scale topologies (order of 10k nodes). Prototype of the routing protocols as well as their functional validation and performance benchmarking on the iLAB experimental facility and/or virtual experimental facilities such as PlanetLab/OneLab will allow validating under realistic conditions the overall behaviour of the proposed routing schemes. Duration
36 months
Participants
Alcatel-Lucent Bell (ALB), Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Université Pierre Marie Curie (UPMC), Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (RACTI), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and University of Girona (UdG)
Contract number
258307
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Project Website: http://euler-fire-project.eu/
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Description
The main objective of the project "Efficient measurement of advanced networks" (METRA) is the development of a monitoring system and traffic classification of massive internet, able to obtain measurements of real-time usage and predict transported applications for each data connection, with high accuracy and with low computational cost, by means of a number of learning algorithms. The developed platform will be deployed in CESCA, who will handle installation and provide the necessary support for its proper functioning. Furthermore, METRA perform traffic monitoring of the "Anella Científica", which will test and validate the optimal operation of the platform.
Duration
30 months
Participants
Tecsidel, TCP, CCABA-UPC and CESCA
Contract number
IPT-2011-1079-370000
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Description
Mobility is unnatural to today’s Internet architecture, primarily due to overloaded IP address semantics. Several schemes address this issue by decoupling the location of an endpoint from its identity. Such location/identity separation inherently provides services fundamental to the future Internet including seamless mobility, multihoming, and traffic engineering. Of the various location/identity separation schemes, the Location/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) (proposed by Cisco Systems Inc., and under standardization at IETF) has a unique position: LISP is incrementally deployable, it does not require changes to transport/application implementations, and it is already under active deployment (see http://www.lisp4.net). Basically, LISP proposes two different types of addresses: Endpoint Identifiers (EIDs) and Routing Locators (RLOCs). EIDs identify hosts, and are assigned independently of the network topology while RLOCs identify network attachment points, and are used for routing. This allows EIDs to remain unchanged even if a topological change, such as a handover, occurs. Thus, LISP’s innate support for location/identity separation makes LISP well suited for mobility. Indeed, the LISP mobility protocol (LISP-MN) has been recently proposed. LISP-MN offers many advantages in front of traditional mobility schemes such as Mobile IP. On the one hand LISP´s separation of control and data planes avoids mobility provider lock-in, and LISP-MN clients can freely roam among providers (usually ISPs). On the other hand, LISP-MN provides native support for multihoming, load balancing and route optimization, this are important aspects for the future mobile clients. However and traditionally, the Internet architecture has evolved independently of cellular networks (3GPP). Nowadays these cellular networks are converging to an all-IP network, and their new architecture must be gracefully accommodated in the future Internet architecture. This imposes a set of important challenges. In this context, we expect that LISP-MN will play a crucial role. LISP-MN provides a higher level of mobility (at the network layer) and mobile clients can freely roam across providers. The main objectives of the NAME project are (i) Research coherent architectures for the future converged cellular and Internet networks and (ii) Research and design advanced services such as content distribution and live streaming for LISP-MN.
Duration
36 months
Participants
CTTC SYMBIOSYS TEC2011-29700-C02-01 - UPC NAME TEC2011-29700-C02-02 - EPO: CISCO, CESCA
Contract number
TEC2011-29700-C02-02
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Project Website: http://www.cba.upc.edu/name
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Description
Network monitoring is of paramount importance to both network operators and researchers, to the point that it has recently become a major research area. However, network monitoring still suffers from fundamental problems that leave its rigorousness behind more traditional research fields, such as other experimental disciplines within physics or biology. Most scientific works in the field of network monitoring are evaluated using private, undisclosed data sets. Nevertheless, disclosure of experimental data is a basic principle of the scientific method that enables experiment reproducibility, independent validation and cross-comparison of research results. For this reason, we think that the credibility of research works in this area overly relies on the scientific community bona fide. Our initial hypothesis is that two fundamental barriers have to be overcome in order to increase the rigorousness of this scientific area. First, the mere acquisition of reference data sets is extremely challenging from a technological viewpoint due to the ever-increasing network speeds. Second, sociological reasons discourage their publication, primarily due to privacy concerns. Both the technological and sociological barriers are currently perceived to be insurmountable, which prevents the use of common data sets in scientific works and impedes experiment reproducibility. The main objective of this project is to investigate the fundamental research challenges associated to these two barriers. On the one hand, this project will explore novel network monitoring and traffic measurement techniques in order to address the technological difficulties. Main topics of research in this direction will include complex resource management techniques, such as load shedding and distribution, traffic sampling and specialized streaming algorithms for traffic processing and analysis. On the other hand, this project will propose a novel data sharing paradigm that overcomes the sociological barriers. The research carried out in this project will result in a completely novel evaluation framework for network monitoring research based on what we call the “code-to-the-data” model. This model will enable reproducibility, validation and comparison of scientific works without requiring full disclosure of traffic data sets, thus avoiding most privacy concerns involved in dataset publication. Ultimately, the new monitoring and data sharing paradigm resulting from this project will provide a realistic solution to set the use of common data sets as a standard requirement for scientific publication, as it is in other research areas.
Duration
36 months
Participants
UPC, EPO: Tecsidel, CESCA
Contract number
TEC2011-27474
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Description
The main objective of the LIGHTNESS project is the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of a high-performance network infrastructure for data centres, where innovative photonic switching and transmission solutions are deployed. Harnessing the power of optics will enable data centres to effectively cope with the unprecedented demand growth to be faced in the near future, which will be driven by the increasing popularity of computing and storage server-side applications in the society. Indeed, the deployment of optical transmission systems leveraging Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) allows the transmission of more than a hundred of wavelength channels operating at 10, 40, 100 Gb/s and beyond. This effectively results in “unlimited” bandwidth capacities of multiple Terabit/s per fibre link, which can be efficiently utilized through next-generation all-optical switching paradigms like Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) or Optical Packet Switching (OPS). In this context, LIGHTNESS will join efforts towards the demonstration of a high-performance all-optical hybrid data plane for data centre networks, combining both OCS and OPS equipment to implement transport services tailored to the specific applications’ throughput and latency requirements. To this goal, an OPS node suitable for intra- data centre connectivity services will be developed and prototyped during the project, together with an enhanced Top of the Rack (TOR) switch seamlessly connecting servers in each rack to the hybrid OCS/OPS inter-cluster network. As an additional achievement of LIGHTNESS, the OCS/OPS inter-cluster network will be empowered with a network control plane able to dynamically provision flexible connectivity services in the hybrid OCS/OPS data centre network. Such a control plane will also be developed and prototyped for integration in the final LIGHTNESS demo throughout the project.
Duration
36
Contract number
FP7-318606
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Description
PRISTINE intends to: 1) Design, develop and implement the innovative internals of the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) clean-slate architecture that include the programmable functions for: security of content and application processes, supporting QoS and congestion control in aggregated levels, providing protection and resilience, facilitating more efficient topological routing, and multi-layer management for handling configuration, performance and security. 2) Demonstrate the applicability and benefits of this approach and its built-in functions in use-cases driven by the end-users, service providers and equipment vendors in the consortium. This will ensure that the applications and tools we develop will be deployable by providers, and have a greater potential for future exploitation.
Duration
30 month
Participants
CCABA, i2Cat
Contract number
FP7-619305
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Description
COSIGN proposes a new DC architecture empowered by advanced optical technologies and will demonstrate novel solutions capable of sustaining the growing resource and operational demands of next generation DC Networks. COSIGN aims to move away from today's vendor specific, manually controlled, performance and scale limited DCs towards scalable DC solutions able to support future-proof dynamic, ondemand, low-latency, energy efficient and ultra-high bandwidth DC solutions.
Duration
36 month
Participants
CCABA
Contract number
FP7-619572
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Description
El eco-sistema ICT ha cambiado rápidamente durante los últimos años. Servicios “en la nube”, tecnologías móviles y redes sociales están creando nuevos hábitos de comunicación, y están requiriendo cambios en la arquitectura misma de las redes que soportan estos servicios para poder permitir un crecimiento escalable, y al mismo tiempo un alto nivel dinamismo en la conectividad.
El proyecto SUNSET tiene como principal objetivo superar los “cuellos de botella” de las actuales redes y proporcionar soluciones para una futura Sociedad Digital sostenible, allanado el camino a innovadores servicios TIC “en la nube”, y se favorece un uso sostenible de estos servicios por sectores económicos maduros, mejorando su competitividad mediante tecnologías “cloud”-TIC. Más específicamente, SUNSET propone una nueva arquitectura incluyendo todos los segmentos (acceso, metro, troncal) y red de centro de datos, gracias a técnicas ópticas avanzadas y tecnologías de Redes Definidas por Software (SDN), capaces de responder a las crecientes demandas de recursos de las redes de nueva generación.
SUNSET presta atención al corto y al largo plazo. En el corto plazo, SUNSET aprovechará una adecuada integración de tecnologías ópticas avanzadas y SDN para mejorar el rendimiento global, la escalabilidad y la gestión de la red y los recursos IT, proporcionando una racionalización del proceso de despliegue y asignación de la diferentes cargas de trabajo de la red, en el actual entorno dinámico, multi-propietario, y manteniendo un uso eficaz de los recursos. SDN se define como un entorno de control para la programación de funciones de red y protocolos gracias a la separación del plano de datos y el plano de control, que actualmente están integrados verticalmente en los equipos de red. La separación del plano de control y de datos hace que SDN sea la tecnología adecuada para que un plano de control integrado pueda operar tecnologías heterogéneas utilizadas en diferentes capas de la red (la capa óptica, la capa IP) y los centros de datos.
SUNSET aborda como objetivos intermedios:
- La investigación y desarrollo de técnicas de modulación y de procesado de señal para conseguir una mejora en un factor 10x en la tasa de datos en redes metro-acceso utilizando dispositivos comerciales de bajo coste.
- El desarrollo de nodos SDN implementando multiplexación por longitud de onda y espacial, así como controladores SDN capaces de gestionar los equipos ópticos.
- El diseño y el desarrollo de entornos de orquestación basados en SDN, monitorización basada en SDN, algoritmos de optimización de recursos, e investigación en futuras tecnologías SDN.
Alcanzando estos hitos, SUNSET busca proporcionar soluciones sostenibles ofreciendo una infraestructura de red unas 10 veces más eficiente en consumo de energía y rendimiento.
A largo plazo, SUNSET también investiga ulteriores factores de mejora en consumo de energía y rendimiento, de 100 a 1000 en el medio y largo plazo, mediante tecnologías híbridas fotónicas e inalámbricas, encaminadas al “Data-Centres-in-a-Box”, gracias a las propiedades de materiales nanoestructurados.
SUNSET reúne una especial combinación de expertos y recursos para aportar soluciones escalables y duraderas para la infraestructura de las redes en su conjunto.
Para conseguir estos objetivos, SUNSET coordina la investigación en 3 de las 6 Tecnologías Facilitadoras Esenciales para este proyecto: Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones, Fotónica y Nanotecnología.
Duration
01/07/2015 - 30/06/2018 (36 M)
Contract number
TEC2014-59583-C2-2-R / TEC2014-59583-C2-1-R
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Description
A number of studies have pointed out on the dramatic increase of Internet traffic exchanged worldwide, around 23% accumulated per year anual, estimated to reach 168 Exabytes exchanged per month by 2019, approximately 22 GB per person. Such an increase is based on several reasons: on one hand the explosive growth of mobile devices along with their popularity and low-cost (estimated 20 billion by 2020); on the other hand the rise and popularity of new interactive services with strict high-bandwidth low-delay requirements, namely video on-demand, online gaming, P2P file sharing, etc. On top of these, the rise of Smart Cities, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Big Data suggest that such a percentage of traffic increase may have been underestimated. ElasticNetworks will address the above challenges and will focus on a number of novel approaches for the design of the Future Internet. In particular, ElasticNetworks will contribute to a holistic redesign of the transport network towards a more agile, flexible, programmable Elastic Network, yet with low operation, deployment and maintenance cost, and energy efficient. This will be a superior network with respect to today's in terms of performance, capable of provisioning network capacity where needed, with a dynamic and mobile network with high bandwidth granularity, capable of dealing with the advent of the all-connected smart world. ElasticNetworks will contribute to such a technological revolution in which the network becomes a single programmable entity, starting from the Data Center supporting the Cloud and ending in the very last user's or thing's device. KEY WORDS: Elastic Optical Networks; Software Defined Networking; Internet of Things; Cloud and Fog Computing
Duration
01/10/2015-30/09/2017
Participants
UC3M, UPC CCABA, UdG BCDS, UPCT GIRTEL, UVa GCO, CTTC ONS, UPC CRAXX, UPM GIROS, UNebrija, UPV GIRBA
Contract number
TEC2015-71932-REDT
More Info
Project Website: http://www.elasticnetworks.org/