1. Atsushi Iwata, Takashi Egawa System Platforms Research Laboratories
Research Activities toward Infrastructure Virtualization for Future Internet / New Generation Network
Dec.10, 2008
Atsushi Iwata, Takashi Egawa
System Platforms Research Laboratories
NEC Corporation

2. Outline USA, EU and Japan research activity overview
NEC’s research activities toward future internet
Conclusion
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3. USA and EU research activity overview for future internet
USA: NeTS-FIND/GENI
EU: FP7/4WARD, TRILOGY
Japan: New Generation Network (NwGN)
Common target:
Virtualization / Programmable network for next generation internet
Computer & network integrated programmable network node
Optical dynamic circuit switch
Programmable radio & Dynamic mobility
USA: NSF GENI Project
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EU: FP7 4WARD Project

4. NSF GENI(Global Environment for Networking Innovations)
Research goal:
Generality (programmable component)
Diversity & Extensibility (Heterogenous wired and wireless)
Fidelity (Coexistence of real traffic and experimental traffic)
Observability (Quantitative evaluation)
Ease of Use
Sliceability (Shared facility for multiple experiments)
Controlled Isolation (Prohibit interference)
Opt-in (service trials)
Security
Federation and Sustainability (15-20 year life-time)
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5. Key elements for future internet
Lessons from NSF/GENI and FP7/4 WARD, TRILOGY
Key elements of future network research
Open architecture
Easy to integrate modules for new features
Virtualization:
Dynamic grouping, partitioning and allocation of resources for ease of management
Modularity:
Dynamic in-service plug-in of software and hardware
Programmability
Evolve to new computer & network architecture
These components will be key for multi-purpose research platform
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6. NEC’s research activity overview toward future internet - “Earthnet” project -

7. Earthnet
Earthnet
‘Earthnet’ is the project name of Future Internet R&D
‘Earthnet’ provides a way to
Produce the platform for various innovations
Reduce the complexity
Reduce the resource (energy, money,…) consumption
Maximize the dependability
of the Future Internet / New Generation Network
I mean how we can couple new innovative technologies on top of the layers and the technologies underneath the layers. For example, new applications such as TV broadcasting or emergency communication can make the best use of lambda path technologies or mobile communication technologies.
Also, how redundant functions in different layers cooperate or substitute each other. Actually we have multiple routing systems, L2 routing, L3 routing, or overlay routing. But unfortunately, they are a single-point-of-failure most of the case.
I am not saying that we should abandon the IP hourglass model, but we should think what is IP, what is the center of the technologies. IP packets or IP addresses would not change, but how about IP routing or name resolution or something. In one extreme case, we could use IP packet and IP addresses with L2 routing and Ether OAM or whatever.
by IT-Network virtualization technology
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8. Earthnet goal for infrastructure
“Earthnet” is aiming at creating customized and optimized network infrastructure over:
Multiple carriers/ISPs that never have single common architecture
Heterogeneous IP and non-IP network technologies
Earthnets
Earth
Wide variety of technologies
Next generation Internet
Wide variety of infrastructure providers
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9. Earthnet architecture - Virtualization system architecture
Human
Sensor
Personal
Life
Disaster
Sensor
SaaS
Emergency
Medical
Broadcasting
Service
Traffic
Sensor
Weather
Sensor
Entertainment
Communication
Service
Sports
Carrier
＆Distributed Data Center
Next-Generation SNS
Sensor Network
Reliability Control
Routing Control
] Control
Routing Control
Network Security
Traffic Control
Routing Control
Network Security
Traffic Control
Virtualized Network Control Agent
Secure Channel
Programmable Switch Control Interface (Control API)
Programmable Packet Switch
Physical Interface (Radio/Optical)
Packet Switch Fabric Interface
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10. Conclusion
Introduced future internet related research overview of USA, EU and Japan
Introduced NEC’s research vision “Earthnet”, and explained several related research activities as a first step.
Utilizing virtualized infrastructure will be a key for various innovations of network researchers
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