1. Preparing Resource Aggregations for FIRST Future Internet Testbed
Feb. 11th, 2010
eFIT - Future Internet Testbed WS @ APAN Sydney Meeting
Dr. JongWon Kim
Networked Media Lab., Dept. of Information and Communications
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

2. FIRST (Future Internet Research for Sustainable Testbed) Project Overview
Development of the core technology and virtualized
Programmable platform for Future Internet
Period : March 2009 ~ February 2014 (5 years)
Institutions: ETRI and 5 universities
Project Goal
Research on the core technologies for FI platform realization
- programmability, network virtualization and control framework
Development of the FI platform for domestic and Int’l experimental infrastructure
- for Network architecture researchers and Service architecture researcher
- mid-range ATCA platform and PC-based platform

3. Resource Aggregations for FIRST
Development of the core technology and virtualized Programmable platform for Future Internet
ATCA-based NP RA
Router Substrate H/W (ATCA based)
Virtualization S/W (Xen extension)
Privileged VM VM … NP
Control Framework (ProtoGENI-compatible)
Data
Transport
Mux
Memory
Storage
Control plane 3
CPU 2 1
PC-based NetOpen RA & MediaX RA

4. FIRST@ETRI: Future Internet Platform Development in ETRI
Future Internet Research
for Sustainable Testbed
FiRST
FiRST

5. FIRST@ETRI Overall Architecture
Control Framework
- International Federation
- APIs
▪ Clearinghouse APIs
▪ Slice APIs
▪ Node Manager APIs
- Resource Negotiation
Virtualization
- Number of Max VMs
- Resource Isolation
- Scale-up Virtualization
- Sliver Migration
Substrate
- Resource Specification
- Resource Allocation
- Resource Monitoring
Router Substrate H/W (ATCA based)
Virtualization S/W (Xen extension)
Privileged VM VM … NP
Control Framework (ProtoGENI-compatible)
Data
Transport
Mux
Memory
Storage
Control plane 3
CPU 2 1

6. FIRST@ETRI Hardware Platform
COTS blades – ATCA
Octeon Network Processor for Packet Processing
ATCA Chassis
- Dual Octeon NP 5860
2 x 10GbE, 10x1GbE
Octeon NP based
Line Cards
CPU Boards
PC Servers
with NetFPGA
(future)
- Intel Xeon dual core
- Dual 1GbE Ethernet Controller
2 x 10/100/1000 Base-T
16-slot 10 GbE and 100/1000
Base-T fabric switch
More than 100 Gbps of external
connectivity
Non-blocking Layer 2 switching
Backplane
High-end
FPGA pool (future)
10 GbE Switch
Optical Lambda Switch (future)

7. FIRST@ETRI Open Platform Substrate Architecture Model

8. FIRST@ETRI Demonstration @ GEC7 (Salt Lake City, Nov. 2009)15 1
N2X
Experimental
User Console
FIRST Platform #1
N2X Console
FIRST Platform #0
@Utah U.
@ETRI/Korea S E
Demo System Configuration

9. FIRST@PC: Service-Oriented Testbed for Future Internet
Future Internet Research
for Sustainable Testbed
FiRST

10. FIRST@PC: Experimental Media-Oriented Service Composition

11. FIRST@PC NetOpen (NetFPGA/OpenFlow) RA (v0.1)
Experimenter
OpenFlow stack
NOX Core
Threading , IO
User-defined
Routing
LAVI
ENVI
Experimenter UI
OpenFlow Controller
NOX
FlowVisor
GIST
FlowVisor
FlowVisor
IP Network
KOREN/KREONET
CNU
POSTECH
NetFPGA/OpenFlow Switch
OpenFlow Switch
MAC in IP Tunnel
End host
Capsulator
OpenFlow-enabled network

12. MediaX RA (v0.1)

13. FIRST@PC: Platform Overview
OMX
OpenCF
NetOpen RA
&
MediaX RA

14. FIRST@PC: OMX (Open Media eXperiment for service composition) Toolkit
Implementation of colored items is in progress.

15. FIRST@PC OMX Toolkit – Progress
Agent-based Implementation for experiment control (service configuration, service composition, and service monitoring) with user interfaces for experimenter
Currently being implemented to work with OMF control framework
Monitoring with OML to monitor node performance (using Sigar API for CPU/memory and NIC)

16. Other Openflow Efforts for Future Internet Testbed

17. OpenFlow-enabled Network of KOREN (KOREN OpenFlow Working Group)
OpenFlow Switch (Linux PC)
Seoul
NOX OpenFlow Controller
VLAN on KOREN
Suwon
Chungnam Nat. Univ.
Daejeon
Controller
Deagu
Chair: Seung-Joon Seok (Kyungnam Univ)
Members:
Choong Seon Hong (Kyunghee Univ)
Deokjai Choi (Chonnam National Univ.)
Inshik Seo (Lightworks Ltd)
Jeahwa Lee (KT)
Gwangju
Busan
6 switches are deployed on KOREN
OpenFlow switches are connected using VLAN
links through Ethernet Switches of KOREN
Fukuoka (Japan)

18. Developing Openflow-based Path Control
Path Control System
Add/Drop
Flow Table Entry
Setup Commands
OpenFlow Switch
OpenFlow Controller
Agent
Server
OpenFlow Switch
OpenFlow Controller
Path Request
Agent
Web I/F
Network Monitor
OpenFlow Switch
OpenFlow Network can be monitored using
the weather-map application of web server
OpenFlow paths can be set up through web server

19. An Experiment of OpenFlow-enabled Network (Feb
An Experiment of OpenFlow-enabled Network (Feb Sapporo Snow Festival Video Transmission)
Seoul
OpenFlow Switch (Linux PC)
Suwon
NOX OpenFlow Controller
VLAN on KOREN
Data Transmission
TJB
Daejeon
Controller
TJB Broadcasting Company
Deagu
Gwangju
Busan
Sapporo Studio
Japan OpenFlow Network
Sapporo Japan
A video clip of Sapporo snow festival is transmitted to
TJB (Daejeon, KOREA) via ABC server (Osaka, JAPAN).
Server
Asahi Broadcasting Cooperation (ABC) at Osaka, Japan

20. Send Inquiry to fi@nm.gist.ac.kr
Future Internet Research
for Sustainable Testbed
FiRST
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