1. Grant agreement n°318514 WP4 Infrastructure virtualization and provisioning of end-to-end Cloud services Giada Landi, Jordi Ferrer Riera CONTENT Y1 EC Review, January, 2014

2. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 1. Concepts and Goals 2. Work Plan, and Deliverables 3. Delivered Work, and Achievements 4. Future Work 5. Conclusion Outline

3. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 3 WP4 Concept and Goals 1 2 3 4 5

4. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE Rationale Multiple integrated infrastructures combining wireless + optical + IT resources and sharing a common physical substrate Coordinated control and management of multi-domain & multi-technology virtual infrastructures for efficient resource utilization Automated orchestration & provisioning of seamless, end-to-end, QoS-enabled services for wireless cloud users Infrastructure management & virtualization Cloud service orchestration Virtual infrastructure control “[…] WP4 aims at desigining the virtualization approach for the provisioning of inter-domain and inter-technology end-to-end services […]” (DoW, WT3, pp. 22)

5. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE  [O1] Define the CONTENT virtualization approach for integrated wireless access, optical metro and IT virtual infrastructures – Per-domain virtualization models based on resource or service virtualization, or hybrid approaches  [O2] Design interactions and interfaces with wireless, optical and IT infrastructure control/management planes – Architecture and procedures for cross-domain control and management of multi-technology virtual infrastructures  [O3] Implement a proof-of-concept prototype of the virtualization tools  [O4] Design and build inter-domain service orchestration – Provisioning procedures for end-to-end cloud services in wireless environments Objectives (DoW, WT3, pp. 22)

6. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 6 WP4 Work Plan, Milestones 1 2 3 4 5

7. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE AcademiaResearch CentresIndustry Infrastructure Virtualization and provisioning of end-to- end Cloud Services Start: M3 End: M27 Total effort: 92PM WP4 @ Glance

8. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE Tasks WP4 Task 4.1 (i2CAT) Virtualization definition Task 4.2 (UTH) Wireless virtualization Task 4.3 (UNIVBRIS) Optical virtualization Task 4.4 (NXW) Service orchestration D4.1 D4.2 (Optical side)D4.2 (Wireless side) D4.3 TaskPartnersPeriodStatus T4.1Definition of the virtualization solutioni2CAT, AllM3-M9Completed T4.2Wireless access domain-specific virtualizationUTH, i2CAT, AITM9-M24Running T4.3Optical metro domain-specific virtualization UNIVBRIS, i2CAT, NXW, AIT, JUNIPER, PTL M9-M24Running T4.4Inter-domain service orchestrationNXW, AllM24-M27To be initiated

9. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE Gantt M1M2M3M4M5M6M7M8M9M10M11M12M13M14M15M16M17M18M19M20M21M22M23M24M25M26M27 WP4 T4.1 T4.2 T4.3 T4.4 D4.1 D4.2 D4.3 Delay in the deliverable caused during the internal review procedure T4.2 and T4.3 started with a complete version of D4.1. Mitigation actions for Y2

10. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE Deliverables Del.TitleLeader Estimated PMs Result of PlannedReleased D4.1 Definition of the virtualization strategy and design of domain specific resources/service virtualization (R, PU) i2CAT19T4.1M9M10 D4.2 Virtualization prototypes of the wireless access and TSON-based optical metro networks (P, CO) UNIVBRIS UTH 51 T4.2 T4.3 M24 D4.3 Inter-domain services orchestration in CONTENT (P, CO) NXW22T4.4M27

11. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE WP4 Interaction WP4 Infrastructure virtualization and provisioning of end-to-end services Task 4.1 Virtualization definition Task 4.2 Wireless virtualization Task 4.3 Optical virtualization Task 4.4 Service orchestration WP2 Internal specification of: Infrastructure Management Layer VI Network Control Layer Service Orchestration Layer Software prototypes for: network virtualization, control & management, service orchestration WP5 WP6 Architecture, procedures and protocol extensions for standardization and dissemination activities. Requirements, use-cases and initial architecture layering WP2 Physical resource description and modelling WP3

12. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 12 WP4 Delivered Work and Achievements 1 2 3 4 5

13. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 13  Definition of the virtualization approach – Virtualization models analysis – CONTENT VI planning: initial simulation studies – Preliminary Information models for virtual resources and services  Definition of management and control functions to operate CONTENT virtual infrastructures  Internal system design of Infrastructure Management Layer (IML) and VI Network Control Layer  Initial evaluation of available software tools as basis for proof-of-concept prototypes Main achievements: an overview

14. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 14  Evaluation of abstraction capabilities for wireless access and TSON domains – Towards an information model for technology-specific virtual capabilities  Design of cross-domain virtualization solution for heterogeneous infrastructures – Unified-Holistic planning and delivery of multi-technology virtual infrastructures  High-level definition of management and control functions – Efficient operation of virtual infrastructures for end-to-end service provisioning. Task 4.1: the activities Documented in D4.1

15. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 15  Evaluation of abstraction capabilities of wireless access and TSON domains – Survey of models for wireless and TSON phy resources characterization – Evaluation of resource and service virtualization applicability based on WP2 requirements and use-cases Task 4.1: the results (1) Service vs resource virtualization TSON domain Wireless domain

16. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 16  Virtual Infrastructure Planning – Technology-specific virtualization on each phy domain – VI planning taking a holistic approach  It considers jointly the heterogeneous network technology domains and the IT resources comprising the PHY infrastructure, to offer a globally optimal solution  Through this joint consideration, it is ensured that sufficient resources are allocated accross all infrastructure segments – To support the volume of service requests – To support their specific characteristics (required QoS, or mobility for end-users) Task 4.1: the results (2) CONTENT cross-domain virtualization Initial numerical results available in D4.1 Extensions made from architectural perspective later in D2.3 Further simulations planned in T2.3 for the next year

17. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE  Analysis and evaluation of possible approaches to operate a multi-technology virtual infrastructure – Definition of CONTENT control and management functions  At the single domain level  On the whole infrastructure – Evaluation of existing solutions for TSON domains  Distributed GMPLS and PCE architecture from MAINS project  Centralized solution based on Software Defined Networking paradigms – Evaluation of existing solutions for wireless domains  OMF for control and management framework for wireless test-beds – Initial identification of extensions in support of CONTENT- oriented features  Flexible resource configuration, cross-layer interfaces towards cloud orchestrator, multi-technology procedures Task 4.1: the results (3) Virtual infrastructure management & control

18. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 18  Internal system design of virtualization and control platform (M9-M12, as input for WP2) – Infrastructure Management Layer – Virtual Infrastructure Control Layer  High-level software design of virtualization and control platform (M12-M15) – Initial evaluation of potential software baselines  Proof-of-concept prototype implementation – Planned for year 2, based on extensions of the software tools identified in the previous step Task 4.2 & 4.3: the activities Documented in D2.3 Planned for year 2

19. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 19 Task 4.2 & 4.3: the results (1) Infrastructure Management Layer Converged multi-technology resource management Resource Abstraction, Information model, Registration Virtualization Transversal functionalities: Security Resource lifecycle Analytics Persistence

20. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 20 Task 4.2 & 4.3: the results (2) VI Network Control Layer Basic intra-domain and tech-specific network functions Topology, connection and statistics services Technology-specific extensions: information model, constraints, etc. Enhanced network functions: provisioning of multi-domain connectivity Internal management of the whole infrastructure

21. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 21  Infrastructure Management Layer – OpenNaaS  Open source framework developed within an EU project for: – Virtualizing network resources, Managing (physical and virtual) networks, Deploying dynamic network infrastructures, supporting heterogeneous network devices, Implementing multi-tenancy through slicing, Offering the Network as a Service (NaaS)  Robust and extensible open source framework  Recursive delegation of access right over managed resources  Lightweight abstracted operational model  SDN controller for Virtual Infrastructure Control Layer – Flexible, to support different technologies and protocols on the south- bound interface – Extendable, to implement TSON and wireless resources information models – Initial candidates: OpenDayLight, OpenContrail Task 4.2 & 4.3: the results (3) Software solutions under analysis

22. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 22 Achievements vs. Objectives AchievementsObj.Means of verification Definition of intra-domain and cross-domain virtualization approaches [O1]Documented within D4.1 CONTENT VI planning: initial simulation studies [O1]Documented within D4.1, further extended in D2.3 Preliminary Information models for virtual resources and services [01] Delivered in D4.1, to be extended and implemented within T4.2, and T4.3 Definition of management and control functions to operate CONTENT virtual infrastructures [O2] Documented within D2.3 (WP4 feedback to the architecture Work Package) Internal system design of Infrastructure Management Layer and Virtual Infrastructure Control Layer [O2] Documented within D2.3 (WP4 feedback to the architecture Work Package) Initial evaluation of available software tools as basis for proof-of-concept prototypes[O2], [O3]On-going within T4.2 and T4.3

23. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 23 WP4 Future Work [Plan for Year 2] 1 2 3 4 5

24. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 24  Finalize selection of software starting points (M15)  Software development – A selected set of IML and VI Network Control Layer features for D4.2 (M24) WP4 activities in year 2 WP4 Infrastructure virtualization and provisioning of end-to-end services Task 4.1 (i2CAT) Virtualization definition Task 4.2 (UTH) Wireless virtualization Task 4.3 (UNIVBRIS) Optical virtualization Task 4.4 (NXW) Service orchestration D4.1 D4.2 (Optical side)D4.2 (Wireless side) D4.3

25. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 25 Conclusion 1 2 3 4 5

26. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 26  WP4 has achieved all its planned objectives – Evaluation of the abstraction and virtualization capabilities of the corresponding technologies – Definition of the holistic cross-domain virtualization approach – CONTENT VI planning: initial simulation studies – Definition of management and control functions to operate CONTENT virtual infrastructures – Internal system design of Infrastructure Management Layer (IML) and Virtual Infrastructure Control Layer (VICL)  Software development will be the main driver for Y2 – T4.2, T4.3 need to develop the proof-of-concept prototypes for the virtualization systems WP4 Conclusion for Y1

27. CONTENT WP4 Year 1 Review, Brussels.BE 27 Jordi Ferrer Riera jordi.ferrer@i2cat.net i2CAT – Barcelona.ES (+34) 93 553 2511 Giada Landi g.landi@nextworks.it Nextworks – Pisa.IT (+39) 050 3871 697 Moltes Gràcies! Molte Grazie! Thank you!