1. Task-Force 1 Softwarization of Networks ICT COST Action IC1304 Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services (ACROSS)

2. General overview Controller Switch Southbound Interface Northbound Interface Security Architecture

3. Northbound activities – Dashboard design and implementation for Network Management tools based on: Graph results presentation for panels and scaled to Mobile devices. Big historical and maintenance data pool Recommenders based on AI and connection to BI – Focus on abstractions and utilization by upper layers. Policy based, SDN-enabled, network management. Extensions to OF protocols & different protocols Resiliency: SDN for industrial control applications

4. Northbound activities (2) SDN applications for telecommunications operators – NFV, migration path & service management in hybrid scenarios (traditional + virtualized), virtualization of access network infrastructure and customer premises equipment, virtualization of mobile operators’ infrastructure Virtualization of IoT infrastructure – Virtualization and management of IoT sensing and communications infrastructure, service management

5. Southbound activities – Impact of other scenarios : SDN in Mobile Wireless and IoT Cellular Based IOT scenario. Offloading – Focus on interactions with routing, transport, virtualization and optimization. Multipath and Loadbalancing. – QoE aware path calculation, Multipath and QoS constraints – Interaction with Transport Layer (MPTCP) CloudRAN/Small Cells wrt. Mobility management Virtualization: Interaction with Openstack(testbed) Extensive code for OpenvSwitch/OpenDaylight – Integration into CORE network emulator

6. Southbound activities (2) SDN Wireless SDN for satellite networks SDN for backhaul networks Traffic shaping Dynamic resource allocation (weather effect on microwave freq.) Interaction with ONF model SDN for 5G (interaction with VRAN) Spectrum sharing Energy effiency f1f1 f2f2 f1f1 f2f2 f1’f1’ f 2’ f 1’ f 2’ SDN Controller Event Config BS1 BS2 AN Ant.1 Ant.2

7. Southbound activities (3) End-to-end resource management Content Provider Internet Cloud-Based Storage Site Access ISP Transit ISP Content Provider QoS guaranteed paths Dynamically deployed functions Functi ons

8. Security activities Security in Openflow /Threat vectors SDN applications for Industrial Control Networks – Security, virtualization and management of ICS infrastructure

9. Summary of activities (partial list) 2 EU H2020 proposals 1 Common project 2 Common publications 2 STSMs