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I Strand: Network virtualisation and Software Networks
P14 – Potential Participant Offers
| Strand interest: | Strand 4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P14: Virtual platform systems P15: Multi-domain SW networks |
| Proposer: | Full name: Research for Science, Art and Technology (RFSAT) Ltd Country: United Kingdom Short name: RFSAT Category: Applied research, technology provider and developer Entity type: SME |
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| Scope of competence being offered: | RFSAT Ltd is a research-performing SME. Its activities focus on research and development through national and international research funding, industrial consultancy and deployment of research results in the telecommunications industry. The list of interest areas include Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for mobile telecommunications systems, networked audio-visual broadcasting, tele-presence systems, Virtual/Augmented/Mixed-Reality systems and applications, 3D game-based rehabilitation support, immersive user interfaces, embedded mobile sensing and control systems, hybrid indoor and outdoor (GNSS+ assisted/differential/other, wireless, inertial and mobile) positioning, localization and navigation, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and other technological areas. RFSAT pursues relevant research and innovation activities under European FP7 and COST Actions programs in the thematic areas of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Intelligent Construction, Security and e-Health.In the context of Strand 4, RFSAT may offer applied research and technological development capabilities related to network virtualisation and their deployment over mobile networks. This is a new area of applied research for RFSAT that we aim to focus on SDN and NFV virtualisation models and their exploitation is real-life scenarios. | ||
| Additional Resources Offered : | We may offer contacts to end-users, service providers, mobile operators, broadcasters e.g. for trials, evaluations, etc. We can recommend valuable partners to fill gaps in consortium expertise and competencies We offer dissemination capabilities to projects via our publishing channels, media advertising etc. |
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| Contact: | Mrs Emmanouela VOGIATZAKI Director / R&D Projects Manager Email: RTD@rfsat.com WEB: http://www.rfsat.com |
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| Strand interest: | Strand 4, Cross strand, | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P14, P15, Other, |
| Proposer: | Vanillatech GmbH, IT consultancy, telco experience,SME | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | Rapid prototyping of web services, appliances (e.g. SIP, T.38, RTMP, web…) and applications/tools | ||
| Additional Resources Offered : | We have a telco partner (also SME) (origination/termination) | ||
| Contact: | info@vanillatech.de | ||
| Strand interest: | Strand 3 & 4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P11, P12, P13, P14, P15, P16 |
| Proposer: | Space Hellas S.A. (SME) ICT system integrator and value-added services provider, www.space.gr | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | Monitoring solutions for IT/Cloud resources, specialized monitoring frameworks for NFV | ||
| Additional Resources Offered : | Extensive expertise in FP5/6/7 projects, contacts with major telcos/vendors in Greece and across Europe | ||
| Contact: | Dr. Georgios Gardikis, ggar@space.gr | ||
| Strand interest: | 3,4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P11, P12, P13, P14, P15, P16 |
| Proposer: | TELETEL SA (www.teletel.eu), SME, GreeceTELETEL has around 20 years of experience in the testing, validation, QoS analysis and troubleshooting of new telecommunications protocols and networks. TELETEL has developed the iSAFT PVS, which is an advanced multi-platform environment for the early validation and analysis of communication systems and protocols. It has been widely used for testing various communication networks (ISDN, V5, SS7, IN, GSM, UMTS, VoIP, AFDX, SpW, MIL-STD-1553, CAN custom). iSAFT PVS is used worldwide by major communication systems manufacturers. | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | TELETEL offers iSAFT PVS for testing & validation as well as monitoring & protocol analysis of new networks, services and technologies including SDN, ICN, Network Virtualisation, Network management, Cloud Networking etc. TELETEL’s main products are part of the iSAFT product line, in which the resulted subsystems and tools will be exploited. | ||
| Additional Resources Offered : | TELETEL has extensive experience in R&D projects in the FP6/FP7 programmes and a large portfolio of business partners in the telecoms domain including telcos, vendors etc. | ||
| Contact: | Mr Vangelis Kollias (RTD@teletel.eu) | ||
| Strand interest: | Strand 3 and 4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P11, P12, P13, P14 |
| Proposer: | MONTIMAGE, France (SME) | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | The core business of Montimage is developing tools for testing and monitoring networks, applications and services; in particular, for the verification of functional, performance (QoS/QoE) and security aspects; and, for improving context awareness and end-user trust. Montimage’s flagship tool (MMT) allows the capture of network packets, as well as any structured messages, for performing traffic analysis, analyzing security and detecting/mitigating security and performance incidents. It uses deep packet inspection (DPI), complex event correlation, statistics and machine learning techniques to classify traffic and to analyze its behavior. | ||
| Additional Resources Offered : | Link to research European projects. e.g. Celtic+ SIGMONA (http://www.celtic-initiative.org/Projects/Celtic-Plus-Projects/2012/SIGMONA/sigmona-default.asp) | ||
| Contact: | Edgardo Montes de Oca edgardo.montesdeoca@montimage.com | ||
| Strand interest: | Strand 4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | |
| Proposer: | Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) – Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) – Waterford Institute of Technology is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for ICT research and innovation. We carry out a wide spectrum of industry-informed research in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), particularly technologies enabling communications and information services.Our four key prioritised technical Research & Innovation areas include Mobile Platforms and Services, Security Privacy and Identity, Data Analytics and Social computing, and Adaptive Networks and services. We create economic impact by translating our knowledge base and innovation into leading edge products and services by continuing our engagement with Industry in collaborative R&D, knowledge generation and transfer.TSSG can participate in the development of new approaches for Virtual Networking for Edge-as-a-Service and Software Defined Networks platforms and components required for public safety networks, machine type communications and interworking between 5G technologies. TSSG can contribute in building 5G demonstrators and prototypes, the design and deployment of new flexible and reconfigurable protocols and architectures for 5G networks and the implementation of an evaluation framework to carry out performance testing of 5G technologies. | ||
| Additional Resources Offered | TSSG hosts its own infrastructure that helps the organization moving toward 5G. The testbed is composed of the following elements:40 node Cloud Cluster (OpenStack), 100TB Hadoop Cluster,Cisco Unified Communications, Social Media/Networking, Wireless Network Upgrade (internal & external), Wired Network upgrade (mainly 10GE)Physical SDN Deployments (local / Pan-Ireland), Virtual SD, SDR deployment.TSSG operates a SDN Testbed (which can be connected to mainland Europe via GEANT or to the US via ESnet), consisting of physical and virtual SDN equipment as well as a pan-Ireland 4 node SDN live deployment (extensible by fibre optic networks), built at the optical level and using 10GE as its switching layer. The SDR deployment is across a 175 acre varied terrain campus, capable of deploying multiple cells and blind spots. The software radios are USRPs capable of DC-6GHz frequencies directly connected at 10GE. Custom higher layer protocols can be configured to run on this network with encapsulation, as well as standard IPv4/6, the connected switches are fully programmable and can run virtual machines onboard. Devices from Cisco, Arista, Juniper and HP, supplemented by virtual images are supported by an OpenStack cloud, with all nodes connected at a minimum of dual 10GE, and a large backend processing and storage facility comprising of a 100TB Hadoop Cluster | ||
| Contact: | Dr. Steven Davy (sdavy@tssg.org), Research manager of the 3MT Unit Telecommunications Softawre and System Group (TSSG)- Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, IrelandDr. Bilal Momani (bmomani@tssg.org), Senior Software Researcher, Telecommunications Softawre and System Group (TSSG)- Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland |
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| Strand interest: | Strand 2,3,4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P8, P9, P11, P12, P13, P14, P16 |
| Proposer: | TU Chemnitz (University), Chair for Communication Networks, Germany | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | Competencies:
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| Contact: | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bauschert, thomas.bauschert@etit.tu-chemnitz.de, http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/etit/kn/ | ||
| Strand interest: | Strand 2,3,4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P8, P9, P10, P12, P14 |
| Proposer: | Salzburg Research, AustriaNon-profit research organization specialized on applied research in the area of ICThttp://www.salzburgresearch.at/en/ | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | Expertise in QoS and SDN in various application areas including wide-area telecommunication networks, energy networks and IoT/M2M networksLong-term experience in national and international research projects and advanced software tools such as:
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| Additional Resources Offered : | Contacts to SMEs in the field of telecommunications and other areas in Austria | ||
| Contact: | Peter DorfingerHead of Advanced Networking Center peter.dorfinger@salzburgresearch.at | ||
| Name of Proposal: | 5G PPP | ||
| Proposer: | Core Network Dynamics http://www.corenetdynamics.com, http://www.OpenEPC.net | ||
| Strand Addressed: | Strand 1,4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic | P7, P8, P9, P10, P14, P15 |
| Scope of Proposal: | Starting from a prototype implementation of the Evolved Packet Core, supporting LTE, as well as WiFi and legacy 2G/3G RANs, we are targeting the practical adaptations and implementation of the envisioned 5G Core Network elements. The scopes are to adapt first existing EPC architectures to the requirements of 5G radio. Then a practical testing and experimentation pre-product implementation will be executed, providing to the partners the realistic test-bed infrastructure. As potential interesting item would be the separation of control and user-data plane processing in the classical S/P-Gateway, towards SDN/NFV concepts, with the use of OpenFlow or similar protocols. | ||
| Resources needed: | Core Network Dynamics can provide comprehensive test-bed functional elements for mobile broadband architectures. The OpenEPC includes support today for interconnecting 2G/3G/LTE and WiFi Radio Access Networks with generic IP applications as well as with integrated architectures (e.g. IMS). OpenEPC requires to function radio base stations. | ||
| Contact: | Dr.-Ing. Dragos VingarzanCTO dragos@corenetdynamics.com | ||
| Strand interest: | Strands: 1, 2, 3, 4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P7, P5, P6 / P8, P9 / P11 / P14 |
| Proposer: | AIT – “Athens Information Technology” centre“Networks and Optical Communications” (NOC) research group | ||
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| Additional Resources Offered : | – Large set of network and physical layer models for access networks and heterogeneous wireless, wireline transport technologies- Large number of highly performing novel algorithms for L2/L3 traffic processing, dynamic resource provisioning and QoS support with application awareness- A complete meta-MAC control framework, which encapsulates various PHY interfaces and enables fair inter-technology bandwidth allocation and resource management. (Meta-MAC can be tailored to work on top of constituent MAC protocols, and exploit virtual carrier and time frame resources as both finely granular and scalable bandwidth assignment units.)- Advanced laboratory infrastructure for system testing and measurements- Several FPGA processing modules t (XGPON framework, LDPC codes, accelerators, etc.)- Hardware/software co-simulation platform for hardware optimization (e.g. energy consumption, area, performance)- Techno-economic models for optical access networks and backhauling solutions | ||
| Contact: | Ioannis Tomkos – Head of NOC group (email: itom@ait.gr, tel: +30 210 668 2771)Dimitrios Klonidis – Senior Research Fellow (email: dikl@ait.gr, tel: +30 210 668 2773) | ||
| Strand interest: | I Strand: 4) Network Virtualisation and Software Networks | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P14, P15, P16 |
| Proposer: | Name: INTRACOM TELECOM Category: Telecommunication Systems VendorCountry: GreeceEntity type: Large company |
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| Scope of competence being offered: | OpenDaylight, OpenFlow, Beacon, northbound interface to higher-level applications, and SDN interconnection (east-west interface). Recent (FP7 COMET) focus on control and data plane decoupling across domains. Participation in IRTF SDNRG. | ||
| Additional Resources Offered : | Prototype development, integration, and testing infrastructure based on OpenDaylight. | ||
| Contact: | Spiros Spirou (spis@intracom-telecom.com), Project Manager, R&D Unit, Content Delivery Systems, Intracom Telecom | ||
| Strand interest: | Strand 4: Network Virtualization and Software Networks | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P14,P16 |
| Proposer: | Politecnico di Torino, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | The interests and the competences of the researchers of the Telecommunication Networks Group (TNG) of the Politecnico di Torino (http://www.telematica.polito.it/) are very well aligned with the topics of P14 and P16.BackgroundWe have experience on virtualization, energy savings (in the past applied mainly to distributed software routers architectures) and on SDN.We have been working on virtualization in software routers for the last eight years, covering the following topics:- Design of distributed routers architectures [11,12,13,14]- Performance analysis of distribute routers architecture in a virtualized environment [3,9]- Energy aware distributed router design [2,4,5,6]
In the past we pursued two activities related to SDN, one in the performance analysis field [10], the other one in the measurement area [1]. More recently, we started addressing the following topics on SDN that we believe may be of interest in the project: – scalability of reactive flow routing in (OpenDayLight) SDN controllers, specifically targeting the access network (POP) of a Telecom operators – integration of SDN controller (e.g., OpenDayLight) with cloud computing allocator (e.g., OpenNebula) to allow the joint consolidation of network and computational resources to reduce power consumption, by allowing network-aware VM migration – integration between on-line traffic monitoring tools and SDN controllers (specifically, OpenDayLight) to enable traffic engineering techniques and improve QoE for users accessing real-time video streaming – “optimal/wise” placement of distributed SDN controllers in a large size network – software-controlled WiFi access networks to optimize the downlink/uplink bandwidth by exploiting load-balancing among neighboring access points, in the specific case of residential users with WiFi-equipped ADSL modems. Furthermore, we have also a strong expertise on on-line scheduling algorithms for resource allocation problems, which have been applied mostly to packet switching systems in the past. Finally, we have some expertise in energy-aware network design. Contributions to the project Regarding our possible contributions, we think that we could contribute Regarding our possible contributions in P16, we are interested in network scaling, in terms of scope to scalability and flexibility issues. Bibliography 1. A.Bianco, V.Krishnamoorthi, N.Li, L.Giraudo, “OpenFlow Driven Ethernet Traffic Analysis”, IEEE ICC 2014 – Next-Generation Networking Symposium, Sydney, Australia, June 2014 2. A.Bianco, F.Getachew Debele, L.Giraudo, Differential energy saving algorithms in a distributed router architecture, Computer Communications, ISSN: 0140-3664, March 2014 3. L.Abeni, C.Kiraly, N.Li, A.Bianco, Tuning KVM to enhance virtual routing performance, IEEE ICC 2013 – Internation Conference on Communications, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013 4. A.Bianco, F.Getachew Debele, N.Li, Energy Efficient Distributed Router Design, IEEE ICC 2013, Hungary, Budapest, June 2013 5. A.Bianco, F.Getachew Debele, L.Giraudo, On-line Power Savings in a Distributed Multi-stage Router Architecture, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim, CA, USA, December 2012 6. A.Bianco, F.Getachew Debele, L.Giraudo, Energy Saving in Distributed Router Architectures, IEEE ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012 7. P.Szegedi, J.F.Riera, J.Garcia-Espin, M.Hidell, P.Sjodin, P.Sodeman, M.Ruffini, D.O’Mahony, A.Bianco, L.Giraudo, M.Ponce de Leon, G.Power, C.Cervello-Pastor, V.Lopez, S.Naegele-Jackson, Enabling Future Internet Research: The FEDERICA Case, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol.49, No.7, pp.54-61, ISSN: 0163-6804, July 2011 8.A.Bianco, R.Birke, F.Getachew Debele, L.Giraudo, SNMP Management in a Distributed Software Router Architecture, IEEE ICC 2011 (Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium), Kyoto, Japan, June 2011 9. A.Bianco, R.Birke, L.Giraudo, N.Li, Multistage Software Routers in a Virtual Environment, IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 (Next Generation Networking Symposium), Miami, FL, USA, December 2010 10. A.Bianco, R.Birke, L.Giraudo, M.Palacin, Openflow Switching: Data Plane Performance, IEEE ICC 2010 (Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium), Cape Town, SA, May 2010 11. A.Bianco, R.Birke, J.Finochietto, L.Giraudo, F.Marenco, M.Mellia, A.Khan, D.Manjunath, Control and Management Plane in a Multi-stage Software Router Architecture, HPSR 2008 (IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing), Shanghai China, May 2008 12. Azeem Khan, Robert Birke, D Manjunath, Andrea Bianco, Anirudha Sahoo, Distributed PC Based Routers: Bottleneck Analysis and Architecture Proposal, HPSR 2008 (IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing), Shanghai China, May 2008 13. A.Bianco, J.Finochietto, M.Mellia, F.Neri, G.Galante, Multistage Switching Architectures for Software Routers, IEEE Network “Advances in Network Systems”, Vol.21, No.4, pp.15-21, July 2007 14. A.Bianco, J.Finochietto, G.Galante, D.Mazzucchi, M.Mellia, F.Neri, Scalable Layer-2/Layer-3 Multistage Switching Architectures for Software Routers, IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA, 27-30 November 2006 |
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| Contact: | Prof. Andrea BiancoFull Professor – Politecnico di Torino -ItalyWeb: http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/andrea-biancoEmail: andrea.bianco@polito.itProf. Paolo GiacconeAssistant Professor – Politecnico di Torino – ItalyWeb: http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/paolo-giaccone
Email: paolo.giaccone@polito.it |
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| Strand interest: | Stands 1,2,3, 4Cross strand | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P2,P4,P6,P8,P9,P12,P14, |
| Proposer: | B-COM (www.b-com.com) is one of the 8 French Technological Research Institutes launched by French government in 2010 and certified in 2012. B-Com is legally a private research foundation viewed as an SME by the European Commission. The objective of an IRT is to achieve excellence in the most competitive sectors such as Networks and Infrastructure technologies that will integrate the next generations of mobile, wired and wireless networks.B<>com is registered under PIC number n°948011362. | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | B-COM has its own R&D task forces with 3 labs dedicated to Networks & Security domain:- Network Interfaces dedicated to 5G fibre and radio (see http://b-com.com/en/innovation-fields/network-interfaces)- Network Architecture dedicated to convergence and network function virtualization (see http://b-com.com/en/innovation-fields/future-networks-architecture)- Cloud Computing (see http://b-com.com/en/innovation-fields/cloud-computing) | ||
| Additional Resources Offered : | B-Com is :- Member of ETSI and take an active part in ETSI RRS working group- Member of Networld2020 European Technology Platform- Attending member of GreenTouch consortium
– Member of French Cyber-security cluster and Images & Réseaux cluster B-Com has close links with large companies (like Orange and TDF), as well as famous French academics (Telecom Bretagne, INSA, Supelec, IRISA, …) B-com is also operating testbeds with a large scope from HPC & Storage capacity to indoor/outdoor multi-RAT radio networks. |
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| Contact: | Contact InformationXavier Priem, xavier.priem@b-com.com, +33 (0) 56 35 85 02Michel Corriou, michel.corriou@b-com.com, +33 (0) 56 35 88 59For strand n°1, Rodolphe Legouable, rodolphe.legouable@b-com.com, +33 (0) 2 56 35 88 42
For strands n°2-3-4, Philippe Bertin, philippe.bertin@b-com.com, , +33 (0) 2 56 35 88 58 |
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| Strand interest: | Strand 3, 4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P6, P14, P16 |
| Proposer: | Full name: VirtuOR Country: FranceCategory: Firmware development, Applied research, IT provider Entity type: SME |
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| Scope of competence being offered: | VirtuOR is a Cloud access solution that enables users to access their services and applications proposed by multiple Cloud providers. It offers an access box (MNetBox) allowing customers to connect to their services without worrying about buying, installing and managing premises equipment (CPE) such as access points, firewalls, routers, TV Set-top box, etc.The innovative capabilities of VirtuOR MNetBox is to dismiss all concerns related to security, settings, reliability and dependencies on a single provider. VirtuOR offers customers advanced, seamless and on demand access to Cloud services ensuring requested end-user qualities (QoS and QoE). The MNetBox testing is already under way at various locations around the world, especially in Canada, South Korea, Brazil, Tunisia and France.VirtuOR is an attractive price offer specifically designed to help the operators to keep from end to end their services available, secure, and reliable. It offers a complete solution: ensuring the quality of service (QoS), the SLA enforcement, the personalization offerings and the software management services.
Since 2008, VirtuOR team has developed excellent skills for wired and wireless network virtualization, monitoring and virtual network equipment design. It has expertise in the field of NFV and SDN technologies and firmware development such as OpenStack and OpenDaylight. It is also involved in external research within French and FP7 European projects. |
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| Strand interest: | Strand 1: Radio network architecture and technologies Strand 4: Network virtualisation and Software Networks |
Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P3, P6,P7, P8, P12, P14 |
| Proposer: | Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Section For Communication Systems https://www.simula.no/department/communication |
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| Scope of competence being offered: | Simula Research Laboratory is a Norwegian research institute mainly focusing on ICT fields. Simula is fully owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. The laboratory’s mission is to increase knowledge and promote innovation in society and industry through basic research of the internationally highest quality. Simula’s research is funded through competitive grants from national funding agencies and the EC, research contracts with industry, and a basic allowance from the state. Recent evaluations state that Simula is an acknowledged contributor to top-level research in its focus areas. In the 2012 national evaluation of ICT research organised by Research Council of Norway and conducted by an international expert panel, Simula received the highest average score among all evaluated institutions. Simula is currently hosting one Norwegian Centre of Excellence (SFF), Center for Biomedical Computing, and one Norwegian Centre for Research-based lnnovation (SFl), Certus.
Communication systems and future Internet have been prioritized as research domains at Simula. Recently, the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications promoted this research activity by awarding it national status as the Centre for Resilient Networks and Applications. We can offer the following competences: -M2M, MTC management |
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| Additional Resources Offered : | NorNet (https://www.nntb.no) is a national testbed for mobile networks experimentation designed, built and operated by Simula. A recently awarded Horizon 2020 project, MONROE, will extend this infrastructure into other European countries (Sweden, Spain, Italy). | ||
| Contact: | David Ros, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway. Email: dros@simula.no | ||
P15 – Potential Participant Offers
| Strand interest: | Network virtualization and software networks | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P15 |
| Proposer: | COPELABS, University Lusofona – Research Laboratory (academia) (private non-profit association) | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | Internet tools need to become fully pervasive, interactive and intelligent, being at the same time capable of progressively evolving to accommodate services composed from intermittently available sub-pieces, micro-services: software modules or services with reduced computational requirements and which may be managed by any entity. Micro-services per se do not provide a value-add for Internet stakeholders, even though they have the potential to contribute to such a value-add, by considering an adequate, self-organizing, orchestration of dynamic services, able to combine on-the-fly knowledge and information made (intermittently) available, giving support to augmented entertainment, business, and social experiences. We are working on self-organised ecosystems that can track and generate useful information and knowledge available when and wherever required, thus contributing to a better inclusion of social and context awareness in services. An additional innovation factor is the integration of reality mining (real-time) for service usage, i.e., generating knowledge based on the usage that citizens give to specific services to automatically integrate a higher degree of personalization. | ||
| Additional Resources Offered : | – SME relations and contacts – COPELABS has established partners, locally and internationall, as well as spin-offs that can provide specific usability scenarios and novel applications – User contacts – COPELABS has established protocols with potential user databases, e.g. local municipalities. |
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| Contact: | Paulo Mendes, paulo.mendes@ulusofona.pt COPELABS vice-director http://copelabs.ulusofona.pt/~pmendes http://copelabs.ulusofona.pt |
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| Strand interest: | Strand 3, 4 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P11, P12, P15 |
| Proposer: | Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (FUB) (type: not for profit research institute) http://www.fub.it/en | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | The FUB research team on User Aspects provides expertise on:- human factors, human computer interaction, user modelling, human performance evaluation, usability, user experience in different application sectors of ICT and mediated communication, scenario engineering and foresight methodologies,- socio-organisational research, design and development of trials involving end users in field and in laboratory, technology acceptance evaluation by the user, predicting models of user acceptance, microsimulation models of ICT adoption and diffusion.These skills have been applied in different research fields: e-inclusion of elderly people, domotics, training in crisis management emulated environment, T-government, digital television, distance learning, teleworking, telemedicine, videoconferencing, technology mediated interpersonal communication.Given the above expertise, we can contribute to 5G network virtualisation and to network and service management by realising experimentations involving users, performing user experience evaluations and usability tests. The expected impact is in modelling the service quality by the end-users and measuring the user experience within the context of 5G services. In particular our contribution can include:- Modelling classes of end-users for the participatory design and implementation of future 5G services (user requirements)- Human factors design of 5G systems/services by the UCD (User Centred Design) methodology, also contributing to the implementation of the technological platform by involving real-users- Design and realisation of trials with end-users in laboratory and on field, to evaluate the emerging 5G solutions in terms of user experience and user acceptance. | ||
| Additional Resources Offered : | To realize experimental trials and tests, given its institutional role, FUB may access structures, laboratories and equipment made available by the Italian Public Administration.FUB can offer a significant network of contacts and relationships with private and public stakeholders in the field of telecommunications. As a body operating under the control of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, we are at the core of a wide cooperative network, involving the Italian administration, international regulatory and standardisation bodies, telco operators and industries (mobile operators, manufacturers and consultants), universities and research institutions worldwide. | ||
| Contact: | The researchers of the User Aspects team:Michele Cornacchia mcornacchia@fub.it Enrico Nicolò nic@fub.itFilomena Papa fpapa@fub.itBartolomeo Sapio bsapio@fub.it | ||
P16 – Potential Participant Offers:
| Strand interest: | Strand 4: Network Virtualization and Software Networks | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P16 |
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These two institutions will apply as a single legal entity where KTH will be the project partner and CNIT will serve as “third party” of the partner. |
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| Scope of competence being offered: | KTH and CNIT have a very strong collaboration, and their expertise spans across various topics from optical components, systems and networks, to network control and management including both theoretical and experimental activities.The possible topics in which we can contribute to project 16 are the following (relevant reference to prove our expertise are provided all together at the end):
Relevant references related to the activity mentioned above are:
Recent projects relevant to this application:
Key people who will be involved in P8 are:
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| Contact: | Lena Wosinska (wosinska@kth.se) and Piero Castoldi (piero.castoldi@cnit.it) | ||
| Strand interest: | S4, S3 | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P16, P12, CSA |
| Proposer: | Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Budapest, Hungary | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | BME is active in three major areas of research and innovation activities relevant to 5GPPP. First, BME offers hands-on expertize in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with a focus on virtualization, end-to-end service programmability, fast prototyping, open-source solutions and live demonstrations. Second, BME has a strong track record in core networking research, especially in network infrastructure resilience (IP-level, multi-domain, optical, etc.) and routing (IP Fast ReRoute, multi-domain, router virtualization, etc.). Third, BME conducts research in the socio-economic aspects of networking with an emphasis on multi-stakeholder cooperation and competition scenarios, incentive-compatible mechanisms, and how technology impacts society.Accordingly, we have identified three specific activities in P16 we would like to contribute to.
Since a multi-domain/operator environment changes the playing field with regard to SLAs, we foresee that topic 2 could also be pursued in a research-oriented direction in P12. Furthermore, BME offers its competence in the socio-economic impact assessment of ICT (as demonstrated in leading the corresponding task in FP7 EARTH on energy efficiency) to be used at the 5GPPP level in CSA. Relevant recent projects FP7 UNIFY: Unifying Cloud and Carrier Networks. Unified programmability framework for the integrated control and management of cloud and network resources. GEANT OpenFlow competition: winner. Network resiliency in the transport layer with the help of OpenFlow and Multipath TCP. FP7 ALLEGRA@OpenLab: extending FIRE testbeds and tools. Winner of the first Open Call. Large-scale experiments on geo-location aware greedy routing architecture using OpenFlow. FP7 EARTH: Energy Aware Radio and neTwork tecHnologies. Leading the efforts on socio-economic impact assessment. FP6 AMBIENT NETWORKS: Instant negotiation of service agreements among cooperating market players Selected recent publications (related activity number in parentheses) (1)A. Csoma, B. Sonkoly, L. Csikor, F. Németh, A. Gulyás, W. Tavernier, S. Sahhaf, ESCAPE: Extensible Service ChAin Prototyping Environment using Mininet, Click, NETCONF and POX, ACM SIGCOMM 2014 Demo. (1,2)A. Csoma, B. Sonkoly, L. Csikor, F. Németh, A. Gulyás, D. Jocha, J. Elek, W. Tavernier, S. Sahhaf, Multi-layered service orchestration in a multi-domain network environment, EWSDN 2014 Demo. (1)P. Sköldström, B. Sonkoly, A. Gulyás, F. Németh, M. Kind, F. Westphal, W. John, J. Garay, E. Jacob, D. Jocha, J. Elek, R. Szabó, W. Tavernier, G. Agapiou, A. Manzalini, M. Rost, N. Sarrar, S. Schmid, Towards Unified Programmability of Cloud and Carrier Infrastructure, EWSDN 2014. (1) F. Németh, B. Sonkoly, L. Csikor, and A. Gulyás, A Large-Scale Multipath Playground for Experimenters and Early Adopters. ACM SIGCOMM Demo, 2013. (2) J. Tapolcai and G. Rétvári. Router virtualization for improving IP-level resilience. INFOCOM 2013. (1,2) F. Németh, B. Sonkoly, A. Gulyás, L. Csikor, J. Tapolcai, P. Babarczi, G. Rétvári, Improving resiliency and throughput of transport networks with OpenFlow and Multipath TCP: Demonstration of results over the Géant OpenFlow testbed, ONS Open Networking Summit 2013. (1) F. Németh, Á. Stipkovits, B. Sonkoly, A. Gulyás: Towards SmartFlow: Case Studies on Enhanced Programmable Forwarding in OpenFlow Switches, ACM SIGCOMM Demo, 2012. (CSA) G. Biczók (ed.), Economic and Ecological Impact of ICT, FP7 EARTH Deliverable D2.1, 2011. (CSA) A. Fehske, J. Malmodin, G. Biczok, G. Fettweis: The Global Footprint of Mobile Communications: the Ecological and Economic Perspective, IEEE Comm Mag, 49(8):55-62, August 2011. (3) G. Biczók, L. Toka, A. Gulyás, T. A. Trinh, A. Vidács, Incentivizing the global wireless village, Computer Networks, 55(2):439-456, Elsevier, February 2011. (3) D. Trossen, G. Biczok, Not paying the truck driver: differentiated pricing for the future internet. ReARCH ’10, 2010. (2) A. Császár, G. Enyedi, M. Hidell, G. Rétvári, and P. Sjödin. Converging the evolution of router architectures and IP networks. IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on Advances in Network Systems Architecture, 21(4):8-14, July 2007. |
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| Additional Resources Offered : | – Own feature-rich SDN testbed– Substantial SDN-related prototype implementation experience and community connections– Expertize in designing and presenting live demos at premier technical conferences (Open Networking Summit; ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE INFOCOM) | ||
| Contact: | Gergely Biczók – biczok@tmit.bme.huCsaba Simon – simon@tmit.bme.hu | ||
| Strand interest: | Strand 4:(Strand 2,3) | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P16 (P10, P12, P15) |
| Proposer: | RedZinc Services LimitedSDN Software CompanyRedZinc is an SME based in Dublin, Ireland. | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | RedZinc offers wireline and wireless telecoms operators a control plane orchestration solution for economic traffic differentiation using a software defined network solution offered as-a-service (SDNaaS) with dynamic virtual path slice traffic control for multi-autonomous system.Service providers can increase revenue per user by empowering appcos and cloud providers to access QoS resources on multi-domain network. The resources are packaged into QoS events, made available to the appco via an API- application programming interface and billed to the appco on an itemised wholesale bulk basis. The solution is available as a managed service reducing IT workload. RedZinc creates a win win win – for the user, the appco and the telco.RedZinc’s Solution VELOX includes
Projects EuQoS – End-to-End Quality of Service over heterogeneous Networks IPsphere – TM Forum Standards based Field Trials for inter-carrier cloud and video based IP Services. BonFIRE – Virtual Path Slice integration and testing with server-based desktop virtualisation. LiveCity. Smart cities pilot using video-to-video applications supported by virtual path slice technology in the telemedicine, education, public sector and first responders sectors. CityFlow Large Scale control plane testing of virtual path slice control with OpenFlow |
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| Additional Resources Offered : | SDN Platform for 5GPPP Pilots (SDNaaS)OpenFlow Test Environment (based on OpenVSwitch and Floodlight) | ||
| Contact: | Donal Morrisdmorris at redzinc dot netwww.redzinc.net | ||
| Strand interest: | Strand 4: Network Virtualization and Software Networks | Pre-structuring Model Topic of interest | P14,P16 |
| Proposer: | Politecnico di Torino, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University | ||
| Scope of competence being offered: | The interests and the competences of the researchers of the Telecommunication Networks Group (TNG) of the Politecnico di Torino (http://www.telematica.polito.it/) are very well aligned with the topics of P14 and P16.BackgroundWe have experience on virtualization, energy savings (in the past applied mainly to distributed software routers architectures) and on SDN.We have been working on virtualization in software routers for the last eight years, covering the following topics:- Design of distributed routers architectures [11,12,13,14]- Performance analysis of distribute routers architecture in a virtualized environment [3,9]- Energy aware distributed router design [2,4,5,6]
In the past we pursued two activities related to SDN, one in the performance analysis field [10], the other one in the measurement area [1]. More recently, we started addressing the following topics on SDN that we believe may be of interest in the project: – scalability of reactive flow routing in (OpenDayLight) SDN controllers, specifically targeting the access network (POP) of a Telecom operators – integration of SDN controller (e.g., OpenDayLight) with cloud computing allocator (e.g., OpenNebula) to allow the joint consolidation of network and computational resources to reduce power consumption, by allowing network-aware VM migration – integration between on-line traffic monitoring tools and SDN controllers (specifically, OpenDayLight) to enable traffic engineering techniques and improve QoE for users accessing real-time video streaming – “optimal/wise” placement of distributed SDN controllers in a large size network – software-controlled WiFi access networks to optimize the downlink/uplink bandwidth by exploiting load-balancing among neighboring access points, in the specific case of residential users with WiFi-equipped ADSL modems. Furthermore, we have also a strong expertise on on-line scheduling algorithms for resource allocation problems, which have been applied mostly to packet switching systems in the past. Finally, we have some expertise in energy-aware network design. Contributions to the project Regarding our possible contributions, we think that we could contribute Regarding our possible contributions in P16, we are interested in network scaling, in terms of scope to scalability and flexibility issues. Bibliography 1. A.Bianco, V.Krishnamoorthi, N.Li, L.Giraudo, “OpenFlow Driven Ethernet Traffic Analysis”, IEEE ICC 2014 – Next-Generation Networking Symposium, Sydney, Australia, June 2014 2. A.Bianco, F.Getachew Debele, L.Giraudo, Differential energy saving algorithms in a distributed router architecture, Computer Communications, ISSN: 0140-3664, March 2014 3. L.Abeni, C.Kiraly, N.Li, A.Bianco, Tuning KVM to enhance virtual routing performance, IEEE ICC 2013 – Internation Conference on Communications, Budapest, Hungary, June 2013 4. A.Bianco, F.Getachew Debele, N.Li, Energy Efficient Distributed Router Design, IEEE ICC 2013, Hungary, Budapest, June 2013 5. A.Bianco, F.Getachew Debele, L.Giraudo, On-line Power Savings in a Distributed Multi-stage Router Architecture, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim, CA, USA, December 2012 6. A.Bianco, F.Getachew Debele, L.Giraudo, Energy Saving in Distributed Router Architectures, IEEE ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012 7. P.Szegedi, J.F.Riera, J.Garcia-Espin, M.Hidell, P.Sjodin, P.Sodeman, M.Ruffini, D.O’Mahony, A.Bianco, L.Giraudo, M.Ponce de Leon, G.Power, C.Cervello-Pastor, V.Lopez, S.Naegele-Jackson, Enabling Future Internet Research: The FEDERICA Case, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol.49, No.7, pp.54-61, ISSN: 0163-6804, July 2011 8.A.Bianco, R.Birke, F.Getachew Debele, L.Giraudo, SNMP Management in a Distributed Software Router Architecture, IEEE ICC 2011 (Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium), Kyoto, Japan, June 2011 9. A.Bianco, R.Birke, L.Giraudo, N.Li, Multistage Software Routers in a Virtual Environment, IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 (Next Generation Networking Symposium), Miami, FL, USA, December 2010 10. A.Bianco, R.Birke, L.Giraudo, M.Palacin, Openflow Switching: Data Plane Performance, IEEE ICC 2010 (Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium), Cape Town, SA, May 2010 11. A.Bianco, R.Birke, J.Finochietto, L.Giraudo, F.Marenco, M.Mellia, A.Khan, D.Manjunath, Control and Management Plane in a Multi-stage Software Router Architecture, HPSR 2008 (IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing), Shanghai China, May 2008 12. Azeem Khan, Robert Birke, D Manjunath, Andrea Bianco, Anirudha Sahoo, Distributed PC Based Routers: Bottleneck Analysis and Architecture Proposal, HPSR 2008 (IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing), Shanghai China, May 2008 13. A.Bianco, J.Finochietto, M.Mellia, F.Neri, G.Galante, Multistage Switching Architectures for Software Routers, IEEE Network “Advances in Network Systems”, Vol.21, No.4, pp.15-21, July 2007 14. A.Bianco, J.Finochietto, G.Galante, D.Mazzucchi, M.Mellia, F.Neri, Scalable Layer-2/Layer-3 Multistage Switching Architectures for Software Routers, IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA, 27-30 November 2006 |
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| Contact: | Prof. Andrea BiancoFull Professor – Politecnico di Torino -ItalyWeb: http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/andrea-biancoEmail: andrea.bianco@polito.itProf. Paolo GiacconeAssistant Professor – Politecnico di Torino – ItalyWeb: http://www.telematica.polito.it/public/faculty/paolo-giaccone
Email: paolo.giaccone@polito.it |
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