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The Way 4WARD to the Creation of a

Future Internet

Norbert Niebert, Stephan Baucke,

Ibtissam El-Khayat, Martin Johnsson,
j Ohlman,, Henrik Abramowicz,, Klaus
Börje
Wuenstel, Hagen Woesner, Jürgen
Quittek, Luis M. Correia

IST/IT, Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal

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Outline
™ Partners & Structure.

™ Why a Network of the Future?

™ Approaches in 4WARD.

™ Conclusions.

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Partners

Ericsson
Ericsson Nokia-Siemens-Networks
KTH VTT Alcatel-Lucent
SICS Deutsche Telecom
Ericsson
Nokia-Siemens-Networks
Tu Berlin
Canada
Univ. of Bremen
NEC Univ. of Karlsruhe
Univ. of Lancaster Finland
UNiv. of Paderborn
Univ. of Surrey

Ericsson Sweden
Norway

Telekomunikacja Polska
WIT
Siemens
Ireland TPUCN
Poland
UK
Germany
Alcatel-Lucent
France Telecom Romania
Austria
GET-INT Switzerland
LIP6 France
Technion
Italia
IST-TUL
Spain
PTIN
Univ. of Basel Israel

Telcom Italia
Robotiker-Tecnalia
US Telefonica

Rutgers
university

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Structure

WP6 NetInf
WP4

InNet
WP2
WP1 Mgmt
WP5 Formux New
BIRD
APC

WP3 Virtualisation

WP0 Project Management

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Why a Network of the Future?
(1)
™ Innovation is anyway
y y outside the network ((e.g.,
g,
Skype, Zattoo, FaceBook).

™ We just learned that we have to move to all-IP. Is this

all wrong?

™ The Internet itself has always worked, and the IETF

will fix it if there are problems.

™ But,
But

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Why a Network of the Future?
(2)
™ There is a surge
g of unwanted traffic and management
g
cost.

™ Will the IP world reasonably cover the Internet of

Information?

™ IP Internet was developed for copper. Is it the best

choice for the future optical-wireless world?

™ International activities have started: FIND (US),

(US) GENI
(US), Future Internet Assembly (EU), NICT (JP), FIF
(KR) …
(KR),
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The Network of the Future
as we know
k it
™ Flexible and p
participatory
p y – user and p
provider are
dynamically attached roles.

™ Information centric rather than bit centric at the

network level.
level

™ Security that nevertheless keeps the generativity of

the network intact.

™ Low cost to access,

access deploy and operate.
operate

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4WARD Principles
™ Tenet 1: Let 1000 Networks Bloom.

™ Tenet 2: Let Networks Manage Themselves.

Themselves

™ Tenet 3: Let a Network Path Be an Active Unit.

™ Tenet 4: Let Networks Be Information-Centric.

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The Facets of 4WARD
™ Combination of
Business Innovation
clean-slate
approaches to
address the
Network of the
Future.

™ Focus on
Endpoint

Forwarde
r
individual

Folding
Point
innovations in
Phase 1
(2 years).

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Business, Society and
R
Regulatory
l t Drivers
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™ Focus of
4WARD:

Drive
innovations
into the
network layer
to create new
socio
socio-
economic
opportunities.

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Support the Network Architect

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The Virtual e2e Network
™ Deals with e2e
resource
virtualisation of
networking
resources.
™ Opens the
possibility
p y for
more radical
innovation in the
network.
™ Enables migration
from current
Internet.
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Traditional Network
M
Management t

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In-network
In network Management

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How we see connectivity today
™ Today’s
y networks are constructed as
overlays from the ground up.
™ We have routing,
routing addressing,
addressing
error/flow control on application, IP
and ethernet/optical/radio layer today.
™ Overlays and underlays are typically
not end-to-end.
end-to-end
™ Paths are visible inside a single layer
only.
onl
™ Is there something like a largest
common denominator, a generic
path?

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A new transport paradigm: the
generic
i path
th

™ Organise
O i cooperation
ti among nodes
d ini a pathth Æ
Understand their existence, and signalling.
™ Structure cross-layer information Æ Find out lower
topologies and their capabilities.
™ Control underlay topologies Æ Multi-layer routing.
™ Mobility by generic path.
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The Network of Information
™ Architecture of a
Network of Information. A

™ Information modelling.
modelling D
D

™ Basic dissemination B C
E
mechanisms and
services.
™ Non-dissemination
N di i ti and
d D
A E
delay-sensitive B B B
E E E E
ser ices
services. A A

A A
™ Evaluation of the C D

approach.

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Network of Information
A hit t
Architecture Overview
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Conclusions
™ 4WARD addresses the p problems of the Networks of
the Future, and Future Internet.
™ A systems approach is taken for Future Internet
Internet.
™ Innovation and new business opportunities are
driven into the network layer.
layer
™ The mobile and wireless perspective is considered.
™ Networks architectures, virtualisation of resources,
in-network management, generic paths, and network
of information are the main concepts being
addressed.
™ We are open and interested in collaboration with
related international initiatives.
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