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Project Periodic Report

Grant Agreement number: RI-213107 Project acronym: FEDERICA Project title: Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European

Researchers Innovating in Computing network Architectures

Funding Scheme: I3 Date of latest version of Annex I: October 7th 2007, v15 Periodic report: 2nd reporting period Period covered: January – December 2009

Co-ordinator: Mauro Campanella Consortium GARR, Via dei Tizii, 6, 00185 Rome Italy Tel: +39-06-4962-2000 Fax: +39-06-4962-2044 E-mail: [email protected]

Scientific project co-ordinator: Prof. Vasilis Maglaris National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Network Management & Optimal Design Laboratory (NETMODE) Zografou Campus, Iroon Polytechniou 9, 15780 Zografou, Greece

Tel: +30 210 772 2503 Fax: +30.210.772.1452 E-mail: [email protected]

Project Website address: http://www.fp7-FEDERICA.eu


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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Publishable summary ...................................................................................................................3 2 Project Structure...........................................................................................................................6 3 Project Objectives for the period .................................................................................................7

3.1 Overall Project Objectives ...............................................................................................7 3.2 Project Objectives for the Reporting Period ....................................................................7

4 Work progress and achievements during the period....................................................................9 4.1 Networking Activities ......................................................................................................9

4.1.1 NA1: Project Management...........................................................................................9 4.1.2 NA2: Building and Consolidating the User Community ...........................................10 4.1.3 NA3: Standardization and Liaison.............................................................................15 4.1.4 NA4: Dissemination and Training .............................................................................18

4.2 Service Activities ...........................................................................................................23 4.2.1 SA1: Infrastructure Report.........................................................................................24 4.2.2 SA2: Operational User support and Tool bench development ..................................32

4.3 Joint Research Activities................................................................................................39 4.3.1 JRA1: Network Control and Management.................................................................40 4.3.2 JRA2: Novel Paradigms and User Control ................................................................44

5 Deliverables and milestones tables ............................................................................................51 5.1 Deliverables due in the reporting period (excluding this periodic report) .....................51 5.2 Milestones due in the reporting period ..........................................................................54

6 Project Management (NA1) .......................................................................................................55 6.1 Overall NA1 Achievements ...........................................................................................56 6.2 Individual partner achievements related to NA1 ...........................................................57 6.3 Changes in the Consortium............................................................................................59 6.4 Project Meetings ............................................................................................................59 6.5 Project-related Meetings ................................................................................................59 6.6 Dissemination Activities ................................................................................................60

7 Explanation of the use of the resources .....................................................................................64 8 Deviations and risks analysis .....................................................................................................77

8.1 Deviations ......................................................................................................................77 8.2 Risks...............................................................................................................................79

9 Access activity of the infrastructure...........................................................................................80 10 Financial statements – Form C and Summary financial report..............................................80 11 Certificates .............................................................................................................................80


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1 Publishable summary

FEDERICA Federated E-infrastructure Dedicated to European Researchers Innovating in Computing network Architectures Summary: The FEDERICA project has created a European wide “technology agnostic” infrastructure based upon Gigabit Ethernet circuits, transmission equipment and computing nodes capable of virtualization, to host experimental activities on new Internet architectures and protocols. The FEDERICA network is based on the footprint of the European Research & Education multi-gigabit network GÉANT. Circuits are terminated in Points of Presence (PoPs) of NRENs, which host FEDERICA nodes capable of virtualising hosts, e.g. open source routers and end nodes. Virtual slices of FEDERICA’s infrastructure may be allocated to network researchers for testing even with disruptive experiments within a large production substrate. The researchers have full control of the allocated Virtual Nodes (V-Nodes) and network slice and have access to network monitoring information. Internal project research is focused on understanding and producing initial solutions for monitoring, management and control of parallel virtual networks in a multi-domain environment. Objectives: The FEDERICA project supports research experiments on new Internet architectures and protocols by:

- Creating a versatile, scalable, European wide, technology agnostic infrastructure, with the possibility to interconnect with the general Internet and other infrastructures. FEDERICA has created “slices” of its infrastructure to be used simultaneously by more than one research group. Each slice may be configured according to researchers’ needs, as a combination of Ethernet network circuits and nodes.

- Facilitating technical discussions amongst specialists, in particular arising from experimental results and disseminating knowledge and NREN experience of meeting users’ requirements.

- Providing preliminary information and results for the next generation of the NREN networks, especially GÉANT3.

- Contributing with real test cases and results to standardization bodies, e.g. IETF, ITU-T, OIF, TMF (IPsphere).

- Understanding and producing initial solutions on the management and control of distributed, parallel, virtual networks which may communicate between them and with the general Internet.

- Developing experience and proposing a model for managing and using virtual infrastructures as a combination of networks and systems. Currently, this type of management is in its infancy: pro-active tools are needed for monitoring and services.

- Enabling the graceful implementation of a new inter-domain service layer. The FEDERICA infrastructure is devoted to research on the Internet of the future and on virtual distributed systems. It is not intended to be used to provide raw computing power or permanent European connections. Action plan: The FEDERICA infrastructure is based on Gigabit Ethernet circuits, network nodes and computer systems supporting V-Nodes from the participating NRENs. One of the initial goals was to make the core part of the network operational by October 2008. This was achieved.


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The development of the infrastructure is following three phases. In the first phase the users could request virtual networks with complete control up to the network layer, but with fixed Ethernet framing. In the second phase, started in October 2008 and lasting until December 2009 the users could request virtual networks with complete control up to the network layer, but with fixed Ethernet framing. In the following phase, according to users’ requests and infrastructure capabilities, the user control may extend down to lower layers. The user can request a virtual network composed by (virtual) circuits and (virtual) nodes for experimentation. Each virtual network is a “slice” of the infrastructure and many slides can be active in parallel and independently. Access to the infrastructure is normally free of charge, subject to compliance with an Acceptable User Policy. A User Policy Board is responsible for accepting and prioritizing users’ requests. Each user group is assured testing privacy and their results will not accessible by other users. The FEDERICA project requests explicit feedback from its users. Networking Activities: The Networking Activities support the Project Management, training, standardization, liaison activities, and dissemination/concertation vis-à-vis user communities. Emphasis is placed on interacting with researchers and similar activities in Europe and worldwide and in providing input to standardization bodies. Service Activities: The Service Activities engineer, implement, manage and develop the FEDERICA infrastructure in a multi-domain environment. These tasks require setting up monitoring and control systems for the physical network and the virtual slices, based on the results of the GÉANT projects and NREN developments. The activities imply the development of a model for virtual network use, user control and related business models. Joint Research Activities: The Joint Research Activities are targeted towards prototyping and testing the virtualization – slicing tools and novel architectures not deemed sufficiently mature to be mapped to a service in the project. The results of the research will be fed into the Service Activities for rapid prototyping and implementation. User communities: The target users of the infrastructure are researchers engaged in research on networking, using networks not just as a tool, but primarily as the subject of their work. User groups will include primarily EC projects, research groups, equipment manufacturers and telecommunications research labs or even individuals (e.g. PhD students). International aspects: The FEDERICA infrastructure will cover a significant area of Europe through the participating NRENs. Access to the infrastructure is not limited to the participating countries, but can be granted to any user with an Internet connection. The FEDERICA infrastructure aims also at establishing a connection with other infrastructures for mutual enhancement, e.g. European NREN and GÉANT testbeds, vendor and Telco experimental facilities, the PlanetLab overlay network and NSF GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) in the USA. The infrastructure: The FEDERICA infrastructure uses the Points of Presence (PoPs) of the National Research and Education Networking organisations (NRENs) participating in the project. These PoPs host routing and switching equipment capable of supporting virtualisation and are interconnected dedicated Gigabit Ethernet links or MPLS tunnels running over existing GÉANT or NREN production networks.


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The core network became available in October 2008. It is now composed of 4 fully meshed PoPs in the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Poland. Each core PoP hosts one Juniper MX480 and two V-Nodes.

Nine PoPs in other participating countries were then connected gradually. This extended the infrastructure over a longer distance to provide a real-world environment for end-to-end experiments on the future Internet. Although the FEDERICA infrastructure covers a significant part of Europe thanks to the participating NRENs, access can be granted to any user in any place equipped with an Internet connection.

Furthermore, FEDERICA is liaising with similar infrastructure projects such as the PlanetLab overlay network, the PanLab II project and the USA’s National Science Foundation GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) initiative, in order to evaluate possible collaborations.

Network Topology (February 2010)


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2 Project Structure FEDERICA follows the structure of I3 projects. The project structure consists of:

- NAs (Networking Activities) - SAs (Service Activities) - JRAs (Joint Research Activities)

These activities are outlined in the table below:

Activity Task TNA1.1: Establishing the Project Management Procedures

NA1: Project Management TNA1.2: Performing the Project Management Duties

NA2: Building and Consolidating the User Community

TNA2.1: Gathering of User Requirements of Disruptive Network Research Communities. Segmentation, Consolidation and Enlargement of End-User Communities TNA3.1: Interaction with standards bodies and fora NA3: Standardization and

Liaisons TNA3.2: Liaisons with related projects and initiatives TNA4.1: Organizing conferences and workshops TNA4.2: Publishing of dissemination materials, Website

NA

NA4: Dissemination and Training TNA4.3: Familiarizing end-users with the FEDERICA virtual infrastructure and tool-bench TSA1.1: Physical infrastructure TSA1.2: Virtual Infrastructures factory SA1: Infrastructure Support TSA1.3: Multi-domain monitoring and management of the infrastructure TSA2.1: User support during use TSA2.2: Prioritization, policies AAI charging and accounting, gathering user feedback TSA2.3: Virtual slicing and network provisioning, e2e monitoring, fault management of virtual resources, AAI, interaction of virtual infrastructures

SA

SA2: Operational User support and Tool bench development

TSA2.4: User oriented tools for creation and control of virtual infrastructure TJRA1.1: Status and study of advances in network control and Management Plane for virtual network infrastructures

JRA1: Network Control and Management TJRA1.2: Tools and Protocols for creating and stitching

network resources in multi-domain, multi-vendor virtual infrastructures TJRA2.1: New Internet architectural paradigms and the virtual infrastructures TJRA2.2: Novel concepts for fair virtual infrastructure sharing & accounting and business models

JRA

JRA2: Novel Paradigms and User Control

TJRA2.3: User controlled network


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3 Project Objectives for the period

3.1 Overall Project Objectives The FEDERICA project has the following main overall objectives, divided into the areas of Networking, Support and Research:

Networking

- Facilitate technical discussion amongst specialists (in particular, when based on experimental results) and disseminate knowledge and NREN experience of meeting users’ requirements.

- Provide preliminary information and results for the next generation of the NREN networks, and link with the GN2 project and the GN3 project (since April 2009).

- Contribute with real test cases and results to standardization bodies, e.g. IETF, ITU-T, OIF, TMF (IPsphere).

Support

- Engineer, deploy and operate an infrastructure facility to be made available for projects in the areas of “Network of the Future” and “FIRE”.

- Support research experiments on new Internet architectures and protocols by:

Creating a versatile, scalable, European wide “technology agnostic” infrastructure, separated from the production networks, but with the possibility to interoperate.

Adopting the paradigm that “the infrastructure is the network”. The traditional model of core and edges is replaced by a quasi-homogeneous network, where each node is defined according to its functions, rather than through its position and the logical and node functions topology can be easily changed. The infrastructure can be adapted to whatever the user wants it to be.

Opening the infrastructure to host researchers, hardware, and their applications, allowing simultaneous use by more than one research group.

- Exploit the excellent networking facilities that are available in Europe; especially, the existing NREN and GEANT networks and available technologies and services therein.

Research

- Understand and produce initial solutions for the management and control of distributed, parallel, virtual networks that may communicate between them and with the general Internet.

- Develop experience and a model for managing and using virtual infrastructures as a combination of networks and systems. Currently, this type of management and control is in its infancy. Pro-active tools based on systems are needed for monitoring and services.

- The infrastructure will be open to any type of “application” (an “application” can be a test).

- Use, test, and advance the tools and services being developed by GÉANT, NRENs and partners, in particular for end-to-end services.

- Enable the graceful implementation of a new inter-domain service layer.

3.2 Project Objectives for the Reporting Period The formal project objectives for the reporting period can be deduced from the milestones and deliverables planned to be produced, in accordance with the tables in Section 4.


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During January - December 2009, 9 deliverables (2 of which are prototypes: DSA2.2 and DJRA2.2) and 6 milestones were due: Deliverables

- DNA3.2: Update on status and plans for liaison activities

- DNA4.2: FEDERICA Course Curriculum (shifted from M10 to M18 in the previous project review)

- DNA4.3: Mid-term Report of FEDERICA dissemination, concertation and training activities

- DSA1.1v2: The FEDERICA infrastructure (an update was requested in the previous project review)

- DSA1.2: Update on the FEDERICA infrastructure

- DSA2.1: User Support (outstanding from Year 1)

- DSA2.2: Accounting, Policies, Tool-bench and IP slice service prototype

‐ DJRA1.2: Solutions and protocols proposal for the network control, management and monitoring in a virtualized network context

‐ DJRA2.2: Prototype for interoperability between IPsphere and UCLPv2

‐ (DNA2.3 : “FEDERICA Usage Report” was shifted from M24 to M30 in the previous project review) Milestones

- MNA1.2: 1st Project Review successfully completed

- MNA2.2: Requirements gathered from new EC Projects under IST and FIRE Call

- MJRA1.1: Extensions and protocols for network control and management technologies for network virtualization

- MJRA2.1: Specification of UCLPv2 service for virtual machines

- MSA1.2: Phase 3 FEDERICA infrastructure in operation

- MSA2.2: 2nd IP slice prototype available. Virtualization tool-bench available

- (MNA2.3: “Consolidated User Feedback” is associated with deliverable DNA2.3, and therefore also shifted from M24 to M30)


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4 Work progress and achievements during the period

4.1 Networking Activities The Networking Activities support the project management, training, standardization, and liaison activities, as well as dissemination and concertation vis-à-vis user communities. Emphasis is placed on providing input to standardization bodies and interacting with similar activities in Europe and worldwide. There are 4 Networking Activities in FEDERICA. Their timelines are detailed in the chart below:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

NA1: Project Management

TNA1.1: Establishing the Project Management ProceduresTNA1.2: Performing the Project Management DutiesDeliverables DNA1.1 DNA1.2 DNA1.3 DNA1.4Milestones MNA1.1 MNA1.2 MNA1.3 MNA1.4

NA2: Building and Consolidating the User CommunityTNA2.1: Gathering of User Requirements of Disruptive Network Research Communities. Deliverables DNA2.1 DNA2.2 DNA2.3Milestones MNA2.1 MNA2.2 MNA2.3 MNA2.4

NA3: Standardization and LiaisonsTNA3.1: Interaction with standards bodies (e.g. IETF, ITU-T, OIF, IPsphere)TNA3.2: Liaisons with related projects & initiativesDeliverables DNA3.1 DNA3.2Milestones MNA3.1 MNA3.2

NA4: Dissemination and Training

TNA4.1: Organizing conferences and workshops

TNA4.2: Publishing of dissemination materials, web site, etc. TNA4.3: Familiarizing end-users with the FEDERICA virtual infrastructure and tool benchDeliverables DNA4.1 DNA4.2 DNA4.3 DNA4.4 DNA4.5Milestones MNA4.MNA4.2 MNA4.3 MNA4.4

Qtr3 Qtr4 Qtr1 Qtr2Year 3Year 1 Year 2

Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Qtr1 Qtr2

4.1.1 NA1: Project Management Project management is discussed specifically in section 5.


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4.1.2 NA2: Building and Consolidating the User Community

The Activity NA2 “Building and consolidating the User community” is comprised of one Task:

- TNA2.1: Building and consolidating the User Community The leading partner is TERENA and the contributing partners are: GARR, CESNET, DFN, FCCN, GRNET, NIIFI, Red.es, SWITCH, i2CAT, ICCS, HEAnet, Polito, and NORDUnet

The user community addressed by NA2 includes FP7 projects funded under the “Networking of the Future” and “FIRE” Calls, as well as other selected networking projects and developments taking place at universities, research institutes, industrial R&D labs and, last but not least, at NREN and Telco testbeds.

The researchers in the user groups are often (implicitly) organized in their own personal networks. As an example, the labs working on BGP or on IPv6 research in Europe are at least known to each other if not already collaborating. FEDERICA investigates how to unite a number of labs working on the same network research topic over the same FEDERICA layer.

NA2 effort is focused on three topics:

− gathering requirements, providing the infrastructure for the users’ experiments, and collecting feedback in order to follow the progress in the research environment;

− deepening understanding of users’ behaviour and the usage patterns in order to ensure the most appropriate ways of targeting the requirements, while at the same time providing means of consolidating and enlarging the user community;

− developing the contacts with existing user organizations and projects on an ongoing basis in order to consolidate and expand the user community.

4.1.2.1 Overall NA2 Achievements

In this reporting period, the NA2 partners collected information about the potential user groups within their respective countries and compiled an extensive list of users. These were reported in the deliverable DNA2.2: “FEDERICA User Community and Requirements”, which was submitted for the 1st project review. A preliminary user segmentation was also proposed in this deliverable, but it is being revised, following recommendations made in the 1st project review.

The details of the first planned experiments were also reported in DNA2.2. This deliverable includes the description of the User Policy Board (UPB) structure and processes with all the official documents included in an appendix. The Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at Waterford Institute of Technology assisted by HEAnet made an extensive review of all public UPB documents and highlighted some changes to the respective document owners. The enhancement (and simplification) of the UPB documents continues.

The NA2 partners have considered various types of consultation events through which to attract new users and understand their needs. The most effective mechanism has been the organisation of small, distributed BoFs (Birds of a Feather) sessions during the NREN events across Europe. A FEDERICA BoF session was organised during the NIIFI/HUNGARNET national conference (Networkshop 2009) in April at which Hungarian users from ELTE (Univ. Szeged, SZTAKI) were consulted in person and subsequently submitted a slice request. Other users include CTVR-Ireland, the PHOSPHORUS project, the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, PoliTo, and CESNET.

Partners also organised a FEDERICA Virtual Infrastructure and Tool-bench tutorial during the TERENA Networking Conference in June 2009. This tutorial was aimed at researchers, network engineers and other potential users of the infrastructure, and covered the virtualisation and network control mechanisms. It also explained the preliminary tool-bench that is being developed to integrate these mechanisms in order to


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provide automated and on-demand allocation. In addition, there was a panel session where prospective users could ask questions and provide feedback.

The NA2 partners attended the Future Internet Assembly in Prague (May, 2009) and in Stockholm (December 2009) where a poster and a presentation were given about the FEDERICA infrastructure and Use Cases to the FIRE project participants and FIA participants.

A presentation was given in Munich (October 2009) at the Cloudcomp09 Conference to start contacting the researchers in Cloud Computing.

The NA2 partners also revised the preliminary user segmentation (as requested by the EC reviewers in the 1st project review) according to the current and foreseen types of FEDERICA users.

Plans have also been made to follow up the usage of the FEDERICA infrastructure, collect user feedback and create usage reports. Summary of user experiments

The Hungarian user ELTE successfully finished their planned tests using the first FEDERICA slice. All the preliminary project goals have been achieved, resulting in an overall positive feedback. Further proof of the successful collaboration is that ELTE will request other slices with more complex topologies as they continue their work with FEDERICA.

Trinity College Dublin (CVTR) is working on a slice on which to test Optical IP Switching emulated by a circuit-based topology and a proprietary virtual switch system.

PHOSPHORUS is using a FEDERICA slice to perform scalability and performance tests of the Harmony system developed within the PHOSPHORUS project. A full mesh of virtual routers has been set-up. The Network Service Plane of the Harmony system is being tested in order to determine its behaviour under different load scenarios.

The Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM) supported by Red.IRIS, are making an experiment involving FEDERICA, PASITO and OneLabII.

PoliTo plans to build a multi-stage router architecture exploiting the FEDERICA facilities.

CESNET set up a slice with system and routers to test the correct behaviour of the GN3 monitoring system and to develop new features in a safe environment.

The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) performed OpenFlow experiments locally, in conjunction with KTH.

4.1.2.2 Individual Partner Achievements Related to NA2

Partner Achievements Name

GARR Prepared for the 1st project review and wrote various UPB documents.

Reviewed the deliverable DNA2.2.

Presented FEDERICA at a workshop on Future Internet organized by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR).

Discussed with the Hungarian (G. Vattay) and Spanish groups (J. Aracil) regarding the ELTE FEDERICA slice.

Maintained a constant dialogue with various projects and groups to explain FEDERICA features and usage.

Provided UPB consultation.

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Updated the public Website text.

Participated to the Fifth Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications (AICT09) Conference in Venice (May 24th - 28th, 2009) as the FEDERICA representative. The following paper was presented: Dae Young Kim, Laurent Mathy, Mauro Campanella, Rick Summerhill, James Williams, Shinji Shimojo, Yasuichi, Kitamura, Hideaki Otsuki, “Future Internet: Challenges in Virtualization and Federation”.

Presented at the FEDERICA workshop and TERENA conference in Malaga, Spain, June 8th - 11th, 2009.

Submitted a position paper on July 1st to JRC Ispra on the experimental platforms for Internet resilience, security and stability research, as a follow up to the JRC conference. (http://sta.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61)

Discussions held with possible users in US and Brazil.

CESNET Participated in the 4th GA meeting in Madrid.

Contributed to DNA2.2 regarding the specification of a slice (for users).

J. Navratil

J. Novotny

DFN Organised the FEDERICA-GA-meeting in Berlin in February.

Prepared for - and participated in - the GA meeting in Madrid.

Prepared the UPB-user-kit documents (before and after the GA meeting in February).

Engaged in intensive discussion and made decisions within the UPB regarding user requests..

Participated in the 1st project review as a UPB representative.

Established contacts with interested German users namely, G-Lab, OneLabII, PII, PERIMETER, and 4WARD (e.g. for OpenFlow experiments).

Prepared the poster display for the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften".

P. Kaufmann

M. Roesler

FCCN Created a flyer to promote FEDERICA within the Portuguese academic community.

Participated in the 15th ECI – Informatic Center Meeting, April 15th, 2009, Leiria Portugal, where FCCN made a presentation of the project.

J. Carvalho

NIIFI Promoted FEDERICA services and discussed with Future Internet research communities about testing opportunities on the basis of the FEDERICA infrastructure.

Cooperated and collaborated with other FEDERICA partners involved in NA2.

Discovered potential users and groups, and collected and evaluated their requirements.

Organised and managed a FEDERICA Workshop at ELTE (Roland Eotvos University of Sciences at Budapest) in April, with TERENA participation (P.Szegedi), and with some 15 attendees from different Hungarian

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institutions as potential FEDERICA users.

Organised and facilitated a special Working Session dedicated to FEDERICA ("FEDERICA BoF") at the Szeged Networkshop Conference, also with TERENA participation (P. Szegedi was speaker in the Working Session).

PSNC Attended the SC´09 conference where FEDERICA was presented at the PSNC booth.

R. Krzywania

Red.es Worked with the Autonomous University of Madrid to refine and finalize their slice request.

Worked with the Irish University to define the CTVR slice request.

Made initial contact with other possible users: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Instituo Atrofisico de Canarias (IAC) UPC and UC3M/IMDEA

Worked on possible PASITO-FEDERICA federation with Planetlab.

Contacted Spanish network users to check their interest and evaluate their proposals for FEDERICA.

Promoted the FEDERICA tutorial at the TERENA Networking Conference in June 2009.

Participated in the review of various documents.

General project internal co-ordination.

M.A. Sotos

SWITCH Attended the 3rd GA meeting in Berlin.

Attended the 4th GA meeting in Madrid.

A. Gall

K. Baumann

TERENA Edited deliverable DNA2.2 (submitted for the 1st project review), which includes a list of potential user groups and the preliminary user segmentation.

Presented the NA2 activities during the first project review.

Co-ordinated NA2 members to revise the preliminary user segmentation (as was requested by the EC reviewers) according to the current and future types of FEDERICA users.

Organised a tutorial entitled “The FEDERICA Virtual Infrastructure and Tool-bench” at the TERENA Networking Conference in June 2009.

Held two FEDERICA sessions during the TERENA Networking Conference in June 2009 with the goal of attracting new users.

Consulted with potential Hungarian users and supported ELTE in their request for the first external user slice of FEDERICA.

Handled subsequent requests for slices from the University of Dublin, Trinity College (CVTR), the PHOSPHORUS project, PoliTo, FAU and CESNET, and passed the information to the NOC for implementation.

Co-ordinated the internal user trials with the Irish University partners and collected the feedback on the UPB processes and official documents.

Devised a new plan for the last phase of the NA2 activity. This plan takes

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into account the issues with finding new users, consulting with them, and tracking the request status over the entire slice provisioning procedure. The plan was introduced and discussed during the plenary meeting in Madrid.

i2CAT Gathered requirements and interacted with the PHOSPHORUS project members for testing and experimentation of the scalability of the PHOSPHORUS results using FEDERICA.

Participated in NA meetings and consolidated the user community behind the PHOSPHORUS project; lead the integration and user requirements allowing the PHOSPHORUS project the usage of FEDERICA resources for experimentation purposes.

S. Figuerola

J. Pons

E. Grasa

HEAnet

(TSSG)

Co-ordinated Irish User (CTVR) activity: prepared input for the CTVR slice request (“MINT” experiment) and provided procedural support for the implementation.

Co-ordinated 2 collaborations between FEDERICA and MANTICORE.

Participated in discussions about the types of services to be tested on the FEDERICA network.

Organised the administrative aspects for procuring a Juniper Switch and Sun hardware.

Worked on “Delivery 9” of the UPB documentation pack, and gave feedback for the other documents.

Reviewed the FEDERICA user requirements, user pack and the general documentation.

Encouraged the Irish users to use FEDERICA services.

Gathered user requirements of Disruptive Network Research Communities.

Segmented, consolidated, enlarged and supported the end-user communities.

Reviewed user proposals for FEDERICA slices (UPB activity).

Participated in the Berlin GA meeting.

Followed the discussions on e-mails and participated in internal meetings.

Reviewed the 9 FEDERICA UPB documents:

- 1 was attached to the Appendix of DNA2.2 v3m,

- 8 were at: http://www.fp7-FEDERICA.eu/users/user_pack.php

Followed the process of requesting a FEDERICA user slice and worked on software to automatically start simultaneously generating traffic in multiple FEDERICA nodes.

Organised a meeting for CTVR (TCD) with HEAnet to discuss how CTVR could connect to the FEDERICA infrastructure in Ireland.

V. Reijs

R. Meier

M. Ruffini

J. Bolger

PoliTo Discussed with partners about the PoliTo slice at the FEDERICA GA meetings in Berlin and Madrid.

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4.1.3 NA3: Standardization and Liaison

The Activity NA3: “Standardization & Liaisons” is comprised of 2 Tasks:

- TNA3.1: Interaction with standards bodies and fora GRNET is the leading partner, with contributing partners: GARR, PSNC, Juniper, NSN, and NORDUnet.

- TNA3.2: Liaisons with related projects and initiatives GARR is the leading partner, with contributing partners: DFN, GRNET, Juniper, Martel, Polito, and NORDUnet.

One of the goals of the FEDERICA infrastructure is to contribute to the advancement, development, and standardisation of networks’ and systems’ infrastructure virtualization, in particular in the multi-domain area and service brokering. There are various projects and initiatives worldwide (e.g. GN2, GN3, GENI, AKARI in Japan) and this project is pursuing fruitful interaction with the relevant ones. The FEDERICA project has a large potential for the adoption of – and contribution to - standards. In the Task TNA3.1 the project is following the main international standardisation groups and fora in this area; namely, DMTF, ITU-T, IETF, OGF and TMF (IPsphere). In the Task TNA3.2 the project formalizes the collaboration with existing FP6 and FP7 projects and similar initiatives. The initial targets for collaborations were GN2, MANTICORE, PHOSPHORUS, and GENI.


FEDERICA has continued to build relations and liaise in this reporting period with the following groups: • ELTE (linking institutes in Hungary and Spain via a FEDERICA slice) • FIRE (especially the testbed facilities: OneLab2 and PII) • OpenFlow (Stanford University, HP, Cisco, Juniper) • The Telecommunications Management Forum (TMF), which includes now the IPsphere Forum

(IPSF) • BELIEF-II (EC FP7 co-ordination project for e-Infrastructures) • MANTICORE • IRTF (new working group on virtualisation: NVRG)

With MANTICORE, a specific partnership has been formed with the following goals: • Achieving synergy between both projects by collaboration in the common areas of interest • Opening the possibility to share the ongoing experience and technical knowledge between the two

projects through meetings and/or workshops • Agreeing on the dissemination and promotion of both projects results in the research community • Exchanging know-how and project results

On June 19th, 2009, FEDERICA was presented at the “Experimental platforms for Internet resilience, security and stability research” workshop, organized by the EC Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy.

i2CAT is involved in the relationship between IPSF/TMF and FEDERICA. On a bi-weekly basis, i2CAT participates in international conference calls of the Working Group to identify the changes or updates needed in the IPSF implementation under FEDERICA.

GARR attended a NSF/FIRE workshop in Seattle in July and contributed to deliverable DNA3.2: “Update on status and plans of liaison activities”. GARR also attended the 2nd Japan-EU workshop in Tokyo in October 2009.


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i2CAT attended an EC-organised workshop with the AKARI project in Japan.

GARR participated in the CPqD (Brazil) workshop on New Architecture for Future Internet, in September and also liaised with RNP (the Brazilian NREN).



GARR Participated in the FIRE Expert group meetings on January 9th and March 20t.h, 2009.

Finalized and approved the MoU with MANTICORE.

Presented a workshop on future Internet national initiatives on February 20th, 2009.

Followed the IRTF NVRG initial charter discussion.

Participated in the FIRE “5 Wise Men” interview April 27th - 29th, 2009. Prepared a FEDERICA position paper for this meeting.

Participated to the Future Internet Assembly conference on May 11th - 13th, 2009 in Prague.

Participated in the 2nd FIRE-GENI workshop which took place on July 23rd, 2009, in Seattle, USA. Liaised with GENI projects (e.g. VINI) and the GENI Project Office.

Participated in the CPqD Workshop on New Architecture for Future Internet, on September 23rd - 24th, 2009 in Campinas, Brazil. Liaised with CPqD and RNP (the Brazilian NREN).

M. Campanella

DFN Interacted with standards bodies and fora.

Corresponded with Stanford University, HP, Cisco and Juniper (USA) to request an OpenFlow patch for the OpenFlow hardware implementation in FEDERICA (Use Case).

M. Roesler P. Kauffman

GRNET Followed up on the latest advances in related standards and fora.

Authored and worked on deliverable DNA3.2. “Update on status/plans of Liaison activities”.

Participated and presented an overview of the NA3 status and plans during the e 4th GA meeting.

Followed-up on the NVRG BoF in IRTF.

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C. Vassilakis

i2CAT Followed up on the IPsphere tasks.

Contributed to the deliverable DNA3.2 regarding the chapters relating to liaisons with MANTICORE and IPsphere.

Participated in the FIA event in Stockholm.

Participated in the bi-weekly conference call meetings of the IPSF TMF standardization body.

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Juniper Contributed to deliverable DNA3.2: “Update on status and plans for liaison activities”.

Attended the TMF meeting in Lisbon on Jan 26th - 29th, 2009.

Followed up on IPsphere Forum (IPSF) activities, through the TMF progress.

Attended MPLS and Ethernet World Congress in Paris – to obtain an update on Virtual Private Network technologies.

Participated to the TMF Management World 2009 in Nice on May 4th - 7th, 2009, and spent time on the Juniper booth, exposing the IPSF/FEDERICA interoperability work being done in JRA2.3.

Attended and supported the 1st project review meeting discussions.

Participated in the GEANT 3 Symposium in Vienna on September 9th, 2009, as a speaker on virtualization-related topics and FEDERICA.

Presented the paper: “On-demand Infrastructure services provisioning” on IPSF/TMF development, at the TERENA Conference on December 8th, 2009.

Attended JRES in Nantes on December 3rd - 4th, 2009 and promoted the concept of FEDERICA to the French R&D community.

Continued discussions with the MANTICORE project.

J-M. Uzé N. Wicker R. Bayliss T. Shimizu

Martel Liaised with BELIEF-II (wrote minutes from the Concertation Meeting “Networking Session” on November 24th, 2009)

Liaised with the FIRE initiative by answering questions prior to the April 28th, interview with the “5 Wise Men” in Brussels.

Presented the FEDERICA project to potential users at the Lulea FIRE Week, and participated in the plenary panel discussion.

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4.1.4 NA4: Dissemination and Training

The Activity NA4: “Dissemination and Training” is comprised of 3 Tasks:

- TNA4.1: Organizing conferences and workshops TERENA is the leading partner, with contributing partners: NIIFI, i2CAT, Martel, and Polito

- TNA4.2: Publishing of dissemination materials, Website etc. GARR is the leading partner, with contributing partners: CESNET, NIIFI, PSNC, TERENA, ICCS, Juniper, and Polito

- TNA4.3: Training end-users on the FEDERICA virtual infrastructure and tool-bench TERENA is the leading partner, with contributing partners: CESNET, NIIFI, and Red.es

NA4 covers dissemination, training, and outreach communication activities. The FEDERICA e-Infrastructure provides a significant increase in the flexibility of network services available for communication and experimentation among end users. In order to ensure that the investment in this resource is effectively exploited, a promotional activity involving the distribution of publicity material, presentations at scientific conferences, demonstrations at specific academic events, and a number of additional relevant support activities are carried out. The overall goals of NA4 are to raise awareness among stakeholders about the project infrastructure and architecture in order to attract users and enlarge the community, and to present the progress of the project and the benefits of results to familiarize existing and potential new users with virtualization and the FEDERICA tool-bench.

NA4 objectives are to:

- design, develop, evaluate, and maintain a content-rich portal for all FEDERICA-related co-ordination and research, dissemination processes, results, and information;

- provide a platform for PR, communication, and dissemination of information about the project results and opportunities, including branding;

- establish training and dissemination mechanisms such as seminars and scientific presentations and workshops;

- promote widespread use of the FEDERICA infrastructure by all relevant users in the European research and education community;

- raise awareness among the stakeholders, the international community, and the general public about the FEDERICA project and its achievements.


In this reporting period, the FEDERICA Website, Wiki and mailing lists continued to be maintained. The layout was updated and new content was added. A page was added to give information about the Berlin and Madrid GA meetings and to record registration. A Wiki area was added specifically for the FEDERICA User Policy Board.

NA4 members wrote papers for the TERENA Networking Conference in June 2009 (in Malaga) and prepared and presented the FEDERICA tutorial/training course.

NA4 members attended the TMF meeting in Lisbon in January and made a presentation about the FEDERICA project and also submitted a contribution about the “SMS Child Implementation” in the IPsphere session.

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partners for the FIRE facilities with questions regarding the Public-Private Partnership idea; (ii) contribution to the results of the “5 Wise Men” study on the current status and future direction of the FIRE facilities; and (iii) a 1-hour presentation by Bjorn Rhoads of KTH on how FEDERICA slices are provided in practice before an audience of 25 people. Suzy Iacono from NSF, who is responsible for GENI, was also present.

Juniper issued a worldwide Press Release about FEDERICA on March 16th: http://www.juniper.net/us/en/company/press-center/press-releases/2009/pr_2009_03_16-09_00.html

Red.es published an article in the RedIRIS magazine related to the TNC Training event.

Deliverable DNA4.3: “Mid-term Report of FEDERICA dissemination, concertation and training activities” was produced and delivered on schedule in August, 2009.



GARR Participated in the 2nd FIRE-GENI workshop which took place on July 23rd, 2009 in Seattle, USA. Liaised with GENI projects (e.g. VINI) and the GENI Project Office.

Maintained and developed the FEDERICA Website and Wiki: • Performed content and architecture upgrades for the project Website.

This activity was carried out in collaboration with the project dissemination team, Activity Leaders and the Webmaster

• A GA meeting information page was set up with registration capabilities • Performed layout and design update • LDAP authentication provider implemented for FEDERICA • Worked on User Policy Board Wiki area development • Installed CyberTrust Educational CA certificates

Continued to support the FEDERICA mailing lists.

Prepared FEDERICA leaflets for the TERENA Networking Conference in June 2009.

Submitted a paper to CloudComp09 conference: (http://www.cloudcomp.eu/index.shtml) which has been accepted.

Submitted an extended abstract to the FIA’s second scientific book to be published by the EC at the fifth Future Internet Assembly in Valencia (April 2010).

Presented a paper on FEDERICA characteristics to the GN3 Symposium in Vienna on September 9th, 2009.

F. Tanlongo M. Vario C. Valli B. Nati

CESNET Wrote a paper for the TERENA Networking Conference entitled: “Overlay Networks with Virtual Resources Need New Forms of Monitoring”.

Submitted a poster abstract for the TERENA Networking Conference: "IPFIX Based Virtual Network Monitoring": http://tnc2009.terena.org/schedule/meetings/index.php?event_id=6

Made a presentation in the TERENA Networking Conference Session 2D entitled: “Virtual technology” and in Session 4D entitled: “FEDERICA”.

Also presented a poster there.

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NIIFI Prepared for the FEDERICA user training and consultation workshop at the TERENA Networking Conference by contributing to the teaching materials.

Participated in discussions regarding FIRE matters related to FEDERICA.

Made PR activity and disseminated information about FEDERICA to increase awareness and preparedness within the Hungarian potential user community.

Continued contact with potential FEDERICA user institutions, building relationships and providing information on testing possibilities.

Investigated the role of the FEDERICA infrastructure in Future Internet research.

Prepared and presented targeted information for Future Internet researchers about performing tests on the FEDERICA infrastructure.

Organised and hosted videoconferences for activity meetings.

Participated in evaluating the overall FEDERICA achievements.

Prepared for - and attended - the GA meetings.

T. Maray

L. Balint

P. Stefan

PSNC Disseminated FEDERICA work during the SC’09 event (presented posters, presentation and discussed with booth visitors).

Presented the FEDERICA project during the Polish national i3 conference (http://www.i3conference.net).

R. Krzywania

L. Dolata

Red.es Project dissemination during GGTT (RedIRIS working groups) and JJTT (RedIRIS Technical week).

Organized and prepared the 4th GA Meeting in Madrid.

Organized a FEDERICA tutorial during the JJTT week.

Prepared and participated in the TERENA Networking Conference training session.

Published material related to the TERENA Networking Conference Training, including an article in RedIRIS magazine.

Updated the RedIRIS FEDERICA Website.

General internal project co-ordination.

M.A. Sotos A. Daryanani C. Lorenzo

TERENA TERENA organised the FEDERICA Virtual Infrastructure and Tool-bench tutorial during the TERENA Networking Conference 2009 and also attended the Future Internet Assembly in Prague presenting a FEDERICA poster.

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i2CAT Participated at the ANTS IEEE conference in India presenting FEDERICA.

Participated in the TMF meeting in Lisbon on Jan 26th - 29th, 2009 with a presentation of FEDERICA and a contribution entitled: “The SMS Child Implementation” (TMF Team Action Week, IPsphere Session).

Participated in the FEDERICA training session during the TERENA Networking Conference and presented two papers authored by A. Berna and J. Pons pertaining to FEDERICA virtualization and the enhancements in the FEDERICA and MANTICORE projects.

Presented FEDERICA at a Catalan workshop (TAC 09), organized by the local NREN.

S. Figuerola

J. Pons

Juniper Released the Juniper Worldwide Press Release on FEDERICA, March 16th: http://www.juniper.net/us/en/company/press-center/press-releases/2009/pr_2009_03_16-09_00.html

Participated in the TERENA Networking Conference in June 2009 in Malaga and presented a paper on Virtualization entitled “From Virtualization Paradigm to Fractal Infrastructure”, leveraging the activities of FEDERICA and MANTICORE.

Joined the FEDERICA training session in the TERENA Networking Conference, to answer infrastructure-related questions.


Supported the panel discussion entitled “The Future” at the GEANT3 Symposium.

Conducted internal dissemination within Juniper.

J-M. Uzé P. Still P. Hourseau

Martel Reviewed the NA4 slides for the 1st project review. M. Potts

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Table: Actual and planned PMs for NA2, NA3 and NA4

Planned total: 7.9 0.48 0.25 0.50 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.20 0.25 2.00 0.75 0.75 1.00 0.75 0.25

Actual total: 11.8 1.22 0.07 4.30 0.40 0.40 1.11 0.16 2.31 0.84 0.61 0.40

NA3: Standardization and Liaisons Planned total: 9.0 1.92 0.80 2.60 0.20 2.00 0.80 0.40 0.30

Actual total: 7.3 1.32 0.10 2.15 0.14 2.78 0.27 0.53

NA4: Dissemination and Training Planned total: 15.8 2.76 1.60 0.80 0.40 1.20 7.00 0.40 0.20 0.40 0.40 0.60Actual total: 9.2 2.60 0.45 0.90 0.60 2.20 1.01 0.60 0.87 0.01

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4.2 Service Activities The 2 Service Activities have as major objectives:

• To engineer, implement, manage, and develop a dedicated physical infrastructure interconnecting project partners with heterogeneous technology links

• To provide equipment and resources for creation and maintenance of FEDERICA infrastructure • To deploy a mechanism for virtualization of network and resources • To deploy a monitoring and management infrastructure for failures tracking provisioning

mechanisms and user oriented infrastructure dynamic configuration • To develop a model for virtual network use, user control, and related business models • To support the users in the usage of the FEDERICA infrastructure.

The project will engineer and make operational the FEDERICA infrastructure in a short period of time. The ability to create the core of a complex, distributed, and novel infrastructure in such a short period of time is due to:

• The use of the existing NRENs and GÉANT2 infrastructures to create the trans-national circuits. The existing networks have been built to be flexible and scalable through the use optical technologies.

• A simplified (or null) procurement procedure for circuits • The existing high level of collaboration in and amongst NRENs and DANTE, which leverages

official channels and constant open communications between the NOCs • The support of the whole NRENs and DANTE organisation, and in particular of the NOCs • The existing research and development activities in the GÉANT2 and in each NREN

In accordance with the objectives, 2 Service Activities have been defined: SA1: Infrastructure Support:

• TSA1.1: Physical infrastructure • TSA1.2: Virtual Infrastructures factory • TSA1.3: Multi-domain monitoring and management of the infrastructure

SA2: Operational User support and Tool bench development: • TSA2.1: User support during use • TSA2.2: Prioritization, policies AAI charging and accounting, gathering user feedback • TSA2.3: Tools for virtual slicing and network provisioning, e2e monitoring, fault management of

virtual resources, AAI, interaction of virtual infrastructures • TSA2.4: User oriented tools for creation and control of virtual infrastructure The following table shows the timeline of the planned activities:


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TSA2.2: Prioritization, policies AAI charging and accounting, gathering user feedback

TSA2.3: Virtual slicing and network provisioning, e2e monitoring, fault management of virtual resources, AAI, interaction of virtual infrastructuresTSA2.4: User oriented tools for creation and control of virtual infrastructureDeliverables DSA2.1 DSA2.2 DSA2.3Milestones MSA1.1 MSA2.2 MSA2.3

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4.2.1 SA1: Infrastructure Support

The Activity SA1: “Infrastructure Support” is comprised of 3 tasks:

- TSA1.1: Physical infrastructure PSNC is the leading partner, with contributing partners: GARR, CESNET, DFN, FCCN, GRNET, NIIFI, PSNC, Red.es, SWITCH, i2CAT, KTH, Juniper, NSN, HEAnet, DANTE, and NORDUNET

- TSA1.2: Virtual Infrastructures factory. GRNET is the leading partner, with contributing partners: GARR, CESNET, FCCN, NIIFI, Red.es, SWITCH, KTH, Juniper, HEAnet, DANTE, and NORDUNET

- TSA1.3: Multi-domain monitoring and management of the infrastructure CESNET is the leading partner, with contributing partners: GARR, DFN, FCCN, GRNET, NIIFI, PSNC, Red.es, SWITCH, i2CAT, KTH, ICCS, HEAnet, DANTE, and NORDUNET

The main goals of SA1 are the management of the complete infrastructure for the FEDERICA project requirements. The activity is divided into three sub-activities responsible for building the physical background, creating virtual resources, and monitoring and managing both. The physical infrastructure will be built over existing network infrastructures provided by participating NRENs and GÉANT2 pan-European network. As the multi-domain factor is one of the key points for distributed FEDERICA infrastructure, all sub-activities must keep it in their objectives' scope.


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The physical links within and between domains will be provided with the technologies available by each participant. This includes mostly SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, and IP/MPLS interconnectivity. A dedicated task is created for managing and monitoring the infrastructure. The activity objectives are specified as follows:

• To build a dedicated physical infrastructure interconnecting project partners with heterogeneous technology links

• To provide equipment and resources for the creation and maintenance of the FEDERICA infrastructure

• To deploy a mechanism for the virtualization of network and resources

• To deploy a monitoring and management infrastructure for tracking failures, provisioning mechanisms, and user oriented infrastructure dynamic configuration

4.2.1.1 Overall SA1 Achievements

In this reporting period, partners contributed to the update of deliverable DSA1.1: “The FEDERICA Infrastructure” (requested by the reviewers in the 1st project review) and to the scheduled deliverable DSA1.2: “Update on the FEDERICA Infrastructure”. These deliverables contain more details about the PoP layouts, the core/non-core switches, and the monitoring capabilities. The V-Node management features were also investigated and reported, and information was provided about how to backup the MX configuration (rancid). The deliverables were finalised and sent to the EC.

New equipment was added in the non-core nodes and the infrastructure was completed and maintained. The DFN PoP was reconfigured according to the new interface template (switch and server reconfiguration) and peering was setup. Problems on the link between GARR and RedIRIS were solved, and partners upgraded their Juniper ESXi devices to the build level “Update 3”. Hardware was fixed in the Prague PoP.

The process of building the infrastructure was almost completed in December 2009; only two V-Nodes lacked final configuration and the two PoPs in Greece had a temporary topology. Effort has been spent on installing equipment in the non-core PoPs, on establishing connectivity between PoPs, and on the configuration of the V-Nodes and switches. The Juniper switches for the non-core PoPs have been delivered, configured and deployed. The core PoPs connectivity information was collected at central points and provided to the NOC for maintenance purposes.

The NOC is operational, thus enabling the use of dedicated tools (e.g. trouble tickets system, mailing lists, etc.). Management and slice creation procedures are defined and are stable. They are being analysed in order to formalize the day to day operations (responsibilities and descriptions of the step-by-step actions). A peering between the FEDERICA infrastructure and core PoPs (and thus to the general Internet infrastructure) was established in order to improve slice accessibility and usability. A monitoring system is deployed and accessible, and is being enhanced with new functionality.

The non-core connections are reaching operational status, and are able to pass OSPF traffic and slice links.

The links between the PoPs are being established with support from DANTE for Ethernet circuits between NRENs’ PoPs. As of December 2009, only the links from Greece and FCCN to their neighbours were not fully validated.

The PoPs will be redesigned slightly to include a small switch to connect the ELOM and management port to overcome a problem with the speed autosensing feature during V-Node startup.

Regular videoconferences were held to co-ordinate the “Operations” activities.

Experience with the infrastructure has shown that hardware procurement in a distributed environment is complex and the amount of infrastructure support needed was underestimated.


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4.2.1.2 Individual Partner Achievements Related to SA1


GARR Participated in the SA1 “Operations” videoconference calls.

Provided a contribution for DSA1.1 regarding the GARR PoP (detailed layout) and the switches.

Investigated V-Node management features via the serial console and ELOM CLI and reported the findings on the Wiki.

Provided information and set up guidelines to backup the MX configuration (rancid).

Debugged the GARR-RedIRIS link and supported the re-routing of the GARR-CESNET link.

Updated the FEDERICA GARR infrastructure and made reconfigurations on the switch. All the resources (equipment and links) were included in GARR´s internal database and monitoring/operations tools library.

Solved inter-domain routing issues, a switch routing fault and a V-Node problem.

Analyzed the ESXi SNMP trap capabilities, and upgraded the ESXi to build level update 3.

Updated the physical cabling according to the agreed schema.

Provided information concerning VMware Netflow and updated SNMP support.

Analysed the new functionalities of VMware´s vSphere.

Participated in the videoconference calls.

M. CampanellaU. Monaco C. Valli

CESNET Wrote Chapter 4: “Monitoring” for deliverable DSA1.1

Performed G3 reporter reconfigurations and prepared the new non-core PoPs (Greece, Ireland, Switzerland, Hungary, and Portugal).

Collected new sets of RRD, and data from several nodes and produced graphs. Refer to https://tom1.cesnet.cz/vmware-test/sledovac/sledovac.html

Prepared Nagios for FEDERICA (configuration and optimization for the FEDERICA subnet and key nodes-routers). Extended the probe functionality for Nagios monitoring.

Implemented a plugin for regular reporting of the FEDERICA traffic.

Connected a new node (Greece) to the Prague PoP.

Monitored new VM nodes, and fixed problems with configuration, accesses etc.

Performed experiments on fair load balancing (CPU resources mainly) between VMs during heavy network transfers on a single VM.

Wrote new scripts for testing slice activity and stability.

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Performed PoP management, fixed problems with malfunctioning hardware connected new nodes to the Prague PoP, setup the peering between FEDERICA and CESNET, syslog server, and SW upgrade.

Setup the virtualization subsystem on the SUN servers.

Tested the virtual monitoring slice.

Worked on SNMP Monitoring: • Routine administration of the G3 monitoring system for the

FEDERICA network, refer to https://tom1.cesnet.cz/netreport/FEDERICA_utilization1/

• Setup of measurement and visualization of IP addresses reachability

• New scheme for automated network slice visualization (in FEDERICA network core) according to VLAN ID list - schematic visualization

Worked on VMware monitoring: • Studied VMware VirtualCenter characteristics for monitoring

purposes • Wrote Perl scripts for RCLI based monitoring system, refer to

https://tom1.cesnet.cs/vmware-test/sledovac/sledovac.html

Worked on probe monitoring: • FlowMon probe maintenance and NetFlow data analysis at Prague's

FEDERICA node • tcpdump, SNMP and NetFlow analysis of first working VLAN

slices in FEDERICA network.

Wrote Chapter 5 for DSA2.2 (IP Slice Service Prototype).

Developed a software traffic generator to test the virtual monitoring slice.

Maintained the FEDERICA transport system and experimental slices.

Upgraded the NetFlow protocol from v5 to v9 (with VLAN and IPv6 support) and performed NetFlow data analysis at Prague's FEDERICA node.

Analysed the FEDERICA slice simulation tool and its potential impact in the operational environment.

Wrote scripts for the slice testing activity.

Prepared the automatic detection of new nodes and their insertion into monitoring (under construction).

Improved automatic NfSen profile generation.

DFN Organised the FEDERICA GA meeting in Berlin.

Prepared for - and attended - the FEDERICA GA meeting in Madrid.

Reconfigured the DFN PoP in Erlangen according to the new interface template (switch and server reconfiguration) and documented the new configuration.

Setup DFN peering with the non-core PoPs.

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Evaluated and setup the Juniper test router M7i.

Investigated FEDERICA user application scenarios / UPB application processing and slice creation

Investigated the FEDERICA nodes which could not be monitored reliably.

Created Web pages for live display.

FCCN Wrote an internal report regarding the project.

Reviewed the deliverable DSA1.1.

Bought the Juniper switch EX3200.

Investigated the remote VMWare CLI tool for managing the ESXi.

Participated in the SA1 “Operations” videoconference calls.

Wrote a chapter for DSA1.2: “Update on the FEDERICA infrastructure”, describing how the FCCN PoP is connected to the FEDERICA infrastructure.

J. Carvalho L. Nunes C. Friacas J.N. Ferreira

GRNET Provided contributions for deliverable DSA1.1 regarding the GRNET PoP detailed layout.

Participated in the 4th GA meeting in Madrid.


Prepared and deployed the GRNET and ICCS FEDERICA PoPs. Relocated the ICCS Pop and established connections with other PoPs.

Analysed the NetFlow-based approaches and solutions for traffic monitoring within the V-Nodes.

Investigated new V-Node SNMP agent capabilities for performance monitoring and resource discovery.

Investigated MPLS features in FEDERICA equipment and the evaluation of MPLS CCC as an alternative to 802.1q for end-to-end transport of slice networks.

Contributed to deliverable DSA1.2: “Update on the FEDERICA infrastructure”.

A. Sevasti Z. Mousmoulas

NIIFI Attended the videoconference calls.

Maintained the FEDERICA infrastructure in Hungary.

Took part in the design and realisation of the FEDERICA physical infrastructure.

Planned, organised, and performed the activities for establishing the FEDERICA PoP (the physical FEDERICA infrastructure) at NIIFI in Hungary.

Contributed to the procurement of the Budapest FEDERICA node, installed the node and tested the FEDERICA infrastructure.

J. Mohacsi

G. Ivanszky

PSNC Finalised deliverable DSA1.1: “The FEDERICA infrastructure” and then updated it according to the request from the reviewers.

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Prepared for - and attended - the GA meetings in Berlin and Madrid.

Summarized the outstanding issues in the FEDERICA network and completed the HW deployment.

Collected the status of the PoPs.

Maintained the physical infrastructure and planned infrastructure upgrades.

Researched solutions for the i2CAT-RedIRIS connection.

Began the initialisation of MPLS and IPv6 in the FEDERICA infrastructure.

Led the weekly SA1 “Operations” videoconference calls.

Prepared the HW/SW description/schemas for the non-core PoPs and supported their deployments.

Contributed to the deliverable DSA1.2: “Update on the FEDERICA infrastructure”.

Red.es General internal project co-ordination.

RedIRIS FEDERICA PoP maintenance and troubleshooting as follows: Support for configuration (ssh, filters, passwords, SNMP) Prepared for the re-installation of VMWare, host configuration Troubleshooting of links: GEANT Alcatel problem, FCCN link

Worked on the security of the infrastructure.

Analysed the deployment of the carrier Ethernet technology inside the RedIRIS network and the impact on the Madrid-Barcelona links for the FEDERICA infrastructure.

Performed activities related to the FEDERICA switches, including patching FEDERICA links, updated JUNOS on the switches, installed FEDERICA switches in the RedIRIS PoP in Telvent (housing facility), and completed the configuration of FEDERICA switches including links with i2CAT.

Configured the FEDERICA switches and solved a problem with the virtual chassis configuration. Improved the configuration: VLAN tagging and deactivation of the rapid spanning tree.

Worked on the network operations.

Tested a new version of VMware and tested the migration to that new version.

Studied different Q-in-Q options and implementations inside the RedIRIS network to transport VLANs over i2CAT links.

Worked on FEDERICA links debugging and troubleshooting including: IE-ES, i2CAT links, PT-ES and IT-ES.

Attended a security meeting with RedIRIS CERT and did some work on security, including provided slice definition for a security audit.

Worked on OSPF debugging with FCCN.

Contributed to - and reviewed – deliverables DSA1.1 and DSA1.2.

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Attended the GA meeting in Berlin.

SWITCH Ordered, installed and configured the non-core switch at the PoP in Geneva.

Collaborated with the FEDERICA NOC for V-Node configuration..

Participated in the videoconference calls.

C. Welti A. Gall

i2CAT Participated to discussions about the best methods for achieving transparent links between i2CAT-RedIris links in order to use VLANs for FEDERICA.

Helped ensure the setup of the network, and liaised with users.


Purchased the Juniper switch EX3200, downloaded the EX software update binaries and installed them on the FEDERICA infrastructure.

Configured a simple infrastructure (2 Sun Servers, 1 EX3200 switch box and 1 M7i router box) for a demonstration at the Berlin GA meeting.

Ordered an extra SUN server for testing.

Assisted KTH in writing the user guide of how to create slices.

Defined with PSNC, a simple way to store iso images in a centralized database (with NFS configured) to be installed in VMs - and validated the procedure.

Validated the software developed with the new version of VMware ESXi update 3. Tested the new VMware ESXi 4.0 version in the FEDERICA Sun Servers.

Defined the i2CAT PoP name.

Configured an infrastructure for testing purposes in i2CAT.

Followed the non-core PoP support and monitoring activities.

Tested and supported VLAN connectivity with the RedIRIS PoP.

S. Figuerola J. Pons A. Berna D. Gonzalez

KTH Maintained the FEDERICA NOC.

Configured substrates and slices.

Developed slice creation procedures.

Worked on firewall filters, UAS.

Managed the network and configured all non-core PoPs.

Achieved the first external connection to a user by connecting to the optical routing lab in Dublin.

Prepared for - and attended - the GA meetings and the 1st project review.

B. Rhoads

ICCS Participated in the SA1 “Operations” videoconference calls, and in the associated e-mail list message exchanges.

Worked on the user requirement definition for topology and resource export in a file format.

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UPC Participated in the SA1 “Operations” videoconference calls.

Worked on FEDERICA tool integration and switch creation in a Physical Network.

Worked on interface menus in order to display device information and send operations.

Co-ordinated the configuration of the PHOSPHORUS slice jointly with KTH.

C. Cervelló-Pastor S. Sallent R. Machado A. Monje

Juniper Supported the network operations activities related to the Juniper MX and EX platforms (e.g. IPv6 Multicast, BFD, i2CAT/Red.es set-up, new VLAN stacking capabilities for the non-core switches).

Explored the different options of using EX switches for virtualized transport (Ethernet and MPLS).Provided a contribution for deliverable DSA1.1 regarding core and non-core switches.


Participated remotely to the Berlin GA meeting SA1 session on February 24th.

Contributed to 4th GA Nov 9-11th discussions.

J-M. Uzé R. Hjelm

HEAnet Deployed the FEDERICA infrastructure (2 servers and 1 switch) and software inside HEAnet.

Configured FEDERICA connectivity to NORDUNET, SWITCH and RedIRIS.

Discussed the policy regarding the maintenance of servers.

Managed the Ireland PoP.

Organised connectivity and procured equipment for the connection between CTVR and FEDERICA. Installed equipment, patched and connected to the FEDERICA switch and diagnosed a connectivity problem.

Formalised the organisational relation with the Irish slice users.

Participated in the SA1 “Operations” videoconference calls and followed the emails.

Contributed to - and continued to work on - the setup of the infrastructure in Ireland, including changes to the point-to-point links.

Investigated new possible activities and new work areas for HEAnet within FEDERICA.

Documented the Ireland PoP for the deliverable DSA1.2.

J. Bolger D. Wilson V. Reijs

DANTE Prepared for - and attended - the GA meeting in Berlin.

Discussed resiliency of the physical circuit topology and performed an update to improve it.

Provided assistance for placement into service of the circuits and responded to open case for troubleshooting (not accounted to the FEDERICA project).

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4.2.2 SA2: Operational User support and Tool bench development The main objectives of SA2 are to provide operational support for the user of the virtual network infrastructure and to develop tools for the FEDERICA infrastructure. The activity will also elaborate the policies and the architectures for prioritization, AAI, charging and accounting, gathering user feedback and experiment with user oriented tools for creation and control of virtual infrastructures.

The tool-bench will be used to manage the FEDERICA infrastructure and may eventually allow the users to create and configure their own dedicated and customized network slice (a user-controlled IP slice service). A slice is defined as a network that has been customized to fit the needs of a specific user, and that is running on top of the physical infrastructure, sharing it with other parallel slices. These software tools will allow to create the specific network topologies, including addressing and routing.

The active user support system ensures that the network is operational and provides help for researchers performing experiments. This support activity will itself use the tools developed in the work-package for monitoring and management.

The Activity SA2: “Operational User support and Tool bench development” is comprised of four tasks:

- TSA2.1: User support during use (led by KTH)

- TSA2.2: Prioritization, policies AAI charging and accounting, gathering user feedback (led by ICCS)

- TSA2.3: Tools for virtual slicing and network provisioning, e2e monitoring, fault management of virtual resources, AAI, interaction of virtual infrastructures (led by PSNC)

- TSA2.4: User oriented tools for creation and control of virtual infrastructure (led by i2CAT)

4.2.2.1 Overall SA2 Achievements

The User Support activity started creating slices, with the ones requested by ELTE, KTH, and CESNET (for internal monitoring). A particularly complex slice was created for the 1st project review to demonstrate the capabilities of the infrastructure. The slice creation continues to be performed manually.

Effort was also devoted to the infrastructure set-up jointly with SA1, as it was considered the most efficient way to bring into operation all the components.

Partners have performed NOC slice preparation and provided operational support including enhancing the IP slice service creation process. Work has continued on providing additional functionalities for FEDERICA tools such as switch configuration, interface menus, increased Ethernet Switch capabilities and the adaptation of the GUI interface. Debugging connectivity problems and work on the configuration connections between the PoPs and FEDERICA continues. SA2 partners have also managed LDAP and portal security for end users.

In this reporting period, the User Portal Account was also established in preparation for the first users.

Coursework has been produced for the user training course held at the TERENA Networking Conference (Malaga, June).

The PSNC V-Node was configured and Juniper and Sun Server configuration issues were solved.

Some work has been completed on security issues.

A demonstration of slice creation was shown in the 3rd GA meeting (Berlin).

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• Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Software was written to perform simple actions on XORP software-based routers and to enable a simple way of resetting an IP user slice back to a specific past state.

Representatives of the User Policy Board (UPB) have been allocated for each of the 3 current user groups; namely, PHOSPHORUS (S. Figuerola), Univ. College of Dublin (V. Reijis) and ELTE (P. Szegedi). Other user groups (e.g. from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, and from DFN) are also showing strong interest.

Deliverable DSA2.1: “User Support”, which was outstanding at the end of Year 1, has been completed.

Deliverable DSA2.2: “Accounting, Policies, Tool-bench and IP Slice Service Prototype” was completed on schedule.

4.2.2.2 Individual Partner Achievements Related to SA2


GARR Supported the setting up of the User Portal account, root DNS, mailing list and SMTP configuration.

M. CampanellaU. Monaco C. Valli

CESNET Developed tools for individual selected monitoring.

Wrote Chapter 5 of DSA2.2: “IP slice service Prototype”.

Tested the slice virtual infrastructure.

P. Celeda

T. Krmicek

FCCN Implemented BFD on all switch PoPs.

Inserted the V-Node in the FCCN PoP into Fact’s system backups.

Assisted i2CAT to connect their PoP into the FEDERICA network (debugging connectivity problems).

Participated in discussions to improve the service to the NOC.

Performed final configuration of FCCN PoP connection to the FEDERICA infrastructure.

Debugged connectivity problems on the GÉANT+ provisioned circuit between Lisbon and Madrid. The GÉANT PoP at Lisbon has only 10 Gaps interfaces (SDH and Ethernet), which requires the FEDERICA link between the Madrid PoP and Lisbon to be delivered with the same physical interface as Fact’s main link with GÉANT.

Reconfigured the monitoring system installed in the V-Node to conform to the FEDERICA slices addressing plan.

Participated in the SA2 videoconferences.

E. Massano

J. Carvalho

L. Nunes

P. Lorga

C. Friacas

J.N. Ferreria

NIIFI Consulted and advised on the production and delivery of the coursework for the first training at the TERENA Networking Conference ´09.

Provided videoconferencing services for FEDERICA.

Followed the SA2-related activities and electronic discussions.

Contributed to deliverable DSA2.1: section written on tools and methods available for end-users to access.

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Managed all aspects of end-user relationships with FEDERICA – e.g. User Portal and accessing Virtual Resources.

Organised and attended local meetings to discuss architecture and tool-bench issues with respect to potential user support.

PSNC Integrated the i2CAT JRA2 software into the infrastructure.

Reconfigured the PSNC V-Node.

Deployed the User Portal.

Solved Juniper and Sun Server configuration issues and other day-to-day network issues.

Maintained the PSNC core PoP and deployed the PSNC non-core PoP.

Gave support to the NOC for investigating issues.

A. Weinert

Red.es Managed the AAI infrastructure.

Prepared the security audit.

Performed user LDAP maintenance and studied if the LDAP servers integrate into one unique point.

Managed LDAP and portal security (RADIUS) for FEDERICA end-users.

Attended the GA meetings and the Activity Leaders meetings.

Co-ordinated internal activities.

A. Darjanani M.A. Sotos D. Lopez

SWITCH Attended the 3rd GA meeting. A. Gall

i2CAT Worked on the development of the IP slice service prototype.

Created software to perform simple actions on XORP software-based routers.

Created the Computer Web Service. Some issues appeared with the Axis library version and it was necessary to migrate from Globus toolkit v4.0.2 to Globus toolkit v4.2.1.

Defined a software demonstration for the Berlin GA meeting. Created a video demo (with all available capabilities at this time) and status slides for the 1st year project review.

Specified a simple way to permit resetting an IP user slice back to a specific past state.

Contributed inputs from the work performed in TSA2.4 to deliverable DSA2.2: “IP slice service Prototype”.

Wrote a paper for the TERENA Networking Conference regarding the enhancements planned in FEDERICA for the MANTICORE project.

Developed all the code to manage XORP software based routers (including GUI) for the TERENA Networking Conference presentation.

Continued the development to support VMware ESXi servers with virtualization capabilities (GUI included).

Participated in the integration of the slice creation tool shown during the

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Madrid GA meeting.

Enhanced the SA2.4 prototype for IP slice service creation and managed the following functionalities: • Add a Virtual Switch • Create a VM

o Check the parameters for the VM creation o Add a virtual NIC to a VM o Add a virtual disk to a VM o Change the virtual disk size of a VM o Change the RAM size of a VM o Change the number of virtual CPU’s allocated to a VM o Add a CD iso image as the main CD-ROM of an existing VM o Copy a VM, modifying the virtual HW specification of the original

VM o Show the status (on/off) of a VM o Power on/off a VM

• Create a new Port Group o Change the Port Groups associated to a Virtual Interface

Presented a tool to the FEDERICA slice creator manager, which is capable of automating the requirements implementation.

KTH Prepared for - and attended - the GA meeting, as well as other meetings and the 1st project review.

Participated in the videoconference calls regarding the demonstration of slice creation.

Worked on deliverable DSA2.1: User Support

Prepared for the TERENA Networking Conference ´09 training event

Deployed and maintained a test slice, a slice for KTH testing and the CESNET slice for monitoring.

Performed NOC operations and slice provisioning.

2 customer slices were handed over: OPT_IP and PHOSPHORUS.

B. Rhoads

ICCS Continued with internal discussions on the monitoring needs of FEDERICA.

Participated in the videoconferences and contributed to the mailing list message exchange.

Contributed to deliverable DSA2.2.

D. Kalogeras

UPC Corrected errors or bad behaviours in the tool Engine, related to the communication with the devices, timers, etc.

Developed the following new software: Ethernet Switch Web Service: This offers all the actions that the

Engine Module of the application is able to implement up to now. The tool already operates over the non-core switches (e.g. VLAN

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management, port assignment, etc.) and has been developed as a Web Service. More actions can be added later, together with their corresponding Web Service.

Ethernet Resource Web Service: This stores and maintains all the resources information (virtualized interfaces) to configure Layer 2 slices. The VLAN resource and its properties, and the port trunking configuration have been developed.

Developed a tool to control the Layer 2 resources along a network, providing the NOC administration an automated way of resource management and provisioning

Globus Toolkit, the software needed to offer the Web Services was updated from version 4.0.5 to version 4.2.1 to ensure correct service implementation. This update required the modification of the existing developed resources and operations description (XSD and WSDL files), in the implemented Web Services.

Graphical User Interface (GUI): All of the services are offered via a simple GUI which has been developed and updated, adding each new capability to the application. A resource perspective was developed to operate with the devices and the existing resources, sorted by device membership. The interface has been developed in Java, based on the Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform).

Performed research on CoS (Class of Service), with the objective of adding further capabilities to this tool. The next steps involve implementation in the non-core EX-series switches.

Updated the resource description language to add Layer 2 resources.

Analysed solutions in order to implement end-to-end Q-in-Q in the real FEDERICA scenario, taking into account different devices acting as the Switches and Virtual Machines servers.

Increased Ethernet Switch capabilities with Q-in-Q support and configuration. At present, the Engine and the Web Service tools are able to obtain and configure Q-in-Q parameters for Juniper EX-3200 switches.

Adapted UPC’s simple GUI in order to test new functionalities.

Due to the possibility of using MANTICORE as a part of the tool-bench, UPC is currently integrating their Ethernet Switch Services into this tool.

The following additional functionalities have been added: Switch creation in a physical network. Further interface menus in order to display device information and send

operations.

Participated in the SA2 videoconferences.

Presented the SA2.3 results during the 4th GA meeting.

Juniper Followed the SA2-related activities and electronic discussions.

Participated in the SA2 session of the GA meeting (February 24th) and all related electronic discussions.

Participated in the discussion of deliverable DSA2.2.

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Investigated CoS capabilities on core and non-core switches.

Contributed to the 4th GA meeting discussions.


HEAnet Worked on deliverable DSA2.2.

Discussed the delivery of the circuits.

Monitored the e-mails and discussed the future role of HEAnet (possible widening of HEAnet’s remit in the project).

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Table: Actual and planned PMs for SA1 and SA2

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4.3 Joint Research Activities The 2 Joint Research Activities are targeted towards prototyping and testing the virtualization – slicing tools and novel architectures not deemed sufficiently mature or defined to be mapped to a service in the project. In the Joint Research Activities, the partners will also perform their own research (user controlled networks, software routers, storage virtualization) on the infrastructure itself, acting as users, as a way of validating the implementation. The results of the research are intended to be fed into the SA activities for rapid prototyping and implementation. As a starting point, the project will leverage from current R&D activities of the partners. The Joint Research Activities planned in the project can be divided in two areas. The first related to the control and management of a set of virtual networks and associated tools and protocols. There is an active research for multi-domain services (e.g. Bandwidth on Demand, Quality of Service) which only lately is producing draft standards. The other area has a broader scope of evaluating architectures which radically differ from the ones used in the Internet of today and are focused towards virtual infrastructures. The project plans two Joint Research Activities: JRA1: Network Control and Management

• TJRA1.1: Advances in Network Control & Management Plane for virtual network infrastructures • TJRA1.2: Prototyping tools for creating and stitching network resources in multi-domain, multi-

vendor virtual infrastructures JRA2: Novel Paradigms and User Control

• TJRA2.1: Architectural paradigms for virtual infrastructures • TJRA2.2: Novel concepts for fair virtual infrastructure sharing, security and accounting and

business models • TJRA2.3: User controlled service provisioning

The timeline of the planned JRA activities is reported below:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32JRA1: Network Control and ManagementTJRA1.1: Status and study of advances in network control & Management Plane for virtual network infrastructuresTJRA1.2: Tools and Protocols for creating and stitching network resources in multi-domain, multi-vendor virtual infrastructuresDeliverables DJRA1.1 DJRA1.2 DJRA1.3Milestones MRAJ1.1 MRAJ1.2

JRA2: Novel Paradigms and User ControlTJRA2.1: New Internet architectural paradigms and the virtual infrastructuresTJRA2.2: Novel concepts for fair virtual infrastructure sharing & accounting and business modelsTJRA2.3: User controlled networkDeliverables DJRA2.1 DJRA2 DJRA2.3 DJRA2.4 DJRA2.5Milestones

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4.3.1 JRA1: Network Control and Management The objective of JRA1 is to carry out research on current and future network control and management topics and to serve as a basis for future deployment of virtualization services on top of the e-infrastructure of FEDERICA. The sub-objectives are:

• To research current network control and management technologies for the virtualization of network infrastructures.

• To extend and improve the available control and management of virtualized networks. • To design protocols and tools to offer multilayered resource provisioning for virtualized networks

abroad a wide range of technologies, over multi-domains. The work done in this Activity will provide input and specification for the Service Activities, including tools. The Activity JRA1: “Network Control and Management” is comprised of two tasks:

- TJRA1.1: Status and advances in Network Control & Management Plane for virtual network infrastructures.

TJRA1.1.1: Critical evaluation of architectures and protocols for network control, management and monitoring of a multilayer infrastructure in a multi-domain environment.

TJRA1.1.2: Evaluation and proposal for the network control, management and monitoring of a set of (virtual) domains on the same physical infrastructure and how to let them interoperate (when needed).

- TJRA1.2: Developing and prototyping tools for creating and stitching network resources in multi-domain, multi-vendor virtual infrastructures Research on current control tools for creating and stitching resources over common physical (not virtual) networks on multiple domains.

TJRA1.2.1: To support and provide the development needs for the proposed protocols and solutions given by the previous task (TJRA1.1)

TJRA1.2.2: To extend current virtualization and network provision software, develop tools and a prototype for network virtualization in multi-domain and multi-vendor infrastructures (as previously exposed) using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services.

4.3.1.1 Overall JRA1 Achievements

In this reporting period, the JRA1 partners have continued working on the evaluation and proposals for the network control, management and monitoring of a set of (virtual) domains on the same physical infrastructure and how they can interoperate (when needed). The solutions include aspects related to resource description, resource and topology discovery, path finding/routing, signalling functionalities, isolation and monitoring.

The routing protocol OpenFlow was investigated in terms of functionality and performance for possible use within the FEDERICA infrastructure and within the FEDERICA virtual environment. The evaluation required the installation of special OpenFlow firmware in a local testbed to ensure OpenFlow routing functionalities in the equipment. Partners also discussed the possible inclusion of monitoring and management features from ARGON/ PHOSPHORUS into the FEDERICA environment.

A hardware implementation of OpenFlow has been included which will lead to OpenFlow experiments within the FEDERICA slice-based infrastructure.

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The FEDERICA User Access Portal has been developed to include the procedures for requesting and accessing slices by users. This service is a common Web application which can be accessed from any browser supporting FEDERICA´s security policy.

. Work included: • The design (user roles, user requirements, images upload service). • The definition of application modules. • The implementation. • Deployment in PSNC.

Further user tools are being evaluated for their compatibility with standards and to determine what modifications are necessary.

JRA1 partners have designed procedures for accessing slice resources, performed experiments on slice interaction and separation, worked on calibration and measurement methods, analyzed signalling, routing, resource discovery, and proposed inter-domain extensions of these mechanisms. Support was given for the operational aspects of routing and management.

Partners have installed and configured 4 servers for test purposes and are performing tests with the hardware. Research work is continuing on various network testing methodologies, the design of algorithms, tools and procedures for the automation of slice creation.

A final verification was made of the deliverable DJRA1.1 and it was submitted to the EC in time for the 1st project review. Partners also completed the deliverable DJRA1.2: “Solutions and protocols proposal for the network control, management and monitoring in a virtualized network context”, which was due in this reporting period.

Two related papers have been written: “Extensions of proposed FEDERICA tool-benches. Basic Research on multi-domain related topics” and “OSPF-based routing bridges”.

4.3.1.2 Individual Partner Achievements Related to JRA1


GARR Provided input for the deliverable DJRA1.2.

Participated in the JRA1 meetings and provided a workplan for the Activity.

Contributed to the JRA1 definition of work for the reporting period

U. Monaco

DFN Organised and prepared for the GA meeting in Berlin (February 23rd - 25th 2009).

Made market research for switch vendors supporting OpenFlow. Compared quotes, ordered hardware, completed internal registration, accounting and billing. Implemented OpenFlow on a HP ProCurve 3500yl..

Corresponded with Stanford University, HP, Cisco and Juniper (USA) to request an OpenFlow patch for the implementation in FEDERICA.

Tested OpenFlow in NOX environments involving 1 management port and 2 switch ports using pyswitch and a strictly virtual environment.

Discussed the possible inclusion of ARGON/ PHOSPHORUS management tools into the FEDERICA environment.

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Installed, configured and tested 4 servers for test environment purposes.

Evaluated the Agilent router tester.

Investigated available software testing tools, such as uperf, etc.

Investigated network testing methodologies.

Investigated VLAN-based measurements with HADES.

Evaluated a user proposal for a hardware implementation of OpenFlow on a Campus / FEDERICA network to investigate typical interconnectivity issues between traditional Campus network environments and innovative research infrastructures.

GRNET Participated in the 4th GA meeting in Madrid and presented the resource allocation problem and a solution.

Began work for GRNET’s contribution to JRA1 on virtualized resource discovery.

Completed initial work on a contribution to JRA1 on the virtual network embedding problem. Work included: problem statement, literature study, differentiation of the problem for the FEDERICA case, modelling and initial sketch up of a solution, and initial exploration of the possible extensions needed to support the business models proposed by JRA2.

Contributed to the deliverable DJRA1.2: “Solutions and protocols proposal for the network control management and monitoring in a virtualized network context” with a section on resource allocation (virtual network embedding) in FEDERICA.

A. Sevasti

C. Vassilakis

PSNC Investigated FEDERICA tools and procedures for the automation of slice creation.

Adapted the User Access Portal to meet the NA3 requirements: • Design (user roles, user requirements, images upload service). • Definition of application modules. • Implementation. • Deployment in PSNC.

Designed and implemented functionality for the User Access Portal, including: • Usage of LDAP as data base of users. • Preparation of API for uploading VMX-like images to V-Nodes. • Database transaction support. • User notification mechanisms.

Described the requirements for the FEDERICA network plane (included in deliverable DJRA1.2).

Defined the procedures for accessing slice resources (firewall configurations, VNC, bash accounts, etc.).

Continued work on the integration of LDAP with the User Portal.

Modified the “In” file repository for the slice's ISO images.

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i2CAT Co-ordinated the JRA1 activities.

Studied new areas for the JRA1 activity: “Research on Multi-domain interconnection and domain-to-global Internet connection”.

Collaborated in the discussions about multi-domain control plain (topology and resource discovery, multi-domain interconnection, etc.).

Collaborated in the discussions about resource description features needed for the development of the portal.

Revised and contributed to DJRA1.2.

Participated in all the JRA1 meetings and videoconference calls.

Participated in the GA meetings in Berlin and Madrid.

Assisted at the 1st project review.

S. Figuerola J. Pons A. Berna

KTH Worked on slice interaction and separation.

Set up an experimental platform and initiated basic measurements.

Worked on a network experiment calibration methodology. The framework includes investigating how to analyze measurement and background data from network experiments.

Initiated an implementation of the above framework.

M. Hidell P. Sjödin P. Söderman

ICCS Contributed towards the preparation of the deliverable DJRA1.2.

Contributed to the Task TJRA1.2 regarding the operational aspects of routing and management.

Collaborated with the other partners for the testbed installation and started configuring the testbed side in Greece between GRNET and ICCS.

Participated in the videoconferences and the mailing list discussions.

Participated in the JRA1 working groups.

D. Kalogeras V. Maglaris A. Siouggaris L. Lymberopoulo

UPC Participated in the GA meetings in Berlin and Madrid and presented the JRA1 results.

Participated in the JRA1 meetings (prepared the agenda and wrote the minutes) and provided the Activity workplan (JRA1 scope). The goal is to: • Study what is already standardized • Analyse if the selected tools match with these standards • Define the open problems to study and research

Wrote the papers: “Extensions of proposed FEDERICA tool-benches. Basic Research on multi-domain related topics”, and “OSPF-based routing bridges”.

Analysed and studied new solutions for resource discovery and routing in FEDERICA.

Developed resource discovering mechanisms and proposed inter-domain extensions of these mechanisms.

Contributed to - and edited - the deliverable DJRA1.2: “Solutions and protocols proposal for the network control, management and monitoring in

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a virtualized network context”.

Analysed and developed signalling and routing mechanisms for the FEDERICA architecture defined in the deliverable.

Analysed the different IETF and ITU standards related to resource description.

Participated in the 1st project review.

Generally co-ordinated the JRA1 group activities.

Juniper Investigated FEDERICA slice monitoring system capabilities.

Contributed to the GA meeting discussions.

Participated in the JRA1 meetings and videoconference calls.

Worked with DFN and Juniper corporate to evaluate the possibility of using a patch for the OpenFlow hardware implementation in FEDERICA.

Investigated the requirements and feasibility to enhance the Openflow implementation in MX/JUNOS.

Contributed to the deliverable DJRA1.2: “Solutions and protocols proposal for the network control, management and monitoring in a virtualized network context”.

Attended and supported the 1st project review discussions.

Investigated FEDERICA slice monitoring system capabilities for MX.

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B. De Troch

Martel Reviewed the deliverable DJRA1.1 prior to sending it to the EC M. Potts

4.3.2 JRA2: Novel Paradigms and User Control The Activity JRA2: “Novel Paradigms and User Control” is comprised of three tasks:

- Task TJRA2.1: Architectural paradigms for virtualised infrastructures

- Task TJRA2.2: Novel concepts for fair sharing, security, accounting and business models for virtualised infrastructures

- Task TJRA2.3: User controlled service provisioning

The objective of JRA2 is oriented towards defining and prototyping novel paradigms on virtual networks and new functionalities that are envisaged for a combined approach of network and systems virtualization.

TJRA2.1 is about the overall architectural issues, so in a sense, the task frames the whole work done by JRA2. This task seeks to review, analyse, and evaluate the existing virtualized architectures and frameworks proposed by other joint activities in Europe and in the US. The investigations that have been done led us to identify the virtualization building blocks and research areas where FEDERICA can suggest improvements and provide additional value. Building up that knowledge base, TJRA2.1 will provide feedback to the JRA1 research activity and the SA1 and SA2 service activities, as well. Finally, integrating all the experiences from FEDERICA network deployment, operation, management, and user support and services, TJRA2.1 will try to define new architectural paradigms for virtualized infrastructures.

As a detailed technical approach, TJRA2.2 is about novel concepts for fair sharing, security, and accounting and business models for virtualised infrastructures. The identification of the main business players in FEDERICA (e.g. consortia of projects wishing to run experiments and test their innovative approaches or industrial partners offering new software and/or hardware wishing to test their products) and the collection of


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needs and requirements for obtaining a FEDERICA business model are the first steps towards defining the concept of fairness relevant to the FEDERICA infrastructure. The overall objective of TJRA2.2 is to make sure that the FEDERICA infrastructure is used efficiently. More specifically, our goal is to maximize usage when there is no contention and to implement a fair allocation of resources in the case of contention. Various concepts of fairness and appropriate metrics for resource usage and policies favouring certain outcomes will be investigated.

In TJRA2.3 we are concentrating on the support of the prototyping work. The objective of this task is related to the establishment of a technical collaboration framework between FEDERICA and IaaS/IPsphere frameworks. TJRA2.3 has been working on the definition of service template and element template needed on both sides. The main aims are to provide a description of the workflow and building blocks for IaaS/MANTICORE, to define Use Cases (service template), and to provide an IaaS-IPsphere interoperation model as well as a roadmap for FEDERICA’s CONTENTsphere implementation. The final output of TJRA2.3 will be a prototype. When the prototypes become mature enough, they will be incorporated into the Task TSA2.4 of the SA2 Activity.

4.3.2.1 Overall JRA2 Achievements

JRA2 partners mainly worked on Task TJRA2.3 regarding the FEDERICA-IPsphere prototype. i2CAT, jointly with Juniper, created the first version of the prototype comprising a .zip file including the source code, Web Services and brief instructions. The software was demonstrated in the FEDERICA GA meeting in Berlin (February, 2009) and in the 1st project review. IPsphere is therefore currently operational, although not for slices. The production of this test prototype signified the completion of the first milestone of the Activity. The next step is to demonstrate how one slice can be created by another. An internal FEDERICA slice has been requested and equipment has been ordered to start the tests.

Further debugging work and MANTICORE software enhancement has been done since. For example, the extension of MANTICORE to V-Nodes was finished in July 2009 and a mechanism is being discussed whereby an SMS child activates the instance.

Since the prototyping work is a technical achievement (i.e. lines of software), JRA2 produced a formal supplementary deliverable (DJRA2.2) that informs where the code is available, and describes the prototype including the details of the particular scenarios, Use Cases, and business aspects for its potential interoperability.

The current prototype software package can be downloaded from the FEDERICA Wiki page.

The service-oriented Use Cases have also been identified and discussed by the TJRA2.3 partners, led by PoliTo.

Partners continued working on the virtualisation architecture, security, Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (AAI), network utilization, fairness, and business model issues discussed in the deliverable DJRA2.1: “Architectures for virtual infrastructures, new Internet paradigms and business models”. The planned Table of Contents pertaining to the upcoming deliverable DJRA2.3 (an update to DJRA2.1) has been discussed and agreed upon by the partners.

Regarding the Task TJRA2.1, KTH together with PoliTo researched on how to use the OpenFlow initiative as a virtualization platform (i..e. as a novel slicing method) and this was presented during the TERENA Networking Conference 2009. The future plan is to explore OpenFlow as architecture for network virtualization in general, and compare this with the FEDERICA approach. The details will be reported in the next deliverable.

As part of the Task TJRA2.2, partners supported the idea of performing detailed investigations of the following models:

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model. The simulation environment can be used to generate numerous slice requests and also evaluate the proposed FEDERICA resource allocation and fairness methods.

• TERENA created a simple analytical (Mixed Integer Linear Programming) model to determine the theoretical limits of the FEDERICA network utilization, throughput and fairness attributes. Together with the theoretical limits and the simulation results, a more sophisticated on-line algorithm for resource allocation in FEDERICA can be utilized.

• ICCS continues to work on business models and revise the preliminary solution for SLAs, charging, and resource allocation proposed in the deliverable DJRA2.1.

Discussion also took place with the NOC regarding how to demonstrate to them (and potential users) the tool so that they can familiarise themselves with the process. User configuration will only be allowed with protection features. The database is becoming an important factor, especially if the NOC functions will be split geographically between KTH and PSNC. Further discussion was also held on the importance of mapping from the virtual (logical) resource to a physical location.

PoliTo made a brief review of the FEDERICA-related EC projects of ANA, 4WARD and TRILOGY, and made suggestions on how to liaise with them. Further detailed investigations and information will follow in the next reporting period.

All the partners contributed to the materials (slides, documents, charts, etc.) for the 1st project review.

4.3.2.2 Individual Partner Achievements Related to JRA2


PSNC Implemented a simulation tool for potential FEDERICA administrators and users interested in optimizing the allocation of virtual slices onto physical networking resources. It allows to simulate a resource management strategy using an abstract resource model, reflecting nodes and links representing different network topologies in the FEDERICA testbed. The simulation tool takes into account a description of the existing FEDERICA testbed and allows users to perform advanced “what-if analyses” such as showing the utilization of the testbed when users alter parameters, or equipment is added/removed, etc. The functionality of this simulation tool was demonstrated with examples and guides at the GA meeting in Madrid, December 2009.

Performed performance and benchmarking tests for parallel/distributed applications in a virtual environment.

Designed a new scenario to provide various useful extensions to the AAI in FEDERICA.

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W. Bogacki

Red.es Analysed and worked on a new AA architecture and the future of the AAI in FEDERICA. Held discussions regarding both topics.

Studied business models and analysed information from other projects (e.g. MUPBED).

Started to use MANTICORE to assess its applicability for FEDERICA.

Attended the GA meetings.

Prepared deliverable DJRA2.3: “Virtual network architectures - update to DJRA2.1”.

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TERENA Contributed to the TJRA2.2 task concerning the theoretical investigation of network utilization, throughput and fairness issues in FEDERICA.

Co-ordinated the TJRA2.3 Task led by i2CAT who is working on the first version of the FEDERICA-IPsphere gateway prototype.

Several videoconferences have been organised and attended.

Presented the status of the JRA2 activities during the 1st project review.

Reviewed the deliverable DJRA2.2: “Prototype for interoperability between IPsphere and UCLPv2”, provided the Executive Summary, and submitted the final version.

Chaired the FEDERICA technical sessions during the TERENA Networking Conference 2009.

Discussed the responsibilities of all partners for the deliverable DJRA2.3 in the videoconference call in July 2009. Drafted the Table of Contents and started collecting the contributions. Will provide the TJRA2.1 related sections of the deliverable.

P. Szegedi

i2CAT Participated in the JRA2 videoconferences and in internal TJRA2.3 conference calls.

Scheduled and distributed the work inside the Task TJRA2.3.

Developed the SMS Child for the IPsphere-FEDERICA prototype Phase I.

Deployed the testbed and validated the IPsphere-FEDERICA prototype Phase I, using the Juniper SRC device.

Enhanced the MANTICORE IP Network and Router Services in order to be able to communicate with the SMS Child.

Developed the SMS Child for IPsphere-FEDERICA prototype Phase II, using MANTICORE services as xMS. Software was implemented and tested in the corresponding scenario. Instructions were written regarding deployment and usage.

Demonstrated in the Berlin GA meeting (Task TJRA2.3 timeslot) how to prepare a set of slices.

Demonstrated the TJRA2.3 prototype in the 1st project review.

Demonstrated in the TERENA Networking Conference 09, based on the presented paper entitled: “Prototype for the interoperability between FEDERICA slices and other IP domains by means of the IPsphere Framework”.

Contributed to the TMF Lisbon event by presenting the IPsphere-FEDERICA prototyping work and the SMS Child implementation.

Provided the following chapters for the deliverable DJRA2.2 and uploaded the deliverable to the Wiki: • Introduction and Motivation. • Scenarios, actors and architectural components. • SMS Child implementation. • Policy-management lower layer components.

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• Deployment and Validation.

Exchanged information with the SA2 leader in order to obtain the slice for the TJRA2.3 activity.

Started to plan for the test cases to be performed in Task TJRA2.3, of which the results will be documented in the deliverable DJRA2.4.

KTH Worked on architectures for OpenFlow-based virtualization, by establishing an OpenFlow-based experimental platform and investigated management aspects of OpenFlow virtualization.

Defined an abstraction for virtual networks.

Worked with PoliTo to develop a simulation environment for investigating the properties of OpenFlow controller functionality. Initiated simulations of the OpenFlow controller. Implemented and verified a basic OpenFlow network simulator. Defined scenarios for the next step of simulations with larger random networks, multiple controllers, and a more realistic model of controller properties.

M. Hidell P. Sjödin

ICCS As leader of TJRA2.2, ICCS worked on the organization of the overall Task.

Participated in the preparation of deliverable DJRA2.3.

Participated in all the videoconferences that took place for the Task TJRA2.1.

Collaborated with the rest of the partners in preparing the updated business model for FEDERICA.

M. GrammatikouC. Courcoubetis V. Maglaris G. Stamoulis

Juniper Attended the TMF meeting in Lisbon on 26th - 28th January.

Participated remotely to the JRA2 session in the GA meeting (February 25th).

Supported i2CAT with the development of the IPsphere-FEDERICA interoperability prototype Phase I, and its testing with MANTICORE, in particular the SRC and M7i set-up. Supported i2CAT in the development of the SMS Child prototype for the IPsphere-FEDERICA prototype Phase II. Contributed to chapter 7 of the corresponding deliverable DJRA2.2 (“Business Case study of the interoperability prototype”).

Investigated JUNOS Space as a future evolution of IPsphere with user oriented tool integration, and met with i2CAT to discuss this further.

Followed TMF/IPSF development as virtualization architecture components, in particular the Catalyst initiative (trial). Continued the study of the applicability of the virtualized infrastructure paradigm in commercial networks. Followed-up on new infrastructure virtualization and associated Juniper solutions with the findings presented at the TERENA Networking Conference 09 in the session on Virtual Technology.

Started work on deliverable DJRA 2.3.


Exposed the i2CAT animated demonstration of the TJRA2.3 prototype at the TMF meeting in May, 2009.

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Participated in the JRA2 conference calls.

Corresponded with DFN and Juniper corporate to evaluate the possibility of using a patch to enable OpenFlow on the MX/JUNOS implementation in FEDERICA within the project timeframe.

PoliTo Contributed to chapter 7 of the deliverable DJRA2.2 (“Business Case study of the interoperability prototype”).

Contributed to chapter 7 of the deliverable DJRA2.3 (“Use cases from service/user point of view”).

Studied multistage router architectures in a virtualized environment, based on VMware.

Continued to study the OpenFlow technology.

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Table: Actual and planned PMs for JRA1 and JRA2

Planned total: 28.1 1.56 1.20 1.60 6.40 1.60 3.60 2.00 6.80 3.20 0.10

Actual total: 32.4 0.30 1.90 3.48 6.14 1.70 4.30 2.87 9.05 2.65 0.03

Planned total: 31.6 1.60 0.80 4.80 1.20 3.60 5.20 4.00 1.60 4.00 4.80Actual total: 35.5 6.5 1.04 3.72 5.51 4.40 3.70 4.91 5.70


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5 Deliverables and milestones tables

5.1 Deliverables due in the reporting period (excluding this periodic report)

TABLE 1. DELIVERABLES

Del. no. Deliverable name Activity no.

Lead participant

Nature

Dissemination level

Due delivery

date from

Annex I

DeliveredYes/No

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delivery date Comments

DNA4.2 FEDERICA Course Curriculum NA4 TERENA R PU 10 Y (A) October 09 Shifted from M10 in the

previous project review

DSA2.1 User Support SA2 KTH R PU 11 Y (A) March 10

Whilst this was originally planned to be the 1st deliverable from SA2, in practice it was necessary to focus on installing the infrastructure before documenting the user procedures and available tools

DNA3.2 Update on status and plans of liaisons activities

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Lead participant

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Due delivery

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Annex I

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DSA2.2 Accounting, Policies, Tool-bench and IP slice service prototype

SA2 i2CAT P PU 15 Y (A) June 09 Prototype

DJRA2.2

Prototype for interoperability between IPsphere and UCLPv2

JRA2 i2CAT P PU 15 Y (A) June 09 Prototype

DNA4.3

Mid-term Report of FEDERICA dissemination, concertation and training activities

NA4 TERENA R PU 18 Y (A) August 09

DJRA1.2

Solutions and protocols proposal for the network control, management and monitoring in a virtualized network context

JRA1 UPC R PU 20 Y (A) October 09

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Lead participant

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Annex I

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FEDERICA infrastructure

DNA2.3 FEDERICA Usage Report NA2 TERENA R PU 24 N (F) June 10

Shifted from M24 to M30 in the previous project review, in order to capture all the user feedback

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5.2 Milestones due in the reporting period

TABLE 2. MILESTONES

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Milestone name Due achievement date from Annex I

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Comments

MNA1.2 1st Project Review successfully completed 14 Y 15 1st Project Review Report

MSA2.2 Second IP slice prototype available. Virtualization tool-bench available 15 Y 15 Tool-bench prototype available

MJRA2.1 Specification of UCLPv2 service for virtual machines 15 Y 18

Deliverable DJRA2.2: Prototype for interoperability between IPsphere and UCLPv2.

MNA2.2 Requirements gathered from new EC Projects under IST and FIRE Call

16 Y 14 Deliverable DNA2.2: FEDERICA User Community and Requirements (approved in the 1st project review)

MJRA1.1

Extensions and protocols for network control and management technologies for network virtualization

18 Y 22

Deliverable DJRA1.2: Solutions and protocols proposal for the network control, management and monitoring in a virtualized network context

MSA1.2 Phase 3 FEDERICA infrastructure in operation 21 Y 22 Deliverable DSA1.2: Update on the

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6 Project Management (NA1) Network Activity NA1 (Project Management) is responsible for the overall co-ordination of the contractual-, financial- and technical- planning and control. It ensures that the project objectives and contractual commitments are met on schedule and within budget, and represents the contact point of the project to the European Commission (EC), other Framework Programme projects and the external world. It provides guidance for issues such as the Cost Claim process, independent financial auditing, and registering of IPR, especially in cases where joint ownership is involved. It also deals with access rights, including cases where partners join or leave the project during its duration. It facilitates an open flow of information between all the partners, and is always looking for opportunities to promote the project and disseminate the results.

The co-ordinator is assisted by 3 key bodies: • the General Assembly (GA), comprising one representative from each organisation • the Technical Executive Committee (TEC), comprising the Activity leaders (and the UPB chair in 2009) • the Usage Policy Board (UPB), comprising partners elected by the GA

A small voluntary (not paid from project funds) Consultation Committee (CC) may be convened to establish a link between FEDERICA and key entities in the field of network virtualisation who are interested to exchange their knowledge and experiences. The membership is planned to include manufacturers, organisations and NRENs from both within and outside Europe.

The composition and roles of these bodies are described in section B2.1 (Management structure and procedures) of the DoW.

NA1 comprises 2 Tasks: TNA1.1 (Establishing the project management procedures) and TNA1.2 (Performing the project management duties).

Even before the project commenced, the project manager led the finalisation of the Consortium Agreement, which is based on one approved by a broad spectrum of industrial and academic organisations. This document includes a description of the roles and responsibilities of the GA, TEC and the UPB, the voting rights of the GA (and whether a majority- or unanimous- vote is needed to carry certain decisions), the rules regarding access rights, handling of IPR, confidentiality, distribution of the advance payment, and the submissions and settlements of subsequent cost claims.

The Task TNA1.1 then established the necessary procedures and supporting mechanisms, in order that the project manager obtains the necessary information to be able to perform his/her work. The first action was to form the GA, TEC and UPB, followed by the production of the reporting templates (exploiting the use of web-based reporting tools), e-mail distribution lists, a documentation numbering scheme, server facilities for storing securely all types of documents (e.g. the contract and its annexes, Consortium Agreement, deliverables (both final versions and those under construction), papers, publications, reference material, EC guidelines and reporting templates, etc.) and the public Website.

Once the procedures were in place (at the end of month 1), the Task TNA1.1 was complete and Task TNA1.2 began.

In this Task, the project management activities are performed, to ensure that all the project components (contractual commitments, financial expenditures and technical developments) are monitored and controlled, towards a successful completion. This entails collecting monthly reports of progress from the Activity leaders, and quarterly achievements and resource expenditures from all partners, analyzing them, collating the information and sending summary reports to the partners and the project officer. The co-ordinating partner provides the contact point of the project to the European Commission (EC), other Framework Programme projects and the external world, whilst other members of the Task will provide


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guidance on all administrative matters, and on issues such as the Cost Claim process, independent financial auditing, and registering of IPR, especially in cases where joint ownership is involved.

A major goal of Task TNA1.2 is to facilitate an open flow of information between all the partners, to promote the project and disseminate the results. It will also add a level of quality assurance to the project in terms of validating the visible outputs, such as deliverables, presentation material, papers, etc. This Task also organizes the project reviews and produces the corresponding Project Periodic Reports.

If there is any change to the consortium (or for any other reason), this Task will prepare the Contract Amendments and update the Description of Work (Annex I of the Grant Agreement). The partner in Task TNA1.1 is Martel

The partners in Task TNA1.2 are GARR (as the Co-ordinating Partner) and Martel.

6.1 Overall NA1 Achievements NA1 partners are responsible for the overall co-ordination of the contractual-, financial- and technical- planning and control. It ensures that the project objectives and contractual commitments are met on schedule and within budget, and represents the contact point of the project to the European Commission (EC), other Framework Programme projects and the external world.

In this reporting period, the regular project management activities continued, including the monitoring of the project deliverable schedule and other partner activities. Activity Leader conference calls were held and the e-mail correspondence was followed.

The inputs for the 4th quarter (October - December, 2008) were collected from the partners and incorporated with those from the Quarterly Progress Reports (QPRs) 1-3 in order to produce the Year 1 Project Periodic Report (PPR). Preparations were made for the 1st project review (24th April, 2009), including collecting information from partners for their Cost Claims (NEF).

Regular videoconferences were held between the Activity Leaders.

GA meetings were held in Berlin on February 23rd - 25th, hosted by DFN and in Madrid on December 9th - 11th, hosted by Red.es. Slides were produced to explain the current situation regarding progress (status of the network, deliverables, milestones, spent vs. planned PMs and budget, etc.).

Liaison continued with the FIRE initiative, through consultation meetings (January 8th- 9th and March 20th), the FIREweek (29th June - 3rd July) and FIA (11th - 13th May and 23rd - 24th November) events to identify potential future activities, in view of the Call for Proposals later in the year. The project coordinator was interviewed by the FIRE “Wise men” group (April 28th).

Liaison continued with projects and organisations interested to use the FEDERICA network.

The PPR and NEF were finalized via the on-line system on schedule for the 1st project review (24th April). Slides representing the objectives, achievements, future plans and adherence to the budget (PMs and costs) were produced and presented. This review was very successful; the reviewers agreed that the project is overall “good to excellent”, though the lack of users was recognized as an issue. All of the submitted deliverables were accepted (a minor update was requested for DSA1.1 and one extra table was requested to be provided in the PPR). These 2 documents were updated and re-submitted in August.

The 2nd EC payment for FEDERICA has been received and distributed to the partners. The current status of costs claimed vs budget was calculated and presented to partners in the Madrid GA meeting (December 9th - 11th). Since a few partners are overspending, whilst others are underspending, there is sufficient funding in the project as a whole for the overspending partners to be reimbursed for all of their expenditures. Indeed, as a result of the known costs for Year 2, it is clear that (assuming a similar level of expenditure in Year 3 as in Years 1 and 2) there will be enough funding for the project to extend by about 4 months and therefore


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support more users. This proposal will be made in the 2nd project review, and if there are no objections, a Contract Amendment will be produced.

Three QPRs (January - March, April - June and July - September) were produced in 2009 and sent to the Project Officer.

6.2 Individual partner achievements related to NA1


GARR Overall management of the project. Worked on the Year 1 Project Periodic Report (PPR), administrative accounting, etc. Organised and co-ordinated the GA meetings in Berlin (23rd - 25th February 2009) and Madrid (9th – 11th December), including the associated Activity Leader meetings. Organised and participated to the regular Activity Leaders (TEC) videoconferences. 1st project review co-ordination, organization and attendance. General e-mail correspondence. Finalised the NEF and included the PPR. The 2nd EC payment for FEDERICA was received and distributed to the partners.

M. CampanellaM. Stangoni C. Santi M. Fabiani M. Mieli

Martel Collected the achievements, PMs and costs from partners, and compiled these to write the Year 1 PPR and the Year 2 QPRs. Prepared and checked the Year 1 Cost Claims entered in the NEF with Table 3.1 in the PPR. Requested additional information from partners, where necessary. General project administration (e.g. responding to e-mail questions, etc. from partners). Participated in the Activity Leader videoconference calls. Prepared for - and attended - the GA meetings (February 23rd - 25th in Berlin and December 9th - 11th in Madrid). Detailed inputs concerning the status of the administrative matters and the budget were provided for both meetings. 1st project review preparation (mainly for NA1 matters) and attendance. Compiled the 1st project review slides from the other Activities. Participated in the Activity Leader videoconference calls. Prepared a proposal for a new ToC, added contents and edited the overdue deliverable DSA2.1. Made a final review of deliverables DNA4.2 and DSA1.2 and submitted both to the EC, along with all the other deliverables, as they became available. Attended the 5th Research Infrastructure Concertation Meeting in Brussels (October)

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Table: Actual and planned PMs for NA1


NA1: Project Management Planned total: 9.36 4.56 4.80Actual total: 7.77 3.78 3.99


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6.3 Changes in the Consortium None.

6.4 Project Meetings

Meeting Location Date Participants

1st project review Brussels April 24th, 2009 All partners

3rd GA Meeting Berlin February 23rd - 25th, 2009 All partners

4th GA Meeting Madrid December 9th - 11th, 2009 All partners

6.5 Project-related Meetings

Meeting Location Date Participants

TMF-IPsphere standardisation meeting Lisbon, Portugal January 23rd, 2009 I2CAT, Juniper

NIIFI Networkshop Szeged, Hungary April 15th - 17th, 2009 NIIFI, TERENA

FEDERICA interview with the “5 Wise Men”

Brussels April 28th, 2009 GARR, Martel

Future Internet Assembly Prague, Czech Republic

May 11th - 13th, 2009 GARR, Martel, i2CAT, CESNET

e-IRG workshop Prague, Czech Republic

May 14th, 2009 GARR

TERENA Networking Conference 09 Malaga, Spain June 9th, 2009 All NREN partners, i2CAT, Juniper

FIRE-GENI workshop Seattle, USA July 23rd, 2009 GARR

1st GN3 Symposium Vienna, Austria September 9th, 2009 All NRENs

CPqD Workshop on New Architecture for Future Internet

Campinas, Brazil September 23rd - 24th, 2009 GARR

7th Research Infrastructures Concertation Meeting

Brussels October 12th - 13th, 2009 Martel

EU-Japan Symposium on the Future Internet: Symposium presentation: “GEANT, technology agnostic dedicated resources down to the fibre”

Japan October 14th, 2009 I2CAT

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6.6 Dissemination Activities Summary of Dissemination activities that have been performed during the reporting period:

Date, Place Type Type of audience Countries addressed

Approx. size of audience

Partner involved

January 23rd, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal Presentation of the FEDERICA project to the IPsphere and TMF community

TMF and IPsphere members of the standardization effort

Various, EU, USA, Asia

25 i2CAT, Juniper

February 20th, 2009, Italy Presentation of FEDERICA to a meeting at Italian Ministry of Research dedicated to Future Internet

Ministry, Italian private enterprises and research labs

Italy 32 GARR

March 16th, 2009 Press Release: http://www.juniper.net/us/en/company/press-center/press-releases/2009/pr_2009_03_16-09_00.html

All Worldwide Thousands Juniper, GARR, TERENA

April 15th - 17th, Szeged, Hungary NIIFI Networkshop Researchers and potential users

Hungary 50-60 TERENA, NIIFI

April 7th, 2009, Alcatel Optical Headquarter, Vimercate, Italy

Project Presentation Alcatel engineers Italy 15 GARR

April 28th, 2009, Brussels FEDERICA Interview with FIRE “Wise men” group FIRE experts n/a 7 GARR, Martel

May 11th - 13th, 2009, Prague FIA Experts Various 100 GARR

May 14th, 2009, Prague e-IRG Workshop Experts, e-IRG delegates

Various 30 GARR

May 18th, 2009, Aalborg, Denmark IEEE Wireless Vitae, Experts Various 70 KTH

May 24th - 28th, 2009 - Venice/Mestre, Italy AICT 2009 Researchers Various 60 GARR

June 2009, Germany Article in DFN-Mitteilungen NR.74 DFN Community Germany Several thousand

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Partner involved

June 9th, 2009, Malaga, Spain

TNC 2009 TERENA Networking Conference: Paper and Lecture: Enhancements in FEDERICA for the IP Network Services Paper and Lecture; Prototype for the interoperability between FEDERICA slices and other IP domains by means of IPsphere Framework.

NREN community and researchers

Europe 25/30 i2CAT, GARR


TNC 2009 TERENA Networking Conference: FEDERICA Tutorial Training

Researchers and potential users

World 100 TERENA, KTH, NIIFI, GARR, Red.es


TNC 2009 TERENA Networking Conference: Paper and Lecture entitled “From Virtualization Paradigm to Fractal Infrastructure” which was part of session Virtual technology.

NREN community and researchers

Europe 50 Juniper

June 17th, 2009, Barcelona, Spain

TAC 09 (Trobada de la Anella Cientifica) Lecture: El projecte FEDERICA: Construint i operant una e-infraestructura dedicada als recercaires europeus de les xarxes de computadors.

Catalan research community and potential users

Catalonia-Spain 50/60 i2CAT

June 19th, 2009, Brussels Workshop: Experimental Platforms for Internet resilience, security and stability research.

EC officers (JRC and Research Unit), experts

various 30/40 GARR

June 21st, 2009, Spain Presentation of master-thesis: “Design and Implementation of a control plane for a L2 Virtualized network”.

Universities Spain 10 UPC

June 26th, 2009, Spain Presentation of master thesis: “Tools for virtual slicing and network provisioning at Layer 2”.

Universities Spain 15 UPC

July 23rd, 2009, Seattle, USA 2nd FIRE-GENI Workshop and 5th GENI Engineering Conference Researchers, Providers, Vendors

All GENI participants, mainly US

30 (GENI-FIRE workshop)

GARR

September 9th, 2009, Vienna 1st GN3 Symposium NREN European partners of GN3 (38 countries)

150 GARR

September 23rd - 24th, 2009, Campinas, Brazil CPqD Workshop on New Architecture for Future Internet University, Enterprises, Students

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Partner involved

October 14th, 2009, Japan EU-Japan Symposium on the Future Internet: Symposium presentation: “GEANT, technology agnostic dedicated resources down to the fiber”.

Researchers, Engineers, Strategist

EU and Japan 100 i2CAT

October 19th - 21st, 2009. Munich, Germany Paper presentation at CloudComp 09 conference Researchers, Engineers

Various countries 70 GARR

November 5th, 2009, Poland

Conference paper (I3 conference - http://www.i3conference.net)09

Research and academic community

Poland 100 PSNC

November 14th - 21st, 2009, Oregon

SuperComputing’09 Various, including commercial and research community

Global N/A PSNC

November 23rd - 24th, 2009, Stockholm

FIA Conference FIA community Europe 300 i2CAT

November 23rd, 2009, Spain RedIRIS Technical Week: FEDERICA Tutorial Researchers, EC Europe 100 Red.es

December 1st - 4th, 2009, Nantes, France JRES Conference R&E institutions France 1200 Juniper

December 8th, 2009, Amsterdam Speaker on IPSF/TMF development at “On-demand Infrastructure services provisioning” TERENA WS

NRENs, R&E institutions

Europe 40 Juniper

December 12th - 17th, 2009, New Delhi 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS)

Industry and research academia

ASIA 150 i2CAT

Summary of Dissemination activities that are planned for the future:



Partner involved

February 10th, 2010, APAN 29th, Sydney

Presentation (via videoconference) US, Asian Researchers Asia 100 GARR


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March 9th, 2010, FI Cluster, Sophia Antipolis

Workshop Poster Researchers, EC Europe 100 GARR

March 23rd, 2010, ECRI 2010, Barcelona, Spain

Conference Poster Researchers, EC Europe 300 GARR

April 16th - 18th 2010, FIA, Valencia, Spain

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7 Explanation of the use of the resources

Table 3.1: P01 GARR

Activity Item description Amount Explanations NA1 Personnel costs 25912.60 NA1 work performed by M. Campanella; M. Fabiani; M. Mieli; M. Stangoni NA2 Personnel costs 8050.00 NA2 work performed by M. Campanella; F. Tanlongo NA3 Personnel costs 9609.60 NA3 work performed by M. Campanella NA4 Personnel costs 11351.20 NA4 work performed by M. Campanella; B. Nati; C. Valli; M. Stangoni SA1 Personnel costs 8799.00 SA1 work performed by M. Campanella; U. Monaco; C. Valli; SA2 Personnel costs 1390.20 SA2 work performed by U. Monaco; C. Valli JRA1 Personnel costs 1302.00 JRAI work performed by U. Monaco Subcontracting 0.00 Equipment 0.00 Travel Costs 12448.12 Travel costs for Meetings, GA Assembly, conferences for M. Campanella (Brussels, Berlin, Prague,

Mestre, Malaga, Seattle, Tokyo, Stockholm, Madrid and Monaco) and for U. Monaco to Berlin. Indirect Costs (overhead) 22931.93 Other Direct Costs 4204.74 DHL courier, Bank commission, Sun Server Remaining costs 0

TOTAL COSTS AS CLAIMED ON FORM C 105999.39 €275.93 was also declared as interest yielded from pre-financing


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Table 3.1: P02 CESNET

Activity Item description Amount Explanations SA1 Personnel costs 53660.71 SA1 tasks performed by J. Furman, J. Navratil, T. Kosnar, T. Mrazek, V. Krmicek, T. Celeda, J.

Novotny SA2 Personnel costs 988.81 SA2 tasks performed by P. Celeda and T. Krmicek Subcontracting NA2 Travel Costs 2084.00 Attendance at 4th GA meeting in Madrid Consumables Indirect Costs (overhead) 38048.00 Remaining costs 8072.00

TOTAL COSTS AS CLAIMED ON FORM C 102853.52 An adjustment of €-12680 was also made for the previous reporting period

Table 3.1: P03 DFN

Activity Item description Amount Explanations

NA2 Personnel costs 20662.18 Performed by P. Kaufmann, M. Roesler in work associated with UPB user kit, contact with potential users, etc.

NA3 Personnel costs 469.59 Performed by P. Kaufmann, M. Roesler with OpenFlow hardware SA1 Personnel costs 25760.93 Performed by S. Nagele-Jackson, P. Kaufmann, M. Roesler for DFN PoP, evaluation of Juniper test

routers, investigation of instable nodes, etc. JRA1 Personnel costs 15843.15 Performed by S. Nagele-Jackson with OpenFlow technology. Subcontracting 0.00 Travel Costs 434.60 Meeting in Brussels Travel Costs 670.79 Meeting in Amsterdam Travel Costs 567.73 Meeting in Brussels Indirect Costs (overhead) 33312.00 Communication costs 6316.00 Connectivity costs (EUR 6316.00 is 50% of the actual spent connectivity costs) Equipment

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Table 3.1: P04 FCCN

Activity Item description Amount Explanations SA1 Personnel costs 6327.23 SA1 Personnel costs with Jorge de Carvalho, João Nuno Ferreira, Luis Nunes, Carlos Friaças and

Emanuel Massano SA2: Personnel costs 7056.91 SA2 Personnel costs with Jorge de Carvalho, João Nuno Ferreira and Carlos Friaças NA2 Personnel costs 1469.80 NA2 Personnel costs with Jorge de Carvalho Travel costs 2826.54 Travel costs with Jorge de Carvaho and Emanuel Massano (Berlin) and Jorge de Carvalho and João

Nuno Ferreira (Madrid) Indirect Costs (overhead) 0.00 Remaining costs 0.00

TOTAL COSTS AS CLAIMED ON FORM C 17680.48

Table 3.1: P05 GRNET

Activity Item description Amount Explanations NA3, SA1, JRA1 Personnel costs 51967.99 Work performed in NA3, SA1, JRA1 by A. Sevasti, C. Vassilakis, Z. Mousmoulas Subcontracting 0.00 NA3 Travel Costs 3180.32 GA meeting in Madrid and Year 1 Review Meeting Equipment Indirect Costs (overhead) 41574.39 Remaining costs 5237.11 Juniper EX switches and management interface switches



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Table 3.1: P06 NIIF

Activity Item description Amount Explanations NA2 Personnel costs 1774.98 T.Maray 0.40 PM. Tasks performed included organizing workshops, discussion with users, collecting

user requirements, etc. Indirect Costs (overhead) 588.06 NA4 Personnel costs 3993.71 L.Balint 0.25 PM; T.Maray 0.50 PM; J.Mohacsi 0.05 PM; P.Stefan 0.1 PM. Tasks included

preparations for GA meetings, workshops, dissemination materials, etc. Travel Costs 1500.22 T.Maray Berlin (Feb 2009); L.Balint Madrid (Dec 2009) Indirect Costs (overhead) 1323.14 SA1 Personnel costs 1774.98 J.Mohacsi 0.20 PM; G.Ivanszky 0,20 PM. Tasks include participating in the design and realisation of

the FEDERICA infrastructure. Indirect Costs (overhead) 588.06 SA2 Personnel costs 5103.07 L.Balint 0.10PM; J.Mohacsi 0.25 PM; P.Stefan 0.20 PM; G.Ivanszky 0.60 PM. Tasks include working

on DSA2.1, preparing FEDERICA coursework, etc. Indirect Costs (overhead) 1690.67


Table 3.1: P07 PSNC


JRA1, JRA2, SA1, SA2 Personnel costs 77752.60

Worked performed by L. Dolata, R. Krzywania, A. Weinert, M. Debowiak, M. Mamonski, P. Kopta, W. Bogacki, A. Binczewski, K. Turza, K. Stanecki.

NA4 2190.63 Worked performed by the above group. Subcontracting JRA1, SA1 Travel Costs 6863.56 General Assembly Meeting, Berlin; FEDERICA-Review, Brussels, TNC 2009 Conference, Malaga

SuperComputing'09, Portland OR, General Assembly Meeting, Madrid SA1,SA2, JRA1, JRA2 Equipment 13576.75 Depreciation of: 16 modules SFP TP UTP RJ45GE (203,90 € = 8 months); 8 servers SUN Fire

X2200M2 (12 666,32 € = 11 months); switch and modules SFP (706,53 € = 8 months) Indirect Costs (overhead) 59,353.00 flat rate of 60%, 20% on Coordination Remaining costs 0.00

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Table 3.1: P08 Red.es


NA2/NA4 Personnel costs 14367.59 NA2 and NA4 work performed by M.A.Sotos, C. Lorenzo, A. Darajanani in disseminating FEDERICA, providing training, evaluated user requests, worked on project plan and group activity co-ordination, etc.

SA1/SA2 Personnel costs 23948.51 SA1 work performed by M.A. Sotos, E. Robles, A. Darjanani in Non-Core Pop installation, configuration, analysis of carrier Ethernet technology, configuration improvements, etc. SA2 work performed by A. Darjanani, M.A. Sotos ,D. Lopez in management of RADIUS and LDAP servers, etc.

JRA2 Personnel costs 4940.85 JRA2 performed by A. Darjanani M.A. Sotos D. Lopez in Manticore Usuage, business model study, work in new AAI in FEDERICA.

Subcontracting 0.00 Travel Costs 5010.46 Attendance at GA meetings in Berlin and conference organization and hosting in Madrid. Consumables 0.00 Equipment 0.00 Indirect Costs (overhead) 26736.00 Remaining Costs 9214.06



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Table 3.1: P09 SWITCH

Activity Item description Amount Explanations NA2 Personnel costs 1497.00 Work performed by Alex Gall on NA2 (without overhead) SA1 Personnel costs 5706.44 Work performed by Alex Gall and SWITCH Support Staff on the SA1 (without overhead) SA2 Personnel costs 1412.65 Work performed by Alex Gall on the SA2 (without overhead) NA2 Travel Costs 534.80 Participation to the GA Berlin by Alex Gall, participation to the GA Madrid by Alex Gall and Kurt

Baumann (33% of total cost, without VAT, without overhead) SA1 Travel Costs 663.48 Participation to the GA Berlin by Alex Gall, participation to the GA Madrid by Alex Gall and Kurt

Baumann (33% of total cost, without VAT, without overhead) Travel costs Zurich - Geneva for two persons, installation of Juniper switch

SA2 Travel Costs 534.80 Participation to the GA Berlin by Alex Gall, participation to the GA Madrid by Alex Gall and Kurt Baumann (33% of total cost, without VAT, without overhead)

NA2 Indirect Costs (overhead) 104.79 7% of NA2 personnel costs SA1 Indirect Costs (overhead) 2317.80 real cost SA2 Indirect Costs (overhead) 589.42 real cost Remaining Costs 1513.16 SUN workstation, 12 months (Jan-Dec09)

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Table 3.1: P10 TERENA

Activity Item description Amount Explanations JRA2 Personnel costs 57090.67 27657.16 for JRA2 NA2/4 Personnel costs 29433.51 for NA2 & NA 4 Subcontracting 0.00 NA4 Travel Costs 3799.69 GA meetings, Plenary meeting, project review meetings, NIIF Networkshop and Future Internet

Assembly attended by either K. Meynell and/or P. Szegedi Indirect Costs (overhead) 42,576.20 19100.03 for JRA2 and 20326.78 for NA2/4

Remaining costs 85.45


Table 3.1: P11 i2CAT


NA2-4, SA1,2; JRA1,2 Personnel costs 59,578.01 Work performed by S. Figueroa, J. Pons, E. Grasa Subcontracting 0.00 Travel Costs 8,234.23 Equipment 2379.49 Consumables 1577.46 Indirect Costs (overhead) 36739.00 Remaining costs 0.00



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Table 3.1: P12 KTH

Activity Item description Amount Explanations JRA1, JRA2, SA1,SA2 Personnel costs 107515.00 Performed by M. Hidell P. Sjödin Subcontracting 3338.00 Sunet Jun-Dec 2009 Travel Costs 9715.00 Equipment 4462.00 Depreciation and consumables Indirect Costs (overhead) 73015.00 Remaining costs


Table 3.1: P13 ICCS


JRA1/2, SA2 Personnel costs 47042.50 JRA1, JRA2 and SA2 performed by A. Siouggaris, L. Lymberopoulo, D. Kalogeras, M. Grammatikou, V. Maglaris, and G. Stamoulis

Subcontracting NA2 Travel Costs 2726.00 Attended 4th GA meeting in Madrid, also 1st Review and 3rd GA meeting by D. Kalogeras and V.

Maglaris Indirect Costs (overhead) 29860.00 Remaining costs



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Table 3.1: P14 UPC

Activity Item description Amount Explanations JRA1 Personnel costs 36462.57 Work performed by C. Cervello-Pastor, S. Sallent, A. Oskarsson SA2 Personnel costs 24661.58 Work performed by C. Cervello-Pastor, S. Sallent, R. Machado, A. Monje, A. Oskarsson Subcontracting 0.00 Travel Costs 3558.18 451,36€ Corresponds to the 1st Review, 1939,16€ corresponds to the 3th GA and 1167,66€

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Table 3.1: P15 Juniper

Activity Item description Amount Explanations NA3 Personnel costs 31291.68 Liaison with TMF/IPSF

Work performed by J-M. Uzé, N. Wicker, R. Bayliss, T. Shimizu NA4 Personnel costs 9792.72 Liaison with other R&E projects (e.g. MANTICORE) and the community, as well as internal

dissemination Work performed by J-M. Uzé, P. Still, P. Hourseau

SA1 Personnel costs 23637.6ß Support deployment and operations of the Core routers/switches (MX480) and non core switches (EX3200), for the physical infrastructure as well as virtual infrastructures (e.g. logical routers) Work performed by J-M. Uzé, R. Hjelm

SA2 Personnel costs 11818.80 Support development of the user oriented tools for creation and control of virtual infrastructure Work performed by J-M. Uzé, B. de Troch

JRA1 Personnel costs 29828.40 Contributed to research on contrôl and management architecture for Federica, with a focus on monitoring tools Work performed by J-M. Uzé, B. De Troch

JRA2 Personnel 55266.96 Contributed to exploration of new paradigms such as Openflow, application of virtualization in commercial operators, and on building a prototype of interoperability between FEDERICA and IPsphere framework Work performed by J-M. Uzé, B. De Troch, J. Lucek, I. Vojvodic, N. Wicker

Subcontracting Travel Costs NA3, NA4, SA1, SA2, JRA1, JRA1

Indirect Costs (overhead) 48490.85

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Table 3.1: P16 Martel

Activity Item description Amount Explanations NA1: Management Personnel costs 37’930.93 M. Potts (1.98PMs), S. Wittwer (0.47PMs), A. Higa (0.64PMs), S. Kenehan (0.34PMs), M. Günter

(0.53PMs) Travel 2’001.04 GA meetings in Berlin and Madrid, and the 1st project review (Brussels) Indirect costs 23’959.18 STFR 60% NA3+NA4: Co-ordination

Personnel costs 3’755.60 M. Potts (0.28PMs)

Travel 611.04 FIRE Consultation with the “5 Wise Men” Indirect costs 873.33 (only 20% can be entered in the NEF) JRA1+SA: RTD Personnel costs 1’310.09 M. Potts (0.09PMs) – review of deliverables Indirect costs 786.05 STFR 60% Subcontracting Remaining costs

TOTAL COSTS AS CLAIMED ON FORM C 71’227.26

Table 3.1: P17 HEAnet


NA2 Personnel costs 8855.00 R. Meier, M. Norris, Varies, J. Bolger and M. Ruffian worked on NA2 SA1 Personnel costs 4951.10 J. Bolger, V. Reins, D. Wilson worked on SA1. Subcontracting NA + SA Travel Costs 695.29 Travel to Berlin for the GA meeting in February 2009 by D. Wilson and J. Bolger Consumables Indirect Costs (overhead) 6726.00 Flat rate of 60%, 20% on Coordination Remaining costs 2614.23 Depreciation for eight months for equipment purchased in 09 - Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X2200,

Juniper EX3200 and support for same. TOTAL COSTS AS CLAIMED ON FORM C 23’841.62


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Table 3.1: P18 DANTE

Activity Item description Amount Explanations SA1 Personnel costs 1607.21 Work performed by the following: 18.5 hrs for C. Smith in Feb 2009; 15 hrs for R. Sabatini in April

2009; 1 hr for K. Owen March 2009 Subcontracting NA2 Travel Costs 447.21 Travel Expenses for C. Smith to attend the 3rd General Assembly in Berlin 23-24 Feb 09 Indirect Costs (overhead) 1038.24 Remaining costs


Table 3.1: P19 PoliTo


JRA2 Personnel costs 33805.46 Work performed by A. Bianco and L.Giraudo on the JRA2

NA2 Personnel costs 1671.45 Participation of A. Bianco and L. Giraudo to the General Assembly meetings, held in Madrid and Berlin

Subcontracting 0.00

NA2 Travel Costs 2475.46

Participation of A. Bianco and L.Giraudo to the General Assembly meetings, held in Madrid and Berlin

JRA2 Indirect Costs (overhead) 20283.28 60% of total direct RTD costs NA2 Indirect Costs (overhead) 829.38 20% of total direct NA2 costs

TOTAL COSTS AS CLAIMED ON FORM C 59065.03 An adjustment of €-627 was made due to POLITO Indirect Cost model change from Simplified Method to Transitional Flat Rate, with retroactive effect since the beginning of FP7. The percentage of overheads to be used for Politecnico di Torino is now equal to 60% of the direct cost (excluding subcontracts) instead of 63% of direct costs. This adjustment is for the overhead claimed in the first financial statement


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Table 3.1: P20 NORDUNET

Activity Item description Amount Explanations NA3 Personnel costs 3845.40 Work on NA3 performed by Lars Fisher SA1 Personnel costs Work on SA1 performed by Lars Fisher Subcontracting NA + SA Travel Costs 488.00 F. Pettai attended meeting in Berlin, February 2009 Connectivity Indirect Costs (overhead) 866.00 68 % OH on Personnel Cost (restricted to 20% for NA 3 Activities by the NEF)



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8 Deviations and risks analysis

8.1 Deviations There have been some minor deviations from the plan. The table below summarises the deviations, motivations and planned remedies for the future activity.

Deviation Cause Planned remedies

An extension is proposed of 4 additional months concluding at the end of October 2010

An extension would give more time to existing users, attract more users and develop further the automated slice production functionality. Budget is available (assuming a similar expenditure as for Years 1 and 2)

A request for a Contract Amendment will be submitted to the EC

There have been some deviations in PMs from various partners. In total (ie. for Years 1 and 2), 12% fewer PMs have been spent than planned (327.7 vs 374.6)

Non-core partner have usually spent less than planned and some core partners (and those in the UPB) have spent more than planned.

PMs and travel for GARR are higher than planned

The management effort is initially naturally higher and the co-ordination and dissemination task have been successful and required travel

PMs and associated costs for DFN are higher than planned

The PM effort for the UPB activity was initially not planned, but has taken up a significant amount of time as it was a totally new development

Travel expenses are higher than planned for many partners

The original budget for travel was identical for all partners. The actual value is instead a function of the effort for each partner and its role

Some partners hosting a PoP (FCCN, GRNET, KTH) did not have funding assigned for durable equipment

The detailed planning of the topology was finalized in mid 2008 and at that time it became important that additional V-Nodes be installed in Portugal, Greece and Sweden

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PERIOD: M13 - M24

NA1: Project Management Planned total: 9.4 4.56 4.80Actual total: 7.8 3.78 3.99

Planned total: 7.9 0.48 0.25 0.50 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.20 0.25 2.00 0.75 0.75 1.00 0.75 0.25Actual total: 11.8 1.22 0.07 4.30 0.40 0.40 1.11 0.16 2.31 0.84 0.61 0.40

NA3: Standardization and Liaisons Planned total: 9.0 1.92 0.80 2.60 0.20 2.00 0.80 0.40 0.30Actual total: 7.3 1.32 0.10 2.15 0.14 2.78 0.27 0.53

NA4: Dissemination and Training Planned total: 15.8 2.76 1.60 0.80 0.40 1.20 7.00 0.40 0.20 0.40 0.40 0.60Actual total: 9.2 2.60 0.45 0.90 0.60 2.20 1.01 0.60 0.87 0.01

Planned total: 46.2 1.56 6.80 2.80 4.20 2.40 1.60 4.40 4.00 1.80 2.00 7.40 0.40 2.80 1.20 2.00 0.80Actual total: 38.1 1.81 13.64 3.00 1.99 4.47 0.40 1.45 3.50 0.61 1.96 2.90 1.65 0.48 0.25

Planned total: 38.5 0.72 3.20 3.60 0.80 1.20 4.80 0.60 5.20 5.20 2.40 6.20 0.80 1.60 1.60 0.60Actual total: 27.0 0.33 0.22 1.28 1.15 2.90 1.86 0.15 5.16 2.38 1.60 8.67 1.05 0.07 0.17

Planned total: 28.1 1.56 1.20 1.60 6.40 1.60 3.60 2.00 6.80 3.20 0.10Actual total: 32.4 0.30 1.90 3.48 6.14 1.70 4.30 2.87 9.05 2.65 0.03

Planned total: 31.6 1.60 0.80 4.80 1.20 3.60 5.20 4.00 1.60 4.00 4.80Actual total: 35.5 6.5 1.04 3.72 5.51 4.40 3.70 4.91 5.7


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Summary Table of Planned vs Actual PMs in each Activity Explanations: The actual PMs spent in Year 2 (169.1 PMs) represent approx. 90% of the (linear) planned expenditure (186.4 PMs). Some partners are overspending; in particular the work of the UPB, with the associated definition of the regulations and the liaison with users, was more labour-extensive than originally expected (see DFN). On the other hand, some partners are underspending. This lower-than-planned PM expenditure also translates into a lower-than-planned claim for EC reimbursement; only 88% of the (linear) planned expenditure (€1,305,604 vs €1,480,000 for Year 2 (€2,438,576 vs €2,960,000 = 82% for Years 1 and 2 combined). Whilst many partners have higher Travel costs than in their budget, the overall lower proportion of costs is due to the fact that Equipment purchases were not made at the beginning of the project, the Connectivity budget is not needed by most partners, and actual Personnel rates are often lower than in the budget.


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Specific deviations: Planning is underway to calculate a realistic time for which the project could be extended with the existing budget, in order to serve more users.

Deliverable shifts:

A Contract Amendment would include a shifting of the deliverable DNA2.3: “FEDERICA Usage Report” and the Final Project Report to the new contractual end date.

8.2 Risks An analysis of current status of risks identified in the DoW is reported in the table below.

Risk Status

Insufficient budget for travel, given the demand for FEDERICA information and interest in FEDERICA presentations.

Apart from the dissemination events and the concertation meetings within the e-Infrastructure Unit, FEDERICA is also invited to all of the FIRE events (consultation meetings, co-ordination meetings with GENI, FIREWeeks, etc.) and the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) meetings. Whilst these are interesting and relevant activities for FEDERICA to participate in, it has impacted on the travel expenditures of some partners. However, in total, there is sufficient budget within the project.

To be able to meet the requirements of the users. .The current offering is compatible with users’ requirements.

The workload on the NOC is becoming a critical factor, with Bjorn Rhoads the only person responsible for it.

PSNC and FCCN are giving additional support. In parallel, work in the JRAs is targeted at producing automated procedures, but this will only become available towards the end of the project. A study is ongoing to evaluate software available from VMware to simplify management.

Experience with the infrastructure has shown that hardware procurement in a distributed environment is complex.

The process has been simplified as much as possible, by doing a pre-procurement analysis and obtaining most of the network equipment through a single partner (Juniper). All the equipment has been procured.

The amount of user support needed was underestimated. Not just the NOC but also from the UPB during the initial phase.

In total, there is sufficient budget within the project to allow for some partners to spend more than they have in their original budget.

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9 Access activity of the infrastructure The user activity at the end of 2009 has started to include both internal and external groups, including external physical connectivity (in Ireland).

10 Financial statements – Form C and Summary financial report The Forms C have been completed by partners using the NEF. Signed originals will be sent separately by post, when validated by the EC.

11 Certificates The list of Certificates which are due for this period, in accordance with Article II.4.4 of the Grant Agreement are given in the table below:

Beneficiary Organisation

short name Certificate on the financial statements provided? yes / no

Any useful comment, in particular if a certificate is not provided

1 GARR no Expenditure threshold not reached 2 CESNET no Expenditure threshold not reached 3 DFN no Expenditure threshold not reached 4 FCCN no Expenditure threshold not reached 5 GRNET no Expenditure threshold not reached 6 NIIF no Expenditure threshold not reached 7 PSNC no Expenditure threshold not reached 8 Red.es no Expenditure threshold not reached 9 SWITCH no Expenditure threshold not reached 10 TERENA no Expenditure threshold not reached 11 i2CAT no Expenditure threshold not reached 12 KTH no Expenditure threshold not reached 13 ICCS no Expenditure threshold not reached 14 UPC no Expenditure threshold not reached 15 Juniper no Expenditure threshold not reached 16 Martel no Expenditure threshold not reached 17 HEAnet no Expenditure threshold not reached 18 DANTE no Expenditure threshold not reached 19 PoliTo no Expenditure threshold not reached 20 NORDUnet no Expenditure threshold not reached

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