From Federated Software Defined Infrastructure to Future Internet Architecture

KC Wang

Associate Professor, ECENetworking CTO, CCIT

Director, Center of Excellence for Next Gen Computing & Creativity

Clemson University

Time to Compose a Public Facing, Live,and Open Future Internet?

• Remembering the beginnings of– Internet2– Wi-Fi Hot Spot

• They do something useful, public facing, and evolve

• Our two days are all about hard problems for Future Internet– We will solve them in time – Not what I want to talk about now

• Let’s take a moment to see what we have, and discuss how we can help the public glimpse into future– With what we have, doing something useful, across US, EU, and beyond– Get general public start talking, thinking, innovating about it

FIRE-GENI Workshop September 2015 2

Ideas?• We have done many things close …– GENI demos, Fire demos, GTS demo, SDX demos– Are these public, live, and open enough?

• Not really … these are testbeds – external interfaces are not provisioned as primary citizens

• External stakeholders – end users, end devices (IoT), public facing services not easily engaged

– Some projects are trying to bridge this• GENI Cinema• CloudLab data transfer service (Clemson-Utah) over AL2S• Internet2 IoT WG• NITRD Operational SDN Workshop action item• Others?

FIRE-GENI Workshop September 2015 3

Proposing a Bootstrapping EffortStarting in US-EU

• A Cloud based approach• Any and all cloud presence can be a SDX

– Starting with CloudLab and GTS– Interfacing GENI stitched networks + AL2S + NSI– Allocating virtual or physical servers

• Prototype focus on compute/network/storage– go easy with the glue and automation– i.e., if aggregate manager or NSI agent not ready yet, manual out-of-band

configuration is acceptable• Deal with, not isolate from

– organizational/administrative issues– External network interfacing issues

• Run interesting application prototypes on it– GENI Cinema, IOT grid, Smart City? What makes people feel “disruptively new”?

FIRE-GENI Workshop September 2015 4

Long Term• Automation– Canonical resource model and protocol

• Identity Federation• Policy expression• Correctness, robustness, assurance, virtualization• Operation/business model

• All will be easier once we have a reference environment and set of participating stakeholders

FIRE-GENI Workshop September 2015 5

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In My Mind, a Federated SDI World Looks Like This …

KC Wang Clemson University NIST, 7/29/2015

SDN 4e.g.

airport

… otherWANsVerizon StarLightInternet2

SDN 3e.g.

coffee shops

SDX 1

ConsumersTechnology, Application,

& Service Providers

Operators

SDN 2e.g.city

SDN 1e.g.

university

SDN 7e.g.

household

SDN 6e.g.

utilities

SDN 5e.g.

government

AT&T

SDX n

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