Design and implementation of the OFELIA FP7 facility: The European OpenFlow testbed
| Autor: | Bart Puype, Leonardo Bergesio, Mario Kind, Marc Suñé, Marc Korner, Andreas Köpsel, T. Rothe, Mayur Channegowda, Hagen Woesner, Stefano Salsano, Achim Autenrieth, Didier Colle, Reza Nejabati, Sachin Sharma, Dimitra Simeonidou, Vasileios Kotronis, T. Dietz, Elio Salvadori |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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OpenFlow
Computer Networks and Communications Computer science Control (management) Network virtualization 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre OFELIA FP7 testbed Software 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Testbed control framework business.industry Settore ING-INF/03 - Telecomunicazioni Testbed 020206 networking & telecommunications Software-defined networks Programmable networks Systems engineering Key (cryptography) Operating system 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing The Internet business Software-defined networking computer |
| Zdroj: | Computer Networks |
| Popis: | The growth of the Internet in terms of number of devices, the number of networks associated to each device and the mobility of devices and users makes the operation and management of the Internet network infrastructure a very complex challenge. In order to address this challenge, innovative solutions and ideas must be tested and evaluated in real network environments and not only based on simulations or laboratory setups. OFELIA is an European FP7 project and its main objective is to address the aforementioned challenge by building and operating a multi-layer, multi-technology and geographically distributed Future Internet testbed facility, where the network itself is precisely controlled and programmed by the experimenter using the emerging OpenFlow technology. This paper reports on the work done during the first half of the project, the lessons learned as well as the key advantages of the OFELIA facility for developing and testing new networking ideas. An overview on the challenges that have been faced on the design and implementation of the testbed facility is described, including the OFELIA Control Framework testbed management software. In addition, early operational experience of the facility since it was opened to the general public, providing five different testbeds or islands, is described. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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