Applied Research Center for Computer
Networking
GENI, we be of one blood
12 November 2009
“We should complete the
development of proposals
to establish in Russia a
powerful research and
development center that
would focus on the support
of all areas.”
“An attractive environment for the work of leading scientists, engineers,
designers, programmers, managers and financiers would be formed there.
In addition, new competitive technologies in the global market would be
created there”
Dmitry Medvedev
President of Russia 2008-2012
SKOLKOVO Mission
Priorities
ARCCN is a member of
SKOLKOVO project
(IT cluster)
ARCCN Mission:
• to develop and distribute Software Defined Networking tools and technologies
• to create SDN deployments in R&E networks for the benefit of the larger R&E community
• to allow researchers to seamlessly transition SDN network control and management concepts from
prototype to emulation to deployments in local and even national test beds
Main activities
Research
Industry Cooperation
Education
University Consortium
Applied Research Center for Computer Networking
(Education)
University Consortium
Main goals:
• To promote the SDN segment deploying in the scientific
and educational environment of Russia;
• To form SDN research community at Russian universities
in collaboration with branch ministries, enterprises and
development institutions.
Main tools:
• To create SDN-network segments in the Russian Universities
• To include SDN courses in the compulsory syllabuses in
universities, project partners;
• To lay down relevant topics for Ph.D studies;
• To provide opportunity for Science Experiment with real
equipment.
Applied Research Center for Computer Networking
(Industry)
Current research projects for Industry
• Development of pilot segment cloud platform for
data centers based on SDN
• Resource usage efficiency increasing methods for
data centers based on the storage virtualization
• Development of security technology for payment
transactions via cellphones from unauthorized access
• Research and development on OpenFlow switch
architecture on Intel Platform using Intel Data
Plane Development Kit
Main research and deployment activities
• SDN networks: design, configuration, analysis, simulation, and
configuration tools.
• SDN networks management: tools for describing network resources,
their abstraction and implementation, networking and distributed
resources virtualization .
• The use of SDN technology in various application areas: Data Center,
Storage Area Network (SAN), corporate networks, network operators
and service providers, wireless networks, home networks,
informational security.
• Demonstrate the capabilities and benefits of using SDN technology to
manage modern computer networks.
Current Activities
• Summer and Autumn SDN Schools for students, researchers &
engineers in collaboration with ON Lab (Stanford, Berkley)
>40 participants
• Open Lectures about SDN/OpenFlow with Nick McKeown, Scott
Shenker and Russian scientists and experts
> 600 participants offline & > 2000 participants online
ARCCN Today
• 20 engineers: 9 Ph.D., 9 Ph.D. students;
• Cooperation with 11 Russian universities
and research centers;
• Develop first Russian SDN-network
segment;
• Develop special education program for
engineers and researchers in
collaboration with ON.Lab;
• Contracts for industrial research
Connectivity 2012/2013
Initiative of NFS and Russian Ministry of Education and
Science to support cooperation US Universities &
Russian Universities within GENI
Cooperation with GENI: Proposals
• Developing testbed and benchmarks for testing SDN controllers
• Creating a pool of applications for controllers implementing
interesting features. Including implementation of current network
protocols on top of SDN. Open source.
• General protocol to provide direct communication between the
distributed application and the network it uses
• Building of a distributed real-time simulation environment over
SDN network
• Controller as an Open System
• Methodology for SDN simulator assessment and comparison
• SDN network intersegment traffic research. Intersegment SDN
network protocol development
• Research collaboration proposal on network security with SDN
• Research possible vulnerabilities in SDN and/or OF Software tools
Ruslan L. Smelyansky
R&D Director for ARCCN
• Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
• The correspondent member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences;
• Dr. of Sci. (Physical and Mathematical
Sciences),
• Distinguished Professor of the Moscow State
University;
• Head of Computer Systems Laboratory
(MSU);
• Founder
[email protected]
group
of
companies
REDLAB/REDCENTER (of one of the first
authorized IT-training center in Russia)