Core 5 Programme
Enabling Flexible Networks
February 2009
Mick Wilson
Fujitsu
Industrial Steering Group Chair
for Flexible Networks
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Programme Management Team
 Industrial Steering Team
 Mick Wilson, Fujitsu Labs (Chair)
 Dr. Abdellatif Benjelloun-Touimi, Orange Labs (Deputy Chair)
 Dr. Dirk Trossen, BT Innovate (Deputy Chair)
 Academic Coordinator
 Dr Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey
 Participating Universities
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Imperial College London
London School of Economics
University of Strathclyde
University of Surrey
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The “It Just Is” Networking 2020 Vision
Future Network Stimulus:
Raised Expectations
The It-Just-Is Network:
• Connectivity happens
• Optimised delivery happens
• Services happen
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A mishmash of Collisions and Synergies
Goals and Aims
The Goal:
Provide future networks with
 design methodologies
 enabling technologies that promote
 flexible, agile, dynamic and self-evolving networking
A Network capable of coping with unforeseen demands
The Aim:
 identify those key socio-economic parameters that impact
future network design
 Use these parameters to help identify suitable technologies to
promote desired future network properties
Develop a network design methodology that promotes selfevolving flexible IJI networking
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How can we Address this Vision?
Socio-Economic
Design Methodologies
Users vs. Operators
Maslow's Tussle
“How to use ‘it’”
“Context of the use of ‘it’”
Understand the
context of the
future network
“Defining ‘it’”
Socio-Economic Aspects
Technologies
High Tech Capability
Aim: Tussle N/W
Market-x
Self evolvable N/W
Explore how tussles
lead to:
•Technologies, and
•Design methodologies
L4
L3
Management and Trust of Self-x, auto-x
L2
Self-x, Auto-x, Design-x
L1
Tension
(differing priorities)
Tussle Capable Network
It Just Is Network
Proposed Technical Streams
Verification and Trust
Adaptability and Agility
Robustness and Efficiency
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L5
Virtualisation
Basic Tech Capability
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Maslow’s Hierarchies
User
Provider
Design Methodology
Set of Desirable Properties and Operation
Sets of desirable properties
Robustness &
Efficiency
Overlay Network
Multi homing
Virtualisation
Adaptability &
Agility
Network Coding
Self-x
Digital Marketplace
Trust and
Verification
Modelling
Verification &
Trust
INITIATION
Dynamic market
place
(Socioeconomic)
VERIFICATION
Verification
and trust
Self Design
and Operation
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CONSTRUCTION
Design
Methodologies
DELIVERY
Overlaying
Multihoming
Network coding
Virtualisation
Self-x
The High Level Plan: Flexible Networks
The Stimulus and Motivation
The Candidate Technologies
Phase 1
Phase 2
12 months
The Candidate Mechanisms
The Verification Mechanisms
The New Design Paradigm
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36 months
User & Business Factors
(Stimulus & Motivation)
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Objectives & Contributions
Provide socio-economic understanding of tussles between
players in particular scenarios
develop requirements and
policies allowing dynamic
reconfiguration of systems and
networks and enabling the
mediation of tussles
support evaluation of
technologies for trade-offs and
investment decisions in the
context of flexible networks
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Source:
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Parameterisation
List of socio-economic design
parameters
List of triggers and impact on
parameters
Evaluation
Tool
Software tool
Model relationships
Focus on stimulating collaboration
Challenge and evaluate relative
merits among technical solutions
Design
Methodology
Impact
Challenging existing design
methodologies
Input to new design
methodology based on an
evolutionist approach
Socio-Economic Scenario Driven
Network sharing
Network
sharing
(cost
(cost
reduction
reduction
scenario)
scenario)
sharing
(cost
reduction)
A1. Network
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Tussle
Inter Network Operator
How much information
to share about the
network status
Mobile VoIP
(risk
scenario)
VoIP
(risk/collaboration)
B2. Mobile
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Growth Scenario
Growth
Scenario
(emergency
(emergency
services)
services)
recovery
(growth)
C3. Disaster
Tussle
Over whole value chain
Customer ownership,
charging throughout
value chain
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D
Tussle
Network Operator v
Other Stakeholders
Reconcile regulatory
commitments with
commercial drivers
Mobile Payment (new value chain)
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Tussle
Over financial services
value chain
Trust and Identity
Handling
Socio-economic conflict theories can help us to better
understand tussles and what might be innovative strategies in
the design of flexible networks to cope with tussles
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Adaptability & Agility
(Candidate Technologies)
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Objectives & Contributions
Metrics
Network Adaptability and
Agility are essential to
ensure network longevity
 Market based resource
allocation
 Network virtualization
 Techniques to support
dynamic flexible
networking based on
Market based drivers
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Digital
Marketplace
 Comparison of resources over
heterogeneous networks
 Sensitivity to service types
 Impact of the Digital Market
Place on network implementation
 Leverage earlier M-VCE results
Vitualisation
Network
Provisioning
 Tussle between Service Developers
& Network Providers
 Devise an evolvable interface model
Self
Organising
 Inter Domain Resource Management
 Handle variable policy constraints
Reconfigure
Architecture
Qos
Multirouting
 Reconfiguration Policies
 Leverage earlier M-VCE results
 Technology Agnostic Policy
 Policy Development Demonstrator
Robustness and Efficiency
(Candidate Technologies)
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Objectives & Contributions
Combine Robustness and
Efficiency for flexible
networking
 Improved throughput
 Improved efficiency
 Achieving Robustness
 Cross layer network
coding
Network
Coding
Multipath
Routing
Solution
Evaluation
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 Combine different network
technologies with network coding
 Coding aware routing & Qos
Provisioning
 Inter project cooperation with
Green Radio Programme
 Driven by Future Internet initiatives
 New approaches in network &
protocol design
 Contribution toward robustness
 Demonstration based on
wireless test bed (Surrey)
Network Verification &
Accountability
(Verification Mechanisms)
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Objectives & Contributions
Network
Verification
Verification and
Accountability for Self-*
networks
 Techniques to address
tussle between network
and node policies
 Enhanced network
provider trust for self-*
networks
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 Requirements & Properties to
enable trust in self-* nodes
 Metrics to support trust
 Model of dynamic resources
Accountability across self-* nodes & networks
Verification
Tool
 Mechanisms for run-time
verification
 Validation against target
specifications
Network
Paradigms
 New network paradigms for
dynamic allocation & release of
resources
Design Methodologies
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Objectives & Contributions
 Components required for new
System Level design methodology
Description
 Combining components to form
automated design process
Self Design and Self
Evolution in flexible
networking
 Integration of previous
work packages
 Reshape network
configuration based on
socio-economic drivers
Design
Methodology
 Socio-economic inputs
 Technical design parameters as
outputs
Implement desirable network
property sets
Socio-economic drivers
collected and interpreted
Network reshapes to
new configuration
Autonomous process
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Concluding Remarks
Flexible Networking is taking a novel approach
 No other known networking project looking at self-design
 Linking socio-economic drivers to network parameters
Dealing with converged networks
 Focus on composition of networks to improve service
delivery
 It will be pushing the boundaries of networking
 Self-evolving, Virtualised, Robust and Flexible networking
 Adaptive to and keep pace with emerging services
Strong relevance to
 Operators of networks
 Network equipment vendors
 Service Providers
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Future Meetings
 Industrial Steering Meeting TSG#2
 3rd April 2009: Guildford - University of Surrey
 Social-Economic Scenario Workshop
 April – Venue tba
 Industrial Steering Meeting TSG#3
 24th June 2009: Hayes - Fujitsu Labs – tbc
 Industrial Steering Meeting TSG#4
 30th Sept 2009: Venue tba
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Additional Industrial Participation is welcome
to help lead & benefit from the programme
- speak later today if interested
and/or
- alert the ‘relevant others’ in your company
Thank you !
For further information please contact:
Mr Mick Wilson
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