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Funding entity: European Commission (H2020 777067)
Duration: November 2017 to October 2019
Cloud Computing is a paradigm already established to support the deployment of applications and services without the need to rely on costly on premise infrastructures. A unique service provider sometimes owns the data centers supporting the cloud, but there is a trend to a fully distributed architecture, where several data center providers will have to cooperate through the interconnection of their computation and storage infrastructure. The interconnection network is a fundamental part in the performance of such a distributed cloud environment. As different services require different computing and storage capabilities, they also require different performance parameters related to the network, like bandwidth, delay or jitter. Allocating resources from different data centers and their interconnecting network systems to satisfy the needs of heterogeneous service requests and all in an automated and efficient manner is a challenge that current cloud computing platforms are not able to fulfil.
Title: Dynamic provisioning of Connectivity in High Density 5G Wireless Scenarios (ADVICE)
Funding entity: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (TEC2015-71329-C2-2-R)
Duration: January 2016 to December 2018
ADVICE aims to tackle some of the challenges that are foreseen to appear in the future wireless communications, which are usually referred to as 5G. Hence, novel topologies are being proposed, where traditional cellular network deployments, based on homogeneous macro-cells, will be gradually incorporating much smaller access elements, both from other technologies (WiFi routers), as well as LTE pico- and femto-cells. The use of relaying techniques and even the opportunistic participation of the end-users to facilitate the communications (device-to-device) are also being foreseen. As a consequence, the homogeneous cellular network concept that has so far been considered will not be the prevalent one in the future communication scenarios and several challenges will need to be dealt with so as to optimize its performance. Besides, stricter requirements in terms of the quality of service perceived by the end-users and energy consumption shall be as well satisfied. The use of Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm and Network Virtualization Functions (NFV) over such communication architectures is already being investigated.
Title: Connectivity as a Service: Access for the Internet of the Future (COSAIF)
Funding entity: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (TEC2012-38574-C02-02)
Duration: From November 2012 to October 2016
The project Connectivity as a Service: Access for the Internet of the Future (COSAIF) aims at decoupling the operation of the access networks from the one corresponding to the transport networks. This way, the access network will be offered and managed in a completely independent way. The objective of the project COSAIF is to design, develop and evaluate an architecture to offer connectivity as a service, identifying the business models, algorithms and protocols to sustain it. In this sense, a set of quantificable targets will be defined and the required mechanisms will be investigated so as to allow the operators (both of the transport and access networks) as well as the end-users to be able to make use of this paradigm. The assesment of the COSAIF solution will be carried out by means of analytical and/or simulation techniques, as well as through an experimental platform on a mock-up in which we will develop a set of illustrative use cases
Funding entity: European Commission (FP7 318488)
Duration: From November 2012 to October 2016
The goals of FLAMINGO are (a) to strongly integrate the research of leading European research groups in the area of network and service management, (b) to strengthen the European and worldwide research in this area, and (c) to bridge the gap between scientific research and industrial application. FLAMINGO develops a joint program of research activities to contribute to the development of network management and operation frameworks for the Future Internet (FI). Three major and federating challenges will be investigated: Network and service monitoring, based on flow-based techniques. Automated configuration and repair, based on self-* features and frameworks, enabling billions of devices and managed objects to manage themselves in a fully distributed and autonomic way. Economic, legal, and regulative constraints, which do border management systems and operational solutions of the FI.
Title: Service Management in Federated e-Infrastructures (FedSM)
Funding entity: European Commission (FP7 312851)
Duration: From September 2012 to August 2015
The FedSM project aims at introducing industry-standards-based IT Service Management (ITSM) in Federated e-Infrastructures. FedSM will act in a similar manner to commercial ITSM consultancy, engaging with three ‘client organisations’ – two National Grid Infrastructures and the European Grid Initiative, which are all part of the project consortium and committing to adopting an ITSM approach – to analyse their specific situations, provide new models for their processes and support them in assessing and implementing them. To this end, FedSM will focus on (1) supporting the definition and implementation of business models, services and processes, (2) building up ITSM knowledge in the ‘client organisations’ through professional training, and (3) consulting the ‘client organisations’ in defining their specific requirements for automated solutions in support of their processes and selecting adequate tools.
Title: End-to-end Virtual Resource Management across Heterogeneous Networks and Services (EVANS)
Funding entity: European Commission (FP7 269323)
Duration: From May 2011 to April 2014
The EVANS project aims to investigation into the creation of a network virtualisation environment over a fully heterogeneous network infrastructure and to provide an integrated network management system across different types of network platforms. The project will investigate into two complementary aspects of such an integrated network resource management system: (1) vertical management of virtualised resource for service heterogeneity, which is performed by infrastructure providers, and (2) horizontal management of virtualised resource for network heterogeneity, which is for the interest of service providers
Funding entity: European Commission (FP7 261547)
Duration: From September 2010 to August 2012
The long-term success of grids and e-Infrastructures depends not only on the technologies used to realize them, but also on the management concepts deployed to make them service-, user- and usage-oriented. In traditional computer networks and distributed systems, various management concepts, architectures, models, processes and tools have been successfully developed and applied. The network and service management research community comprises researchers and practitioners from all over the world sharing their results and experiences amongst each others. The gSLM project will filter and transfer these results and experiences into the grid domain and pave the way towards integrated approaches for the management of grids and other e-Infrastructure-based services. gSLM will coordinate the actions required to create a link between the network and service management research community and the grid research community and to establish workshops and conferences that provide an interface between these topic areas. Finally, gSLM will provide studies and a concrete scientific roadmap supporting the policy development for future research activities in its context.
Title: Cognitive, Cooperative Communications and autonomous SErvice Management (C3SEM) Funding entity: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (TEC2009-14598-C02-02)
Duration: From January 2010 to December 2012
The work will be streamlined according to the two main involved planes: connectivity (communication, access and networking technologies) and next generation service management. Within the connectivity plane, the following aspects will be addressed: Cognitive techniques (we will benefit from the knowledge on the particular usage of the resources, so as to optimize its assignment according to the particular requirements of the end-users and the network status). Access selection within heterogeneous environments (this has to consider end-user preferences, the particular situation of the network, and should make the ABC (Always Best Connected) paradigm a reality). Multihop extensions and cooperative relaying (mesh networks are an interesting alternative to extend the coverage of traditional network deployments and to increase communication performance, by means of cooperative relaying techniques) .In what concerns the plane for next generation service management, we start from the assumption that we are dealing with next generation services, in the sense that they are characterized, amongst other attributes, by their capacity of personalization and ubiquity.
Title: Autonomic Internet (AutoI)
Funding entity: European Commission (FP7 216404)
Duration: From January 2008 to April 2010
AutoI will develop a self-managing virtual resource overlay that can span across heterogeneous networks and supports service mobility, security, quality of service and reliability. In this overlay network, multiple virtual networks co-exist on top of a shared substrate with uniform control. The overlay will be self-managed based on the system's business goals which drive the service specifications, the subsequent changes in these goals (service context) and changes in the resource environment (resource context). This will be realised by the successful co-operation of the following activities: autonomic control principles, resource virtualisation, enhanced control algorithms, information modelling, policy based management and programmability.
Title: Management of Internet Technologies and Complex Services (EMANICS)
Funding entity: European Commission (IST 026854)
Duration: From January 2006 to June 2010
EMANICS is a network of excellence addressing the scalability, dynamics, security and automation challenges that emerge towards the management plane of the future Internet and complex services running on top of it.The network aims at shaping the European research in the area of device, network and service management to provide the necessary coordination and integration so as to enable the participants, while maintaining and enhancing their excellence in their respective field, to contribute in a unified way to the design of management solutions covering all of the challenges arising in this field.
Title: Management and Pricing Mechanisms for Deploying Ubiquitous Services<
Funding entity: Spanish Ministry of Education (TSI2005 06413)
Duration: From January 2006 to December 2008
This project aims to concentrate in four challenges as follows: To develop an automatic generation model for service management policies intended to deal with a variety of devices and services not known beforehand; To develop a formal method to bring and automatic method for policy conflict detection and resolution; To establish dynamic pricing models to represent the real cost of context-aware services; To propose the necessary mechanisms to ensure that the user is aware of the price evolution and hence he/she can react in consequence.
Title: Network Management based on Distributed Paradigms (MADEIRA)
Funding entity: Celtic project (Spanish Ministry of Industry) (FIT-330220-2005-38 & FIT-330220-2006-22)
Duration: From January 2005 to July 2006
The goal of Madeira is to provide novel technologies for a logically meshed Network Management System (NMS) that can handle dynamic behaviour of transient network elements. This will enable self-managed services to run on networks with increased numbers of network elements, greater heterogeneity and transience. The aims of the project are to...
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