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Ambient Networks Architecture and Business Roles. Andreas Schieder Ericsson Research.
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Ambient NetworksArchitecture and Business Roles Andreas SchiederEricsson Research This presentation has been produced in the context of the Ambient Networks Project. The Ambient Networks Project is part of the European Community's Sixth Framework Program for research and is as such funded by the European Commission. All information in this presentation is provided "as is" and no guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose. The user thereof uses the information at its sole risk and liability. For the avoidance of all doubts, the European Commission has no liability in respect of this presentation, which is merely representing the authors view. ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Outline • Ambient Network – The project • Business Drivers and Motivation for the AN approach • The Ambient Networks architectural cornerstones ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Outline • Ambient Network – The project • Business Drivers and Motivation for the AN approach • The Ambient Networks architectural cornerstones ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
WWI organisation in Phase I WWI Collaboration WWI Steering Board WWI Coordination Team User requirements System architecture Operability MobiLife AmbientNetworks WINNER E2R Resilience Quality of Service Security and trust Validation Reconfigurability Current WWI Cross Issues Current WWI Integrated Projects Chaired by Ambient Networks Source: WWI ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Phase 2 2006-2007 Phase 3 2008-2009 Phase 1 2004-2005 Phase 3 Phase 2 Establishing the Establishing the Work Work - - Areas Areas Technology Technology System Synthesis System Synthesis Ambient Networks Ambient Networks Development Development Concept and its Concept and its Feasibility Feasibility I: Concepts I: Concepts Architecture, Architecture, Concepts & Concepts & Architecture: Architecture: and and Standards Standards Architecture Design Architecture Design Scalability, Scalability, Evolvability Evolvability Architecture Architecture II: Key II: Key Detailed Specification, Detailed Specification, Feasibility, Feasibility, Optimisation for Optimisation for Technical Development, Technical Development, Performance Performance Functions of AN Functions of AN Performance Performance Technical Control Space Control Space and Deployment and Deployment Problems Problems III: Business III: Business Interfaces and Interfaces and Commercial Commercial Business Feasibility Business Interfaces Market Dissemination Viability Viability Integration across Integration across WWI, WWI, IV: IV: Validation, Validation, Usability/Networks Usability/Networks Usability/Networks Usability/Networks Prototyping Prototyping Market Market Prototypes Prototypes Test Cases Test Cases Dissemination Dissemination and Validation and Validation Ambient Networks project phases ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Outline • Ambient Network – The project • Business Drivers and Motivation for the AN approach • The Ambient Networks architectural cornerstones ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
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Business Drivers towards Ambient Networks • Multiaccess a reality today • GSM -> GSM/UMTS -> GSM/UMTS/WLAN -> FMC • New Business models in favour of clear network – service platform interfaces – towards convergence and triple play • Ebay/Skype • Content providers • Cooperation of players towars global seamless coverage • The Cloud • Wireless Philadelphia • Users as small network operators ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Need for a holistic Approach • Long-term standard solution needed that is • Inherently secure • Access agnostic • Policy aware to enable instant roaming • Addressing flaws in the Internet architecture • Feature interaction and incompatibilities in the indepentently developed areas of radio resource management, context awareness, security, QoS and mobility • Scalable internetworking approach including advanced features beyond static Best Effort transport • See NewArch, GENI/FIND as recent proposals from the US ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Ambient Networks Benefits • Analysis made based on the Business Blueprint Method • 3 scenarios analysed with varying degree of horizontalisation and co-operation between network operators • Ambient Networks offers two major advantages: • Increase users’service availability and quality at lower production costs compared to current technology. • Reduce the entry-barriers for new potential market actors to enter the wireless arena. • Cost benefits verified in all scenarios • Better availability and more actors increases the overall business ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Results from Business Analysis • AN enables a better exploitation of niche market opportunities and a better availability of resources for the user • New business roles enabled(well aligned with the EU New Regulatory Framework issued 2003): • Aggregators remotely managing the AN • Trusted third parties to simplify the composition process • All roles can also be assumed by existing players, expanding the scope of their offerings ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Outline • Ambient Network – The project • Business Drivers and Motivation for the AN approach • The Ambient Networks architectural cornerstones ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Ambient Networks Vision Services Services Services Ambient Control Space Ambient Connectivity Corporate 2.5 G 3G 4G Fixed WLAN Personal Community HAN PAN Vehicular CAN VAN Home ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Requirements posed on the AN Architecture • Heterogeneous Networks • Mobility • Composition • Security and Privacy • Backward Compatibility and Migration • Network Robustness and Fault Tolerance • Quality of Service • Multi-Domain Support • Accountability • Context Awareness • Extensibility of the Network Services Provided • Application Innovation and Usability ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Reference Points AmbientServiceInterface Ambient Control Space AmbientConnectivity Bearer & Overlay Mgmt. Network Mgmt. AmbientNetworkInterface AmbientNetworkInterface MobilityMgmt. INQA & SLAMgmt. Flow Mgmt.& MRRM AmbientResourceInterface Security DomainMgmt. Trigger &Context Mgmt. CompositionMgmt. Connectivity Mgmt./ GLL An Ambient Network and its links to the environment ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
CIB ------------ Resource Registry Comp. Agreem. --------- Policy & AAA ACS Architecture Ambient Applications ASI Composition Coordination Bearer & OverlayManagement INQA & SLA Management Composition Agreement Negotiation Mobility Management Composition Management Active Sets configure Onode To other ANs ANI Triggers /Advertisements Flow Management & MRRM NetworkManagement Trigger & Context Management Security domain Management Connectivity Mgmt Generic Link Layer ARI Ambient Connectivity ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Ambient Network Interface ServiceA ServiceB ServiceC ServiceD ServiceE ServiceF AmbientNetworkInterface AmbientServiceInterface AmbientServiceInterface ServiceRequest Function 1 Function 1 Function 2 Function 2 AmbientNetworkInterface AmbientNetworkInterface Function 3 Function 3 Function 4 Function 4 Function 5 Function 5 ResourceConfiguration AmbientResourceInterface Network Cooperation AmbientConnectivity AmbientConnectivity ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Connectivity & Session Abstractions AmbientServiceInterface Ambient Control Space Multi-RadioResourceManagement ContextInformation AmbientConnectivity RoutingGroupInformation OverlaySupportLayer AmbientNetworkInterface AmbientResourceInterface CompositionAgreement Naming TrafficEngineering • allows control-space functions to operate ongeneric connectivity entities • encapsulates device- andnetwork-specific functionality • structures the controlspace to managecomplexity • increasesgenerality ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Abstractions: Overview AmbientNetworkInterface AmbientNetworkInterface Bearer Abstraction Service Support Layer &Management Functions AmbientServiceInterface Network Mgmt. Bearer & Overlay Mgmt. Connectivity Abstraction Naming Flow Mgmt.& MRRM INQA & SLAMgmt. MobilityMgmt. AmbientResourceInterface AmbientNetworkInterface(User Plane) Ambient NetworkInterface(User Plane) ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Abstractions:Details • Ambient Networks connects different existing (inter)networking technologies... • using existing interworking approaches such as translation or global layering AmbientNetworkInterface Ambient Network A Ambient Network B Node Connectivity Link Path ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Abstractions:Details • ...by providing a uniform abstraction of the underlying connectivity to the control space... • control space functions operate on uniform representations of underlying capabilities Ambient Network A Ambient Network B FlowEndpoint FlowEndpoint Flow Endpoint Flow ConnectivityAbstraction Flow Transit Node Connectivity AmbientNetworkInterface Link Path ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Abstractions:Details • ...that the control space uses to offer uniform, abstracted communication primitives to applications. Ambient Network A Ambient Network B BearerEndpoint AmbientNetworkInterface BearerEndpoint BearerAbstraction Intermediary Bearer FlowEndpoint Flow Endpoint Flow ConnectivityAbstraction Flow Transit Node Connectivity Link Path ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
Abstractions:Details Ambient Network A Ambient Network B Application Session Application Applications AmbientNetworkInterface BearerEndpoint BearerEndpoint BearerAbstraction Intermediary Bearer FlowEndpoint Flow Endpoint Flow ConnectivityAbstraction Flow Transit Node Connectivity Link Path ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)
DHT Internetworking Architecture At the core, we do not want a global DHT of all nodes. Instead, peer’s core NID router (NR3) is passed in the packets. A small DHT can look up the locator of NR3. DNS retrieves Node ID of peer (B), and Node ID of peer’s core router (NR3) LD1 (IPv4 Core) Locator domains have independent address spaces DNS Nodes have HIP-like Node IDs, self-generated public keys End-to-end security is based on NIDs. NR2 NR3 LD2 LD3 DNS DNS Domains are connected by “NID routers” that route based on destination NIDs A B ITG Treffen (Ericsson Aachen)