WP-JP-G Final Review Meeting Brussels, 22 April 2008

1. WP-JP-G Final Review MeetingBrussels, 22 April 2008 Mario Pickavet IBBT - UGent

2. WP-JPG: Optical networks for grids and e-science Leaders: Dimitra Simeonidou, UoEssex Mario Pickavet, UGent – IBBT Advisory Board: Franco Callegati, DEIS-UniBo Javier Aracil, UoM Ioannis Tomkos, AIT Luca Valcarenghi , SSSUP Tanya Politi, UoPelop Kyriakos Vlachos, RACTI Partners involved: DEIS-UniBo, SSSUP, UAM, UPC, IBBT, UoEssex, AGH , Telfer, AIT, RACTI, UoPelop, Bilkent

3. JP-G Organization 8 joint activities (covering services – interface – network architectures – some specific research issues) QoS aware burst aggregation algorithm for Grid applications QoS aware Fault Tolerance Grid Optical User Network Interface Architecture Dynamic Resource Allocation in Circuit-Switched Grid Optical Burst Switched Network Hybrid OCS/OBS Grid Architecture Job Anycast Routing in Photonic Grids Application Enabled Optical Router Architectures

4. JP-G Topic/Task/TA 1 : QoS aware burst aggregation algorithm for Grid applications Participants University of Essex – UESSEX (Activity Leader) Athens Information Technology – AIT Research Academic Computer Technology Institute – RACTI Universidad Autonoma de Madrid – UAM Research accomplishments Application specific Grid traffic modelling Grid traffic classification mechanism for the edge router Grid-aware burst aggregation algorithm development

5. JP-G Topic/Task/TA 2 : QoS aware Fault Tolerance in Optical Global Grid Computing Participants Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – SSSUP (Activity leader) Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza - AGH Research accomplishments Assure Quality of Service aware fault tolerance to grid applications: Maintain not only connectivity after failure but also other Quality of Service (QoS) parameters, such as bandwidth, etc. Assure Quality of Resilience (QoR) to different applications

6. JP-G Topic/Task/TA 3:Grid Optical User Network Interface (G-OUNI) architecture • Participants • University of Essex – UESSEX (Activity Leader) • Athens Information Technology – AIT • Research accomplishments • Grid Optical User Network Interface (G-OUNI) architectural definitions define procedures between Grid users/resources and optical network • Analysis of optical network constraints study on network and physical layer constraints that critically affect the Grid application performance • Architectural definition of constraint-aware G-OUNI

7. JP-G Topic/Task/TA 4:Dynamic resource allocation in circuit-switched QoS-aware photonic networks for grid services • Participants • Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza – AGH (Activity Leader) • Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – SSSUP • Research accomplishments • Provide analysis of dynamic control and resource allocation • Propose circuit-switched architecture suitable for grid services

8. JP-G Topic/Task/TA 5: Grid Optical Burst Switched Network Participants University of Essex – UESSEX (Activity Leader) Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication - BUPT Ghent University – IBBT Research Academic Computer Technology Institute – RACTI University of Peloponnese – UPelop Università degli Studi di Bologna- DEIS-UNIBO Bilkent Universitesi – Bilkent Research accomplishments Network architecture and physical layer study, design and development identify edge and core router specific functionality to support Grid application Edge router and core router physical layer functionality will be verified trough lab demonstration Control plane study, design and development study, analysis and design of OBS control plane extensions to support Grid specific networking functionality

9. JP-G Topic/Task/TA 6: Hybrid OCS/OBS grid architecture Participants Ghent University – IBBT (Activity leader) University of Patras – CTI University of Essex – UESSEX Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – SSSUP Research accomplishments Study and design of hybrid OCS/OBS grid architecture Performance study: simulation of hybrid architectures Hybrid OCS/OBS Ingress Node Architecture Network control plane studies and modelling

10. JP-G Topic/Task/TA 7: Job anycast routing in photonic grids Participants Ghent University (IBBT) (Activity leader) Athens Information Technology (AIT) University of Patras (CTI) Research accomplishments Multi-constraint anycast routing & deflection algorithms algorithm design evaluation through simulation

11. JP-G Topic/Task/TA 8 (with JP-S): Application enabled optical router architectures Participants University of Peloponnese – UPelop (Activity leader) Università degli Studi di Bologna- DEIS-UNIBO Research accomplishments specify the features and characteristics that the optical router should support in order to be suitable for grid applications propose an optimised optical router architecture investigate the physical performance of the optimum solution through modelling design router control algorithm

12. Main Achievements 3 JP-G meetings, 1 workshop Joint papers: 14 published so far Public deliverables: 3 Shared infrastructure at UEssex for joint experiments Mobility actions: 5

13. Meetings and Workshops first JP-G meeting, Zagreb, Sept. 2006 second JP-G meeting, Barcelona, Feb. 2007 third JP-G meeting, Athens, May 2007 ECOC workshop, Sept. 2007: Networks for IT: a New Opportunity for Optical Network Technologies

14. Joint Papers and Standardisation Drafts Conference and Journal Publications 1 M. De Leenheer (IBBT), P. Thysebaert (IBBT), B. Volckaert (IBBT), F. De Turck (IBBT), B. Dhoedt (IBBT), P. Demeester (IBBT), D. Simeonidou (UEssex), R. Nejabati (UEssex), G. Zervas (UEssex), D. Klonidis (AIT), M. O'Mahony (UEssex), A View on Enabling Consumer Oriented Grids through Optical Burst Switching, IEEE Communications Magazine, V ol. 4 4 , No. 3, pp. 1 2 4 – 1 31, IEEE Communications Magazine, March 2006. 2 R. Nejabati (UEssex), D. Klonidis (AIT), G. Zervas (UEssex), D. Simeonidou (UEssex), M. O'Mahony (UEssex), Demonstration of a Complete and Fully Functional End-To-End Asynchronous Optical Packet Switched Network, OFC 2006, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1, USA, March 200 6 . J. Tapolcai (BME), P. Cholda (AGH), T. Cinkler (BME), K. Wajda (AGH), A. Jajszczyk (AGH), D. Verchere (ALCATEL), Joint Quantification of Resilience and Quality of Service, ICC'0 6 , Istambul, Turkey, June 200 6 . K . Christodoulopoulos (CTI), E. Varvarigos (CTI), C. Develder (IBBT), M. D. Leenheer (IBBT), B. Dhoedt (IBBT), Job Demand Models For Optical Grid Research, Proc. of ONDM 2007, Athens, Greece, May 2007. F. Callegati (DEIS-UNIBO), A. Campi (DEIS-UNIBO), W. Cerroni (DEIS-UNIBO), G. Zervas (UEssex), R. Nejabati (UEssex), D. Simeonidou (UEssex), SIP Based OBS networks for Grid Computing, ONDM 2007, Athens, Greece, May 2007. F. Callegati (DEIS-UNIBO), A. Campi (DEIS-UNIBO), W. Cerroni (DEIS-UNIBO), G. Zervas (UEssex), R. Nejabati (UEssex), D. Simeonidou (UEssex), Application Aware Optical Burst Switching Test-bed with SIP Based Session Control, Tridentcom 2007, Orlando, FL (USA), May 200 7. G. Zervas, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra Simeonidou, "Grid-enpowered Optical Burst Switched Network: Architecture, Protocols and Testbed", Workshop on Grid Optical Burst Switching Networks (GOBS), International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS) 200 7, June 2007, Athens, Greece Georgios Zervas, Reza Nejabati, Zhuoran Wang, Dimitra Simeonidou, Siyuan Yu, Mike O'Mahony," A Fully Functional Application-Aware Optical Burst Switched Network Test-Bed ", Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2007, paper OWC2, March 2007, Anaheim, California, USA

15. Joint Papers and Standardisation Drafts D. Simeonidou (UEssex), G. Zervas (UEssex), R. Nejabati (UEssex), F. Callegati (DEIS-UNIBO), A. Campi (DEIS-UNIBO), W. Cerroni (DEIS-UNIBO), SIP-enpowered OBS Network Architecture for Future IT Services and Applications, BroadNets2007, September 2007. G. Zervas (UEssex), R. Nejabati (UEssex), A. Campi (DEIS-UNIBO), Y. Qin (UEssex), D. Simeonidou (UEssex), F. Callegati (DEIS-UNIBO), M. O (UEssex), M. Reed (UEssex), S. Yu (Othere1+ partner), Demonstration of a Fully Functional Optical Burst Switched Network with Application Layer Resource Reservation Capability, ECOC2007, September 2007 C. Cardenas (GET), M. Gagnaire (GET), V. Lopez (UAM), J. Aracil (UAM), Admission control for Grid services in IP networks, IEEE ANTS conference, Vol. CDROM and IEEE-Xplore, Mumbai, December 2007. V. Lopez (UAM), C. Cardenas (GET), J. Hernandez (UAM), J. Aracil (UAM), M. Gagnaire (GET), Extension of the Flow-Aware Networking (FAN) architecture to an IP over WDM environment, IEEE IT-News QoS-IP 2008, Vol. CDROM IEEE-Xplore, Venice-Italy, February 2008. Standardisation Drafts R. Nejabati (UEssex), G. Zervas (UEssex), D. Simeonidou (UEssex), P. Castoldi (SSSUP), F. Callegati (DEIS-UNIBO), P. Demeester (IBBT), A. Tzanakaki (AIT), J. Wu (BUPT), E. Varvarigos (CTI), Grid Optical Burst Switched Networks (GOBS), Open Grid Forum Draft, January 2007. G. Zervas (Uessex) , R. Nejabati (UEssex), D. Simeonidou (UEssex), E. Escalona (UPC), et. al., Grid User Network Interface (GUNI), Open Grid Forum Draft, May 2007

16. Shared research facilities @ UEssex Data Plane: A hybrid optical network test-bed consisting of: Optical Wavelength switching (OWS) Optical Burst-Switching (OBS) High-speed Optical Time-Domain Multiplexing (OTDM) IP/MPLS Routers GigEthernet/VLAN switching Control and management plane Open source GMPLS (PHOSPHORUS and DRAGON) OBS JIT Network Resource Provisioning Systems: UCLP Control plane implementation on reconfigurable hardware (FPGAs) Service Plane UNICORE, Globus middleware IMS architecture and SIP Computational Resources One CPU cluster node with a 20 Intel Dual core CPU and 20G RAM 4TB of attached Storage and two file servers Connectivity GE and Dark Fibre connectivity to UKLight and SuperJanet5 8 x 1GE connectivity to GEANT2 10G link to US

17. UEssex Hybrid Test-bed University of Essex local test-bed architecture

18. UEssex OBS Test-bed

19. Final Comments Quite interesting research topic, many collaborating partners Many tangible integration results: joint papers exchanges ECOC workshop organisation (Berlin, G, 2007) Dedicated session on Broadnets (Raleigh, US, 2007) …