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1 Dimitra Simeonidou, Director of the Smart Internet Lab, Head of the High Performance Networks Research Group, University of Bristol. 5G & IoT Infrastructures SMART INTERNET LAB bristol.ac.uk/smart

Vision and Mission Combined expertise across optical, wireless, IoT and cloud technologies 200 academic and researchers, and growing Maintain and grow our world leadership in communications and

2 Vision and Mission Combined expertise across optical, wireless, IoT and cloud technologies 200 academic and researchers, and growing Maintain and grow our world leadership in communications and digital living research Strong national and international links with academic and industrial networks Holistic approach to end-to-end network design and optimisation Smart Internet Lab Lasting benefits for society and economy 2

3 UoB Community Elizabeth Blackwell Institute CABOT Institute Smart Internet Lab Data Science Institute Centre for Quantum Photonics BIO EPSRC CDT Comms Research Group CSN Research Group Photonics Research Group HPN NDFIS 3

4 Technology Enablers Frequency Transmitting and receiving on the same frequency at the same time Time Full Duplex Massive MIMO 17 BSs: Outage probability = 17% Millimetre Wave Linear & Efficient RF 4

5 Technology Enablers Programmable Ultra High Speed Optical Networks Optical Data Center Network Convergence Software Defined Networking 5

6 Research 6

7 End Uses + Vertical Industries UK: 1.4M men + 1.9M women aged >85 by 2033 UK 2030: CAV could save >2,500 lives & prevent >25,000 serious accidents 7

8 End Uses + Vertical Industries Data Centre and HPC Smart Enterprises Smart Cities 8

9 Industrial Collaborations and many more 9

10 Flagship Projects EPSRC TOUCAN Towards Ultimate Convergence of All Networks EU 5G- XHaul Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical-Wireless Backhaul/Fronthaul with Cognitive Control Plane for Small Cells and Cloud-RANs EU COSIGN Integrating Advanced Optical Hardware and SDN for Future all Optical DCNS 10

11 Labs State-of-the-art experimental facilities and feature rich test-beds: Software & Hardware Defined Network Test-bed Optical Network Test-bed Wireless Communication Test-bed Cloud Computing & Data Center Test-bed 11

12 Key Projects TOUCAN Towards Ultimate Convergence of All Networks 12

13 TOUCAN: EPSRC Programme Grant ~ 6M ESPRC funding ~ 3.6M Industrial funding ~ 2.4M institution funding (PhDs) Focus on technology agnostic convergence based on SDN and agile interfacing Non-academic Partners: BCC, Broadcom, BT, Janet, Keysight, NEC, Innovate UK, Plextek, Samsung 13

14 TOUCAN Vision Femto Cells Small Cells Macro-cell LTE Wireless Optical Inteface Elastic Metro/Core Optical MME/SGSN P-S GW/GSN EPC Internet LiFi PON IP/MPLS VDSL WiFi Ethernet WiFi WiMax Sensors Data Centers Outdoor LiFi Develop a network architecture which will enable any network device to be pluggable, discoverable, describable, interoperable and programmable in the network 14

15 One Hardware Any Function 15

Manager Virtual Infrastructure Layer (Tenant SDN Controller) VI Request Analyser Resource & Capabilities Inventory Virtual Infrastructure Composer Constraints Optimiser Resource Graph/Topology VI

16 IT Resource Manager Control and Service Architecture Virtual Infrastructure Instance 1 VI Monitor VI Resource Inventory VI Config. Manager VI Monitor Virtual Infrastructure Instance N VI Resource Inventory VI Config. Manager Virtual Infrastructure Layer (Tenant SDN Controller) VI Request Analyser Resource & Capabilities Inventory Virtual Infrastructure Composer Constraints Optimiser Resource Graph/Topology VI Request Mapper Logical Node Composition [Node (dis-)aggregation] Configuration Generator Performance Monitor Virtualization Layer Resource Sharing and Isolation Strategy (Slicing and/or Scheduling) Tenant Management Resource-Tenant mapping DB Logical Link Composition [path as a link] Virtualization and Virtual Resource Management Layer Functional Model Node Abstraction Monitoring Model Programming Model Link Abstraction Port/Link Model Technology Mapper Technology Specific Configurator Abstraction Layer and Technology Mapper 16

17 Bristol Is Open A Joint Venture between the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council Digital city test-bed where an SDN-based Network Operating System (City OS) controls a programmable city infrastructure 17

18 Bristol Is Open We built a research network integrating optical, wireless, IoT and computing to provide an open and experimental platform in the centre of Bristol We offer the test-bed as utility for experimentation: City Experimentation as a Service It supports City-driven digital innovation Three main technology pillars: 18 Technology agnostic SDN Open Hardware

BIO Infrastructure Key Features Optical Network 144-fiber core network connecting 4 active nodes, full optical switching Wireless & Mobile Net. Wi-Fi 802.

19 BIO Infrastructure Key Features Optical Network 144-fiber core network connecting 4 active nodes, full optical switching Wireless & Mobile Net. Wi-Fi ac, LTE, LTE-A with Massive MIMO, 60GHz backhaul RF Mesh Network 8 Fiber-connected lamppost with 1,500 photocells and any-sensor hosting capability Computing Infrastructure HPC facility, commodity compute/storage, private cloud and edge computing 19

20 The City Operating System 20

21 Details on the Infrastructure Active Node at the University of Bristol Emulation Facility (Staging) Active Node Rack 21

22 Wireless Mile & RF Mesh Deployment Layout WiFi ac Meru LTE-A National Instruments RF Mesh IoT Routers SSN RF Mesh Access Points SSN NEC 60GHz ad BluWireless LTE Macro NEC 22

Massive MIMO 128 Programmable Radio Heads 20MHz Bandwidth LTE like interface 1.2 6.0GHz Carrier 3.

23 Massive MIMO 128 Programmable Radio Heads 20MHz Bandwidth LTE like interface GHz Carrier 3.51GHz used 4 Racks of 32 Radios Data consolidation Channel processing 24 Clients Massive MIMO signal processing supporting MMSE, ZF, MRT/MRC 12 clients 23

24 Details on the Infrastructure Street Cabinet Installation Local switch PoE Supply 24 Fibre termination (back-haul) Media converter Wi-Fi Access Point Power sockets Duct to lamp post

25 National Scale NDFIS National Dark Fibre Infrastructure Service 25

Dark Fibre Infrastructure UCL Cambridge Bristol Reading Telehouse Harbour Exchange Access Points Southampton Major interconnection points Janet National & International Connectivity services

26 Dark Fibre Infrastructure UCL Cambridge Bristol Reading Telehouse Harbour Exchange Access Points Southampton Major interconnection points Janet National & International Connectivity services Colocation sites 630 km of single mode fibre 4 Access sites 3 Major interconnection points 4 Colocation sites 26 SDN-enabled optical switches Optical Amplifiers Dispersion Compensation Modules Optical Transceivers 10Gb/s DWDM L2 Switches

27 NDFIS and SDN Application-Specific Network Slices SDN CONTROLLER Centralized SDN controller OpenFlow agent on the optical switches. Provides dynamicity, flexibility and multitenancy 27

Applications Infrastructure slicing for the development of hardware/software technologies Integration of multi-domain/multi-technology 5G and IoT access platforms with high-speed optical transport

28 Applications Infrastructure slicing for the development of hardware/software technologies Integration of multi-domain/multi-technology 5G and IoT access platforms with high-speed optical transport Network Convergence TOUCAN EPSRC INSIGHT EPSRC Abstraction of Optical Network Infrastructures NDFIS Quantum technologies prototyping INITIATE EPSRC Interconnection of research test-beds Quantum Networking 28

29 National Scale INITIATE The UK Programmable Fixed and Mobile Internet Infrastructure 29

laboratories through the UK s first SDN exchange Multi-technology 5G, IoT, optical transport,

30 INITIATE: Introduction ~ 1.6M ESPRC funding ~ 1.3M Industrial funding November Layer 2 interconnection of 4 UK leading research laboratories through the UK s first SDN exchange Multi-technology 5G, IoT, optical transport, data centres and cloud Will enable innovation across all areas of networking: Architectures, Services, Applications, Technologies, Transmission 30

INITIATE Different specialisations from each partner Connections to EPSRC NDFIS/TOUCAN and the Bristol is Open smart city SDNx allows dynamic

31 INITIATE Different specialisations from each partner Connections to EPSRC NDFIS/TOUCAN and the Bristol is Open smart city SDNx allows dynamic interconnection of physical/virtual experimental resources across different laboratories The platform is open to external experimenters/industrialists 31

32 A New Type of Internet Exchange 32

33 European Scale Integrated 5GinFIRE Test-beds 33

34 European Scale 34 H2020-ICT Start: January 2017 Topic: ICT Duration 36 months Participant No. Participant organisation name Part. short Country name 1 Eurescom European Institute for EURESCOM Germany (Coordinator) Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications - GmbH 2 B-COM B-COM France 3 Easy Global Market SAS EGM France 4 Instituto de Telecomunicacoes ITAv Portugal 5 Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo SA TID Spain 6 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid UC3M Spain 7 University of Bristol UNIVBRIS United Kingdom 8 University of Patras UoP Greece 9 Universidade Federal de Uberlandia UFU Brazil 10 Universidade de Sao Paulo USP Brazil 5GinFIRE aims at building and operating an Open, and Extensible 5G NFV-based Reference (Open5G-NFV) ecosystem of Experimental Facilities that: integrates existing FIRE facilities with new vertical-specific ones instantiating fully softwarised architectures of vertical industries and experimentation

5GinFIRE Infrastructure Services User Authentication Bristol Monitoring Telemetry Network Services TELEFON ICA 5G in a

a) B<com> Cloud Orchestration Open MANO Other Controllers SDN Apps SDN Apps SDN Apps SDN Apps UC3M IT-Av Point of

b) SDN Controller Network Virtualization SDN Controller Network Virtualization OpenFlow/ Netconf Emulated Network

b) VxF apps OpenFlow /Netconf (3) VxF apps Compute Node Compute Node Porto City VANET 5TONIC External access to the

Wireless Networks (Wireless and IoT) 5G in a Box testbed Port City VANET External connectivity (for inter-site testing)

c) User data Data VNF1 NFV domain A DATA PLANE CONTROL & MANAGEMENT PLANE City data REST Data Platform VNF2 Network

Vertical Platforms Management (7) 5G ITS Platform (8) Platform as a service (1.

b) Cloud access: using OpenStack dashboard to create desired topologies and cloud and network configurations or other

a) City data REST access: to available environmental sensor data, locations, energy etc (2.

c) IoT data access: IoT/sensor platform can be integrated with BIO and provide access to arbitrary data

user apps will have access to control them (4) VxF access: 5GinFIRE users can define the lifecycle of the virtual

35 5GinFIRE Infrastructure Services User Authentication Bristol Monitoring Telemetry Network Services TELEFON ICA 5G in a BOX (4) (5.a) B<com> Cloud Orchestration Open MANO Other Controllers SDN Apps SDN Apps SDN Apps SDN Apps UC3M IT-Av Point of access Cloud Controller (OpenStack) (5.b) SDN Controller Network Virtualization SDN Controller Network Virtualization OpenFlow/ Netconf Emulated Network (IP/Ethernet/Optical/IoT) Emulated Network (GMPLS, Flexible Nodes) Open Call (1.a) (1.b) VxF apps OpenFlow /Netconf (3) VxF apps Compute Node Compute Node Porto City VANET 5TONIC External access to the testbed Orchestrators SDN Controllers NFV control & management VxF apps VxF apps BIO City Network (IP/Ethernet/Optical) Wireless Networks (Wireless and IoT) 5G in a Box testbed Port City VANET External connectivity (for inter-site testing) VxF apps and VNF repository and VNF repository (6) (2.a) (2.b) (2.c) User data Data VNF1 NFV domain A DATA PLANE CONTROL & MANAGEMENT PLANE City data REST Data Platform VNF2 Network Configuration Custo m data IoT Platform Open Calls Porto ITS Platform BiO VNF3 NFV domain B Open Calls VNF4 Other Vertical Platforms Management (7) 5G ITS Platform (8) Platform as a service (1.a) Platform access: users will have high level and integrated access to available services and interfaces (1.b) Cloud access: using OpenStack dashboard to create desired topologies and cloud and network configurations or other FIRE open source suggested mechanisms (i.e. RSPEC) Data access (2.a) City data REST access: to available environmental sensor data, locations, energy etc (2.b) User data REST access: to stored data such as mobile users information, dynamic network services, etc (2.c) IoT data access: IoT/sensor platform can be integrated with BIO and provide access to arbitrary data Network/Infrastructure access (3) Cloud access: user`s Network function images can be deployed in BIO cloud and the user apps will have access to control them (4) VxF access: 5GinFIRE users can define the lifecycle of the virtual machines/functions in the network (5.a) SDN application access: SDN applications with defined REST interfaces will be used for software defined networking (5.b) SDN controllers: Users SDN controllers can be deployed for customised software defined networking (6) Infrastructure access: Users hardware can be deployed in city or emulated network facilities and controlled. Open Call Infrastructures (7) Access to Future 5G Automotive (ITS) infrastructures accepted by open call proposals (8) Infrastructures from other verticals to be integrated in a similar manner as BIO testbed 35

36 Funding Partners 36

37 Thank you Professor Dimitra Simeonidou Director Smart Internet Lab 37

Evolving FIRE into a 5G-Oriented Experimental Playground for Vertical Industries

Evolving FIRE into a 5G-Oriented Experimental Playground for Vertical Industries Spyros Denazis University of Patras, Greece 5GinFIRE.eu contact@5ginfire.eu 5GinFIRE 5GINFIRE is a three years Research