Tutorial

Tridentcom 2011 Tutorial

Tutorial, 17 April, 13:00 - 16:30

Tutorial title

Heterogeneous Resource Federation – The "Teagle" Framework as a Means to Federate Future Internet Research & Experimentation Facilities


Tutorial Abstract

Teagle is the central coordination and testbed deployment engine used for Panlab (www.panlab.net, www.fire-teagle.org), a large scale federated experimental facility. Teagle allows the setup of distributed testbeds using ICT resources provided by Panlab. Such resources include general purpose machines, dedicated devices or complex software systems such as Next Generation Network (NGN) enablers and an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) for mobile and fixed NGN related testbeds.

The resources can be booked and configured upon demand serving specific testing or experimentation needs. Users of this facility and its underlying infrastructure usually are research and development teams or individuals from industry and academia.

Tutorial description

The tutorial aims at facilitating the understanding of the abstract framework and services provided by Panlab. In order to derive meaningful results in Future Internet research, large scale facilities are needed as an infrastructure supporting various experiments and testing.

Resource federation is a concept for sharing heterogeneous resources across various administrative domains (i.e. multiple autonomous organizations) to increase the usage of available resources. The benefit provided to users of the federation is the seamless access to a large collection of resources via unified interfaces. Resource providers benefit from increasing their resource usage and some sortof compensation. A federation organization maintains relationships with all stakeholders and offers central services to ensure to overall operation.

In Panlab, providers across Europe commit resources to a large resource pool that is administrated and managed by Teagle. The main focus of this tutorial is on Teagle, its inner mechanisms and technologies, enabling participants to provide and/or use resources provided via Teagle.

Organizer on presenters

Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Technische Universität Berlin.

Thomas is full professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, leading the chair for next generation networks (www.av.tu‐berlin.de) since 2003. In addition, he is director of the next generation network infrastructure competence center of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS (www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/ngni). Since more than 20 years Prof. Magedanz is working in the convergence field of fixed and mobile telecommunications, the internet and information technologies, which resulted in many international R&D projects centered around the implementation of advanced Service Delivery Platforms for Next Generation Networks and the future internet. In the course of his research activities he published more than 200 technical papers/articles. In addition, Prof Magedanz is senior member of the IEEE, and editorial board member of several journals.

Sebastian Wahle, Fraunhofer FOKUS.

Sebastian leads the Evolving Infrastructure and Services group at NGNI within the Fraunhofer FOKUS institute in Berlin. The group is active in a number of national and international R&D projects in the Future Internet field and supports the commercial Fraunhofer NGN testbed deployments at customer’s premises worldwide. The group’s research activities are centered around large scale infrastructure federation, cross‐layer monitoring and management, as well as cloud computing for NGNs. Sebastian received a Diploma‐Engineer degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technical University of Berlin. His personal research interests include Resource Federation Frameworks and Service Oriented Architectures.

Konrad Campowsky, Fraunhofer FOKUS.

Konrad Campowsky graduated at Technical University Berlin in 2009, specializing in Operating Systems Design and Software Engineering. In 2008 he joined the NGNI competence center at Fraunhofer FOKUS, where he designed and implemented a system for testbed management and federation. Since 2010, Konrad was employed as a researcher at the Architektur der Vermittlungsknoten (AV) Institute of the Technical University Berlin, where his main research topics included resource federation, monitoring and fault management solutions, and cross layer architectures for the Future Internet. In 2011, Konrad joined NGNI at FOKUS once more where he continues his work in testbed federation techologies. Amongst others, he is involved in the Panlab and BonFIRE projects.

Tutorial outline and schedule:

The Tutorial Time: 17th April, 13:00-16:30

Location: Green Club – Function Room IV

The Tutorial covers five parts: