During the 2nd International Workshop on Trust in Cloud Computing at 11:00 Umar Toseef (EICT, Germany) will present paper Authentication and Authorization in FELIX.

During poster and demo session at 14:00 we are going to show two presentations:

• Atsuko Takefusa (AIST, Japan) will present Business Continuity Planning with FELIX
• Łukasz Ogrodowczyk (PSNC, Poland) will present demo paper High quality media streaming over long-distance network using FELIX experimental facility

Please find the conference program here.

FELIX tutorial abstract:

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has altered the network R&D mentality with respect to the time required from concept validation studies to market introduction. In this context, innovative ideas need a test environment as close as possible to real-world scenarios. This has triggered international cooperation spanning leading research centers in Europe, Asia, and the Americas to establish large-scale federated SDN testbeds for experimental research on advanced programmable networking. The EU-Japan jointly-funded project FELIX [1] defines a common control and orchestration framework to manage federated testbeds extended across two continents and several administrative domains via dynamic transit network connections. The FELIX framework enables an experimenter to i) request and obtain resources across different testbed infrastructures dynamically; ii) manage and control the network paths connecting the federated SDN testbeds; iii) monitor the underlying resources; and iv) run distributed applications on the federated infrastructures. The geographically dispersed FELIX testbeds are capable of establishing on-demand connectivity through the transit network using the Network Services Interface (NSI) [2], an emerging protocol developed to build common standards for interoperability between network operators. In addition, FELIX implements a modern authentication and authorization mechanism that not only realizes an intuitive user access control but also greatly simplifies the process of testbed federation [3].

This tutorial is organized into two parts. The first part, targeted for developers of SDN testbeds, will introduce you to the FELIX project, starting with the motivation and challenges addressed, and delving into the salient technical aspects. The goal is to familiarize you with the modular architecture of FELIX [4] with particular focus on the functionalities of the constituent software components, the exported interfaces, the dependencies and the relationship between the internal building blocks. Moreover, broadening the scope on open experimental research environment, you will also get an overview of Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) [5] initiative in Europe, FELIX’s position within FIRE and its collaboration with other FIRE projects. The second part is mainly targeted to engineers, advanced-degree students and researchers who are the potential FELIX testbed users. It aims to provide a comprehensive user guide from creating a user account to setting-up and executing an experiment on the FELIX testbed. Furthermore, you will also get an overview of the FELIX open-source Github repository [6] and how you can contribute to it by joining the FELIX developers community. In addition, you will also learn in a few easy steps to setup your own testbed and federate with FELIX. In order to make the tutorial more interactive and enjoyable for the tutorial attendees, active Q&A participation will be encouraged throughout the presentations. Finally, the tutorial participants will get a chance to experience a live use-case [7] created over the FELIX infrastructure.

• [1] Official FELIX project website: www.ict-felix.eu
• [2] G. Roberts, et al., “NSI Connection Service v2.0,” https://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.212.pdf, Tech. Rep., May 2014.
• [3] U. Toseef, et al., “Implementation of C-BAS: Certificate-based AAA for SDN Experimental Facilities,” in Proc. IEEE NCCA, June 2015.
• [4] C. Fernndez, et al., “A recursive orchestration and control framework for large-scale, federated SDN experiments: the FELIX architecture and use cases,” IJPED, June 2015.
• [5] Official website of FIRE projects: http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/fire-projects.html
• [6] FELIX Github Repository, http://dana-i2cat.github.io/felix/
• [7] G. Carrozzo, et al., “Large-scale SDN experiments in federated environments,” in Proc. SACONET WOSDN, March 2014.

Open Grid Forum (OGF) is an open global community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption of modern advanced applied distributed computing, including cloud, grid and associated storage, networking and workflow methods. The presentation at OGF 43 meeting proposed a mechanism for FELIX architecture entities to get authenticated and authorized at NSI-enabled transit networks to establish on-demand connectivity between FELIX test-beds.

The first part of the tutorial set the ground regarding available SDN experimental facilities in Europe and worldwide. In particular, it was discussed how software-defined networking technologies form the foundation for the OFELIA and GENI experimental facilities. After a short dive into operational essentials, it was presented how such experimental facilities can be enhanced with a larger variety of network devices. Specifically, the tutorial focused on the innovations brought about by the FP7 ALIEN and FELIX projects which are currently extending the capabilities of a) the open-source software available for creating new SDN experimental facilities, b) current deployment trends, and c) opportunities to enhance the software available and enlarge the experimental facility footprint across Europe and the world.

• Learn about the latest activities of all active projects of Unit E2 (calls 5, 8 & 10, CIP and EU-Japan).
• Network and discover partners from different consortia.
• Present your ideas, discuss them with others.
• Understand the fundamental changes from FP7 to H2020 and explore new opportunities arising from it.

FELIX has been invited to give a lightning talk in the session: Internet of Services & heterogeneous clouds.

You are welcome to read Concentraion Meeting Welcome Letter.
More information is available at http://www.cloudwatchhub.eu/concertation_meeting

The European Commission’s FIRE programme has brought Europe several large-scale test beds and platforms addressing a broad range of applications, services and technologies for the Future Internet. These facilities have already supported advanced experiments proving that experimentally-driven research and innovation are key mechanisms for the development of the Future Internet. As many of these facilities are mature enough to be opened up for wider use, now is the time to explore ways of making them sustainable after EC or national funding has expired.

Evolution of FIRE: Facilities, Services and Collaboration Strategies for Sustainability, 17-18 March 2014, FIA2014 (http://www.fi-athens.eu/), Athens, hosted by AmpliFIRE, CI-FIRE and FUSION, looks at both the demand and supply side of FIRE facilities to help define pathways towards sustainability by creating a dynamic ecosystem that can continue to evolve over time. The workshop focuses on opportunities for business, service-related, infrastructural, technical and organisational collaboration within and outside FIRE, zooming in on FIRE’s role in relation to the demands of business players and to other large-scale Future Internet Facilities.

On the supply side, the workshop targets potential providers of test beds, FIRE projects, developers and operators from FIRE, the FI-PPP, EIT ICT Labs, Living Labs, as well as national and regional test beds. On the supply side, it is of particular interest to small and medium-sized businesses and large corporations who can gain insight on rekindling innovation and facilitating business creation through new product and service validation across diverse sectors.