Enabling future Internet research : The FEDERICA case

Szegedi, Peter and Riera, Jordi Ferrer and García-Espín, Joan A. and Hidell, Markus and Sjödin, Peter and Söderman, Pehr and Ruffini, Marco and O'Mahony, Donal and Bianco, Andrea and Giraudo, Luca and Ponce De Leon, Miguel and Power, Gemma and Cervelló-Pastor, Cristina and López, Victor and Naegele-Jackson, Susanne (2011) Enabling future Internet research : The FEDERICA case. IEEE Communications Magazine, 49 (7). pp. 54-61. ISSN 0163-6804

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Abstract

The Internet, undoubtedly, is the most influential technical invention of the 20th century that affects and constantly changes all aspects of our day-to-day lives nowadays. Although it is hard to predict its long-term consequences, the potential future of the Internet definitely relies on future Internet research. Prior to every development and deployment project, an extensive and comprehensive research study must be performed in order to design, model, analyze, and evaluate all impacts of the new initiative on the existing environment. Taking the ever-growing size of the Internet and the increasing complexity of novel Internet-based applications and services into account, the evaluation and validation of new ideas cannot be effectively carried out over local test beds and small experimental networks. The gap which exists between the small-scale pilots in academic and research test beds and the realsize validations and actual deployments in production networks can be bridged by using virtual infrastructures. FEDERICA is one of the facilities, based on virtualization capabilities in both network and computing resources, which creates custom-made virtual environments and makes them available for Future Internet Researchers. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research projects that have been using the virtual infrastructure slices of FEDERICA in order to validate their research concepts, even when they are disruptive to the test bed's infrastructure, to obtain results in realistic network environments.

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Additional Information:	Funding Information: The FP7 project FEDERICA was partially supported by the European Commission under Grant Agreement no. RI-213107. The authors acknowledge the contribution of all project partners, user projects, and specifically for their input, Mauro Campanella (GARR, project coordinator of FEDERICA), Peter Kaufmann (DFN), Vasilis Maglaris (NTUA), Frances Cleary, and Eileen Dillon (TSSG).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1706
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Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2022 23:06
Last Modified:	24 Jun 2023 02:50
URI:	http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/4030

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