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5G & IoT Infrastructures SMART INTERNET LAB

bristol.ac.uk/smart

Dimitra Simeonidou, Director of the Smart Internet Lab, Head of the High Performance Networks Research Group, University of Bristol.

www.bristol.ac.uk/smart 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

• Lasting benefits for society and economy

Smart Internet

Lab


UoB Community

Smart Internet

Lab

Research Group

CSN

BIO

Research Group

Photonics

Research Group HPN

NDFIS

CABOT Institute

Elizabeth Blackwell Institute

Data Science Institute

Centre for

Quantum Photonics

EPSRC CDT

Comms


Technology Enablers

Full Duplex

Frequency

Time

Transmitting and receiving on the same frequency at the same time

Massive MIMO

17 BSs: Outage probability = 17%

Millimetre Wave Linear & Efficient RF

5

Optical Data Center Software Defined Networking Network Convergence

Programmable Ultra High Speed Optical Networks

Technology Enablers


Research


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

http://www.rssb.co.uk/Library/about-rssb/2015-07-press-release-leading-train-operators-granted-innovation-funding.pdf


End Uses + Vertical Industries

Data Centre and HPC

Smart Cities

Smart Enterprises


Industrial Collaborations

… and many more


Flagship Projects

‘Towards Ultimate Convergence of All Networks’

‘Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical-Wireless

Backhaul/Fronthaul with Cognitive Control Plane

for Small Cells and Cloud-RANs’

EPSRC

EU

EU ‘Integrating Advanced Optical Hardware and

SDN for Future all Optical DCNS’

TOUCAN

5G-XHaul

COSIGN


Labs

State-of-the-art experimental facilities and feature rich test-beds:

Optical

Network

Test-bed

Wireless

Communication

Test-bed

Cloud

Computing

& Data Center

Test-bed

Software &

Hardware

Defined

Network

Test-bed


Key Projects

TOUCAN Towards Ultimate Convergence of All Networks


TOUCAN: EPSRC Programme Grant

• ~£6M ESPRC funding

• ~£3.6M Industrial funding

• ~£2.4M institution funding (PhDs)

• 2014-2019

• Focus on technology agnostic convergence based on SDN and agile interfacing

• Non-academic Partners: BCC, Broadcom, BT, Janet, Keysight, NEC, Innovate UK, Plextek, Samsung


TOUCAN Vision

Develop a network architecture which will enable any network device to be pluggable , discoverable, describable, interoperable and programmable in the network

Elastic Metro/Core Optical

WiFi

Wireless – Optical Inteface

EPC

MME/SGSN

P-S GW/GSN

Internet

LiFi

Macro-cell

Data Centers

Small Cells

Femto Cells

LTE

OutdoorLiFi

PON

Sensors

IP/MPLS

WiMaxVDSLEthernet

WiFi


One Hardware Any Function


Control and Service Architecture

Resource & Capabilities Inventory

Resource Graph/Topology

Performance Monitor

Node Abstraction Link Abstraction

Virtual Infrastructure Instance 1

VI Monitor VI Resource Inventory

VI Config. Manager

Virtual Infrastructure Instance N

VI Monitor VI Resource Inventory

VI Config. Manager

VI Request Analyser

Constraints Optimiser

VI Request Mapper

Configuration Generator

Virtual Infrastructure Composer

Abstraction Layer and

Technology Mapper

Virtualization and Virtual Resource

Management Layer

Virtual Infrastructure

Layer (Tenant SDN Controller)

Technology Mapper

Technology Specific Configurator

Tenant Management

Logical Node Composition [Node (dis-)aggregation]

Virtualization Layer

Logical Link Composition [path as a link]

Functional Model

Programming Model

Monitoring Model

Port/Link Model

Resource Sharing and Isolation Strategy (Slicing and/or Scheduling)

Resource-Tenant mapping DB

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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


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: • Technology agnostic

• SDN

• Open Hardware


Wireless & Mobile Net.

Wi-Fi 802.11ac, 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

Optical Network

144-fiber core network connecting 4 active nodes,

full optical switching

BIO Infrastructure Key Features


The City Operating System


Details on the Infrastructure Active Node at the University of Bristol

Active Node Rack

Emulation Facility (Staging)


Wireless Mile & RF Mesh Deployment Layout

LTE-A National Instruments

RF Mesh IoT Routers SSN

RF Mesh Access Points SSN

WiFi 802.11ac Meru

NEC 60GHz

802.11ad BluWireless

LTE Macro NEC


Massive MIMO

• 128 Programmable Radio Heads

• 20MHz Bandwidth

• ‘LTE’ like interface

• 1.2 – 6.0GHz 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


Details on the Infrastructure Street Cabinet Installation

Fibre termination (back-haul)

Power sockets

Local switch

Duct to lamp post

Wi-Fi Access Point

Media converter

PoE Supply


National Scale

NDFIS National Dark Fibre Infrastructure Service


Dark Fibre Infrastructure

• SDN-enabled optical switches • Optical Amplifiers • Dispersion Compensation Modules • Optical Transceivers 10Gb/s DWDM • L2 Switches

• 630 km of single mode fibre • 4 Access sites • 3 Major interconnection points • 4 Colocation sites

26

Bristol

UCL

Southampton

Harbour Exchange

Cambridge

Telehouse

Janet National & International Connectivity services

Reading

Access Points

Major interconnection points

Colocation sites


NDFIS and SDN

Application-Specific Network Slices

Centralized SDN controller

OpenFlow agent on the optical switches.

Provides dynamicity, flexibility and multi-tenancy

SDN CONTROLLER


Applications

NDFIS

Quantum Networking Abstraction of Optical

Network Infrastructures

Integration of multi-domain/multi-technology

5G and IoT access platforms with

high-speed optical transport Infrastructure “slicing” for the development of hardware/software technologies

Quantum technologies

prototyping

Interconnection of

research test-beds

INITIATE EPSRC

INSIGHT EPSRC

Network

Convergence TOUCAN EPSRC


National Scale

INITIATE The UK Programmable Fixed and Mobile Internet

Infrastructure


INITIATE: Introduction

• ~£1.6M ESPRC funding

• ~£1.3M Industrial funding

• November 2016-2020

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


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


A New Type of Internet Exchange


European Scale

Integrated 5GinFIRE Test-beds


European Scale

Participant No. Participant organisation name Part. short name

Country

1

(Coordinator)

Eurescom – European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications - GmbH

EURESCOM Germany

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

H2020-ICT-2016-2017 Topic: ICT-13-2016 Start: January 2017 Duration 36 months


5GinFIRE

User Authentication

Monitoring

Telemetry

Network Services SDN Apps

Emulated Network(IP/Ethernet/Optical/IoT)

Wireless Networks(Wireless and IoT)

BIO City Network(IP/Ethernet/Optical)

Network Configuration

Data Platform

IoT Platform

VM and VNF repository

User data

City data

Custom data

Cloud Controller

(OpenStack)

VxF appsInfrastructure

Services

Cloud Orchestration

Open MANO

Emulated Network (GMPLS, Flexible Nodes)

5G in a Box testbed

Compute Node

Compute NodeVM and VNF repository

VxF apps

VxF apps

BristolTELEFON

ICAB<com> UC3M

SDN Controller

Network Virtualization

SDN ControllerNetwork

Virtualization

Other Controllers

SDN Apps

REST

(1.a)Point of access

(1.b)

(2.a) (2.b) (2.c)

(3)

(4)

(5.a)

(5.b)

OpenFlow/Netconf

OpenFlow/Netconf

Data

(6)

5G ITS Platform

Open Calls

SDN Apps

VxF apps

Open Call

(7)

Port City VANET

IT-Av

Porto ITS Platform

SDN Apps

VxF apps

Other Vertical Platforms

5G in a BOX BiOPorto City VANET

VNF2VNF1

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VNF4VNF3

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

VM VMOrchestrators

SDN

Controllers

NFV domain A NFV domain BNFV control & management

DATA PLANE

CONTROL & MANAGEMENT PLANE

External connectivity

(for inter-site testing)

External access to

the testbed

Management

5TONIC

Open Calls

(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


Funding Partners


Thank you

Professor Dimitra Simeonidou Director Smart Internet Lab

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