Current Projects
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Description
The main objective of PASITO project is to provide a communication platform between universities and research centers from, and outside Spain to lay the foundations of a collaborative frame to develop their investigations.
The platform has been developed over the Rediris infrastructure but separating the experimental from the production network. This separation allow PASITO partners to test new technologies without affecting the production services. Nowadays the PASITO platform interconnect fifteen research centers and universities over all Spain.Duration
18 month (01/07/2007 - 30/12/2008)
Participants
RedIRIS, UPC, I2CAT, CESCA, UPV, UM, UGR, CICA, UAM, UC3M, IMDEA, UPM, UVIGO, CESGA, EHU, I2BASK
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Project Website: http://www.rediris.es/proyectos/pasito/
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The CBA research group is member of the Spanish Observatory for IPv6 deployment
Duration
Jun 2009 - Jun 2012? (10/06/2009 - 09/05/2012)
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Project Website: http://wiki.rediris.es/observatorio_ipv6/Portada
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Description
The Broadband Comunication Research Group (CBA) inside of the "Centre de Comunicacions de Banda Ampla" CCABA is collaborating in the GpENI iniciative. The project is providing a testbed arround the world for Future Internet Architecture Research. Researchers can experiment over a real environment, their protocols and new network architectures. CCABA, a part from using the testbed , is providing one of the nodes of the infraestructure of GpENI project.
Duration
? (02/05/2010 - 31/12/2014)
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Project Website: https://wiki.ittc.ku.edu/gpeni/Main_Page
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The EULER project is a 3-year STREP Project targeting Challenge 1 "Technologies and systems architectures for the Future Internet" of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project scope lies within the Objective ICT-2009.1.6 part b: “Future Internet experimentally-driven research”.
The main objective of the EULER exploratory research project is to investigate new routing paradigms so as to design, develop, and validate experimentally a distributed and dynamic routing scheme suitable for the future Internet and its evolution. The resulting routing scheme(s) is/are intended to address the fundamental limits of current stretch-1 shortest-path routing in terms of routing table scalability but also topology and policy dynamics (perform efficiently under dynamic network conditions). Therefore, this project will investigate trade-offs between routing table size (to enhance scalability), routing scheme stretch (to ensure routing quality) and communication cost (to efficiently and timely react to various failures). The driving idea of this research project is to make use of the structural and statistical properties of the Internet topology (some of which are hidden) as well as the stability and convergence properties of the Internet policy in order to specialize the design of a distributed routing scheme known to perform efficiently under dynamic network and policy conditions when these properties are met. The project will develop new models and tools to exhaustively analyse the Internet topology, to accurately and reliably measure its properties, and to precisely characterize its evolution. These models, that will better reflect the network and its policy dynamics, will be used to derive useful properties and metrics for the routing schemes and provide relevant experimental scenarios. The project will develop appropriate tools to evaluate the performance of the proposed routing schemes on large-scale topologies (order of 10k nodes). Prototype of the routing protocols as well as their functional validation and performance benchmarking on the iLAB experimental facility and/or virtual experimental facilities such as PlanetLab/OneLab will allow validating under realistic conditions the overall behaviour of the proposed routing schemes. Duration
36 months (01/10/2010 - 30/09/2013)
Participants
Alcatel-Lucent Bell (ALB), Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Université Pierre Marie Curie (UPMC), Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (RACTI), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and University of Girona (UdG)
Contract number
258307
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Project Website: http://euler-fire-project.eu/
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Description
Mobility is unnatural to today’s Internet architecture, primarily due to overloaded IP address semantics. Several schemes address this issue by decoupling the location of an endpoint from its identity. Such location/identity separation inherently provides services fundamental to the future Internet including seamless mobility, multihoming, and traffic engineering. Of the various location/identity separation schemes, the Location/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) (proposed by Cisco Systems Inc., and under standardization at IETF) has a unique position: LISP is incrementally deployable, it does not require changes to transport/application implementations, and it is already under active deployment (see http://www.lisp4.net). Basically, LISP proposes two different types of addresses: Endpoint Identifiers (EIDs) and Routing Locators (RLOCs). EIDs identify hosts, and are assigned independently of the network topology while RLOCs identify network attachment points, and are used for routing. This allows EIDs to remain unchanged even if a topological change, such as a handover, occurs. Thus, LISP’s innate support for location/identity separation makes LISP well suited for mobility. Indeed, the LISP mobility protocol (LISP-MN) has been recently proposed. LISP-MN offers many advantages in front of traditional mobility schemes such as Mobile IP. On the one hand LISP´s separation of control and data planes avoids mobility provider lock-in, and LISP-MN clients can freely roam among providers (usually ISPs). On the other hand, LISP-MN provides native support for multihoming, load balancing and route optimization, this are important aspects for the future mobile clients. However and traditionally, the Internet architecture has evolved independently of cellular networks (3GPP). Nowadays these cellular networks are converging to an all-IP network, and their new architecture must be gracefully accommodated in the future Internet architecture. This imposes a set of important challenges. In this context, we expect that LISP-MN will play a crucial role. LISP-MN provides a higher level of mobility (at the network layer) and mobile clients can freely roam across providers. The main objectives of the NAME project are (i) Research coherent architectures for the future converged cellular and Internet networks and (ii) Research and design advanced services such as content distribution and live streaming for LISP-MN.
Duration
36 months (01/01/2012 - 31/12/2014)
Participants
CTTC SYMBIOSYS TEC2011-29700-C02-01 - UPC NAME TEC2011-29700-C02-02 - EPO: CISCO, CESCA
Contract number
TEC2011-29700-C02-02
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Project Website: http://www.cba.upc.edu/name
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The main objective of the LIGHTNESS project is the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of a high-performance network infrastructure for data centres, where innovative photonic switching and transmission solutions are deployed. Harnessing the power of optics will enable data centres to effectively cope with the unprecedented demand growth to be faced in the near future, which will be driven by the increasing popularity of computing and storage server-side applications in the society. Indeed, the deployment of optical transmission systems leveraging Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) allows the transmission of more than a hundred of wavelength channels operating at 10, 40, 100 Gb/s and beyond. This effectively results in “unlimited” bandwidth capacities of multiple Terabit/s per fibre link, which can be efficiently utilized through next-generation all-optical switching paradigms like Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) or Optical Packet Switching (OPS). In this context, LIGHTNESS will join efforts towards the demonstration of a high-performance all-optical hybrid data plane for data centre networks, combining both OCS and OPS equipment to implement transport services tailored to the specific applications’ throughput and latency requirements. To this goal, an OPS node suitable for intra- data centre connectivity services will be developed and prototyped during the project, together with an enhanced Top of the Rack (TOR) switch seamlessly connecting servers in each rack to the hybrid OCS/OPS inter-cluster network. As an additional achievement of LIGHTNESS, the OCS/OPS inter-cluster network will be empowered with a network control plane able to dynamically provision flexible connectivity services in the hybrid OCS/OPS data centre network. Such a control plane will also be developed and prototyped for integration in the final LIGHTNESS demo throughout the project.
Duration
36 (01/11/2012 - 31/10/2015)
Contract number
FP7-318606
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Description
SMARTxAC is a project carried out under a collaboration agreement between the Advanced Broadband Communications Center (CCABA) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and the Supercomputing Center of Catalonia (CESCA).
SMARTxAC aims to develop and deploy a passive measurement infrastructure and a real-time analysis system for high-speed links. Currently, SMARTxAC is being used for capturing and analyzing the traffic of the Anella CientÃfica (Scientific Ring). The Anella CientÃfica is the name of the Catalan R&D Network, which is managed by CESCA and connects about 50 Universities and Research Centers in Catalonia.
The tapped link is built from a pair of GigE links (one for each traffic direction) that connect the Anella CientÃfica to RedIRIS (Spanish R&D network) and to the global Internet. Current traffic volume on this link is about 600 Mbps and it is increasing day after day, so that data collection is facilitated by an Endace DAG 4.3GE measurement card. Full-traffic analysis at full-line rate is performed in real-time using the SMARTxAC analysis software developed at the Advanced Broadband Communications Center (CCABA) of the UPC.
A three hours GPS-synchronized and anonymized IP header trace was captured for the NLANR/PMA project in February 2004 using the capture point and collection platform in the Anella CientÃfica. This data set was published and can be downloaded at CESCA-I section of NLANR/PMA website.Duration
2000 -
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Project Website: http://www.cba.upc.edu/smartxac
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Description
STRONGEST’s main goal is to design and demonstrate an evolutionary ultra-high capacity multilayer transport network, based on optimized integration of Optical and Packet nodes, and equipped with a multi-domain, multi-technology control plane, overcoming the problems of current networks that still provide limited scalability, are not cost-effective and do not properly guarantee end-to-end quality of service.
STRONGEST is an industry led project; the consortium brings together major European industrial players, leading Telecom operators, Universities and Research Centres and as such, it enables the necessary synergies and creates an ideal environment for innovation and development.
The European scale of the project is made necessary by the development of a new reality in which countries and federations are immensely and inextricably linked. To have a common view at European level is essential to apply the project’s outcomes.
A major impact from STRONGEST will be to strengthen the position of European industry in the field of Future Internet and to reinforce European leadership in optical networks technologies. The design of a more efficient transport network with reduced cost per bit and the particular attention to energy efficiency will turn into benefit to the entire Community.
Duration
36 months
Contract number
INFSO-ICT 247674
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Project Website: http://www.ict-strongest.eu
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The main objective of the project "Efficient measurement of advanced networks" (METRA) is the development of a monitoring system and traffic classification of massive internet, able to obtain measurements of real-time usage and predict transported applications for each data connection, with high accuracy and with low computational cost, by means of a number of learning algorithms. The developed platform will be deployed in CESCA , who will handle installation and provide the necessary support for its proper functioning. Furthermore, METRA perform traffic monitoring of the "Anella Científica", which will test and validate the optimal operation of the platform.
Duration
36 month
Participants
Tecsidel, TCP, CCABA-UPC and CESCA
Contract number
IPT-2011-1079-370000
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Description
Duration
36 months
Contract number
TEC2011-27474