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In this paper, we present an experimental set-up reproducing a convergent 5G service scenario spanning over SDN-based Edge network, Cloud and IoT domains. To address reliability and robustness requirements of future 5G networks, the set-up also includes an SDN orchestrator able to adaptively provision data delivery paths connecting service components running in those different domains. In particular,...
In the last few years, Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) have been introduced in the Internet as a new way to design, deploy and manage networking services. Working together, they are able to consolidate and deliver the networking components using standard IT virtualization technologies not only on high-volume servers, but even in the end user premises. In...
Technology advances are making available huge amounts of processing, storage, networking capabilities at the edge (i.e., up to End-Users premises) of current networks. It is argued that these trends, coupled with new emerging paradigms such as Software Defined Networks, will impact deeply the evolution of future networks, allowing to design highly flexible architectures at the edge capable of creating...
The adoption of IT-based interfaces to monitor and control telco capabilities is a consolidated approach. In such a scenario the end-users design composite services that orchestrate functions implemented through one or more resources managed by telecom operators. In addition to the issues that have to be faced to support the design of composite services in general, in this case it is also necessary...
An approach based on overlay networking can lead to a novel P2P Service Platform (PSP) that Operators can fruitfully use to compete with Web Companies. The merits and the strengths of the approach are highlighted respect to the de-perimeterization of services. Critical points of overlay networking are tackled by the integration of technologies like autonomic, virtualization, cognition and negotiation...
Future processing, storage and communication services will be highly pervasive: people, smart objects, machines and the surrounding space (all embedding devices such as with sensors, RFID tags, etc.) will define a highly decentralized cyber environment of resources interconnected by dynamic Networks of Networks. As communications will extend to cover any combination of “people, machines and things”,...
Future, computation, storage and communication services will be highly pervasive: users' devices, smart objects, machines, platforms and the surrounding space will create a highly decentralized common pool of real and virtual resources interconnected by dynamic networks of networks. This trend, along with the evolutions of architecture of participations and “Everything As A Service” approach promoted...
The richness of functions and the availability of data make the Web the real service platform. Telecomm operators are using an old approach to a new All-IP infrastructure. This enables the WebCos to become the major Service Providers of next generation networks. TelCos should instead use the Web APIs and the cloud computing infrastructure to build services. They should also provide interworking functions...
Home networking environment is acquiring more and more relevance from the business and technical perspectives. Currently users are left alone in coping with the networking and integration intricacies of putting in place a really working home network solution. Moreover things are getting even more complicated due to the introduction in the homes of new technologies like sensor networks and to competing...
This paper describes a supervision system for autonomic distributed systems (e.g., a cloud computing environment). It is designed as a supplementary service and is structured as an ensemble of components that implement an autonomic control loop, which does not require any a priori knowledge on the structure of the supervised system. The architecture devised is highly modular and can be configured...
Self-supervision and self-adaptability are key requirements for future network and service platform. This paper presents a fully distributed approach to the supervision of autonomic systems. The proposed approach relies on the self-adaptation features of autonomic elements and their clustering through self-organization algorithms. Furthermore, it presents two use cases of the proposed approach on...
This paper addresses a business scenario based on so-called tradable micro-services which is intended to explain the dynamics of a market to which actors contribute both as consumers and providers of telecommunication and Web based services. We argue that a service evolution is possible with leads to services which are adapted to the needs and objectives of various virtual communities. Furthermore,...
Telco - Web convergence will pave the way to unlock a new wave of innovation for future services and application scenarios: openness, broad federations of players and do-it-yourself innovative services and knowledge management will allow people to be the true center of information society. To achieve this vision, this paper proposes a "service and knowledge ecosystem" based on a plurality...
This paper elaborates a vision on a tomorrowpsilas open Internet as a networking and service ecosystem, capable of fostering medium-term coherent innovation and convergence of both Telco and Web worlds. Proposed ecosystem is based on a plurality of components, pervasively distributed over peer-to-peer (low-cost) resources, interacting with each other semantically, to compose services and exchange...
This paper reports the main results achieved in the development of a prototype for demonstrating communication services, based on the principles autonomic self-organisation. In particular, the prototype has been designed and developed as a distributed adaptable complex system, realized by means of a population of lightweight autonomic components interacting with each other through self-organizing...
The complexity of modern networks raises several challenges in the design and development of communication services. The unbearable costs in configuration and management call for autonomic approaches, in which services are able to self-configure and self-adapt their activities without human intervention. The need for ubiquity of service provisioning calls for the capability of services of adapting...
This paper describes some applications of ASONs, currently under wide investigation by Network Operators and Service Providers, and highlights its potential savings. A connection demand triggering mechanism for the IP-over-ASON scenario is modelled. All results were obtained within the IST LION project
A test-bed of a multi-vendor IP/MPLS over ASON/GMPLS network has been realized integrating IP Gigabit routers and optical equipment in a managed multi-domain environment to investigate the realization of soft-permanent optical connections and multi-layer resilience strategies
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