AKARI Architecture Design Project

for a New Generation Network

Future Network Architectures

APAN/Joint Techs
January 23, 2008

Masaki Hirabaru
Network Architecture Group
New Generation Network Research Center
NICT
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What’s “New Generation Network”
or NWGN?
Examples: Next Generations
New Generation
Network (NWGN)
Cell Phones > 2G > 3G > 4G?
Internet > IPv4 > IPv6 > IPv?

New Generations Revised

NXGN 1) clean-slate

2) modification

Present Next Generation

Past
Network Network (NXGN)
Network

2005 2010 2015

AKARI … a small light in the dark pointing to the future
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 AKARI Architecture Design Plan
- Grand-Designing a New Generation Network beyond 2015 -
2006 2011 2016 ～
NWGN Workshop (Open)
AKARI Camp (Invite Only)
10+ Researchers (NAG)

Concept & Principles

Design (Now)

Proof of Concept

NWGN Blueprint

Testbed Construction

Field Trial

Innovation
Prototyping
JGN2plus JGN X
Overlay Network
Service & Operations
Testbed Design
Standardization

“AKARI Architecture Conceptual Design”

released in April 2007. AKARI Architecture Homepage:
English version in Fall, 2007. http://akari-project.nict.go.jp
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AKARI’s Current Focus: Network Architecture
Capacity (Peta) Ubiquity

Role Safety &

Security Energy-Saving Diversity Process
Future requirements from

NETWORK SCIENCE
Flexible to adopt a diverse users and society Design Principles
new user requirement

No vertical
division. Select, integrate
Common Network Architecture and simplify
infrastructure
proof
Feedback -of-
Enjoy fundamental Evolving, future fundamental
technology advances concept
technologies
Testbed
All Optical Software Radio Theoretical
Limits (Overlay Network)

- Optimal Integration of many components

- Stable enough to rely on for a long time
- Grand-Designing a New Generation Network beyond 2015 -
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 AKARI Sustainable Architecture Principles
Capacity for Quality
1. KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
• Crystal synthesis (select, integrate, simplify)
• Common layer (layer degeneracy)
• End-to-end (original Internet)

2. Reality Connection 3. Sustainable Evolution

• ID-Locator separation • Self-* properties (emergent)
• Bi-directional authentication • Autonomic distributed control
• Traceability • Scalable
• Social Selection
Reliable Network Space
For Future Diverse Society

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 AKARI Architecture Components (I) – Optical & Wireless
Power Spectrum

(1) Parallel Optical Packet Transmission Sustainable in Management and Capacity

Payload Sustainable in Capacity
Header (3) PDMA (Packet Division Multiple Access)

Wavelength

Wide
A,B,C,D E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T Shared

#3
#1
#2

#N
…
Channel
(2) All-Optical Path / Packet Switching
Forwarding table RE
Sustainable in Usage User a, b, c User a, b, c
Look-up
Packet (CSMA/CA) Only
Free from:
Control
/ Data

delay

cλ cλ
Frequency Band Allocations
buffer

OPS Cell Design

delay
Data

m1λ m2λ
(4) ID / Locator Separation
link
- Generic ID Space
Node Tag
n1λ n2λ - Authenticated, but Hash
OCS - Keep privacy
Peta-bps switching capacity Node Identifier
Tera-bps link speed (40G x 100) Sustainable in Mobility & Security ? + HIS name
100 billion tiny terminals Energy Saving – All optical Node Name

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AKARI Architecture Components (II) - New concepts -

(5) Overlay Network / (6) Self-organizing Control

Network Virtualization
Simultaneous
failures Bad
provisioning
Chain Software
reaction bug

Efficient
Robust Optimum
Adapted

Physical Networks Manageable

Fast Recovery

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 CORE: Collaborative Overlay Research Environment
Private Overlay network over JGN2, WIDE, and SINET
Led by Prof. Aki Nakao
Joint project with:
CORE Concept
Sapporo
• 10 sites, 52 servers
• Multi-Homed Collaborative Overlay Research Environment
• Testbed Federation Sapporo Overlay test-bed based on “Private PlanetLab”
• JGN2+ NOC Coop.
Medical U. Provision resources for mission critical services
Features we would like to have…
Custom hardware to optimize overlay forwarding
PoP/Core collocation (nodes “inside” network)
Custom hardware to optimize overlay forwarding
Tohoku U. Wireless/Sensors/Photonic capability in future
Hakusan Network Virtulization Lab.
Federation (e.g. PlanetLab, OneLab)
Sendai
Target overlay research
Hiroshima U.
Not just on distributed system apps
Kanazawa Nagano
NII More on network core architectures
Kyutech Tsukuba Utilize both private & public environments
Nagoya Tokyo Local v.s. Global / Provisioned v.s. Best-Effort
Okayama U. Tokyo
Kitakyushu OsakaKeihanna New Generation Perspectives to Overlay Network
Fukuoka
Kochi - Testbed for prototype and evaluate
NICT Otemac
a new generation network design
Kochi-tech hi
Osaka U. NICT Kogan - Evolutional nature of overlay network
ei to incorporate into the design
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 AKARI NWGN (New Generation Network) R&D Plan
2006 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
Projects
Competitive
Cooperative &
Social Requirements & Global Policy
CLEAN-SLATE APPROACH

NWGN Community Field Trials &

- Alternative Design AKARI Deployments
Innovation
- Network Security
- Applications, etc.

AKARI Architecture Design Blueprint of

NWGN
Overlay (Network Virtualization)

Global Federated Facility

JGN2 JGN2+ JGN X (NWGN Testbed)
Projects
Collaborative

Optical Packet Switch by NICT

Cognitive Radio

Photonic Network Phase I & II

Funded by NICT
NGN Fundamental Technologies
Dynamic Network

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 Questions?
Universal Communications

AKARI Architecture Design Project Members:

Network Architecture Group Leader: Hirabaru

Harai (Photonic switching), Xu (Light Path), Miyazawa (Opt. Access),
Morioka (Optical Transmission), Ohtsuki (Control), Jumpot,
Inoue (Univ. Access), Nakauchi (Overlay), Kafle (Addressing), and
Ohnish
i. Network science by Prof. Murata (Osaka U.)
Ubiquitous by Prof. Morikawa (U. Tokyo)
Mobility by Prof. Teraoka (Keio U.)
Packet switching by Prof. Ohta (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
Network Virtualization by Prof. Aki Nakao (Univ. of Tokyo)
Advisory: Program Director Prof. Aoyama, Executive Director Dr. Kubota

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