Federated network resource information management on Future Internet

摘要

Revolutionary Future Internet researches have been resolving the fundamental weakness of traditional Internet. As a part of Future Internet developments, the federation and management of distributed Future Internet testbeds is becoming the central challenge to support reliable end-to-end researches over inter-domain networks, countries, and even continents. Federated network resource operations and management on Future Internet need to meet at least two conditions based on the general definition of federation [1]. First, multiple distributed network domains agree upon standards of network operations. Second, internal network operation of each domain is autonomous under its own control. Under the fundamental requirements, this paper presents a framework that federates and manages the resource information of autonomous distributed networks (ADNs) in the perspective of virtual network operations and end-user oriented network management on end-to-end network slices. In addition, we propose a virtual federated network (VFN) environment as a common federation interface between ADNs so that the core network resource information can be federated and provided to end users.