ICT Pristine Project Overview

ICT PRISTINE
Project Overview
Jan 2014
Miguel Ponce de Leon
<miguelpdl@tssg.org

Project team
WIT-TSSG, (IE), i2CAT (ES),
TID (ES), Ericsson (IE),
Nextworks, (IT), Thales (UK)
Nexedi (FR), Atos (ES),
BISDN (DE), Juniper (IE)
Telecom SudParis (FR),
Brno Uni of Technology (CZ)
Uni of Oslo (NO),
CREATE-NET (IT),

Budget

iMinds (BE)

Total Cost

5.034.961 €

EC Contribution

3.337.000 €

Duration

2.5 years

Start Date
1st January 2014
External Advisory Board

ICT PRISTINE: 619305

Cisco Systems, Telecom Italia, Deutsche
Telekom, Colt Telecom, BU, Interoute

Solution space: RINA
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RINA is an emerging clean-slate programmable
networking approach, centering on Inter-Process
Communication (IPC) paradigm, which will support
high scalability, multi-homing, built-in security,
seamless access to real-time information and
operation in dynamic environments.


RINA architecture overview


PRISTINE Goals
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Design and implement the innovative internals of
this the RINA architecture that include the
programmable functions for:
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security of content and application processes,
supporting QoS and congestion control in
aggregated levels, providing protection and
resilience, facilitating more effcient topological
routing,
multi-layer management for handling
confguration, performance and security.


PRISTINE Goals
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Demonstrate the applicability and benefts of this approach
and its built-in functions in three use-cases:
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Distributed cloud
Overlay to one or more IPv6 networks, to allow
communication between different instances of
SlapOS.
Datacentre networking
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RINA-based solutions for intra and inter-data centre
communications.
Network Service Provider
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Investigate the use of RINA within service provider
networks


Objective 1
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Software Development Kit for the PRISTINE implementation of RINA
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S: The SDK will defne a set of APIs to modify the behaviour of DIFs
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M: Means of verifcation: Deliverables D2.3, D2.5. Download tracking.
A: PRISTINE will modify the IRATI project implementation to allow
extension modules to be plugged in and out of the prototype.
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data transfer, forwarding, authentication, access control, resource allocation and so
on.

Key partners: TID, i2CAT, NXW.

R: Enables programmers to exploit in practical customization capabilities
provided by RINA.
T: Milestones MS6, MS16.


Objective 2 - 4
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Investigate and develop solutions that support more cost-effective
networks and deliver a better performance to applications.
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Aggregate-based congestion control solutions, in which each DIF has its
own congestion control loop (Objective 2).
Distributed resource allocation strategies that can be tailored to the SLAs
associated with a given DIF that a service provider wants to offer,
leveraging the unifcation of connection-oriented and connectionless
paradigms underline (Objective 3).
Topological addressing schemes and its associated routing strategies,
minimizing the size of routing tables within DIFs (Objective 4).
Full S.M.A.R.T objectives 2-4 can be seen in the end slides


Objective 5 - 7
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Armed with the RINA framework, PRISTINE will improve the security and
reliability of the networks described in the project use cases.
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Designing and programming authentication, access control and encryption
strategies customized for each DIF (Objective 5).
Investigating and developing security coordination techniques within a DIF, in
order to support strong auditing, autonomous detection of attacks and countermeasures to them (Objective 6).
Exploiting the multi-homing and distributed resource allocation capabilities of
RINA to develop solutions for highly reliable DIFs (Objective 7)..
Full S.M.A.R.T objectives for 5-7 can be seen in end slides


Objective 8
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Multi-layer management system (DMS) for integrated network management
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S: Design and develop a DMS capable of managing multiple DIFs
(layers) at once.
M: Deliverables D5.1, D5.2, D5.3.
A: The DMS developed within PRISTINE will take care of
confguration, performance and security management.
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Key partners: LMI, WIT-TSSG, BISDN.

R: The commonality provided by RINA allows multi-layer management
to be vastly simplifed; thus opening the door to more robust, dynamic,
responsive and cheaper network management operations.
T: Milestones MS9, MS14, MS20, MS23.


Objective 9
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Trials of the project use cases: deploying PRISTINE solutions in the real world
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S: Demonstrate the benefts of the RINA architecture and PRISTINE's
solutions by trialing the project use cases in realistic conditions.
M: Deliverables D6.1, D6.2.
A: Showcase the technical and business impact of the project results
through different trials over a rich infrastructure composed by partner's
resources and relevant FIRE facilities.
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Key partners: Atos, Nexedi, CREATE-NET, WIT-TSSG, TID, LMI, JUN.

R: PRISTINE will bundle the different solutions into three packages, one
for each use cases.
T:Milestones MS15, MS24.


Objective 10
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RINA Simulator to understand the behaviour of the extensions at scale
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S: Design and develop an OMNeT++ based RINA simulator, utilizing
part of the IRATI implementation source code as an input.
A: A simulator will enable PRISTINE researchers to understand how the
solutions for the different problem areas behave at scale.
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Key partners: FIT-BUT, CREATE-NET.

R: The simulator is a a useful tool for RINA research allowing
researchers outside of the consortium to understand how the PRISTINE
solutions behave at scale.
T: Milestones MS16


Work Package Structure


Project results
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What results do we aim to achieve by the end of the project.
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Software Development Kit for the RINA implementation, building on initially
developed one by the IRATI project.
Specifcation and implementation of policies that address congestion control,
quality of service, addressing, routing, authentication, access control and
resiliency.
First specifcation and implementation of a DIF Management System (DMS).
Three integrated and validated prototypes (core RINA modules + policies +
DMS) for the three use cases: distributed cloud, datacentre networking and
network service provider.
First RINA Simulator.


Objective 2
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Programmable congestion control for effective data transfer.
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S: Detect congestion generated within the DIF, and take the appropriate
measures to quickly react against it.
M: Deliverables D3.1, D3.2. Papers comparing algorithim results.
A: The different congestion control solutions will be incorporated into
the prototype through the use of the SDK.
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Key partners: UiO.

R: Control loops with different characteristics will be designed, tailored
to the requirements of PRISTINE’s use cases.


Objective 3
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Distributed resource allocation strategies to support multiple levels of service
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S: Investigate and program a set of distributed resource allocation techniques that enable
a DIF to provide different levels of service to honour the requirements of different
applications.
M: Deliverables D3.1, D3.2
A: The interaction between distributed resource allocation and congestion control
techniques within a DIF will be investigated. The SDK will be used to plug the extensions
into the prototype.
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Key partners: JUN, Atos.

R: These techniques will leverage the capabilities that RINA provides in terms of
allowing applications to express their desired level of service and the theory unifying
connection-oriented and connectionless resource allocation.


Objective 4
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Topological addressing as an enabler of efficient routing
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S: Research and develop topological addressing schemes and its associated routing
mechanisms, in order to minimize the size of the forwarding tables within DIFs.
A: PRISTINE will investigate what topologies for address spaces make sense, are easily
maintained, and scale for the three use cases of the PRISTINE project. Development
activities will be carried out through the SDK.
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Key partners: IMT- TSP.

R: Topological address spaces refect an abstraction of a connectivity graph within a
layer, therefore the forwarding decision can be taken by examining the destination
address and the addresses of the directly attached routers.


Objective 5
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Authentication, access control and encryption for secure DIFs
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S: Investigate, design and implement different strategies to perform
authentication, access control and encryption as required by the three
PRISTINE scenarios.
M: Deliverables D4.1, D4.2
A: Application access control, symmetric/assymetric key- based authentication
protocols and encryption mechanisms will be investigated and adapted to RINA
through the use of the SDK.
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Key partners: TRT, BISDN.

R: Security is an integral part of an IPC Process and does not need to be
handled in separate subsystems such as frewalls.


Objective 6
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Security coordination within a DIF: self-management, attack identification and mitigation
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S: Research and program techniques that enable a DIF to coordinate its internal security
mechanisms in a distributed an autonomous way.
A: The analyzed information will be used to decide if a DIF is being attacked, and to take
measures to protect from the attack. The developed extensions will be incorporated into
the prototype through the SDK.
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Key partners: Nexedi, TRT.

R: Management and distribution of credentials, as well as logging and analyzing the key
events related to security are the most important issues that will be addressed by this
objective.
Milestones MS8, MS13, MS19, MS22.


Objective 7
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Multi-homing and self-healing as the basis of resilient networks
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S: Investigate and develop routing algorithms and routing information dissemination
strategies that optimally exploit RINA's support of multi-homing for load-balancing and
rapid recovery of failures.
A: Distributed resource allocation techniques will also be used in order to re-create the
connectivity graph of the DIF, effectively recovering from malfunctioning links or IPC
Processes.
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Key partners: iMinds.

R: Deploying robust services in a timely and scalable manner is a key issue addressed by
technologies such as SDN and NFV. This work will implement and test robust services in
RINA and prove it can meet carrier requirements..


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