Using Future Internet testbeds in the classroom
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The document discusses using the Future Internet testbed FIBRE to teach networking classes. It provides an overview of FIBRE, including its goals of experimenting with new Internet architectures, worldwide initiatives in teaching with testbeds, and plans to develop exercises and lessons to deploy in FIBRE. The summary highlights that FIBRE allows researchers to validate new proposals for the Future Internet through experimentation in its large-scale facilities, and that developing educational materials for its use can help train the next generation of networking researchers.
Using Future Internet testbeds in the classroom
- 1. Using Future Internet testbed in the classroom Iara Machado - RNP TICAL 2015 Viña del Mar – 03/07/2015 1
- 2. About Future Internet • Overcoming limitations of today’s Internet requires changing this architecture through the design called Future Internet (FI) • Research FI consists of: – Discuss how the new architecture will be developed for the Internet; – Evaluate alternative proposals for this new architecture; – Develop procedures to adopt the new architecture. 2
- 3. About Future Internet • Providing environments for large scale experimentation requires: • Coexistence with the network traffic of production; • Environment should be flexible and programmable (software defined network) so that researchers can quickly define and validate their proposals 3
- 4. Testbeds for Future Internet • Purpose • Experimental research into network infrastructure and distributed applications • Above Layer 2 • Programmable network environment • Characteristics: • Wide set of technologies and scale • Faithful to the scale and heterogeneity of the real environment • Wireless and sensor networks, routers, switches, end-hosts… • Dedicated networks • Isolated from the production Internet and from each other • Use of virtual routers and multiplexing links between them • Monitoring and Instrumentation of experiments
- 5. FIBRE: a large-scale Future Internet testbed facility • Studies began in 2008, inspired by GENI (USA) and by the FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) program of the EU • Funding provided 2011-2014 by Coordinated Call in ICT between Brazil and the EU, supporting FIBRE (FI testbed/experimentation between Brazil and Europe). • FIBRE project includes 10 nodes in Brazil and 3 in the EU. • The follow-on FIBRE2 project is being funded in Brazil to support the operation, maintenance and expansion of the existing testbed, for use by research and education until 2018. • On-going conversations were initiated in 2013 to promote the international federation of the FI testbeds • In 2015 AmLight deployed a Fibre island in Miami federated to FIBRE.
- 6. 6 Island 1 RM1 RM2 Fed. Island 2 RM1 RM2Fed. User-defined network Island resources Physical link Island N RM1 RM2Fed. . . . Global resources Experimenters or students FIBRE portal CF1 CF2 CF2CF1 CF1 CF2 FIBRE proposal
- 8. FIBRE rack deployed at each institution 8 Datacom OpenFlow switch (FIBREnet border router) Data plane link Control plane link Data + Control plane NetFPGA #1 Pica8 Pronto Switch IBM server (VMs, LDAP) OMF domain (Wireless) Switch Top of Rack NetFPGA #2 NetFPGA #3 OCF domain PerfSONAR Wireless nodes Local testbed (island) @ institution PoP
- 9. Exemple UFSCar and UFPE UFSCar island UFPE island
- 10. UFF wireless testbed 10 MM M M M M M M M M M M M M M M M MM Mini-ITX node ICARUS node M Monitoring node
- 11. Wireless experimental facility OFELIA Control Framework OMF UFRJ UFF RNP UFPEUFPA UNIFACS OMFOCF UFG OMFOCF UFSCar USP CPqD OMFOCF OMFOCF PoP-BA PoP-PA PoP-GO PoP-DF PoP-RJ PoP-Pe PoP-SP NOC OMF OCF OCFOCF OCF OCF USA OCF OCF AMPATH OCF Overview Architecture 11 Situation as of Feb 2015
- 13. FIBRE portal
- 14. Steering Committee Intitutional representatives Operations and User Engagement RNP + institutions 1ª and 2ª support Island n... NOC Development RNP team Network (FIBREnet) Portal Authentication Control Framework Monitoring Technical Committee Researchers Islands (local testbeds) Governance Model 14
- 15. FIBRE in the classroom – Why? • The use of a large-scale testbed give students first-hand experience to a real-world situation, instead of using software tools to simulate networks in the laboratory. • With the use of Future Internet testbeds in computer-network classes, we believe the next generation of researchers will be more capable of dealing with architectural experiments and of continuously evolving the current Internet architecture • But this is not a new idea…
- 16. Worldwide Initiatives in teaching in Future Internet testbeds GENI Education http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/geni/geniEdu/modules.html
- 17. Worldwide Initiatives in teaching in Future Internet testbeds GENI MOOC http://hyperion.poly.edu/
- 18. Worldwide Initiatives in teaching in Future Internet testbeds FORGE: Forging Online Education through FIRE http://ict-forge.eu
- 19. Worldwide Initiatives in teaching in Future Internet testbeds NYU classroom-as-a-service (for wireless experiments) http://witestlab.poly.edu/site/page/classroom
- 20. Our plans in the medium-term 1. To select hands-on exercises used by professors to teach network classes • Based on Mininet and other tools • Based on OpenFlow 2. To deploy selected exercises in the FIBRE infrastructure and generate step-by-step instructions and video-lessons. 3. To create an online repository of teaching material for professors. We welcome ideas of exercises/experiments to be ported to FIBRE
- 21. • Through FIBRE’s experimental facilities, researchers can validate and demonstrate new FI proposals • Project is in its final steps • Small adjustments and tweakings in the infrastructure • Needs more experiments to validate the testbed • Get access to FIBRE testbed! https://portal.fibre.org.br/ [email protected]
- 22. FIBRE Brazilian Team Get access to FIBRE testbed! https://portal.fibre.org.br/ [email protected]
- 23. Thank you / Obrigado Iara Machado (RNP) www.facebook.com/fibre.project www.fibre.org.br