[CAnet - news] Future Internet architectures - VINI, UCLP, GENI

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[Here is an excellent paper on VINI.  VINI in many ways a precursor to the
upcoming GENI program.  VINI is also very similar to UCLP in that both
initiatives aim to provide science users and network experimenters with the
ability to setup and manipulate simultaneous parallel virtual links across a
common network substrate.  Each set of simultaneous virtual links can have
their own set of virtual routers, switches and interconnected servers,
sensors, etc.  The big difference between UCLP and VINI is that VINI is a
intended to be facility to enable network experimentation to build the
future network architecture, while UCLP is intended to be the future
Internet architecture--BSA]

VINI
http://www.canarie.ca/conferences/uclp/program.html

UCLP
http://grid2.canarie.ca/wiki/index.php/UCLPv2
http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/uclp/UCLP_Roadmap.doc

GENI
www.geni.net


In VINI Veritas: Realistic and Controlled Network Experimentation
Andy Bavier, Nick Feamstery, Mark Huang, Larry Peterson, Jennifer Rexford


ABSTRACT
This paper describes VINI, a virtual network infrastructure
that allows network researchers to evaluate their protocols
and services in a realistic environment that also provides a
high degree of control over network conditions. VINI allows
researchers to deploy and evaluate their ideas with real routing
software, traffic loads, and network events. To provide
researchers flexibility in designing their experiments, VINI
supports simultaneous experiments with arbitrary network
topologies on a shared physical infrastructure


UCLP Roadmap Document

Abstract

Around the world there are several initiatives to develop the next
generation canonical Internet network architecture . This discussion paper
provides an alternative approach largely based on two significant
development, first: the trend for more users to own, control and manage
their own network resources and secondly: the demand by  big science and
large enterprises to have  dedicated network resources for the data flows
generated by their high end applications. As opposed to other approaches  a
key assumption in this discussion paper in regards to network architecture
is that there is NO canonical network architecture. Instead this document
describes  new features and enhancements to the current implementations of
the User Controlled LightPath (UCLP) software which will enable users to
define their own  packet or switched based network architecture including
topology, routing, virtual routers, switches virtual machines and protocols
based on the concept of many separate and independently managed Articulated
Private Networks (APN) operating on top of one or more network substrates
across different ownership domains. APNs can be considered as a next
generation Virtual Private Network where, rather than signaling for a single
end to end connection, a user can create a complex network structure, in any
way they wish, by binding  together layer 1 through 3 network links,
instruments, computers, time slices and virtual or real routing and/or
switching nodes.  This capability  is enabled through UCLP by representing
all such network element, devices and links as web services, and by using
web services workflow as the tool to allow the user to bind together their
various web services to create a long lived APN instantiation. With web
services workflow the user also has the ability to offer all, or portions of
their APN as a web service (or set of services) in is own right to other
downstream users.



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