1. SELF-NET experimentation using
PANLAB II facilities
Nancy Alonistioti
N.K. Univ. of Athens, Greece
Coordinator of Self-NET

2. AT A GLANCE
Project Details Partners
 Project Acronym : Self-NET 3 Operators (TA, OTE, VF-GR)
 Project Reference : 224344 2 Universities (UoA, KCL)
 Start Date : 01/05/2008 1 Manufacturer (TCF)
 Duration : 30 months 1 Research Institute (FRAUNHOFER)
 Project Cost : 3.75 M€
 Contract Type : CP - STREP
 End Date : 31/10/2010
 Project Status : Execution
 Project Funding : 2.45 M€
Environment:
 Call 2 – Objective 1.6
“New Paradigms and
Experimental Facilities”
 FIRE: Future Internet Research and
Experimentation
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3. 3
Cognitive Network
Cognitive Domain
Manager
Manager
COGNITIVE SELF-MANAGEMENT FEATURES IN FI
Congitive Domain
Cognitive Network
Manager
Manager
SELF-NET DESIGN PRINCIPLES: INTRODUCE
Compartments Level
Self-NET Experimentation
Compartments Level
Cognitive
Network Element
Cognitive
Holistic view
Local view
cycle
cycles
Hierarchical distribution of the cognitive

4. SELF-NET AND PANLAB COLLABORATION
GOALS AND STEPS
 Goals:
1. Use case : Service adaptation and network reconfiguration based on multi
objective optimisation (e.g., QoS, packet loss, fault, interference etc.)
2. Use Self-NET prototype results as a basis. Address experimentation based on the
use in diverse platforms and larger scale.
3. Address experimentation for autonomic communications (internal Self-NET
results and external from FIRE facilities)
 Steps:
1. Agree on the use case and the testbed features from N.K.UoA and Octopus side
2. Build the IPIP Tunneling for the federation of the Self-NET and Panlab facilities
3. Run manually initial experiments for triggering events and configuration actions
testing
4. Build NECM/NDCM based on PANLAB facility features for the automation of
experiments from N.K.UoA side
5. PII develop Resource Adapters in order to automate testbed resources
reservation
6. Repeat Experiments
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5. PII-OCTOPUS TESTBED FACILITIES AND SELF-
NET PLATFORM FEDERATION
Generated
Traffic
WIMAX Clients
PII
WIMAX Clients
OCTOPUS WIMAX BS WIMAX Clients
Service
Testbed Consumer
Generated
Traffic
Internet
AP3 - NECM AP1 - NECM
SNMP SET
SNMP GET Commands
Generated
Traffic
AP2 - NECM
Service AP4 - NECM
NECM Level NECM
NDCM
Traffic Generator
AP5 - NECM
Self-NET (Service Provider)
AP6 - NECM
Project
environment
NDCM
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6. LESSONS LEARNED
 Issues/Recommendations:
 Configuration capabilities (e.g., tunneling, service deployment, codecs etc.)
 Interfaces for interacting with the experimental resources
 Overhead in terms of effort from both sides for the experimentation and use case
deployment – minimise learning curve
 Facility that clearly targets/supports Autonomic Communications experimentation (e.g.,
support reconfiguration (real time) in various layers)
 Added value:
 Diversity of technologies and infrastructures
 Large scale experimentation capability
 Advanced experimentation results based on multiple metrics
 Building of technical know-how at various domains
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