ALIEN
Abstraction Layer for Implementation of Extensions in programmable Networks
| Coordinatore | INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK
Organization address
address: NOSKOWSKIEGO 12-14 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Poland [PL] |
| Totale costo | 1˙957˙616 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙450˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2011-8 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-10-01 - 2014-09-30 |
Partecipanti
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| 1 |
INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK
Organization address
address: NOSKOWSKIEGO 12-14 contact info |
PL (POZNAN) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
BISDN GMBH - BERLIN INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS
Organization address
address: CHRISTBURGER STRASSE 45 contact info |
DE (BERLIN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
CREATE-NET (CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND TELECOMMUNICATION EXPERIMENTATION FOR NETWORKED COMMUNITIES)
Organization address
address: VIA ALLA CASCATA 56 D contact info |
IT (TRENTO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
DELL FRANCE SA
Organization address
address: ROND POINT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1 contact info |
FR (MONTPELLIER) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
EUROPEAN CENTER FOR INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
Organization address
address: TORGAUER STRASSE 12-15 EUREF CAMPUS HOUSE 13 contact info |
DE (BERLIN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Organization address
address: PL MARII SKLODOWSKIEJ CURIE 5 contact info |
PL (POZNAN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA
Organization address
address: BARRIO SARRIENA S N contact info |
ES (LEIOA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Organization address
address: GOWER STREET contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Organization address
address: TYNDALL AVENUE SENATE HOUSE contact info |
UK (BRISTOL) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
ALIEN will deliver an innovative network abstraction mechanism targeting the control and management convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous network elements building strong foundations for Software Defined Networks.nTo achieve this, ALIEN proposes to adopt the concept of Network Operating System (NOS), a distributed system running on top the hybrid, heterogeneous network infrastructure, which creates a global view of the network elements and their capability.nThe NOS of ALIEN will be based on control and management framework of OFELIA FIRE facility. ALIEN will extend OpenFlow control framework of OFELIA and its architecture to support abstraction of network information of equipment that are alien to the OpenFlow technology such as optical network elements, legacy layer2 switches, network processors and programmable hardware (FPGA).nBuilding on its novel NOS, ALIEN introduces the concept of the control program paradigm, which operates on the global view of the network. and support new network technologies in layer0, layer1 and layer 2 both in core and access.nThe NOS of ALIEN utilizes a novel hardware description language as well as a functional abstraction mechanism for uniform representation of any type of network hardware and their capabilities/functionalities that doesn't support OpenFLow (i.e. alien hardware). The language will describe capabilities of hardware, input and output signal format, and topology information to describe the pipelining of actions on specific hardware. The abstraction mechanism will hide hardware complexity as well as technology and vendor specific features from OpenFlow control framework.nALIEN project aims to experimentally verify its solution for describing network device capabilities and controlling its forwarding behaviour of all OpenFlow and non-OpenFlow capable hardware simultaneously.