What An Application WantsGlenn Ricart

June 5, 2014

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An InfrastructureThat Meets Its Needs

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An InfrastructureThat Meets Its Needs

Required / DesirableProperties

Affordable Price

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Network PropertiesAn application might care about

• Bandwidth• Latency• Jitter• Reliability

– Packet loss– Standby / redundant diversity

• Isolation– Performance– Security

• In-net & edge processing / storage

• Location mobility

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Federation PropertiesAn application might care about

• Lingua franca• Resource descriptions• Service descriptions• Orchestrations• Identity• Authorization• Platform capabilities• Isolation• Location mobility

CapabilitiesService levelsPerformanceSecurityMonitoringMeasurementPricing

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ComplexitiesBoth requirements and providers can be

• Time-varying• Differ by flow/stream within an application• Differ by user• Differ by circumstances (e.g. during a

disaster)• Might need to be coordinated /

orchestrated among applications• Determined by law or regulation

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Balance PointsMight be

• Determined by regulators• Chosen by infrastructure providers• Be the result of priority assignment or

traffic engineering• Chosen by applications from a fixed menu• Negotiated by agents for the application

and infrastructure• Dynamically re-negotiated

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US Ignite Apps WantAt Low Cost

• End-user Bandwidth (gigabit)

• Highly-responsive apps (gigabit, latency, edge infrastructure (locavore infrastructure))

• Real-time high-quality video (gigabit, latency, jitter, packet loss)

• Sensitive information apps (Isolation)

• Mission-critical apps (reliability plus the above)

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Smart Things WantAt Low Cost

• End-user Bandwidth (gigabit)

• Highly-responsive apps (gigabit, latency, edge infrastructure (locavore infrastructure))

• Real-time high-quality video (gigabit, latency, jitter, packet loss)

• Sensitive information apps (Isolation)

• Mission-critical apps (reliability plus the above)

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CASA Radar

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SDXes• Integral to inter-domain application

infrastructure• Either

– Do not impact a property when inserted– Are considered as part of the balance

Transparent

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Don’t forget• Connecting heterogeneous networks

(services) (those with different properties) may benefit from more than packet passing (e.g. transcoding or an application gateway).

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A Proposal for Proceeding• Do (just) enough to support / demonstrate

a very small number of inter-domain applications

• Above x3 or x5– See some different design points– So we can see similarities and differences

• Spiral with increased sophistication

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60 next-generation applications

200 community test beds

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OUR GOALS

Infrastructure

Next-Gen Applications

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Current Partners

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Today’s Infrastructure

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Locavore Infrastructure

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Locavore Infrastructure

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Typical App Characteristics• Real-time (apparentlly instantaneous)• Very low latency• Reliable (no hiccups)• Cyberphysical interactions• Big data to the end user / anchor institution• Visual data exploration (“fly-through”)• Collaborative (in the moment)• Distributed