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WP: WP6
Title: Integration & demonstration of network-wide green strategies
Start month: M25
M28 (Jan 2013)
End month: M36
M39 (Dec 2013)
Leader: TELIT
Participants:
CNIT
ALU
MLX
LQDE
TEI
TELIT
GRNET
NASK
NVR
ETY
Objectives:
- Select a suitable set of green device prototypes from T6.2 in order to compose the large-scale real and complex network contests as specified in T2.1.
- The selected network scenarios will represent a whole operator networks with a mix of emulated and real devices, where a complete part of network (i.e. inclusive of CPEs, access and metro/core network parts) will be fully realized with the prototypical green devices integrated in this task.
- Complete the selected prototypes with the green control-plane strategies and protocols for supporting traffic engineering with protocols from MPLS family and/or OAM centralized frameworks. The criteria in such a case will consist of selecting the most stable and promising prototypes working at the metro, the transport and the core levels, where the inclusion of the novel energy-aware control plane processes will be feasible and viable.
- In detail, integrate the selected green devices with:
- the distributed optimization procedures (T5.2) and corresponding protocol extensions (T5.4);
- the entire framework for distributed energy- and performance-aware monitoring (frameworks from T5.3 and signalling protocols from T5.4).
- Interface such control and monitoring processes, running inside the prototypes, with the Green Abstraction Layer (that will be already working on such prototypes) by developing the needed SW modules.
- Set up:
- one complete test-beds for the large-scale evaluation, validation and demonstration of ECONET achievements.
- two small scale testbeds also in the sites of NASK and GRNET for specific tests related with their networks. In such a case, IP router and L2 switch prototypes will be evaluated in internal network links or in parallel with ISP equipment in production networks.
- Evaluate the performance, validate and demonstrate the overall energy-savings, the novel capabilities, the network-wide optimization form dynamic mechanisms and centralized OAM solutions. In this evaluation phase all the criteria, the targets and the metrics specified in T2.1 and T2.3 will be adopted.
- The validation activity will also take into account the internetworking operations with "energy-unaware" commercial (and in use) devices.
