Fabien Mathieu, Ludovic Noirie, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
2015/11/23
Some research topics and challenges
at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
1. Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in brief 2. Some researches in networking
3. Some researches in mathematics for networks 4. Conclusion
OUTLINE
1. Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in brief 2. Some researches in networking
3. Some researches in mathematics for networks 4. Conclusion
OUTLINE
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in brief Alcatel-Lucent at a glance
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Alcatel-Lucent is the IP networking, ultra-broadband access and cloud specialist, inventing and delivering the innovative networks of tomorrow.
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Alcatel-Lucent markets: service providers, public sector, Industries
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in brief
Innovation
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in brief
Network 2020
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in brief
Bell Labs
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Through research & innovation, Bell Labs is changing the way people connect with the world.
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Global presence: North America, Europe & Asia
https://www.bell-labs.com/
+ Future Spaces
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in brief
Research Programs and Activities @ Villarceaux
• Network Algorithms, Routing & Security:
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Secure Cloud Networking
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Mathematics of Complex Dynamic Networks
• Wireless:
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Software Defined Wireless Networking
-End2End Mobile Services
• IP Transport (Optics):
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Intelligent Networks, Metro and DCI Networking, Submarine Transmission
• IP Platforms:
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Scalable data Processing
• IP Routing: III-V Labs (opto-electronics)
• Green Network
• FX Labs
1. Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in brief 2. Some researches in networking
3. Some researches in mathematics for networks 4. Conclusion
OUTLINE
SD-LANs for Smart Environments
Context of IoT and smart environments
OUR CURRENT OBJECTIVE
No-limit for IoT-based services
Digitally assist people in using their connected devices for any service they desire and beyond, in any context
Today, many
connected objects are sub-efficiently
used by people
SD-LANs for Smart Environments
Abstracted/Virtualized view – Home example Physical world
ISP Internet
Home
Virtual Objects (VOs) Avatars
Chains of Virtual Objects (CoVOs)
Abstracted view
Virtualized home view
Connected Objects
(COs)
Communities of Connected Objects (CoCOs)
Users
SD-LANs for Smart Environments SDN-ized architecture
Smart environment majordomo
Controller plane level#1 Application plane
Data plane
“OSS”
(belonging to the operator)
Core
User manager Application Manager
VO Controller(s) Network Ctrlr(s) CoVO Manager
VO Manager
App. #1
Network Manager
App. #N
NE #1 NE #K CO #1 CO #M
Owner of the Smart Environment
Controller plane level#2
CoVO Controller (only one)
I-CPI A-CPI
D-CPI
Compatible with ONF/SDN architecture
SD-LANs for Smart Environments Use of Open vSwitch for our demo
• Residential gateways using Open vSwitch v2.3.1 for our two- home demonstration scenario
• Programming flow tables to enforce SD- LAN rules
2015 internship on that topic with a student from UPMC: call for external functions
from the Open vSwitch
SD-LANs for Smart Environments Cross-Home video delivery demo (1)
Alice’s Tablet Bob’s
Smart Phone
SD-LANs for Smart Environments Cross-Home video delivery demo (2)
Alice’s NAS UPnP
ISP’s Network
Alice’s Tablet
SD-LANs for Smart Environments Publications
1. M. Boussard, D. T. Bui, R. Douville, N. Le Sauze, L. Noirie, P. Peloso, R. Varloot, M. Vigoureux, The Majord'Home : a SDN approach to let ISPs manage and extend their customers' home networks, 1
stInternational Workshop on
Management of SDN and NFV Systems (co-located with CNSM 2014), November 2014.
http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2014/proceedings/pdf/73.pdf
2. M. Boussard, D. T. Bui, L. Ciavaglia, R. Douville, M. Le Pallec, N. Le Sauze, L.
Noirie, S. Papillon, P. Peloso, F. Santoro, Software-Defined LANs for
Interconnected Smart Environments, 27
thInternational Teletraffic Congress, September 2015.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ITC.2015.33
SD-LANs for Smart Environments Future Spaces – Potential internships
Future Spaces = evolution of SD-LAN concept
1. Tunnelized IoT protocols such as bluetooth, zigbee, weave, … (Q1)
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SD-LAN with such protocols: remote communication of devices as if they were in the same LAN. Use of open source libraries for that. Experimental demonstrator set-up.
2. Generic interface between Open vSwitch and VNFs (e.g., NAT, Firewall) (Q1)
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State-of-the-Art, SW architecture design and implementation (Kernel, DPDK), performance analysis (latency benchmarking).
3. Generalized OpenFlow with generic pattern matching (Q1)
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State-of-the-Art, SW architecture design and implementation (e.g., DPDK) and performance evaluation of the prototype.
4. Generalized OpenFlow for bit-stream network (Q3)
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Study of the usage of Generalized OpenFlow for green-field networking solutions.
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Implementation on an experimental platform and performance evaluation.
5. SDN in terminals: SDN controllers for COs… (Q3)
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State-of-the-Art, SW architecture design and implementation (Android), network impact
analysis of having SDN controllers in connected objects or smart phones.
SD-LANs for Smart Environments
Self-Adaptive VO Chaining – Potential internships
Self-Adaptive VO Chaining = focus on IoT-based service “self-management”
Self-built catalog of CoVOs, CoVO self-healing, (Co)VO self-recommendation…
- We already defined a modeling framework based on attributed typed graphs (2015 internship) that we are using for IoT-based service classification
1. IoT-based service generator tool (CoVO generator)
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Objective:
- In order to consolidate and validate algorithms to classify IoT-based services (CoVOs), we need to automatically generate IoT-based service examples
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Expected realizations:
- Analysis of existing resources about IoT devices and IoT-based services, data models, … - SW design and development for the IoT-based service generator: exploitation of the existing
resources, generation and handling of lot of instances of VO models for IoT devices and CoVO models for IoT-based service, development of a user interface for VO/CoVO
representation/visualization, CoVO composition from VOs, output data file export for simulations…
- Use case: exploitation of the generator tool to validate some of our CoVO classification algorithms -
Desired skills:
- Programming (C or Java), algorithm design, graph theory, simulations
Security and SDN Potential internship
1. Trusted path computation and enforcement in SDN
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Context: support security and sovereignty policies for the transfer of sensitive data
-Expected realizations:
- Specification/design of a SDN-based network application for trusted-path - Implementation on a SDN controller (e.g., OpenDaylight)
- Experimentation on a SDN platform (with OpenFlow physical switches and Open vSwitch virtual switches)
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Desired skills:
- Knowledge about SDN
- Knowledge about Open vSwitch or OpenDaylight
• General questions:
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SDN/NFV in the RES master ?
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Practice of Open vSwitch / OpenDaylight ?
IP Transport
Intelligent Optical Networks – Internship proposal
1. Leveraging monitoring information to design optical networks
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Context: data mining in optical networks
- Novel optical network design techniques based on the collection of information during network operation to anticipate any performance fluctuation.
- Objective: decrease network design cost through the reduction of various margins with better optical network dimensioning.
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Expected realizations:
- Set up a network simulator that mimics optical network monitoring functions - Use the monitoring data to extract key features about the network physical layer - Improve the prediction of the network performance.
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Desired skills:
- Analytical skills: linear algebra, probabilities.
- Coding: Java or Matlab.
- Background in data mining / big data.
- Background in telecommunication networks would be a plus, but is not mandatory.
- Background in optical communication would be a plus, but is not mandatory.
1. Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in brief 2. Some researches in networking
3. Some researches in mathematics for networks 4. Conclusion
OUTLINE
1. Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in brief 2. Some researches in networking
3. Some researches in mathematics for networks 4. Conclusion
OUTLINE
Research in Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France Conclusion – Contacts
• How to know about Alcatel-Lucent internships?
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Alcatel-Lucent web site
- http://www.alcatel-lucent.fr/carrieres/opportunites-etudiants - http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/careers/opportunities-students 2.
The presenters
- Ludovic.Noirie@alcatel-lucent.com - Fabien.Mathieu@alcatel-lucent.com 3.
And your professors…
- They have contacts with several Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs researchers…
