Deliverable 5.4 Final validation and framework evaluation

This deliverable is the final integrated prototype with accompanying documentation of the integration of testbeds based on the set of use cases from WP1. The final integrated prototype will be delivered in the form of validation experiments. Special attention will be drawn to the collection of feedback by all stakeholders towards the update and revision of the Panlab framework

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Deliverable 5.3 Study on incorporation of alternative control architectures in testbed federations

In an IMS environment, many functional instances are involved in the proper setup of voice and multimedia calls, such as border elements, service trigger points, media and transcoding servers, application servers, gateways, databases. P2P networks introduces a new paradigm of self-organizing co-equal nodes as well as related new technologies, which have proven their potential to enhance the operational cost of such systems. The expected outcome of this study includes simplification aspects of the complex call-control layer infrastructure of IMS, e.g. by evaluating more lightweight and cost-efficient alternative P2P architectures, thus providing a high level of scalability and robustness. This study is executed in cooperation with VITAL++. We present a scenario of provisioning Vital++ through Panlab’s mechanisms, in order to exploit p2p and distributed paradigms into IMS-based architectures.

Deliverable 1.5 Updated Version of the Panlab Framework

Based on the outcome of Panlab project, the PII project, by working on various issues related to establishment and implementation of necessary technical infrastructure to enable wide federated testing in the ICT area and by further dedicated activities, has significantly extended and improved overall Panlab concept and provided update on its Technical, legal, and operational frameworks, which are described in this document. Further and detailed information on these frameworks, as indicated in the document, can be found in specific PII project deliverables. Finally, within this deliverable, Panlab Office, a central contact point of the Testbed Federation and an entity in charge of organising and providing Panlab testing services, is defined and described.

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Deliverable 1.4 Techno-Socio-Economic Analysis Report

The main purpose of this report is to explore the socio-techno-economic key factors and activities of relevance for the development of a sustainable testbed federation in Europe. In this process there is a need of incorporating a business model framework for enabling decision making in value creation and value capturing. This study shows that the federation has great opportunities to reach a broad market via the key partners networks. In this federation a span of testbeds are involved which provides a large knowledge and resource base. By being involved in the federation, partners and customers get access to a great variety of technical competences as well as testing resources for remote tests. Through the use of the resources offered in the federation, customers can build their own virtual testbed which makes it easier and cheaper for them to perform tests before their technology enters the market.

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This document contains material, which is the copyright of certain PII consortium parties, and may not be reproduced or copied without permission. All PII consortium parties have agreed to make this document available on request to other framework programme participants. The commercial use of any information contained in this document may require a license from the proprietor of that information. Neither the PII consortium as a whole, nor a certain party of the PII consortium warrant that the information contained in this document is capable of use, or that use of the information is free from risk, and accept no liability for loss or damage suffered by any person using this information.

Deliverable 2.4 Mechanisms for network agnostic service mapping - Resource Adaptor Operators

The main outcome of Task 2.4 is the realization of software specification and development to implement and support operations at the resource adaptation layer. It specifies and implements software modules belonging to this Resource Adaptation layer. These modules can be adaptors for some testbed basic resources commonly used in many testing configuration or can be means to support management of Resource Adaptors such as declaration, modification, deletion commands. Exploiting the capabilities offered by the provided T2.3 network agnostic mechanisms, T2.4 supports automation of the preparation of Resource Adaptors by providing mechanisms and modules that deal with and address uniformly the common characteristics of RAs as these are specified by the Resource Adaptation Layer definition. In this way the RA development are restricted to resource specific code without the need to deal to the full extend with PTM communication and interfacing.

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This document contains material, which is the copyright of certain PII consortium parties, and may not be reproduced or copied without permission. All PII consortium parties have agreed to make this document available on request to other framework programme participants. The commercial use of any information contained in this document may require a license from the proprietor of that information. Neither the PII consortium as a whole, nor a certain party of the PII consortium warrant that the information contained in this document is capable of use, or that use of the information is free from risk, and accept no liability for loss or damage suffered by any person using this information.

Deliverable 1.2r  Revised and amended Considerations on user driven innovation (Version 2 updated)

User-driven innovation is a way to benefit from the revolution of users enabled by ICT and information society: to create what sells and benefit from what’s been co-created. Markets converge globally in terms of knowledge sharing and access, consumers are more and more aware of all options, their own value too. Markets are however heterogeneous due to their cultural and political uniqueness. The global race is tight, who gets the biggest share fastest survives. Managing users’ needs, priorities, habits and commitment is critical. Involving users within the R&D cycle tackles this elementary aspect. Market research or beta-testing are commonly known methods, but having the user in the driver’s seat of the engineering project may be still challenging. This deliverable is the planned extension of the deliverable D1.2 that has been provided earlier. This document presents UDI in Panlab, guidance to a self-analysis of the organisation’s UDI maturity and needs, what does UDI offerings require from the federation, how UDI would be implemented in the testbed federation and how would it look like once implemented. This version 2 extends the executive summary and the conclusions section to answer the questions: (i) What on UDI testing can be realized and how within existing Panlab architecture and PII project, (ii) What can be hardly realized and why, and (iii) What could be realized in the near future and how.

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This document contains material, which is the copyright of certain PII consortium parties, and may not be reproduced or copied without permission. All PII consortium parties have agreed to make this document available on request to other framework programme participants. The commercial use of any information contained in this document may require a license from the proprietor of that information. Neither the PII consortium as a whole, nor a certain party of the PII consortium warrant that the information contained in this document is capable of use, or that use of the information is free from risk, and accept no liability for loss or damage suffered by any person using this information.

Deliverable 4.3  Options for automated handling of test suites

PII project addresses the need for large-scale testing facilities by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds among regional innovation clusters. It builds upon the Sixth FrameworkProgramme’s project Panlab SSA.

A realistic implementation of this infrastructure needs to include a set of test suites, besides other physical/logical testing resources. Then, support for an effective management of test suites is required. This document analyses the options for automated handling of test suites from the perspective of quality assurance in terms of security (integrity, confidentiality and availability) as well as reutilisation and repeatability execution of test suites. All these targets are studied in the context of PII and, as a result, a common information model for test suites management is defined. This information model will be the basis for autonomic management processes, depicted as a mid-term future evolution of the models and processes designed in this document.

Deliverable 3.7 Implementation Report (Version 2 updated)

The project Pan European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (PII) addresses the need for large scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds among innovations clusters. It builds upon the Panlab Specific Support Action which received funding by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme. This document reports on the extensive implementation efforts realized in WP3 delivering a functional Teagle framework. Version 2 of this document includes the work on the policy engine that was performed separately.

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This document contains material, which is the copyright of certain PII consortium parties, and may not be reproduced or copied without permission. All PII consortium parties have agreed to make this document available on request to other framework programme participants. The commercial use of any information contained in this document may require a license from the proprietor of that information. Neither the PII consortium as a whole, nor a certain party of the PII consortium warrant that the information contained in this document is capable of use, or that use of the information is free from risk, and accept no liability for loss or damage suffered by any person using this information.

Deliverable 1.1r  Revised and Amended Version of Use Case Descriptions

The realisation and first demonstration of the project’s platform, as driven by the initial use-cases, clarified the capabilities that both testbed owners and PII customers can benefit from. In view of the produced methodology and approach and also with the availability of tools and procedures, more concrete scenarios and use cases have been produced to cater for the integration, validation and evaluation of the project’s outcome.

Use-cases drove the initial design of the platform that in turn provided feedback for the use-cases revision. Aspects such as VCT drawing, resource definition, Resource Adapters and different VCT
views have clarified several issues that testbed owners can take into account during use-case design. In the current document a list of more concrete use-cases is provided.

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This document contains material, which is the copyright of certain PII consortium parties, and may not be reproduced or copied without permission. All PII consortium parties have agreed to make this document available on request to other framework programme participants. The commercial use of any information contained in this document may require a license from the proprietor of that information. Neither the PII consortium as a whole, nor a certain party of the PII consortium warrant that the information contained in this document is capable of use, or that use of the information is free from risk, and accept no liability for loss or damage suffered by any person using this information.

Deliverable 5.2 Testbed integration specification and connectivity scenarios

The project Pan European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (PII) addresses the need for largescale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds among innovations clusters. It builds upon the Panlab Specific Support Action which received funding by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme. This document analyses the existing testbeds hosted by PII partner organizations. These testbeds are the foundation of the PII federation and represent the available infrastructure.

Deliverable 5.1 First phase validation and initial evaluation

The project Pan European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (PII) addresses the need for large scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds among innovations clusters. It builds upon the Panlab Specific Support Action which received funding by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme. This document analyses the existing testbeds hosted by PII partner organizations. These testbed are the foundation of the PII federation and represent the available infrastructure.

Deliverable 6.4 Training plan

The key objective of the training task is to build knowledge and skills on the use of PII's federated testbed services among the target audiences. The project will hold 4 hands-on, face-to-face seminars at the sites of the 4 core innovation clusters (phase 1) and 4 seminars at the sites of the 4 satellite innovation clusters (phase 2). The seminars will be generally open, but the PII consortium reserves the right to select participants in order to ensure a homogeneous group which can optimally benefit from the seminars. The training events will be delivered in a series of 2-day, face-to-face seminars by members of the training team and other  experts from the project. The face-to-face training seminars will be complemented by Web-Based Training (WBT), including online tutorials and interactive knowledge transfer via a Learning Management System (LMS).

Deliverable 4.2 Monitoring Requirements and Procedures for Service Level Agreement Compliance

This deliverable comprises the functional specification of Panlab’s quality assurance framework and is part II in a series of three documents produced by WP4 specifying metrics and processes for quality assurance in the PII framework.
This document defines architectural extensions for technical contract assurance and covers metrics for resource assessment, ITIL based processes for IT management in Panlab, security policies for testbed providers and quality management for business development for the Panlab federation.

Deliverable 4.1 Testbed Quality Description: Criteria and Metrics

The Panlab Infrastructure Implementation (PII) project develops a framework for the dynamic composition of distributed testing environments. PII will link up academic and industrial partners to speed up development and deployment of new services and technologies in the telecommunications area by providing a platform to compose testing resources and to create distributed testbeds. In such a complex organization and architecture, the Quality Assurance process is an important issue which means that PII has defined an organizational structure, assigned responsibilities, described the main processes, procedures and allocated resources for implementing and running the testbed. (this including testbed quality control functions). The goal of this document is, therefore, to give an overview of the Quality Assurance “best practices” to be implemented on the PII platform to guarantee all testbed users the expected level of quality of service in response to their requirements.

Deliverable 3.3 Testbed Orchestration System Specification

This deliverable comprises the specification of the testbed orchestration system and is part of the specification of Teagle. The orchestration system is used to allow users to express requests on the federated testing environment. These requests are mapped over existing services exposed by the testbed. In the general case, more than one testbed is used, which requires means for combining and synchronizing various unconnected components. The testbed orchestration system provides the facility for achieving such collaborative process, starting from the user request definition to the actual execution of an orchestration script.
The document firstly provides a list of requirements. The following section provides a state of the art on pre-existing languages and tools for the specification and the implementation of services orchestrations. Then, the document explains the essentials of the model driven engineering approach, as it is expected to play an important role. Finally, it describes the specification of the orchestration system in the form of a list of entities and reference points. The orchestration system roughly consists of a front end - with graphical tools and an intelligent request interpreter facility - and a back-end: the orchestration engine with code generation and execution facilities. It is connected to the rest of the Teagle architecture by repositories and interfaces.

Deliverable 3.2 Testbed Service Description Specification

This deliverable comprises the specification of the service description system and is part of the specification of Teagle. Break down the requirements from Task 3.1 into technical requirements for the specification of testbed services description system. The specification will be linked closely with the architecture work developed in task T2.1. Develop an advanced service description system based on the requirements and the specification. Implement the core functionalities of the description system.

Deliverable 3.1r Revised System Analysis Report

The project Pan European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (PII) addresses the need for largescale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds among innovations clusters. It builds upon the Panlab Specific Support Action which received funding by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme. This document analyses the existing testbeds hosted by PII partner organizations. These testbeds are the foundation of the PII federation and represent the available infrastructure.
This revised version of the deliverable lists the Panlab Community testbeds that form the surrounding ecosystem and represent potential Panlab Partner testbeds. Furthermore, resources from those testbeds that provide components for the September 2009 demonstration are described with the technical means (UML) used by the Teagle components.

Deliverable 3.1 System Analysis Report

The project Pan European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (PII) addresses the need for largescale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds among innovations clusters. It builds upon the Panlab Specific Support Action which received funding by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme. This document analyses the existing testbeds hosted by PII partner organizations. These testbed are the foundation of the PII federation and represent the available infrastructure.

Deliverable 3.5 Testbed Service Orchestration System Implementation

The project Pan European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (PII) addresses the need for large scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds among innovations clusters. It builds upon the Panlab Specific Support Action which received funding by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme. Deliverable 3.5 Testbed Service Orchestration System Implementation This document is part of the documentation on the Teagle_v1.0 prototype. It describes the Teagle VCT Tool, the Orchestration Engine, the Request Processor, and the Teagle Gateway on a very high level. Also, it provides the links to the online installations of the running prototypes as footnotes where appropriate.

Deliverable 3.4 Testbed Service Description System Implementation

The project Pan European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (PII) addresses the need for large scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds among innovations clusters. It builds upon the Panlab Specific Support Action which received funding by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme. This document is part of the documentation on Teagle_v1.0. It describes the Teagle Portal and the Teagle Repository on a high level. Also, it provides the links to the online installations of the running prototypes as footnotes where appropriate.

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This document contains material, which is the copyright of certain PII consortium parties, and may not be reproduced or copied without permission. All PII consortium parties have agreed to make this document available on request to other framework programme participants. The commercial use of any information contained in this document may require a license from the proprietor of that information.Neither the PII consortium as a whole, nor a certain party of the PII consortium warrant that the information contained in this document is capable of use, or that use of the information is free from risk, and accept no liability for loss or damage suffered by any person using this information.

Deliverable 2.3 Specification of the Network Agnostic Environments

The main outcome of Task 2.3 is the realization of the Panlab Testbed Manager (PTM) communication framework and network agnostic environment that allows resources and testbed offerings to join the federation through the instantiation of the corresponding Resource Adapters. The concept of the PTM operation is aligned with the need for the provision of a common way for orchestrating resources not only from the installation and configuration point of view but also from the network connectivity perspective. The operation of PTM is aligned with the Teagle VCT design and orchestration concepts.

Deliverable 2.2 Interoperability Framework

This deliverable describes the framework that outlines the interoperability operations and mechanisms required in order for the Teagle tool to offer services across a heterogeneous constellation of cluster networks.

Deliverable 2.1 Technical Infrastructure Specification

The main issue to be discussed in Task 2.1 is how the technical infrastructure and the services of the innovation and the satellite clusters will be federated within a common communication framework. D2.1 will describe the mechanisms that will allow the development of a common layered architecture featuring compatible interfaces for services configuration and execution.

Deliverable 1.3 Iteration on Legal Requirements with Stakeholders in the Clusters

The aim of this deliverable is to define Panlab legal framework in details, in order to provide legal base for operation of future Panlab Federation of testbeds. In order to define a set of legal documents, which is necessary to ensure a smooth operation of Panlab testbed federation, Panlab Charter and Requirements on Articles of Associations documents, referring Panlab Organisation as described in Panlab SSA project, were reviewed and approved by PII project consortium. Panlab legal documents are defined to establish appropriate legal rules, ensuring interconnection of the testbeds and realisation of various testing projects, where main intention is establishment and implementation of all legal rules in accordance within simple procedures, creating an easy way to deal with all necessary legal agreements. Thus, the federation contracts, consisting of so-called interconnection and testing contracts, are created by PII consortium, ensuring a simple and clear legal procedure for joining the Panlab federation and using its testing services. Besides federation contracts, several specific legal documents are drafted considering confidentiality rules, IPR issues, regulation of access rights, termination for breach rules, conflict resolution, and liability definition.

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This document contains material, which is the copyright of certain PII consortium parties, and may not be reproduced or copied without permission. All PII consortium parties have agreed to make this document available on request to other framework programme participants. The commercial use of any information contained in this document may require a license from the proprietor of that information.Neither the PII consortium as a whole, nor a certain party of the PII consortium warrant that the information contained in this document is capable of use, or that use of the information is free from risk, and accept no liability for loss or damage suffered by any person using this information.

Deliverable 1.2 Considerations on User Driven Innovation (1st version)

User-driven innovation is a way to benefit from the revolution of users enabled by ICT and information society: to create what sells and benefit from what’s been co-created. Markets converge globally in terms of knowledge sharing and access, consumers are more and more aware of all options, their own value too. Markets are however heterogeneous due to their cultural and political uniqueness. The global race is tight, who gets the biggest share fastest survives. Managing users’ needs, priorities, habits and commitment is critical. Involving users within the R&D cycle tackles this elementary aspect. Market research or beta-testing are commonly known methods, but having the user in the driver’s seat of the engineering project may sound utopia still today. However, do you know who wrote your mobile phone’s latest games?

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This document contains material, which is the copyright of certain PII consortium parties, and may not be reproduced or copied without permission. All PII consortium parties have agreed to make this document available on request to other framework programme participants. The commercial use of any information contained in this document may require a license from the proprietor of that information.Neither the PII consortium as a whole, nor a certain party of the PII consortium warrant that the information contained in this document is capable of use, or that use of the information is free from risk, and accept no liability for loss or damage suffered by any person using this information.

Deliverable D1.1 Use Case Descriptions (1st version)

The scope of the outsourced testing, realised in the framework of Panlab testbed federation and PII project implementing the necessary infrastructure, is to satisfy the testing needs of different user groups, addressing a wide range of functionalities, from user applications and services to network components, protocols and whole network settings. Outlined targeted users of such outsourced testing are network operators, service providers, manufacturers of networking components, as well as universities and other technology and research centres. On the other hand, manufacturers of test equipment are involved by offering necessary testing platforms.
In order to provide a basis for the PII project to specify requirements for its infrastructure, and with it, for working directions within its technical workpackages, seven use cases are chosen and described in this deliverable. These are grouped into three classes: Outsourced Testing and Testbeds, Test of Services and Applications, and Interoperability, Conformance and Certification testing. Each use case is followed by references to expected impact on research of the Future Internet, market potential, and evolution of the Panlab Office.