Gino Carrozzo

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Along with the adoption of 5G, the development of neutral host solutions provides a unique opportunity for mobile networks operators to accommodate the needs of emerging use-cases and in the consolidation of new business models. By exploiting the concept of network slicing, as one key enabler in the transition to 5G, infrastructure and service prov...

To reap its full benefits, 5G must evolve into a scalable decentralized architecture by exploiting intelligence ubiquitously and securely across different technologies, network layers, and segments. In this article, we propose end-to-end and ubiquitous secure machine learning (ML)-powered intent-based networking (IBN). The IBN framework is aware of...

To fully cope with the requirements of innovative 5G use cases, evolving business models and flexible networking scenarios spanning multiple administrative domains are envisioned. In this context, transparent and trusted frameworks that enable network service providers and infrastructure providers to advertise, negotiate and acquire, in real time,...

This white paper on AI and ML as enablers of beyond 5G (B5G) networks is based on contributions from 5G PPP projects that research, implement and validate 5G and B5G network systems. The white paper introduces the main relevant mechanisms in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), currently investigated and exploited for 5G and B5G...

The 5G network solutions currently standardised and deployed do not yet enable the full potential of pervasive networking and computing envisioned in 5G initial visions: network services and slices with different QoS profiles do not span multiple operators; security, trust and automation is limited. The evolution of 5G towards a truly production-le...

Upcoming 5G networks are a substantial leap in real converged networks as they support by design a wide range of different services, at scale, with very highly dynamic usage patterns, in massive density, low latency, and very high throughputs. Apart from the radio technology advancements, which will unleash new communication performances, 5G networ...

Today, users want more engaging and meaningful media experiences, especially localized to their context and community. Physical and virtual spaces are colliding, allowing mobile users to move between increasingly interactive and content-rich spaces, and to participate in co-creation of experiences that bring together digital and physical worlds. Us...

Smart cities are one of the most important 5G verticals due to their impact on people's life. The neutral host model is key for this vertical, specially to promote the infrastructure sharing between operators for a pervasive infrastructure deployment. However, it demands enhancements in today's virtualization technologies to support geographically...

Network slicing has been one of the hottest topics in standardization recently, as telecom operators are intensively investigating its usage for operating isolated and independently configurable logical networks, in order to ease and promote the network sharing and neutral hosting business. However, extensive deployments of slice management solutio...

The advent of 5G promises to unleash highly pervasive network coverage and density, increased data rate and capacity, optimized instantiation of virtualized resources in a multi-tenant and multi-service network capable of fulfilling the stringent requirements of various heterogeneous applications. Network slicing is a key enabler of 5G to allow mul...

Mobile broadband communication has pervaded the communication market, responding to the most common and compelling nowadays users’ needs for continued connectivity, fast browsing and audio/video streaming on handheld portable devices. Building on the 4G success through LTE and LTE-Advanced together with recent deployments in large-scale country-wid...

This report provides the FLAME Future Media Internet (FMI) vision in 2019. The vision considers the evolving landscape of media services and technological paradigms that inspire 5G. The deliverable provides updated descriptions of FLAME partner validation scenarios and media service use cases, which leverage the content delivery optimizations provi...

With the massive growth of cutting-edge media services such as Ultra-High Definition (UHD/4K) video and immersive media (i.e. Virtual and Augmented Reality-VR/AR), demand for large investments in a scalable, ubiquitous, and robust communication infrastructure and services increases enormously. The H2020 5GCity project aims to provide a solution for...

The focus of research into 5G networks to date has been largely on the required advances in network architectures, technologies and infrastructures. Less effort has been put on the applications and services that will make use of and exploit the flexibility of 5G networks built upon the concept of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functi...

5G services drive an evolution of network infrastructures towards optical technologies for more capacity, flexibility, and agile network slicing. The paper proposes a slicing and orchestration framework operating 5G infrastructures with SDM fronthaul.

The Internet of Things (IoT) today is a large set of technologies and platforms for sensor and actuation applications in smart-health, transportation, metering, city and building management, etc. Most of these IoT platforms are designed as isolated systems and are distributed across the composite space of devices, interconnected with complex contro...

5G network technologies are evolving in a tremendous pace, enhancing the potential for being adopted and exploited by vertical industries and serve advance networking requirements needs. Towards this direction, a set of 5G PPP projects are providing contributions for tackling aspects related to the overall lifecycle of 5G vertical applications desi...

Media applications are amongst the most demanding services in terms of resources, requiring huge network capacity for high bandwidth audio-visual and other mobile sensory streams. The 5G-MEDIA project aims at innovating media-related applications by investigating how these applications and the underlying 5G network should be coupled and interwork t...

The advent of virtualization and IaaS have revolutionized the telecom industry via SDN/NFV. A new wave of cloud-native PaaS promises to further improve SDN/NFV performance, portability, and cost-efficiency. In this poster, we highlight a work in progress being done in the 5G-MEDIA project [2], which pioneers the application of the serverless paradi...

Network slicing has emerged as a major new networking paradigm for meeting the diverse requirements of various vertical businesses in virtualised and softwarised 5G networks. SliceNet is a project of the EU 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G PPP) and focuses on network slicing as a cornerstone technology in 5G networks, and addresses...

Media applications are amongst the most demanding services in terms of resources, requiring huge network capacity for high bandwidth audio-visual and other mobile sensory streams. The 5G-MEDIA project aims at innovating media-related applications by investigating how these applications and the underlying 5G network should be coupled and interwork t...

System margin reduction, performance prediction, and multi-vendor interoperability in future optical networks will require proper and effective monitoring functionalities of optical network services. This interest in monitoring features is driving new investigations on the management plane and procedures, and also targeting emerging protocols such...

Botnets are one of the most powerful cyberthreats affecting continuity and delivery of existing network services. Detecting and mitigating attacks promoted by botnets become a greater challenge with the advent of 5G networks, as the number of connected devices with high mobility capabilities, the volume of exchange data, and the transmission rates...

5G networks are envisioned to support substantially more users than the current 4G does as a direct consequence of the anticipated large diffusion of Machine-2-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) interconnected devices, often with significantly higher committed data rates than general bandwidth currently available into Long Term Evolution (L...

This deliverable presents the developing vision of FLAME within the Future Media Internet (FMI). The FLAME FMI vision is described through use cases and scenarios for novel and high value media services to consumers and their combination with innovative infrastructure and network services. The vision addresses the changing nature of participation i...

The 5G infrastructure initiative in Europe¹ 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership, [Online]. Available here: https://5g-ppp.eu/ has agreed a number of challenging key performance indicators (KPIs) to significantly enhance the user experience and support a number of use cases with very demanding requirements on the network infrastructure. At...

This chapter proposes a next-generation ubiquitous converged infrastructure to support cloud and mobile cloud computing services. The proposed infrastructure facilitates efficient and seamless interconnection of fixed and mobile end users with computational resources through a heterogeneous network integrating optical metro and wireless access netw...

This paper proposes a novel control and management scheme for elastic optical networks. YANG model for device configuration is presented and the scheme is demonstrated in a control plane testbed including hierarchical management plane.

The Internet of Things is evolving around a plethora of vertical platforms, each specifically suited to a given scenario and often adopting proprietary communications, device and resource control protocols. The emerging need for cross-domain IoT applications and services highlights the necessity of interoperability across IoT platforms for a unifie...

The development of test environments as close as possible to the real world scenarios is becoming a fundamental requirement in designing innovative network applications. This environment must be fully configurable and reliable enough to provide similar results in multiple experiment runs. The federation of existing Future Internet (FI) testbeds is a...

An optical network, like any system, has to be observable before it can become subject to optimization, and this is the main capability that ORCHESTRA project introduces. ORCHESTRA's high observability will rely on information provided by the coherent transceivers that can be extended, almost for free, to operate as software defined optical perform...

Programmable networks are a substantial part of current R&D on future internet (FI) in Europe and worldwide, with considerable impact generated by large-scale test bed infrastructures. In such test beds, researchers validate proof-of-concept prototypes for new algorithms and mechanisms for efficiently controlling and managing network resources. One...

The coherent revolution has signalled in a new era for optical networks. Flexible transceivers (TRx) able to adapt a wide range of transport layer parameters such as modulation format, symbol rate, center wavelength, forward error correction (FEC), etc., are the key enabling components that will finally deliver on the promise of dynamic network ope...

International cooperation on Software-Defined Networking (SDN), crossing the boundaries of Europe, the Americas and Asia, builds a strong foundation for pursuing experimental research through advanced programmable network testbeds. The EU-Japan jointly-funded project FELIX (FEderated Testbeds for Large-scale Infrastructure eXperiments) considers th...

Network control architectures of datacentres and backbone/transit domains are deeply changing with Software Defined Networking. This paper presents an architectural framework for end-to-end cloud service orchestration across datacentre, metro and core network infrastructures. OCIS codes: (060.4250) Networks, (060.1155) All-optical networks

Today's Internet is a concatenation of IP networks interconnected by many distributed functions integrated into a plethora of highly specialized middleboxes. These elements implement complex network functions like firewalls, NATs, DPI, traffic scrubbing, etc. The product is a quite complex and rigid internetworking system in which network administr...

This paper reports on the first user/application-driven multi-technology optical sub-wavelength network for intra/inter Data-Centre (DC) communications. Two DCs each with distinct sub-wavelength switching technologies, frame based synchronous TSON and packet based asynchronous OPST are interconnected by a WSON inter-DC communication. The intra/inte...

BonFIRE offers a Future Internet, multi-site, cloud testbed, targeted at the Internet of Services community, that supports large scale testing of applications, services and systems over multiple, geographically distributed, heterogeneous cloud testbeds. The aim of BonFIRE is to provide an infrastructure that gives experimenters the ability to contr...

Carriers usually deploy traffic engineering (TE) technologies coupled with network control plane protocol suites, such as MPLS and GMPLS, to offer value added network connectivity services to their customers. However, automated Quality of Service across multiple carriers still remains a challenge for Network Service Providers, and many stumbling bl...

This paper reports on the first user/application-driven multi-technology optical sub-lambda intra/inter Data-Centre (DC) network demonstration. Extended GMPLS-PCE controls two heterogeneous intra-DC optical sub-lambda networks to deliver dynamic and guaranteed data transfer of ultra-low latency ($<$270?s) and jitter ($<$10?s) for end-to-end service...

This paper proposes an innovative metro mesh optical node and a two fold control plane architectural solution composed of vertically interoperable subwavelength enabled GMPLS and TSON layers. Experimental results demonstrate very high throughput (8.68 Gbps) low latency ($<$160 ?s) and low ($<$25 ?s) jitter performance of the node. GMPLS protocol ex...

This report defines the ETICS architecture which is the high level representation of main building blocks to establish assured-quality network connectivity across different networks owned by different providers. This end-to-end inter carrier connectivity is aimed to be established in a dynamic and automated way, whils t allowing the various provid...

This paper proposes a new Metro Network Architecture based on two key technological pillars: the subwavelength optical switching technologies in the Data Plane (i.e. optical bursts and packets), and an enhanced GMPLS architecture in the Control Plane to extend network control to the subwavelengths, and ease the interworking of network and IT resour...

This article presents a new end-to-end architecture model that will enable the deployment of a plethora of different multimedia services from diverse suppliers competitively coexisting over a common access and home networking environment. The model is focused on personal multimedia communication services and terminals. The proposed model is a segme...

This paper presents a programmable multi-granular optical cross connect (MG-OXC) and network architecture deployable in multi-service and multi-provider networks. The concept of programmable MG-OXC is introduced to provide a way of utilizing multiple switching/transport granularities to efficiently support the emerging traffic demands in both core...

Purpose This article seeks to introduce the concept of the Grid‐GMPLS control plane architecture with focus on new services, models, and interoperability issues of Grid‐GMPLS (G ² MPLS) and GMPLS control planes. The purpose of this activity is to design, implement and test extensions of the GMPLS Control Plane that can enable the paradigm of a G ²...

G²MPLS is a network control plane architecture that implements the concept of grid network services. In the framework of the 1ST Phosphorus project, GNS allows the provisioning of network and grid resources in a single step through a set of seamlessly integrated procedures. The implementation of GNS imposes a number of requirements in th...

Grid-GMPLS (G²MPLS) is conceived as a powerful network control plane solution that enhances the standard ASON/GMPLS architecture providing single-step resource reservation, co-allocation and maintenance of both network and Grid resources. This paper identifies and discusses the main issues and considerations that arise by network researc...

This paper presents some instantiations of novel application-aware network architectures for emerging IT services and future Internet applications. It proposes and analyses network architectures where the Control and Service Planes are closely and seamlessly interacting with the applications. One instantiation, the Grid-GMPLS (G2MPLS, as defined by...

This paper presents the architecture of the phosphorus grid-enabled GMPLS (G²MPLS) network control plane that implements the concept of grid network services provisioning through a set of seamlessly integrated procedures.

This paper presents the architecture of the Phosphorus Grid-enabled GMPLS (G2MPLS) Network Control Plane that implements the concept of Grid Network Services provisioning through a set of seamlessly integrated procedures. Postprint (published version)

Over the past few years it has become evident that local computational resources cannot keep up with the demands generated by some users/applications and distributed computing using the concept of a computational grid is proposed as the solution. An example is emerging scientific applications that couple scientific instruments, data and high-end co...

This paper presents a QoS evaluation in a DiffServ experimental test-bed scenario. We implemented our field trial using prototypal routers running under Linux OS and we arranged them in order to make possible the interconnection with a remote island of a Multi-domain DiffServ network. The performance evaluation of Real-time applications presented i...

The paper presents a novel end-to-end seamless framework to support end-to-end Quality of Service and Traffic Engineering. The network model is based on the MPLS/DiffServ paradigm and addresses the definition of a network architecture according to both users and network providers requirements. A first solution relies on the central- ized MPLS/DiffS...

The GMPLS standardization is paving the way for new configurable Traffic Engineering (TE) policies and new survivability schemes for transport networks. In this context, a centralized Path Computation System (PCS) has been implemented, suited for transport networks with a GMPLS control plane. After a brief description of the requirements for a PCS...

The GMPLS standardization is paving the way for the implementation of new configurable traffic engineering (TE) policies for transport networks. This paper takes aim at evaluating the effects of using bandwidth-dependent TE metrics in a centralized Path Computation System (PCS), suited for handling the routing requests in an operational transport n...

Automatic provisioning and recovery of lightpaths with selectable traffic engineering policies are considered basic features of near future optical transport networks (OTN). Worldwide researchers recognize generalized multi-protocol label switching (GMPLS) architecture as the viable control plane solution to achieve these issues in OTN. Growing eff...

This paper presents a QoS evaluation in a DiffServ experimental test-bed scenario. We implemented our field trial using prototypal routers running under Linux OS and we arranged them in order to make possible the interconnection with a remote island of a Multi-domain DiffServ network. The performance evaluation of Real-time applications presented i...

This paper proposes a new Metro Network Architecture based on two key technological pillars: the subwavelength optical switching technologies in the Data Plane (i.e. optical bursts and packets), and an enhanced GMPLS architecture in the Control Plane to extend network control to the subwavelengths, and ease the interworking of network and IT resour...