Miguel Ponce de Leon

VMware · Office of the CTO (Research & Innovation)

The management and transmission networks is becoming increasingly complex due to the proliferation of renewables-based distributed energy resources (DER). Existing control systems for DER are based on static specifications from interdependent network connection documents. Such systems are inflexible and their maintenance requires concerted effort b...

In traditional Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), dedicated intermediate nodes called load balancers are usually deployed in data centers in order to balance the load among multiple instances of application services and to optimize the resource utilization. But on the other hand, the addition of these nodes increases the installation and operatio...

Traditionally, network management tasks manually performed by system administrators include monitoring alarms based on collected statistics across many heterogeneous systems, correlating these alarms to identify potential problems or changes to management policies and responding by performing system re-configurations to ensure optimal performance o...

Open Source is an increasingly interesting vehicle for dissemination of project results within the R&D and ICT FP7 communities. PROSE, an FP7 ICT project, is promoting open source adoption by creating a software forge that provides project management, source code hosting, and development support for the ICT and European open source projects. In thi...

This article gives a brief overview of Aniketos, a large EU-funded Integrated project [1], funded under the 7th Framework programme, that aims to establish and maintain trustworthiness and secure behaviour in todays constantly changing service environment. It is looking at ways to assess what level of trust should exist between entities. This offer...

With the threat of natural energy resources being significantly depleted and, coupled with the global drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ICT communications can help to provide solutions for increased and more efficient energy usage. If electricity is produced more and more from renewable resources then the CO2 emissions from energy generatio...

One of the biggest problems of todays Internet is the explosion of the size of the routing tables of Internet core routers, especially due to the growth of multi-homed hosts and networks. This paper explains the benefits that the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) brings to network service providers in terms of routing scalability: with an...

The Internet, undoubtedly, is the most influential technical invention of the 20th century that affects and constantly changes all aspects of our day-to-day lives nowadays. Although it is hard to predict its long-term consequences, the potential future of the Internet definitely relies on future Internet research. Prior to every development and dep...

The evolution of various wireless technologies has greatly increased the interest in heterogeneous networks, in which the mobile users can enjoy services while roaming between different networks. The current Internet architecture does not seem to cope with the modern networking trends and the growing application demands for performance, stability a...

The aim of this paper is to look at the deficiencies of the current Internet architecture, consider a deeper understanding on why the current architecture is failing to provide solutions and contrast the traditional beliefs on networking with new ones, coming from a network architecture based on the fundamentals. First, we briefly introduce the ear...

The most successful MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) model in practice today is the service provider model in which the MVNO appears to be a mobile network operator in its own right and sells comparable voice and data services to those of the underlying network operator. This model has been successful as the mobile operator and the MVNO can c...

The current Internet is built on a set of protocols, but exhibits problems in supporting applications. The network is optimised for best-effort traffic, but other functional aspects are widely neglected. Applying concepts well-known in software engineering (abstraction, composition, separation of concerns) to design the future Internet architecture...

“Tenet 1: Let 1000 networks bloom”. This is the first principle of the EU IST project 4WARD and sets out one of the primary goals of this project – to explore new approaches that will allow present and future networks to be interoperable within a common architectural framework. As part of our work, we propose a software architecture for the future...

Wireless mesh networks are in the focus of research for more than a decade. After a short simulation based research period, several testbeds have been set up for the study of particular research topics. As wireless mesh networks are entering a phase ...

Whitepaper in second future internet cluster workshop The FP7 project 4WARD is promoting a mobility concept integrated in the service and network infrastructure of a Future Internet. Starting from a business-motivated analysis of mobility aspects in future networks, we present a summary of the main project achievements and findings with respect to...

The current Internet, while successful in many aspects, has a set of associated architectural and business problems that threaten its stability and inhibit new advances, such as seamlessly supporting ubiquitous computing applications. This paper proposes a set of autonomic mechanisms that can manage the future Internet. The context-aware governance...

Recent endeavors in addressing the challenges of the current and future Internet pursue a clean slate design methodology. Simultaneously, it is argued that the Internet is unlikely to be changed in one fell swoop and that its next generation requires an evolutionary design approach. Recognizing both positions, we claim that cleanness and evolution...

Daidalos II [1] works towards its overall mission of providing a beyond 3G Framework that is capable of supporting pervasive services built on network and service infrastructures for mobile end users. In order to validate such a framework, Daidalos worked towards the completion of a prototype demonstrator was verified on a Daidalos specific testbed...

The vision of the Celtic-Initiative project Madeira is to provide novel technologies for a logically meshed Network Management System that facilitates self-management and dynamic behaviour of nodes within networks. These approaches should enable adaptable services and the management of network elements of increasing number, heterogeneity and transi...

Future communication networks will be composed of a diversity of highly heterogeneous network variants, ranging from energy constrained wireless sensor networks to large-scale wide area networks. The fact that the size and complexity of such networks will experience tremendous growth will eventually render existing traditional network management pa...

Current network management systems have been impeded by a scarcity of open standards for interoperable management solutions. Information models have made progress in promoting interoperability of traditional “centralised” networks but have still to significantly address the proliferation of next generation networks such as autonomic networks. Such...

The project 4WARD 1 addresses the challenges of future net- works by combining innovative networking concepts that go beyond the evolution of the contemporary Internet. The aim is to revolutionize in particular the current way of communica- tion over wireless for mobile applications. In this position paper, we discuss how the role of mobility has b...

Current architectures and solutions are about to reach the limits of sustainable developments. Over the years, many new requirements have emerged, and there are observations pointing to an ever-increasing diversity in applications, services, devices, types of networks at the edge and the access. Meanwhile, the infrastructures for internetworking, c...

The Daidalos Testbed integration framework required detailed planning and implementation, constantly adapting to the demanding changes of a research project as it advances from development phase to integration phase. This paper describes the various integration and validation efforts required to deploy an operational Daidalos Testbed infrastructure...

Today, new ways of constructing and delivering complex wireless and mobile services require more elaborate and distributed prototyping, testing, and validation facilities. Testbeds are becoming an important tool for integrating technology components into the complex environment of the wireless world and end-users in their daily life. However techno...

This paper presents a model for securing mobile services using heterogeneous access networks, and implementing sample solutions using this framework. This is a project that is defining new security models and policies to address the new issues of the pervasive computing world. The security models and policies are implemented over IPv6 infrastructur...

This paper discusses the challenges of large scale integration within the context of the massive collaborative mobile & wireless systems beyond 3G research project Daidalos. It first examines the relationship of the Daidalos architecture. It then identifies an integration model that was used for the project, with an overview of the testing processe...

For large scale research projects operational over a phased timeframe of 2 years or more, the need to take a step back and evaluate their stance and direction is an important activity in providing relevant feedback and recommendations to guide the project towards success in its consecutive phase. The identification of measurable goals and evaluatio...

In order to quantify the value creation of Living Labs and their networks, a set of value-adding services has been derived. During the course of CoreLabs' project activities in co-operation with emerging and established Living Labs, some pertinent questions regarding the service benefits of Living Labs were posed. Based on experiences and requireme...

Despite its success, the current Internet considered management only as an afterthought, and was mainly limited to device monitoring and configuration management. Management has been inhibited by the proliferation of vendor-specific data models and programming languages. Future Internet management will be even more demanding due to the large increa...