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The STRONGEST project (“Scalable, Tunable and Resilient Optical Networks Guaranteeing Extremely-high Speed Transport”) was approved within the 4th Call of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (Theme 2009.1.1 “The Network of the Future”) and was started on Jan 1st, 2010, based on Contract Number: INFSO-ICT 247674. The purpose of this deliverable is to describe the STRONGEST content, explicating and detailing the scope, the objectives, the workplan and the expected impact of the Project in the European telecommunication industry and research. Additional information about the Consortium composition, possible cooperations with other projects and a summary of practical information are also provided.
After a short survey on European gender policy in research programmes, female participation in European projects, and beneficiaries’ recruitment policy, this document illustrates the gender actions that have been planned by the STRONGEST project to ensure non-discriminatory behaviours and to increase opportunities for women inside the Project. This Plan, that has been approved by the General Assembly, starts from a diagnosis of gender status at the Project kick-off, and indicates objectives and specific actions to improve the female condition inside the Project. The plan also briefly describes other gender related activities like monitoring of gender actions, collection of statistical gender data and dissemination of gender actions.
Proper planning of coordination, dissemination and standardization is essential in a large project like STRONGEST, that is based on a collaborative work where the multiplicity of contributors and the complexity of objectives, if too loosely run, could lead to poor consistency, inefficient use of resources and partially or totally missed objectives. The present document describes the organization tools and the specific actions that have been devised, agreed and planned by the consortium to ensure a satisfactory coordination, both for the technical activities, and for the communication ones – namely dissemination, training and contributions to standardization.
The STRONGEST WP3 on “end-to-end solutions for efficient networks” aims at providing efficient solutions to support end-to-end service delivery crossing domains that are heterogeneous in terms of networking technologies, control plane models, and vendors/operators.
The activities reported here are focused on medium-term network scenarios which address the interworking between heterogeneous GMPLS-controlled networks such as WSON and MPLS-TP networks. The corresponding tasks are dedicated to the definitions of (1) the network reference scenarios, (2) the OAM reference model, (3) the control plane
reference architecture, and (4) the end-to-end services.
This report summarizes the basic requirements for future transport networks and the architecture evolutionary steps towards mid term and long term scenarios, resulting from specific studies carried out by Task 2.1. The main characteristics of the existing network infrastructures, as supplied by the operators belonging to the Project, are then described. Traffic forecasts both for the medium and long term are then given, together with a traffic model that can provide the traffic matrices. All these outcomes will be used as basis for further conceptual, dimensioning and optimization studies to be carried out by the Project on large multi-domain transport networks.
The STRONGEST WP3 on “end-to-end solutions for efficient networks” aims at providing an efficient end-to-end control plane architecture for single/multi domain, single/multi region and single/multi carrier networks.The activities reported in this deliverable focus on medium-term network scenario, which addresses the inter-working between heterogeneous GMPLS-controlled networks.In particular, this document reports the activities carried out in the context of: (1) OAM parameters and mechanisms, (2) control plane architectures, solutions and proposed extensions (with specific target on the PCE architecture) and (3) end-to-end services and traffic admittance solutions.
This deliverable describes the network functionalities to be implemented and experimentally validated inSTRONGEST. D4.1 also outlines the architectural design of both medium and long term network prototypes.
The present document describes the technical coordination, dissemination and standardization activities that have been carried out in the STRONGEST project during its first year of life. Such activities have been realized under the responsibility of Workpackage 5 “Technical coordination, dissemination and standardization”.
Inside the STRONGEST project the Work Package 3 (WP3) “End-to-end solutions for efficient networks” is developing architectures and concepts for OAM, traffic admittance and especially for a unified control plane matching the requirements of next generation transport networks, as envisaged by the Project evolutionary scenarios.
This deliverable focuses on the control plane solutions that have been conceived, studied and developed for the medium-term network scenarios. In this context the emphasis is on the PCE concept, which provides solutions for different multi-layer and multi-domain challenges. Furthermore, this document also elaborates on first results about long-term scenarios. Additionally the activities carried out in the second year of the STRONGEST project regarding OAM, producing the definition of inter-carrier requirements, and traffic admittance concepts, generating the new "G-RACS" architecture, are reported.
The present document describes the technical coordination, dissemination and standardization activities that have been carried out in the STRONGEST project during its second year of life. Such activities have been realized under the responsibility of Workpackage 5 “Technical coordination, dissemination and standardization”.
This deliverable draft describes the status and presents experimental results of network prototypes related to both STRONGEST medium term as well as long term network scenarios.
The multi-domain network scenario is expected to be a fundamental part of new operators' network deployments, given the fact that an operator's network may include several equipment vendors and the idea that segmenting the network into domains is a means to increase the overall scalability.
A core part of the control plane is the Path Computation Function, which involves the computation of the route and its attributes for a new connection request. In the multi-domain context, when the sequence of domains involved in the Path Computation is known, a cooperative path computation was defined and standardized by the IETF: the Backward Recursive Path Computation .
For arbitrary domain meshes, the domain selection may be delegated to a higher-level entity (a parent PCE). This introduces a notion of hierarchy amongst the PCEs which is the basis for new path computation architectures.
This deliverable details the conception of such architectures, as well as the required control plane extensions (in a liaison with WP3) and performance evaluation of the implementation carried out by the CTTC of a hierarchical PCE (H-PCE).
The present document, titled Final results on novel packet based Petabit transport networks fulfilling scalability, quality, cost and energy efficiency requirements is the STRONGEST work-package 2 (Network efficiency and optimization) conclusive deliverable. It includes not only the results from WP2, but reflects also the impact of achievements from work-package 3 (End-to-end solutions for efficient networks) and feedbacks from experimental activities carried out in work-package 4 (Network prototypes implementation and demonstration). In more details, the document summarizes the main activities, and corresponding outcomes, carried out in STRONGEST, encompassing the conception and assessment of end-to-end scalable hybrid photonic/electronic network architectures based on: the definition of network requirements and reference scenarios, the selection of data plane technologies for best performance and energy efficiency, the identification of principles and mechanisms for efficient network operation and QoS provisioning, and the final numerical assessment and benchmarking of the proposed architectures and solutions. Migration strategies from existing networks to future converged, packet based architectures deploying STRONGEST solutions will be described, as well.
In this report the final results of the activities carried out in STRONGEST WP3 (“End-to-end solutions for efficient networks”) are presented. Specifically, routing and restoration mechanisms according to the PCE multi-domain architecture, solutions for end-to-end survivability, new OAM parameters and solutions as well as traffic admittance schemes for the data plane architecture defined in WP2 are described. Moreover, performance analysis of the different proposed solutions and their integration in network solutions are also presented, as well as OAM interoperability analysis.
This work describes synthetically the main results that have been achieved by STRONGEST during its three years lifetime and the plans to exploit them. Such results mainly refer to open network models, midterm network architecture, long-term network architecture and node architecture. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are then correspondingly described, proper roadmaps are identified, and finally the individual exploitation plans of all industrial partners are described.
At the beginning of its activity STRONGEST planned its effort to ensure non-discriminatory gender behaviours and to increase opportunities for women. Throughout the Project lifetime this positive attitude has been maintained, as far as possible, in spite of the world-wide harsh economic conditions that prevented the involved companies from a full deployment of the foreseen actions. This attention ensured a highly qualified presence (even though numerically limited) of women in the Project. The document briefly describes the evolution of the gender situation throughout the three years Project lifetime, and presents the corresponding statistical gender data.
D4.4 "experimental validation ov STRONGEST network prototypes: results and analysis", December 2012
This deliverable presents and analyzes the main results obtained in the experimental validation of STRONGEST network prototypes related to both STRONGEST medium term as well as long term network scenarios.
D5.4 "coordination, dissemination and stadardization activities in year 3", December 2012
The present document describes the technical coordination, dissemination and standardization activities that have been carried out in the STRONGEST project during its third and last year of life. Such activities have been realized under the responsibility of Workpackage 5 “Technical coordination, dissemination and standardization”.
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