Network related topics

1. Network related topics • Bartosz Belter, Wojbor Bogacki, Marcin Garstka, • Maciej Głowiak, Radosław Krzywania, • Roman Łapacz • FABRIC meeting • Poznań, 25 September 2006

2. Network related topics in WP2.1 • To make the GRID gateway aware of the available transmission resources • To monitor the state of the network and use it as one of the decision criteria for the GRID gateway • To reserve the bandwidth needed for data transmission end secure the QoS parameters of the transmission

3. The goal of Quality of Service (QoS) in the network is the ability to provide an improved networkservice by providing dedicated bandwidth with controlled loss, latency and latency variationcharacteristics. Quality of Service • Why QoS? • Applications sensitive to delay, delay variation or packet loss • Real time control from remote sites (astronomy, medicine) (synchronous, no packet loss) • Guaranteed capacity. • QoS parameters: • one-way delay • one-way packet delay variation • capacity • packet loss

4. Tools for bandwidth reservations • Two network technologies available: • IP routed transmission over GÉANT2 and NRENs (limited capacity, wide availability) • Dedicated lightpaths in GÉANT2 and other networks (unlimited capacity, limited availability) • Different tools for bandwidth reservations in the two technologies: • AMPS for Premium IP Service in IP routed networks • BoD for optical networks • Both tools developed by GN2 project for implementation in GÉANT and NRENs

5. Premium IP and AMPS • Premium IP service • Premium IP traffic has priority over other traffic (best-effort) • Premium IP traffic gets the best possible QoS parameters • The amount of Premium IP traffic on a given link must be limited • Service must be booked in advance • Advance Multi-domain Provisioning System (AMPS) • Federated resource reservation system for Premium IP • Multidomain - an authenticated and authorized client can, via a single request, reserve an end-to-end path across multiple federated domains

6. Advance Multi-domain Provisioning SystemFeatures • Service Oriented Architecture • Web Services technology in use: interfaces specified in XML • Services: • Inter-domain Provisioning Service (multi-domain) • Intra-domain Provisioning Service (single-domain) • Network Information System (Layer 3 Topology) / Pathfinder Service • Policy Service • Multi-domain peer-to-peer federated architecture • Domains aware of their neighbours only • Trust relationship established between AMPS neighbours • Transaction Management • One-Phase-Commit

7. Multidomain Premium IP – current status and plans • AMPS version 2.0 • Operational in GÉANT2(mutli-domain ready) • Premium IP Pilot Service to be ready soon: • ARNES, HEAnet, LITNET, RENATER • NRENs’ plans Source: TERENA 2005 Compendium

8. Optical networks and Bandwidth on Demand • Optical transmission is available in part of GÉANT2 (GÉANT+ service) and in some NRENs • User’s transmission directly on optical network (without IP routing) • Access interfaces: Gigabit Ethernet, 10Gigabit Ethernet, SDH • Bandwidth up to 10Gbps for a single connection • Advanced reservation needed • Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) service developed in GÉANT2 for automatic reservations and provisioning of bandwidth in multiple technologies: • GFP over SDH, L2 MPLS VPN, Native Ethernet, Premium IP • BoD service is under development (not available yet but prototype already tested) • BoD service will allow for a single reservation for multiple domains

9. BoD service in a heterogeneous network

10. Network monitoring and measurement- PerfSONAR • Developed by GN2 project, Internet2 (USA), ESnet (USA), RNP (Brasil), University of Delavare • Infrastructure for network performance monitoring, making it easier to solve end-to-end performance problems on paths crossing several networks. • Set of services delivering performance measurements in a federated environment. • Well-defined common interface to measurement/monitoring services is a network • Implemented services: ping (round trip time), iperf (throughput), ovamp (one way delay); others under preparation • Data repository for historical data • Measurement points in a network; measurements can be triggered by user/application • First measurements points already implemented in GÉANT2

11. Implementation example- CLUSTERIX • Polish national research project started at the end of 2003 • To create productive, efficient and secure GRID environment • 12 local clusters connected via national network (dedicated 1GE links) • PSNC is leading network related task – including active measurement and monitoring • The result – an integrated tool able to track and show the status of the network • Measurement agents controlled by a central manager • Two types of agents – backbone agents (in the network core) and local agents (withing computing clusters) • Five network parameters are collected: packet round-trip time, jitter, loss, packet reordering, packet duplications • Applications have access to the measured values but they do not trigger measurements

12. Conclusions • Our goal – to develop a network module for the GRID gateway – with interfaces to the services which are available in the network • The module will make the GRID gateway aware of the status of the network and will interface the management plane of the network to ensure the needed transmission parameters • Requirements for data transmission must be specified (bandwidth requirements, number of simultaneous transmissions, duration of a single transmission etc.)!!!