WP6 Overall Objective
• Study, design and simulation of the necessary algorithms for the implementation of the MANTYCHORE marketplace mechanism
– Enable the automatic negotiation and reservation of resources between users and providers.
• the capability to automatically select, orchestrate and reserve the best resources for a given request
• To use the marketplace in order to allow the NRENs to announce their own infrastructure as resources of
MANTYCHORE services
– Users from virtual research communities will be able to access resources from several providers

WP6 Structure
• WP6 leader: UEssex
• Duration M2-M20
• T6.1: Infrastructure marketplace mechanisms study and simulation
• T6.2: Implementation of the marketplace prototype
• Participants: UEssex, NORDUnet, i2CAT, TID
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• Total MM = 17
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0 i2CAT NORDUnet UEssex TID

WP6 Overall Plan and Current Status
M31
M0
T6.1
T6.2
M2 M14
M15 M20
MS20 MS21
D6.1
MS22
D6.2
Current @M6: status is according to plan

Technical Approach
• Study and analysis of existing and state of the art work (M2-M9)
• Definition of a market place based use case (M5-M7)
• Initial design of market place (M5-M9)
• Simulation and emulation analysis (M8-M20)
• Design finalization V1 (M15)
• Implementation (M15-M20)
• Design finalization V2 (M20)
(Green colour tasks have been started and progressing, Orange Colour tasks to be started)

Technical Progress
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– Review of projects and framework relevant to L3 virtualization and virtual IP resource allocation
• XBONE
• PLanetLab
• VIOLIN
• AUTOI
• AGAVE
– Review of existing network brokering mechanisms
• Internet2 approach: NARB (Network Aware Resource Broker)
• Grid approach: Market-Oriented Grid algorithms

Technical Progress
• Definition of market place based use case (M5-M7)
– The use case will be based on UK Ultra-high Definition (UHD) consortium network infrastructure
• The UK Ultra-high Definition (UHD) consortium is a networked infrastructure for the development and deployment of next generation networked multimedia applications and services. It consists of five members namely: University of Essex (Essex), University of Strathclyde
(Glasgow), Digital Design Studio (Glasgow), University of Cardiff (Cardiff), and Technium CAST (Bangor).
• The current setup is made up of three networked nodes – Essex, Glasgow, and Cardiff – which are interconnected via the JANET UK network, and is investigating the development and deployment of interactive UHD 3D media applications in the medical and cultural heritage/ virtual tourism domains.

Technical Progress
• Definition of market place based use case (M5-M7)
– Use case emulated infrastructure
Emulated Infrastrcuture2
Emulated Infrastrcuture1

Technical Progress
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– Use case emulated infrastructure
• There are two in depended emulated infrastructures
– Infrastructure 1: Ring
– Infrastructure 2: Star
– Edge devices (visualization + servers) are same in both infrastructure but for simplicity they are shown in separately. It means there are two independent providers (infrastructure) providing connectivity service for user to same edge devices/resource but the cost and QoS for each infrastructure is different
– This emulates two providers provisioning connectivity service to same set of visualization devices and computing servers
– Market place will facilitate resource brokerage, selection and negotiation for user request

Technical Progress
• Definition of market place based use case (M5-M7)
– Mantychore +Market place
Mantychore Market place in emulation
Mantychore software tools in emulation

Technical Progress
• Initial design of market place for starting and stimulating discussion and feedback from parterns
(M5-M9)
– Figure guide:
• Inp: infrastructure provider
• VNT: virtual network
• Sp: service provider ( requester of VNT)
– A document to be released on details of algorithm and designs
Resource advertisment (InPs)
General information, nodes locations, border nodes, prices,..
Resource classification and storage in the marketplace
VNT request by SP
VNT request analysis in the marketplace based on:
Demand and supply
VNT mapper (in the marketplace) is responsible for:
Coordination with InPs to map all the VNT
InP11
InP12
InP21
InP22
InP31
InP32
InP13 InP23 InP33
All VNT is mapped
OR Failure
All VNT is mapped
OR Failure
All VNT is mapped
OR Failure
Possible options aggregation with price of each option
VNT mapping acknowledgement and
Contract creation yes
SP acceptance on one option
No
No deal

Technical Progress
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– Simulation
• Large scale performance analysis and measurements for
MarketPlace algorithms
– Emulation
• Use case implementation
• Mantychore tools and software installation
• Market place algorithms deployment
• Interfacing (not integration) Market Place and Mantychore (end product of T6.1) tools and evaluation
• Deployment of integrated Mantychore and Market Place (end product of T6.2) and evaluation

Technical Progress
• Simulation and emulation (M8-M20)
– Simulation environment
• Development started based on OMnet++
Screen shot

Technical Progress
• Simulation and emulation (M8-M20)
– Emulation environment
• Preparation for emulated use case implementation has been started
– Based on UEssex TocuhStone Emulation facility
Screen shot
Emulation envirounment