Virtual federated network operations on future internet

Abstract

Federated network operations become more and more important and the central challenge for Future Internet testbeds around the world. This paper presents a framework that federates and operates the autonomous distributed networks (ADNs) in the perspective of virtual network operations and end-user oriented network management on end-to-end slices. In addition, we propose a virtual federated network (VFN) environment as a common federation interface between ADNs, associated with three key functionalities, that is, core network resource schema and representation, operational data exchanges, and federated network operations.