Federated network resource information management on Future Internet

Revolutionary Future Internet researches have been resolving the fundamental weakness of traditional Internet. As a part of Future Internet developments, the federation and management of distributed Future Internet testbeds is becoming the central challenge to support reliable end-to-end researches over inter-domain networks, countries, and even continents. Federated network resource operations and management on Future Internet need to meet at least two conditions based on the general definition of federation. First, multiple distributed network domains agree upon standards of network operations. Second, internal network operation of each domain is autonomous under its own control. Under the fundamental requirements, this paper presents a framework that federates and manages the resource information of autonomous distributed networks (ADNs) in the perspective of virtual network operations and end-user oriented network management on end-to-end network slices. In addition, we propose a virtual federated network (VFN) environment as a common federation interface between ADNs so that the core network resource information can be federated and provided to end users.