Secured autonomic traffic management for a Tera of SDN flows

Informations projet

TeraFlow

N° de convention de subvention: 101015857

DOI

10.3030/101015857

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 16 Decembre 2020

Date de début 1 Janvier 2021

Date de fin 30 Juin 2023

Financé au titre de

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Coût total

€ 5 865 803,75

Contribution de l’UE

€ 5 865 803,75

Coordonné par

CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - TeraFlow (Secured autonomic traffic management for a Tera of SDN flows)

Période du rapport: 2022-01-01 au 2023-06-30

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

TeraFlow has created a new type of secure cloud-native transport SDN controller that will radically advance the state-of-the-art in beyond 5G and 6G networks: ETSI TeraFlowSDN. This new SDN controller is able to integrate with the current NFV and MEC frameworks as well as to provide revolutionary features for both flow management (service layer) and optical/microwave network equipment integration (infrastructure layer), while incorporating security using Machine Learning (ML) and forensic evidence for multi-tenancy based on Distributed Ledgers.
The target pool of stakeholders expands beyond the traditional telecom operators towards edge and hyperscale cloud providers. These actors benefit from TeraFlowSDN by a) exploiting a new type of secure SDN controller based on cloud-native solutions while, b) achieving substantial business agility with novel and highly dynamic network services with zero-touch automation features.

Travail effectué depuis le début du projet jusqu’à la fin de la période considérée dans le rapport et principaux résultats atteints jusqu’à présent

Use cases have been proposed for the TeraFlowSDN controller. They are classified into the following topics: inventory, topology, service, transport network slicing, monitoring, traffic engineering, automation, policy enforcement, ML-based security, distributed ledger and smart contracts, compute integration, and inter-domain. A complete set of requirements for the TeraFlow SDN Controller are introduced. They have been classified as functional and non-functional and they cover the proposed use cases.
We have presented an architecture for the TeraFlowSDN controller. First, we have provided an overall view of the architecture. Secondly, we have presented each detailed component architecture, with a special focus on RPC and data models involved. Finally, we have presented several workflows that involve multiple component interaction.
ETSI TeraFlowSDN has been implemented following the cloud-native architecture concept. The software is divided into microservices that execute specific tasks and collaborate through messages to achieve the end goal for which the software is designed. In TeraFlowSDN, the communication between components is based on gRPC. We have defined different RPC methods and messages and grouped them by microservice. At TeraFlow project ending, the release for ETSI TeraFlowSDN is 2.1.

Progrès au-delà de l’état des connaissances et impact potentiel prévu (y compris l’impact socio-économique et les conséquences sociétales plus larges du projet jusqu’à présent)

The TeraFlowSDN architecture has been validated with the following innovations: a) Cloud-Native Architecture; b) Transport Network Integration; c) Unification of Network and Cloud Resource Management; d) ML-based security; and e) Distributed Ledger Technologies. The final demonstrations (TRL 5) have supported three use cases: Autonomous Networks Beyond 5G, Inter-domain, and Cybersecurity.

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