Scientists:	Daniel G. Raumer, M.Sc. , Lukas Schwaighofer, M.Sc., Johannes Naab, M.Sc., Benedikt Jaeger, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Carle
Duration:	01.03.2016 – 01.03.2019
Funding:	BMBF,CELTIC-Plus (Federal Ministry for Education and Research)

Description

Large Data Centers (DCs) are forming the most important control centers of the Internet nowadays. Within DCs, business as well as private data is stored, edited, forwarded, and processed. Although current DCs have a huge computing power, massive storage capacities, and an enormous performance based on centrally stored data, they are located far away from the customer, use the network only for transport, and are mostly run by non-European companies. This leads to low flexibility, long delays to customers, and security concerns.

New application scenarios of our digital society such as Industrial Internet, mobile connected objects, Internet of Things, health applications, and especially 5G lead to a huge number of end devices and an enormous increase of traffic volume. The high demands on security, location awareness, service guarantees, flexibility, and latency require a convergence of telecommunication networks and IT as well as distributed data centers, which are placed close to the customers. Innovative approaches such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in combination with Software Defined Networking (SDN) are the basis for a secure, flexible, low latency, and locality-aware distributed data center approach to support the upcoming application scenarios.

Within the SENDATE-PLANETS project, all project partners together will design a network architecture and technologies for secure and flexible distributed data centers in close collaboration. The target is to develop security mechanisms for NFV/SDN networks as well as set up, develop, and optimize VNFs and their placement in distributed data centers.

TUM Chair of Network Architecures and Services investigates methods for validating specific properties of the configurations and the integration and adaption of network intrusion detection with SDN-based high speed networks. Objectives are to combine techniques of SDN and network intrusion detection systems to increase network security and to analyze how SDN can support the flexible deployment of network intrusion detection systems. As second activity our research group focuses on the designs of a framework for measurements that operates and applies to data center components. The framework addresses performance and bottleneck prediction and optimization including the three layers of hardware, services and service management layer.

Partners in Sub-Project SENDATE-PLANETS:

• NOKIA Networks
• Airbus Group Innovations
• BISDN
• Fraunhofer AISEC
• genua GmbH
• Infineon Technologies AG
• Infosim GmbH & Co. KG
• Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
• Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB)
• TU Braunschweig
• TU Darmstadt
• Uni Würzburg
• x-ion GmbH