Towards A service Platform for Virtualization and Federation : a case of JGN2Plus

New generation network R&D by clean slate approach is started world wide such as GENI in US, Future Internet activities in FP7 and AKARI in Japan. Following these trends, JGN2plus, a new testbed for an advaned networking and application R&D, has been started from April 2008 by NICT. Fundamental requirement for testbed is that it should be built for a proof of concept of newly developed technokogy while supporting development of new applications. Therefore, testbed should be consistant with API although we want to keep introducing new technology. A service platform based on a servie oriented architecture seems to be one of the candidate for flexible architecture. A service platform provides various advanced services to the applications in the help of network functionality. Most importantly, to support multiple experiments on new network functions, virtualization of network functionalities should be supported in a service platform. Finally, a service platform should be federated to support international experiments. In this paper, we propose a new service platform architecture for an advanced testbed for new generation networking research and development.