DELIVERABLE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

D3102 Second trial integration report
 

The present document is the second major deliverable provided by WP 3.1 of the AQUILA project. It describes in detail the procedures that took place for the verification of the correct operation of the AQUILA Resource Control Layer, Inter-domain Layer, Management Layer and Measurement Tools. It also contains instructions for the installation of the working proto-types in other trial sites as well as instructions for their use during the trials.

The second trial required the setup of three trial sites, Vienna, Warsaw and Helsinki. The network topology as well as the hardware/software components installed can be found in chapter 3.

One of the main challenges of the second trial, from the integration point of view, was the in-terconnection of the trial sites (namely Vienna and Warsaw). Towards this end, the assistance of the operators of the European research network (GEANT) has been requested. The re-sponse was imminent and thanks to a fruitful cooperation the interconnecting link was up on time. Test cases regarding the interconnectivity have been successfully performed.

In addition, new features and enhancements of the AQUILA software components have been introduced since the first trial that should be tested to ensure their proper functionality. There-fore, corresponding tests have been carried out in order to validate the implementation. The test cases included the validation of the:

  • MBAC implementation for traffic classes (TCL) 1 and 3
  • new admission control algorithms for TCL3
  • Joint admission control implementation on high speed links
  • Inter-domain admission control implementation
  • secondary access link admission control implementation
  • resource pool mechanisms.

Along with the aforementioned tests, the main functionality of the AQUILA components has been also examined. Several experiments have been made to assure the correct interoperabil-ity between all the packages. It should be noted here that all the tests were carried out success-fully.

The document is structured as follows: in section 2 the integration procedure and the time plan are provided. In section 3, the topology and the equipment of the three trial sites (Vienna, Warsaw and Helsinki) are described in detail. Section 4 includes the test cases used for the verification of the produced software and the validation of the implementation of the newly introduced enhancements. In section 5, detailed instructions for the establishment of new trial sites can be found, including the requirements for each component along with the user guide. The last section summarizes the results and experiences of the integration phase.