Meetup de reprise après le vacances. Pour la première fois nous serons accueilli par Ynov dans leur campus et nous aurons la chance d'accueillir David Gageot de Docker France qui viendra nous faire une présentation de Docker4Desktop.

The dataset we used to support our vCDNs paper can be reached here. It's a daily extraction of data collected from 4 IXP public websites, each of which containing several facility. The breakdown of the connected AS is retreived from the peering DB API.

The basics of deploying a service in a Telco Cloud, Network Function as-a-Service (NFaaS), are the same as traditional IT Clouds (Platform as-a-Service, or Infrastructure as-a-Service). The customer deploys and runs key elements of its business in a third party environment, technical aspects of the supplier infrastructure are obscured through dedicated APIs and forrmal contracts exists between parties that garanty a certain level of quality, and occasional penalties if agreements are breached.

However fundamental differences need to be addressed to design a NFaaS platform. First of all, the suppliers (ISP) are in a monopoly situation: as a matter of fact end-users usually have only one internet provider. For this reason, third party actor using their cloud cannot contract with an alternative company to host the vCDN service toward a given end-user if prices or quality are not up to their expectations. Moreover, just like more traditional carrier grade systems like voice, a "five nines" availability is required to keep the service on par with traditional IPTV services. Finally regulatory issues regarding network neutrality need to be addressed if the ISP business expands to bare connectivity provider to enhanced cloud provider.

In our forthcoming paper, we try to model connectivity demand of content providers, by estimating the traffic for "Content" ASes.

As this data is not usually disclosed, we hacked our way around (by grabbing public statistics in json or processing public graphs) from the IXP websites and we coupled extracts from peeringdb.com API to know what was the bandwidth allocated to Content Providers and CDN (Akamai, Netflix, Facebook).

Once more I'm so glad choosing Python to implement reseach materials. First of all, I can bind to C or execute external program if i need an extra umph of performance, but I can also enjoy the pythonic way of programming.

This is the first time that I do databases in python, so I was looking for an JPA/Hibernate-like ORM that could help implementing the persitence layer. After benchmarking I decided to go with sqlAlchemy, and the result is astonishing.

Girafe (Graphical Interface for Representing Automatic Function Embedding) is the web-based graphical tool used to perform simulation of Service Function Chain embedding over an ISP Topology to demonstrate the vCDN concept.

We will be demoing the Girafe Tool at the Temu 2016 conference. Checkout the girafe website to play with it.

With the AFODIB Team and the doctoral school student representatives, we proposed and idea or partnership with a national association for scientific awakening named "Les petits débrouillards".

Currently, we discuss this project with the Math-Computer Science doctoral School as well as with the University Doctoral team. We received very positive feedback from other doctoral School students in Bordeaux.