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BEACON: A Cloud Network Federation Framework

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This paper presents the BEACON Framework, which will enable the provision and management of cross-site virtual networks for federated cloud infrastructures in order to support the automated deployment of applications and services across different clouds and datacenters. The proposed framework will support different federation architectures, going from tightly coupled (datacenter federation) to loosely coupled (cloud federation and multi-cloud orchestration) architectures, and will enable the creation of Layer 2 and Layer 3 overlay networks to interconnect remote resources located at different cloud sites. A high level description of the main components of the BEACON framework is also introduced.

This research was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Grant Agreement No. 644048.

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    http://www.beacon-project.eu.

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    http://www.opendaylight.org.

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    http://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Open_DOVE.

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    http://www.opennebula.org.

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    http://www.openstack.org.

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    http://docs.opennebula.org/4.4/integration/system_interfaces/api.html.

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    http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref.html.

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    http://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/OpenDaylight_Controller:REST_Reference_and_Authentication.

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    http://docs.opennebula.org/4.12/integration/system_interfaces/api.html#actions-for-virtual-network-management.

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    http://aws.amazon.com/ec2.

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    http://occi-wg.org.

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Moreno-Vozmediano, R. et al. (2016). BEACON: A Cloud Network Federation Framework. In: Celesti, A., Leitner, P. (eds) Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 567. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33313-7_25

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