The main goal of this work package is to setup and operate the European site of the federated FIBRE testbed facilities. However the departing point is very different from that of WP2, since the work of WP3 doesn't start from scratch but it is based on an enhancement of the FP7 OFELIA facility –currently under development- and the wireless-focused facility of FP7 OneLab, the UTH NITOS testbed. The existing OFELIA testbed already provides access to an OpenFlow facility, enabling researchers to access one or more OpenFlow controllers (based on the NOX implementation) controlling a subset of the facilities resources. On the other hand, OneLab wireless facility NITOS, is a heterogeneous wireless testbed, that is already available for remote access to the research community using OMF.

Leveraging the infrastructure and know-how acquired by OFELIA and NITOS is a more efficient approach for FIBRE than creating a separate new facility that targets the same type of users and provides access to the same technology. Nonetheless it is crucial that OFELIA, NITOS and FIBRE accomplish their individual testbed goals and keep certain independence from each other, while at the same time remain coordinated to perform common tasks and mutually benefit from implementing common requirements. FIBRE WP3 will enhance the EU testbed facilities in 3 dimensions:

• Allow the facilities to support more users, specially thinking in the researchers that will perform experiments though the shared use of the EU and the Brazilian facilities. To make this possible, new hardware (OpenFlow switches, servers, 3G/4G equipment) will be added to the University of Bristol, i2CAT and UTH islands, and more manpower will be devoted to the operation of these islands.
• Enhance the usage experience of experimenters and island managers, by improving the control framework to make it more stable, easier to use and provide more features in the areas of security, efficiency and monitoring. Additionally, the needed work for adapting the control framework to support the federation of OFELIA with the Brazilian OpenFlow facilities as well as the extension of the OMF framework for the federation of the NITOS testbed with the Brazilian wireless facilities will also be implemented in WP3.
• Increase the diversity of OpenFlow-enabled hardware in the OFELIA islands participating in the FIBRE proposal. In UTH’s case, NITOS wireless testbed will be enhanced with a wired infrastructure based on OpenFlow switches. The NITOS integrated testbed will be managed and controlled though OMF, which will improve the management capability of the OpenFlow equipment and enhance the integration of OpenFlow as a resource into its more generic resource framework and the associated authorisation and federation framework. The overall UTH facility will be available for remote experimentation to the research community, with access managed through the NITOS resource allocation scheduler.

Initially the FIBRE NITOS and OFELIA islands will operate independently, being federated in a later stage through the joint work with WP4.