Common use of FITeagle Clause in Contracts

FITeagle. FITeagle is a semantic- and microservices-based resource management toolkit for federated infrastructures, such as testbeds. On the north bound FITeagle provides a set of well-defined interfaces to cover the whole experimentation lifecycle. This includes native Representational State Transfer (REST) based APIs as well as FRCP and OML Resources, on the other hand, are interfaced by the southbound interfaces. A resource in this context can be a physical or virtual resource. An adapter is responsible for describing, provisioning, controlling and monitoring a single or multiple resources and their instances by publishing, receiving and subscribing to semantically annotated information. As one of the main aspects of FITeagle is its resource centeredness, the implementation of different protocols (delivery mechanisms) is achieved transparently to the underlying resources. The core functionalities, such as a resource repository, reservation management, orchestration, elasticity or authorization decisions are located in the westbound area. Requirements for these modules are derived by identifying common functionalities needed in the northbound interfaces. Finally, the integration of existing services is located at the eastbound area. This includes services such as an OML Measurement Stream protocol service enabling resource and experiment monitoring. In order to allow external experimenters to utilize the 5G capabilities of the SoftFIRE testbeds, an adapter to the testbeds management system FITeagle was written. This adapter translates between the SFA interface of FITeagle and the HTTP interface of the Open Baton.