ORBIT Testbed Software Architecture: Supporting Experiments as a Service
TRIDENTCOM '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities
An integrated experimental environment for distributed systems and networks
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
On-demand Video Streaming in Mobile Opportunistic Networks
PERCOM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Mobility emulator for DTN and MANET applications
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Experimental evaluation and characterization
LENS: resource specification for wireless sensor network experimentation infrastructures
WiNTECH '11 Proceedings of the 6th ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
wnPUT testbed experimentation framework
ICDCN'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
Experimentation made easy with the AMazING panel
Proceedings of the seventh ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
A multi-platform event-driven controller for network experiments
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on CoNEXT student workshop
Implementation of a protocol for cooperative packet recovery over hybrid networks
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization
One size hardly fits all: towards context-specific wireless MAC protocol deployment
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization
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Networking testbeds are playing an increasingly important role in the development of new communication technologies. Testbeds are traditionally built for a particular project or to study a specific technology. An alternative approach is to federate existing testbeds to a) cater for experimenter needs which cannot be fullled by a single testbed, and b) provide a wider variety of environmental settings at different scales. These heterogenous settings allow the study of new approaches in environments similar to what one finds in the real world. This paper presents OMF, a control, measurement, and management framework for testbeds. It describes through some examples the versatility of OMF's current architecture and gives directions for federation of testbeds through OMF. In addition, this paper introduces a comprehensive experiment description language that allows an experimenter to describe resource requirements and their configurations, as well as experiment orchestration. Researchers would thus be able to reproduce their experiment on the same testbed or in a different environment with little changes. Along with the efficient support for large scale experiments, the use of testbeds and support for repeatable experiments will allow the networking field to build a culture of cross verification and therefore strengthen its scientific approach.