PlanetLab: an overlay testbed for broad-coverage services
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Large-scale virtualization in the Emulab network testbed
ATC'08 USENIX 2008 Annual Technical Conference on Annual Technical Conference
OMF: a control and management framework for networking testbeds
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
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Network researchers rely on a wide variety of experimentation platforms, ranging from simulators to emulators and live testbeds, to validate new ideas. Many experiment management frameworks have been created to ease up the complexity and time cost of deploying experiments on different platforms. However, providing flexible deployment capabilities for arbitrary platforms remains a challenging problem. In this work we propose an experiment controller architecture based on event scheduling, designed to enable flexible experiment deployment on diverse platforms. This architecture is capable of handling arbitrary deployment dependencies, both imposed by user requirements and by platform restrictions. It additionally enables flexible resource provisioning, at any point in time during experiment execution, and flexible experiment monitoring events.