Learning from PlanetLab

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Anderson;Timothy Roscoe

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington;Intel Research Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • WORLDS'06 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

PlanetLab has been an enormously successful testbed for networking and distributed systems research, and it is likely to have a significant influence on future systems. In this paper, we examine PlanetLab's success, and caution against an uncritical acceptance of the factors that led to it. We discuss nine design decisions that were essential to Planet-Lab's initial success and yet in our view should be revisited in order to better position PlanetLab for its future growth.