Integration of OMF-Based Testbeds in a Global-Scale Networking Facility

PlanetLab is a global scale platform for experimentation of new networking applications in a real environment. It consists of several nodes, offered by academic institutions or companies spread all over the world, that can be shared by the networking community for its tests. The main drawback of PlanetLab is its scarce heterogeneity in terms of the access technologies it offers. In this paper we discuss the efforts we made in order to alleviate this problem. We first developed a tool that allowed us to integrate a WiFi testbed controllable by OMF (Orbit Management Framework) [16] in PlanetLab by means of a multi-homed PlanetLab node. OMF is a set of tools that make it easy to automatically execute experiments and collect measurements on a WiFi testbed. The tool we developed allows, more generally, to solve the issues that arises with multi-homed PlanetLab nodes (i.e. PlanetLab nodes having more than a network interface). In order to be able to fully exploit the potential of such Pl...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: QSHINE
• Authors: Giovanni Di Stasi, Stefano Avallone, Roberto Canonico
• Keywords: Multi-homed Planetlab Nodes, Planetlab Nodes, QSHINE 2009, WiFi, Wireless Networks