CONET Testbed Federation

Testbeds provide convenient middle ground between simulation and full deployment on the realism axes. They allow for rigorous and controlled experimentation with the System Under Test (SUT). But similarly to full deployments, they lock the evaluation to one particular environment making it hard to differentiate between the intrinsic properties of the SUT and the effect of the specific features and external influences present at a given testbed site.

One way of decoupling these influences is to cross-validate the functional and non-functional behavior of the SUT under various conditions as provided by different testbeds. Unfortunately, preforming such studies is currently accompanied by significant overheads in configuring the experiments and collecting the results on the individual testbeds, since easy experiment migration is hindered by a lack of common management, experiment specification and control infrastructure.

Objective

The goal of the CONET Testbed Federation (CTF) Task is to address some of these roadblocks by developing a software platform that will enable convenient access to the experimental resources of multiple testbeds organized in a federation of autonomous entities.

Task Details

Task 3.2, Testbed Federation

Partners

TUB, TUD, AICIA, SICS, UDE

Start

01.09.2008 (T+3)

Duration

45 months

Work Plan

Phase I - Requirements Analysis

• Testbed Federation Survey
• Testbed Directory

Phase II - Design

• Federation Use Policy
• Design Principles
• System Architecture
• Application Programming Interfaces

Phase III - Implementation

• Prototyping
• Integration with the integrated testbed and simulation platform

 Deliverables

•  D3.3 Common Abstractions for Testbed Federation
• D3.6 Testbed Federation Tool Suite

For further information contact the CONET Office.