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Overview of PlanetLab and Allied
Research Test Beds
Contents
 Evolution of PlanetLab
 PlanetLab Europe
 OneLab
 Wireless Research Test Beds under OneLab
 German Lab
 Orbit and PlanetLab Integration
 PlanetLab Japan
 Core Lab
 GENI
 PlanetLab is a global research network that supports the development of new network
services.
 Around 1050 nodes worldwide at 487 sites.
 Funded by the National Science Foundation, USA.
 Managed by Princeton University, Univ. of California, Berkeley & Univ. of
Washington.
 An worldwide distributed Internet test bed to perform real-world experimentations on
topics:
 Peer-to-peer systems.
 Distributed storage.
 Network Mapping.
 Next Generation Internet Technologies.
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Developments
• PlanetLab 1.0 (2002)
 Vserver-based virtual machines and safe raw sockets
• PlanetLab 2.0 (2004)
 Dynamic slices
• PlanetLab 3.0 (2004-2006)
 PLCAPI 1.0
• PlanetLab 4.0 (2007)
 MyPLC1.0
 Federation Idea
• PlanetLab 4.2 (2008)
 Federation (PLE, PLJ, (PLK, PLC,=>PLA?))
 New Development (RSpec/GENI-wrapper, New Node Type,
Monitoring, QA,VINI)
 A prototype implementation of the GENI interfaces to PlanetLab.
• PlanetLab 4.3 (2009)
 new types of nodes (e.g., wireless).
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Worldwide and
Important Projects
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PlanetLab Europe is the European portion of the publicly available PlanetLab test bed.
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As of March 2009, PlanetLab was composed of 913 nodes at 460 sites worldwide.
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Forms the core of OneLab project’s
emerging test bed.
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URL:
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Funded by: European Commission’s
Future Internet Research in Europe
(FIRE) unit.
http://www.planet-lab.eu/Home
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 Uses the PlanetLab Europe test bed.
 Supports network research for future Internet.
 2 phases: (a) OneLab1 – Sept 2006 to Aug 2008
(b) OneLab2 – Sept 2008 to Dec 2010
 26 academic and industrial partners
 Objectives: (a) Federating PlanetLab test beds worldwide.
(b) Federating different heterogeneous wireless test beds.
(c) Federating different content driven networks.
(d) Extending PlanetLab service across Europe, & federating with
other global PlanetLab infrastructures e.g. PlanetLab Japan.
 URL:
http://www.onelab.eu/
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Wireless MAN Test Beds
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Aim of the Project:
Developing WiMAX test beds
Undertaken by:
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
Features:
(a) Carried out as part of the Work package 4 in OneLab
Phase 1 project.
(b) Incorporates WiMAX nodes to the OneLab test bed.
(c) Test bed was set up using components like WiMAX base
station and subscriber stations supplied by Airspan.
(d) Results of the project and ways of incorporating WiMAX
links to the OneLab test beds can be found in
URL:
http://www.onelab.eu/images/PDFs/Deliverables/onelab14a1.pdf
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Wireless WAN Test Beds
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Aim of the Project:
Developing UMTS test beds
Undertaken by:
Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per1 Informatica
(CINI), University of Napoli, Italy.
Features:
(a) Carried out as part of the Work package 4 in OneLab
Phase 1 and phase 2 projects.
(b) Integrates an UMTS connectivity to the OneLab test bed.
(c) Test bed was set up using components like a Vodafone 3G
data card, Nozomi UMTS card driver, a WvDial PPP dialer.
(d) Details of the project can be found in
URL:
http://www.onelab.eu/images/PDFs/Deliverables/d4b.1.pdf
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: German Lab
 A German initiative on research and test beds for the future internet .
 It is a consortium of five German universities with funding from the German government.
 G-Lab is currently building a PlanetLab-based layer-2 network.
 Objectives:
(a) Development of network architectures and communication protocols
that are more adaptive to new Internet applications and services.
(b) Development of new mechanisms for routings and algorithms and
their investigation with regard to practical feasibility and scalability.
(c) Creating a comprehensive security component for the future Internet.
 URL:
http://www.german-lab.de/home/
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: German Lab
G-Lab Project Structure
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Integration
 Orbit is a 40 nodes wireless test bed hosted at WINLAB, Rutgers University.
 Project started in 2003 under NSF’s Network Research Test Beds (NRT) program in US.
 A collaborative effort between academia like Rutgers, Princeton & Columbia and
industries like Lucent-Bell Labs, IBM and Thomson.
 Features: (a) A two-tier laboratory wireless emulator/field trial network test bed to
perform cellular (3G & beyond) and WiFi-related experiments on nextgeneration protocols, middleware and applications.
(b) Test bed is available both for remote and on-site accesses.
(c) Orbit slices on PlanetLab are used to explore integrated experiments using
PlanetLab (wired) and Orbit (wireless) test beds.
(d) Such integration explores features like properly integrating the
management and control structures, developing a single programming
interface and experimental methodology for both.
 URL:
http://www.orbit-lab.org/wiki
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PlanetLab Japan is aiming to expand PlanetLab activities in Japan..
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It is closely working with both PlanetLab and Planet Europe.
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It is currently hosted by University of Tokyo and NICT .
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URL:
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Main Activities:
(a) CORELAB
(b) J-Lab (Private PlanetLab)
(c) Network Virtualization Research
Lab (NVLab)
http://www.planet-lab.jp/
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CoreLab is a new network test bed infrastructure enhanced from PlanetLab.
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CoreLab offers full- and para-virtualization (as well as resource container) in slices
using a mixture of various virtualization technologies.
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Employed currently only in Japan.
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Features:
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
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URL:
(a)
Slice-oriented architecture.
Full-featured development environment.
Various guest OSes.
Well-managed IP ports among users.
Distributed nodes across Japan.
Multi-homing support.
http://www.corelab.jp/
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• Global Environment for Network Innovation)
• GENI uses a number of ideas from Planetlab, Emulab,
DETER, and ORBIT, builds on the experience of creating
shared facilities, and uses them for prototyping and
demonstrating some of the key capabilities needed for
GENI.
• Main difference with PlanetLab
– PlanetLab is connected by authorized servers
– GENI contains normal workstation.
• URL:
http://www.geni.net
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is Aiming to Carry Out:
• Trials of new architectures, which may or may not
be compatible with today’s Internet.
• Long-running, realistic experiments with enough
instrumentation to provide real insights and data.
• ‘Opt in’ for real users into long-running experiments.
• Large-scale growth for successful experiments, so good
ideas can be shaken down at scale
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