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Expediting Experiments across Testbeds with AnyBed: A Testbed-Independent Topology Configuration System and Its Tool Set

Mio SUZUKI, Hiroaki HAZEYAMA, Daisuke MIYAMOTO, Shinsuke MIWA, Youki KADOBAYASHI

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Building an experimental network within a testbed has been a tiresome process for experimenters, due to the complexity of the physical resource assignment and the configuration overhead. Also, the process could not be expedited across testbeds, because the syntax of a configuration file varies depending on specific hardware and software. Re-configuration of an experimental topology for each testbed wastes time, an experimenter could not carry out his/her experiments during the limited lease time of a testbed at worst. In this paper, we propose the AnyBed: the experimental network-building system. The conceptual idea of AnyBed is "If experimental network topologies can be portable across any kinds of testbed, then, it would expedite building an experimental network on a testbed while manipulating experiments by each testbed support tool". To achieve this concept, AnyBed divide an experimental network configuration into the logical and physical network topologies. Mapping these two topologies, AnyBed can build intended logical network topology on any PC clusters. We have evaluated the AnyBed implementation using two distinct clusters. The evaluation result shows a BGP topology with 150 nodes can be constructed on a large scale testbed in less than 113 seconds.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E92-D No.10 pp.1877-1887
Publication Date
2009/10/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.E92.D.1877
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on New Technologies and their Applications of the Internet)
Category
Network Architecture and Testbed

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