Title
Expediting Experiments Across Testbeds With Anybed: A Testbed-Independent Topology Configuration System And Its Tool Set
Abstract
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. Reconfiguration 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 in 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1587/transinf.E92.D.1877
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
network simulation, network emulation testbed, internet emulation, assistant tool
Topology,Logical topology,Computer science,Network architecture,Network simulation,Testbed,Network topology,Software,Resource allocation,Control reconfiguration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E92D
10
1745-1361
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
10
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mio Suzuki1285.74
Hiroaki Hazeyama216516.75
Daisuke Miyamoto3324.20
Shinsuke Miwa4509.24
Youki Kadobayashi546365.10