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| Authors: | Elisa Boschi, Placi Flury, Bernhard Plattner |
| Group: | Communication Systems |
| Type: | Misc |
| Title: | Guidelines for the Design, Setup and Maintenance of Overlay-based Research Testbeds |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Month: | December |
| Pub-Key: | Bfp03a |
| Keywords: | Overlay testbeds, testbed requirements, experience in testbed administra-tion, testbed design |
| Abstract: | During the last years, network testbeds have become an important re-search tool. They provide the proving ground to test, deploy and evaluate novel net-work architectures, such as active networks, as well as new communication protocols. Although testbeds demand a considerable effort for their deployment and mainte-nance, they have the potential to provide unique insights about the relevance and use-fulness of the tested matter. Based on our experience as administrators of the testbed of a large European research project, and as users of other research testbeds, we con-tribute an extensive analysis of the characteristics and requirements related to design, deployment and maintenance of such testbeds. We emphasize the need to base the network design on a comprehensive requirement analysis. We discuss requirements and analyze their impact on the testbed design. Furthermore, we give suggestions and guidelines to build and maintain a successful testbed. |
| Remarks: | Poster with extended Abstract |
| Howpublished: | IWAN 2003 Kyoto, Japan |
| Resources: | [BibTeX] |
