[emanicslab] Federation with PlanetLab Europe

[David Hausheer]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the federation of the EmanicsLab testbed with 
PlanetLab Europe (PLE), and other testbeds in the OneLab facility is now 
in place. PlanetLab Europe is the European branch of the global 
PlanetLab system.

After a collaboration effort between teams at UPMC and University of 
Zurich, full federation was achieved on March 8, 2011. From now on 
EmanicsLab users will be able to use PlanetLab tools and resources in 
their experiments, and vice versa, increasing the scope of the services 
offered by OneLab, and allowing EmanicsLab users access to hundreds of 
PLE nodes spread across Europe and elsewhere, while the central 
management of EmanicsLab nodes remains under the control of the 
EmanicsLab administrator (University of Zurich).

The federation was achieved using the PlanetLab implementation of SFA 
(Slice-based Federation Architecture). SFA is an emerging standard for 
networking testbed federation, and the PlanetLab implementation of SFA 
was developed jointly by OneLab partner INRIA (under the direction of 
OneLab Technical Director Thierry Parmentelat) and the University of 
Princeton in the USA.

Federation with OneLab is an opportunity for testbed providers to 
optimize their facilities. A federated testbed can grow its user numbers 
by making its facility available to those already using OneLab testbeds 
in Europe and across the world, while the testbed owner has access to an 
extensive scientific community and the possibility of scientific gain 
through exchanging best practices and comparing results. In addition, 
federation can offer the latest in computer networking tools to the 
testbed's current users.

We are currently preparing tutorials how EmanicsLab users can make use 
of the Federation and we will inform about it soon.

Best regards
David

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