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October 23, 2009
Eric Eide and Rob Ricci

Title: Growing the Emulab Network Emulation Testbed

Emulab is a network emulation testbed that provides researchers with a wide
range of environments in which to develop, debug, and evaluate their systems.
Created by the Flux Research Group in 2000, it has continually expanded in size
and scope for the past decade. Today there are Emulab installations at more
than two dozen sites around the world. The Emulab site at Utah continues to be
a hub for systems research, with hundreds of users around the world running
thousands of experiments per year.

This talk will summarize recent and ongoing research projects toward continuing
Emulab's success as a premier facility for systems research. Emulab continues
to grow in scale toward support for experiments involving many thousands of
actual and virtual devices. It continues to improve with new support for
particular domains, such as cybersecurity and wireless networking. It
continues to grow as a basis for collaboration, and it is a control framework
for a prototype of the NSF's Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI).
Finally, Emulab continues to expand in terms of the services it provides to
experimenters, with support for features such as live Internet conditions,
distributed checkpointing, and workflow management.

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