How To Use It ...

Who’s Using It?

emulab:
A Public Emulation Platform for Research in Distributed Systems and Networks

Why?

emulab Testbed

What?

emulab Architecture

Key Design Aspects

Key Design Aspects (cont’d)

Experiment Creation Process

Some Issues and Challenges

Automatic mapping of desired topologies and characteristics to physical resources

Ongoing and Future Work

New Stuff:
 Extending to Wireless and Mobile

Our Approach: Exploit a Dense Mesh of Devices

Possible User Interfaces

Wireless Virtual to Physical Mapping

Virtual Topology

Constraints on Mapping

Mapping into Physical Topology

Complementary to Other
Experimental Environments

Wireless Virtual to Physical Mapping

Integrated Simulation & Emulation