emulab.net:
An Emulation Testbed for Networks and Distributed Systems

The Main Players

What?

What’s a Node?

Why?

Why 2

Complementary to Other Experimental Environments

Slide 8

Zoom In: One Node

Fundamental Leverage:

Key Design Aspects

Design Aspects (cont’d)

Some Unique Characteristics

More Unique Characteristics

Obligatory Pictures

Then

Now

A Few Research Issues and Challenges

An “Experiment”

Mapping Example

Automatic mapping of desired topologies and characteristics to physical resources

Virtual Topology

Mapping into Physical Topology

Mapping Results

Disk Loading

How?

Last Step

Experiment Creation Time

Experiment Termination Time

Ongoing and Future Work

Final Remarks

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