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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