Research Article
Technical Infrastructure for a Pan-European Federation of Testbeds
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976205, author={Sebastian Wahle and Thomas Magedanz and Anastasius Gavras and Halid Hrasnica and Spyros Denazis}, title={Technical Infrastructure for a Pan-European Federation of Testbeds}, proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM}, year={2009}, month={5}, keywords={Network Domain Federation Panlab Teagle Testbed Federation Testbeds Testing}, doi={10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976205} }- Sebastian Wahle
Thomas Magedanz
Anastasius Gavras
Halid Hrasnica
Spyros Denazis
Year: 2009
Technical Infrastructure for a Pan-European Federation of Testbeds
TRIDENTCOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976205
Abstract
The Pan-European laboratory – Panlab – is based on federation of distributed testbeds that are interconnected, providing access to required platforms, networks and services for broad interoperability testing and enabling the trial and evaluation of service concepts, technologies, system solutions and business models. In this context a testbed federation is the interconnection of two or more independent testbeds for the temporary creation of a richer environment for testing and experimentation, and for the increased multilateral benefit of the users of the individual independent testbeds. The technical infrastructure that supports the federation is based on a web service through which available testing resources can be queried and requested. The available resources are stored in a repository, and a processing engine is able to identify, locate and provision the requested testing infrastructure, based on the testing users’ requirements. The concept is implemented using a gateway approach at the border of each federated testbed. Each testbed is an independent administrative domain and implements a reference point specification in its gateway.