Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities. 6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Interoperability in Heterogeneous Resource Federations

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_3,
        author={Sebastian Wahle and Thomas Magedanz and Konrad Campowsky},
        title={Interoperability in Heterogeneous Resource Federations},
        proceedings={Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities. 6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={Resource Federation Model Panlab PlanetLab SFA Teagle Interoperability},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_3}
    }
    
  • Sebastian Wahle
    Thomas Magedanz
    Konrad Campowsky
    Year: 2012
    Interoperability in Heterogeneous Resource Federations
    TRIDENTCOM
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_3
Sebastian Wahle1,*, Thomas Magedanz2,*, Konrad Campowsky2,*
  • 1: Fraunhofer FOKUS
  • 2: Technische Universität Berlin
*Contact email: sebastian.wahle@fokus.fraunhofer.de, tm@cs.tu-berlin.de, frollen@cs.tu-berlin.de

Abstract

Currently, a number of research activities worldwide focus on resource federations to enable remote resource access and the setup of large scale experiments. With the global efforts in sharing experimental facility resources across organizational boundaries, interoperability issues are becoming increasingly important. To this end, this paper describes a model that defines the necessary entities for inter resource federation scenarios. The model is then discussed by means of a concrete use case federating Panlab and PlanetLab resources. In this respect Panlab and PlanetLab are considered to be federations themselves. Our findings show that the two approaches can be matched following the general model. This allows for federating resources not only across the boundaries of administrative (organizational) domains but even across the boundaries of federations. Those federations in themselves provide collections of resources offered by several administrative domains and use different control frameworks to enable resource access and management.