Research Article
TopHat: Supporting Experiments through Measurement Infrastructure Federation
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_41, author={Thomas Bourgeau and Jordan Aug\^{e} and Timur Friedman}, title={TopHat: Supporting Experiments through Measurement Infrastructure Federation}, 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={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_41} }- Thomas Bourgeau
Jordan Augé
Timur Friedman
Year: 2012
TopHat: Supporting Experiments through Measurement Infrastructure Federation
TRIDENTCOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_41
Abstract
Researchers use the PlanetLab testbed for its ability to host experimental applications in realistic conditions over the public best-effort internet. Such applications form overlays whose performance is affected by the underlying topology and its evolution. While several topology information services have been proposed for PlanetLab, the TopHat system that we describe here fills a special niche. It is designed to support the entire lifecycle of an experiment: from setup, through run time, to retrospective analysis. TopHat does so in a new way, by drawing upon excellent, proven third party services, notably the and measurement infrastructures, for specialized measurements. TopHat has been developed as the active measurement component of PlanetLab Europe, the flagship testbed of the OneLab experimental facility. It is part of OneLab’s larger effort to pioneer the federation of previously independent testbeds and measurement systems in order to provide a diverse global scale environment for Future Internet research.