access to open test infrastructures using panlab2 - anastasius gavras (eurescom)

Pan-European LaboratoryOverview

Anastasius Gavras

gavras@eurescom.eu

About Panlab

• Creates a large scale testing and experimentation facility by integrating existing and emerging testbeds

• Achieves scale and maintains independence through federation

• that enables end-to-end interoperability testing of platforms, networks and services

• that helps reducing the risks and costs of large-scale network infrastructure testing

• Panlab has build the glue

Testbed and Experimental Facility Federation

Value proposition

• For the testbed owners and operators • Help find “customers”• Increase utilisation• Compensate for the investments in building

• For the customer (e.g. researcher, application developer)

• Help find suitable target environment• Configure a custom experimental environment• … friendly users

• A win-win-win situation for the• testbed owner/operator,• testbed customer and• testbed broker (Teagle)

• Open to all collaborations that adhere to the principles for building Federated, Open, and Trusted research and experimentation environments

Testbed and Experimental Facility Federation

• Heterogeneous resources are offered by several network domains

• Domains engage in federation and share resources

• Federation Organization represents the federation to 3rd parties

• The federation control tool called Teagle executes management operations via a control framework

• Supports broad Future Internet research • Re-use resources across the boundaries of

domains and communities instead of re-building infrastructure

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Panlab Mechanisms - Enablers

• Organisational aspects• Considered in Panlab SSA

• Panlab Organisation• (Legal) entity “owning” the testbed federation• Financing (membership model, etc.)

• Panlab Office• Operational entity of the federation – adopted in PII

• Frameworks in development – PII project• Concepts defined in Panlab SSA

• Legal• Operational• Technical

Panlab Legal Framework

• Target• Regulation of all related legal issues• Efficient conclusion of contracts

• Applying of contract templates• Ensuring individual negotiations

• Federation contracts• For testbed providers and customers• For individual testbeds and testing sessions

• Addressed issues• IPR, Confidentiality, Access rights, etc.

Operational Panlab Framework

• Testbed specification and integration• Panlab repository

• Search for testing configuration• Customers’ requirements• Set-up of testing sessions

• Execution of tests• Configuration and validation• Collection and evaluation of results

• Usage of existing results and configurations

Panlab Concept and Components

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Federation Architecture

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How does it work?

search,request & configure infrastructure

Panlab Office

TEAGLE

PanlabRepository

Testbed Resources

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Panlab PartnerPanlab Customer

describe & configure resources

install, configure & manipulate resources

controlresources

The VCTtool looks like …

On the left we see resources offered by Panlab Partners

The customer selects resources and adds them to the workbench ...

The customer can configure resources …

When the VCT is designed and configured, the customer can book it!

A designed VCT

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A deployed VCTTEAGLE

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Oulu, Finland

Berlin, Germany

Patras, Greece

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VOIP user agent

Experimental Facility Resource Federation with Teagle

• We have developed a Resource Federation Framework

• Different administrative domains provide testbed resources

• Administrative domains can be existing and upcoming testbeds or other organizations that want to offer resources

• Heterogeneous resource federation allows cross-domain experiments using heterogeneous resources (e.g. sensors, CPU, memory, services) from different testbeds

• Open Framework• Any provider• Any resource

• Recursive domain / federation model

• Easy integration of resources following a generic resource adaptor (device driver) concept

• Building upon our existing work will speed up the integration process and leverage previous investments

www.fire-teagle.org/tutorials.jsp

What Exists? How to Join?• Existing Prototypes:

• Federation Portal

http://www.fire-teagle.org/ • Design Environment (access is currently

limited to selected testers)

http://www.fire-teagle.org/tutorials.jsp • Domain Manager to federate resources

from an administrative domain

http://trac.panlab.net/trac/wiki/CorePTM • Resource Adaptors (RA) to allow

remote configuration. For specialized resources RAs need to be developed. Different implementation options are available such as Java, OSGI, Python. Howtows are available.

• In addition to the prototypes, conceptual work such as a federation model, resource models, etc. is also available

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Sebastian Wahle, Thomas Magedanz, and Anastasius Gavras. Towards the Future Internet - Emerging Trends from European Research, chapter Conceptual Design and Use Cases for a FIRE Resource Federation Framework. IOS Press, 2010. To appear.

Future directions

• Management and security• Monitoring, Fault management, Policy based

management

• Reach out to other European and international testbed communities

• Serve academic communities • Through easy and free access

• Serve business customers• Through service guarantees

• Open in various directions

http://www.future-internet.eu

http://www.fire-teagle.org

http://www.panlab.net

Thank you for your attention

http://www.panlab.netgavras@eurescom.eu

TridentCom 201018-20 May 2010 - Berlin, Germany

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