Access to Open Test Infrastructures using Panlab2 - Anastasius Gavras (Eurescom)
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The document outlines the Pan-European Laboratory (PanLab) initiative, which establishes a large-scale testing and experimentation facility by federating existing and emerging testbeds to enhance interoperability testing of networks and services. It highlights the operational and legal frameworks necessary for the collaboration between testbed providers and users, focusing on resource sharing, management, and customer support. The document also emphasizes future efforts to improve management, security, and outreach to various testing communities in Europe and beyond.
Access to Open Test Infrastructures using Panlab2 - Anastasius Gavras (Eurescom)
- 1. Pan-European Laboratory Overview Anastasius Gavras gavras@eurescom.eu
- 2. 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
- 3. Testbed and Experimental Facility Federation
- 4. 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
- 5. 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)
- 6. 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
- 7. 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.
- 8. 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
- 9. Panlab Concept and Components Testbed provider Test users
- 10. Federation Architecture § Registry & Repository TEAGLE U1 § Creation Environment End User Customer § Request Processor Domain Domain § Orchestration Engine § Web Portal U2 U3 T1 Domain Domain Manager Manager RA RA RA RA RA RA T2 T2 Domain B Domain A IGW IGW T2 I2 T2 B1 A1 I1
- 11. How does it work? search,request & describe & configure configure infrastructure resources Panlab Customer Panlab Partner Panlab Office TEAGLE install, configure & manipulate resources control Panlab resources Repository 3G Testbed Resources
- 12. The VCTtool looks like …
- 13. On the left we see resources offered by Panlab Partners
- 14. The customer selects resources and adds them to the workbench ...
- 15. The customer can configure resources …
- 16. When the VCT is designed and configured, the customer can book it!
- 17. A designed VCT EICT UoP OCTO
- 18. TEAGLE A deployed VCT VPN VOIP user agent Customer Octo PTM Oulu, Finland UoP B.CR PTM 1 Echo LINUX IGW IGW Asterisk config A.RC 1 Dialtone EICT PTM Patras, Greece IGW C.CR 3 Berlin, Germany
- 19. 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
- 20. 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 reg set available such as Java, OSGI, Python. Howtows are available. m m • In addition to the prototypes, r r r r r r conceptual work such as a federation model, resource models, etc. is also Domain A Domain B available 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.
- 21. 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
- 22. http://www.future-internet.eu http://www.panlab.net http://www.fire-teagle.org
- 23. Thank you for your attention http://www.panlab.net gavras@eurescom.eu TridentCom 2010 18-20 May 2010 - Berlin, Germany http://www.tridentcom.org