An overlay data plane for PlanetLab

Author

Bavier, Andy ; Huang, Mark ; Peterson, Larry

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

17-20 July 2005

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

14

Abstract

PlanetLab is a geographically distributed overlay platform designed to support the deployment and evaluation of planetary-scale network services. It currently includes over 500 machines spanning 252 sites and 29 countries, and has supported over 450 research projects. PlanetLab can support large-scale overlays running in slices (i.e., collections of distributed virtual machines). It has significantly lowered the barriers to deploying overlays. The paper describes how to lower them further by introducing a general data plane for overlay networks. Researchers can plug their own control planes into this data plane to run fully functional overlays easily on PlanetLab, and students can use the overlay data plane as a hands-on tool for learning about internetworking concepts. The overlay data plane is the first step in the "Internet-in-a-slice" project, which will let members of the PlanetLab community experiment with virtual Internets running on PlanetLab.

Keywords

Internet; internetworking; telecommunication services; virtual machines; Internet-in-a-slice; PlanetLab; control planes; distributed virtual machines; geographically distributed overlay platform; internetworking concepts; overlay data plane; planetary-scale network services; slices; virtual Internets; Computer science; IP networks; Large-scale systems; Robustness; Routing; Search engines; Technological innovation; Telecommunication control; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications, 2005. advanced industrial conference on telecommunications/service assurance with partial and intermittent resources conference/e-learning on telecommunications workshop. aict/sapir/elete 2005. proceedings

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2388-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AICT.2005.24

Filename

1517597