Experimenting with Infrastructures

Laboratory environments for experimenting on infrastructures are often challenging both technically, politically and economically. The situation is further complicated when the interaction between infrastructures is in focus rather than the behaviours of a singular one. Since ICT often has a key role in experiment management, data gathering and experiment upkeep - controlled experimentation becomes even more difficult when some of the interactions studied are between ICT and another infrastructure. The work described herein concerns design, implementation and lessons learned from the construction of a joint-effort experiment environment for, essentially, experimenting with infrastructures.