The InstaGENI initiative: An architecture for distributed systems and advanced programmable networks

Bastin, Nicholas; Bavier, Andy; Blaine, Jessica; Chen, Jim; Krishnan, Narayan; Mambretti, Joe; McGeer, Rick; Ricci, Rob; Watts, Nicki

doi:10.1016/j.bjp.2013.12.034

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“…For supporting advanced functionalities in test scenarios, some specialized devices such as wireless stations and embedded devices may also be included. In infrastructure deployment, to support elastic and rapid deployment of infrastructure, some networking testbeds may use modular hardware designs . This way, when hardware failure occurs, testbed operators can easily replace the broken hardware with spare ones.…”

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“…In infrastructure deployment, to support elastic and rapid deployment of infrastructure, some networking testbeds may use modular hardware designs. 16 This way, when hardware failure occurs, testbed operators can easily replace the broken hardware with spare ones. Furthermore, by using virtualization techniques, some testbeds may use cloud services 17 or container-based methods 18 for substituting traditional ways.…”

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Testbed@TWISC: A network security experiment platform

Tsai

Yang

2017

Int J Communication

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Summary As the internet continues to grow in width and depth, its very architecture brings many challenges in network research. One significant issue is cybersecurity. Owing to the characteristics of network connectivity, malicious actions may cause losses during information exchanges in communication. Therefore, studying suspicious behaviors and covering potential exploits are necessary to protect networked computers. To determine possible threats, researchers need an experimental environment that enables them to explore and practice. A network emulation testbed provides such a platform to fulfill these purposes. This paper introduces Testbed@TWISC, a large‐scale network emulation testbed on Taiwan's research and education network that supported open research and cybersecurity education for almost 10 years. The paper reviews this testbed's origination, development, and operation experiences. Several findings and open issues of the testbed are also discussed. Readers who plan to build network security testbeds may find useful information in this paper for a case study.

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Testbed@TWISC: A network security experiment platform

Tsai

Yang

2017

Int J Communication

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“…Connectivity to the VMs is maintained by the underlying infrastructure, relieving the GEE from maintaining and repairing this connectivity; instead, we can rely on the underlying GENI tools. InstaGENI PlanetLab was always envisioned as a subservice running over Proto-GENI [29] on the InstaGENI racks [4], and a convenient way for GENI users to run VM-based experiments. The GEE now replaces InstaGENI PlanetLab in this system, with four major enhancements:…”

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The GENI Experiment Engine

Bavier

Chen

Mambretti

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks &

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We describe the GENI Experiment Engine, a Distributed-Platform-as-a-Service facility designed to be implemented on a distributed testbed or infrastructure. The GEE is intended to provide rapid and convenient access to a distributed infrastructure for simple, easy-to-configure experiments and applications. Specifically, the design goal of the GEE is to permit experimenters and application writers to: (a) allocate a GEE slicelet; (b) deploy a simple experiment or application; (c) run the experiment; (d) collect the results; and (e) tear down the experiment, starting from scratch, within five minutes. The GEE consists of a set of cooperating services over the GENI infrastructure, which together with rapidly-allocated slicelets and a rapidly-allocated network offers a complete, ready to use, sliceable platform over the GENI Infrastructure. The GEE is designed to use off-the-shelf components and infrastructure; unlike previous PaaS offerings, it can be nested nicely inside a GENI slice, or any other IaaS infrastructure. Further, the GEE's southbound interface is extremely small and lightweight, making it portable to other underlying infrastructures.

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“…Of the four services, the GEE Compute Service is offered through the GEE Portal and is an overlay on In-staGENI [1] PlanetLab: it hands out "slicelets" of standard PlanetLab virtual machines, with some additional software pre-installed. The GEE Storage Service is offered in slivers itself -a Python library is pre-loaded into the user's slicelet, which presents a filesystem API to the end user.…”

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The GENI experiment engine

Bavier¹,

Chen²,

Mambretti³

et al. 2014

2014 26th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC)

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We describe the GENI Experiment Engine, a Distributed-Platform-as-a-Service facility designed to be implemented on a distributed testbed or infrastructure. The GEE is intended to provide rapid and convenient access to a distributed infrastructure for simple, easy-to-configure experiments and applications. Specifically, the design goal of the GEE is to permit experimenters and application writers to: (a) allocate a GEE slicelet; (b) deploy a simple experiment or application; (c) run the experiment; (d) collect the results; and (e) tear down the experiment, starting from scratch, within five minutes. The GEE consists of four cooperating services over the GENI infrastructure, which together with pre-allocated slicelets and a pre-allocated network offers a complete, ready to use, sliceable platform over the GENI Infrastructure.

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The InstaGENI initiative: An architecture for distributed systems and advanced programmable networks

Cited by 24 publications

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Testbed@TWISC: A network security experiment platform

Testbed@TWISC: A network security experiment platform

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