R. R. Scarabucci, Michael A. Stanton, M. Barros, M. Salvador, S. Rossi, F. Simões, M. Rocha, I. L. D. S. Neto, J. Rosolem, T. R. T. Fudoli, J. M. D. Mendes, N. F. Castro, I. Machado, A. Reggiani, A. Paradisi, Luciano Martins
{"title":"Project GIGA-high-speed experimental IP/WDM network","authors":"R. R. Scarabucci, Michael A. Stanton, M. Barros, M. Salvador, S. Rossi, F. Simões, M. Rocha, I. L. D. S. Neto, J. Rosolem, T. R. T. Fudoli, J. M. D. Mendes, N. F. Castro, I. Machado, A. Reggiani, A. Paradisi, Luciano Martins","doi":"10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.29","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes Project GIGA-high-speed Experimental Network, a multiinstitutional, multidisciplinary, national project funded by the Brazilian government. The main goal of Project GIGA is to promote research, development and experimentation of technology at all layers, aiming at generating knowledge, products and services that will make it possible for Brazilian individuals and companies to play a role in the converged telecom sector. The project centres on the high-speed Network Testbed, a platform for experimentation and validation of technology, equipment, protocols, services and applications, whether they be developed in the project or not. The paper explains the objectives, the expected impact and the organisation of the project. It also describes the architecture of the network testbed, the ongoing research and development activities and some of the results obtained.","PeriodicalId":299180,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities","volume":"33 1-2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123596496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nikolaos Tsarmpopoulos, Ioannis Kalavros, S. Lalis
{"title":"A low-cost and simple-to-deploy peer-to-peer wireless network based on open source Linux routers","authors":"Nikolaos Tsarmpopoulos, Ioannis Kalavros, S. Lalis","doi":"10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.3","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present our work towards deploying a community wireless network with ad hoc communication and routing between its elements. We describe our network model and implementation of wireless routers, while motivating decisions and pointing out open issues. The main advantage of our approach is the low deployment cost and inherent flexibility in terms of adapting the network configuration with little or no human intervention, which in turn can be exploited to support the dynamic addition, removal and mobility of network elements.","PeriodicalId":299180,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132325051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Floridia, S. Giordano, S. Lucetti, G. Risi, A. Tomasi
{"title":"MIND (Mobility-oriented IPSec Daemon): a tool for integrated mobility and security support in the Ecumene network","authors":"C. Floridia, S. Giordano, S. Lucetti, G. Risi, A. Tomasi","doi":"10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.24","url":null,"abstract":"The IP protocol is stateless and connectionless, hence cannot guarantee a secure delivery of the information. IPSec offers stateful security introducing logical connections between couples of peers. The management of these IPSec Security Associations is often delegated to dynamic protocols, such as ISAKMP and IKE, because of the obvious scalability problem of a manual configuration approach. However, the address of each peer must be known in advance to the other one in order for the ISAKMP exchange to be completed successfully. This assumption cannot be always guaranteed, especially when mobility is taken into consideration. In such cases, a proper mechanism to retrieve the correspondent peer IPv6 address must be taken into account. The demo consists of an overview of the functionalities of the Ecumene Web Information System, developed in the groundwork of the Ecumene Project, focusing mainly on the enhancements developed (in the form of the MIPSD daemon) to allow automatic IPSec SA insaturation between hosts which wants to access the network and the appropriate Site Gateway.","PeriodicalId":299180,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134309090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Fresa, G. Iacovoni, M. Longo, A. Robustelli, A. Senatore, F. Toro
{"title":"A testbed for experimentation of innovative services in the B3G framework","authors":"A. Fresa, G. Iacovoni, M. Longo, A. Robustelli, A. Senatore, F. Toro","doi":"10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.8","url":null,"abstract":"UMTS 3G networks are going to be widely deployed commercially, even if in their first releases they will be mainly focused on telephony and multimedia services based on circuit switched technologies. The roll out of the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), that can be forecast to happen in the next few years, will introduce mobile users to a new class of multimedia services based on the Internet protocol. The research community is already investigating a possible evolution for the 3G networks based on heterogeneous high-speed access networks allowing new multimedia services and a global coverage (Beyond 3G - B3G). In the present paper we describe a testbed developed by the Co.Ri.TeL. Consortium in the framework of the Presto Project, whose objective is to provide a suitable and common platform, inspired to the IMS ideas, for experimenting a wide variety of B3G SIP-based mobile services. The services experimented on top of the testbed include a multiuser video conferencing architecture, added-value user-defined multimedia services, an audio-video message box and a video-on-demand provisioning infrastructure. The service provisioning mechanisms are all built within a common mobility-management and security framework, providing an approach which is independent from the various possible underlying radio access technologies. In particular, the security capabilities of the developed architecture comprise user and network authentication, authorization to service access and IP-layer signalling cryptography integrated with application-layer mobility.","PeriodicalId":299180,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities","volume":"2017 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126701196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis and experimentation over heterogeneous wireless networks","authors":"M. Bernaschi, A. Pescapé, F. Cacace, S. Za","doi":"10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.13","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless and mobile networks represent an enabling technology for ubiquitous access to information systems. However, there are critical issues that still prevent the widespread use of these technologies. In this paper we analyze and discuss our experience over a real ubiquitous network testbed capable to provide a seamless hand-off among heterogeneous networks. We describe Mobile IPv6/IPv4 interoperability and an efficient mechanism, based on link-layer information, for a seamless handoff among wired and wireless networks. We present the solutions adopted in setting up a real testbed and provide an evaluation of the observed performance, including a characterization of interoperability among three wireless access network technologies: 802.11 WLAN, GPRS, and UMTS.","PeriodicalId":299180,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121340075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An open access wideband multiantenna wireless testbed with remote control capability","authors":"Weijun Zhu, D. Browne, M. Fitz","doi":"10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.12","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces an open access wideband multiantenna wireless testbed. The testbed is configured as a four transmit antenna by four receive antenna system based on software defined radio technology. It operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band and supports an RF bandwidth compatible to IEEE 802.11a/g standard. A robotic positioning system has been developed to automatically control the position and orientation of the antenna array, which makes automated testing possible and greatly reduces engineering time. The testbed is configured such that it can be controlled by any computer on the Internet. This makes remote debugging and testing possible. This characteristic of test automation and remote access through Internet was designed into the testbed to make it a valuable resource to the other researchers. A set of software has been developed to support research using the testbed, with the current focus on MIMO channel characterization and MIMO-OFDM packet communications. A data acquisition system and an offline processing system have been developed for the testbed and have been used for over the air testing to produce results for the ongoing IEEE 802.11n standardization activity.","PeriodicalId":299180,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities","volume":"35 17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131592989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Calyam, Dima Krymskiy, M. Sridharan, P. Schopis
{"title":"TBI: end-to-end network performance measurement testbed for empirical bottleneck detection","authors":"P. Calyam, Dima Krymskiy, M. Sridharan, P. Schopis","doi":"10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.33","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advances in networking include new bandwidth-intensive applications, sophisticated protocols that enable real-time data and multimedia delivery and aspects of network security that were not conceived in the beginnings of the Internet. Given these advances and the rapid increase in the number of users accessing the Internet, today's networks need to deliver high levels of end-to-end performance in a reliable fashion. In this paper, we present our novel network measurement methodology which employs an application-specific measurement toolkit including a scaleable test scheduler and analysis module to empirically identify end-to-end bottleneck paths in monitored network routes. To show the utility of our proposed methodology, we present case-studies from a network measurement testbed between 3 University campus labs traversing regional and national academic network backbones. Our case-studies address identifying network measurement anomalies in routine ISP operations due to route changes, device misconfigurations and erroneous data from measurement tools. We also present a performance comparison of campus, regional, national-academic and national-commercial network paths based on the measurement data obtained from our testbed. Finally, we illustrate the requirements and potential of federated measurement testbeds to better characterize end-to-end network performance bottlenecks across multiple ISP domains.","PeriodicalId":299180,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114571824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. O'Neill, M. Klepal, D. Lewis, Tony O'Donnell, D. O’Sullivan, D. Pesch
{"title":"A testbed for evaluating human interaction with ubiquitous computing environments","authors":"E. O'Neill, M. Klepal, D. Lewis, Tony O'Donnell, D. O’Sullivan, D. Pesch","doi":"10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.7","url":null,"abstract":"Core to ubiquitous computing environments are adaptive software systems that adapt their behavior to the context in which the user is attempting the task the system aims to support. This context is strongly linked with the physical environment in which the task is being performed. The efficacy of such adaptive systems is thus highly dependent on the human perception of the provided system behavior within the context represented by that particular physical environment and social situation. However, effective evaluation of human interaction with adaptive ubiquitous computing technologies has been hindered by the cost and logistics of accurately controlling such environmental context. This paper describes TATUS, a ubiquitous computing simulator aimed at overcoming these cost and logistical issues. Based on a 3D games engine, the simulator has been designed to maximize usability and flexibility in the experimentation of adaptive ubiquitous computing systems. We also describe how this simulator is interfaced with a testbed for wireless communication domain simulation.","PeriodicalId":299180,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125379510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Ionescu, Marcel Ionescu, S. Veres, D. Ionescu, F. Cuervo, Maike Luiken-Miller
{"title":"A testbed and research network for next generation services over next generation networks","authors":"B. Ionescu, Marcel Ionescu, S. Veres, D. Ionescu, F. Cuervo, Maike Luiken-Miller","doi":"10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.6","url":null,"abstract":"The complexity of today's data communication networks necessitates complete, realistic and sophisticated testing grounds for verifying and validating their functionality. Network testing grounds are restricted to laboratories and environments isolated from real life scenarios. Testing in production and commercial networks is typically forbidden since they present a high degree of risk factors for service availability. Additionally, the majority of today's communication network testbeds lack the scale and flexibility needed to properly represent a true networking environment. Before deploying live networks there is a need to have a network testing environment scalable and flexible enough where issues such as: network design, vendor interoperability, endurance, multiprotocol layer interconnectivity, a vendor's specific implementations of standards and network design viability have been verified to meet the requirements. In this paper a design and implementation of a next generation network is described, where both testing and production traffic coexist. NCIT*net 2 is an optical transmission network supporting end-to-end services over technologies such as Ethernet, SONET, MPLS and DWDM. The paper also discusses key technology aspects related to the functionality of equipment and network from a service point of view. These include the physical layer and network operation, as well as architecture and control. The testbed network is used for the deployment of networking services over the above technologies in order to verify service implementation, provisioning and assurance of quality of service requirements. This network also allows testing and evaluating systems, subsystems and components from different vendors in various interconnections. The paper goes further to describe, as an example, the tests designed and implemented for the analysis of MPLS based services over next generation networks.","PeriodicalId":299180,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121223820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ORBIT Measurements framework and library (OML): motivations, implementation and features","authors":"Manpreet Singh, M. Ott, I. Seskar, P. Kamat","doi":"10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2005.25","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present ORBIT measurement framework and library (OML), which is a distributed software framework enabling real-time collection of data in a large distributed environment. The success of a multiuser distributed testbed facility depends largely on the ease of use, remote access as well as on the ease of collecting useful measurements from experimental runs. OML provides a flexible and dynamic way in which data is collected and made available for realtime access to the experimenters. Application programmers can use simple interfaces provided to transfer measurements and other performance data to a central repository. This paper focuses on the motivation, requirements, design, implementation and real world usage of OML that is designed to provide a scalable, controllable and easy to use mechanism for experimenters to collect useful results from the experiments conducted on the ORBIT testbed.","PeriodicalId":299180,"journal":{"name":"First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126904640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}