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OneLab2
The Project
The second phase of the OneLab project, OneLab2 builds on the original OneLab project's foundations, continuing work on the PlanetLab testbed, increasing its international visibility and extending it in both functionality and scale.
PlanetLab is a global research network that supports the development of new network services. Since the beginning of 2003, more than 1,000 researchers at top academic institutions and industrial research labs have used PlanetLab to develop new technologies for distributed storage, network mapping, peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables, and query processing. PlanetLab currently consists of 1089 nodes at 503 sites.
Our Mission
PlanetLab was originally built to develop new technologies for distributed storage, network mapping, peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables, and query processing. To do so researchers built their own overlay network topologies in user space. There was no need for direct Layer2 access or for the creation of Layer2 topologies. As a consequence the evaluation and testing of new, IP-independent routing protocols (e.g. data centric networking, pub/sub systems) on PlanetLab nodes is a problem, as it is not possible for a process running in PlanetLab to distinguish between different incoming interfaces or to determine which outgoing interface to use - the very core function of a router cannot be emulated. The cause of this problem is PlanetLab's network virtualization design.
Our concern is to overcome this problem by the application of new network virtualisation techniques on the PlanetLab infrastructure. The objective is to offer researchers a convenient tool for building their own, custom, virtual Layer2 topologies on PlanetLab upon which it becomes meaningful to execute lower-level routing and forwarding experiments.
Funding
The second phase of the OneLab project, running for 27 months from September 1st, 2008, has a total cost of 8.9 million euro. Of this, 6.3 million euros are funded by a large-scale Integrating Project (IP) grant from the European Commission's FP7 ICT programme's FIRE initiative. The rest of the budget consists of individual contributions made by each of the project's 26 partners.
Additional activities relating to both phases of the project are financed by the following organisations: Ministčre de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Région Ile-de-France, Mairie de Paris.
Partners
UPMC Paris Universitas (F), Alcatel-Lucent France (F), Alcatel-Lucent Italy (I), BT (GB), CERTH (GR), CINI (I), Eötvös Loránd University (H), Ericsson Germany (D), Ericsson Hungary (H), ETH Zurich (CH), Fraunhofer FOCUS (D), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL), INRIA (F), Instituto de Telecomunicacöes (P), KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology (S), NICTA (A), Quantavis (I), Tel Aviv University (IL), TP (PL), Thales (F), Thomson (F), UAM - Universida Autónima de Madrid (SP), Universitá di Pisa (I), Universität Paderborn (D), University of Basel (CH), Warsaw University of Technology (PL)