Project Presentation

Contract number

IST-2006-034819

Project acronym

OneLab

Project name

OneLab: An Open Networking Laboratory Supporting Communication Network Research Across Heterogeneous Environments

Priority component

Research networking testbeds strategic objective (activity code IST-2005-2.5.6)

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Project participants

• P1 UPMC: Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France
• P2 INRIA: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, France
• P3 Intel: Intel Corporation (UK) Limited, UK (participant September-December 2006)
• P4 UC3M: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• P5 UCL: Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• P6 CINI: Consorzio Interuniversita Rio Nazionale per l’Informatica, Italy
• P7 FT: France Telecom, France
• P8 UniPi: Università di Pisa, Italy
• P9 Alcatel Italia: Alcatel Italia S.P.A., Italy
• P10 TP: Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., Poland

Total cost (€)

2,860,420 €

Commission funding (€)

1,900,000 €

Project main goals

The OneLab project has two overarching objectives:

• To extend the current PlanetLab infrastructure. OneLab will widen PlanetLab by adding testbed nodes behind links that are not typical research network links. OneLab will also deepen PlanetLab by enhancing the ability of applications that are running on PlanetLab to perceive the underlying network environment: viewing the packets that pass through certain points in the network, and viewing the topology of the network.
• To create an autonomous PlanetLab Europe. OneLab will take over the administration of PlanetLab nodes across Europe, and will enter into a peering relationship with PlanetLab in the United States.

Key issues

The OneLab project will knit together the best of today's networking testbeds, to provide a unified environment for the next generation of network experiments. The availability of such a large scale, open, heterogeneous testbed will be beneficial not only to the world of research and academics, but industry at large will benefit from access to computing and networking resources. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are developing novel distributed systems and services will be able to use OneLab to test the deployment of their products in realistic scenarios, providing them with invaluable information about the performance, resiliency and scalability of their products.

Technical approach

OneLab will, over two years, introduce seven new networking testbed components and tie them together into a coherent whole. The plan is to develop the components over the first eighteen months, then validate them, and the system as a whole, during the six months that remain. Each component is the responsibility of one project partner, expert in the issues concerning that component. A partner expert in software development is responsible for tying the components together. The lead partner, experienced in running networking testbeds and in running consortiums, will administer the testbed, oversee dissemination of the results, and manage the overall project.

OneLab will introduce seven new components to the PlanetLab testbed:

• Wireless: WiMAX, UMTS, and ad hoc wireless.
• Wired: multihomed.
• An emulation component.
• Monitoring: passive monitoring, and topology information components.

Expected achievements/impact

OneLab will reinforce the competitiveness of European IST enterprises by shortening the cycle of evaluation for their new applications. Similarly, OneLab will be responsive to the needs of European researchers, allowing research in Europe to set its own priorities in areas that require such testbed work.

Coordinator contact details

Prof. Serge Fdida
email: coordinator@one-lab.org
tel.: +33 1 44 27 30 58
fax.: +33 1 44 27 53 53