FABRIC Testbed from the Eyes of a Network Researcher
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first is to show how to deploy routing protocols in the FABRIC national-scale testbed, presenting examples step-by-step from the perspective of a network researcher who needs to book a slice composed of a topology with multiple paths, diversity of links, nodes with specific network interfaces (shared or/and programmable NICs) that form the basis to build a real-world network experiment. The second is to use the available tools (“metaresearch” API) to demonstrate how reproducible is the experimentation process, taking the evaluation of OSPF failure recovery and traffic throughput over dedicated smartNICS as use cases.
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Berman, M., Chase, J. S., Landweber, L., Nakao, A., Ott, M., Raychaudhuri, D., Ricci, R., and Seskar, I. (2014). Geni: A federated testbed for innovative network experiments. Computer Networks, 61:5–23. Special issue on Future Internet Testbeds – Part I.
Borges, E., Pontes, E., Dominicini, C., Schwarz, M., Mate, C., Loui, F., Guimarães, R., Martinello, M., Villaça, R., and Ribeiro, M. (2022a). A lifecycle experience of polka: From prototyping to deployment at géant lab with rare/freertr. In Anais do XIII Workshop de Pesquisa Experimental da Internet do Futuro, pages 35–40, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. SBC.
Borges, E., Pontes, E., Mate, C., Loui, F., Martinello, M., and Ribeiro, M. (2022b). Freerouter in a nutshell: A protocoland routing platform for open and portable carrier-class testbeds. In Anais do I Workshop de Testbeds, pages 36–46, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. SBC.
Both, C., Guimaraes, R., Slyne, F., Wickboldt, J., Martinello, M., Dominicini, C., Martins, R., Zhang, Y., Cardoso, D., Villaca, R., Ceravolo, I., Nejabati, R., Marquez-Barja, J., Ruffini, M., and DaSilva, L. (2019). Futebol control framework: Enabling experimentation in convergent optical, wireless, and cloud infrastructures. IEEE Communications Magazine, 57(10):56–62.
Dominicini, C. et al. (2020). Polka: Polynomial key-based architecture for source routing in network fabrics. In 2020 6th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), pages 326–334. IEEE.
Dominicini, C., Guimarães, R., Mafioletti, D., Martinello, M., Ribeiro, M. R. N., Villaça, R., Loui, F., Ortiz, J., Slyne, F., Ruffini, M., and Kenny, E. (2021). Deploying polka source routing in p4 switches : (invited paper). In 2021 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), pages 1–3.
Guimarães, R. S., Dominicini, C., Martínez, V. M. G., Xavier, B. M., Mafioletti, D. R., Locateli, A. C., Villaca, R., Martinello, M., and Ribeiro, M. R. N. (2022). M-polka: Multipath polynomial key-based source routing for reliable communications. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, pages 1–1.
Huang, T., Yu, F. R., Zhang, C., Liu, J., Zhang, J., and Liu, Y. (2017). A survey on large-scale software defined networking SDN testbeds: Approaches and challenges. IEEE Communications Surveys Tutorials.
M., S. et al. (2014). Design and implementation of the ofelia FP7 facility: The european openflow testbed. Computer Network, 61:132–150.
Salmito, T. et al. (2014). Fibre-an international testbed for future internet experimentation. In Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos-SBRC 2014, pages p–969.
Zink, M., Irwin, D., Cecchet, E., Saplakoglu, H., Krieger, O., Herbordt, M., Daitzman, M., Desnoyers, P., Leeser, M., and Handagala, S. (2021). The open cloud testbed (oct): A platform for research into new cloud technologies. In 2021 IEEE 10th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), pages 140–147.
Published
2023-08-06
How to Cite
PONTES, Edgard da Cunha et al.
FABRIC Testbed from the Eyes of a Network Researcher. In: PROCEEDINGS OF TESTBEDS WORKSHOP, 2. , 2023, João Pessoa/PB.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2023
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p. 38-49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wtestbeds.2023.230665.
