OMF¶

OMF is a unified control, measurement and management framework for networking experimental platforms (testbeds). OMF provides a complete set of tools supporting researchers in their full experiment cycles, from an experiment's design, execution, measurement collection and analysis, to its archiving and version control. It also provides tools allowing testbed operators to efficiently manage their experimental resources. OMF is currently deployed on many worldwide testbeds, for instance at OneLab partner institutions and at Rutgers University in the USA.

`OMF site`:http://mytestbed.net/projects/omf

`Integration of OMF-Based Testbeds in a Global-Scale Networking Facility`:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.149.7526&rep=rep1&type=pdf

PlanetLab is a global scale platform for experimentation of new networking applications in a real environment. The main drawback of PlanetLab is its scarce heterogeneity in terms of the access technologies it offers. In this paper we discuss the efforts we made to integrate a WiFi-based Wireless Mesh testbed in PlanetLab. Our wireless testbed, called WILEE, is controlled by OMF (Orbit Management Framework) and is made available to PlanetLab users through a multi-homed PlanetLab node. In particular, we describe the software tools we developed to let PlanetLab users have their traffic routed through the OMF-controlled WiFi testbed. We also describe how we integrated some of the OMF facilities (e.g. the OMF controller) into the PlanetLab user environment. The software we developed to achieve such integration is in the process of being integrated into the PlanetLab code base, so that this feature can be also implemented in other PlanetLab sites.