Network testbeds have empowered networking re-search and facilitated scientific progress.
However, current testbeds focus mainly on experiments involving the current Inter-net. In this …

Internet routing research has long been hindered by obstacles to executing the wide class of
experiments necessary to characterize problems and opportunities, and evaluate candidate …

SDN is considered to be a promising way to re-architect the Internet. However, the Internet is
managed by owners of different administrative domains, so the centralized control model of …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) brought an unprecedented flexibility and
programmability into computer networks. In order to simplify the management of an SDN …

In scientific research, the independent reproduction of experimental results is the source of
trust. The release of experimental artifacts enables the reproduction of results; however …

Planetary-scale network testbeds like PlanetLab and RON have become indispensable for
evaluating prototypes of distributed systems under realistic Internet conditions. However …

Global network innovation requires large-scale distributed test facilities that are similar to the
typically multidomain real-world environments in order to ensure the agile adaptation of new …

An important stage of wide-area systems and networking research is to prototype a system
to understand its performance when deployed in the real Internet. A key requirement of …

New technologies for the Internet should be evaluated on environments dedicated to
experiments, in order to avoid influences to critical services on the Internet. Generally …

Recently, several large-scale software defined networking (SDN) testbeds have been
designed and developed. These SDN testbeds have spurred numerous network …