| Authors | E. G. Gran, T. Dreibholz and A. Kvalbein |
| Title | NorNet Core - A Multi-Homed Research Testbed |
| Afilliation | , Communication Systems, Communication Systems, Communication Systems |
| Project(s) | NorNet, The Center for Resilient Networks and Applications |
| Status | Published |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2014 |
| Journal | Computer Networks |
| Volume | Special Issue: Future Internet Testbeds |
| Number | 61 |
| Pagination | 75-87 |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Abstract | Over the last decade, the Internet has grown at a tremendous speed in both size and complexity. Nowadays, a large number of important services - for instance e-commerce, healthcare and many others - depend on the availability of the underlying network. Clearly, service interruptions due to network problems may have a severe impact. On the long way towards the Future Internet, the complexity will grow even further. Therefore, new ideas and concepts must be evaluated thoroughly, and particularly in realistic, real-world Internet scenarios, before they can be deployed for production networks. For this purpose, various testbeds - for instance PlanetLab, GpENI or G-Lab - have been established and are intensively used for research. However, all of these testbeds lack the support for so-called multihoming. Multi-homing denotes the connection of a site to multiple Internet service providers, in order to achieve redundancy. Clearly, with the need for network availability, there is a steadily growing demand for multi-homing. The idea of the NorNet Core project is to establish a Future Internet research testbed with multi-homed sites, in order to allow researchers to perform experiments with multi-homed systems. Particular use cases for this testbed include realistic experiments in the areas of multi-path routing, load balancing, multi-path transport protocols, overlay networks and network resilience. In this paper, we introduce the NorNet Core testbed as well as its architecture. |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.bjp.2013.12.035 |
| Citation Key | Simula.simula.2236 |
