Hi Cesar,
Cesar Marcondes wrote:
> Dear Crossbow Community,
>
> My name is Cesar Marcondes, I''m a grad student at UCLA,
interested
> in the crossbow technology. In the past weeks, when the crossbow bits
> were released, one possibility/idea came to my mind and I would like
> to share with you, and potentially find partners that would be willing
> to follow this idea.
>
> I''ve been using the Planetlab infrastructure for
"world-wide"
> research experiments for some time. A short description of Planetlab
> follows:
>
> http://www.planet-lab.org/
> This is the largest academic consortium (led by Princeton/Washington
> Univ.). Any CS networking laboratory anywhere in the world interested
> to join, can just put a machine in the Internet to be managed by a
> pool of "Linux" OS tools, iptables/traffic shapers/virtual
> machines/etc. Therefore, becoming part of the 700 Planetlabs nodes
> world-wide. The CS/Net scientists can then use all these 700 machines
> worldwide to test new protocols (P2P software, performance related
> software, etc).
>
> However, I noticed that they don''t have a good support for
managing
> QoS Bandwidth Limits and support different global IPv4/IPv6 on a per
> Virtual NIC basis. So, my idea consists on finding some partners
> willing to provide an opensolaris solution based on crossbow for the
> Planetlab. The planetlab has a good set of tools that they use for
this is a great opportunity to study how the control of bandwidth
on the endpoint translate into end-to-end QoS, across the Internet.
> everyday "slice" management, and the software is in version 1.3.
So,
> the effort would be on getting an opensolaris, putting the crossbow on
> top, and porting their management software for this new OS
> architecture.
and we''ll be very happy to support that effort.
Kais.
>
> There are lots of CS/Net scientists that would like to explore
> experiments were the end-nodes are DSL connections, and one of the way
> is to provide a VNIC for each slice with particular bandwidth
> limitations. And having support for global IPv4/IPv6 on top of each
> VNIC helps them no having to provide hacks for their software.
>
> Please let me know if anyone is interested.
> Cesar Marcondes
> cesar at cs.ucla.edu
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