Overview
Network testbeds for developing, deploying, and experimenting with new network services and new network architectures have become a necessity for developing clean-slate thinking towards a new generation network architecture. Isolation of resources among disruptive experiments with innovative inventions is a key to the success of such test-beds. Recent rapid progress in virtualization technology greatly facilitates such resource isolation and allocation for the testbeds.
CoreLab is a new network testbed infrastructure enhanced from PlanetLab that enables a much more flexible environment than the existing network testbeds as of today. For example, it offers full- and para-virtualization (as well as resource container) in slices using a mixture of various virtualization technologies.
Currently CoreLab is deployed only in Japan. However, we plan to extend it to the other region of the planet and also to federate with the other test-bed infrastructures that we closely collaborate with.
Features
- Slice-oriented architecture
- Full-featured development environment
- Various guest OSes
- Well-managed IP ports among users
- Distributed nodes across Japan
- Multi-homing support
Members
- Aki NAKAO (Director) (U.Tokyo/NICT)
- Ryota OZAKI (NICT)
- Eiji MIYAGAKI (KOZO KEIKAKU/NICT)
- Yuji NISHIDA (NICT)
- Kiyohide NAKAUCHI (NICT)
- JGN2Plus Collaborators
External Links
- CoreLab PLC
- Network Virtualization Laboratory
- Slice Creation Demo for CoreLab Users
- PlanetLab Japan
- PlanetLab Japan Consortium
- OneLab
- Tokyo University
- KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING Inc.
- NICT