OpenLab invites Call 8 project proposals to benefit from the variety of its running and extending facilities

OpenLab brings together the essential ingredients for an open, general purpose and sustainable large scale shared experimental facility, providing advances to the early and successful prototypes, developed notably in the OneLab and Panlab initiatives, as well as drawing upon other initiatives’ best work, such as the SFA control framework and OpenFlow switching.  OpenLab is deploying the software and tools that allow these advanced testbeds to support a diverse set of applications and protocols in more efficient and flexible ways. The available testbed infrastructure is available to test project propotypes and its capabilities go beyond what can be tested on the current internet.

Specifically, OpenLab’s contribution to the experimentation portfolio includes: PlanetLab Europe (PLE), with its over 200 partner/user institutions across Europe; the NITOS and w-iLab.t wireless testbeds; two IMS telco testbeds that can connect to the public PSTN, to IP phone services, and can explore merged media distribution; an LT3 cellular wireless testbed; the ETOMIC high precision network measurement testbed; the HEN emulation testbed; and the ns-3 simulation environment. OpenLab extends the testbed facilities with advanced capabilities in the area of mobility, wireless, monitoring and domain interconnections.

For all research consortia responding to Call 8 of the ICT research programme of Framework Programme 7, OpenLab can offer experimentation support in the wide variety of testbeds and tools. Importantly, since the individual facilities have demonstrated their maturity and successful use, the invitation for experimenters to join our user group is ongoing and not tied to any specific call schedules.