Description

Wireless Multihop Network testbeds are often distributed over large physical areas and have many devices which renders management challenging. A multitude of diverse frameworks are available to assist in the management of such testbeds. Properties like scalability, heterogeneous hardware support and effortless testbed configuration are a self-evident goal for these frameworks. However, this combination is hard to achieve and the exact requirements vary for different testbeds. Instead of providing a completely new and tailored experimentation framework, I propose Panopticon, a service oriented management framework, providing a lower layer to intercept and improve existing functionality. It slices large, distributed testbeds into dynamically sized subunits, offering a granular choice in testbed experimentation frameworks for every slice. Such an exper- imentation framework can be selected regarding the exact experiment’s requirements and not as a compromise between all available testbed components. Panopticon’s list of services can be extended, offering simple entry points for new, custom implementations. It is a framework federating network enabled infrastructures.