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In a nutshell

This project was formerly known as TEMPO. It has two complementary objectives.

First, it is developing schemes that minimise the energy cost of a distributed service delivery platform, such as TV set-top boxes, thereby reducing energy costs and environment footprint.

Second, it is developing and deploying a unified framework to control, measure, and manage federations of networking testbeds, thereby increasing scientific rigor in the networking field, and facilitating future Internet research.

Executive Summary

This project has two complementary objectives. First, it is developing schemes that minimise the energy cost of a distributed service delivery platform, such as TV set-top boxes, thereby reducing energy costs and environment footprint. This research is relevant to the increasing regulatory and economic concerns on energy cost and environment footprint. Moreover, this research is done in the context of the NanoDatacenter project (funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme, EU FP7), to which NICTA participates. Second, this project is developing and deploying a unified framework to control, measure, and manage federations of networking testbeds, thereby increasing scientific rigor in the networking field, and facilitating future Internet research. This initiative complements the first objective by providing experimental infrastructure and software to evaluate the designed energy-aware service delivery schemes. Furthermore, this second objective contributes to a wider international initiative on providing an open federated laboratory to explore new networking and Internet technologies. In that regard, NICTA is a partner in the OneLab project (funded by EU FP7) and the GENI ORBIT project (funded by the US National Science Foundation, NSF).

More Information

Energy-efficient Service Delivery

Unified Testbed Framework

TEMPO Overview

Publications

“Toward on Demand Streaming with Bittorent”
Youmna Bourgol, Sebastien Ardon, Anirban Mahanti and Niklas Carlson
IFIP Networking 2010, India, 2010 

“High performance peer to peer distributed computing with application to numerical simulation”
The Tung Nguyen, Didier El Baz, Pierre Spitéri, Guillaume Jourjon, Minh Chau
7th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer to Peer Systems, in conjunction with IPDCS 2010, Atlanta, USA, April 2010 

“Measurement Architectures for Network Experiments with Disconnected Mobile Nodes”
J. White, G. Jourjon, T. Rakotoarivelo, and M. Ott
6th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2010), Berlin, Germany, May 2010 

“From Learning to Researching, Ease the Shift through Testbeds”
G. Jourjon, T. Rakotoarivelo, and M. Ott
6th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2010), Berlin, Germany, May 2010 

“Models for an Energy-Efficient P2P Delivery Service”
G. Jourjon, T. Rakotoarivelo, and M. Ott
18th International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-based Computing (PDP 2010), Pisa, Italy, February 2010 

“OMF: A Control and Management Framework for Networking Testbeds”
T. Rakotoarivelo, M. Ott, G. Jourjon, and I. Seskar
4th ACM Workshop on Real Overlays and Distributed Systems (ROADS'09), Montana, USA, October 2009
Selected for re-print in ACM Operating Systems Review (OSR), vol. 43 (4), pp. 54-59, December 2009 

“Mobility Emulator for DTN and MANET Applications”
H. Yoon, J.W. Kim, T. Rakotoarivelo, and M. Ott
4th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH'09), Beijing, China, September 2009 

“Mobile Experiments Made Easy with OMF/Orbit”
C. Dwertmann, E. Mesut, G. Jourjon, M. Ott, T. Rakotoarivelo, and I. Seskar
Poster and Demonstration at ACM SIGCOMM 2009, Barcelona, Spain, August 2009 

A short presentation of the Unified Testbed Framework

A short presentation of the proposed Service Delivery Schemes

Linkage and Collaboration

Through the activities within TEMPO, NICTA is a partner in two EU FP7 funded projects (OneLab, NaDa), and one GENI-NSF funded project (ORBIT-GENI).

OneLab is a CP-IP project involving 29 partners (e.g. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, British Telecom). It has a duration of 27 months with an approved budget of 8.8M Euro. Its goal is to establish an internationally competitive and federated facility for networking experimentations. NADA is a CP-FP project involving 9 partners (e.g. Thomson, Telefonica) for a duration of 36 months with an approved budget of 4.9M Euro. It proposes a radical and innovative solution to data hosting and delivery for the future Internet. Both EU projects were selected for funding in a round with an approximate acceptance rate of 15%. ORBIT-GENI is a project involving Winlab at Rutgers University and NICTA. It has a duration of 36 months with an approved budget of 300K USD. It proposes modifications and extensions to OMF to become GENI-compliant and support heterogeneous mobile wireless testbeds.

OneLab 2
NanoDataCenters (NADA)
GENI-ORBIT