Abstract
PlanetLab is a geographically distributed overlay network designed to support the deployment and evaluation of planetary-scale network services. Two high-level goals shape its design. First, to enable a large research community to share the infrastructure, PlanetLab provides distributed virtualization, whereby each service runs in an isolated slice of PlanetLab's global resources. Second, to support competition among multiple network services, PlanetLab decouples the operating system running on each node from the network-wide services that define PlanetLab, a principle referred to as unbundled management. This paper describes how PlanetLab realizes the goals of distributed virtualization and unbundled management, with a focus on the OS running on each node.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| State | Published - 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 1st Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2004 - San Francisco, United States Duration: Mar 29 2004 → Mar 31 2004 |
Conference
| Conference | 1st Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2004 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Francisco |
| Period | 3/29/04 → 3/31/04 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Control and Systems Engineering