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Section: New Results

Experimental Platforms

Participants : Julien Lefeuvre, David Margery.

Contribution to Fed4FIRE testbed

Participants : Julien Lefeuvre, David Margery.

In Fed4FIRE, two key technologies have been adopted as common protocols to enable experimenters to interact with testbeds: Slice Federation Architecture (SFA), to provision resources, and Control and Management Framework for Networking Testbeds (OMF) to control them. In 2015, the main area of work has been the implementation of an SFA API to BonFIRE, still on-going. In the process, we wrote the reference documentation to write a new delegate for geni-tools, the reference implementation of SFA maintained by the GENI project office. This codebase has now been made public on github, in part because of our interactions with the code and suggested changes to ease writing new delegates. We have also contributed to the design of a service layer proxy mechanisms so that testbeds with http based APIs can be queried by any Fed4FIRE user using a standard authentications mechanism. The BonFIRE API has been made available through that mechanism, based on XML documents signed using the XML Signature specification.