OMF is a framework for controlling, instrumenting, and managing resources from experimental networking platforms (testbeds). Researchers use OMF to describe, instrument, execute, and analyse their experiments, while testbed owners use OMF to make the resources in the testbed discoverable, to control access to them, to optimize their utilization through virtualization, and to federate with other testbeds.

OMF version 5.3 includes many new features, such as a new event driven mechanism, support for disconnected experiments, and support for experiments on PlanetLab. In addition, several bugs were fixed (described in the ticket-tracking system), and some major code refactoring was carried out, which will facilitate future OMF extensions and support federation and virtualization (e.g. all OMF communications are now using the Publish/Subscribe scheme, new naming scheme for resources, etc.).

Further details about this release can be found on the OMF website, including installation instructions, source code, and a detailed user documentation guide.

For further details, please see: http://mytestbed.net/news/show/8