OneLab Project Leader Serge Fdida of UPMC, visited the Chinese capital Beijing in November 2009, to make a presentation at the networking event "China Wireless World and Internet of Things 2009" [website]. Prof. Fdida gave a talk about the OneLab project entitled "Experimentally-driven Research in the Wireless World: the Onelab2 Solution". Also present was Jacques Babot, EC Project Officer and Team Leader of IPv6.
During his visit, Prof. Fdida also met with a representative from Tsinghua University, Prof. Xing Li, director of the prestigious New Generation Network Technology & Applications Laboratory, to discuss the welcoming of the University as a partner in the OneLab project. Tsinghua University is set to join the project later in 2010, and Prof. Fdida and Prof. Li signed an agreement setting the University's membership process formally in motion.
OneLab researchers from Fraunhofer and ETH Zurich, among other contributors, have written a new proposed standard which supports research on the Future Internet. Released in October 2009 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), proposed standard RFC 5655, entitled "Specification of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) File Format", defines a standardized format for storing network traffic information. The authors of this document will provide the proposed solution as a standard service on PlanetLab Europe - open federated research platform and flagship testbed of the OneLab project.
As part of the OneLab project's new policy of active recruitment of industrial partners, representatives from the project and its flagship testbed, PlanetLab Europe, have been meeting with figures from the industrial community across the Paris region (the home of OneLab coordinating partner UPMC).
OneLab partner CERTH (the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas), leaders of the wireless work package (Work Package 6) have recently made the NITOS testbed publicly available to researchers. NITOS, which stands for Network Implementation Testbed using Open Source code, is a wireless testbed that consists of nodes based on OMF open-source software. It has been developed in association with NITLab, the Network Implementation Testbed Laboratory of the Computer and Communication Engineering Department at University of Thessaly.
We are pleased to announce that a new tool is available for users of the PlanetLab Europe (PLE) testbed. Each user can now inspect the network traffic of her/his experiments with packet or flow resolution using passive monitoring techniques.
