The paper titled "UANM: a platform for experimenting with available bandwidth estimation tools" presented at the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 10) in
Riccione (Italy), received the Best Paper Award (Local Category).

The paper is authored by Giuseppe Aceto, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Maurizio D’Arienzo (CINI).

The program of the conference is at: http://www.ieee-iscc.org/2010/web_pages/program.html

Where are the PlanetLab Europe nodes today?

In several research scenarios the geographic location of the measurement nodes plays a significant role. Such information is provided by the site information collection at PlanetLab Central. However, in this collection a relatively large number of the PlanetLab nodes are mislocated, with a varying magnitude of error.

A video overview of the monitoring capabilities on PlanetLab is now available.

A new video on using emulation is available.

Using Emulation

YUM is a software package manager. It is a tool for installing, updating, and removing packages and their dependencies on RPM-based systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.

A paper titled "Performance footprints of heavy users in 3G networks via empirical measurement"will be presented at the 6th International workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (Winmee) 2010, Avignon, France, on May 31st. The paper was authored by Ernst Biersack (Eurecom), Alessio Botta (CINI), Antonio Pescapè (CINI), Stefan Rugel (o2), and Giorgio Ventre (CINI).

A paper on network monitoring and measurement will be presented at the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2010, that will be held in Riccione (Italy), on June 22-25. The paper is authored by Giuseppe Aceto, Alessio Botta, Antonio Pescapè, Maurizio D’Arienzo (CINI).

The paper, titled UANM: a platform for experimenting with available bandwidth estimation

Luigi Rizzo, Universita` di Pisa, presented a GoogleTechTalk, New Developments in Link Emulation and Packet Scheduling in FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows. In the talk he gives an overview of recent activity done at the Universita` di Pisa on link emulation and packet scheduling.

Rizzo covers two main topics:

A paper on the PlanetLab Europe measurement architecture will be presented at TridentCom 2010, 18-20 May 2010, Berlin, Germany.

The paper, "Measurement Architectures for Network Experiments with Disconnected Mobile Nodes", was authored by Jolyon White, Guillaume Jourjon, Thierry Rakotoarivelo, and Max Ott.

A paper on the PlanetLab Europe packet tracking architecture will be presented at TridentCom 2010, 18-20 May 2010, Berlin, Germany.

The paper, "Packet Tracking in PlanetLab Europe - A Use Case" was authored by Tanja Zseby, Christian Henke, and Michael Kleis.