The User's Guide is targeted at users of PlanetLab Europe: researchers, educators, and students who run experiments, develop applications, or maintain services on PlanetLab Europe. The User's Guide contains a short primer on PlanetLab Europe terminology and account maintenance that may be useful for new Principal Investigators and Technical Contacts as well.

This document is a guide for users developing applications on PlanetLab Europe. This guide is not a comprehensive reference and is simply intended to help new users access PlanetLab Europe for the first time.

• Overview
• Terminology
• Registering with PLE
• Creating Local Infrastructure
• Generating an SSH Key
• Deploying Slices
• Accessing Slivers
• Best Practices
• Experiment Control with NEPI
• NITOS Wireless Testbed
• Initscripts
• OpenFlow Overlay Network
• Installing Java
• Emulation
• Monitoring
• Passive Monitoring
• Maintenance
• Limitations
• Troubleshooting
• Revision History