A paper on the network integration of an OMF-based wireless mesh network in PlanetLab will be presented by OneLab2 researchers on November 25, at the ICST QShine 2009..." ICST QShine 2009, the Sixth International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain).

The paper, "Integration of OMF-based testbeds in a global scale networking facility" was authored by Giovanni Di Stasi, Stefano Avallone, and Roberto Canonico, (CINI-University of Napoli). The paper was been produced in the context of OneLab2 WP6.

PlanetLab is a global scale platform for experimentation of new networking applications in a real environment. The main drawback of PlanetLab is its scarce heterogeneity in terms of the access technologies it offers. In this paper we discuss the efforts we made to integrate a WiFi-based Wireless Mesh testbed in PlanetLab.

Our wireless testbed, called WILEE, is controlled by OMF (Orbit Management Framework) and is made available to PlanetLab users through a multi-homed PlanetLab node. In particular, we describe the software tools we developed to let PlanetLab users have their traffic routed through the OMF-controlled WiFi testbed.

We also describe how we integrated some of the OMF facilities (e.g. the OMF controller) into the PlanetLab user environment. The software we developed to achieve such integration is in the process of being integrated into the PlanetLab code base, so that this feature can be also implemented in other PlanetLab sites.

The paper is available in In Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Networks, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST), Vol. 22, Springer, November, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-642-10624-8.