PlanetLab Europe welcomes companies, universities, and research laboratories across Europe to join the testbed. We are supported by the European Commision through its 7th Framework Programs, FIRE initiative (Future Internet Research and Experimentation).

We encourage other FP7 projects in this area to participate, and offer special terms for those which do. For research project to take advantage of PlanetLab Europe is it only necessary for one or more of its partners to be members of the PlanetLab Europe consortium

If you are preparing a proposal for FP7, please see this utilization notice.

PlanetLab Europe is the European portion of the publicly available PlanetLab testbed. PlanetLab consists of over one thousand nodes across the world. The nodes are linked together via the Internet.

PlanetLab Europe is supported by the OneLab project. In addition to running PlanetLab Europe, OneLab is deepening PlanetLab's monitoring infrastructure and extending PlanetLab into new environments (e.g., wireless).

PlanetLab Europe operates under the direction of Timur Friedman of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), working in collaboration with the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA).

Here is the road map for the deployment of PlanetLab Europe:

Install PlanetLab Europe

Installation of PlanetLab Europe was the first step in the process. It currently runs the vanilla codebase of the MyPLC package from Princeton.

Status: Done

Federate PlanetLab Europe with PlanetLab Central

Federation between the two testbeds allow users of either testbed to deploy their experiments on nodes across both testbeds in a transparent way.

Status: Done

Create the PlanetLab Europe Consortium

The PlanetLab Europe Consortium will last beyond the OneLab project and will be responsible for running, maintaining and supporting the PlanetLab Europe testbed. It will also be the recognized entity:

• for contracts between user sites and PlanetLab Europe, including the acceptable use policy
• for a memorandum of understanding with Princeton regarding federation of the two systems

Status: Done

Migrate European Sites to PlanetLab Europe

European sites which are connected to the current PlanetLab will progressively migrate from PlanetLab to PlanetLab Europe.

Status: Done

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