PlanetLab Europe (PLE) now supports OpenFlow capabilities through a modified version of OpenVSwtich called sliver-ovs. Experimenters will be able to create an OpenFlow overlay network by specifying the links between PLE nodes.
Tools and documentation are available here.

The MySlice user interface has been presented as a demo implementation to an American audience at the 12th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC12), November 2-4 2011 in Kansas City, USA.

Set up and run your own PlanetLab testbed

The OneLab operations team has made the PlanetLab Europe management-level documentation set available, useful for those who wish to create their own PlanetLab testbed. It aims to document the management processes for a PlanetLab system (such as PlanetLab Europe or a private PlanetLab) based on the OneLab build software.

We are pleased to announce the federation of the EmanicsLab testbed with PlanetLab Europe (PLE), and other testbeds in the EmanicsLab is a private PlanetLab testbed, and is managed by the Communication Systems Group at the University of Zurich.

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