The Forest Project

THE FOREST PROJECT

Introduction To The Forest Project

The Forest Project is an effort to demonstrate the complete development process for a new protocol targeted for the SPP (Superchared Planetlab Platform). As noted in the page Internet Scale Overlay Hosting, a typical Planetlab user wishing to develop a Fast-Path (FP) implementation of a new protocol will typically follow these steps:

• Develop a slow-path version by writing a stylized socket program that captures the semantics of the protocol processing and debug it using any PlanetLab-like host.
• Repeat the testing of the slow-path version of the router software on the SPPs' GPEs.
• Send to the SPP developers information regarding the slow-path program that handles your new protocol (e.g., slow-path code, test results, informal/formal protocol description).
• The SPP developers will transform the slow-path socket program into a slow-path part that will run on a GPE and a fast-path part that will run on an NPE.
  • The slow-path part typically handles the control path and exception processing.
  • The fast-path part handles the data path.

History

A slow-path Forest implementation was first demonstrated at the GEC 6 Conference.

Wiki Pages

• The SPP Architecture
• The wunet Protocol
  • The Wunet Protocol
  • Inside The wunet Source Code
• Forest Pages
  • The Forest Protocol
  • The GEC 6 Demo
    • The GEC 6 Forest Demo
    • How To Run The GEC 6 Forest Demo
  • Design Of The Forest Fastpath
• Related Pages
  • The GEC 6 Fastpath Demo