The Forest Project
From ARL Wiki
Revision as of 17:37, 16 November 2009 by Ken Wong (talk | contribs) (→Introduction To The Forest Project)
THE FOREST PROJECT
Contents
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 broad steps:
- Develop a slow-path version by writing a stylized socket program that captures the semantics of the protocol processing and debug it using almost any 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 NPR.
In Step 4, the slow-path part typically handles the control path and exception processing; and the fast-path part handles the data path. Note that Step 1 can even be done using a single host if only attempting to eliminate gross functional bugs. Variations of the above steps can be profitably used.
History
A slow-path Forest implementation was first demonstrated at the GEC 6 Conference.
The Wunet Protocol
The Forest Protocol
Wiki Pages
- The SPP Architecture
- The wunet Protocol
- Forest Pages
- Related Pages