Project Overivew

ICT Panlabs II (PII) is a 3 year project which addresses the need for large-scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds. The central objective of PII is to create a testbed federation among regional innovation clusters in Europe. This will enable companies participating in these clusters to test new communication services and applications across Europe. The testbed federation includes four core innovation clusters and three satellite clusters, with the TSSG being one of these clusters. In particular PII is:

• Developing mechanisms and tools to describe, store, locate and orchestrate testing services as well as means to automatically provide composite testbeds across multiple administrative domains.

• Developing and elaborating mechanisms to combine and accommodate future clean-slate approaches and provide testing services in a network-agnostic manner.

• Defining a common abstract control framework, which enables the interconnection of diverse testbeds.

• Establishing a trust across the federation by means of quality assurance processes and tools.

• Integrating the concept of User Driven Innovation.

• Executing a techno-socio-economic study to assess the long-term sustainability of the federation model.

Project Implementation

In ICT PII project the TSSG are mainly researching in WP3 “Service description, discovery and orchestration”, where we are developing the appropriate mechanisms to specify and develop a testbed service description system. This service description system including the repository for storing the service descriptions is the core part of the PII federation, called Teagle; a search engine for testing service offerings.

Furthermore the TSSG are specifying and developing a testing service orchestration environment, by retrieving service descriptions from the Teagle repository and orchestrating the requested testing service environment. The work in this WP is intensive on formal methods and support are being used as tools to facilitate the Teagle testing services search engine.

Project Achievement

In the ICT PII project the TSSG have been co-authors of the following project deliverables in 2008:

D2.1 Technical infrastructure specification
Co-Authors: Shane Fox, Eamonn Power, Frances Cleary

D3.1 System Analysis Report
Co-Authors: Shane Fox, Eamonn Power, Frances Cleary

For more information on PANLABS II project please contact:

Project Manager : Eamon Power