The X-Bone

What is the X-Tend ?

The X-Tend extends the X-Bone overlay deployment tool to support large scale network emulation, dynamic topology control and additional new protocols and platforms for researches and classroom use. The X-Tend reuses physical resources more than once through node revistation and allows an overlay deployed on a small number of machines to emulate a network of much large scale. Users can explicitly select a subset of available components and dynamically reconfigure the overlay topology, such as adds and deletes nodes. The X-Tend is expected to support more platforms such as Solaris, MacOS X and Cisco IOS, as well as more protocols such as IPv6 and multicast.

Let us know what features you want!

Research Areas

Virtual Internet Architecture

Virtualization
Recursion (compile & runtime)
Naming and Numbering
Address resolution
Dynamic routing

Approach

Augment
- Add prototyped features
- Extend with recursive API
Simplify deployment and use
- Apply turnkey boxes to reduce installation effort
- Develop teaching examples

Progress

Mailing list

X-Tend mailing list has its own information page, where you can subscribe/unsubscribe, get password, change personal setups , and follow previous discussions. This information page is at: xbone-users