PlanetLab has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation* (under grants 0101247, 0454278, 0335214) and by DARPA (under contract N66001-05-1-8902). Support is also provided by companies that join the PlanetLab Consortium.

*Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

PlanetLab is engaged in a federation trial with the OneLab Project. The plan is to migrate European nodes and slices to an independent EU authority. Follow the federation link to learn more.

PlanetLab is in the early stages of federation. This means forking off autonomous authorities that are responsible for a subset of the global slices and nodes. These authorities will then peer with each other to build a federated system.

This effort is being done with an eye towards eventual federation across a collection of testbeds, including GENI. For an overview of the architecture (preliminary draft form), see Federating Slice-Based Network Substrates. PlanetLab is not totally consistent with this architecture, but we are evolving it in this direction.

This page tracks various development projects underway at Princeton. It is organized around the project's level of maturity, with projects moving from design to development to deployment over time.

1. Prototype GENI wrapper for PLC and NM (Soner + GENI WG)
2. Peering policy enforcement (David)
3. Rethink Drupal (Reid/Stephen)
4. Adding support for Meta-sites (Stephen)
5. Kernel compatibility tests (Stephen)
6. Federation policies & incentives
7. Fix PlanetFlow GUI (Reid)
8. Authentication for delegation (Tony)
9. PLC Network Monitoring System (Faiyaz/Stephen)