This thesis describes the design of a Virtual Application Networking Infrastructure
(VANI) node that can be used to facilitate network architecture experimentation. Cur-
rently the VANI nodes provide four classes of physical resources – processing, reconfig-
urable hardware, storage and interconnection fabric – but the set of sharable resources
can be expanded. Virtualization software allows slices of these resources to be appor-
tioned to VANI nodes that can in turn be interconnected to form virtual networks, which
can operate according to experimental network and application protocols. This thesis
discusses the design decisions that have been made in the development of this system
and provides a detailed description of the prototype, including how users interact with
the resources and the interfaces provided by the virtualization layers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/18840 |
| Date | 15 February 2010 |
| Creators | Redmond, Keith |
| Contributors | Chow, Paul, Leon-Garcia, Alberto |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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