Federated Persistent Data Repository Approach for FIBRE multi-CMF Testbed

Federated Persistent Data Repository Approach for FIBRE multi-CMF Testbed: A Network for Experimentation (NfExp) is typically a regional, national, or specialized international testbed like GENI, PlanetLab, and OFELIA that are developed to support the experimentation of new protocols, services and applications mostly in the context of Future Internet (FI). In effect, a Network for Experimentation allows an experimenter to configure, instantiate, run, and collect measurements of distributed experiments on top of a real testbed managed by a Control and Monitoring Framework (CMF). Currently available CMFs developments are directly or indirectly service-oriented architectures focused, as an example, on wired or wireless networks research domains. A new approach for the Network for Experimentation considered in this paper is the FIBRE multi-CMF testbed. In FIBRE, various existing CMFs are integrated to achieve a broader set of supported applications and service domains. Among the technical challenges involved in the multi-CMF approach, this paper describes the approach adopted for the persistent data repository necessary to store the monitored and collected experimental data.  An iRODS-based federated monitoring persistent data repository proposal is presented for the FIBRE multi-CMF testbed. The solution adopts a standardized monitoring data format and representation whenever possible. It is a transparent data storage facility among multiple native DBMS, with persistent monitoring data access and retrieval, and a high-level monitoring data integration.