HAST: A Hybrid Academic Testbed for High Fidelity and High Performance Scenarios

Ruben F. Cordova, Cesar A. Santivanez

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Abstract

HAST is a hybrid (physical + virtual) testbed for real-world network scenarios, where there is a necessity of running high fidelity/high performance experiments integrating virtual and physical equipment at layer 2 with 1/10 Gbps links. HAST orchestrates the slices associated with the experiments over an OpenStack-based shared cloud infrastructure that also supports traditional cloud computing as well as High Performance Computing (HPC) loads. HAST employs a slice-aware scheduler and takes advantage of Virtualization and Hardware-Optimization techniques to guarantee the performance and fidelity required by the different types of slices it creates. HAST aims to serve as the platform to deploy virtual scenarios in an academic setting, being able to deploy (scheduled) courses' laboratories, High Performance clusters, production-level hybrid network scenarios (e.g. a OpenRAN-based 5G network interconnected to an external RU), as well as general purpose VMs (web servers, firewalls, etc) for administrative support.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2023
EditorsRamiro Velazquez
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350326871
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event2023 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2023 - Panama City, Panama
Duration: 15 Nov 202317 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2023 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2023

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2023
Country/TerritoryPanama
CityPanama City
Period15/11/2317/11/23

Keywords

  • Cloud Computing
  • High Fidelity
  • High Performance
  • Network Testbed
  • Resource Orchestrator

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