[Planetlab-users] Graduate Student Internship opportunity at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories involving PlanetLab

[Marc E. Fiuczynski]

Research Topic: Federated resource management in PlanetLab
Location: Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany
Duration: 3-6 months
Starting date: Flexible
Supervisor: Dr. Evangelos Kotsovinos
Required skills:
  Linux system configuration,
  very good Java and C,
  experience with PlanetLab's MyPLC a plus

To apply: send your CV and a cover letter to
evangelos.kotsovinos at telekom.de

Overview:
The federation of authority in global public computing systems poses major
resource management challenges, as different stakeholders may have different
views on how server resources are to be apportioned. Ultimately, the
complexity of declaring and managing potentially overlapping federated
policies often leads to the absence of high-level resource management
systems from global public computing platforms.

Our previous work on RBRM ---- a role-based resource management framework we
proposed --- leyd different stakeholders independently express federated
policies, provides mechanisms for resolving potential constraint overlaps
automatically, and reaches decentralised resource allocation decisions.

This project will build on RBRM to address resource federation requirements
in PlanetLab, in terms of managing resources on a server or set of servers
(such as standard PlanetLab servers, or private PlanetLab ones, associated
with MyPLC. It will enable federated control of servers by the different
stakeholders involved (e.g. server administrator, network administrator,
PLC) and provide mechanisms for resolving policy overlaps and reaching
coherent policy decisions, enforced by the virtualization layer.