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PlanetLab is an extensively used, global, community-maintained platform for researchers to develop, deploy, and evaluate widely-distributed applications such as Peer-to-Peer systems. Because of PlanetLab’s shared nature, and its unusual design goal of continuous replacement of components by the research community, it can also be viewed somewhat as a Peer-to-Peer system (and an ongoing research project) itself. This chapter describes PlanetLab’s goals and origins, and discusses in detail the design principles that have governed its development and growth so far. It also discusses some of the methodological issues in performing research using a platform like PlanetLab - what can be learned from experimentation on PlanetLab, and what research claims can be validated by the system.
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Roscoe, T. (2005). 33. The PlanetLab Platform. In: Steinmetz, R., Wehrle, K. (eds) Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3485. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11530657_33
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