Experience with DETER: a testbed for security research

Benzel, Terry; Braden, Robert; Kim, D.; Neuman, Clifford; Joseph, Anthony D.; Sklower, Keith; Ostrenga, Ron; Schwab, Stephen

doi:10.1109/tridnt.2006.1649172

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“…Other testbeds built using the Emulab software [14], including DETER [2], use a similar physical topology. Unrelated testbeds, such as StarBed [11] and Grid'500 [3], also use fundamentally similar physical topologies.…”

Section: The Emulab Testbedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Network emulation testbeds [2,3,11,15,14] have become environments of choice for evaluating network research. Their ability to provide highly customizable network topologies make them suitable for hosting a wide variety of experiments, including security, networking, and distributed systems research.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Facilities such as the Utah Emulab [15], DETER [2], and StarBed [11] have independently designed their physical network topologies subject to budgetary constraints and assumptions regarding experimenters' needs. Such decisions impact the effectiveness of the testbed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How to Build a Better Testbed: Lessons from a Decade of Network Experiments on Emulab

Hermenier

Ricci

2012

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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Summary. The Emulab network testbed provides an environment in which researchers and educators can evaluate networked systems. Available to the public since 2000, Emulab is used by thousands of experimenters at hundreds of institutions around the world, and the research conducted on it has lead to hundreds of publications. The original Emulab facility at the University of Utah has been replicated at dozens of other sites. The physical design of the Emulab facility, and many other testbeds like it, has been based on the facility operators' expectations regarding user needs and behavior. If operators' assumptions are incorrect, the resulting facility can exhibit inefficient use patterns and sub-optimal resource allocation. Our study, the first of its kind, gains insight into the needs and behaviors of networking researchers by analyzing more than 500,000 topologies from 13,000 experiments submitted to Emulab. Using this dataset, we re-visit the assumptions that went into the physical design of the Emulab facility and consider improvements to it. Through extensive simulations with real workloads, we evaluate alternative testbeds designs for their ability to improve testbed utilization and reduce hardware costs.

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Section: The Emulab Testbedmentioning

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How to Build a Better Testbed: Lessons from a Decade of Network Experiments on Emulab

Hermenier

Ricci

2012

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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“…Instead, target system and configuration are tested using special testbed before deployment. The last several decades have witnessed a great number of mature IP network testbed solutions [2,10], with the focus of integration testing and performance testing. In this work we study several key challenges and solutions particularly in testing network security devices.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…VCSTC methodology spans over all four steps, although model construction step is not related to testing and therefore is not the focus on this paper. To the best of our knowledge our approach is the first to integrate network emulation and automated testing, and it is distinguished from the existing security testbed solutions (such as DETER [2]) by the following two key aspects.…”

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VCSTC: Virtual Cyber Security Testing Capability – An Application Oriented Paradigm for Network Infrastructure Protection

Shu

Chen

Liu

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Testing of Software and Communicating Systems

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Abstract. Network security devices are becoming more sophisticated and so are the testing processes. Traditional network testbeds face challenges in terms of fidelity, scalability and complexity of security features. In this paper we propose a new methodology of testing security devices using network virtualization techniques, and present an integrated solution, including network emulation, test case specification and automated test execution. Our hybrid network emulation scheme provides high fidelity by host virtualization and scalability by lightweight protocol stack emulation. We also develop an intermediate level test case description language that is suitable for security tests at various network protocol layers and that can be executed automatically on the emulated network. The methodology presented in this paper has been implemented and integrated into a security infrastructure testing system for US Department of Defense and we report the experimental results.

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Testbed@TWISC: A network security experiment platform

Tsai

Yang

2017

Int J Communication

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Summary As the internet continues to grow in width and depth, its very architecture brings many challenges in network research. One significant issue is cybersecurity. Owing to the characteristics of network connectivity, malicious actions may cause losses during information exchanges in communication. Therefore, studying suspicious behaviors and covering potential exploits are necessary to protect networked computers. To determine possible threats, researchers need an experimental environment that enables them to explore and practice. A network emulation testbed provides such a platform to fulfill these purposes. This paper introduces Testbed@TWISC, a large‐scale network emulation testbed on Taiwan's research and education network that supported open research and cybersecurity education for almost 10 years. The paper reviews this testbed's origination, development, and operation experiences. Several findings and open issues of the testbed are also discussed. Readers who plan to build network security testbeds may find useful information in this paper for a case study.

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Experience with DETER: a testbed for security research

Cited by 104 publications

References 13 publications

How to Build a Better Testbed: Lessons from a Decade of Network Experiments on Emulab

How to Build a Better Testbed: Lessons from a Decade of Network Experiments on Emulab

VCSTC: Virtual Cyber Security Testing Capability – An Application Oriented Paradigm for Network Infrastructure Protection

Testbed@TWISC: A network security experiment platform

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