The Homenet Project is the extension of the Emulab network testbed software to include nodes residing in individual homes and businesses. The Emulab network testbed software (from the Flux research group at the University of Utah) provides infrastructure to allow experimenters to request a number of machines with a specified network topology between them for use in network research. The machines allocated to an experiment are real hardware, typically residing in a machine room in a typical Emulab install. Various Universities have adopted Emulab as a basis for their own research, extending it with capabilities specific to their needs and hardware. The Homenet Project, based at Carnegie Mellon University, extends the Emulab model by including systems outside of the managed environment of rackmount systems in a machine room - Homenet nodes are individually deployed nodes in a home or business with only commodity internet connecting them to the CMULab instance of Emulab.
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