Demonstrating the AMazING panel

The Internet, and networks in general, are in many ways part of our daily life. As their usage increases, their faults and limitations also become more apparent, motivating network researchers to evaluate and develop new solutions anticipating future scenarios and overcoming the challenges identified. These challenges vary across a wide range of networking areas, from traffic optimization in telecom operators, to scalability in wide area networks and broadband multimedia streaming, or even to the contextualization of communications in order to optimize usage. For researchers to create reliable network solutions, able to be included in our every day life, these solutions must be carefully designed, tested, and then put into a cycle of successive refinement. Currently, there are some testbed management systems available. The core of most existent solutions can be reduced to a couple of shell scripts to operate the testbed resources, without the proper support for experiment automation. Running experiments is thus possible and flexible, but cumbersome, labor intensive, and error prone. The existent solutions lack proper graphical interfaces facilitating user interaction, while centralizing the whole process of configuring experiments, reserving resources, scheduling, and collecting its results. Furthermore, collaboration of multiple parties is vital in the current research environment. Experiment results must be shared with a closed number of peers in order to allow a better analysis and a more solid validation inside research terms. The AMazING testbed [1] is composed by twenty-four nodes located in the rooftop of Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro. A customized version of OMF is used to provide testbed management functions, automating otherwise tedious but required tasks