Network Domain Federation - Infrastructure for Federated Testbeds

This document describes a generic approach on how to federate networking domains. Network federation is a model for the establishment of a largescale and diverse infrastructure for communication technologies, services and applications. A federation of network environments can generally be seen as an interconnection of two or more independent network domains for the creation of a richer environment and for the increased multilateral benefits of the users of the individual domains. This paper discusses testbed federation as a concrete example for network domain federation and outlines a technical architecture framework as the result from the IST FP6 Panlab Specific Support Action.