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| An 8-minute video highlighting the mission and activity of the DETERlab Testbed is now online for viewing. It includes interviews with project co-leaders Terry Benzel, John Wroclawski, and Anthony Joseph, along with Doug Maughan, the Program Manager for the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Security R&D Center. |
The DETER testbed is a public facility for medium-scale repeatable experiments in computer security. Built using Utah's Emulab software, the DETER testbed has been configured and extended to provide effective containment of a variety of computer security experiments, including defense against attacks such as DDoS, worms, viruses, and other malware, as well as attacks on the routing infrastructure.
Once registered, a security experimenter can access DETER remotely to develop, configure, and manipulate collections of nodes and links with nearly-arbitrary network topologies. The pool of testbed nodes is generally shared among multiple simultaneous experiments, isolated from each other. The node pool currently contains roughly 400 PCs, located at USC ISI and UC Berkeley but managed as a single testbed. Supported operating systems include Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and the Click Modular Router.
From this page you can reach extensive documentation on DETER and Emulab. If you need more immediate information or experience operational problems with DETER, please send email to Testbed Operations (testbed-ops@deterlab.net).
DETER is currently supporting 6 active experiments, and there are 445 swapped out experiments.
Emulab is a universally available time- and space-shared network emulator which achieves new levels of ease of use. Several hundred PCs in racks, combined with secure, user-friendly web-based tools, and driven by ns-compatible scripts or a Java GUI, allow you to remotely configure and control machines and links down to the hardware level. Packet loss, latency, bandwidth, queue sizes-all can be user-defined. Even the OS disk contents can be fully and securely replaced with custom images by any experimenter; Emulab can load ten or a hundred disks in less than two minutes. Emulab strives to preserve the control and ease of use of simulation, without sacrificing the realism of emulation and live network experimentation.