=== Tutorial: Describe, instrument, and execute your experiment with OMF and OML ===

==== Organizers ====
 Christoph Dwertmann (presenter), Ivan Seskar (presenter), Max Ott, [mailto:Thierry.Rakotoarivelo@nicta.com.au Thierry Rakotoarivelo], and Jolyon White

==== Time ====
  Wed 	3:30 - 6:00 pm 

==== Description ====

  Experimental platforms (aka testbeds) are instrumental in the
  development and evaluation of new Internet and networking
  technologies. OMF is a set of software tools and services which
  allow testbed operators to manage and optimise the use of their
  experimental resources, and which allow testbed users
  (e.g. researchers) to systematically describe, instrument, execute
  their experiments, and analyse their results. OMF is installed on
  many testbeds worldwide and within GENI (e.g. ORBIT WiMAX
  testbed). It supports wired/wireless based experiments,
  disconnection/reconnection of mobile resources, heterogeneous
  devices (e.g. !WiFi, WiMAX), experiments across testbeds using
  different control frameworks (e.g. PlanetLab and Orbit), etc...

  This tutorial is aimed at students and researchers who would like to
  use OMF to streamline their approach to experiment design and
  execution on different testbeds and more particularly on GENI
  testbeds providing WiMAX resources. It is a "hands-on" tutorial,
  where participants will follow and reproduce the presented examples
  directly on the OMF-enabled ORBIT testbed. The session will include:
  1) a brief overview of the OMF system, 2) a first set of tutorials
  on how to design and run basic experiments, 3) a second set of
  tutorials on how to instrument resources, collect measurements via
  OML, and analyse them, 4) a brief overview of the architecture of
  the GENI Meso-Scale WiMAX deployment, a description of the hardware
  and software components and a third set of tutorials on
  experimentation with WiMAX based resources.

==== Prerequisites ====
  None


==== Please arrive with... ====
  Laptop with a working SSH client

==== Pre-work ====
  None required.  However, people who would be interested in attending the tutorial may want to visit our [http://mytestbed.net/wiki/omf/OMF_User_Guide OMF documentation pages] for more information. In addition, the tutorial materials will be made available before the session on [http://mytestbed.net/projects/omf/wiki/TutorialSessions our tutorial pages].


==== Results ==== 

  After completing this tutorial, you will be able to describe and
  execute experiments using OMF. You will also be able to retrieve and
  analyse the measurements from these experiments. Finally you will
  have a crisp understanding of the GENI Meso-scale WiMAX deployment
  and on how to use these WiMAX resources in your experiments.