ORBIT-USER: Node image repository?

[Einar Vollset]

Hi,

I was wondering - how much work would it be to create a node image  
repository with a web interface? I'm thinking of something like the  
ability to describe and make publicly available a saved node image  
(note that by "making available" I don't downloadable from the  
website, but accessible from the orbit-lab consoles).

This would be quite useful, not only to people like me lacking the  
mental capacity to remember what the node images are called, or  
indeed which one does what, but also as it may cut down on  
replication of work, encourage cooperation and heighten the profile  
of good, real wireless systems built.

For example, if researcher A works on MAC scheduling algorithms, and  
(doing some good work) gets it published in MobiCom, he could put up  
a page describing the node image, and then reference that in his paper.

Researcher B, being more interested in routing protocols, could then  
use researcher A's image to build his system over. When researcher B  
then comes to write his paper, he references researcher A's image &  
paper.

Going even further you could imagine researcher C (a surly type)  
deciding that researcher A's MAC protocol is crap, and building his  
own to beat it. He then does a performance test between his new  
algorithm and researcher A's (as he easily has that available),  
publishes a paper, etc, etc..

You could even give a prize to the most used node image, or most  
reference node image. ;-)

Cheers,

Einar






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Einar Vollset
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University

Phone: +1-607-255-7573
Web: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~einar
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