PlanetLab Japan Consortium

The PlenetLab Japan Consortium consists of a wide range of institutions and organizations cooperating to expand PlanetLab overlay network as well as to foster PlanetLab community in Japan. The PlanetLab Japan Consortium is currently managed by a collection of parties, U. of Tokyo, JAIST, NICT, NII and WIDE. The PlanetLab Japan Consortium is closely working with the orginal PlanetLab Consortium. The PlanetLab Japan Consortium is currently hosted by the University of Tokyo.

Activities

PlanetLab Japan can be viewed as a portal to various PlanetLab related activities in Japan (projects and working groups are linked here). One of our goals is to help reseachers in Japan conducting significant computer networking/distributed computing research using PlanetLab. We are striving to deploy PlanetLab nodes and expand the PlanetLab community in Japan, so the researchers in Japan may develop their research ideas using a large-scale real-world network resources available in PlanetLab. We are also encouraging researcher to develope competing research agenda on our own. This last goal is most represented by private PlanetLab activities gradually becoming prominent in several countries, where they develop their own PlanetLab-like overlay test-beds based on PlanetLab software, incorporating inovative (but possibly disruptive) features of their own.

Projects

Here is a list of projects/working groups registered with PlanetLab Japan.

News

Here is the latest news regarding PlanetLab Japan.

Sponsors

PlanetLab Japan is currently supported by the following companies.

• HP
• HP Japan (discount program (J))
• Intel Japan

Steering Committee Members

Currently the following members are actively participating as a committee of the PlanetLab Japan Consortium to decide the direction of PlanetLab Japan Consortium cooperating with Princeton University that currently hosts the global PlanetLab Consortium.

• Aki NAKAO (U.Tokyo)
• Yoichi SHINODA (JAIST; WIDE)
• Kiyohide NAKAUCHI (NICT)
• Masaya NAKAYAMA (U.Tokyo; WIDE)
• Kensuke FUKUDA (NII)

Membership

If you would like to join our effort, you are very welcome. Currently, particpants in PlanetLab located in Japan can freely join PlanetLab Japan consortium and receive announcement and news regarding PlanetLab activities in Japan. In order to join the consortium, please send email to committee @ planet-lab-jp.org. If you woule like to support our effort as an indivisual rather than as an institution, please join our mailing list (linked below).

Mailing Lists

There are several mailing lists to exchange information regarding PlanetLab Japan's activities.

Current Members

• JAIST
• NAIST
• NICT
• NII
• The University of Tokyo
• WIDE