Monitoring and measurement architecture for federated Future Internet experimentation facilities

Future Internet experimentation facilities and federations thereof are steadily gaining significance and have attracted the attention of academia and industry. They offer researchers as well as application/service developers and providers the opportunity to study and test the emerging Future Internet services and technologies in real-world, controlled, and cost-effective environments. Precise and dynamic monitoring information about the health, behavior and performance of infrastructure resources, as well as the services and applications under test are of importance for multiple stakeholders: facility providers, federation services, and experimenters (researchers and devel-opers). This paper introduces a monitoring and measurement architecture that operates across federated heterogeneous facilities aggregating a multitude of measurements from resources of different facilities and provides them in a unified manner. The solution is implemented in a federation of over 15 heterogeneous facilities and is offering multiple measurement and monitoring services at different granularity levels.