Ariba - An Overlay-based Virtual Network Substrate

Ariba is an overlay-based middleware that implements the underlay abstraction layer of the ​Spontaneous Virtual Networks (SpoVNet) architecture. It aims to ease the development of fexible, adaptive, and spontaneous overlay-based services and applications on top of heterogeneous and mobile networks. To this end, Ariba provides generic mechanisms for establishing and maintaining communication links across heterogeneous underlay networks using an identifier based addressing scheme. Building upon these mechanisms, applications can spontaneously establish an invariant virtual network substrate and use it for subsequent communication.

Ariba is developed at the ​Institute of Telematics (research group Prof. Zitterbart), Universität Karlsruhe (TH) as part of the ​SpoVNet project funded by the ​Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg within the Förderprogramm Informationstechnik Baden-Württemberg (BW-FIT) Program. Ariba is actively developed and open to contributions. If you have any questions regarding Ariba, please send an email to the ​Ariba mailing list.

If you publish research results based on Ariba, please cite ​this paper.

News

Jun 10, 2009

• Release Ariba 0.2.1
  • ​source package ariba-0.2.1
  • Adapted to new Libraries APR (Apache Portable Runtime) and APR-util

May 27, 2009

• Release Ariba 0.2.0, MCPO 0.1.0
  • ​source package ariba-0.2.0, ​documentation
  • Major release that includes a new Chord-based overlay structure, ALM service MCPO, new API, auto-links, and a large number of enhancements
  • Exemplary service MCPO (Multicast/Multipeer Overlay) on top of Ariba
  • ​source package mcpo-0.1.0, ​documentation
  • see ​Milestone Release 0.2.0

January 22, 2009

• Release Ariba 0.1.0
  • ​source package ariba-0.1.0 and ​documentation
  • Still under heavy development
  • Featuring Ping-Pong Example for demonstration purpose