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 info[at]ariba-underlay[dot]org or join the ​Ariba mailing list.

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

News

May 14, 2010

• Compiling and installing Ariba on OpenWrt Routers

Mar 22, 2010

• ​ariba 0.4.0 released

Mar 17, 2010

• Ariba Legacy Demo presented at IEEE INFOCOM 2010. We will release the Legacy support version soon.

Aug 20, 2009

• Ariba was 2nd best demo at ACM SIGCOMM'09

The Ariba Group attended this year's ACM SIGCOMM 2009 in Barcelona to present the demo "Reconnecting the Internet with ariba: Self-Organizing Provisioning of End-to-End Connectivity in Heterogeneous Networks". The demonstration covered a scenario in which several heterogeneous protocols and devices were connected in face of network changes and reconfigurations. There was a huge interest in the topic and fruitful discussions.
The demo was awarded a Honorable Mention by the committee and therewith made it 2nd best demonstration out of 25.
See pictures below and ​SIGCOMM 2009 Demos.

Aug 20, 2009

• Release Ariba 0.3.0 - SIGCOMM'09 Demo
  • The SIGCOMM'09 Demo state of Ariba, Mcpo, and AnyChat is released
  • ​ariba-0.3.0 the underlay abstraction
  • ​mcpo-0.2.0 exemplary ALM service based on NICE
  • ​anychat-0.1.0 examplary chat application based on Ariba and Mcpo

Jun 10, 2009

• Release Ariba 0.2.1
  • ​source package ariba-0.2.1
  • Adapted to new Libraries APR v1.3.5 (Apache Portable Runtime) and APR-util v1.3.7

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