TY - GEN
T1 - C-POD
T2 - 2026 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2026
AU - Dey, Annoy
AU - Sreeram, Vineet
AU - Aiyanathan, Gokkul Eraivan Arutkani
AU - McManus, Maxwell
AU - Cui, Yuqing
AU - Sun, Guanying
AU - Bentley, Elizabeth Serena
AU - Mastronarde, Nicholas
AU - Guan, Zhangyu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026 IEEE.
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - This paper presents C-POD, a cloud-native framework that automates the deployment and management of edge pods for seamless remote access and sharing of wireless testbeds. C-POD leverages public cloud resources and edge pods to lower the barrier to over-the-air (OTA) experimentation, enabling researchers to share and access distributed testbeds without extensive local infrastructure. A supporting toolkit has been developed for C-POD to enable flexible and scalable experimental workflows, including containerized edge environments, persistent Secure Shell (SSH) tunnels, and stable graphical interfaces. We prototype and deploy C-POD on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud to demonstrate its key features, including cloud-assisted edge pod deployment automation, elastic computing resource management, and experiment observability, by integrating two wireless testbeds that focus on RF signal generation and 5G(B) communications, respectively.
AB - This paper presents C-POD, a cloud-native framework that automates the deployment and management of edge pods for seamless remote access and sharing of wireless testbeds. C-POD leverages public cloud resources and edge pods to lower the barrier to over-the-air (OTA) experimentation, enabling researchers to share and access distributed testbeds without extensive local infrastructure. A supporting toolkit has been developed for C-POD to enable flexible and scalable experimental workflows, including containerized edge environments, persistent Secure Shell (SSH) tunnels, and stable graphical interfaces. We prototype and deploy C-POD on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud to demonstrate its key features, including cloud-assisted edge pod deployment automation, elastic computing resource management, and experiment observability, by integrating two wireless testbeds that focus on RF signal generation and 5G(B) communications, respectively.
KW - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
KW - cloud computing
KW - edge computing
KW - OTA experiments
KW - testbed sharing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105044555957
U2 - 10.1109/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571177
DO - 10.1109/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571177
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105044555957
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
BT - INFOCOM 2026 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 18 May 2026 through 21 May 2026
ER -