VINEA v1.0 README
Updated Sept 21, 2013 by Flavio Esposito

All feedback appreciated to flavio@cs.bu.edu
 

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What is VINEA
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VINEA is the system implementation of our Policy-based, Virtual Network Embedding Architecture, that use an asynchrnous implementation of the  protocol for Consensus-based Distributed virtual network Embedding (CADE). Details of the CADE protocol (formerly called CAD) can be found at http://csr.bu.edu/cad

DISTRIBUTION
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The distribution tree contains: 

README.TXT
	--this file
build.xml
	--used by ant
Manifest
	--for generating jar file
log4j.properties
	--used for VINEA.log file options
src/ 
	--source files
config/	
	--configuration files (including events.txt)
javadoc/
	--java api reference
classes/
	--compiled code
jar/
	--jar files to run with >java -jar file.jar



COMPILATION AND RUN
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Compiling this package requires Ant and Java 1.5. These can be downloaded respectively from:  
http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/

- compile
     ant 
- start dns
     ant dns 
- start isd
     ant isd 
- start service provider
     ant sp
- make jar file for command line running
     ant jarcmd
- make jar file for gui running
     ant jargui

     
CONFIGURATION
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pnode.properties -- configuration for each physical node
events.txt -- events configuration