1. Basic Concept for StarBED Creation

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) began the construction and operation of "StarBED" as a large-scale, general-purpose Internet simulator connected by network switches to the 512 PC servers (nodes) in 2002.

The basic concept underlying the construction of "StarBED" was that it should support research and development of the Internet by serving as a testbed that could be used to carry out multiple, large-scale simulations and provide a permanent simulation facility to be used by all the research organizations that had independently built their own as required in the past.  By making use of this testbed, the sharing, common use and recycling of facilities, tools and knowhow could be promoted and verifications could be carried out accompanied by the benefits of lower research and development costs and shorter R&D cycles.

2. The Project is to 4th phase
  – Toward to make emulating all human and devices possible –

Building on these achievements, in 2006 the mission scope was expanded into an Ubiquitous Network and, as the 2nd Phase "StarBED2," and we provide large scale verification environment of radio network based on wired network by building a testbed consisting of over 1,000 PC servers (nodes) able to verify systems in close-to-finished-product state at the binary code level.

StarBED³ was started in 2011.  In StarBED³ the mission scope was expanded into next generation network and its security and services, wired-wireless mixed network and cyber physical systems.

To applying these achievements more widely, we started StarBED4 in 2016.  In StarBED4, we construct a evaluation environment of IoT era that all human and devices connect to network.  To do this, we will research to adopt to space like a temperature or electromagnetic field in addition to our familiar device like a cellular phone or sensor and provide testbed that accelerate next generation product development.

StarBED4 Project has the following research topics including taking over from StarBED³.
<Research topics of StarBED4 Project>

• Supporting new devices and protocols flexibly
• Providing support for the dependability of Ubiquitous systems
• Dealing with new-generation ICT systems
• Supporting R&D life-cycles

<Continued research topics from StarBED³ Project>

• Making clear the performance and behavior of large-scale, complex network systems
• Providing support for the dependability of Ubiquitous systems
• Dealing with new-generation ICT systems
• Supporting R&D life-cycles

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