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| 29 | = Federated Experiments = |
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| 31 | A researcher may build a federated experiment to |
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| 33 | * Connect resources from testbeds with different focuses - e.g., connect power system resources with networking resources |
| 34 | * Connect resource owned by different actors for collaboration or competition |
| 35 | * Connect a local workstation environment to an experiment to monitor or demonstrate the results of an experiment. |
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| 37 | An all of these cases, a researcher specifies the resources and their interconnections to the DFA, which coordinates between the testbeds and connects the resources. |
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| 39 | Consider a researcher who wants to connect the following resources into this simple topology: |
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| 41 | [[Image(example_topology.png)]] |
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| 43 | Resources a, b, and c are directly connected, and c, d, and e are on a shared network. |