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-# Distributed Cloud Emulator
-
-### Lead Developers
-The following lead developers are responsible for this repository and have admin rights. They can, for example, merge pull requests.
-
-* Manuel Peuster (mpeuster)
-* Steven Van Rossem (stevenvanrossem)
-
-### Environment
-* Python 2.7
-* Latest [Containernet](https://github.com/mpeuster/containernet) installed on the system
-
-### Dependencies
-* pyaml (public domain)
-* zerorpc (MIT)
-* tabulate (public domain)
-* argparse (Python software foundation license)
-* networkx (BSD)
-* six>=1.9 (MIT)
-* ryu (Apache 2.0)
-* oslo.config (Apache 2.0)
-* pytest (MIT)
-* pytest-runner (MIT)
-* Flask (BSD)
-* flask_restful (BSD)
-* requests (Apache 2.0)
-* docker-py (Apache 2.0)
-* paramiko (LGPL)
-
-### 3rd-party code used
-* (none)
-
-
-### Project structure
-
-* **src/emuvim/** all emulator code
- * **api/** Data center API endpoint implementations (zerorpc, OpenStack REST, ...)
- * **cli/** CLI client to interact with a running emulator
- * **dcemulator/** Containernet wrapper that introduces the notion of data centers and API endpoints
- * **examples/** Example topology scripts
- * **test/** Unit tests
-* **ansible/** Ansible install scripts
-* **util/** helper scripts
-
-### Installation
-Automatic installation is provide through Ansible playbooks.
-
-* Requires: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
-* `sudo apt-get install ansible git`
-* `sudo vim /etc/ansible/hosts`
-* Add: `localhost ansible_connection=local`
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+
+# vim-emu: A NFV multi-PoP emulation platform
+
+This emulation platform was created to support network service developers to locally prototype and test their network services in realistic end-to-end multi-PoP scenarios. It allows the execution of real network functions, packaged as Docker containers, in emulated network topologies running locally on the developer's machine. The emulation platform also offers OpenStack-like APIs for each emulated PoP so that it can integrate with MANO solutions, like OSM. The core of the emulation platform is based on [Containernet](https://containernet.github.io).
+
+The emulation platform `vim-emu` is developed as part of OSM's DevOps MDG.
+
+### Acknowledgments
+
+This software was originally developed by the [SONATA project](http://www.sonata-nfv.eu), funded by the European Commission under grant number 671517 through the Horizon 2020 and 5G-PPP programs.
+
+### Cite this work
+
+If you use the emulation platform for your research and/or other publications, please cite the following paper to reference our work:
+
+* M. Peuster, H. Karl, and S. v. Rossem: [MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7919490/). IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Palo Alto, CA, USA, pp. 148-153. doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490. (2016)
+
+## Installation
+
+There are three ways to install and use the emulation platform. The bare-metal installation requires a freshly installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and is done by an ansible playbook. The second option is to use a nested Docker environment to run the emulator inside a Docker container. The third option is to use Vagrant to create a VirtualBox-based VM on your machine that contains the pre-installed and configured emulator.
+
+### Option 1: Bare-metal installation
+
+* Requires: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
+* `sudo apt-get install ansible git aptitude`