+This is the repository of [SONATA's](http://sonata-nfv.eu) emulation platform.
+
+This emulation platform was created to support network service developers to locally prototype and test complete network service chains in realistic end-to-end multi-PoP scenarios. It allows the direct execution of real network functions, packaged as Docker containers, in emulated network topologies running locally on the network service developer's machine.
+
+### Cite this work
+
+If you use son-emu for your research and/or other publications, please cite the following paper to reference our work:
+
+* Manuel Peuster, Holger Karl, and Steven van Rossem. "**MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments.**" to appear in IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN), 2016.
+ * Pre-print online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05995
+
+A short demo that showcases son-emu together with its dummy gatekeeper is available [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZANz97pV9ao).
+
+### Development
+
+To install the emulator package in development mode, do:
+
+* `python setup.py develop`
+
+#### Folder Structure
+
+* `ansible` Install scripts
+* `misc` Example packages and VNFs
+* `src`
+ * `emuvim` Emulator components
+ * `api` API endpoint implementations
+ * `rest` REST API for son-emu-cli
+ * `sonata` Dummy gatekeeper API
+ * `cli` Command line client to control the emulator
+ * `dcemulator` Emulator core
+ * `resourcemodel` Resource limitation models
+ * `examples` Example topology scripts
+ * `test` Test scripts
+* `utils` Helper scripts for SONATA's CI/CD setup
+
+
+#### Run Unit Tests
+* `cd ~/son-emu`
+* `sudo py.test -v src/emuvim/test/unittests`