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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`
+# 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`
#### 1. Containernet
+
* `cd`
-* `git clone https://github.com/mpeuster/containernet.git`
+* `git clone https://github.com/containernet/containernet.git`
* `cd ~/containernet/ansible`
-* `sudo ansible-playbook install.yml`
-* Wait (and have a coffee) ...
+* `sudo ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local install.yml`
+
+#### 2. vim-emu
-#### 2. Emulator
-* Fork the repository.
* `cd`
-* `git clone https://github.com/<user>/son-emu.git`
+* `git clone https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu.git`
* `cd ~/son-emu/ansible`
-* `sudo ansible-playbook install.yml`
+* `sudo ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local install.yml`
+### Option 3: Nested Docker Deployment
+This option requires a Docker installation on the host machine on which the emulator should be deployed.
+* `git clone https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu.git`
+* `cd ~/son-emu`
+* Build the container: `docker build -t son-emu-img .`
+* Run the (interactive) container: `docker run --name son-emu -it --rm --privileged --pid='host' -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock son-emu-img /bin/bash`
-### Run
+### Option 3: Vagrant Installation
+* Request VirtualBox and Vagrant to be installed on the system.
+* `git clone https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu.git`
+* `cd ~/son-emu`
+* `vagrant up`
+* `vagrant ssh` to enter the new VM in which the emulator is installed.
-In the `~/son-emu` directory:
+## Usage
-* During development:
- * `python setup.py develop`
-* Otherwise, for a classic installation:
- * `python setup.py install`
-* First terminal:
- * `sudo python src/emuvim/examples/simple_topology.py
-`
+### Example
+
+This simple example shows how to start the emulator with a simple topology (terminal 1) and how to start (terminal 2) some empty VNF containers in the emulated datacenters (PoPs) by using the son-emu-cli.
+
+* First terminal (start the emulation platform):
+ * `sudo python examples/simple_topology.py`
* Second terminal:
* `son-emu-cli compute start -d datacenter1 -n vnf1`
* `son-emu-cli compute start -d datacenter1 -n vnf2`
* `son-emu-cli compute list`
* First terminal:
+ * `containernet> vnf1 ifconfig`
* `containernet> vnf1 ping -c 2 vnf2`
-* Second terminal:
- * `son-emu-cli monitor get_rate -vnf vnf1`
-### Run Unit Tests
+### Further documentation and useful links
+
+* [Full CLI command documentation](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/wiki/CLI-Command-Overview)
+* [Requirements for Docker containers executed by the emulator](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/wiki/Container-Requirements)
+* [REST API](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/wiki/APIs)
+* [Mininet](http://mininet.org)
+* [Containernet](https://containernet.github.io)
+* [Maxinet](https://maxinet.github.io)
+
+## Development
+
+### How to contribute?
+
+Please check [this OSM wiki page](https://osm.etsi.org/wikipub/index.php/Workflow_with_OSM_tools) to learn how to contribute to a OSM module.
+
+### Testing
+
+To run the unit tests do:
+
* `cd ~/son-emu`
* `sudo py.test -v src/emuvim/test/unittests`
+(To force Python2: `python2 -m pytest -v src/emuvim/test/unittests`)
+
+## Seed code contributors:
+
+### Lead:
+
+* Manuel Peuster (https://github.com/mpeuster)
+* Steven Van Rossem (https://github.com/stevenvanrossem)
+
+### Contributors
+
+* Hadi Razzaghi Kouchaksaraei (https://github.com/hadik3r)
+* Wouter Tavernier (https://github.com/wtaverni)
+* Geoffroy Chollon (https://github.com/cgeoffroy)
+* Eduard Maas (https://github.com/edmaas)
+* Malte Splietker (https://github.com/splietker)
+* Johannes Kampmeyer (https://github.com/xschlef)
+
+## License
+
+The emulation platform is published under Apache 2.0 license. Please see the LICENSE file for more details.
+
+## Contact
+
+Manuel Peuster (Paderborn University) <manuel@peuster.de>
-### CLI
-* [Full CLI command documentation](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/wiki/CLI-Command-Overview)
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