Collaborative Distributed Laboratories: Technical Issues

In this work we address the concept of cooperative distributed telemeasurement in which all the instruments belonging to a measurement benchmark can be distributed over a network of interconnected laboratories. Hence more laboratories can cooperate joining their own resources to create a sort of super-laboratory with extended potentiality. To realize the concept of cooperative distributed telemeasurement, some new aspects have to be evaluated: the signals that are the objects of the process of measure, have to be free from the geographically location of the source instrument; hence the measure should take place without have locally all necessary instrumentation. Another point is the management of resources in a distributed environment, in particular we focused the attention on the management of the availability, booking, keeping and releasing of resources. These aspects are analyzed in the paper highlighting open problems and possible solutions. We also proposed the experimental approach we are developing in our laboratories.