This paper presents C-POD, a cloud-native framework that automates the deployment and management of edge pods for seamless remote access and sharing of wireless testbeds. C-POD leverages public cloud resources and edge pods to lower the barrier to over-the-air (OTA) experimentation, enabling researchers to share and access distributed testbeds without extensive local infrastructure. A supporting toolkit has been developed for C-POD to enable flexible and scalable experimental workflows, including containerized edge environments, persistent Secure Shell (SSH) tunnels, and stable graphical interfaces. We prototype and deploy C-POD on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud to demonstrate its key features, including cloud-assisted edge pod deployment automation, elastic computing resource management, and experiment observability, by integrating two wireless testbeds that focus on RF signal generation and 5G(B) communications, respectively.

翻译：本文提出C-POD，一种云原生框架，用于自动化部署和管理边缘节点，以实现无线测试平台的无缝远程访问与共享。C-POD利用公有云资源和边缘节点降低空口（OTA）实验门槛，使研究人员无需大量本地基础设施即可共享和访问分布式测试平台。我们为C-POD开发了配套工具包，以支持灵活可扩展的实验工作流，包括容器化边缘环境、持久化安全外壳（SSH）隧道和稳定的图形界面。我们在亚马逊云科技（AWS）公有云上对C-POD进行原型实现和部署，通过集成分别专注于射频信号生成和5G(B)通信的两个无线测试平台，展示了其核心功能，包括云辅助边缘节点自动化部署、弹性计算资源管理和实验可观测性。