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GENIExploring Networks of the Future

GENI Spiral 2

Chip ElliottMarch 17, 2010www.geni.net

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Spiral DevelopmentGENI grows through a well-structured, adaptive process

GENI Prototyping Plan

Use

Planning

Design

Build outIntegration

Use

• GENI Spiral 2Early experiments, meso-scale build, interoperable control frameworks, ongoing integration, system designs for security and instrumentation, definition of identity management plans.

• Envisioned ultimate goal Example: Planning Group’s desired GENI suite, probably trimmed some ways and expanded others. Incorporates large-scale distributed computing resources, high-speed backbone nodes, nationwide optical networks, wireless & sensor nets, etc.

• Spiral Development ProcessRe-evaluate goals and technologies yearly by a systematic process, decide what to prototype and build next.

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• Overarching goal– Get real experiments up and running

• Technical emphases– Integration, particularly of the meso-scale prototype– Interoperability– Instrumentation– Identity management

Key goals for Spiral 2

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Building the GENI Meso-scale PrototypeCurrent plans for locations & equipment

WiMAX

ShadowNet

Salt Lake CityKansas City

DCAtlanta

StanfordUCLAUC BoulderWisconsinRutgersPolytechUMassColumbia

OpenFlowBackbonesSeattleSalt Lake CitySunnyvaleDenverKansas CityHoustonChicagoDCAtlanta

OpenFlowStanford

U WashingtonWisconsin

IndianaRutgers

PrincetonClemson

Georgia Tech

Arista 7124S SwitchCisco 6509 Switch

HP ProCurve 5400 Switch

Juniper MX240 EthernetServices Router

NEC IP8800 Ethernet SwitchNEC WiMAX Base Station

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An intriguing “Research MVNO” concept

• What is the idea?– Wireless National-scale Test Bed– perhaps implemented via a non-profit Mobile Virtual Network

Operator (MVNO)– that would contract with cellular providers to obtain access for

researchers to national scale networks

• Who is involved?– Ringleaders: Mark Cummings and James Kempf– Interested parties: Deborah Estrin, Vint Cerf, GPO

• Next steps– Perhaps an NSF-sponsored workshop to investigate the concept’s

feasibility and research utility (Victor Frost)

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Solicitation 3 ideasWe seek your suggestions and feedback

• Actively pondering GPO Solicitation 3– Notional schedule: Issue solicitation in late spring, with proposals

due in mid-late summer– Notional funding level: similar to Solicitation 1– Talk to us now about your ideas

• Solicitation areas as currently envisioned1. Aggressively grow meso-scale build (next slide)

1. More campus, regional, & backbone sites

2. New “GENI Racks” (eg rack of PCs with OpenFlow switch)

2. GENI Instrumentation system (build & deploy)

3. Operations / experiment support / training / education & curriculum development

4. Interesting new ideas

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Aggressively grow meso-scale build

• This is just a concept – we seek your input

• Accelerate and expand meso-scale build started in Spiral 2(add more campus, regional, backbone sites)

• Inject “GENI Racks” throughout to beef up computation / storage– 1 high end Rack = basic unit of computation / storage– Notionally a rack of 1U computers with OpenFlow switch (eg)– Highly sliceable, programmable, virtualized, & significant storage– Deploy into network’s topologically significant points

(eg, backbones, regionals, campuses, near WiMAX)– Wide range of possible research uses– Eg, programmable routers, content distribution, …

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GENI & Future Internet Architectures (FIA)

• NSF’s FIA solicitation is out, proposal deadline April 22, 2010– “stimulate innovative and creative research to explore, design, and

evaluate trustworthy future Internet architectures”– “design and experiment with new network architectures and

networking concepts”– “proposals must describe plans to prototype and evaluate the

proposed architectures; this may require the construction of new artifacts or the use of research infrastructure like GENI or the NCR (National Cyber Range)”

• GPO’s perspective on FIA– FIA research should greatly influence GENI Spiral 3 and onwards– Talk to us now about infrastructure that would be helpful, particularly

as we formulate Solicitation 3– GPO will be fair & even-handed– GPO is not on any FIA team

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• So let’s discuss Solicitation 3 in the hallways– We have plenty of time to bounce around ideas

before a late spring solicitation– Impact would be felt starting in mid Spiral 3

• But now let’s focus on what’s happening now

– Spiral 2 !

(reminder – we are tracking progress against your milestones,and several groups are not showing signs of progress . . .)

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Conference plan

Lunch 12:00 – 1 PM

Plenary Talks& Plenary Demos

Wednesday Thursday

Outbriefs & Wrap-Up

Breakfast 8-9 AMBreakfast 8-9 AM

Cluster Meetings,Workshops,

Newcomers’ Session,& GPO “Office Hours”

Tuesday

RelatedWorkshops

Demos / Social Time Dinner BOFs* *Join or create your own;see GENI wiki agenda page

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Working Group discussions

Campus / Operations,Management,

Integration, & SecurityGENI Security Plan

Experiment Workflowand Services

Scenarios, tools,& services

Control FrameworkGENI Aggregate

Manager API v1.0

Instrumentation &Measurement

Instrumentation& Measurement

System

Note that working groups have been slightly tweaked since last GEC;check your agenda.

Today

Tomorrow

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Plenary talks

• GENI Project Office activities– Experiments – Larry Landweber, and introducing Mark Berman– Meso-scale build – Heidi Dempsey

• Some very interesting GENI projects– ORCA/BEN Demo – Jeff Chase, Duke, and Ilia Baldine, RENCI – GENIcloud – Rick McGeer, HP– ShadowNet – Kobus van der Merwe, ATT Research, and

Jim Griffioen, Univ. of Kentucky

• We’re being studied! (here’s how and why)– New research by Prof. Sandra Slaughter, Georgia Tech, and

Prof. Laurie Kirsch, Univ. of Pittsburgh

• “Future Internet” peer projects in Germany– G-Lab – Prof. Paul Müller, University of Kaiserslautern

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Away we go

Photo courtesy Bundesarchiv, Wikimedia Commons