GENI Exploring Networks of the Future GENI Spiral 2

1. GENIExploring Networks of the FutureGENI Spiral2 Chip ElliottMarch 17, 2010 www.geni.net

2. Spiral DevelopmentGENI grows through a well-structured, adaptive process • 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 goalExample: 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. Planning Design Use Use Integration Build out GENI Prototyping Plan

3. 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

4. Building the GENI Meso-scale PrototypeCurrent plans for locations & equipment OpenFlow WiMAX Stanford U Washington Wisconsin Indiana Rutgers Princeton Clemson Georgia Tech Stanford UCLA UC Boulder Wisconsin Rutgers Polytech UMass Columbia OpenFlow Backbones ShadowNet Seattle Salt Lake City Sunnyvale Denver Kansas City Houston Chicago DC Atlanta Salt Lake City Kansas City DC Atlanta Juniper MX240 Ethernet Services Router HP ProCurve 5400 Switch NEC WiMAX Base Station Cisco 6509 Switch NEC IP8800 Ethernet Switch Arista 7124S Switch

5. 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)

6. 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 envisioned • Aggressively grow meso-scale build (next slide) • More campus, regional, & backbone sites • New “GENI Racks” (eg rack of PCs with OpenFlow switch) • GENI Instrumentation system (build & deploy) • Operations / experiment support / training / education & curriculum development • Interesting new ideas

7. 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, …

8. 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

9. So let’s discuss Solicitation 3 in the hallways • We have plenty of time to bounce around ideasbefore 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 . . .)

10. Conference plan Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Breakfast 8-9 AM Breakfast 8-9 AM Plenary Talks& Plenary Demos WG meetings Outbriefs & Wrap-Up Lunch 12:00 – 1 PM Related Workshops Cluster Meetings, Workshops, Newcomers’ Session, & GPO “Office Hours” Cluster meetings WG meetings Demos / Social Time Dinner BOFs* *Join or create your own; see GENI wiki agenda page

11. Working Group discussions Campus / Operations,Management,Integration, & Security GENI Security Plan Experiment Workflowand Services Scenarios, tools, & services Control Framework GENI Aggregate Manager API v1.0 Instrumentation & Measurement Instrumentation & Measurement System Today Tomorrow Note that working groups have been slightly tweaked since last GEC;check your agenda.

12. 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, andIlia Baldine, RENCI • GENIcloud – Rick McGeer, HP • ShadowNet – Kobus van der Merwe, ATT Research, andJim Griffioen, Univ. of Kentucky • We’re being studied! (here’s how and why) • New research by Prof. Sandra Slaughter, Georgia Tech, andProf.Laurie Kirsch, Univ. of Pittsburgh • “Future Internet” peer projects in Germany • G-Lab – Prof. Paul Müller, University of Kaiserslautern

13. Away we go Photo courtesy Bundesarchiv, Wikimedia Commons