1. GENI: Global Environment for Networking Innovations
Allison Mankin (for the GENI Team) CISE/NSF
Rest of GENI Team: Guru Parulkar, Paul Morton, Sonya Lucas
(Presented by Kevin Thompson NSF OD/OCI)
December 8, 2006 CANS Meeting

2. GENI Initiative: Goals
Invent innovative internet architectures and distributed system capabilities -- go beyond Internet
Enable seamless conception-to-deployment process
Facility for experimentation at scale with apps and users
Work with broader community
Academic and industry communities
Other US and international agencies
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3. GENI: Research Programs
Broad but goal oriented programs: New internet architectures and distributed system capabilities
NeTS
FIND: Future Internet Design
CyberTrust
Clean-slate secured network arch
CSR
New distributed system capabilities
CCF
SING
CRI
Network infrastructure for arch research
MRI
Network instruments for arch research …
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4. Challenge: Research Community to Create Future Internet -- Internet for the 21st Century

5. What is Different This Time?
Clean-slate approach
To overcome Internet ossification
Research not constrained by the features of the current Internet
A comprehensive coordinated effort
Ability to try different approaches (We do not have a preconceived idea of what they are)
Ability to experiment at scale
With real users and applications
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6. Success Scenarios
Internet evolution influenced by clean-slate approach
Alternate Internet architecture emerges
Alternate architecture(s) coexist with the current Internet
Virtualization becomes the norm with plurality of architectures
Single architecture emerges and dominates
New services and applications enabled
Many other payoffs
Some unexpected
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7. GENI Facility

8. GENI Facility: Different Scale and Emphasis
Shared
Deployed Infrastructure
Need for Large experimental testbed/infrastructure
This chasm represents a major barrier to impact real world
Small Scale
Testbeds
Maturity
Research Prototypes
Foundations
Research
Funded by CISE Programs
Time
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9. Different Scale and Emphasis
Enable exploration of new network architectures, mechanisms, and distributed system capabilities
A shared facility that allows
Concurrent exploration of a broad range of experimental networks and distributed services
Interconnection among experimental networks & the commodity Internet
Users and applications off GENI able to “opt-in” (discover and participate in GENI services)
‘Native’ GENI users and applications also in view
Observation, measurement, and recording of outcomes
Strong scientific base, as well as research field in its own right
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10. Facility Design: Key Concepts
Sensor Network
Edge Site
Federated International Facility
Mobile Wireless Network
Conceptual framework to show how
o multiple network architectures can be supported on a single physical infrastructure
o user opt-in can work
To overcome the testbed dilemma
Slicing, Virtualization, Programmability
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11. Closer Look Internet Sensor Network Programmable Access Nodes (PAN)
backbone wavelength
Programmable
Optical Elem
of PCN
backbone switch
Programmable
Core Node
(PCN)
Internet
Edge Site with
Programmable Edge
Nodes (PEN)
Wireless Subnet with Programmable Wireless Nodes (PWN)
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12. GENI Implementation: Wireless Sub-Networks
Location
Service
Open API
Wide-Area
Networks 5 3
Emerging
Technologies
(cognitive radio)
“Open” Internet
Concepts for
Cellular devices
Other
services
GENI Backbone
Advanced Technology
Demonstrator (spectrum) 4
Sensor
Networks
Ad-Hoc
Mesh
Network 1
Embedded wireless,
Real-world applications 2
NSF Radio
Testbeds
Broadband
Services,
Mobile
Computing
Protocol &
Scaling
Studies
Emulation &
Simulation
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13. Other Requirements/Attributes
Provide security of the facility
Support diversity of networks & devices
Support scientific instrument attributes
Support real time networked embedded systems
Ensure future proof -- as much as we can
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14. Focus of GENI
Applications
Future Internet (Broadly Defined: E2E Networking and Distributed Systems)
Core Nodes
Edge Nodes/
Dist Services
Edge Nodes/Nets/
Core Nodes/Access /
Campus/POP
Core Nodes/Access/
Note that focus of GENI is on reinventing the end-to-end network architecture that spans all networks, and not inventing sub network technologies, though these singly or collective focus a new architecture (e.g. enabling of extreme mobility). Also, to build and drive a new end-to-end network architecture, we have to demonstrate it at scale -- to span different types of networks and include edge networks drive new requirements and new applications.
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15. GENI Design Process: CD=>PD=>FD
Vision
Research Agenda
Specific Res Challenges
List of Experiments
Facility Requirements
Facility Design
GENI Research & Facility Definition
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16. Snapshot of GENI Activities
GENI Facility Construction & Operations
Development of Relationships (GENI Science Council, GPO, Cross-Agency, Industrial, International)
Pre-GENI Planning Activities
GENI Planning
GENI Design
CDR
CDR’
P/FDR-tbd
GSC
GPO
Networking and Distributed Systems Research
Preplanning activities include supporting research as well as smaller scale experimental testbeds.
Both GENI Research and Facility are building on solid foundations.
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Calendar Year
Conceptual Design
Preliminary / Final Design
Construction/ Operations
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17. Timeline Detail
Spring 2006: Pre-planning Town Hall meetings –
Summer-Fall 2006: GENI planning group publishes draft design documents –
December 15, 2006: GPO solicitation due
End of CY2006: Initiation of GENI Science Council
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18. Community Process Competitive but cooperative
Within PI community
Within an agency such as NSF
Across federal agencies: NSF, DOD, DOE, …
Across international agencies
Diversity - comprehensive but focused
Technologies vs. architecture
Applications vs. architecture
Center of gravity: which layer(s) of protocol(s)
GENI one of many facilities for the net community
GENI documents its scope and is not “all things to all people”
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19. Challenges GENI facility construction a complex project
Needs innovative project management
Community consensus and convergence
Without curbing creativity and radical thinking
While providing for broad range of experiment communities
Global collaboration
With agencies and research communities
Effective federation: technical as well as policy solutions
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20. GENI Challenge to Community
Design the Future Internet that makes us proud.
Create a world in which we want to live.
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