| 68 | | - Planning to make ORCA a production capability for BEN; two issues: |
| 69 | | will the software work? and will there be sufficient documentation |
| 70 | | that people can use it? |
| 71 | | - Can ORCA be used to request connections to I2? Yes, working with |
| 72 | | Chris Tracy. More than one way to do it. Could create an ORCA AM for |
| 73 | | I2. Complicated by I2's work on their next-gen network |
| | 68 | - Planning to make ORCA a production capability for BEN; two issues: will the software work? and will there be sufficient documentation that people can use it? |
| | 69 | - Can ORCA be used to request connections to I2? Yes, working with Chris Tracy. More than one way to do it. Could create an ORCA AM for I2. Complicated by I2's work on their next-gen network |
| | 77 | Connection to Internet2 |
| | 78 | - In discussions with local OIT staff |
| | 79 | - Will connect geni.cs.umass.edu to I2 directly via fiber from campus to Springfield to Boston, working in tandem with VISE team; requesting one VLAN ID, expecting little traffic; will have the capability to inject frames with VLAN tags |
| | 80 | |
| | 81 | Experiments by outsiders |
| | 82 | - Have portal for job submission, one resource: wifi card, 900MHz radio coming next year; gets status; interfaces to ORCA |
| | 83 | - Experiments on Buses. DTN tolerant downloading of experiments to buses; dynamic creation of VM sandbox to execute experiments, includes partitions, networking, devices; scheduling of experiments based on ORCA leases |
| | 84 | - Instrumented measurements. Half the core is about remote management and diagnostics. Researcher data is uploaded automatically if |
| | 85 | certain file format is used. |
| | 86 | |
| | 87 | * Should compare DOME measurements to ORBIT |
| | 88 | |
| | 89 | * Should compare disconnected operation in DOME with ORBIT/WiMAX |
| | 90 | |
| | 91 | Plans for Spiral 2 |
| | 92 | |
| | 93 | - Goal is to deploy on buses this summer. 5-6 out of 40 buses in field per |
| | 94 | day. |
| | 95 | |
| | 96 | - Will bring on undergrad projects in the fall from "Intro to |
| | 97 | Networking" class. Imagine only 1 or 2 projects will get far enough |
| | 98 | to use the real system. Have a PhD graduating this year heading to |
| | 99 | Arkansas who is expected do experiments. |
| | 100 | |
| | 101 | - Plan to allow experimenters to access XTend radios |
| | 102 | |
| | 103 | - Want 'true and open access to testbed by experimenters' |
| | 104 | |
| | 105 | - Tutorials on how to use? May require some separate funding. Keren |
| | 106 | very interested in such a tutorial. |
| | 107 | |
| | 108 | Concern about maintaining documents after publishing. This is made |
| | 109 | more difficult since the prototypes are rapidly evolving. |
| | 110 | |
| | 111 | Concern that supporting users will delay system development because |
| | 112 | of the need to have a stable system. GPO thinks projects have |
| | 113 | latitude to define the level of stability and support that makes |
| | 114 | sense for them. Currently, GENI is in the 'exploratory prototyping' |
| | 115 | phase, likely that composition and design will change over time. |
| | 116 | |
| | 117 | Anish: We've found that tutorials are good as a way to train PIs |
| | 118 | grad students and colleagues. There's a real cost to keeping it up |
| | 119 | but it is in general a good idea. What events would be a good fit? |
| | 120 | Having a pull from users helps a lot. |
| | 121 | |
| | 122 | Chip: one approach is that folks want to use a remote system |
| | 123 | initially then make their own local copy. Anish: yes, that's our |
| | 124 | experience but doing 'cross-experiments' has been quite hard. Not |
| | 125 | clear what the benefit is to other users. |
| | 126 | |
| | 127 | What are the GPO's incentives to get people to do experiments? Not |
| | 128 | much. The GPO doesn't sponsor research. This is what NSF does. |
| | 129 | The GPO sponsor trial experiments to help shake down the system. |
| | 130 | |
| | 132 | |
| | 133 | Plans: Experiment Examples |
| | 134 | |
| | 135 | - Sensor-centric experiments. E.g., comparing fidelity from Furuno, Raymarine, MA1 (students from Peurto Rico) to focus on ground truth verification and long-term data collection with the UMass trace repository. Peurto Rico very interested in low-infrastructure radars due to its geography. Have a PhD student going back to PR, might be a good GEC grant candidate. Virtualization of these systems might be of great interest to engineering communities, not just networking. PR is developing a student testbed with tight collaboration with UMass. |
| | 136 | |
| | 137 | - Long-distance wireless experiments such as looking at wireless BW over long-distance. One REU and one UMass undergrad. Doing experiments now, would like to migrate to GENI. |
| | 138 | |
| | 139 | - Longer term vision. Connect sensed data to cloud-based storage and processing. Run complete experiments: sensing + storage + processing. BEN is applying for some processing; has a state project for micro-rain radar |
