Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of DTunnels-3Q09-status

Timestamp:

09/10/09 20:09:31 (15 years ago)

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feamster@cc.gatech.edu

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+= DTunnels Project Status Report: 3Q09 =
+
+== 1. Major accomplishments ==
+
+This report covers activity from July 1 to September 30, 2009.
+
+=== 1.1 Milestones achieved ===
+
+We have achieved the following four milestones:
+
+  * DTunnel: Define RSpec - (Due 09/01/09 (late)) (milestone changed)
+  * DTunnel: Virtual Network with BGPMux How-To -- (Completed late 09/10/09) (milestone changed) 
+
+== 2. Description of work performed during last quarter ==
+
+=== 2.1 Activities and findings ===
+
+Our activities and findings include the following:
+
+  * '''Data plane integration.'''  In this quarter, we successfully
+    demonstrated traffic flowing from a downstream client to upstream
+    ISPs through the BGP Mux.  A downstream client user can connect
+    directly to the BGP Mux and control BGP routing from the client
+    network.  
+
+  * '''Deployment of BGP Mux at Additional Sites: Wisconsin.''' With the
+  help of Mike Blodgett at University of Wisconsin, we have deployed a
+  BGP Mux that has a direct layer 2 connection (via a VLAN) to the
+  Wisconsin border router and can announce a /21 IP prefix via
+  Wisconsin's upstream providers.  Currently, we are unable to announce
+  any prefix that is longer than the /21.  We discss this issue in more
+  detail below.
+
+  * '''Registration of Route Objects at ARIN IRR.''' To ensure that the
+    IP prefix can be announced from different upstream ISPs, we
+    registered the both our temporary IP prefix and the GENI AS number
+    (AS~47065) in the ARIN Internet routing registry. 
+
+  * '''Demonstration at GEC5.''' We presented a demonstration of the BGP
+    Mux control plane at GEC5, with the IP prefix being advertised from
+    both the University of Wisconsin and Georgia Tech, and a downstream
+    client network at Emulab.
+
+  * '''Demonstration at SIGCOMM.''' We presented a demonstration of the
+    BGP Mux control and data planes at SIGCOMM in August 2009.
+
+  * '''Georgia Tech campus GENI network deployment.''' We continue to
+    build a campus network deployment that can run enterprise-level
+    experiments and use the BGP Mux as a means of getting upstream
+    connectivity to and from these upstream ISPs.
+
+'''Continued work on ongoing issues:'''
+
+  * '''Integration with ProtoGENI.''' 
+    We have defined an initial RSPec for both the BGPMux and the
+    tunneling aspects of the setup.  We are now working with the
+    University of Utah to integrate this RSPec, so that it can
+    ultimately be invoked by the ProtoGENI front-end.  
+
+
+=== 2.2 Project participants ===
+
+Professor Nick Feamster: PI[[BR]]
+Vytautas Valancius: BGP Mux lead developer[[BR]]
+Yogesh Mundada: DTunnels lead developer[[BR]]
+[Both Valancius and Mundada are Ph.D. students at Georgia Tech.]
+
+=== 2.3 Publications (individual and organizational) ===
+
+We presented a demonstration of the BGP Mux and associated applications
+that could be run using the BGP Mux to SIGCOMM 2009:
+
+   ''Transit Portal: Bringing Connectivity to the Cloud''[[BR]]
+   Vytautas Valancius, Yogesh Mundada, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford,
+   Akihiro Nakao
+
+A photograph of this demonstration is included at the bottom of this report.
+
+=== 2.4 Outreach activities ===
+
+  * '''HowTo Document'''  We have produced a how-to document for the BGP
+    Mux to help make it easier for both researchers and operators to
+    deploy a BGP Mux in their own networks.
+
+  * '''Participation in Enterprise GENI Workshop'''  PI Feamster
+    participated in the Enterprise GENI workshop, presenting a talk on
+    the use of OpenFlow in the Georgia Tech campus network and exploring
+    how OpenFlow hardware might be integrated with the existing
+    ProtoGENI and BGP Mux setups at Georgia Tech and University of
+    Wisconsin. 
+
+  * '''Beginning planning for Programmable Networks Course''' PI
+    Feamster is starting to plan a spring seminar course on programmable
+    networks, which will introduce students to the BGP Mux as both a
+    measurement and experimentation tool.
+
+  * '''Participation at UCL Summer School''' Valas Valancius gave a talk
+    on BGP Mux at the UCL summer school in August 2009.
+
+=== 2.5 Collaborations ===
+
+  * '''University of Utah''' We have begun working with OIT at the
+  University of Utah to deploy a BGP Mux.  We have only started initial
+  conversations and are following up in 4Q 2009.
+
+  * '''Princeton University''' We are collaborating with Princeton on
+  virtual network applications that can make use of the BGP session
+  multiplexer.  Notably, we have helped Princeton undergraduate student
+  Patrick Wendell (working with Jennifer Rexford) to deploy an initial
+  service that uses the BGP Mux.
+
+  * '''University of Tokyo''' We are collaborating with University of
+  Tokyo in an attempt to deploy the BGP Mux in that location.  Graduate
+  student Valas Valancius spent summer in Tokyo working with this team.
+
+  * '''UCL (Belgium)''' Valas Valancius gave a talk on BGP Mux at the
+  UCL summer school in August 2009.  UCL OIT has indicated they are
+  interested in deploying a BGP Mux.  We will follow up in 4Q 2009.
+
+We have a planned collaboration with Jerry Sobieski at NordUNet planned
+for 4Q 2009.
+
+
+
+=== 2.6 Other Contributions ===
+
+We are building out a campus network testbed for testing both DTunnels
+topology creation and BGP Mux on the campus network.  The test network
+spans three buildings on campus and includes roughly ten servers and
+five !OpenFlow-enabled switches.  While this testbed deployment is
+technically out of the scope of the original proposal, we do intend to
+use it as a platform for using both BGP Mux and the DTunnels topology
+creation service.
+
+By the end of September 2009, we plan to have completed the initial
+deployment of this campus testbed, which was described in detail at the
+Enterprise GENI workshop.  Currently, we are waiting on documentation
+for the NEC switches, new firmware for one of the Quanta switches, and
+IP address space from our campus IT department from which we can number
+the switches.
+
+
+=== Photo ===
+
 [[Image(sigcomm2009-demo.jpg)]]