GENI Engineering Conference 9

November 2, 2010 Washington, DC

Live demonstrations, posters, and presentations at GEC9 highlight results from spiral 2 projects. See project descriptions, posters and presentations here.

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BGP Multiplexer

Demo Participants: Nick Feamster, Vytautas Valancius
BGP-Mux is a system that enables wide-area route control for networks inside GENI. BGP-Mux allows scarce resources, such as IP prefixes and AS numbers, to be shared among experimental virtual networks. This demo will showcase the automated management of such resources. Affiliation(s): Georgia Tech

Control, Measurement, and Resource Management Framework for Heterogeneous and Mobile Wireless Testbeds

Demo Participants: Marco Gruteser, Max Ott, Ivan Seskar, Joseph Milkjovic, Thierry Rakotoarivelo
Demonstration of cognitive radio platform with Matlab/Simulink prototyping framework. This demonstration will show the versatility of an agile cognitive radio platform by using spectrum sensing capabilities to identify an empty portion of the spectrum that will be subsequently used for communication.
Affiliation(s): WINLAB/Rutgers University, NICTA

Federating CRON (Cyberinfrastructure of Reconfigurable Optical Networks) testbed with GENI testbeds

Demo Participants: Seung‐Jong Park, Cheng Cui
Federating a Cyberinfrastructure of Reconfigurable Optical Networks (CRON) testbed with ProtoGENI: a CRON is a virtual high speed optical networking and computing testbed (funded by NSF) providing 10Gbps emulated networking and computing environments. This demo will showcase the automated configuration of 10Gbps networking environments and the federation among CRON and other ProtoGENI resources.
Affiliation(s): Louisiana State University

Davis Social Links

Demo Participants: S. Felix Wu, Peter Seigel, Chen-Nee Chuah
Davis Social Links will demonstrate a distributed DSL core providing social routing services. Our FAITH social network transformation service will also be demonstrated.
Affiliation(s): University of California

GMOC-GENI Meta Operations

Demo Participants: Jon-Paul Herron, Jon-Paul Herron
GMOC GENI cluster and federation visualization
Affiliatoin(s): Indiana University, Global Research Network Operations Center

Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation

Demo Participants: James P.G. Sterbenz, Deep Medhi, Byrav Ramamurthy, Caterina Scolio, Don Gruenbacher, Greg Monaco, Jeff Verrant, Cort Buffington, David Hutchison, Bernhard Platter, Joseph B. Evans, Rick McMullen, Baek-Young Choi, Jim Archuleta, Andrew Scott
Demonstration of GpENI (Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation) programmable testbed for future Internet research. GpENI is an international testbed centered on a Midwest US regional optical network that is programmable at all layers of the protocol stack, using PlanetLab, VINI, and DCN, and interconnected to ProtoGENI in the US and G-Lab and ResumeNet? in Europe. We will demonstrate the topology, functionality, and operations of GpENI.
Affiliatoin(s): The University of Kansas, Kansas State University, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, Great Plains Network, Ciena Government Solutions, Qwest Government Services, KanREN, MOREnet, Lancaster University, ETH Zurich

GENI/Ecalyptus Federated Resource Allocation (GENICloud)

Demo Participants: Alvin Au Young, Andy Bavier, Jessica Blaine, James Kempf, Joe Mambretti, Rick McGeer, Alex Snoeren, Marco Yuen
GENICloud is a flexible, SFA-based cloud environment running at HP OpenCirrus?, UCSD, and Northwestern. In this demo we will show the capabilities of the GENICloud environment by showing a multi-site cloud-based transcoding application, that will be shown on both the show floor and available to any participant with an Internet connection.
Affiliation(s): HP Labs, PlanetWorks, U.C. San Diego, U. of Victoria, U. of Illinois, Urbana- Champaing

GENIViolin

Demo Participants: ?
GENI-VIOLIN's goal is to build an In-network suspend and resume infrastructure for GENI experiments. This project is part of the GENI-alpha plenary session for GEC9. Current GENI experiments cannot be suspended/resumed, and often have to be restarted from beginning, if failures occur in the infrastructure. GENI-VIOLIN solves this problem, by providing "live snapshot" capability to GENI experiments running in GENI slices for fault tolerance, debugging and slice management. GENI-VIOLIN provides the suspend/resume functionality to GENI experiments, with minimal disruption to application performance, while being completely transparent to the application and guest operating systems. During GEC9, we will show suspend/resume functionality that is completely in the network by exploiting Openflow. GENIVIOLIN requires minimal hypervisor support from the end-hosts. We will show a demo of suspend/resume over two sites (Utah and BBN Emulabs) that are geographically separated. Affiliation(s): ?

MULTIFLOW TCP

Demo Participants: ?
We demonstrate the feasibility of multipath TCP from the application level with the support at the network level. The network routes packets based on destination address and last bit of the destination port #. Packets destined to odd and even port numbers are guaranteed to take disjoint paths. With this support, applications can interact using two TCP sockets that establish connections to an odd and even port, thus increasing the end-to-end throughput. The application layer is responsible for splitting and merging the traffic among the different TCP streams, while the individual TCP streams are responsible for reliable transport within the stream.
Affiliation(s): ?

The Hive Mind: Applying a Distributed Security Sensor Network to GENI

Demo Participants: Sean Peisert
This demo is regarding Milestone 1 of Year 2
Affiliation(s): University of Califronia, Davis, Battelle, CA Labs, CA Inc.

iGENI: A Distributed Network Research Infrastructure for the Global Environment for Network Innovation

Demo Participants: Joe Mambretti, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti
iGENI GEC 9 Demonstrations The iGENI dynamic network provisioning demonstrations showcase capabilities for large scale (national and international) multiple domain dynamic provisioning, including L1/L2 path involving multiple sites, using specialized signaling and implementation techniques. Dynamic Provisioning for the iGENI Cluster D Network In partnership with RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute), Duke University, the University of Massachusetts, and other D-Cluster participants, iGENI Consortium has implemented the Open Resource Control Architecture (ORCA) control framework at the StarLight?? international exchange facility and it is supporting a demonstration of flexible, programmable heterogeneous networking among multiple national and international sites, including dynamic path provisioning. Several iGENI demonstrations will showcase this dynamic provisioning. Highly Scalable Network Research TransCloud?? Prototype This multi-organization TransCloud?? demonstration showcases a capability for using dynamic large scale cloud and network infrastructure for highly distributed specialized capabilities among multiple sites connected by the iGENI network, including digital media transcoding and streaming to multiple edge platforms, supported by scaleable cloud computing and network provisioning.
Affiliation(s): Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)

K-GENI and ETRI Virtualized Programmable Platform

Demo Participants: Joe Mambretti, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti