Project Number

1718

Project Title

GENI IMF: Integrated Measurement Framework and Tools for Cross Layer Experimentation
a.k.a. IMF

Technical Contacts

PI: Rudra Dutta Department Of Computer Science North Carolina State University dutta@csc.ncsu.edu http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/directories/faculty_info.php?id=1665
Co-PI: George Rouskas Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University rouskas@ncsu.edu http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/directories/faculty_info.php?id=241
Subcontractor: Ilia Baldine Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) ibaldin@renci.org
Subcontractor: Keren Bergman Department of Electrical Eng. Columbia University bergman@ee.columbia.edu http://www.ee.columbia.edu/fac-bios/bergman/faculty.html

Participating Organizations

NCSU, CS Dept
Columbia University, EE Dept
Renaissance Computing Insititute (RENCI), Chapel Hill, NC
BEN: Breakable Experimental Network
New Internet Computing Lab (NICL)
Open Resource Control Architecture (ORCA)
Shirako

GPO Liaison System Engineer

Harry Mussman hmussman@geni.net

Scope

This project will develop and integrate the GENI Integrated Measurement Framework (IMF) for optical communication substrates into the ORCA control framework prototype, and integrate the FIND SILO framework into the ORCA control framework prototype, and IMF and SILO with each other, to enable cross-layer experimentation involving the physical layer of an optical network.

Initial deployment will be in the Breakable Experimental Network (BEN), a regional optical network located in North Carolina.

The IMF will utilize deliverables from the Embedded Real-time Measurements (ERM) project, including its Unified Measurements Framework (UMF).

The IMF will provide a single point of access to various devices in the optical substrate. The IMF will include a software module that interfaces with the UMF to gather measurements from the optical substrate, and that communicates with SILO (and other software modules) over a specified communication protocol, also to be developed in this project.

The interface between the IMF and the optical devices in BEN will be leveraged from the UMF of the ERM project. The IMF will gather measurements from devices with performance monitoring capabilities already incorporated into the BEN, including: the Infinera DTN, a remotely configurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM); and the Polatis 24 port fiber switch. This will be guided by the output of the Data Plane Measurements project, that identified measurement capabilities in a wide range of equipment. In addition, the use of programmable measurement nodes and performance monitors will be assessed.

The Services Integration, controL and Optimization (SILO) framework was previously developed and prototyped in the NSF Future Internet Design (FIND) project. It will be extended to provide the tools for the experimenter to enable cross-layer experimentation. New SILO services will be developed to interface with the IMF and to introduce optical substrate measurement capability into custom protocol stacks.

Both the IMF and SILO will be integrated with ORCA, so that they can be assigned to the slice of a researcher, who can then configure and run them to conduct an experiment. This project will collaborate with the ORCA Augmentation project on an ontology for measurement capabilities.

This project will collaborate with other GENI projects on the development of a common GENI instrumentation and measurement architecture.

Current Capabilities

See the ORCA/BEN project

Milestones

IMF: S2.a Initial architecture- (Completed late 02/11/10) (milestone changed)
IMF: S2.b Initial ontology for measurement (Due 06/01/10 (late))
IMF: S2.c First GENI instrumentation and measurement architecture (Due 07/20/10)
IMF: S2.d First component architecture (Completed on time 02/11/10)
IMF: S2.e Initial IMF software (Completed late 03/16/10)
IMF: S2.f Integrate the IMF and UMF with BEN (Completed on time 03/16/10)
IMF: S2.g Protocol between SILO and IMF (Due 07/01/10 (late))
IMF: S2.h Update the IMF software (Due 07/20/10)
IMF: S2.i First release of IMF and SILO software (Due 09/30/10)
IMF: S2.j Contribution to GENI outreach plan (Due 09/30/10)

Project Technical Documents

Experiment View (Feb 2010)

Poster presented at GEC7 demo session

Architecture (Feb 2010)

Initial architectural view - Presentation at GEC6 (also attached to Milestone S2.a ticket)
First component architecture (also attached to Milestone S2.d ticket)
Early draft IMF-SILO interface (also attached to Milestone S2.d ticket)

Related Research Publications / Reports

Architectural Support for Internet Evolution and Innovation
A Composition Algorithm for the SILO Cross-Layer Optimization Service Architecture
The SILO Architecture for Services Integration, controL, and Optimization for the Future Internet
ON THE SUITABILITY OF COMPOSABLE SERVICES FOR THE ASSURABLE FUTURE INTERNET
A Unified Software Architecture to Enable Cross-Layer Design in the Future Internet

Quarterly Status Reports

Spiral 2 Connectivity

See the ORCA/BEN project

Related Projects

ORCA/BEN project and ORCA Augmentation
The SILO Project
BEN: Breakable Experimental Network
New Internet Computing Lab (NICL)
Open Resource Control Architecture (ORCA)
Shirako
Embedded Real-Time Measurements
LEARN: Programmable Measurements over Texas-based Research Network