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= GENI Shadownet Project Status Report = 

Period: Q2 2010 - (4/1/10-6/30/10)

== I. Major accomplishments ==


=== A. Milestones achieved ===

The project is still in the early phases and no milestone are due at
this point. 

=== B. Deliverables made ===

None yet.

== II. Description of work performed during last quarter ==

The following provides a description of the progress made this last quarter.

=== A. Activities and findings ===

Our primary focus this quarter has been on laying the groundwork needed for
the Juniper router deployment.  Specifically, we were able to get the funding
in place for Internet2 to be able to proceed with purchasing and installing
the Juniper routers.   We also initiated conversations with Juniper to
involve them in the design and specification of the project and to ensure the
equipment we purchase will meet the requirements of the project.  We also,
together with the GPO, held initial discussions regarding ways to make the
Juniper SDK available to GENI users.  We have arrived at a hardware
configuration that we believe meets our requirements and are in the process
of ordering the equipment and defining an installation schedule.

In addition to defining the hardware specification, we have had various
conference calls among the project participants (Kentucky, AT&T, Internet2,
and Utah) to begin designing the GENI Shadownet aggeregate manager components
of the system.  In particular, we have tried to understand what functionality
is needed in the GENI Shadownet aggregate manager and what parts will be
handled by the clearinghouse and other ProtoGENI aggregate managers.  We plan
to leverage much of the experience Utah has already gained from incorporating
SPP nodes into the ProtoGENI/Internet2 backbone, and our design will use
similar ways of assigning IP address space and creating VLANs.  AT&T has
begun to identify changes that will need to be made to their existing code in
order to make it interoperate with the ProtoGENI framework.   We plan to
continue this parallel development so that we will be well situated to begin
testing the new software once the hardware is installed and tested.

=== B. Project participants ===

The following individuals are involved with the project in one way or another:
* Jim Griffioen - Project PI (Kentucky)
* Zongming Fei - Project Co-PI (Kentucky)
* Kobus van der Merwe - Project Co-PI (AT\&T)
* Eric Boyd - Subcontract Lead (Internet2)
* Brian Cashman - Deployment Manager (Internet2)
* Lowell Pike - Network administrator (Kentucky)
* Hussamuddin Nasir - Technician/Programmer (Kentucky)
* Emmanouil Mavrogiorgis - Research Staff (AT\&T)

=== C. Publications (individual and organizational) ===

None yet.

=== D. Outreach activities ===

Jim Griffioen attended the 2nd GENI Instrumentation and Measurement Workshop
June 8-9, 2010 to participate in the design of the instrumentation and
measurement plane which will be valuable later when we instrument GENI
Shadownet.

=== E. Collaborations ===

Most of our collaborations have been with the Shadownet team from Kentucky,
AT&T, and Internet2, but we have also had conversations with our
colleagues at Utah and Delaware, and have had conversation with Juniper and
the GPO.

=== F. Other Contributions ===

None yet.