=== Tutorial: Quick and easy network service and packet processing using !NetServ  ===

==== Organizers ====
  Jae Woo Lee, ''Columbia Univ.'' 

==== Time ====
  Tues 	3:30 - 5:30 pm

=== Description ===
 !NetServ is a programmable router architecture, designed for
 dynamically deploying in-network services.  Using !NetServ, GENI
 experimenters can write TCP/IP and packet processing application
 modules quickly in Java, and dynamically install them into any
 !NetServ-enabled ProtoGENI or !PlanetLab nodes.  In this hands-on
 tutorial, you will learn the !NetServ architecture, and develop a
 simple !NetServ application module.

=== Prerequisites: ===
==== Required: ====
   - Basic understanding of GENI concepts (covered in the
     Introduction to GENI talk)
   - Java programming experience

==== Helpful, but not required: ====
   - Experience working with ProtoGENI (covered in an earlier
     tutorial: Introduction to GENI using Flack by Rob Ricci)


=== Please arrive with: ===
 A laptop with !VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) installed.
 If you are unable to bring one, you may partner with someone else.


=== Pre-work: ===
==== Required: ====
     None.

==== Suggested background materials if you have time: ====
      - 14-minute video of !NetServ demo at GEC9 plenary session:
     http://vimeo.com/16474575
      - Latest paper describing !NetServ (12 pages):
     http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jae/papers/netserv-2011-06-v1.0.pdf


=== Results: ===
 After completing this tutorial, you will:
   - Understand !NetServ architecture--for example, how various
     technologies such as Netfilter, JNI and OSGi work together to
     enable packet processing in Java.
   - See how !NetServ can shorten the development cycle of your
     experiments, and how it can create a gentler educational
     environment for your networking classroom.
   - Know how to write a !NetServ application module.