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= Tutorial: Quick and Easy Network Service and Packet Processing using !NetServ =

== Schedule ==

Tuesday, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

== Session Leaders ==

Jae Woo Lee and Roberto Francescangeli, Columbia University

== Agenda / Details ==

!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.

A step-by-step instruction is available here: [wiki:NetServTutorialInstruction]

=== Prerequisites: ===
==== Required: ====
   - Basic understanding of GENI concepts
   - 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 Pre-work completed (see below) if you want to follow along the hands-on tutorial.


=== Pre-work: ===
==== Required: ====
 None, if you simply wants to watch the tutorial.

 If you want to follow along the tutorial with your hands on the keyboard:

    - Bring a laptop with !VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) installed.
    - Download and import into !VirtualBox the GEC Tutorial VM.

==== 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 (14 pages):
     http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jae/papers/netserv-v2.1.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.