GEC21, Oct 20th - 23rd, 2014

Hosted by:
Director Jon-Paul Herron
Global Research Network Operations Center
Indiana University

Conference Registration and Logistics

Conference The 21st GENI Engineering Conference Oct 20-23, 2014 Indiana Memorial Union, Indiana University Contact: Karen Garrett Directions to Indiana Memorial Union The demo/networking event will be held at the Cyberinfrastructure Building (CIB)	Registration Registration: Fee of $250 Before October 1                    Fee of $275 after October 1 Registration link: TBA Breakfasts and lunches will be provided. We urge all GEC attendees to ensure they have access to the GENI Experimenter Portal prior to attending GEC21. Please verify or create a new account.
Hotel Reservation: Hotel Reservation: Hotel 1: IMU Biddle Hotel and Conference Center Address: 900 E. Seventh St. Bloomington, IN 47405 Reservation code: GENI21 Rate: $105 for 1 double bed $149 for 2 double beds Include WiFi, hot breakfast buffet, and shuttle service from hotel to Indiana Memorial Union Hotel 2: Hyatt Place Bloomington has been reserved to handle overflow Rate: $149 per night	Transportation to/from the airport or University GOEXPRESS shuttle
Travel Grants
A limited number of travel grants are available. Please see Travel Grant Instructions. Download the Travel Grant Application.

Conference Agenda

Newcomers Day - Oct 20

Primarily for those with little to no experience running experiments on GENI. The tutorials on this day are a pre-requisite for all other tutorials at the conference. If you cannot make the newcomer day but are interested in doing other tutorials, see Pre-Requisites for GEC Tutorials.

General Sessions - Oct 21 and 22

The main part of the conference that includes presentations on different aspects of GENI, tutorials, demonstrations and discussions related to using or building GENI.

Developer Day - Oct 23

Primarily for developers building the GENI infrastructure, tools and services.

Session Descriptions

Click on the session title for a description of the session

Newcomers & Travel Grantee Day: Monday October 20

9.00am - 10.00am - An Introduction to GENI and Experimentation using GENI
10.15am - 11.30am - Tutorial: Getting Started with GENI - Part 1
11.30am - 12.30pm - Intro to the GENI Network Architecture
01.30pm - 03.00pm - Tutorial: Getting Started with GENI - Part 2
03.30pm - 05.30pm - Tutorial: Work on Problem Assignments

Newcomer's Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Dinners

BoF dinners are open to anybody with an interest in the topic of the dinner. You do not have to be an expert on the topic. Please RSVP so the organizer has a reasonably accurate headcount for restaurant reservations.

Topic

When

Where

Organizer

RSVP

Tuesday October 21

08.00am - 09.15am - GENI Overview
08.00am - 09.15am - Architects Meeting - by invitation only

09.30am - 10.00am - Demo Lightning Talks

10.30am - 12.30pm - Tutorial: Intro to the XIA Future Internet Architecture protocol suite
10.30am - 12.30pm - Tutorial: Experiment Orchestration, Instrumentation and Execution using LabWiki
10.30am - 12.30pm - GENI in Education
10.30am - 12.30pm - Tutorial: iMinds Wireless

01.30pm - 03.00pm - Tutorial: Intro to the ChoiceNet Future Internet Network Architecture?
01.30pm - 03.00pm - Tutorial: Further experiment development using OEDL
01.30pm - 03.00pm - Experimenter-Developer Roundtable
01.30pm - 03.30pm - WiMAX Developers Meeting

03.30pm - 05.00pm - Tutorial: Advanced ChoiceNet?
03.30pm - 04.30pm - Introduction to OpenFlow (repeated Wed @ 11.30am)?
03.30pm - 05.00pm - Educator and Experimenter Drop-in
03.30pm - 05.00pm - Tutorial: Intro to the MobilityFirst FIA protocol suite

05.30pm - 07.30pm - Demo Session and Networking

Wednesday October 22

07.30am - 08.30am - Newcomers' Breakfast

08.30am - 11.00am - Plenary Session

11.30am - 12.30pm - Intro to the GENI Network Architecture
11.30pm - 12.30pm - Introduction to OpenFlow (repeat of Tue 3.30pm)?
11.30am - 12.30am - Tutorial: Building experiment-specific tools with geni-lib

01.30pm - 03.30pm - GENI Operations
01.30pm - 03.30pm - Tutorial: Programming GENI OpenFlow Resources
01.30pm - 03.30pm - Tutorial: Intro to the NDN Future Internet Network Architecture
01.30pm - 03.30pm - Tutorial: GENI Desktop

04.00pm - 05.30pm - Tutorial: VTS?
04.00pm - 05.30pm - Developer Drop-In
04.00pm - 05.30pm - Tutorial: WiMAX
04.00pm - 05.30pm - Scaling Up Experiments

Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Dinners

BoF dinners are open to anybody with an interest in the topic of the dinner. You do not have to be an expert on the topic. Please RSVP so the organizer has a reasonably accurate headcount for restaurant reservations.

Topic

When

Where

Organizer

RSVP

Developer Meetings: Thursday October 23

9.00am - 12.30pm - Developer Roundtable

9.00am - 10.30am - Experimenter and Operations Office Hours

Pre-Requisites for GEC Tutorials on Oct. 21 and 22

The material covered on the Newcomer Day is a pre-requisite for all other tutorials at the conference. If you wish to participate in these tutorials but are unable to attend the Newcomers Day, you should do the following self-guided tutorials before the GEC:

• ​Lab Zero "Do-it-at-home" instructions
• ​Lab One "Do-it-at-home" instructions

Don’t hesitate to email ​tutorials@geni.net if you have any questions.