Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of GENIFireCollaborationWorkshopSeptember2015/Session1

Timestamp:

10/08/15 16:11:12 (9 years ago)

Author:

Mark Berman

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GENIFireCollaborationWorkshopSeptember2015/Session1

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 == Session Summary ==
 
-To be provided by session chairs.
+This opening session focused its attention on a series of specific
+research collaborations between US and EU researchers, funded under
+a GENI SAVI grant and FIRE projects, respecively. Six teams reported
+results and discussed future plans. During the session, a recurring
+theme of federation came to the fore. Researchers from FIRE projects
+and GENI are pursuing federation through multiple mechanisms. Specific
+presentations discussed the following.
+
+ * Shared, open-source software components for key capabilities (e.g.,
+   as described in David Margery and Marshall Brinn's report on
+   collaboration via the ''geni-tools'' open source project and Robert
+   Ricci and Brecht Vermeulen's report on
+   ''federated monitoring''.)
+
+ * Architectural measures that facilitate federation. Examples
+   addressed both the control plane (e.g., Ilya Baldin & Chrysa
+   Pappagiani's discussion of brokers) and the data plans (e.g., KC
+   Wang and Jerry Sobieski's presentations on implementation of
+   !OpenFlow proxies and GTS).
+
+Note that Bartek Belter's presentation on FELIX (an EU/Japan testbed
+collaboration), presented later in the federation session, showed a
+federation strategy that is very much in the same spirit, and drew on
+several of the same elements.
+
+Discussion during the presentations identified potential opportunities
+for opportunistic collaborations. For example, two GENI components,
+GENI Desktop and the GENI portal, are investigating incorporating
+simplified status information using a similar or identical approach to
+that described by Robert Ricci and Brecht Vermeulen.
+
+Two additional presentations covered different topics. Ingrid Moerman
+presented joint work with Violet Syrotiuk, which applies locating
+arrays to reduce by many orders of magnitude the search
+space for wireless parameter optimization. Brecht Vermeulen presented
+a report on the recent FGRE summer school, which cross-trained
+researchers on GENI and Fed4FIRE.
+
+The session concluded with a question from chairs Per Blixt and Jack
+Brassil, who asked participants to identify characteristics leading to
+successful trans-Atlantic research collaborations. There was wide
+agreement that face-to-face interactions are very important, and
+several people commented on the benefits of spending several days or
+even weeks at a collaborator's institution in order to jump start
+joint research projects.
 
 == Presentations ==