GEC12 Agenda

General

Day	Time	Topic	Location	Leader	Links
Wed	7:30 am - 4:30 pm	Registration
Wed	noon - 4:30 pm	GPO "Office Hours" (by appt only)	upon request	GPO	more info
Wed	5:30 - 7:30 pm	Demo & Networking Event	UMKC Student Union	GPO	more info
Thu	7:30 am - 5:30 pm	Registration

Plenary Sessions

Day	Time	Topic	Location	Leader	Links
Thur	8:30 - 9:30 am	Plenary Session: GENI Updates		Chip Elliott, GPO Project Director	more info
Thur	9:30 - 10:00 am	Break
Thur	10:00 - noon	Plenary Session: US Ignite		Suzi Iacono, Senior Advisor, NSF/CISE	more info
Thur	noon - 1:00 pm	Lunch
Thur	1:00 - 3:00 pm	Plenary Session: GENI Experimentation		Mark Berman, GENI Project Office	more info
Fri	11:00 - noon	Meeting outbriefs, Community Feedback, Wrap-up		Chip Elliott, GENI Project Office	more info
Fri	noon - 1:00 pm	Lunch

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Experimenter Track

The Experimenter Track is designed to help researchers learn to use GENI for experimentation. For newcomers to GENI, the track includes a number of introductory talks and hands-on tutorials. Attendees with some experience with GENI will find the track includes tutorials on specialized GENI resources and tools. In addition, this GEC we are introducing a "coding sprint" for developers and experimenters. There is no restriction on who can attend any tutorial, however we make some recommendations for newcomers.

Hands-on participation in tutorials is limited by available resources. Attendees who are interested in observing, or who sign up after all hands-on spaces are taken, are encouraged to participate on an "audit" basis.

Experimenters unfamiliar with GENI are strongly encouraged to attend the full morning of introductory tutorial sessions on Wednesday, November 2, followed by their choice of additional tutorial and introductory information on Wednesday afternoon.

• GENI Concepts and Resources provides an overview of core GENI concepts and terminology and describes the computing and networking resources, tools and support resources currently available to experimenters;

• Introduction to GENI using Flack and the Instrumentation Portal is a hands-on tutorial where attendees will set up, instrument and run a simple experiment using geographically distributed computers interconnected by VLANs;

• Packet-­level Measurement Systems for GENI provides an introduction to the GIMS packet capture systems, their implementation in the ProtoGENI framework and a hands-on introduction to their use in GENI experiments.

• PrimoGENI: Supporting Hybrid Simulation, Emulation, and Live Network Experiments is a hands-on tutorial that will show users how to design and run network experiments using PrimoGENI, and demonstrate PrimoGENI's capabilities through several network experiment case studies.

• The DiCloud tutorial will demonstrate how to install and use DiCloud software to meter usage for Amazon cloud resources. The tutorial will show experimenters how they can incorporate their own Amazon resources in GENI slices. We will also show how to use DiCloud in conjunction with Orca experiments.

• New Projects: Experimenter Support and Training is an opportunity for experimenters to learn about the plans of newly started GENI projects in the areas of experiment support and training.

Experimenters with some knowledge of GENI and newcomers who have participated in the introductory tutorials described above will be prepared to benefit from additional tutorials on Thursday and Friday.

• NetServ is a programmable router architecture for dynamically deploying in-network services. This hands-on tutorial will present the NetServ architecture, and participants will develop a simple NetServ application module.

• Experimental topologies on the GENI Mesoscale network with omni will give experimenters hands-on experience with specifying the computing and network resources required to construct an experimental topology in the GENI mesoscale deployment. Attendees will use omni, a command-line experimenter tool for accessing GENI resources.

• The coding sprint gives experimenters and developers a chance to work side-by-side to get experiments started or work through problems together. This session is listed under Software track.

Each tutorial includes a detailed description linked to from the GENI agenda page, identifying any preparatory work. Attendees should come prepared to engage in hands-on use of GENI. Hands-on participation in many tutorials require laptops with VirtualBox software (​http://www.virtualbox.org/); attendees should have this software installed before the tutorials.

Day	Time	Topic	Location	Leader	Links
Wed	8:30 - 10:00 am	GENI Concepts & Resources		Vic Thomas, GENI Project Office	more info
Wed	10:00 - 10:30 am	Break
Wed	10:30 - noon	Tutorial: Introduction to GENI using Flack and the Instrumentation Portal		Rob Ricci, Univ. Utah; Jim Griffioen, Univ. Kentucky	more info
Wed	12:00 - 1:00 pm	Lunch
Wed	1:00 - 2:30 pm	Tutorial: Packet-level Measurement System for GENI		Paul Barford, Univ. Wisconsin	more info
Wed	1:00 - 2:30 pm	Tutorial: PrimoGENI - Supporting Hybrid Simulation, Emulation, and Live Network Experiments		Jason Liu, Florida International Univ.	more info
Wed	2:30 - 3:00 pm	Break
Wed	3:00 - 4:30 pm	Tutorial: DI Cloud		Michael Zink and David Irwin, Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst	more info
Wed	3:00 - 4:30 pm	New Projects: Experimenter Support and Training		Mark Berman, GENI Project Office	more info
Thur	3:30 - 5:30 pm	Advanced Tutorial: Quick and easy network service and packet processing using NetServ		Jae Woo Lee, Columbia Univ.; Roberto Francescangeli, University of Perugia	more info
Fri	8:30 - 9:30 am	Experimenter Roundtable		Vic Thomas and Mark Berman, GENI Project Office	more info
Fri	8:30 - 10:30 am	Tutorial: Experimental topologies on the GENI Mesoscale network with Omni		Niky Riga, GENI Project Office	more info
Fri	1:00 - 4:00 pm	Coding Sprint for Developers and Experimenters		Sarah Edwards, Aaron Helsinger, and Niky Riga, GENI Project Office	more info

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Campus Track

The Campus Track is focused on deployment and operations of GENI infrastructure. The track will include meetings to help new operators understand what GENI is and its concept of operations. Technology tutorials will be presented that are oriented towards an operations perspective. The track will also include sessions where campuses can agree upon GENI operations processes and procedures. The target participant is a campus or infrastructure operator hosting a GENI component or components.

Day	Time	Topic	Location	Leader	Links
Wed	10:30 - noon	GENI Deployment Updates		Heidi Picher Dempsey, GENI Project Office	more info
Wed	12:00 - 1:00 pm	Lunch
Wed	1:00 - 2:00 pm	OpenFlow Update		Guru Parulkar, Stanford Univ.	more info
Wed	2:00 - 2:30 pm	Managing GENI Resources (part 1)		Jon-Paul Herron, Indiana Univ.	more info
Wed	2:30 - 3:00 pm	Break
Wed	3:00 - 3:30 pm	Managing GENI Resources (part 2)		Jon-Paul Herron, Indiana Univ.	more info
Thur	3:30 - 5:30 pm	Meso-scale Monitoring		Sarah Edwards and Chaos Golubitsky, GENI Project Office	more info
Fri	8:30 - 9:30 am	Experimenter Roundtable		Vic Thomas and Mark Berman, GENI Project Office	more info
Fri	9:30 - 10:30 am	Meso-scale Networking: Looking Ahead		Heidi Picher Dempsey, GENI Project Office	more info
Fri	1:00 - 3:00 pm	WiMax Campus Deployment & Experimentation		Harry Mussman, GENI Project Office	more info

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Software Development Track

The Software Development track is focused on development of software to support GENI experimentation within the next 12-18 months. These sessions will include project highlights and overview reports, engineering meetings, and round tables for feedback and airing of concerns. The over-arching goal of this track is to focus on efforts that can support nation-wide networking research in the next year. The emphasis will be on key decisions blocking development progress. The target participant is a software developer or system integrator helping to build/integrate GENI.

Day	Time	Topic	Location	Leader	Links
Wed	8:30 - 10:00 am	Project Highlights		Tom Mitchell and Aaron Helsinger, GENI Project Office	more info
Wed	8:30 - 10:00 am	Instrumentation & Measurement Working Session (part 1)		Harry Mussman, GENI Project Office	more info
Wed	10:00 - 10:30 am	Break
Wed	10:30 - noon	Control Framework Topics		Tom Mitchell, GENI Project Office	more info
Wed	10:30 - noon	Instrumentation & Measurement Working Session (part 2)		Harry Mussman, GENI Project Office	more info
Wed	noon - 1:00 pm	Lunch
Wed	1:00 - 2:30 pm	GENI Aggregate Manager API		Aaron Helsinger, GENI Project Office	more info
Wed	2:30 - 3:00 pm	Break
Wed	3:00 - 4:30 pm	Authorization		Steve Schwab and Ted Faber, USC/ISI	more info
Thur	3:30 - 5:30 pm	Cloud Computing in GENI		Rick McGeer, HP and Vic Thomas, GENI Project Office	more info
Fri	8:30 - 9:30 am	Experimenter Roundtable		Vic Thomas and Mark Berman, GENI Project Office	more info
Fri	8:30 - 9:30 am	ORCA Cluster		Jeff Chase, Duke Univ.	more info
Fri	9:30 - 10:30 pm	ProtoGENI Cluster		Rob Ricci, Univ. Utah	more info
Fri	1:00 - 4:00 pm	Coding Sprint for Developers and Experimenters		Sarah Edwards, Aaron Helsinger, and Niky Riga, GENI Project Office	more info

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Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Dinners

BoF dinners are opportunities for participants interested in the same GENI-related topic to get together in a social setting. Anybody is free to organize a BoF dinner; just add it to the table below.

Day

Time

Topic

Location

Leader

Links

Thu	7.30am	Increasing Participation BOF	GEC breakfast area	​Sarah Edwards	​invite sent to {dev, experimenters}@geni.net
Thu	6.30pm	Security Experiments on GENI	TBD restaurant	​Vic Thomas
Thu	meet lobby 6.30pm	GENI I&M	Tannin Wine Bar and Kitchen 1526 Walnut 816-842-2660	​Harry Mussman 781-266-8479	Respond to poll at ​http://www.doodle.com/38mqvqzvc9rtmbxa