| 1 | | = New to GENI? = |
| 2 | | |
| 3 | | The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a suite of network research |
| 4 | | infrastructure now in its design and prototyping phase. It is sponsored by the National Science |
| 5 | | Foundation to support experimental research in network science and engineering. |
| 6 | | |
| 7 | | == GENI Overview == |
| 8 | | Network Science and Engineering(NetSE) research challenges us to understand networks broadly and at multiple layers of |
| 9 | | abstraction from the physical substrates through the architecture and protocols to networks of people, |
| 10 | | organizations, and societies. The intellectual space surrounding this challenge is highly |
| 11 | | interdisciplinary, ranging from new research in network and distributed system design to the theoretical |
| 12 | | underpinnings of network science, network policy and economics, societal values, and the dynamic |
| 13 | | interactions of the physical and social spheres with communications networks. Such research holds |
| 14 | | great promise for new knowledge about the structure, behavior, and dynamics of our most complex |
| 15 | | systems – networks of networks – with potentially huge social and economic impact. |
| 16 | | |
| 17 | | As a concurrent activity, community planning for the suite of infrastructure that will support NetSE |
| 18 | | experiments has been underway since 2005. This suite is termed the Global Environment for Network |
| 19 | | Innovations (GENI). Although its specific requirements will evolve in response to the evolving NetSE |
| 20 | | research agenda, the GENI’s conceptual design is now clear enough to support a first spiral of |
| 21 | | planning and prototyping. The core concepts for the suite of GENI infrastructure are as follows. |
| 22 | | |
| 23 | | • Programmability – researchers may download software into GENI-compatible nodes to |
| 24 | | control how those nodes behave; |
| 25 | | |
| 26 | | • Virtualization and Other Forms of Resource Sharing – whenever feasible, nodes implement |
| 27 | | virtual machines, which allow multiple researchers to simultaneously share the infrastructure; |
| 28 | | and each experiment runs within its own, isolated slice created end-to-end across the |
| 29 | | experiment’s GENI resources; |
| 30 | | |
| 31 | | • Federation – different parts of the GENI suite are owned and/or operated by different |
| 32 | | organizations, and the NSF portion of the GENI suite forms only a part of the overall |
| 33 | | “ecosystem”; and |
| 34 | | |
| 35 | | • Slice-based Experimentation – GENI experiments will be an interconnected set of reserved |
| 36 | | resources on platforms in diverse locations. Researchers will remotely discover, reserve, |
| 37 | | configure, program, debug, operate, manage, and teardown distributed systems established |
| 38 | | across parts of the GENI suite. |
| 39 | | |
| 40 | | As envisioned in these community plans, the GENI suite will support a wide range of experimental |
| 41 | | protocols, and data dissemination techniques running over technologies such as fiber optics with next-generation |
| 42 | | optical switches, novel high-speed routers, city-wide experimental urban radio networks, |
| 43 | | high-end computational clusters, and sensor grids. The GENI suite is envisioned to be shared among a |
| 44 | | large number of individual, simultaneous experiments with extensive instrumentation that makes it easy |
| 45 | | to collect, analyze, and share real measurements. |
| 46 | | |
| 47 | | == Introductory Documents == |
| 48 | | * '''System overview''' - [attachment:wiki:GeniSysOvrvw:GENI-AnIntroduction-28Feb2012.pdf A high-level, narrative overview of the shape of the GENI suite of infrastructure. (February 2012 version)] |
| 49 | | * '''GENI Racks''' - [attachment:"wiki:GENIRacksHome:GENI Racks - A Quick Introduction - 28 Feb 2012.pdf" A quick introduction to GENI Racks] |
| 50 | | |
| 51 | | |
| 52 | | == See also == |
| 53 | | * [wiki:GpoDoc GENI Documents] |
| 54 | | * [wiki:GeniGlossary GENI Glossary] |
| 55 | | * [http://www.geni.net GENI Web Page] |
| 56 | | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbf9pih_neE&list=PL8340C7DA834E5E6F&index=17&feature=plpp_video Intro to GENI Video] |
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| 60 | | |
| 61 | | * '''Architectural tutorial''' - At the 1st GENI Engineering Conference, John Wroclawski gave a very nice tutorial on the GENI architecture which is available as a !QuickTime [http://www.geni.net/docs/geni_arch_msp.mov movie]. (Oct07) |
| 62 | | * '''Design goals'''. [http://www.geni.net/GDD/GDD-06-08.pdf pdf] (June06) |
| 63 | | |
| 64 | | === How is GENI being planned and prototyped? === |
| 65 | | * '''Project plan''' - An introduction to the GENI Project Office (GPO) and development approach planned for GENI. [http://www.geni.net/docs/GENIOvrvw092908.pdf pdf] (Sept08) |
| 66 | | * '''Spiral development''' - GENI is being prototyped through "spiral development", with Spiral 1 now underway. See [wiki:SpiralOne GENI Spiral 1]. |
| 67 | | * '''Working groups''' - GENI's technical design takes place in open, transparent [wiki:GeniWorkingGroups GENI working groups] |
| 68 | | |
| 69 | | === Research supported === |
| 70 | | * Discussion of how GENI will be used for research and some requirements for the suite of infrastructure. [http://www.geni.net/GDD/GDD-06-28.pdf pdf] (Sept06) |
| 71 | | |
| 72 | | == See also == |
| 73 | | * [wiki:SpiralOne GENI Spiral 1] |
| 74 | | * [wiki:GeniWorkingGroups GENI Working Groups] |
| 75 | | * [GeniWikiGettingStarted Getting started on the GENI Wiki] |
| 76 | | * [wiki:SpiralOneProjects Pointers to GENI Spiral 1 Projects] |
| 77 | | * [wiki:"WhatResourcesAreInGENI" What resources are available in GENI] |
| 78 | | * [wiki:"ConnectivityHome" Connectivity information] |
| 79 | | }}} |
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