Project Number 1642

Project Title

Instrumentation Tools for a GENI Prototype
a.k.a. INSTOOLS

Technical Contacts

Principal Investigator: James Griffioen ​griff@netlab.uky.edu
Co-Principal Investigator: Zongming Fei ​fei@netlab.uky.edu

Participating Organizations

​University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
​Laboratory for Advanced Networking

Scope

The scope of work on this project is to create a GENI-enabled testbed based on the existing University of Kentucky Edulab, and to implement and to deploy instrumentation capabilities that will enable GENI users to better understand the runtime behavior of their experiments.

Priority activities that contribute to this scope include the following items:

1) Provide an early operational federated testbed with administrative support and active student use integrated with a GENI control framework, allowing time for studying and improving the testbed over the period of the contract.

2) Provide an implementation of instrumentation capabilities for researcher and student helper tools that give GENI users the ability to better understand the runtime behavior of their experiments.

Milestones

MilestoneDate(INSTOOLS: Upgrade UKY Emulab)?
MilestoneDate(INSTOOLS: Develop Reference implementation of Aggregate Manager (AM v1.0))? Milestone date was for first AM version, but work integrating the AM and ProtoGENI continues through Spiral 1. Iniital integration with ProtoGENI demonstrated on 3/31 at GEC4.
MilestoneDate(INSTOOLS: Integrate and Document Instrumentation Toolset)?
MilestoneDate(INSTOOLS: Deploy AM and open UKY Edulab for GENI)?

Project Technical Documents

Background Reading:

23. David Laverell, Zongming Fei, James N. Griffioen,

​Isn't it time you had an emulab? Proceedings of the ACM SIGSCE 2008 Conference, March 2008

Presentations:

GEC3 Presentation by Jim Griffioen describing ​Instrumentation Tools for a GENI Prototype which outline the project goals and relationships with other projects.

Wiki Pages:

​Integrating the Kentucky Instrumentation tools into the ProtGENI project.

Quarterly Status Reports

​2008 Quarterly Report 1. December 2008]
​Quarterly Report 2. April 2009

Spiral 1 Connectivity

IP Addresses/Layer 3:

IP connectivity between the clearinghouse server(s) at University of Utah Emulab, and all ProtoGENI cluster member locations (CmuLab, InstrumentationTools, MeasurementSystem, DTunnels) is required for SPIRAL1. Layer 2 virtual ethernets are required between ProtoGENI cluster machines in Emulab at the University of Utah and ProtoGENI sliceable backbone components installed at Internet2 optical switching nodes.

Virtual Ethernets/Layer 2:

Layer 2 virtual ethernets are also required between all operational ProtoGENI backbone components. For SPIRAL1, only two of these ProtoGENI backbone components are required, but additional components will also be installed at other Internet2 locations as part of GENI and other parallel projects, and these components may be used in SPIRAL1 if they are available. (Locations of the first two nodes are TBD. See attached ​Internet2 map for possible locations, indicated by places where I2 optical switches (yelow dots) and routers (black dots) are colocated.) Connections with co-located VINI nodes (​VINI node map)in the Internet2 backbone are TBD. Virtual ethernet connections between ProtoGENI backbone components and the InstrumentationTools lab at the University of Kentucky will be required for SPIRAL 1 demonstrations. Details of virtual ethernet connections for demonstrations between Emulab and the InstrumentationTools lab are TBD.

GPO Liason System Engineer

Heidi Picher Dempsey ​hdempsey@geni.net

Related Work

Collaborating with and using code from ProtoGENI.

​The Calvin College Emulab, a related educational Emulab
​Networking experiments for Emulab associated with ​Hands-On Networking by Douglas E. Comer
​Mastering Networks: An Internet Lab Manual by Jorg Liebeherr and Magda El Zarki]