Project Number

1582

Project Title

Deploying a Vertically Integrated GENI “Island”: A Prototype GENI Control Plane (ORCA) for a Metro-Scale Optical Testbed (BEN)
a.k.a. ORCA/BEN or ORCABEN

Technical Contacts

Principal Investigator: Ilia Baldine Ilia Baldine
Co-Principal Investigator: Jeff Chase ​chase@cs.duke.edu ​http://www.cs.duke.edu/~chase/
Software Staff: David Becker Duke Univ
BEN Operations Staff and IT Contact: Chris Heermann RENCI
Software Staff: Daniel Evans RENCI
Software Staff: Shu Huang RENCI
Software Staff: Yufeng Xin RENCI

Participating Organizations

​Renaissance Computing Insititute (RENCI), Chapel Hill, NC
​Duke University, Durham, NC
​Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA

Scope

The scope of work on this project is to extend ORCA (a candidate GENI control framework) to include the optical resources available in BEN. Also, to make a reference implementation of ORCA available to additional GENI prototypes and assist, with limited support, in the integration of ORCA into select wireless/sensor prototypes. The team will operate a clearinghouse for the various testbeds under the ORCA control framework. Also, connect with the NLR backbone network FrameNet service to facilitate end-to-end VLAN's connections into BEN. Finally, make the integrated (VLAN connections and control framework) ORCA/BEN infrastructure available to external researchers by the end of Year-1.

Milestones

ORCABEN: 1a Extend ORCA as a GENI control framework
ORCABEN: 1b Make an early reference implementation of ORCA available
ORCABEN: 1c Integration of NDL or other topology description mechanism
ORCABEN: 1d Integrate ORCA with BEN including slivering of Infinera DTNs
ORCABEN: 1e Complete end-to-end VLAN connections between BEN and NLR
ORCABEN: 1f All ORCA assigned prototypes integrated into ORCA clearinghouse
ORCABEN: 1g Make a working and tested prototype of BEN and GENI available for limited external research
ORCABEN: 1h Delivery of preliminary control framework design documentation

Trac website maintained by RENCI: ​GENI - ORCA web site

Project Technical Documents

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useful documents. Projects may have a full tree of wiki pages here.

​"Sharing Networked Resources with Brokered Leases", 2006
​"ORCA Technical Note: Guests and Guest Controllers", 2008
​"BEN Overview", DRAFT 2008

Spiral 1 Connectivity

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ORCA clearinghouse equipment location: RENCI, 100 Europa Drive, Chapel Hill, NC.
ORCA clearinghouse will use RENCI public IP addresses.
There is no ORCA equipment located at Duke (or Infinera).

BEN equipment is located per the ​"BEN Overview", DRAFT 2008 drawing.
External connectivity to BEN done per Fig 3 of ​"BEN Overview", DRAFT 2008 drawing.
BEN node at RENCI has 10 GigE connection to NLR FrameNet.
BEN node at RENCI uses RENCI production router for connections to commodity Internet, Internet2 and NLR (via NCREN).
BEN IP addresses are ?

BEN Operations Staff and IT Contact: Chris Heermann RENCI

GPO Liason System Engineer

Harry Mussman ​hmussman@geni.net

Related Projects

​New Internet Computing Lab (NICL)
​Open Resource Control Architecture (ORCA)
​Shirako
​BEN: Breakable Experimental Network