| 1 | In this quarter, we extended our work on advanced manufacturing use |
| 2 | cases in order to obtain results that leverage the NSF-supported Global |
| 3 | Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) Future Internet |
| 4 | infrastructure. We designed experiments for development of new services |
| 5 | for modeling and simulation i.e., simulation-as-a-service that could |
| 6 | address advanced manufacturing needs using GENI slices. We showed how |
| 7 | adoption of novel cloud-hosted services that use Future Internet |
| 8 | capabilities can provide cost/time savings and improved convenience. In |
| 9 | addition, we developed new documentation for our OpenFlow based |
| 10 | experiments conducted in the VDCloud project that build upon the ‘marker |
| 11 | packet’ based setup of dynamic network flows in GENI and access network |
| 12 | backbones. Experiments relate to the wide-area network virtual tenant |
| 13 | network formation and resource allocation schemes implementation in |
| 14 | virtual desktop cloud platforms. The GENI resources utilized include the |
| 15 | ProtoGENI aggregate, TangoGENI testbed and the OnTimeMeasure |
| 16 | instrumentation and measurement software. |