Experimenter Requirements

GENI experimenters provide major input to the meso-scale experiments requirements that drive this project. Following is a list of requirements as understood at this time.

The following requirements MUST be met within the Plastic Slices Project:

Requirement	Met	Known Issues
Include resources from multiple interoperating aggregates in a slice	Y
Allow experimenters to control end-to-end data planes supporting a slice	Y
Allow multiple experiment team members to share resources in a slice	P	Multiple team members can share resources in an experiment, but they're in different slices
Operate experiments continuously for three or more months	P	Experiments were started and stopped at various points during the project
Operate many experiments simultaneously	Y
Support non-IP protocol experiments	N	MyPLC plnodes only support IP
Support comparison of IP and non-IP path results within an experiment	N	MyPLC plnodes only support IP
Support video and audio applications	P	The types of traffic sent are consistent with audio and video applications, but actual A/V apps were not tested

The following requirements MAY be met within the next meso-scale experiment project:

Requirement	Met	Known Issues
Support control and data connections from mobile endpoints	N
Support use of cloud services with GENI slices	N
Support up to 1000 hosts in an experiment	N
Support BGPMux in an experiment	N
Support experimenter-controlled load sharing	N
Support bandwidth enforcement (QoS-like functions)	N

The following general operations requirements from campuses, operators, and experimenters MAY be met:

Requirement	Met	Known Issues
Ensure that GENI experiments are compatible with campus security policies	P	Some recommendations made, no comprehensive review
Allow campuses to manage access to the resources they contribute to GENI	P	Some access control, but not very granular
Ensure that the level of effort required from campus IT staff to manage GENI experiments is reasonable, compared to similar research programs	N
Make experiments easier to set up and take down than they were at GEC9	Y
Make experiments easier to change (add/delete resources, change data paths) than they were at GEC9	Y
Try out operations procedures and policies that can transition to production at-scale use	P	Emergency Stop testing is still in progress