Project Number

1643

Project Title

Programmable Edge Node
a.k.a. UMLPEN

Technical Contacts

Principal Investigator: Yan Luo ​Yan_Luo@uml.edu
Student Developer: Chunhui Zhang ​czhang@cs.uml.edu
Student Developer: Yu Liu ​Yu_liu@student.uml.edu

Participating Organizations University of Massachusetts, Lowell MA

Scope

Milestones

UMLPEN: Acquire HW for single PEN completed
UMLPEN: Develop PEN SW modules completed
UMLPEN: Develop measurement and diagnostic tools
UMLPEN: Integrate PEN with GENI control framework completed
UMLPEN: Deployable PEN available Due 10/1/09
UMLPEN: Architecture and Design Documents Due 10/1/09
UMLPEN: GENI Outreach On-going

Project Technical Documents

Background Reading
Virtualization Technologies: ​XEN and ​OpenVZ
In this project, we choose to use OpenVZ for its virtualization of network stacks and moderate isolation.

Network Processors: ​IXP2850 and ​Acceleration-cards
Network processors (NPs) are multicore multithreaded processors optimized for network packet processing.

Images
​Relevance of UMLPEN to GENI
​UMLPEN Architecture

Quarterly Status Reports

​4Q08 Status Report
​1Q09 Status Report

Spiral 1 Connectivity

The earliest connectivity requirement will be towards the end of year 1. The PEN deployment will either be located in UML labs or within one of the GENI substrate infrastructure networks. This will be determined during the year. IP connectivity between the PEN node and the UML lab (if they are not colocated) will be required after deployment. Layer 2 virtual ethernet connections are not required. Updates on this deployment decision can be monitored through the milestone UMLPEN: Deployable PEN available.

GPO Liason System Engineer

John Jacob ​jjacob@geni.net

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