Topic 4 GENI I&M Measurement Plane and Interfaces

Team members:

Harry Mussman* – BBN/GPO (yes)
Ezra Kissel – Univ Delaware (yes)
Chris Small - Indiana Univ (yes)

*agreed to organize first writing and discussion

Consider:

IP network
Layer 2 (VLAN) connections

Discuss:

Which protocols are active
Access to resources in aggregates, even when resources are in private address space, via GWs or proxies
How to provide authentication and authorization
How to provide QoS to protect measurement traffic
How to provide QoS to protect other traffic when measurement traffic is large.
Reserve bandwidth?

Martin on 6/28: Consider XSP (extensible session protocol) to provide transport layer GW functions.