Project Number

1602

Project Title

Sensor Virtualization and Slivering in an Outdoor Wide-Area Wireless GENI Sensor/Actuator Network Testbed
a.k.a. ViSE, VISE (short name for tickets), Sensor/Actuator Network (obsolete)

Technical Contacts

Principal Investigator: Prashant Shenoy University of Massachusetts, Amherst ​shenoy@cs.umass.edu ​http://www.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/
Co-Principal Investigator: Michael Zink University of Massachusetts, Amherst ​zink@cs.umass.edu ​http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/~zink/umasshome/pmwiki.php
Co-Principal Investigator: Deepak Ganesan University of Massachusetts, Amherst ​dganesan@cs.umass.edu ​http://www.cs.umass.edu/~dganesan/
Co-Principal Investigator: Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts, Amherst ​kurose@cs.umass.edu ​http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/personnel/kurose.html
Research Staff: David Irwin University of Massachusetts, Amherst David Irwin ​http://www.cs.umass.edu/~irwin/

ViSE team is pictured from left to right: Navin Sharma (graduate student), Prashant Shenoy (PI), David Irwin (Research Scientist), and Michael Zink (Co-PI). Deepak Ganesan and Jim Kurose (both Co-PIs) are not pictured.

Participating Projects and Organizations

​ViSE web site
​Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)
​UMassAmherst, Amherst, MA

Scope

The scope of work on this project is to extend your outdoor, wide-area sensor/actuator network testbed to support slivering and utilize a GENI candidate control framework (ORCA/Shirako). This includes: 1) Virtualization of your sensor/actuator system. 2) Integration with GENI-compliant Software Artifacts, including the use of Shirako software (part of the ORCA project) as the base for the control framework. 3) Making your testbed publicly available, starting in year 1, and integrate it into an environment of federated testbeds by the end of year 2. 4) Providing documentation for testbed users, administrators, and developers.

Milestones

ViSE: 1a Assembly of three x86 sensor nodes
ViSE: 1b Field deployment of three sensor nodes
ViSE: 1c Initial Shirako/ORCA integration-
ViSE: 1d Operational web portal and testbed; Application demo
ViSE: 1c2 Complete initial Shirako/ORCA integration-
ViSE: 1e Contingent upon availability of reference implementation of Shirako/ORCA at 6 months, import and then integrate
ViSE: 1f Complete Xen sensor virtualization
ViSE: 1g Contingent upon available budget, provide a VLAN connection from your testbed to the Internet2
ViSE: 1h Virtualization of actuators; single guest VM; demo
ViSE: 1i Testbed available for public use within our cluster

Website maintained by UMassAmherst: ​ViSE web site

Project Technical Documents

​"Simulation of Minimal Infrastructure Short-Range Radar Networks"
​OTGsim: Simulation of an Off-the-Grid Radar Network with High Sensing Energy Cost
​"ViSE Substrate Description"

OTG Node

OTG Node Deployment on Mt. Toby Fire Tower

Quarterly Status Reports

​ViSE: 4Q08 Status Report

Spiral 1 Connectivity

Location of equipment: For Spiral 1, work will be done in a lab at UMassAmherst and at three field locations in Massachusetts.

Equipment information is found at ​"ViSE Substrate Description"

Layer 3 Connectivity: IP access will be through UMass Amherst's campus network, using their public IP addresses.

Layer 2 Connectivity: There is currently no usable layer2 connection to the UMass Amherst lab available for GENI (this is the same lab that the DOME project uses). The project is investigating the possibility of installing local fiber that could enable a connection to NLR through an appropriate regional network. If installed, this fiber would support both the DOME and ViSE projects. Field locations might be accessed via IP tunnels or layer2 VLANs--investigation is ongoing.

IT contact at UMass Amherst ?

GPO Liason System Engineer

Harry Mussman ​hmussman@geni.net