GENI: Global Environment for Networking Innovations Allison Mankin (for the GENI Team) CISE/NSF amankin@nsf.gov Rest of GENI Team: Guru Parulkar, Paul Morton, Sonya Lucas (Presented by Kevin Thompson NSF OD/OCI) December 8, 2006 CANS Meeting

GENI Initiative: Goals Invent innovative internet architectures and distributed system capabilities -- go beyond Internet Enable seamless conception-to-deployment process Facility for experimentation at scale with apps and users Work with broader community Academic and industry communities Other US and international agencies 17 November 2018

GENI: Research Programs Broad but goal oriented programs: New internet architectures and distributed system capabilities NeTS FIND: Future Internet Design CyberTrust Clean-slate secured network arch CSR New distributed system capabilities CCF SING CRI Network infrastructure for arch research MRI Network instruments for arch research … 17 November 2018

Challenge: Research Community to Create Future Internet -- Internet for the 21st Century

What is Different This Time? Clean-slate approach To overcome Internet ossification Research not constrained by the features of the current Internet A comprehensive coordinated effort Ability to try different approaches (We do not have a preconceived idea of what they are) Ability to experiment at scale With real users and applications 17 November 2018

Success Scenarios Internet evolution influenced by clean-slate approach Alternate Internet architecture emerges Alternate architecture(s) coexist with the current Internet Virtualization becomes the norm with plurality of architectures Single architecture emerges and dominates New services and applications enabled Many other payoffs Some unexpected 17 November 2018

GENI Facility

GENI Facility: Different Scale and Emphasis Shared Deployed Infrastructure Need for Large experimental testbed/infrastructure This chasm represents a major barrier to impact real world Small Scale Testbeds Maturity Research Prototypes Foundations Research Funded by CISE Programs Time 17 November 2018

Different Scale and Emphasis Enable exploration of new network architectures, mechanisms, and distributed system capabilities A shared facility that allows Concurrent exploration of a broad range of experimental networks and distributed services Interconnection among experimental networks & the commodity Internet Users and applications off GENI able to “opt-in” (discover and participate in GENI services) ‘Native’ GENI users and applications also in view Observation, measurement, and recording of outcomes Strong scientific base, as well as research field in its own right 17 November 2018

Facility Design: Key Concepts Sensor Network Edge Site Federated International Facility Mobile Wireless Network Conceptual framework to show how o multiple network architectures can be supported on a single physical infrastructure o user opt-in can work To overcome the testbed dilemma Slicing, Virtualization, Programmability 17 November 2018

Closer Look Internet Sensor Network Programmable Access Nodes (PAN) backbone wavelength Programmable Optical Elem of PCN backbone switch Programmable Core Node (PCN) Internet Edge Site with Programmable Edge Nodes (PEN) Wireless Subnet with Programmable Wireless Nodes (PWN) 17 November 2018

GENI Implementation: Wireless Sub-Networks Location Service Open API Wide-Area Networks 5 3 Emerging Technologies (cognitive radio) “Open” Internet Concepts for Cellular devices Other services GENI Backbone Advanced Technology Demonstrator (spectrum) 4 Sensor Networks Ad-Hoc Mesh Network 1 Embedded wireless, Real-world applications 2 NSF Radio Testbeds Broadband Services, Mobile Computing Protocol & Scaling Studies Emulation & Simulation 17 November 2018

Other Requirements/Attributes Provide security of the facility Support diversity of networks & devices Support scientific instrument attributes Support real time networked embedded systems Ensure future proof -- as much as we can 17 November 2018

Focus of GENI Applications Future Internet (Broadly Defined: E2E Networking and Distributed Systems) Core Nodes Edge Nodes/ Dist Services Edge Nodes/Nets/ Core Nodes/Access / Campus/POP Core Nodes/Access/ Note that focus of GENI is on reinventing the end-to-end network architecture that spans all networks, and not inventing sub network technologies, though these singly or collective focus a new architecture (e.g. enabling of extreme mobility). Also, to build and drive a new end-to-end network architecture, we have to demonstrate it at scale -- to span different types of networks and include edge networks drive new requirements and new applications. 17 November 2018

GENI Design Process: CD=>PD=>FD Vision Research Agenda Specific Res Challenges List of Experiments Facility Requirements Facility Design GENI Research & Facility Definition 17 November 2018

Snapshot of GENI Activities GENI Facility Construction & Operations Development of Relationships (GENI Science Council, GPO, Cross-Agency, Industrial, International) Pre-GENI Planning Activities GENI Planning GENI Design CDR CDR’ P/FDR-tbd GSC GPO Networking and Distributed Systems Research Preplanning activities include supporting research as well as smaller scale experimental testbeds. Both GENI Research and Facility are building on solid foundations. | | | | | | Calendar Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 . . . Conceptual Design Preliminary / Final Design Construction/ Operations 17 November 2018

Timeline Detail Spring 2006: Pre-planning Town Hall meetings – http://www.geni.net Summer-Fall 2006: GENI planning group publishes draft design documents – http://www.geni.net/nav.php December 15, 2006: GPO solicitation due End of CY2006: Initiation of GENI Science Council 17 November 2018

Community Process Competitive but cooperative Within PI community Within an agency such as NSF Across federal agencies: NSF, DOD, DOE, … Across international agencies Diversity - comprehensive but focused Technologies vs. architecture Applications vs. architecture Center of gravity: which layer(s) of protocol(s) GENI one of many facilities for the net community GENI documents its scope and is not “all things to all people” 17 November 2018

Challenges GENI facility construction a complex project Needs innovative project management Community consensus and convergence Without curbing creativity and radical thinking While providing for broad range of experiment communities Global collaboration With agencies and research communities Effective federation: technical as well as policy solutions 17 November 2018

GENI Challenge to Community Design the Future Internet that makes us proud. Create a world in which we want to live. 17 November 2018