Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Embedded Measurement Framework (ERM) PI: Keren Bergman Senior Researcher: Dr. Balagangadhar Bathula Students: Michael Wang, Caroline Lai, Cathy Chen, Wenjia Zhang November 2, 2010 (GEC 9 Cluster D Meeting)

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 2 Project Summary Address the GENI challenge of architectural experimentations across diverse heterogeneous technologies by –Supporting embedded real-time measurements from GENI substrates –Utilize measurement capabilities to enable cross-layer communication and control Spiral 1: –Evaluated GENI’s capabilities for embedded real-time measurements and cross-layer control –Proposed development of a Unified Measurement Framework (UMF) –Joined Cluster D to integrate UMF into ORCA-BEN Spiral 2: –Designed and implemented a NetFPGA-based UMF –Demoed UMF in an experimental use-case run at Columbia University –Integrated UMF with Integrated Measurement Framework (IMF) and collaborated on an experimental use-case run at BEN based in North Carolina –Began plan to work with other GENI clusters to expand the reach of UMF August 27, 2010

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 3 Other Spiral 2 Accomplishments Participated in the First Workshop on the perfSONAR Network Measurement Infrastructure (July 7-9, 2010 in Arlington, VA) –Highlighted our embedded real-time measurements and cross-layer efforts at the breakout sessions –Discussed potential to use physical layer measurements to deal with disaster management of L1 infrastructure Collaborated with IMF and LEARN projects to discuss possibilities of: –Integrating optical layer measurement capabilities into perfSONAR –Utilizing measurement capabilities of perfSONAR to support cross-layer communication and optimization Effort toward expanded platforms for implementing UMF: –NetFPGA summer camp 2010 (Aug 8-13) –OpenFlow tutorial at GEC8 (July 22) Began planning opportunities to expand reach of UMF Committed to house GENI Racks at Columbia University in preparation for Solicitation 3 Enhanced Meso-scale Prototype proposal Committed to technically working with the selected Solicitation 3 I&M project, specifically collaboration with “GEMINI: a GENI Measurement and Instrumentation Infrastructure” proposal Collaborated with the NSF ERC-funded Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN) and hosted 2 REU students to work on cross-layer related projects August 27, 2010

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 4 Spiral 3 Milestones 1.Design and develop a robust, universally deployable version of the UMF (called the ERM Box): The design of this box will integrate the needs and requirements of current GENI infrastructures. We plan to integrate with perfSONAR. 2.Develop a simulation environment with network models incorporating the ERM Box and cross-layer measurement capabilities to enable experimental modeling in large-scale networks. 3.Potential GENI infrastructures include the BEN network located in North Carolina (where we have already been working during spiral 2) and the DRAGON/MAX network located in the greater Washington D.C. area. 4.Conduct an experiment using this ERM-enabled network involving non-GENI researchers. We have already initiated these projects with collaborators at AT&T Research and Lucent/Alcatel. Potential issues that ERM could address are: -Restoration and Protection -Energy Efficiency August 27, 2010 A suite of software and NetFPGA code to expand the optical measurement capabilities A set of active optical components (SOAs, VOAs, etc) to enable cross- layer control ERM Box