1. GENI Exploring Networks of the Future Vic Thomas
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2. Outline
What is GENI?
Building and deploying GENI
How is GENI being used
Select GENI Partnerships
Get involved!
An experimenter’s view of GENI + Demo

3. GENI: Infrastructure for Experimentation
GENI provides compute resources that can be connected in experimenter specified Layer 2 topologies.

4. Network Resources Layer 2 VLANS and Access to Programmable Switches
Compute Resources
GENI Racks: small clouds Virtual Machines Bare metal Machines
Android Phones
Rack switches
Internet2: US Research Backbone
Wireless nodes
Emulab
WiMAX/LTE base stations, 4G/3G Network
Planetlab
ORBIT
Existing Testbeds
Regionals 4

5. GENI: Infrastructure for Experimentation
GENI is a nationwide suite of infrastructure for “at scale” experiments in networking, distributed systems, security, and novel applications.
GENI opens up huge new opportunities
Leading-edge research in next-generation internets
Rapid innovation in novel, large-scale applications
Key GENI concept: slices & deep programmability
Internet: open innovation in application programs
GENI: open innovation deep into the network
GENI provides compute resources that can be connected in experimenter specified Layer 2 topologies.

6. Multiple GENI Experiments run Concurrently
Resources may be virtualized and used by multiple experiments
Experiments live in isolated “slices”

7. GENI is “Deeply Programmable”
I install software I want throughout my network slice (into routers, switches, …) or control switches using OpenFlow
Experimenters set up custom:
topologies
protocols
forwarding
Experimenters can set up custom topologies, protocols and switching of flows

8. GENI Enables… At-scale experiments Internet-incompatible experiments
Repeatable and “in the wild” experiments
Experiments with real ‘opt-in’ users
Instrumentation and measurement
GENI creates a huge opportunity for ambitious research!

9. Outline
What is GENI?
Building and deploying GENI
How is GENI being used
Select GENI Partnerships
Get involved!
An experimenter’s view of GENI + Demo

10. Federation GENI grows by GENI-enabling heterogeneous infrastructure
My experiment runs across the evolving GENI federation.
GENI Rack
Commercial
Clouds
Backbone #1
Campus
My GENI Slice
Corporate
GENI suites
Access #1
Regional
Research
Testbed
This approach looks remarkably familiar . . .
Non-US
Testbeds
Emerging Cyber-
Infrastructures
Avoid technology “lock in” and grow quickly by incorporating existing and new infrastructure 10

11. GENI-Enabling Campuses
GENI-enabled
equipment
GENI-enabled campuses,
students as early adopters
“At scale” GENI prototype
GENI-enable testbeds, commercial equipment, campuses, regional and backbone networks
Campus photo by Vonbloompasha

12. GENI Network Architecture
Campus g
Regional Networks
Metro
Research
Backbones
Internet
ISP
Legend
GENI-enabled
hardware
Layer 3
Control Plane
Layer 2
Data Plane
Flexible network / cloud research infrastructure
Also suitable for physics, genomics, other domain science
Distributed cloud (racks) for content caching, acceleration, etc.

13. Wisconsin: a Great Example
Internet 2 PoP
To other GENI campuses
GENI Rack
Connectivity through MOXI
Regional
Suman Banerjee, PI
Parmesh Ramanathan, PI
More recent campus with wimax, stitching, multipoint vlans ADD RACK FOR MOXI – LINK TO
Mention architecture session!
Campus
Resources
Connection to local community
Dale W.
Carter, Campus admin
GENI WiMAX

14. GENI’s footprint IG CG Campus Network WiMAX/LTE
PNWGP
CENIC
ESNet
UCD
OSF
Washington
Stanford
UCLA
NPS
UEN
Utah
UtahDDC
Houston
LEARN
TAMU
GPN
KanREN
Missouri
Kansas
UMKC
Colorado
WRN
FRGP
StarLight
Northwestern
Illinois
Kettering
CIC
ICCN
Chicago
Wisconsin
OARNet
OHMDC
OneCommunity
CASE
WVNET
MERIT
WSU
CAAREN
GWU
WVN
MOXI
BEN
NCSU
RENCI
MAX
MAGPI
Rutgers
Princeton
NYSERNet
NoX
GPO
Cornell
NYU
SOX
PeachNet
CenturyLink
EPB
UTC
Clemson
GATech
FLR
FIU
UFL
STANFORD
COLORADO
MICHIGAN
UMASS
KyRON
Kentucky
UKYPKS2
InstaGENI Rack
ExoGENI Rack
OpenGENI Rack
CiscoGENI Rack IG
Regional Network EG OG CG
Campus Network
WiMAX/LTE
Advanced Layer2 Service POP

15. Current GENI Deployment

16. International Federation Extends GENI’s Reach
Peer projects in every country are either using GENI code and concepts or federating with GENI or both. Move stars. SAVI – New Slide New slide w/
GENI is working actively with peer efforts on five continents to define and adopt common concepts and APIs.

17. Outline
What is GENI?
Building and deploying GENI
How is GENI being used
Select GENI Partnerships
Get involved!
An experimenter’s view of GENI + Demo

18. GENI for Research and Education
Future Internet Architectures
Software defined networking
Large scale evaluation of protocols
Cloud networking
Domain sciences
Education
Classes in:
Computer Networking
Distributed systems
Cloud computing
Wireless Communications
Undergraduate, graduate
GENI has over 9000 users!

19. FIA Teams have Slices on GENI
Named Data
Networking
eXtensibile
Internet
Architecture
MobilityFirst
ChoiceNet
GENI is the only testbed that can support all these teams.

20. Software Defined Networking Research
KC Wang
Clemson U.
Improve in-time weather forecasting using Software Defined
eXchanges
Parmesh Ramanathan
U. Wisconsin
Mike Zink
Umass Amherst
GENI Cinema
GENI is the largest multi-domain SDN testbed

21. TransGeo Distributed Clouds: Think Globally, Compute Locally
Compute “green index” for cities worldwide
Rob Ricci
U. Utah US
Yvonne Coady
U. Victoria
Canada
Rick McGeer
HP, US
Piet Demeester
Ughent
Belgium
Joe Mambertti
Northwestern US
Paul Mueller
U. Kaiserslautern
Germany
Aki Nakao
U. Tokyo
Japan
Julio Ibarra
FIU, US
Michael Stanton
USP, Brazil
Federation fosters International Collaborations

22. GENI in the Classroom Over 5000 students have used GENI in
classes taught by 70
instructors
GENI as a remote, virtual lab for
networking, distributed systems
and cloud computing classes

23. GENI-based Courseware
Mike Zink
UMass Amherst
Labs on GENI for networking textbook
Example Demo Module
Example Assignment
GENI Modules to teach
networking concepts
Kevin Jaffay, Jay Aikat
UNC-Chapel Hill
Shivendra Panwar, Thanasis Korakis
NYU Poly
Massive Online Open Courses on GENI
Use GENI to educate the Internet users, not the Internet creators.

24. Outline
What is GENI?
Building and deploying GENI
How is GENI being used
Select GENI Partnerships
Get involved!
An experimenter’s view of GENI + Demo

25. GENI on Internet2
Collaboration to implement national-scale infrastructure
sliced and deeply-programmable
incorporating OpenFlow/SDN switches, GENI Racks, etc.
high-speed ( Gbps)
Internet2 provides dynamic link provisioning to GENI experimenters
Uses AL2S (Advanced Layer 2 Services)
Experimenters can run OpenFlow controllers in AL2S
CHECK w/ HEIDI

26. GENI Wireless Agreement with Sprint
Sprint and Rutgers University have signed a master spectrum agreement
encompassing all Wireless sites, to ensure operation in the EBS Band.
An emergency stop procedure, in case of interference with Sprint service, has been agreed upon.
Prototyping and Deploying LTE in GENI
- NSF Funded effort led by Ivan Seskar and Manu Gosain
2 year projects
10 proposed sites

27. GENI Operations GMOC: GENI Meta-operation Center
Keeps track of outages
Notification system for resource reservation
Monitors most GENI Aggregates
Coordinates LLR Requests
Legal Law Enforcement & Regulatory
Handles Emergency Stop
GENI Monitoring Portal developed by UKY
Experimenter-ops list, monitoring?

28. US Ignite: Builds application of the future
GENI
US Ignite
Future commercial
offerings
Research Infrastructure
for Computer Scientists
Public-Private Partnership
for Next-Gen Applications
federation
GENI members, policies, …
US Ignite members, policies, …
Campus and Lab Applied Research
App creation teams
Service creators
CS Research
GENI technology
CS Experiments
Pre-commercial Applications
Experimental Usage and Demonstrations
Commercial Applications
Campus networks
Municipal and commercial networks
Regional and backbone networks
US Ignite promotes advanced applications and infrastructure leveraging GENI research and technologies.

29. Outline
What is GENI?
Building and deploying GENI
How is GENI being used
Select GENI Partnerships
Get involved!
An experimenter’s view of GENI + Demo

30. GENI-Enable Your Campus
“GENI-enabled” means OpenFlow + GENI racks, plus WiMAX on some campuses
OpenGENI vendor
InstaGENI vendor
ExoGENI vendor
To buy a GENI Rack talk to rack vendors or GPO

31. Use GENI for Your Research and Teaching
Experimenter and Educator resources on the GENI wiki
Tutorials
Ready-to-use exercises
Community support mailing lists
Webinars
Wide range of topics of interest to the GENI community (monthly)
Train-the-TA (at the beginning of each semester)
Train-the-TA Webinar
Offered every semester

32. Attend/Host a GENI Event
GENI NICE – GENI community gathering
Dec 12, 2016 with CoNEXT 2016
GENI Regional Workshop + Engineering Conference
March 13-15, 2017 at FIU + 3 more GRWs in 2017
Week-long GENI Camps
CNERT – Workshop on testbed based research
May 1, 2017 with INFOCOM 2017 in Atlanta, GA
Paper deadline: January 10, 2017

33. Outline
What is GENI?
Building and deploying GENI
How is GENI being used
Select GENI Partnerships
Get involved!
An experimenter’s view of GENI + Demo

34. GENI: Terms and Definitions
Slice
Abstraction for a collection of resources capable of running experiments
An experiment uses resources in a slice
Slices isolate experiments
Experimenters are responsible for their slices

35. Clearinghouse and Aggregates
users
slices
clearinghouse
projects
Create & Register Slice
Slice credentials
Aggregate Manager API
- listResources
- createSliver …
Researcher
Tool
Aggregate
Manager
Aggregate Resources
Clearinghouse: Manages users, projects and slices
Standard credentials shared via custom API or new Common CH API
GENI supported accounts: GENI Portal/CH, PlanetLab CH, ProtoGENI CH
Aggregate: Provides resources to GENI experimenters
Typically owned and managed by an organization
Speaks the GENI AM API
Examples: PlanetLab, Emulab, GENI Racks on various campuses

36. GENI: Terms and Definitions
Sliver: One or more resources provided by an aggregate
E.g. Bare machines, virtual machines, VLANs
Campus #3
Commercial
Clouds
My slice contains slivers from many aggregates.
Backbone #1
Campus
My GENI Slice
Corporate
GENI suites
Access #1
Update fig from earlier
Backbone #2
Research
Testbed
Other-Nation
Projects
Campus #2

37. RSpecs RSpecs: Lingua franca for describing and requesting resources
“Machine language” for negotiating resources between experiment and aggregate
Experimenter tools eliminate the need for most experimenters to write or read RSpec
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rspec xmlns="
xmlns:xsi="
xsi:schemaLocation="
type="request" >
<node client_id="my-node"
exclusive="true">
<sliver_type name="raw-pc" />
</node>
</rspec>
RSpec for requesting a single node

38. Reserving Resources using RSpecs and the AM API
Experimenter tools and aggregates talk to each other using resource specifications (RSpecs) and the GENI Aggregate Manager API (GENI AM API)
Advertisement RSpec: What does an aggregate have?
Request RSpec: What does the experimenter want?
Manifest RSpec: What does the experimenter have?
What do you have?
I have …
ListResources(…)
I would like …
Advertisement RSpec
You have …
CreateSliver(Request RSpec, …)
Aggregate
Manager
Experimenter
Tool
What do I have?
Manifest RSpec
You have …
ListResources(SliceName, …)
Manifest RSpec

39. Demo: Putting it all Together
Login to the GENI Portal
Create a slice
Create a sliver at one aggregate
Two computers (VMs), connected by a LAN
Generate traffic View results
Delete slivers

40. Questions?