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CNS Division Of Computer and Network Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | January 29, 2016 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | January 29, 2016 |
| Award Number: | 1623811 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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John Brassil
CNS Division Of Computer and Network Systems CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | February 1, 2016 |
| End Date: | July 31, 2016 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $24,627.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $24,627.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
660 S MILL AVENUE STE 204 TEMPE AZ US 85281-3670 (480)965-5479 |
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P.O. Box 876011 Tempe AZ US 85287-6011 |
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| NSF Program(s): | CISE Research Resources |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
This project supports hosting the 24th edition of the GENI Engineering conference (GEC-24), including organizing and hosting the demo session, to be held on March 8-9, 2016, on the Arizona State University's Tempe campus. The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual instrument that is emerging as a foundational experimental research platform across the United States. GENI aims to transform experimental research in networking and distributed systems, as well as emerging research in very large socio-technical systems, by providing a suite of infrastructure for 'at scale' experiments in future internets.
GENI is an instrument designed to address three issues:
1. Science Issues: We cannot currently fully understand or predict the behavior of complex, large-scale networks.
2. Societal Issues: We increasingly rely on the Internet but are unsure we can trust its security, privacy or resilience.
3. Innovation Issues: Substantial barriers exist to at-scale experimentation with new architectures, services, and technologies.
GENI addresses these issues via scale (from federation) and support for two kinds of experiments: 1) controlled and repeatable experiments, which will greatly help improve our scientific understanding of complex, large-scale networks; and 2) in-the-wild trials of experimental services that ride atop or connect to today's Internet and that engage large numbers of human participants. The GEC meeting and Demo sessions provide graduate students with both an opportunity to demonstrate and explain their work to the GENI community prior to formal publication. It is a key part of helping new graduate students understand what is being done with GENI and who among their peers at other institutions might be valuable resources. It also supports outreach to new community members, including the emerging US Ignite community. GENI is already being used as an instrument for research. This proposal supports the development and use of the research instrument.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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Arizona State University (ASU) hosted the 24th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC-24) on March 8-9, 2016. GENI is a nationwide suite of infrastructure supporting experimentation in networking, distributed systems, security, and novel applications. The purpose of the GEC-24 was to bring together users, researchers, developers, and operators of GENI.
GENI is used in both undergraduate and graduate education. It offers a variety of tutorials giving students the opportunity to gain hands on experience configuring and running experiments related to networking concepts. Importantly, GENI offers a platform to implement and test new research ideas in networking and closely related areas, and experiment at a large scale. GEC-24 included almost 30 teams showcasing their new innovations and solutions using GENI in a poster and live demonstration session.
GEG-24 also included a plenary session included talks by leading networking researchers from the United States. The plenary session also showcased an integrative demonstration of GENI technologies. Other sessions at GEC-24 emphasized engineering aspects of GENI, and new state-of-the-art developments in wireline, wireless (emphasizing LTE), software defined networking (SDN), and software defined infrastructure (SDX).
Intellectual Merit: GEC-24 served as venue for the exchange of ideas, a discussion of challenges of experimentation in research and in the classroom, and showcasing technologies for experimentation on GENI.
Broader Impacts: Over 5000 researchers, educators, and students have used GENI for their research and in their classrooms. Conferences such as GEC-24 broaden the participation of educators and researchers in GENI, expanding and strengthening its community. These events are an important outreach opportunity for educators, researchers, and industry. It grows and strengthens the GENI community, which further advances global competitiveness of the United States, contributing towards NSF and national research priorities including reproducibility of research.
Last Modified: 10/25/2016
Modified by: Violet R Syrotiuk
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