GENI: Global Environment for
Network Innovations
Blending GENI with SciWiNet to Scale
Education/Experimentation Involving Wireless
Jim Martin,
School of Computing
Clemson University
jim.martin@cs.clemson.edu
KC Wang
Ivan Seskar
ECE Department
Winlab, Rutgers
Clemson University
seskar@winlab.rutgers.edu
kwang@clemson.edu
http://sciwinet.org
http://geni.net
Agenda
GENI: Global Environment for Network
Innovations
• Brief background
• Extending GENI/Wireless with
commercial networks
• Demo discussion
• Demo wrap up
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GENI WiMAX Deployments 2014
13 locations across USA
26 Wimax Base Stations
Sliced, virtualized
and interconnected
On the Air
Not On the Air
Researcher-owned,
researcher-operated
4G cellular systems
SciWiNet: A Brief Summary
Wireless
Research
Community
CISE
Research
Community
Engineering
Domain Specific
Research
Community
Non-Engineering
Research Community
Diversity of
Underlying
Requirements
Diversity of the User Community
SciWiNet resells cellular data services from Sprint. We are an Mobile Virtual
Network Operator (MVNO). We expect to also operate with T-Mobile in 4Q 2014.
Usage model: a single bucket of data can be shared over any number of devices,
individual researchers can be given administrative access to their set of devices.
The idea is to provide services and technology that can be used by the academic
research community
Once fully operational
User’s can bring their own devices (like Google’s Nexus 5)
User’s sign up and register devices at the SciWiNet web site
NSF Research
Biological Sciences,
CISE,
Education/HR,
Engineering,
Geosciences, Math/Physical
sciences,
Social/Economic Sciences
NIH
Research
DOE
Research
Research
Wireless
Testbed
Infrastructure
Internet
GENIGI
Testbed
(geni.net)
DOT/ITS
Research
sciwinet.org
Public
Safety/
Homeland
Security
Commercial
Wireless
Systems
Infrastructure
The goal of SciWiNet is to build wireless infrastructure that supports current and
emerging wireless requirements of the academic research community.
Synergistic with GENI WiMAX….
Extends the coverage for GENI researchers….
Broadens the community…potential benefits of scale
GENI WiMAX/SciWiNet Demo
1. At Clemson, we have a GENI
WiMAX handset that has
access to SciWiNet
2. A student at Clemson will
move out of WiMAX coverage
and into Sprint’s network
3. The device is periodically
sending location, signal
strength and ping RTT data to
a server (a GENI VM)
4. We will show two live
visualizations: location/access
network, ping RTT time
series.
5. You can point your browser to
see the live map (http: point
your browser at
http://130.127.88.102 )
GENI-enabled
hardware
Legend
Layer 2
GENI Dataplane
Layer 3
SciWiNet MVNO
GENI
WiMAX
WiMAX-local VLAN 760
WiMAX-multipoint
VLAN 4087
Android handset
w/ SciWiNet
tools App
Sprint
MVNO 3G/
WiMAX
Public
Internet
GENI
Backbone
Demo Wrap Up
• Objective for this portion of the demo- illustrate how
GENI/WiMAX experiments can be extended with coverage from
a commercial network
• GENI and SciWiNet :
• GENI/WiMAX handsets that are registered on SciWiNet can
work on:
• Sprint’s WiMAX and 3G network
• A yellow node or PCEngine box can use GENI WiMAX
dongles, SciWiNet LTE dongles, and WiFi
• As GENI Wireless evolves towards LTE, integration with
SciWiNet over Sprint’s LTE (and T-Mobile) will happen
• Our next demo will further show the exciting ‘connections’ that
are possible between GENI/Wireless and SciWiNet.
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