Research & Experiments on GENI
GENI CC-NIE Workshop
NSF
Mark Berman, Mike Zink
January 7, 2013
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GENI is a Virtual Laboratory
• GENI’s main goal is to enable a wide variety of research
across multiple disciplines in computer science and
domain sciences
• Even as we continue to build out, GENI is already
supporting ongoing experiments in a variety of areas
– I will show some examples drawn mostly from cloud computing
and networking research.
– See Ilia Baldine’s and Mike Zink’s talks today for some domain
science examples.
– Also: groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIBibliography
• Current phase of growth to 40-50 campuses, followed by
100-200 campus at scale deployment offer major research
capability
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GENI Experiment:
VDCloud
• Virtual Desktop Cloud is exploring improved desktop cloud
implementations via programmable networking methods
– Using GENI resources to provide multiple data paths and desktop
hosting locations; OpenFlow network to support intelligent load
balancing and flow management with “marker packets”
– PI: Prasad Calyam, Ohio State
Learn more:
• YouTube GENIConference
channel demo, GEC15 (Oct
2012).
• P. Calyam, et al. Enabling
performance intelligence for
application adaptation in the
Future Internet. IEEE Journal
of Communications and
Networks, Dec. 2011.
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GENI Experiment:
VDCloud
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Compute resources at Utah ProtoGENI and Ohio State
Multiple layer 2 datapaths
OpenFlow for user-transparent load balancing and flow management
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GENI Experiment:
eXtensible Session Protocol
• The goal of XSP is to provide a general and extensible
protocol to manage the interaction between application
and network-based services
– Demonstrations at GEC and SC conferences highlighting
application in accelerating data transfer via burst switching
– PI: Martin Swany, Indiana Univ.
Learn more:
• YouTube GENIConference channel
demo, GEC12 (Nov 2011).
• Supercomputing SCinet research
track: SC 2011, and SC 2012.
• D. Gunter, R. Kettimuthu, E. Kissel,
M. Swany, J. Yi, J. Zurawski,
Exploiting Network Parallelism for
Improving Data Transfer
Performance, SC 2012.
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GENI Experiment:
eXtensible Session Protocol
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ProtoGENI and Phoebus nodes in Internet2 backbone
OpenFlow for discovery and data path
PerfSONAR and Periscope for performance monitoring
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GENI Experiment: Future Internet Architecture
Mobility First
• MobilityFirst is a future internet architecture intended to
directly address the challenges of wireless access and
mobility at scale
– Using GENI to validate and test implementations of key resolution
(GNRS) and routing (GSTAR) capabilities
– PI: Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers
Learn more:
• YouTube GENIConference channel
demos GEC14 (July 2012), GEC 12
(Nov 2011)
• I. Seskar, K. Nagaraja, S. Nelson,
and D. Raychaudhuri. MobilityFirst
future internet architecture project,
AINTEC 2011.
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GENI Experiment: Future Internet Architecture
Mobility First
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Software routers in ProtoGENI hosts at I2 & NLR PoPs across US
Multiple layer 2 data paths in network core
Wired, WiFi, and WiMAX connections to end hosts
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GENI Experiment: Future Internet Architecture
eXpressive Internet Architecture (XIA)
• XIA is a future internet architecture that natively supports
multiple communication types and allows networks to
evolve their abstractions and functionality over time
– Using GENI as a standard deployment environment for XIA users
experimenting with XIA router prototype
– PI: Peter Steenkiste, CMU
Learn more:
•YouTube GENIConference channel
demo, GEC15 (Oct 2012)
•R. Grandl, et al. Supporting network
evolution and incremental deployment
with XIA, SIGCOMM 2012.
•XIA web, www.xia.cs.cmu.edu,
“Running XIA on GENI”
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GENI Experiment: Future Internet Architecture
eXpressive Internet Architecture (XIA)
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Software routers in ProtoGENI hosts at Internet2 PoPs across US
Layer 2 data path through network core
Optional IP connectivity for XIA over IP testing
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January 7, 2013
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