GENI Activity Progress Report CISE/NSF

1. GENI Activity Progress ReportCISE/NSF Debbie CrawfordSuzi Iacono Gracie Narcho Ty Znati Acknowledgement: GPO Team, GSC Team and GENI NSF Team

2. Outline • Background • The GENI Concept • The NSF’s MREFC Process • GENI Project Office • Activity Progress Report • Planned Activities • Concluding Remarks CISE AC Meeting

3. ….a continental-scale internetworking “exploratorium” to support transformative research and experiments in a way that cannot be done in today’s circumscribed Internet … Sensor Network Edge Site Federated International Facility Mobile Wireless Network GENI Concept CISE AC Meeting

4. GENI – A Brief Background • CISE funding supported early GENI research and development activities, during 2004-2006 • Grass-root effort for a small CISE community • Identified the need for a major facility • Development of a scientific motivation for such a facility • GENI Science Council established in March 2007 • GENI: Establishing a GENI project office solicitation is released in 2006 • GENI Project Office was awarded to BBN Solutions LLC in May 2007 CISE AC Meeting

5. GENI Partnership NSF Program Director Program Director Chair Person GENI Science Council GENI Project Office • Voice of research and education community • Scientific leadership - Science Plan • Education and Outreach Plan • Technical advisory and GPO oversight • Define user allocations process & criteria • MREFC Process - Project management & execution • GENI architecture and system engineering • Cost & schedule estimates for construction • GENI facility construction plan documents • Working Groups CISE AC Meeting

6. MREFC Project CycleLinear Process Time GPO Award Period PDR FDR CDR Final Design Preliminary Design Conceptual Design Construction Operations • Carry out sufficient R&D and design to fully define the design to be built in sufficient detail to support production fabrication • Carry out sufficient R&D and design to fully define the design to be built in sufficient detail to demonstrate that the Design Requirements are met and that all significant design choices are made • Definition of the research objectives and science questions • Technical requirements needed to meet the science • Budget and contingency estimates • Initial risk analysis and mitigation strategy for construction

7. GPO Award • Current Funding to support preparation of the GENI design through the Final Design Review Phase • $2.5M/year for up to 4 years for establishment and administration of the GPO • Up to $10M/year for up to 4 years, for risk mitigation, including prototyping and system design engineering CISE AC Meeting

8. Funding Activities Funding Structure System Engineering Risk Reduction Development & Prototyping Future GENI Project Office PD C. Elliott PM H. Yeh EA SA LSE DIO DO TBD K. Rauschenbach A. Falk K. Partridge H. Picher Dempsey System Engineers Working Groups Analyses & Ideas Integration Activities Experiments &Trials Prototypes PD: Program Director EA: Engineering Architect SA: Substrate Architect LSE: Lead System Engineer DIO: Director, Integration and Operations DO: Director, Outreach CISE AC Meeting

9. GPO Working Groups • Substrates (Chairs: Joe Evans, Kristin Rauschenbach; SE: John Jacob) • What technologies should be in GENI? How will they be used? What is the framework for evolution of substrate technologies? • “Narrow Waist” with Federation (Chairs: Larry Peterson, John Wroclawski; SE: Aaron Falk) • What is universal across GENI components? How will evolution be accommodated with or without a full transition of all GENI nodes at once? • Experiment Workflow & Services (Chair: Jay Lepreau, Jeff Chase) • What do experimenter-users need from GENI? Consider planning, scheduling, running, debugging, analyzing experiments; long running experiments & how they grow; archiving data. • User Opt-In (Chair: Henning Schulzrinne) • How do end-users, not necessarily researchers, participate in GENI experiments? What are the various aspects including user interfaces, scheduling, debugging, measurement, archiving data, sandboxes, etc? What are the privacy and legal issues involved in user opt-in? • Operations, Management and Security (Chair: Heidi Picher Dempsey) • How do operators provision, operate, manage, and trouble-shoot GENI? Includes all mechanisms for securely operating the facility, and Operations & Management costs. CISE AC Meeting

10. GENI Planning and ConstructionCurrent Timeline Design Phase Construction Phase Operations Phase Undetermined Five Years Three to Four Years June 2007 GENI Engineering Conferences PDR CDR FDR 12 months 9 months 18-30 months Early 2008 CISE AC Meeting

11. GPO Prototyping & Experiments Funding: Goal, Needs and Structure • Goal is to have multiple design and prototyping teams up to speed in GENI aspects before construction begins • Teams are expected to bid on the big construction contracts • Timely decisions are essential for successful prototyping and GENI construction risk mitigation • Needs are driven by the high risk technology in GENI construction • High risks are identified at 4-month intervals by GSC / GPO review panel • GPO issues solicitations once or twice per year • Proposals are merit-reviewed by NSF-style panels • GPO continuously monitors contracts for performance • Readiness reviews at the GENI Engineering Conference CISE AC Meeting

12. GENI Engineering Conferences • Meetings held at regular 4-mont periods, open to all • All GPO-funded teams required to participate • Systematic, open review of each Working Group status • Review of all documents, prototypes, trials, etc • Face-to-face meeting for Working Groups to meet face-to-face • Expected outcome: Prioritized list for next round of prototype funding areas • Priorities are decided by GSC and GPO, with NSF • First meeting October 9-11, 2007 in Minneapolis • Around 130 attendees from academia and industry • University: 68, Industry: 32, International : 14, Other Organizations: 15 • Discussion of proposal submission, evaluation process & criteria, funding levels • Working Group meetings and current GENI status reviews • GSC, GPO and NSF GENI current status review meeting CISE AC Meeting

13. GENI Solicitation and Grant Procedures • Development and prototyping awards are NOT Research Grants • Proposal must have technical merit, realism for management approach • Emphasis on concrete, near-term results with specific deliverables and associated milestones • Successful proposal must show value to GENI CISE AC Meeting

14. Estimated Timelines CISE AC Meeting

15. Subcontract Types CISE AC Meeting

16. Concluding Remarks • GENI has real risks! • GPO has identified many and proposed sound approaches to mitigate their effects on GENI construction • Spiral development and Federation • Systematic, formal processes to identify and drive down risks • Risk register, where any system engineer can add a risk with only the lead to retire a risk • System engineers • Outreach activities • Other risks are likely to emerge as prototyping and integration get underway • Immediate prototyping and integration is critical • GENI Eng. Conferences • Good mechanism to keep GENI momentum up, maintain focus and enable collaborations between working groups CISE AC Meeting

17. Concluding Remarks • GENI has real risks! • GPO has identified many and proposed sound approaches to mitigate their effects on GENI construction • Spiral development and Federation • Systematic, formal processes to identify and drive down risks • Other risks are likely to emerge as prototyping and integration get underway • Immediate prototyping and integration is critical • GENI Research and Education Plan • Close but not there yet • GENI Eng. Conferences • Good mechanism to keep GENI momentum up, maintain focus and enable collaborations between working groups CISE AC Meeting

18. Concluding Remarks • GENI is a cross-disciplinary research and engineering project • Open participation and collaboration of teams from Computer Science, Engineering, and Social, Behavioral, and Economics to enable transformative thinking • Academic researchers must also collaborate with industry and other government agencies • GENI must be the “change agent” for global scale networks CISE AC Meeting

19. Thank you! CISE AC Meeting