The GENI Book

This book, edited by four of the leaders of the National Science Foundation’s Global Environment and Network Innovations (GENI) project, gives the reader a tour of the history, architecture, future, and applications of GENI. Built over the past decade by hundreds of leading computer scientists and engineers, GENI is a nationwide network used daily by thousands of computer scientists to explore the next Cloud and Internet and the applications and services they enable, which will transform our communities and our lives. Since by design it runs on existing computing and networking equipment and over the standard commodity Internet, it is poised for explosive growth and transformational impact over the next five years. Over 70 of the builders of GENI have contributed to present its development, architecture, and implementation, both as a standalone US project and as a federated peer with similar projects worldwide, forming the core of a worldwide network. Applications and services enabled by GENI, from smarter cities to intensive collaboration to immersive education, are discussed. The book also explores the concepts and technologies that transform the Internet from a shared transport network to a collection of “slices” -- private, on-the-fly application-specific nationwide networks with guarantees of privacy and responsiveness. The reader will learn the motivation for building GENI and the experience of its precursor infrastructures, the architecture and implementation of the GENI infrastructure, its deployment across the United States and worldwide, the new network applications and services enabled by and running on the GENI infrastructure, and its international collaborations and extensions. This book is useful for academics in the networking and distributed systems areas, Chief Information Officers in the academic, private, and government sectors, and network and information architects. Introduction -- The Origins of GENI: An Informal Development History -- Emulab -- DETERLab and the DETER Project -- ORBIT: Wireless Experimentation -- GENI Architecture Foundation -- The Need for Flexible Mid-scale Computing Infrastructure -- A Retrospective on ORCA: Open Resource Control Architecture -- Programmable, Controllable Networks -- 4G Cellular Systems in GENI -- Authorization and Access Control: ABAC -- The GENI Experiment Engine -- The GENI Mesoscale Networks -- ExoGENI: A Multi-Domain Infrastructure-as-a-Service Testbed -- The InstaGENI Project -- The Experimenter View of GENI -- The GENI Desktop -- Walk Through the GENI Experiment Cycle -- GENI in the Classroom -- The Ignite Distributed Collaborative Scientific Visualization System -- US Ignite and Smarter GENI Cities -- Europe’s Mission in Next-Generation Networking with Special Emphasis on the German-Lab Project -- SAVI Testbed for Applications on Software-Defined Infrastructure -- Research and Development on Network Virtualization Technologies in Japan: VNode and FLARE Projects -- Building a Worldwide Network. edited by Rick McGeer, Mark Berman, Chip Elliott, Robert Ricci. This book, edited by four of the leaders of the National Science Foundationĺls Global Environment and Network Innovations (GENI) project, gives the reader a tour of the history, architecture, future, and applications of GENI. Built over the past decade by hundreds of leading computer scientists and engineers, GENI is a nationwide network used daily by thousands of computer scientists to explore the next Cloud and Internet and the applications and services they enable, which will transform our communities and our lives. Since by design it runs on existing computing and networking equipment and over the standard commodity Internet, it is poised for explosive growth and transformational impact over the next five years. Over 70 of the builders of GENI have contributed to present its development, architecture, and implementation, both as a standalone US project and as a federated peer with similar projects worldwide, forming the core of a worldwide network. Applications and services enabled by GENI, from smarter cities to intensive collaboration to immersive education, are discussed. The book also explores the concepts and technologies that transform the Internet from a shared transport network to a collection of ĺlslicesĺl -- private, on-the-fly application-specific nationwide networks with guarantees of privacy and responsiveness. The reader will learn the motivation for building GENI and the experience of its precursor infrastructures, the architecture and implementation of the GENI infrastructure, its deployment across the United States and worldwide, the new network applications and services enabled by and running on the GENI infrastructure, and its international collaborations and extensions. This book is useful for academics in the networking and distributed systems areas, Chief Information Officers in the academic, private, and government sectors, and network and information architects Front Matter....Pages i-xxx Front Matter....Pages 1-2 The GENI Vision: Origins, Early History, Possible Futures....Pages 3-17 Precursors: Emulab....Pages 19-33 DETERLab and the DETER Project....Pages 35-62 ORBIT: Wireless Experimentation....Pages 63-95 Front Matter....Pages 97-99 GENI Architecture Foundation....Pages 101-116 The Need for Flexible Community Research Infrastructure....Pages 117-126 A Retrospective on ORCA: Open Resource Control Architecture....Pages 127-147 Programmable, Controllable Networks....Pages 149-178 4G Cellular Systems in GENI....Pages 179-201 Authorization and Access Control: ABAC....Pages 203-234 The GENI Experiment Engine....Pages 235-256 Front Matter....Pages 257-258 The GENI Mesoscale Network....Pages 259-277 ExoGENI: A Multi-Domain Infrastructure-as-a-Service Testbed....Pages 279-315 The InstaGENI Project....Pages 317-343 Front Matter....Pages 345-347 The Experimenter’s View of GENI....Pages 349-379 The GENI Desktop....Pages 381-406 A Walk Through the GENI Experiment Cycle....Pages 407-431 GENI in the Classroom....Pages 433-449 The Ignite Distributed Collaborative Scientific Visualization System....Pages 451-477 US Ignite and Smarter Communities....Pages 479-510 Front Matter....Pages 511-512 Europe’s Mission in Next-Generation Networking with Special Emphasis on the German-Lab Project....Pages 513-544 SAVI Testbed for Applications on Software-Defined Infrastructure....Pages 545-562 Research and Development on Network Virtualization Technologies in Japan: VNode and FLARE Projects....Pages 563-588 Creating a Worldwide Network for the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) and Related Experimental Environments....Pages 589-632 Back Matter....Pages 633-651