GENI - The Global Environment For Networking Innovations Project

CCT talks: Chip Elliott, BBN Technologies And GENI PI/PD/Chief Engineer

http://www.geni.net/

Abstract:

GENI is an experimental facility called the Global Environment for Network Innovation. GENI is designed to allow experiments on a wide variety of problems in communications, networking, distributed systems, cyber-security, and networked services and applications. The emphasis is on enabling researchers to experiment with radical network designs in a way that is far more realistic than they can today. Researchers will be able to build their own new versions of the “net” or to study the “net” in ways that are not possible today. Compatibility, with the Internet is NOT required. The purpose of GENI is to give researchers the opportunity to experiment unfettered by assumptions or requirements and to support those experiments at a large scale with real user populations.

GENI is being proposed to NSF as a Major Research and Equipment Facility Construction (MREFC) project. The MREFC program is NSF’s mechanism for funding large infrastructure projects. NSF has funded MREFC projects in a variety of fields, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), but GENI would be the first MREFC project initiated and designed by the computer science research community.