geni activity progress report cise/nsf

GENI Activity Progress Report

CISE/NSFDebbie CrawfordSuzi IaconoGracie NarchoTy Znati

Acknowledgement: GPO Team, GSC Team and GENI NSF Team

Outline Background

The GENI Concept The NSF’s MREFC Process GENI Project Office

Activity Progress Report Planned Activities Concluding Remarks

April 24, 2023 2CISE AC Meeting

GENI Concept ….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

Federated International Facility

Mobile Wireless Network

Edge Site


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 facilityDevelopment of a scientific motivation for such a facilityGENI 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


GENI Partnership

Voice of research and education communityVoice 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 & MREFC Process - Project management & executionexecution GENI architecture and system engineering Cost & schedule estimates for construction GENI facility construction plan documents

NSFProgram Director

GENI ScienceCouncil

Chair PersonGENI Project

Office

Program Director

Working Groups


MREFC Project CycleLinear Process

ConceptualConceptual DesignDesign

Preliminary Preliminary DesignDesign

FinalFinalDesignDesign

Time

ConstructionConstruction OperationsOperationsCDRCDR

GPO Award Period

PDRPDR FDRFDR

Definition of the research objectives and science questions Technical requirements needed to meet the science Budget and contingency estimatesInitial risk analysis and mitigation strategy for construction

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

Carry out sufficient R&D and design to fully define the design to be built in sufficient detail to support production fabrication

6

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


Funding ActivitiesFunding Structure

GENI Project Office

PD

PM

DOLSESAEA DIO

C. Elliott

TBD K. Rauschenbach

H. Picher Dempse

y

K. Partridge

H. Yeh

System Engineering Risk Reduction

Development & Prototyping

Future

PrototypesAnalyses & Ideas

A. Falk

Integration Activities Experiment

s &Trials

System Engineers

WorkingGroups

PD: Program DirectorEA: Engineering ArchitectSA: Substrate ArchitectLSE: Lead System EngineerDIO: Director, Integration and OperationsDO: Director, OutreachApril 24, 2023 8CISE AC Meeting

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.


April 24, 2023 CISE AC Meeting 10

GENI Planning and ConstructionCurrent Timeline

Design Phase Construction Phase Operations Phase

Three to Four Years

Five Years Undetermined

June 2007

12 monthsFDR

18-30 months9 monthsPDR

GENI Engineering Conferences

Early 2008

CDR

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


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



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


Estimated Timelines

Dec. 17, 2007Monday

Solicitation issues on geni.net

Feb. 15, 2008Friday

Proposals due, 5 PM your local time

May 15, 2008Thursday

Winners notified

After contract negotiations

Subcontract funds arrive


Subcontract Types

Type of Work Duration Suggested Total Value

Estimated # Contracts

Analyses, papers, participation in working groups

3 to 24 monthsUp to$30 K

25

Prototypes 12 to 24 monthsUp to

$750 K 15

Integration Trials 24 monthsUp to

$950 K 4

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


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


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


Thank you!


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