This project supports hosting the three day sixteenth edition of the GENI Engineering conference, including organizing and hosting the demo session, to be held on the University of Utah campus. The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual instrument that is rapidly emerging in prototype form across the United States. GENI aims to transform experimental research in networking and distributed systems, as well as emerging research into very large socio-technical systems, by providing a suite of infrastructure for 'at scale' experiments in future internets.
The GENI Project Office organizes three major GENI Engineering conferences (GECs) per year, in which the entire GENI community meets to review current status, and to decide on subsequent steps in GENI's evolution. These GECs include community-based working groups leading GENI's design and planning, and demonstrating progress with live experiments. About 250 leading researchers and Ph.D. students from diverse US institutions will gather in Salt Lake City to showcase their ideas and results. In the demo session each demo will be provided with a wired connection to the GENI infrastructure. Additionally, wireless connectivity will be available for demonstrations and participants. The GEC 16 conference will be held on the University of Utah campus, with organizational oversight by an experienced University of Utah event coordinator.
Broader Impact: The GEC meeting and Demo sessions provide graduate students with both an opportunity to demonstrate and explain their work to the GENI community prior to formal publication. It is a key part of helping new graduate students understand what is being done with GENI and who amongst their peers at other institutions might be valuable resources. It also supports outreach to new community members, including the emerging US Ignite community. GENI is already being used as an instrument for research. This project supports the development and use of the research instrument.
was held at the University of Utah in March 2013. GENI is a NSF-funded nationwide suite of infrastructure supporting "at scale" research in networking, distributed systems, security, and novel applications. It goal is to move forward "network science", enabling researchers to do work on the fundamental problems in networking and the Internet. It also serve as a tool for training and education, and has been used in networking classes throughout the country. GENI Engineering Conferences are held trianually, and are the primary venues in which project participants plan for future work on the project and to show progress to other project participants and to the public. The conference was an opportunity for people in several categories to advance the goals of the GENI project: (1) those who are already working on GENI in some capacity (2) those who are interested in joining the project (3) researchers and educators who want to use GENI for their research or in their classrooms (4) international collaborators working on GENI-related efforts overseas. The conference spanned three days, and included tutorials, technical planning sessions, plenary sessions, and a demo night. The total registered attendance at the conference was 224. The conference include eight tutorials (many of them hands-on) showing attendees how to use the GENI facility. These tutorials ranged from "getting started" sessions for beginners to advanced networking topics. Many attendees of these tutorials were students who will be able to use GENI resources in their coursework and research. Minutes of all meetings, including the slides presented by speakers, have been made available at http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GEC16Agenda . Additionally, twenty four videos covereing many of talks and demos have been made available on the GENI project's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5U135-BdFrtg1I7reBCqHYDFeW67VABq
