Collaborative Proposal: Facility for Experimental Network Architecture Research

计算机和信息科学与工程局(CEISE)和CEISE研究界正在计划一项名为全球网络创新环境(GENI)的倡议，以探索将促进科学、刺激创新和经济增长的新网络能力。GENI计划响应了21世纪的一项紧迫而重要的挑战，即显著提高网络和分布式系统架构提供的能力。要产生重大影响，必须在涉及大量用户和主机的现实环境中实施、部署和测试创新的研究和设计想法。该倡议包括部署一个最先进的全球实验GENI设施，允许在现实条件下进行探索和评估。GENI设施将允许包括网络工程师、政策分析师、协议设计师、系统架构师和经济建模人员在内的一系列研究人员为未来的全球网络贡献和研究创新的新能力。假设这个概念被证明像目前预期的那样有希望，GENI建设将被考虑从NSF的MREFC账户中获得资金。为了支持将GENI作为MREFC项目的理由，PI建议承担一系列任务，将GENI项目定义从概念设计阶段，通过MREFC准备阶段，推进到初步设计阶段。这将涉及解决一系列设计问题；将设施各部件的定义提高到下一级专用性；为每个部件和设施作为一个整体创建详细的工作分解结构(WBS)、自下而上的预算、进度、应急和关键路径分析；将建造和运营的项目管理定义提高到下一级专用性，并适当考虑GENI的特殊要求。

The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and the CISE research community are planning an initiative called Global Environment for Networking Innovations or GENI to explore new networking capabilities that will advance science and stimulate innovation and economic growth. The GENI Initiative responds to an urgent and important challenge of the 21st Century to advance significantly the capabilities provided by networking and distributed system architectures.To have significant impact, innovative research and design ideas must be implemented, deployed, and tested in realistic environments involving significant numbers of users and hosts. The initiative includes the deployment of a state-of-the-art, global experimental GENI Facility that will permit exploration and evaluation under realistic conditions. The GENI Facility will permit a range of researchers, including network engineers, policy analysts, protocol designers, system architects, and economic modelers to contribute to and study innovative new capabilities for the global network of the future. Assuming the concept proves to be as promising as currently anticipated, GENI construction will be considered for funding from NSF's MREFC account.In support of making the case for GENI as a MREFC project, the PIs propose to undertake a set of tasks to advance the GENI project definition from the Conceptual Design, through the MREFC Readiness Stage, to Preliminary Design. This will involve addressing a set of design issues; taking the definition of various components of the facility to the next level of specificity; creating a detailed work breakdown structure (WBS), bottom up budget, schedule, contingency, and critical path analysis for each component and the facility as a whole; and taking the project management definition for construction and operation to the next level of specificity with due considerations to special requirements of GENI.