Establishing the GENI Project Office (GPO)

GENI（全球网络创新环境）是一个大规模探索未来互联网的虚拟实验室，其主要目标是创造重大的新机会，以了解，创新和改造全球网络及其与社会的互动。 动态和适应性，GENI开辟了网络科学和工程前沿的新研究领域，并增加了产生重大社会经济影响的机会。GENI将采用一个灵活和适应性强的框架，其中包括螺旋式发展，即，迭代原型和联邦，即，连接异构网络、底层和技术。预计螺旋的每一圈都将利用现有的东西、从前一个螺旋中学到的东西、可以富有成效地联合起来的东西以及通过新的发展和原型活动可能实现的东西。Spiral 1将允许学术界和工业界合作伙伴创建端到端的GENI原型，重点关注多个GENI控制框架的设计和实施。最终目标是设计一个虚拟实验室的端到端原型，并提供一套基础设施，以支持网络科学与工程（NetSE）研究社区提出的未来实验和研究挑战。智力奖：该奖项为BBN Technologies提供资金，以提供所有GENI相关活动的管理和监督。GENI将1）支持在共享、异构、高度仪表化的基础设施上进行大规模实验; 2）在整个网络中实现深度可编程性，促进网络科学、技术、服务和应用的创新; 3）为学术界、工业界和公众提供协作和探索环境，以促进突破性的发现和创新。鼓励社区参与是成功的关键。将制定和执行一项GENI外联计划。每年将举行三次GENI工程会议。公开申请旅行赠款金将确保该国服务不足的学术机构和地区的研究人员和学生能够参加。还将鼓励工业界和国际供资机构的潜在伙伴参加。学生和年轻的教师将被聘为BBN的实习生。根据需要，将召开跨学科研讨会，汇集研究人员不？通常不进行交流，但GENI和研究团体可以从中受益。 这些活动没有预定的结果;由此产生的GENI基础设施套件可能是增强的互联网，增强的测试平台，增强的测试平台的联盟，全新的东西（从小到大），所有上述的联盟和/或与相关的国际努力的联盟。目标是促进创新、创业和经济增长。

The major objective of GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovation), a virtual laboratory for exploring future internets at scale, is to create major new opportunities to understand, innovate and transform global networks and their interactions with society. Dynamic and adaptive, GENI opens up new areas of research at the frontiers of network science and engineering, and increases the opportunity for significant socio-economic impact. GENI will employ a flexible and adaptable framework that incorporates spiral development, i.e., iterative prototyping, and federation, i.e., connecting heterogeneous networks, substrates and technologies. It is expected that each turn of the spiral will take advantage of what currently exists, what has been learned from the previous spiral, what can fruitfully be federated and what might be achieved through new development and prototyping activities. Spiral 1 will allow academic-industry partners to create end-to-end GENI prototypes with a strong emphasis on the design and implementation of multiple GENI control frameworks. The ultimate goal is to design end-to-end prototypes of a virtual laboratory with a suite of infrastructure that will support future experiments and research challenges articulated by the Network Science and Engineering (NetSE) research community.Intellectual Merit: This award gives funding to BBN Technologies to provide management and oversight of all GENI-related activities. GENI will 1) support at-scale experimentation on shared, heterogeneous, highly-instrumented infrastructure, 2) enable deep programmability throughout the network, promoting innovations in network science, technologies, services and applications, and 3) provide collaborative and exploratory environments for academia, industry, and the public to catalyze groundbreaking discoveries and innovation.Broader Impact: Encouraging community engagement is critical to success. A GENI outreach plan will be developed and implemented. Each year, three GENI Engineering Conferences will be held. Open application for travel grants will ensure that researchers and students at underserved academic institutions and regions of the country will be able to participate. Potential partners in industry and international funding agencies will also be encouraged to attend. Students and young faculty will be hired as interns at BBN. As needed, interdisciplinary workshops will be convened that bring together researchers that don?t normally communicate, but from which GENI and the research community can benefit. There is no pre-ordained outcome for these activities; the resultant GENI infrastructure suite could be an enahanced Internet, enhanced testbeds, federations of enhanced testbeds, something brand new (from small to large), federation of all of the above and/or federation with related international efforts. The goal is to promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth.