Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI) Project Management

全球网络创新环境（GENI）是一个由计算研究界构想的大型实验设施概念。GENI承诺支持对健壮的新网络、分布式系统和服务体系结构的实验性探索。它将推动并彻底改变对这些领域的大规模理解和发展。为了支持GENI的设计和开发过程，BBN技术公司将担任GENI项目办公室（GPO）。GPO将与计算研究团体密切合作，承担项目管理的责任，以成功完成所有计划、设计和开发活动，为GENI的建设做好充分准备。智力优势：GENI被设想为一个全面的、大陆规模的研究设施，将允许对新架构、协议、服务、数据传播技术等进行控制的端到端实验，在广泛的国家光纤基础设施上运行，具有下一代动态光交换和路由、完全可编程的核心和边缘节点、异构传感器网络、无线网络和其他边缘设备。所有的基础设施将在大量单独的、同时进行的实验中共享，并将用于收集、分析和汇集测量结果。为了管理这样一个复杂的项目，BBN技术公司将建立一个动态和有效的GPO，提供项目管理、高级系统架构、工程和运营计划领导。GPO的管理结构和流程将包括学术部门和工业伙伴尽可能广泛的参与，因此GPO的几乎每一个机制都可以在整个规划阶段用于鼓励广泛的社区参与。本项目包括两类基本活动：(1)必须编制详细的规划文件并通过审查；(2)必须通过分析、原型、实验和试验集成来识别并迅速降低施工风险。BBN了解GENI所需的所有技术，并建立了包含所有这些技术的大型系统，从光网络到现场部署的城市无线网络，再到大规模分布式软件系统。BBN将为社区的愿景带来纪律和清晰度，并为构建GENI提供可信、现实和低风险的计划——这是成功设计审查的关键。更广泛的影响：GENI的建设和GENI支持的研究旨在导致信息和通信技术的革命，其意义不亚于20世纪50年代的通信数字化和20世纪70年代和80年代互联网的发展。每个人都必须参与这场革命，而不仅仅是顶尖大学。因此，BBN构建了GPO规划流程的每个部分，积极招募代表性不足的群体和机构参与GENI规划，包括性别、种族、残疾、地理等群体和机构。该项目包括具体行动和客观指标，以确保GPO在建设设施、仪器、网络、与代表性不足的群体和机构建立持续的伙伴关系、培训和教育以及在全社会广泛传播GENI实验的好处方面取得成功。

The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a large-scale, experimental facility concept conceived by the computing research community. GENI promises to support the experimental exploration of robust new networking , distributed systems, and service architectures. It will advance and revolutionize large scale understanding and development of these areas. In order to support the GENI design and development processes, BBN Technologies, Corp. will serve as the GENI Project Office (GPO). Working closely with the computing research community, the GPO will assume responsibility for the project management necessary to successfully complete all planning, design, and development activities essential to adequately prepare for GENI construction. Intellectual Merit: GENI is envisioned as a comprehensive, continental-scale research facility that will allow controlled end-to-end experimentation with new architectures, protocols, services, data dissemination techniques, and more, running over an extensive national fiber optic infrastructure with next generation dynamic optical switching and routing, fully programmable core and edge nodes, heterogeneous sensor networks, wireless networks and other edge devices. All infrastructure will be shared among a large number of individual, simultaneous experiments and will be instrumented for the collection, analysis and pooling of measurements.In order to manage such a complex endeavor, BBN Technologies will establish a dynamic and effective GPO that provides project management, high-level system architecture, engineering, and operations planning leadership. The GPO management structure and processes will include the broadest possible participation from both academic departments and industrial partners, so that nearly every mechanism in the GPO can be used to encourage broad community participation, throughout the planning phase. This project entails two basic types of activities: (1) detailed planning documents must be prepared and pass review; and (2) construction risks must be identified and rapidly driven down, via analyses, prototypes, experiments, and trial integrations. BBN understands all the technologies required in GENI, and has built large systems incorporating all of them, from optical networking, through field-deployed urban radio networks, to large-scale distributed software systems. BBN will bring discipline and clarity to the community's vision, and provide credible, realistic, and low-risk plans for constructing GENI -- the keys to successful design reviews. Broader Impacts: The construction of GENI and the research that GENI supports is intended to lead to a revolution in information and communications technology as significant as the digitization of communication in the 1950s and the development of the Internet in the 1970s and 1980s. It is essential that everyone participate in this revolution, not just top-tier universities. Accordingly, BBN has structured every part of the GPO's planning processes to aggressively recruit underrepresented groups and institutions into GENI planning, including those of gender, ethnicity, disability, geography, etc. The project includes concrete actions, with objective metrics, for GPO success in building facilities, instrumentation, networks, and ongoing partnerships with underrepresented groups and institutions, for training and education, and for spreading the benefits of GENI experimentation broadly throughout society.