Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI) Project Management

全球网络创新环境(GENI)是一个由计算研究团体构思的大规模实验设施概念。GENI承诺支持对健壮的新网络、分布式系统和服务架构的试验性探索。它将推动和变革对这些领域的大规模理解和发展。为了支持GENI设计和开发过程，BBN技术公司将担任GENI项目办公室(GPO)。GPO将与计算研究社区密切合作，负责成功完成所有必要的规划、设计和开发活动所需的项目管理，这些活动对充分准备GENI建设至关重要。智能优势：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、数据分发技术等进行可控的端到端实验，运行在广泛的国家光纤基础设施上，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、异类传感器网络、无线网络和其他边缘设备。所有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、分析和汇集测量数据。为了管理如此复杂的工作，BBN Technologies将建立一个动态而有效的GPO，提供项目管理、高级系统架构、工程和运营规划领导。GPO的管理结构和流程将包括学术部门和行业合作伙伴的尽可能广泛的参与，这样GPO中的几乎每一个机制都可以在整个规划阶段被用来鼓励社区的广泛参与。该项目需要两种基本类型的活动：(1)必须准备详细的规划文件并通过审查；(2)必须通过分析、原型、试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，从光纤网络到现场部署的城市无线电网络，再到大规模的分布式软件系统。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一场信息和通信技术革命，其意义与1950年代通信数字化和1970年代和1980年代因特网的发展一样重要。每个人都要参与这场革命，而不仅仅是一流大学，这一点至关重要。因此，BBN组织了GPO规划进程的每一部分，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、地理等方面的群体和机构。该项目包括具体行动，以客观的标准衡量GPO在建设设施、仪器、网络方面的成功，以及与代表性不足的群体和机构的持续伙伴关系，培训和教育，以及在全社会广泛传播GEI试验的好处。

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.