EAGER: Exploring the Transformative Potential of "GENI-enabled" Campuses

全球网络创新环境（GENI）是一套新的基础设施，目前正在设计和原型化，以支持网络科学和工程的实验研究。这种新的基础设施要求我们在多个抽象层上广泛地理解和重新思考网络;从物理基础到架构和协议，再到人、组织和社会的网络。GENI的实验研究范围将从网络和分布式系统设计到网络科学的理论基础，网络政策和经济学，社会价值观以及通信网络中物理，社会和虚拟领域的动态相互作用。这样的研究对我们最复杂系统的结构、行为和动力学的新知识有很大的希望。网络的网络？虽然规划工作已经进行了若干年，但中等规模的国家部署才刚刚开始。一个关键的，直接的目标是GENI使美国各地的一些学院和大学校园。这些校园范围的GENI部署仍处于探索的最早阶段。然而，现在开放这些校园进行实验是很有用的。普林斯顿大学最近的一次研讨会促成了十几个研究小组准备在GENI上进行实验。这个EAGER将允许五个校园？格鲁吉亚理工学院，印第安纳州大学，罗格斯大学，马萨诸塞州大学，阿默斯特和威斯康星州大学，麦迪逊？引入和调试OpenFlow和WiMAX园区基础设施，以便在今年秋季和冬季进行实验。该计划是由校园信息技术人员在GENI项目办公室的总体指导下运营GENI校园。这笔资金将允许每个校园约2个人月的工作人员支持。所有园区都已为其园区扩建制定了示意图，并已获得园区CIO的支持，并已准备好部署。对这种规模的未经测试的新颖想法进行实验研究，在开辟计算机科学研究的新前沿方面可能会有非常可观的潜在回报，并且很可能会推动开始使用GENI基础设施套件的研究领域的快速创新进步。

The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a novel suite of infrastructure now being designed and prototyped to support experimental research in network science and engineering. This new infrastructure challenges us to understand and rethink networks broadly and at several layers of abstraction; from the physical substrates through the architecture and protocols to the networks of people, organizations and societies. GENI experimental research will range from network and distributed system design to the theoretical underpinnings of network science, network policy and economics, societal values and the dynamic interactions of the physical, social and virtual spheres in communication networks. Such research holds great promise for new knowledge about the structure, behavior, and dynamics of our most complex systems ? networks of networks ? with potentially huge social and economic impact.While planning has been ongoing for a number of years, a meso-scale national deployment has just begun. One critical, immediate goal is to GENI-enable a number of college and university campuses across the US. These campus-wide GENI deployments are still in the very earliest stages of exploration. Yet, there is high utility in opening up these campuses for experimentation now. A recent workshop at Princeton resulted in about a dozen research teams ready to deploy their experiments on GENI. This EAGER will allow five campuses ? Georgia Institute of Technology, Indiana University, Rutgers University, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and University of Wisconsin, Madison ? to introduce and debug OpenFlow and WiMAX campus infrastructure so that experimentation can be carried out this fall and winter. The plan is for GENI-enabled campuses to be operated by campus IT staff under the overall direction of the GENI Project Office. This funding will allow for about 2 person-months of staff support per campus. All of the campuses have developed schematics for their campus build-out, have obtained support from the campus CIO, and are ready to deploy. Experimental research into untested and novel ideas at this scale could have very substantial potential pay-offs in terms of opening up a new frontier in computer science research, and might well drive rapid and innovative advances in those research fields that begin to employ the GENI suite of infrastructure.