Proposal for Organizing the 18th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC 18) Networking Event

该项目支持举办第18届GENI工程会议，包括组织和主办将于2013年10月27-29日在纽约理工大学校园举行的演示会议。全球网络创新环境(GENI)是一种在美国各地以原型形式迅速出现的虚拟仪器。GENI的目标是将网络和分布式系统的实验研究以及新兴研究转化为超大型社会技术系统，为未来互联网的大规模实验提供一套基础设施。来自美国不同机构的约250至300名顶尖研究人员和博士生将齐聚纽约，展示他们的想法和成果。在演示过程中，将为每个演示提供到GENI基础设施的有线连接。纽约大学保利信息技术部将通过高速和高带宽连接为会议和演示会议提供支持，供研究人员演示他们的有线和无线实验。演示场地还将提供与Internet2、国家Lambda Rail和/或地区的连接，从而使研究人员和从业者能够访问全国范围内的所有GENI资源，以支持他们的演示需求。每个GEC演示项目都将获得临时的校园范围无线证书，以便在演示晚上访问校园无线基础设施和商品互联网。GEC会议和演示课程为研究生提供在正式发布之前向GENI社区演示和解释他们的工作的机会。它是帮助应届研究生了解Geni正在做什么的关键部分，以及他们在其他机构的同龄人中谁可能是宝贵的资源。它还支持接触新的社区成员，包括新兴的美国Ignite社区。Geni已经被用作研究工具。该项目支持了该研究仪器的进一步开发和使用。

This project supports hosting the 18th GENI Engineering Conference, including organizing and hosting a demo session, to be held October 27-29, 2013, on the campus of the Polytechnic University of New York. The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual instrument that is rapidly emerging in prototype form across the United States. GENI aims to transform experimental research in networking and distributed systems, as well as emerging research into very large socio-technical systems, by providing a suite of infrastructure for 'at scale' experiments in future internets.About 250 to 300 leading researchers and Ph.D. students from diverse U.S. institutions will gather in New York to showcase their ideas and results. In the demo session, each demo will be provided with a wired connection to the GENI infrastructure. The NYU Poly information technology department will support both the conference and demo session with high speed and high bandwidth connectivity for researchers to demonstrate their experiments, both wired and wireless. The demo venue will also provide connectivity to Internet2, National Lambda Rail, and/or regionals, thus enabling researchers and practitioners to access all the GENI resources nationwide for supporting their demo needs. Each GEC demo project will be issued with temporary campus-wide wireless credentials that will grant access to the campus wireless infrastructure and commodity Internet for the duration of the demo evening.The GEC meeting and demo sessions provide graduate students with an opportunity to demonstrate and explain their work to the GENI community prior to formal publication. It is a key part of helping new graduate students understand what is being done with GENI and who amongst their peers at other institutions might be valuable resources. It also supports outreach to new community members, including the emerging US Ignite community. GENI is already being used as an instrument for research. This project supports further development and use of the research instrument.