Proposal for Organizing the 21st GENI Engineering Conference

该项目支持主办为期四天的第21届Geni Engineering大会，包括组织和主办演示会议，该会议将于2014年10月20日至23日在印第安纳州布鲁明顿的印第安纳大学(IU)举行。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是一种旨在解决三个问题的工具：1)科学问题：我们目前无法理解或预测复杂、大规模网络的行为。2)社会问题：我们越来越依赖互联网，但不确定我们能否信任它的安全性、隐私或弹性。3)创新问题：在新的架构、服务和技术进行大规模试验之前，存在大量障碍。GENI通过(来自联邦的)规模和对两种实验的支持来解决这些问题：1)受控和可重复的实验，这将极大地帮助我们提高对复杂、大规模网络的科学理解；2)对搭载或连接到当今互联网上并吸引大量人类参与者的实验服务进行野外试验。GEC会议和演示课程为研究生提供了在正式出版之前向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。该项目支持研究工具的开发和使用。为期四天的会议将在布鲁明顿校区中心的印第安纳纪念联盟(IMU)比德尔酒店和会议中心举行。演示之夜活动将在网络基础设施大楼(CIB)举行，该大楼位于伊利诺伊州不断发展的科技园，位于校园边缘。活动的活动规划和后勤支持将由信息技术通信办公室的活动团队协调，该团队在会议规划以及获得行政和内部技术支持方面拥有丰富的经验。IT通信办公室是大学信息技术服务(UITS)的一部分，UITS在整个大学维持一个现代化的IT环境，以支持研究、教学、外展和终身学习。

This project supports hosting the four day 21th edition of the GENI Engineering conference, including organizing and hosting the demo session, to be held October 20 to 23, 2014 at the Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, Indiana. The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual instrument that is rapidly emerging in prototype form across the United States. GENI is an instrument designed to address three issues: 1) Science Issues: We cannot currently understand or predict the behavior of complex,large-scale networks. 2) Society Issues: We increasingly rely on the Internet but are unsure we can trust its security, privacy or resilience. 3) Innovation Issues: Pre-GENI substantial barriers existed to at-scale experimentation with new architectures, services, and technologies. GENI addresses these issues via scale (from federation) and support for two kinds of experiments: 1) controlled and repeatable experiments, which will greatly help improve our scientific understanding of complex, large-scale networks; and 2) in-the- wild trials of experimental services that ride atop or connect to today's Internet and that engage large numbers of human participants. The GEC meeting and Demo sessions provide graduate students with both 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 the development and use of the research instrument.The four-day conference will be held at the Indiana Memorial Union (IMU) Biddle Hotel and Conference Center at the heart of the Bloomington campus. The demo night event will be held at the Cyberinfrastructure Building (CIB), located in IU's growing tech park at the edge of campus. Event planning and logistical support for the event will be coordinated by the IT Communications Office's events team, which has extensive experience in conference planning and access to executive and internal technical support. The IT Communications Office is part of University Information Technology Services (UITS), which maintains a modern IT environment throughout the university in support of research, teaching, outreach, and lifelong learning.