Organizing the 22nd GENI Engineering Conference (GEC-SC2015) Networking Event

该项目支持为期四天的第22届GENI工程会议（GEC），包括组织和主持将于2015年3月23日至26日在乔治华盛顿大学和附近的会议酒店举行的演示会议。全球网络创新环境（GENI）是一种虚拟仪器，正在美国各地迅速投入使用，旨在解决三个问题：1)科学问题：我们目前无法理解或预测复杂的大规模网络的行为。2)社会问题：我们越来越依赖互联网，但不确定我们是否可以信任它的安全性、隐私性或弹性。3)创新问题：在geni之前，对新的互联网架构、服务和技术进行大规模实验存在实质性障碍。GENI通过规模（来自联邦）和对两种实验的支持来解决这些问题：1)控制和可重复的实验，这将极大地帮助我们提高对复杂的大规模网络的科学理解；2)长期试验的实验性服务，有大量的人参与。除了GENI的原始动机之外，人们还逐渐认识到，虚拟的、联合的软件定义基础设施（GENI是其中的第一个例子）是构建下一代Internet的关键技术。长期以来，GEC会议和演示会议为研究生提供了一个机会，在正式发表之前向GENI社区展示和解释他们的工作。gec22将提供一个接触到更大社区的机会，展示和解释GENI及其所支持的技术的可能性，包括计算机科学实验和公共利益应用。为期四天的会议将在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行。演示之夜活动将在乔治华盛顿大学科学与工程大厅（雾底校区）举行。

This project supports the four-day and 22nd edition of the GENI Engineering Conference (GEC), including organizing and hosting the demo session, to be held March 23-26, 2015, at the George Washington University and at a nearby conference hotel. The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual instrument that is rapidly becoming operational across the United States and that is 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 Internet 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) long-running trials of experimental services that engage large numbers of human participants. In addition to the original motivation for GENI, an understanding has grown that virtualized, federated software-defined infrastructures, of which GENI is a first example, are a key technology for building the next generation of the Internet. The GEC meetings and demo sessions have long provided graduate students with both an opportunity to demonstrate and explain their work to the GENI community prior to formal publication. GEC 22 will provide an opportunity to reach out to a larger community to show and explain the possibilities of GENI and the technology it enables, both for computer science experimentation and for public-benefit applications.The four-day conference will be held in Arlington, Virginia. The demo night event will be held at the George Washington University's Science and Engineering Hall (Foggy Bottom Campus).