Support for GEC-24: The Twenty-Fourth GENI Engineering Conference

该项目支持举办第24届GENI工程会议（GEC-24），包括组织和主持将于2016年3月8日至9日在亚利桑那州立大学坦佩校区举行的演示会议。全球网络创新环境（GENI）是一个虚拟仪器，正在成为美国各地的基础实验研究平台。GENI旨在通过为未来互联网的“大规模”实验提供一套基础设施，改变网络和分布式系统的实验研究，以及非常大的社会技术系统的新兴研究。GENI是一个旨在解决三个问题的工具：1。科学问题：我们目前还不能完全理解或预测复杂的大规模网络的行为。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。创新问题：对于新架构、服务和技术的大规模实验存在着实质性的障碍。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)基于或连接到今天的互联网并吸引大量人类参与者的实验性服务的野外试验。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。这是帮助新研究生了解GENI正在做什么，以及他们在其他机构的同龄人中谁可能是有价值的资源的关键部分。它还支持拓展新社区成员，包括新兴的美国点燃社区。基因i已经被用作研究工具。该提案支持研究仪器的开发和使用。

This project supports hosting the 24th edition of the GENI Engineering conference (GEC-24), including organizing and hosting the demo session, to be held on March 8-9, 2016, on the Arizona State University's Tempe campus. The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual instrument that is emerging as a foundational experimental research platform across the United States. GENI aims to transform experimental research in networking and distributed systems, as well as emerging research in very large socio-technical systems, by providing a suite of infrastructure for 'at scale' experiments in future internets. GENI is an instrument designed to address three issues:1. Science Issues: We cannot currently fully understand or predict the behavior of complex, large-scale networks.2. Societal Issues: We increasingly rely on the Internet but are unsure we can trust its security, privacy or resilience.3. Innovation Issues: Substantial barriers exist 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 among 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 proposal supports the development and use of the research instrument.