GENI Engineering Conference 25

该项目支持主办第25届GENI工程会议(GEC-25)，包括组织和主办将于2017年3月14-15日在佛罗里达国际大学迈阿密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，正在成为全美范围内的基础性实验研究平台。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，来改变网络和分布式系统的实验研究，以及在非常大的社会技术系统中的新兴研究。GENI是一个旨在解决三个问题的仪器：1.科学问题：我们目前无法完全理解或预测复杂、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、隐私性或弹性。3.创新问题：新架构、服务和技术的大规模试验存在巨大障碍。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，以及在其他机构的同行中，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。这项提议支持研究仪器的开发和使用。

This project supports hosting the 25th edition of the GENI Engineering conference (GEC-25), including organizing and hosting the demo session, to be held on March 14-15, 2017, on the Florida International University's Miami 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.