Establishing the GENI Project Office (GPO)

GENI(全球网络创新环境)是一个虚拟实验室，用于大规模探索未来的互联网，其主要目标是创造新的重大机会，以了解、创新和改造全球网络及其与社会的互动。GENI具有动态和适应性，在网络科学和工程的前沿开辟了新的研究领域，并增加了产生重大社会经济影响的机会。GENI将采用一个灵活和适应性强的框架，该框架结合了螺旋式开发，即迭代原型法，以及联邦，即连接不同种类的网络、基质和技术。预计螺旋的每一次转折都将利用目前存在的、从前一次螺旋中学到的东西、可以卓有成效地联合起来的东西以及通过新的开发和原型活动可能取得的成果。螺旋1将允许学术和行业合作伙伴创建端到端的GENI原型，重点是设计和实现多个GENI控制框架。最终目标是设计一个端到端的虚拟实验室原型，该实验室具有一套基础设施，将支持未来的实验和网络科学与工程(NetSE)研究界提出的研究挑战。智力优势：该奖项为BBN Technologies提供资金，以提供对所有Geni相关活动的管理和监督。GENI将1)支持对共享的、异类的、高度仪表化的基础设施进行大规模实验；2)在整个网络中实现深度可编程性，促进网络科学、技术、服务和应用方面的创新；3)为学术界、产业界和公众提供协作和探索环境，以促进突破性的发现和创新。广泛影响：鼓励社区参与是成功的关键。将制定和实施一项GENI外联计划。每年，将举行三次GENI工程会议。公开申请旅行补助金将确保该国服务不足的学术机构和地区的研究人员和学生能够参与。行业和国际融资机构的潜在合作伙伴也将被鼓励参加。学生和年轻教职员工将被聘为BBN的实习生。根据需要，将召开跨学科研讨会，将通常不进行交流的研究人员聚集在一起，但GENI和研究界可以从中受益。这些活动没有预先注定的结果；由此产生的GENI基础设施套件可以是增强的互联网、增强的试验床、增强的试验床的联盟、一些全新的东西(从小到大)、所有上述的联盟和/或与相关国际努力的联盟。目标是促进创新创业和经济增长。

The major objective of GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovation), a virtual laboratory for exploring future internets at scale, is to create major new opportunities to understand, innovate and transform global networks and their interactions with society. Dynamic and adaptive, GENI opens up new areas of research at the frontiers of network science and engineering, and increases the opportunity for significant socio-economic impact. GENI will employ a flexible and adaptable framework that incorporates spiral development, i.e., iterative prototyping, and federation, i.e., connecting heterogeneous networks, substrates and technologies. It is expected that each turn of the spiral will take advantage of what currently exists, what has been learned from the previous spiral, what can fruitfully be federated and what might be achieved through new development and prototyping activities. Spiral 1 will allow academic-industry partners to create end-to-end GENI prototypes with a strong emphasis on the design and implementation of multiple GENI control frameworks. The ultimate goal is to design end-to-end prototypes of a virtual laboratory with a suite of infrastructure that will support future experiments and research challenges articulated by the Network Science and Engineering (NetSE) research community.Intellectual Merit: This award gives funding to BBN Technologies to provide management and oversight of all GENI-related activities. GENI will 1) support at-scale experimentation on shared, heterogeneous, highly-instrumented infrastructure, 2) enable deep programmability throughout the network, promoting innovations in network science, technologies, services and applications, and 3) provide collaborative and exploratory environments for academia, industry, and the public to catalyze groundbreaking discoveries and innovation.Broader Impact: Encouraging community engagement is critical to success. A GENI outreach plan will be developed and implemented. Each year, three GENI Engineering Conferences will be held. Open application for travel grants will ensure that researchers and students at underserved academic institutions and regions of the country will be able to participate. Potential partners in industry and international funding agencies will also be encouraged to attend. Students and young faculty will be hired as interns at BBN. As needed, interdisciplinary workshops will be convened that bring together researchers that don?t normally communicate, but from which GENI and the research community can benefit. There is no pre-ordained outcome for these activities; the resultant GENI infrastructure suite could be an enahanced Internet, enhanced testbeds, federations of enhanced testbeds, something brand new (from small to large), federation of all of the above and/or federation with related international efforts. The goal is to promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth.