Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI) Project Management

全球网络创新环境（GENI）是计算研究社区构想的一个大规模实验设施概念。GENI承诺支持对健壮的新网络、分布式系统和服务体系结构的实验性探索。 它将推进和革命性地大规模了解和发展这些领域。 为了支持GENI的设计和开发流程，BBN Technologies，Corp.将担任GENI项目办公室（GENI Project Office）。与计算机研究界密切合作，该委员会将负责成功完成所有规划、设计和开发活动所需的项目管理，这些活动对充分准备GENI建设至关重要。 智力优势：GENI被设想为一个全面的，大陆规模的研究设施，将允许控制端到端的实验与新的架构，协议，服务，数据传播技术等，运行在一个广泛的国家光纤基础设施与下一代动态光交换和路由，完全可编程的核心和边缘节点，异构传感器网络，无线网络和其他边缘设备。 所有的基础设施将在大量的单独的、同时进行的实验中共享，并将用于测量的收集、分析和汇集。为了管理这样一个复杂的奋进，BBN Technologies将建立一个动态和有效的团队，提供项目管理、高级系统架构、工程和运营规划领导。该中心的管理结构和流程将包括学术部门和工业合作伙伴尽可能广泛的参与，以便在整个规划阶段，几乎可以使用该中心的每一种机制来鼓励广泛的社区参与。该项目需要两种基本类型的活动：（1）必须准备详细的规划文件并通过审查;（2）必须通过分析，原型，实验和试验集成来识别并快速降低施工风险。BBN了解GENI所需的所有技术，并建立了包含所有这些技术的大型系统，从光纤网络到现场部署的城市无线电网络，再到大规模分布式软件系统。BBN将为社区的愿景带来纪律和清晰度，并为构建GENI提供可信，现实和低风险的计划-成功的设计审查的关键。更广泛的影响：GENI的建设和支持的研究旨在导致信息和通信技术的革命，其意义不亚于1950年代的通信数字化和1970年代和1980年代的互联网发展。每个人都必须参与这场革命，而不仅仅是顶级大学。因此，BBN组织了GENI规划过程的每一部分，积极招募代表性不足的群体和机构参与GENI规划，包括性别、种族、残疾、地理等方面的群体和机构。并在全社会广泛传播GENI实验的好处。

The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a large-scale, experimental facility concept conceived by the computing research community. GENI promises to support the experimental exploration of robust new networking , distributed systems, and service architectures. It will advance and revolutionize large scale understanding and development of these areas. In order to support the GENI design and development processes, BBN Technologies, Corp. will serve as the GENI Project Office (GPO). Working closely with the computing research community, the GPO will assume responsibility for the project management necessary to successfully complete all planning, design, and development activities essential to adequately prepare for GENI construction. Intellectual Merit: GENI is envisioned as a comprehensive, continental-scale research facility that will allow controlled end-to-end experimentation with new architectures, protocols, services, data dissemination techniques, and more, running over an extensive national fiber optic infrastructure with next generation dynamic optical switching and routing, fully programmable core and edge nodes, heterogeneous sensor networks, wireless networks and other edge devices. All infrastructure will be shared among a large number of individual, simultaneous experiments and will be instrumented for the collection, analysis and pooling of measurements.In order to manage such a complex endeavor, BBN Technologies will establish a dynamic and effective GPO that provides project management, high-level system architecture, engineering, and operations planning leadership. The GPO management structure and processes will include the broadest possible participation from both academic departments and industrial partners, so that nearly every mechanism in the GPO can be used to encourage broad community participation, throughout the planning phase. This project entails two basic types of activities: (1) detailed planning documents must be prepared and pass review; and (2) construction risks must be identified and rapidly driven down, via analyses, prototypes, experiments, and trial integrations. BBN understands all the technologies required in GENI, and has built large systems incorporating all of them, from optical networking, through field-deployed urban radio networks, to large-scale distributed software systems. BBN will bring discipline and clarity to the community's vision, and provide credible, realistic, and low-risk plans for constructing GENI -- the keys to successful design reviews. Broader Impacts: The construction of GENI and the research that GENI supports is intended to lead to a revolution in information and communications technology as significant as the digitization of communication in the 1950s and the development of the Internet in the 1970s and 1980s. It is essential that everyone participate in this revolution, not just top-tier universities. Accordingly, BBN has structured every part of the GPO's planning processes to aggressively recruit underrepresented groups and institutions into GENI planning, including those of gender, ethnicity, disability, geography, etc. The project includes concrete actions, with objective metrics, for GPO success in building facilities, instrumentation, networks, and ongoing partnerships with underrepresented groups and institutions, for training and education, and for spreading the benefits of GENI experimentation broadly throughout society.