Pre-design Study Group Proposal

全球网络创新环境（GENI）项目办公室（GENT）将开展多项规划活动，旨在确保在GENI光学基板的设计过程中咨询并采纳最佳研究和行业观点。 这些活动包括一个有重点的研究小组活动沿着一个讲习班。 我们将鼓励广大的光学研究和学术界参与我们的规划工作。 这项工作是需要解决一些能力/成本/复杂性的问题，最近出现的特定的光学领域。该研究小组还将确定具体领域的风险降低的目标，在GENI？的设计努力。所有结果将最终形成一份最终报告，该报告将与其他领域的现有基底材料一起流入GENI项目办公室计划作为GENI设施设计组之一的基底工作组。 我们计划开展五项具体任务和研讨会，以进一步了解并为GENI设施基板提供方向。这些活动将主要集中在基于光纤的系统和技术上，但旨在加强光学层和无线基板之间的合作和理解，以及GENI设施的处理和高层功能。一旦这项工作完成，它将被提交给新兴基板工作组，该工作组将负责将GENI基板的各个部分整合到一个有凝聚力的架构中。拟议的活动包括集体头脑风暴和一系列报告的准备集中在五个关键主题的光学基板架构的近期发展至关重要。这些主题是：-跨层研究议程，-光子集成趋势，-商业路线图，-光边缘架构，和-多种候选GENI拓扑结构。为研究提供强大的基础设施，GENI的使命，以及ESTA，具有广泛的利益和影响。 这项规划活动预计将增加实验人员从GENI设计中获得的光学基板的未来验证，相关性和现实性，从而增强基础设施的影响。

The Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) Project Office (GPO) GPO will carry out several planning activities, all aimed at ensuring that the best research and industry viewpoints are consulted and brought to bear in the design process for GENI's optical substrate. These activities include a focused study group activity along with a workshop. We will encourage that the broad optical research and academic community participate in our planning efforts. This work is needed to address some of the capability/cost/complexity questions that have arisen recently specific to the optical area. The study group will also identify specific areas that are targets for risk reduction in GENI?s design effort. All the results will culminate in a final report that will flow, together with the existing substrate materials for the other areas, into a substrate working group that the GENI Project Office plans as one of the GENI facility design groups. We plan to work on five specific tasks and workshops in order to further understanding and provide direction for the GENI facility substrate. These activities will focus primarily on the optical-fiber based systems and technologies, but are intended to enhance collaboration between and understanding between the optical layer and the wireless substrate as well as processing and higher layer functions of the GENI facility. Once this work is complete, it will be submitted to the emerging substrate working group, which will be charged with integrating the pieces of the GENI substrate into a cohesive architecture. The proposed activities include group brainstorming and preparation of a series of reports centered on five key topics crucial to the near-term development of the optical substrate architecture. The topics are:- Cross layer research agenda,- Photonic integration trends,- Commercial roadmap,- Optical edge architectures, and- Multiple candidate GENI topologies.Providing powerful infrastructure for research, the mission of GENI, and of the GPO, has broad benefits and impacts. This planning activity is expected to increase the future-proofing, relevance and realism of the optical substrate that experimenters will have available from the GENI design, and thus enhance the impact of the infrastructure.