Proposal for Organizing the 21st GENI Engineering Conference

该项目支持举办为期四天的第21届GENI工程会议，包括组织和主持演示会议，该会议将于2014年10月20日至23日在印第安纳州布卢明顿的印第安纳大学（IU）举行。全球网络创新环境（GENI）是一种虚拟仪器，在美国以原型形式迅速出现。GENI是一个旨在解决三个问题的工具：1)科学问题：我们目前无法理解或预测复杂的大规模网络的行为。2)社会问题：我们越来越依赖互联网，但不确定我们是否可以信任它的安全性、隐私性或弹性。3)创新问题：在geni之前，对新架构、服务和技术的大规模实验存在实质性障碍。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的实验性服务的野外试验，并吸引大量的人类参与者。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。本项目支持该研究仪器的开发和使用。为期四天的会议将在布卢明顿校区中心的印第安纳纪念联盟（IMU）比德尔酒店和会议中心举行。演示之夜活动将在网络基础设施大楼（CIB）举行，该大楼位于印第安纳大学校园边缘不断发展的科技园。该活动的活动策划和后勤支持将由IT通信办公室的活动团队协调，该团队在会议策划方面拥有丰富的经验，并可获得执行和内部技术支持。IT通信办公室是大学信息技术服务（UITS）的一部分，该服务在整个大学保持现代化的IT环境，以支持研究，教学，外展和终身学习。

This project supports hosting the four day 21th edition of the GENI Engineering conference, including organizing and hosting the demo session, to be held October 20 to 23, 2014 at the Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, Indiana. The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual instrument that is rapidly emerging in prototype form across the United States. GENI is an instrument designed to address three issues: 1) Science Issues: We cannot currently understand or predict the behavior of complex,large-scale networks. 2) Society Issues: We increasingly rely on the Internet but are unsure we can trust its security, privacy or resilience. 3) Innovation Issues: Pre-GENI substantial barriers existed 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 amongst 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 project supports the development and use of the research instrument.The four-day conference will be held at the Indiana Memorial Union (IMU) Biddle Hotel and Conference Center at the heart of the Bloomington campus. The demo night event will be held at the Cyberinfrastructure Building (CIB), located in IU's growing tech park at the edge of campus. Event planning and logistical support for the event will be coordinated by the IT Communications Office's events team, which has extensive experience in conference planning and access to executive and internal technical support. The IT Communications Office is part of University Information Technology Services (UITS), which maintains a modern IT environment throughout the university in support of research, teaching, outreach, and lifelong learning.