Organizing the 22nd GENI Engineering Conference (GEC-SC2015) Networking Event

该项目支持为期四天的第22届GENI工程会议（GEC），包括组织和主办演示会议，将于2015年3月23日至26日在乔治华盛顿大学和附近的会议酒店举行。全球网络创新环境（GENI）是一个虚拟工具，正在美国各地迅速投入使用，旨在解决三个问题：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其安全性，隐私性或合法性。3）创新问题：在GENI之前，新的互联网架构、服务和技术的大规模实验存在着巨大的障碍，GENI通过规模来解决这些问题。（来自联邦）并支持两类实验：1）受控和可重复的实验，这将极大地帮助提高我们对复杂、大规模网络的科学理解; 2）长期运行的实验服务，涉及大量的人类参与者。除了GENI的最初动机外，人们还认识到虚拟化、联合软件定义的基础设施（GENI是第一个例子）是构建下一代互联网的关键技术。长期以来，GEC会议和演示会议为研究生提供了在正式出版之前向GENI社区展示和解释他们的工作的机会。为期四天的大会将在弗吉尼亚州的阿灵顿举行，大会将向更大的社区展示和解释GENI及其技术在计算机科学实验和公共利益应用方面的可能性。演示之夜活动将在乔治华盛顿大学的科学和工程大厅（雾谷校区）举行。

This project supports the four-day and 22nd edition of the GENI Engineering Conference (GEC), including organizing and hosting the demo session, to be held March 23-26, 2015, at the George Washington University and at a nearby conference hotel. The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual instrument that is rapidly becoming operational across the United States and that is 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 Internet 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) long-running trials of experimental services that engage large numbers of human participants. In addition to the original motivation for GENI, an understanding has grown that virtualized, federated software-defined infrastructures, of which GENI is a first example, are a key technology for building the next generation of the Internet. The GEC meetings and demo sessions have long provided graduate students with both an opportunity to demonstrate and explain their work to the GENI community prior to formal publication. GEC 22 will provide an opportunity to reach out to a larger community to show and explain the possibilities of GENI and the technology it enables, both for computer science experimentation and for public-benefit applications.The four-day conference will be held in Arlington, Virginia. The demo night event will be held at the George Washington University's Science and Engineering Hall (Foggy Bottom Campus).