Overview
Global Environments for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual laboratory at the frontiers of network science and engineering. Currently in the prototyping and design stage, GENI will ultimately enable the worldwide research community—including academia, industry and the public—to test ideas and clean-slate designs to envision future internets at scale.
RENCI, in collaboration with Duke University and NC State University, is involved in two main areas of GENI development:
- RENCI and Duke University will use Open Resource Control Architecture (ORCA), a software framework developed at Duke, to implement a prototype for the GENI control plane and deploy it on the Breakable Experimental Network (BEN). This will allow the creation of a ‘GENI island’—a miniature version of the future GENI test bed. BEN, a RENCI-managed, regional experimental network test bed designed to push the limits of networking research, links RENCI’s home office in Chapel Hill to sites at UNC Chapel Hill, Duke and NC State University.
- GENI IMF (Integrated Measurement Framework) is a collaborative effort between NC State University, RENCI and Columbia University to define and implement a measurement framework for performing cross-layer experiments in optical substrate. The primary focus of the project is measurements at the physical optical layer, but it will also be extended to cover more traditional higher layer packet measurement metrics.
Overview
Global Environments for Network Innovations (GENI) is a virtual laboratory at the frontiers of network science and engineering. Currently in the prototyping and design stage, GENI will ultimately enable the worldwide research community—including academia, industry and the public—to test ideas and clean-slate designs to envision future internets at scale.
RENCI, in collaboration with Duke University and NC State University, is involved in two main areas of GENI development:
- RENCI and Duke University will use Open Resource Control Architecture (ORCA), a software framework developed at Duke, to implement a prototype for the GENI control plane and deploy it on the Breakable Experimental Network (BEN). This will allow the creation of a ‘GENI island’—a miniature version of the future GENI test bed. BEN, a RENCI-managed, regional experimental network test bed designed to push the limits of networking research, links RENCI’s home office in Chapel Hill to sites at UNC Chapel Hill, Duke and NC State University.
- GENI IMF (Integrated Measurement Framework) is a collaborative effort between NC State University, RENCI and Columbia University to define and implement a measurement framework for performing cross-layer experiments in optical substrate. The primary focus of the project is measurements at the physical optical layer, but it will also be extended to cover more traditional higher layer packet measurement metrics.
Funding
National Science Foundation GENI Project Office
Partners
Duke University
Infinera
North Carolina State University
Columbia University
Project Team
Ilia Baldine, project leader
More information
ORCA-BEN: http://geni-orca.renci.org
GENI IMF: http://geni-imf.renci.org
BEN: http://ben.renci.org
GENI: http://www.geni.net
