GENI as a Research and Development Lab

Deniz Gurkan, PhDOctober 29, 2013

Proposed GENI Usage

• Industry partnerships– Virtual Appliances– Foreign Hardware– Management Software

• Applications– Benchmarking– On-demand Programmability– Network Functions Virtualization

SDP on GENI

Time to Steer Traffic away from Firewall

Network Management

Shakedown

• large scale experiments – not so much, yet• long-running services – somewhat • dynamic experiment topologies – definitely for

network management and foreign boxes• high-bandwidth connectivity – somewhat • novel uses of OpenFlow – yes

What challenges do you expect?

• Foreign box– Physical connectivity– Twin deployment– Programmability through GENI control frameworks

• ExoGENI – starting point• InstaGENI - ?

• Firewall traffic steering– Measurements in a virtualized environment – how

to generalize?

Are you developing any tools? If yes what is their scope/usage?

• I should: esp. for foreign boxes– How to enable other researchers to deploy an

application on a foreign hardware?• Probably control framework dependent

Purpose

• Enrich industry partnerships• Use GENI as a research and development lab