Leading Academic and Industry Researchers to Create and Integrate Rapid Prototypes

BBN Technologies announced today an $11.5M National Science Foundation grant for 33 academic/industrial research teams to accelerate prototyping of a suite of infrastructure for the GENI project with federation and shakedown experiments that will guide future GENI system design. GENI is sponsored by the National Science Foundation to support experimental research in network science and engineering.

GENI, a virtual laboratory at the frontier of network science and engineering for exploring future internets at scale, creates major opportunities to understand, innovate and transform global networks and their interactions with society. Spiral development, with simultaneous development and testing, promotes community feedback, debate, and engagement and guides subsequent development. Spiral I provided design insights for the evolving suite of experimental tools.

"GENI is making significant progress," said Chip Elliott, GENI Project Director. "Now we are ready to begin an intensive campaign of research experimentation, which will enable us to refine and extend today’s prototypes, with a particular focus on security, architecture, workflow tools, user interfaces, and thorough instrumentation."

Companies and institutions engaged in this effort include AT&T; Battelle; Brown University; CA Labs (the research division of CA Inc.); Columbia University; ETRI-Korea; IBM; Indiana University Global Research NOC; Jeffrey Hunker Associates, LLC; KISTI-Korea; Radio Technology Systems, LLC; Rutgers University; Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris; University of California, San Diego; University of Illinois, Chicago; and University of Tokyo.

The complete list of proposals funded in GENI Spiral 2 is as follows:

• Ilia Baldine, The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), and Jeff Chase, Duke University
• Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis
• Prasad Calyam, The Ohio State University (Ohio Supercomputer Center/OARnet)
• Justin Cappos, University of Washington
• Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University
• Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University
• Dave Farber, Consultant
• Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston
• Xiaoyan Hong, The University of Alabama
• Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
• Jiang Li, Howard University
• Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University
• Jason Liu, Florida International University
• Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University
• Rick McGeer, HP Labs
• Kara Nance, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Beth Plale, Indiana University School of Informatics
• Seung-Jong Park, Louisiana State University
• Sean Peisert and S. Felix Wu, University of California, Davis
• Larry Peterson and Michael Freedman, Princeton University
• John Regehr and Robert Ricci, University of Utah
• Stephen Schwab, SPARTA, dba Cobham Analytic Solutions
• Karen Sollins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• James Sterbenz, University of Kansas
• Martin Swany, University of Delaware
• Kuang-Ching Wang, Clemson University
• Von Welch, University of Illinois, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
• Jim Williams, Indiana University
• Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts, Amherst