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Creating a Worldwide Network for the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) and Related Experimental Environments

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Many important societal activities are global in scope, and as these activities continually expand world-wide, they are increasingly based on a foundation of advanced communication services and underlying innovative network architecture, technology, and core infrastructure. To continue progress in these areas, research activities cannot be limited to campus labs and small local testbeds or even to national testbeds. Researchers must be able to explore concepts at scale—to conduct experiments on world-wide testbeds that approximate the attributes of the real world. Today, it is possible to take advantage of several macro information technology trends, especially virtualization and capabilities for programming technology resources at a highly granulated level, to design, implement and operate network research environments at a global scale. GENI is developing such an environment, as are research communities in a number of other countries. Recently, these communities have not only been investigating techniques for federating these research environments across multiple domains, but they have also been demonstration prototypes of such federations. This chapter provides an overview of key topics and experimental activities related to GENI international networking and to related projects throughout the world.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to express appreciation for the support of the projects described here from many organizations, including the National Science Foundation, the GENI Program Office (GPO), the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Science, the StarLight International/National Communications Exchange Facility consortium, the Metropolitan Research and Education Network, and the Open Cloud Consortium. The International Multi-Domain Automatic Network Topology Discovery Project is sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C. under contract number MOST 103-2221-E-492-030. The University of Amsterdam would like to thank the Dutch National Program COMMIT. This project also would like to acknowledge all participants of TWAREN SDN Testbed, including National Cheng Kung University, National Central University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, National Ilan University, National Chiao Tung University, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories, International Center for Advanced Internet Research, JGN-X, and SURFnet, for their helping of setup, testing, and troubleshooting.

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  1. International Center for Advanced Internet Research Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Joe Mambretti, Jim Chen & Fei Yeh

  2. China Science and Technology Network, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Jingguo Ge, Junling You & Tong Li

  3. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Cees de Laat & Paola Grosso

  4. National Center for High-Performance Computing, National Applied Laboratories, Hsinchu City, Taiwan

    Te-Lung Liu

  5. National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Mon-Yen Luo

  6. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Aki Nakao

  7. Integrated Communication Systems Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Paul Müller

  8. SURFnet, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ronald van der Pol

  9. University of Essex, Colchester, UK

    Martin Reed

  10. Brazilian Research and Education Network—RNP, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Michael Stanton

  11. National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan City, 701, Taiwan

    Chu-Sing Yang

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Mambretti, J. et al. (2016). Creating a Worldwide Network for the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) and Related Experimental Environments. In: McGeer, R., Berman, M., Elliott, C., Ricci, R. (eds) The GENI Book. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33769-2_24

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