The GENI Book

Rick McGeer is a Principal Investigator with the Communications Design Group at SAP Labs, Chief Scientist at US Ignite, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the ACM. He is the author of over 100 papers in the fields of networking, distributed systems, programming language design, formal verification, timing analysis and logic design. He is the author of Integrating Functional and Temporal Analysis of Logic Circuits. Mark Berman is Vice President for Technology Development at Raytheon BBN Technologies and GENI Project Director. Mark works with the GENI community, which spans dozens of universities, government and industry partners, to ensure that GENI is well designed, technically feasible, and satisfies its research requirements. Mark's research interests are in the area of complex distributed systems and their usability. He has twice (1966, 2006) been named Time's Person of the Year (shared). Chip Elliott is Chief Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College, and a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE. He served as the first GENI Project Director. Robert Ricci is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, and one of the directors of the Flux Research Group. He earned a PhD from the University of Utah in 2010, and an Honors BS from Utah in 2001. His research interests are in the fields of systems and networking, and much of his energy has gone into creating top-quality experimental environments. He has worked in a diverse set of areas including distributed systems, combinatorial optimization, security, networking, simulation, and embedded systems. He has been a primary architect and implementor of Emulab and follow-on systems such as ProtoGENI and CloudLab since 2000.

Introduction.- The Origins of GENI: An Informal Development History.- Emulab.- DETERLab and the DETER Project.- ORBIT: Wireless Experimentation.- GENI Architecture Foundation.- The Need for Flexible Mid-scale Computing Infrastructure.- A Retrospective on ORCA: Open Resource Control Architecture.- Programmable, Controllable Networks.- 4G Cellular Systems in GENI.- Authorization and Access Control: ABAC.- The GENI Experiment Engine.- The GENI Mesoscale Networks.- ExoGENI: A Multi-Domain Infrastructure-as-a-Service Testbed.- The InstaGENI Project.- The Experimenter View of GENI.- The GENI Desktop.- Walk Through the GENI Experiment Cycle.- GENI in the Classroom.- The Ignite Distributed Collaborative Scientific Visualization System.- US Ignite and Smarter GENI Cities.- Europe's Mission in Next-Generation Networking with Special Emphasis on the German-Lab Project.- SAVI Testbed for Applications on Software-Defined Infrastructure.- Research and Development on Network Virtualization Technologies in Japan: VNode and FLARE Projects.- Building a Worldwide Network.

"The book is a fantastic compendium of various papers picked to highlight the advances in the GENI project. It is a great book for master's or PhD-level research professionals." (Naga Narayanaswamy, Computing Reviews, May, 2017)