Government Project Description

0516-EX-PL-2008 Text Documents

NEC Laboratories America

2008-12-17ELS_95231

Award#0714770 - Establishing the GENI Project Office (GPO) http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0714770 Award Abstract #0714770 Establishing the GENI Project Office (GPO) NSF Org: CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems Initial Amendment Date: May 24, 2007 Latest Amendment Date: May 12, 2008 Award Number: 0714770 Award Instrument: Cooperative Agreement Program Manager: C. Suzanne Iacono CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering Start Date: May 15, 2007 Expires: April 30, 2011 (Estimated) Awarded Amount to Date: $4999747 Investigator(s): Brig 'Chip' Elliott celliott@bbn.com (Principal Investigator) Sponsor: BBN Technologies Corp. 10 Moulton Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617/873-8000 NSF Program(s): NetS RESEARCH RESOURCES, GENI CONCEPT/DEVELOPMENT Field Application(s): 0000912 Computer Science Program Reference Code(s): HPCC, 9139, 023F Program Element Code(s): 7917, 024F ABSTRACT The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a large-scale, experimental facility concept conceived by the computing research community. GENI promises to support the experimental exploration of robust new networking, distributed systems, and service architectures. It will advance and revolutionize large scale understanding and development of these areas. In order to support the GENI design and development processes, BBN Technologies, Corp. will serve as the GENI Project Office (GPO). Working closely with the computing research community, the GPO will assume responsibility for the project management necessary to successfully complete all planning, design, and development activities essential to adequately prepare for GENI construction. Intellectual Merit: GENI is envisioned as a comprehensive, continental-scale research facility that will allow controlled end-to-end experimentation with new architectures, protocols, services, data dissemination techniques, and more, running over an extensive national fiber optic infrastructure with next generation dynamic optical switching and 1 of 2 11/5/2008 1:28 PM

Award#0714770 - Establishing the GENI Project Office (GPO) http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0714770 routing, fully programmable core and edge nodes, heterogeneous sensor networks, wireless networks and other edge devices. All infrastructure will be shared among a large number of individual, simultaneous experiments and will be instrumented for the collection, analysis and pooling of measurements. In order to manage such a complex endeavor, BBN Technologies will establish a dynamic and effective GPO that provides project management, high-level system architecture, engineering, and operations planning leadership. The GPO management structure and processes will include the broadest possible participation from both academic departments and industrial partners, so that nearly every mechanism in the GPO can be used to encourage broad community participation, throughout the planning phase. This project entails two basic types of activities: (1) detailed planning documents must be prepared and pass review; and (2) construction risks must be identified and rapidly driven down, via analyses, prototypes, experiments, and trial integrations. BBN understands all the technologies required in GENI, and has built large systems incorporating all of them, from optical networking, through field-deployed urban radio networks, to large-scale distributed software systems. BBN will bring discipline and clarity to the community''s vision, and provide credible, realistic, and low-risk plans for constructing GENI -- the keys to successful design reviews. Broader Impacts: The construction of GENI and the research that GENI supports is intended to lead to a revolution in information and communications technology as significant as the digitization of communication in the 1950s and the development of the Internet in the 1970s and 1980s. It is essential that everyone participate in this revolution, not just top-tier universities. Accordingly, BBN has structured every part of the GPO''s planning processes to aggressively recruit underrepresented groups and institutions into GENI planning, including those of gender, ethnicity, disability, geography, etc. The project includes concrete actions, with objective metrics, for GPO success in building facilities, instrumentation, networks, and ongoing partnerships with underrepresented groups and institutions, for training and education, and for spreading the benefits of GENI experimentation broadly throughout society. Please report errors in award information by writing to: awardsearch@nsf.gov. The National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA Tel: (703) 292-5111, FIRS: (800) 877-8339 | TDD: (800) 281-8749 Last Updated:April 2, 2007 2 of 2 11/5/2008 1:28 PM


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