GpENI: Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation
Project Award Date: 09-01-2008
Description
ITTC will lead regional deployment of network infrastructure to support interdisciplinary research and development of future Internet architectures. Researchers at KU, in collaboration with Kansas State University, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, are recipients of a three-year $462,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation (GpENI) is part of the larger NSF GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) program.
Industrial collaborators include Ciena, whose optical switching and transport platforms will interconnect the GpENI institutions, and Qwest whose fiber is part of the GpENI infrastructure. When implemented, the GpENI infrastructure will be able to support provisioning of bandwidth slices with an advanced programmable architecture, a network foundation to serve as a proving ground for advancement of the GENI objectives.
GpENI is one of only two regional networks funded through Spiral 1 of the NSF GENI program, which is a suite of experimental network research infrastructures that will support a wide range of network science and engineering experiments, including research on future Internet design. All infrastructures are envisioned to be shared among a large number of individual, simultaneous experiments with extensive instrumentation that makes it easy to collect, analyze and share real measurements. GENI prototyping will be conducted using a "spiral development" approach. Simultaneous development and trials enable rapid feedback to help guide evolving designs. Spiral 1 focuses on ways to discover, schedule and control resources for large-scale research experiments and to measure GENI capabilities. Successive spirals will refine and extend the GENI suite in response to the research community’s evolving interests in network science and engineering.
More information on GpENI is available from www.gpeni.net; more information on GENI is available from www.geni.net.
Investigators
Faculty Investigator(s): James Sterbenz (PI), Joseph Evans, Ronqing Hui, Gary Minden
Student Investigator(s): Abdul Jabbar Mohammad, Justin Rohrer, Yufei Cheng
Project Sponsors
Primary Sponsor(s): National Science Foundation
