The 2nd GENI-FIRE workshop will be held in connection to the Fifth GENI Engineering Conference (GEC5), hosted by University of Washington, and will take place July 20-22, 2009 at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, 1400 6th Avenue · Seattle, Washington 98101.

This workshop is organised by DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission and the National Science Foundation with support of the FIREworks project and the GENI Project Office.

Context

The meeting is the second of a regular series of meetings between the EC and NSF regarding collaborations in internet experimentation. The objective is to explore the synergies of activities in this area and develop joint work. The workshop will mainly focus on understanding federation, how it should be deployed and how users would benefit if federation was achieved, both for homogeneous and heterogeneous testbeds.

The full report on the 2nd GENI-FIRE.

Seattle, 22 July 2009, 11:30 - 18:00

11:30-12:00 Lunch

12:00-12:30 Greetings from the NSF (Suzi Iacono and Ty Znati) and EC (Per Blixt)

12:30-12:45 GENI Overview and latest developments (Aaron Falk, BBN / GPO)

12:45-13:30 Federation in GENI (5 presentations)

Speakers: Larry Peterson (Princeton / PlanetLab), Robert Ricci (Utah / Emulab), Max Ott (NiCTA / ORBIT), Yufeng Xin (RENCI / ORCA), James Sterbenz (KU / GpENI) – moderated by Joe Evans

• Progress to date for the federation of GENI testbeds, and attempts at GENI / FIRE

14:30-14:45 Break

14:45-15:00 FIRE Overview (Serge Fdida)

15:00-16:45 Federation approaches in FIRE (4 presentations)

Speakers: Thierry Parmentelat (INRIA / Onelab2), Anastasius Gavras (Eurescom / PII) & Thomas Magedanz (Fokus – PII), Wim de Waele (IBBT), Mauro Campanella (GARR / Federica) – moderated by Serge Fdida

• Federation in the FIRE projects, short and long term issues?
  

16:45-17:00 Break

17:00-17:30 Enabling New Research (2 presentations)

Speakers: Martin May (Thomson), Guru Parulkar (Stanford) - moderated by Susanna Avéssta

• What research might we enable by federation? Who are the users?
• Presentation of Use Cases for collaboration across the Atlantic– what could we fruitfully do in the next year to implement GENI / FIRE federation, what is already underway, what specific actions are needed from researchers and government?

17:30-18:00 What Next? (moderated by Joe Evans)

• What have we collectively learned?
• What kind of GENI / FIRE federation do we need to enable experiments?
• Current and future plans