Title: Integrating a CRON (Cyberinfrastructure of Reconfigurable Optical Network)

         Testbed into ProtoGENI

Duration:2008 to 2011
 

PI: Seung-Jong Park, Assistant Professor, CS Department and Center for Computation & Technology

Co-PI: Rajgopal Kannan, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
 

Amount: $266,688
                                                                                                           

Funded By: NSF

                                                                                                             Dr. Seung Jong Park
Abstract:
 

The goal of this project is to integrate a cyberinfrastructure of reconfigurable optical networking environment (CRON) testbed into PrtotoGENI control framework which is one of cluster projects under the GENI project.

Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project is a collaborative multi-institutional project supported by NSF to build a virtual laboratory for exploring future Internets at scale. It creates major opportunities to understand, innovate and transform global networks and their interactions with society. And CRON is the project funded by NSF (Major Research Instrumentation program, award #0821741), which builds a virtual high speed optical networking and computing testbed. The CRON can provide four 10Gbps optical paths emulated with hardwares, four 5Gbps optical paths emulated by softwares simultaneously.

At this new project, the CRON testbed will be integrated into one of GENI testbeds so that network researchers at GENI project can share the CRON testbed resources, such as 10Gbps virtual networks as well as other resources at GENI testbeds, such as wireless sensor/mesh/cellular networks and internet-scale networks.