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Wireless Infrastructure and GENI

Ivan Seskar, Francesco Bronzino

Rutgers University

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GENI: Infrastructure for Experimentation

GENI provides compute resources that can be connected in experimenter specified Layer 2 topologies.

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GENI Wireless Resources

GENI Racks GENI Wireless (compute) nodes

ORBIT

Android Samsung Galaxy S2 handsets

GENI WiMAX/LTE Base Stations

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• 29 Wimax/LTE Base Stations in 13 Sites

• 90+ android handsets available to experimenters

• 36 wireless (yellow) nodes

• Uniform experimenter experience using yellow nodes and OMF

• Sliced, virtualized and interconnected through Internet2

GENI WiMAX Deployments 2014

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GENI WiMAX Deployment 2014

Wayne State

Clemson

U Michigan

Columbia

UMassU Wisconsin

Madison

U ColoradoBoulder

UCLA

Stanford

Rutgers

Temple

Drexel

NYU

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GENI WiMAX Spectrum Management

• Agreement with Sprint – Sprint and Rutgers University have signed a master spectrum agreement

encompassing all WiMAX sites, to ensure operation in the EBS Band.– An emergency stop procedure, in case of interference with Sprint service, has

been agreed upon.

• SciWinet GENI Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO)

- Partner with Sprint and Arterra (a Sprint partner) to create and operate an (MVNO) that serves the academic research community

- The effort is led by Jim Martin, KC Wang and Ivan Seskar, to learn more: http://sciwinet.org

WiMAX Developers sessionMon: 1:30pm – 3:30pm

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OPEN BTS Software: WiMAX

eth1

eth0.vl1 eth0.vl2 eth0.vln

control

OpenVSwitch

Traffic Scheduler/Shaper

RF Aggregate Manager

eth2

eth0

data

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OPEN BTS Software: LTE

OpenVSwitch

RF/ePC Aggregate Manager

eth2

eth0.vl1

eth0.vl2

eth0.vln

X2,S

1-U,S

1-MM

E,...

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GENI WiMAX Site Network Architecture

• WiMAX and Wifi edge networks.• Layer 2 dataplane connectivity to

GENI racks.

• Multi-point VLAN interconnecting all WiMAX sites via racks.

Legend

GENI-enabled hardware

Layer 3Control Plane

Layer 2Data Plane

ResearchBackbones

Internet

Regional NetworkWireless Edge

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WiFi

WiMAX

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GENI Wireless Logical Architecture

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GENI WiMAX Portal Integration

• GENI Portal accounts work with OMF login service.

• GENI wireless resources can be reserved and used with Portal accounts.

• WiMAX handoff tutorial @ GEC 20 used portal accounts to reserve ORBIT resources.

• Expansion plan to include to all GENI WiMAX sites by GEC 21.

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Today’s Wireless Demos1. MobilityFirst Demo, Francesco Bronzino, Rutgers University

2. Blending GENI with SciWiNet to Scale

Education/Experimentation with Wireless, Jim Martin

Clemson University

3. GENI-Enabled Vehicular Sensing and Control Networking:

From Experiments to Applications, Jing Hua, Wayne State

University,

4. Dynamic sensor value estimation for minimizing message

exchange in wireless sensor networks, Fraida Fund, NYU

Polytechnic School of Engineering,

5. GENI takes flight and the Pi in the Sky, Suman Banerjee,

University of Wisconsin-Madison,

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Mobilityfirst Architecture Design

• Separation of names (ID) and network addresses (NA).

• Public Key Based Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) for network objects.

• Global Name Resolution Service (GNRS) for GUID <-> NA mappings.

• Storage-informed segment transport, edge-aware routing.

• Extensible in-network services.

Sue’s Phone

Joe’s Laptop

Media File A Context C

Context Naming Service

Content Naming Service

Host NamingService

Globally Unique Flat Identifiers

Global Name Resolution Service

Integrated Storage

and Computing

In-route Dynamic

Resolution

Hop-by-hop Transport

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Compute Layer Concepts

• Provide easy extensibility/upgrade options for data plane.

• ISPs can use in-network computing to provide value added services (e.g. caching, security, etc.).

• Computing hosts running service instances strategically deployed at one or more Points of Presence (PoPs).

Src GUID Src NA Dst GUID Dst NA SID Ext.

Service Type Service GUID Arguments

Service Extension Header

Base Network Header

Integrated in data plane

Computing hosts runningservice instances

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Compute Layer Examples

• In-network processing and aggregation of sensor data:– sensed data from vehicles and other

in-field sensors can be aggregated in the network by a compute layer service explicitly requested by the originator of the sensed data, thus reducing load on a centralized server.

• Dynamic binding for Context GUID:

• a local context defined as ‘unoccupied cabs in location X’ can be named using a GUID and resolved dynamically by an in-network compute layer service pulling information from a dispatch service to determine what end points qualify for delivery request messages.

• In-line video transcoding:

• More to follow…

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Demo Scenario

GNRS Service PlaneGUID Locator Locator Type Expiry

C P1 GUID never

P1 19 NA 1 day

M 53a NA 1min

1. P1 Publishes content C

Network 53

Network 53a (4G)

Network 53b (wifi)

Provider P1

Cloudlet

Mobile M

get( c )

Network 19

5. Lookup of M

4. Lookup of C

2. Mobile M requests C2. Transcoding

service T registers with router

6. Chunk forwarded to compute layer

7. Transcoded chunk returned

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Demo Topology

UC Davis

U Illinois

Wisconsin U

Utah U

Rutgers

Wifi ClientWimax Client

Transcoding Service

Video Server

GNRS Service distributed between nodes