22nd GENI Engineering Conference Competition
Sponsored by Cisco Systems®, the competition at the 22nd Global Environment for Network Innovators (GENI) Engineering Conference (GEC22) aims to discover, develop and encourage talent in developing innovative applications. GENI provides a virtual laboratory for networking and distributed systems research and education. It is well suited for exploring networks at scale, thereby promoting innovations in network science, security, services and applications.
The GENI Competition Objective is to design, build and launch a unique application by:
- Obtaining compute resources from locations around the United States;
- Connecting compute resources using Layer 2 networks in topologies best suited to their experiments;
- Installing custom software or even custom operating systems on these compute resources;
- Controlling how network switches in their experiment handle traffic flows; and
- Running their own Layer 3 and above protocols by installing protocol software into their compute resources and providing flow controllers for the switches.
Deadline
March 15, 2015
12:00 PM
Places
- 1st Place: $6,500
- 2nd Place: $2,500
- 3rd Place: $1,000
All winners will be showcased at the 22nd GENI Engineering Conference
Requirements
- Use the GENI Infrastructure
- Choose an application to implement and demonstrate the scenario
- Demonstrate solutions or applications on site
Judging Criteria
- Innovation and Uniqueness: Is it an innovative application or concept? Or, is it a new approach to a traditional network problem?
- Technology: Is there a strong technical foundation?
- Advancement: Does it do something more efficiently or effectively compared to the legacy technology?
- Completeness: Is it complete?
- Business value: Is the application feasible as a scalable IT business solution in the near future?
- Presentation skills: Was the application or concept presented effectively, in an organized manner?
Eligibility Requirements
- Participants must be GW students, either an individual or team (up to a five person team)
- The submission must not be equivalent to a commercial product sold in the market, but the GENI application or concept may be composed of, or developed from, GENI utilities such as Openflow, Open Daylight, Sci Pass and other Software-Defined Networking tools
- Each team may have no more than two faculty advisors.
- Advisors are not allowed to participate in the contest presentation or demonstration at the GEC22 conference
- An entrant is not allowed to formally advise any other team, however free exchange of ideas across individuals and teams is encouraged
- The advisor’s name is allowed to be shown in any submitted documents or video.
- The top three teams are required to produce an accompanying poster and attend the GEC22 Demo Night event. Publication of the results of the GENI project are encouraged
Resources
Getting Started:
http://groups.geni.net/geni/wi
http://groups.geni.net/geni/wi
GENI in the classroom and links for instructors:
http://groups.geni.net/geni/wi
Additional Competition Information