General¶
Introduction¶
The Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) and European facility for Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) infrastructures have been built for exploring future Internet at-scale. They support at-scale experimentation on shared and heterogeneous GENI and FIRE resources among multiple users, permits users deep programmability throughout the network, and offers collaborative and exploratory environments for innovative research and education. More and more researchers, educators, and students have started or are starting to conduct research and educational experiments on the GENI and FIRE infrastructures. Please refer to http://www.geni.net and http://www.fed4fire.eu for more information.
The FGRE summit will be held in Ghent, Belgium on July 11-15, 2016. It consists of a keynote speech, tutorials, hands-on experiments, and team projects. The summit will provide participants opportunities to learn and use the various resources and tools available in Fed4FIRE and GENI environment. Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty member at different-level colleges and researchers from industry (both SME and large companies) are welcome to participate.
Contact¶
For all questions, you can contact fgresummit@gmail.com. If you want to attend, then please send an email to fgresummit@gmail.com and fill in the form at http://goo.gl/forms/R573XBlPn3WFe7oA2 .
Detailed agenda¶
First day is a plenary general introduction. On Tuesday, there are parallel tracks on big data, wireless/IoT/SmartCity, Cloud. On Wednesday there are parallel tracks on LTE and Openflow.
Monday¶
Tuesday¶
- Big data track (These sessions are in “Priorzaal”, at the 1st floor)
- Wireless/IoT/SmartCity track (These sessions are in “Zaal Rector Vermeylen”, on the stairs between floor 1 and 2)
- Hands-on tutorial on wireless experimentation (and mobility with robots)
- Hands-on tutorial on using Smart City data (Smart Santander and City of Things in Antwerp)
- Hands-on tutorial on IoT sensors
- Cloud track (These sessions are in “Zaal Oude Infirmerie”, at the 2nd floor)
- Hands-on tutorial on cloudlab
- Hands-on tutorial on automating experimentation through ansible, geni-lib, chef, ... (slides and links)
Wednesday¶
- LTE track (These sessions are in “Priorzaal”, at the 1st floor)
- Hands-on tutorial on GENI infrastructure (Orbit and witest) (slides)
- Hands-on tutorial on Fed4FIRE and FLEX infrastructure (Nitos) (slides)
- Hands-on tutorial on Phantomnet (combining EPC, SDN, cloud and emulation) (slides)
- Openflow track (These sessions are in “Zaal Oude Infirmerie”, at the 2nd floor)
- Hands-on tutorial on Openflow with software openvswitches (slides and links)
- Hands-on tutorial on Openflow with openflow hardware
Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday¶
Team Projects
Two rooms are reserved for this:
- Room “Priorzaal”, at the 1st floor
- Room “Zaal Oude Infirmerie”, at the 2nd floor
Presentation guidelines (for the team projects)¶
- problem statement
- experiment design
- used resources/tools
- live demo
- future work (if any)
- collaboration opportunities
- feedback on experimentation process (resources, tools, what works/doesn’t, what’s missing)
Travel information¶
Location in the city center of Ghent¶
iMinds - Ghent University
Congrescentrum Het Pand
Onderbergen 1
9000 Gent
Belgium
Hotels¶
No block bookings of rooms have been made. It is however recommended to make the hotel reservations soon as July is the start of the touristic season in Ghent.
- NOVOTEL Gent Centrum (http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-0840-novotel-gent-centrum/index.shtml)
- IBIS Hotel Cathedral (http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-0961-ibis-gent-centrum-st-baafs-kathedraal/index.shtml)
- Marriott Hotel (http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/gnemc-ghent-marriott-hotel/)
How to get to Gent¶
- by plane: fly into Brussels Airport and then take a train to Gent (main railway station in Gent is called “Gent - Sint Pieters”)
- by train: Trains from the Airport in Brussels run several times per hour and the ride takes about 1 hour. There are direct trains (only on weekdays), but most of the times you have to switch trains in Brussels.
Be careful... there are 2 train tracks going from Brussels to Gent .. a slow one and a fast one.. so check the arrival times in Gent as the first train leaving Brussels may not be the 1st to get you to Gent. You can check the website of the Belgian Trains at: http://www.belgianrail.be/ and you should fill in “Brussels Airport” as start and “Gent-Sint-Pieters” as stop.
Social event Tuesday¶
Boat tour, walking tour and dinner with guide, starting at Korenlei, GREEN boat house ‘Bootjes van Gent’, 18:45.