Internet2

Transport Working Group

Members

Co-chairs: Steven Senger (senger at cs dot uwlax dot edu)   Chester Ruszczyk (chester at haystack dot mit dot edu)

Jeff Boote, Larry Dunn, Susan Evett, Ezra Kissel, Martin Swany, Jason Zurawski

Mission

The Transport Working Group will study and report to NTAC on tooling and functional requirements for data movement services in advanced networks. 

Description

The Transport Working Group will serve as a forum for the Internet2 community to study, discuss and make recommendations to NTAC on issues related to data movement in advanced networks. Areas of interest include tooling that improves end-to-end data movement over standard network architectures as well as hybrid network models and supporting software. The group will develop functional requirements for existing data movement services as well as study and make recommendations on future technologies to support data movement in advanced networks.

Current Activities

1) Define functional requirements for Phoebus data movement service.
2) Review the Bulk Transport Design Space Survey document and develop a current snapshot of VFER and similar transport protocols.
3) Stay current with other protocol development with respect to future network architectures.

Mailing List

The mailing list transport (hosted at the domain internet2.edu) is publicly archived and open to subscriptions.

I2 Phoebus Deployment

The Transport Working Group recommended to NTAC that the Phoebus deployment in Internet2 be completed to include gateways at New York, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, Kansas City, Salt Lake, Seattle and Los Angeles. This deployment was completed in fall 2010. Members of the working group have done a variety of experiments using this Phoebus deployment including demonstrations at SC10.

Phoebus Project Home at the Univ. of Delaware

Research Overview: The Logistical Session Layer (LSL)

Phoebus Use Cases and Performance Results

Phoebus Gateway Status Page

Quickstart for using I2 Phoebus Deployment

VFER

Sourceforge Project Site

Documents

Presentation

Meetings and Teleconferences