GENI-VIOLIN: In-Network Snapshotting for GENI Experiments

GENI-VIOLIN's goal is to build an in-network snapshotting infrastructure for GENI experiments. This project is part of the GENI-alpha plenary session for GEC9. Current GENI experiments cannot be suspended/resumed, and often have to be restarted from the beginning, if failures occur in the infrastructure. GENI-VIOLIN solves this problem, by providing "live snapshot" capability to GENI experiments running in GENI slices for fault tolerance, debugging and slice management. GENI-VIOLIN provides the suspend/resume functionality to GENI experiments, with minimal disruption to application performance, while being completely transparent to the application and guest operating systems.

Ardalan Kangarlou, Sahan Gamage, Dongyan Xu (Purdue University)
Pradeep Padala, Bob Lantz, Ulas C. Kozat, Ken Igarashi (DOCOMO USA Labs)