Shared research infrastructure that is globally distributed and widely accessible has been a hallmark of the networking community. This paper presents an initial snapshot of a vision for a possible future of mid-scale distributed research infrastructure aimed at enabling new types of research and discoveries. The paper is written from the perspective of "lessons learned" in constructing and operating the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) infrastructure and attempts to project future concepts and solutions based on these lessons. The goal of this paper is to engage the community to contribute new ideas and to inform funding agencies about future research directions to realize this vision.
@article{arxiv.1803.09886,
title = {The Future of CISE Distributed Research Infrastructure},
author = {Jay Aikat and Ilya Baldin and Mark Berman and Joe Breen and Richard Brooks and Prasad Calyam and Jeff Chase and Wallace Chase and Russ Clark and Chip Elliott and Jim Griffioen and Dijiang Huang and Julio Ibarra and Tom Lehman and Inder Monga and Abrahim Matta and Christos Papadopoulos and Mike Reiter and Dipankar Raychaudhuri and Glenn Ricart and Robert Ricci and Paul Ruth and Ivan Seskar and Jerry Sobieski and Kobus Van der Merwe and Kuang-Ching Wang and Tilman Wolf and Michael Zink},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09886},
year = {2018}
}