A Note to Participants

Currently, many real-time embedded communities have to build costly domain specific network standards. A goal of GENI is to provide a unified networking infrastructure that can support the convergence of computing, communication and the intelligent monitoring and control of our physical environment. To reach this goal, we want to develop taxonomy of networked real time embedded devices, characterize their QoS requirements, identify the key research issues, and promote collaborations.

1. How can we characterize the QoS requirements of:
   1. Loosely coupled wide area system of systems such as power generation, distribution and control as well as network centric collaborative engagement?
   2. Tightly coupled local systems such as automobile, avionics, manufacturing plants and chemical process control?
   3. Newly emerging high reliability and delay sensitive wireless based systems such as operating rooms of the future?
2. For each class, what are the MINIMAL and LOWEST COST QOS supports that GENI (the underlying networking infrastructure) must support so that your [Avionics/power/auto/space/medical] community would consider abandoning your domain specific standard?
3. How can we abstract diverse QoS requirements and construct a set of QoS mechanisms and put them at the appropriate layers within a coherent framework? What will be the structures of the control (setup and reconfigurations guarantees) and data paths (bandwidth, delay, and jitter guarantees) in a variety of core and peripheral networks including wireless network with high mobility?
4. What kind of experimentation facility do you need to demonstrate underlying mechanisms and applications at scale? How would you design a "shared" facility for the community as opposed to dedicated facility for each group to do experimentation on?
5. How would you promote collaborations among different communities to create the best framework or architectures for real time networked embedded systems?