STI: The Open Network Laboratory - A Resource for High Performance Networking Research

本项目的目的是创建一个供网络研究社区使用的高性能开放式网络实验室(ONL)，以便能够在现实的工作环境中对高级网络概念进行实验评估。该实验室将围绕华盛顿大学开发的一套开源、可扩展的高性能路由器建立，并将通过该计划开发的远程实验室接口(RLI)向远程用户提供这些路由器。该界面将允许用户使用Web表单和图形用户界面的组合来轻松配置和运行实验。它还将允许用户扩展、修改或更换路由器嵌入式处理器中运行的软件，以及类似地扩展、修改或更换路由器的硬件，这些硬件主要使用现场可编程门阵列实现，可以动态重新配置以支持新功能。

The purpose of this project is to create a high performance Open Network Laboratory (ONL) for use by the networking research community, to enable experimental evaluation of advanced networking concepts in a realistic working environment. The laboratory will be built around a set of open-source, extensible, high performance routers that have been developed at Washington University, and which will be made available to remote users through a Remote Laboratory Interface (RLI) to be developed through this program. The interface will allow users to easily configure and run experiments, using a combination of web forms and a graphical user interface. It will also allow users to extend, modify or replace the software running in the routers' embedded processors and to similarly extend, modify or replace the routers' hardware, which is implemented largely using Field Programmable Gate Arrays, which can be dynamically reconfigured to support new capabilities.