Introducing hardware and software design exercises into the national networking curriculum

将硬件和软件设计练习引入国家网络课程

• 批准号: 0305729
• 负责人: Nick McKeown
• 金额: $ 46万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-15 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0305729&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Introducing; hardware; software; design; exercises

EIA-0305729Nick McKeownDepartment Electrical EngineeringStanford University"Introducing hardware and software design exercises into the national networking curriculum$460,000This project involves the prototyping and deploying of a National Internet Infrastructure Teaching Facility to allow students at educational institutions across the nation to perform challenging new design exercises as part of their networking curriculum. The unique infrastructure developed by this project will permit students to design, deploy and test fully functioning packet switches (in software or hardware) that process real traffic in a real network. The infrastructure is based upon research done at this institution that produced test versions of two tools - the Virtual Router (permits implementation of software on a local computer that processes packets traversing a remote network), and NetFPGA (permits implementation of a packet switch in programmable hardware using an industry-standard design flow). The Virtual Router makes it possible to implement a software program in the user-space of any computer that processes packets traversing a remote network. This will permit students across the nation to implement an Internet router in user-space on their own computer that routes real traffic traversing a network inside the remote National Teaching Facility. In a similar way, the NetFPGA allows students to implement a packet switch in programmable hardware using an industry-standard hardware design flow. With this infrastructure at their disposal, students can investigate different design tradeoffs in packet switching by using realistic tools directly on real network flows. The project involves the development of fully functioning components of the Virtual Router and NetFPGA, their deployment and local testing in networking courses at Stanford, the distribution of the products for broader use, and, eventually, the creation of a National Teaching Facility that is accessible by all educational institutions.

EIA-0305729 Nick McKeown电气工程系斯坦福大学“将硬件和软件设计练习引入国家网络课程$460，000该项目涉及国家互联网基础设施教学设施的原型设计和部署，以使全国各地教育机构的学生能够执行具有挑战性的新设计练习，作为其网络课程的一部分。该项目开发的独特基础设施将允许学生设计、部署和测试功能齐全的分组交换机（软件或硬件），这些交换机可以处理真实的网络中的真实的流量。该基础设施基于该机构所做的研究，该研究产生了两种工具的测试版本-虚拟路由器（允许在本地计算机上实现软件，处理穿越远程网络的数据包）和NetFPGA（允许使用行业标准设计流程在可编程硬件中实现数据包交换）。虚拟路由器使得在任何处理通过远程网络的数据包的计算机的用户空间中实现软件程序成为可能。这将允许全国各地的学生在他们自己的计算机上的用户空间中实现互联网路由器，该路由器路由穿越远程国家教学设施内的网络的真实的流量。以类似的方式，NetFPGA允许学生使用行业标准的硬件设计流程在可编程硬件中实现分组交换机。有了这个基础设施，学生可以直接在真实的网络流上使用现实的工具来研究分组交换中不同的设计权衡。该项目涉及开发虚拟路由器和NetFPGA的全功能组件，在斯坦福大学的网络课程中部署和进行本地测试，分发产品以供更广泛使用，并最终创建一个所有教育机构都可以使用的国家教学设施。