Collaborative Research: Systems of Networked Embedded Devices

该奖项设立了为期一年的NSF规划补助金，作为NSF/CISE Clean-slate Internet Reinventive Initiative（CIRI）的一部分，旨在为下一代互联网制定研究议程。 互联网影响了社会的方方面面：它从根本上改变了企业、政府和普通公民接收、管理和提供服务的方式。然而，有一个基本的不匹配的设计之间的原始的“尽力而为”的互联网协议和实时控制系统域的要求。 由于当前大多数实时网络是孤立的，因此已经开发了各种不同的且在很大程度上不兼容的实时网络协议，并将其标准化以供在各种应用领域中的行业采用。 例如：用于工业过程控制的现场总线，用于航空的ARINC，以及用于汽车应用的CAN和FlexRay。 然而，越来越多的安全关键应用，如医疗系统，关键基础设施，如电网和制造业，以及汽车和航空系统依赖于网络互操作。 这项计划活动将汇集真实的时间嵌入式系统和网络社区重新思考如何连贯的“真实的时间互联网”服务可以提供，并建立要求，方法和未来的实时互联网能力的研究需求。

This award establishes a 1-year NSF planning grant as part of the NSF/CISE Clean-slate Internet Reinvention Initiative (CIRI), which aims to develop the research agenda for a next-generation Internet. The Internet has impacted all aspects of society: it has fundamentally changed the manner in which corporations, governments, and ordinary citizens receive, manage, and deliver services. However, there is a fundamental mismatch between the design of the original "best-effort" Internet protocols and the requirements of the real-time control system domain. Since the majority of real-time networks currently are isolated, a variety of disparate and largely incompatible real-time network protocols have been developed and standardized for industry adoption in various application domains. Examples are: FieldBus for industrial process control, ARINC for aviation, and CAN and FlexRay in automotive applications. However, increasingly, safety-critical applications such as medical systems, critical infrastructures such as the power grid and, manufacturing, and automotive and aviation systems depend on networked interoperation. This planning activity will bring together the real time embedded systems and networking communities to rethink how coherent "real time Internet" services could be provided and to establish requirements, approaches, and research needs for future real-time Internet capability.