Collaborative Research: NeTS-FIND: The SILO Architecture for Services Integration, controL and Optimization for the Future Internet

这个项目的目标是制定一个框架，为一个非分层的互联网络架构，其中复杂的通信任务是通过组合在一个可配置的方式基本功能块完成。该框架包括（1）精细功能的构建块，（2）明确支持组合元素块以完成复杂的通信任务，以及（3）控制元素以促进跨层交互。这是网络设计的整体视图，允许应用程序与网络架构和物理层协同工作，以便在资源可用性限制范围内满足应用程序的需求。该体系结构灵活且可扩展，以促进创新和适应变化，它支持统一的互联网，允许在网络堆栈的任何点集成安全和管理功能，并定位于利用基于硬件的性能增强技术。大量的工作致力于充实细节和完善架构的各种元素，并为促进应用程序，网络架构，和物理层，以便选择适当的功能构建块，并为特定的通信任务调整其行为。更广泛的影响该项目有可能在设计中开辟新的方向，自配置和自优化的网络架构。自动组装的细粒度功能构建块的框架可以成为未来互联网架构的核心，该架构与应用程序和物理层和谐交互，以优化用户体验。

The objective of this project is to formulate a framework for a non-layered internetworking architecture in which complex communication tasks are accomplished by combining elemental functional blocks in a configurable manner. The framework consists of (1) building blocks of fine functionality, (2) explicit support for combining elemental blocks to accomplish complex communication tasks, and (3) control elements to facilitate cross-layer interactions. This is a holistic view of network design, allowing applications to work synergistically with the network architecture and physical layers so as to meet the application's needs within resource availability constraints. The architecture is flexible and extensible so as to foster innovation and accommodate change, it supports a unified Internet, it allows for the integration of security and management features at any point in the networking stack, and it is positioned to take advantage of hardware-based performance-enhancing techniques. A significant amount of effort is devoted to fleshing out the details and refining the various elements of the architecture, and to laying the theoretical foundations for facilitating a synergy among the applications, network architecture, and physical layers so as to select the appropriate functional building blocks and tune their behavior for a specific communication task.Broader ImpactThis project has the potential to open new directions in the design of self-configurable and self-optimizing network architectures. The framework of automatically assembled fine-grain functional building blocks can be the centerpiece of a future Internet architecture which interacts harmoniously with applications and the physical layer to optimize user experience.