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

本项目的目标是制定一个非分层互联网络体系结构的框架，其中复杂的通信任务通过以可配置的方式组合基本功能块来完成。该框架包括(1)精细功能的构建块，(2)对组合基本块以完成复杂通信任务的明确支持，以及(3)促进跨层交互的控制元素。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，从而在资源可用性限制的情况下满足应用程序的需求。该架构灵活且可扩展，以促进创新和适应变化，它支持统一的互联网，它允许在网络堆栈中的任何点集成安全和管理功能，并且它可以利用基于硬件的性能增强技术。大量工作致力于充实和完善体系结构的各种要素，并为促进应用程序、网络体系结构和物理层之间的协同奠定理论基础，以便选择适当的功能构建块并针对特定通信任务调整它们的行为。广泛影响该项目有可能在设计可自我配置和自我优化的网络体系结构方面开辟新的方向。自动组装的细粒度功能构建块框架可以成为未来互联网体系结构的核心，该体系结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.