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

该项目的目标是为非分层的互连网络架构制定一个框架，在该架构中，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)对组合元素块以完成复杂通信任务的显式支持，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体系结构和物理层协同工作，以便在资源可用性限制下满足应用程序的需求。该体系结构是灵活的和可扩展的，以便促进创新和适应变化，它支持统一的Internet，它允许在网络堆栈的任何点集成安全和管理特性，并且它的定位是利用基于硬件的性能增强技术。大量的工作用于充实细节和细化体系结构的各种元素，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为自配置和自优化网络架构的设计开辟新的方向。自动组装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，它与应用程序和物理层协调交互，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.