Collaborative Research: NeTS-FIND: Value Flows and Risk Management Architecture for Future Internet

合作研究：NeTS-FIND：未来互联网的价值流和风险管理架构

• 批准号: 0721609
• 负责人: Aparna Gupta
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0721609&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NeTS; FIND; Value

The Internet's simple best-effort packet-switched architecture lies at the core of its tremendous success and impact. However, current Internet architecture allows neither (i) users to indicate their value choices at sufficient granularity nor (ii) providers to manage risks involved in investment for new innovative QoS technologies and business relationships with other providers as well as users. To allow these flexibilities, this project investigates "contract-switching" as a new paradigm for future Internet. Just like packet-switching enabled flexible and efficient multiplexing of data in the Internet, a contract-switched network will enable flexible and economically efficient management of risks and value flows.Intellectual Merit: This project focuses on the design of a contract-switching framework in the context of multi-domain QoS contracts. It addresses the challenges involved in the development of decentralized inter-domain protocol mechanisms that can dynamically compose and price complex end-to-end contracts. The project formulates this end-to-end contract composition as a "contract routing" problem, resembling the QoS routing algorithms. This research also develops an appropriate abstraction necessary for pricing of QoS contracts, dynamically composable contracts in space and time. The project employs financial engineering techniques to provide risk sharing mechanisms and money-back guarantee structures for the QoS contracts.Broader Impact: This research brings together network architecture design and financial engineering tools. This interdisciplinary work can inspire usage of economic tools for security problems like spam and DDoS attacks. The project will be especially beneficial to the Internet policy makers. Management of risks with economic efficiency tools and financial derivatives has several areas of impact such as water, electricity, insurance, real-options analysis, investment under uncertainty, and understanding the impact of open-source technologies.

互联网的巨大成功和影响的核心在于其简单的尽力而为的分组交换体系结构。然而，目前的互联网架构既不允许(i)用户以足够的粒度表明他们的价值选择，也不允许（ii）提供商管理投资于新的创新QoS技术以及与其他提供商和用户的业务关系所涉及的风险。为了实现这些灵活性，本项目将“契约转换”作为未来互联网的新范式进行研究。就像分组交换在互联网中实现了灵活和高效的数据复用一样，合同交换网络将实现灵活和经济高效的风险和价值流管理。智力优势：该项目侧重于在多域QoS契约环境下的契约交换框架的设计。它解决了开发分散的域间协议机制所涉及的挑战，这些机制可以动态地组成复杂的端到端合同并为其定价。该项目将这种端到端契约组合表述为“契约路由”问题，类似于QoS路由算法。本研究还发展了一种适当的抽象，为QoS契约定价所必需，在空间和时间上动态组合的契约。该项目采用金融工程技术为QoS合同提供风险分担机制和退款保证结构。更广泛的影响：这项研究将网络架构设计和金融工程工具结合在一起。这种跨学科的工作可以激发对垃圾邮件和DDoS攻击等安全问题的经济工具的使用。该项目将特别有利于互联网政策制定者。使用经济效率工具和金融衍生品管理风险有几个影响领域，如水、电、保险、实物期权分析、不确定性下的投资，以及理解开源技术的影响。