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.

互联网的简单尽力而为分组交换架构是其巨大成功和影响的核心。然而，当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）提供商管理新的创新QoS技术投资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，该项目将“合同转换”作为未来互联网的新范例进行研究。就像数据包交换实现了互联网中灵活高效的数据复用一样，合同交换网络也将实现灵活且经济有效的风险和价值流管理。 智力优点：该项目重点关注多域 QoS 合同背景下的合同交换框架的设计。它解决了开发去中心化域间协议机制所涉及的挑战，该机制可以动态地组合和定价复杂的端到端合约。该项目将这种端到端合约组合表述为“合约路由”问题，类似于 QoS 路由算法。这项研究还开发了 QoS 合同定价所需的适当抽象，即空间和时间上的动态可组合合同。该项目采用金融工程技术为 QoS 合约提供风险分担机制和退款保证结构。更广泛的影响：这项研究汇集了网络架构设计和金融工程工具。这项跨学科的工作可以激发人们使用经济工具来解决垃圾邮件和 DDoS 攻击等安全问题。该项目对于互联网政策制定者尤其有利。使用经济效率工具和金融衍生品进行风险管理具有多个影响领域，例如水、电、保险、实物期权分析、不确定性下的投资以及了解开源技术的影响。