System Engineering Risk Reduction

该奖项为未来的实验性网络基础设施的风险降低活动提供资金，该基础设施将使来自计算机、信息科学和工程以及经济学和社会科学的不同学科的研究人员摆脱当今互联网限制的研究环境。这种基础设施将允许研究人员对他们自己独特的网络(即多个端到端的“切片”)进行编程，这些网络运行在联合的、不同的主干和边缘网络上，以测试新的协议(可能是也可能不是基于TCP/IP的)、受经济博弈论或人工智能(在最初想象互联网时还不存在)最新发现启发的新体系结构，和/或新的跨层研究--例如，信息隐私或安全等包含人类价值的功能成为网络体系结构的组成部分，而不是事后的想法。其目的是对这一基础设施进行深度检测，以便研究人员能够监控他们正在进行的实验，收集有关使用新协议、设计和架构的数据，并分析流量的紧急行为。该项目的主要成果包括1)识别和减少技术风险，以及2)扩大和加强社区在规划试验性网络基础设施方面的参与。重要的外联活动将包括尽可能广泛的研究和教育界就这种基础设施的研究范围和规模进行对话，这有望加深他们对设计进程的参与，并有助于确保未来的基础设施满足他们的需求。

This award funds risk reduction activities for a future, experimental network infrastructure that will allow researchers from diverse disciplines across computer and information science and engineering as well as from economics and the social sciences to escape today's Internet-circumscribed research environment. This infrastructure will allow researchers to program their own unique networks (i.e., multiple end-to-end "slices") that run on federated, heterogeneous backbones and edge networks to try out new protocols (that may or may not be TCP/IP-based), new architectures inspired by recent discoveries in economic game theory or artificial intelligence (that didn't exist when the Internet was first imagined), and/or new cross-layer research whereby functionalities that incorporate human values, such as information privacy or security, for example, become integral parts of the network architecture as opposed to an afterthought. The intention is for this infrastructure to be deeply instrumented so that researchers will be able to monitor their ongoing experiments, collect data on the use of novel protocols, designs and architectures, and analyze the emergent behaviors of traffic. Major outcomes from this project include 1) identification and reduction of technical risks, and 2) broadening and strengthening community participation in planning the experimental network infrastructure. Significant outreach activities will include the widest possible array of research and education communities in dialogue about the scope and scale of research on such an infrastructure, which promises to deepen their participation in the design process and helps to ensure that the future infrastructure meets their needs.