Collaborative Research: NeTS-FIND: SWITCHNET: A Switched Internetworking Architecture with Contracted Services

合作研究：NetS-FIND：SWITCHNET：具有合同服务的交换互联架构

• 批准号: 0831830
• 负责人: Koushik Kar
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0831830&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NeTS; FIND; SWITCHNET

The Internet faces many challenges, including security, management and control. The research project explores a future Internet/networking architecture based on a well-proven hierarchical architecture that is untested at global levels. The architecture includes a flexible addressing scheme and a compact four layer protocol stack. The radical change to the Internet architecture would be potentially transformative from a socioeconomic and business perspective. The scientific problems to be addressed are hence multidisciplinary. The technical and socioeconomic feasibility for the new network architecture, as well as the likely patterns of adoption for such a radical change are investigated. Intellectual merit: This research asks how a fully hierarchical architecture, with adequate redundancy at different levels in this design, results in a robust structure that is also scalable. The solution distributes the "switching decisions," the management of how traffic moves from one point to another, to all levels of a hierarchy of communications providers: it allows the traffic to be managed independently wherever the traffic is flowing. The replaces present highly interdependent routing and network management architecture. The research will show how this architecture is robust and stable with a potential for future growth. A key contribution of the architecture is a scalable and flexible hierarchical addressing scheme, where key network functions are relegated to different levels in the hierarchy, and this also provides better management and control. The research includes proof-of-concept by interfacing diverse wireless networks in the architecture.Broader impact: A new network architecture resulting from the SWITCHNET research could create radical changes in the economics of communications networks and ultimately have a very large impact on the economy and society. The conceptual architecture is almost ideally scalable. It is very much simpler to manage than the present architecture. As an example of the broad impact of SWITCHNET manageability, by enabling fundamentally better provider control, the architecture would open the door to new methods of identifying and pushing back denial of service, an economically and nationally much needed capability. Furthermore, this research could provide the breakthrough architecture for attaining the all-optical goal and thus address that national challenge to create a more energy-efficient network. Approaches to achieving such a purely optical communications infrastructure have long been sought. This research is a close collaboration between technical and business researchers; the architecture research is supported by research on its business and socioeconomic impacts and adoption patterns. Understanding the existing Internet industry and creating appropriate incentives for its stakeholders will increase the chances that the technological innovations in this research will be embraced and implemented.

互联网面临安全、管理和控制等诸多挑战。该研究项目基于未经全球测试的、经过充分验证的分层架构，探索未来的互联网/网络架构。该架构包括灵活的寻址方案和紧凑的四层协议栈。 从社会经济和商业角度来看，互联网架构的彻底改变可能会带来变革。因此，要解决的科学问题是多学科的。研究了新网络架构的技术和社会经济可行性，以及这种根本性变革的可能采用模式。 智力价值：这项研究探讨了一个完全分层的架构，在设计中的不同级别上具有足够的冗余，如何产生一个可扩展的稳健结构。该解决方案将“交换决策”（流量如何从一个点移动到另一个点的管理）分配给通信提供商层次结构的所有级别：它允许在流量流动的任何地方独立管理流量。 它取代了目前高度相互依赖的路由和网络管理架构。 该研究将展示该架构如何稳健、稳定并具有未来增长的潜力。该架构的一个关键贡献是可扩展且灵活的分层寻址方案，其中关键网络功能被降级到层次结构中的不同级别，这也提供了更好的管理和控制。 该研究包括通过在架构中连接不同的无线网络来进行概念验证。更广泛的影响：SWITCHNET 研究产生的新网络架构可能会给通信网络的经济带来根本性的变化，并最终对经济和社会产生非常大的影响。 概念架构几乎是理想的可扩展性。 它比目前的架构管理起来要简单得多。 作为 SWITCHNET 可管理性广泛影响的一个例子，通过从根本上实现更好的提供商控制，该架构将为识别和阻止拒绝服务的新方法打开大门，这是经济上和全国范围内急需的功能。 此外，这项研究可以为实现全光目标提供突破性的架构，从而解决创建更节能的网络的国家挑战。人们长期以来一直在寻求实现这种纯光通信基础设施的方法。 这项研究是技术和商业研究人员之间的密切合作；架构研究得到了对其业务和社会经济影响以及采用模式的研究的支持。了解现有的互联网行业并为其利益相关者创造适当的激励措施将增加本研究中的技术创新被接受和实施的机会。