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

互联网面临着许多挑战，包括安全、管理和控制。该研究项目探讨了一个未来的互联网/网络架构的基础上，一个行之有效的层次结构，是在全球范围内未经测试。该体系结构包括一个灵活的寻址方案和一个紧凑的四层协议栈。 从社会经济和商业角度来看，互联网架构的根本变化可能会带来变革。因此，要解决的科学问题是多学科的。新的网络架构的技术和社会经济的可行性，以及可能的模式，采用这样一个根本性的变化进行了调查。 智力优点：本研究询问如何在一个完全分层的架构，在不同层次的设计中有足够的冗余，结果在一个强大的结构，也是可扩展的。该解决方案将“切换决策”（流量如何从一点移动到另一点的管理）分配给通信提供商层次结构的所有级别：无论流量在何处流动，都可以独立管理流量。 这些替代品代表了高度相互依赖的路由和网络管理体系结构。 该研究将展示这种架构是如何强大和稳定的，并具有未来增长的潜力。该架构的一个关键贡献是可扩展和灵活的分层寻址方案，其中关键网络功能被归入分层结构中的不同级别，这也提供了更好的管理和控制。 更广泛的影响：通过对物联网网络的研究，一个新的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巨大的影响。 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。 例如，通过从根本上更好地控制提供商，该架构将为识别和推迟拒绝服务的新方法打开大门，这是一种经济和国家急需的能力。 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网络的国家挑战。长期以来一直在寻求实现这种纯光通信基础设施的方法。

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.