Design and Prototyping Risk Reduction

该项目将为一套网络基础设施的端到端原型的螺旋1号组件及其集成的开发提供资金，这将使研究人员能够进行新颖的网络科学和工程实验，即进行目前无法完成的科学。螺旋1号将首次尝试在多个国家主干上进行组件集成和运行。将尽快开发螺旋1，以确定和减少方案和技术风险，并通过提供工作原型帮助研究界实现共同愿景。它将促进社会的广泛参与，并建立一个强大的学术和工业基础。29个项目，分成五个小组，将在网络基础设施控制框架的设计和实施方面展开竞争。系统工程师将执行自上而下的集成规划和项目指导。虽然一个集成良好、有序的系统可能要等到螺旋2或3才可能实现，但螺旋1将迈出关键的第一步，朝着创建这种具有端到端、可虚拟化和可分割功能的全新实验基础设施迈出关键的第一步，这些都是全新的。一旦这第一个螺旋存在，它将与社会共同进化？S正在兴起研究和教育议程。更大的影响可能是巨大的，使网络科学和工程领域的变革性研究成为可能，这是以前从未做过的。

This project will fund the development of components and their integration for Spiral 1 of an end-to-end prototype of a suite of network infrastructure that would enable researchers to carry out novel network science and engineering experiments, i.e., to do science that currently can not be done. Spiral 1 will attempt a first, trial integration and operation of components on multiple national backbones. Spiral 1 will be developed as quickly as possible to identify and reduce programmatic and technical risk and to help the research community achieve a shared vision by providing a working prototype. It will stimulate broad community participation and build a strong academic and industrial base. Twenty-nine projects, working in five teams will compete in the design and implementation of the network infrastructure control framework. System engineers will perform top-down integration planning and project guidance. While a well-integrated, orderly system may not be possible until Spiral 2 or 3, Spiral 1 will take the critical first step towards creating this radically new kind of experimental infrastructure with end-to-end, virtualizable, and sliceable capabilities, which are entirely novel. Once this first spiral exists, it will co-evolve with the community?s emerging research and education agenda. The larger impacts are potentially huge, allowing for transformative research in network science and engineering that has never been done before.