NeTS: Medium: A SCAFFOLD for Service Centric Networking

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金的。本研究提出了一种新的网络架构--scaffold，它直接支持广域服务的需求。Scaffold将服务级别的对象(而不是主机)视为一等公民，并探索基于对象的命名和路由之间更紧密的耦合。联邦脚手架架构的一个全新的、可扩展的版本正在设计和制作原型。系统组件包括可编程路由器/交换机、用于基于对象的查找和转发的解析服务以及集成的终端主机。如今，人们“数字生活”的中心是在线服务，而不是他们运行的网络或计算机。这项研究最终探索了哪些抽象和机制将使未来的网络成为功能强大、灵活的广域服务托管平台(即所谓的“云”)。通过这样做，scaffold将降低部署可扩展、可靠、安全、节能且易于管理的网络服务的门槛。该项目包括一项夏令营外联活动，由学校为代表性不足的群体提供服务，以在脚手架上建立服务，开发新的特别课程，并与行业进行技术转让。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This research proposes a new network architecture, SCAFFOLD, that directly supports the need of wide-area services. SCAFFOLD treats service-level objects (rather than hosts) as first-class citizens and explores a tighter coupling between object-based naming and routing. A clean-slate, scalable version of the federated SCAFFOLD architecture is being designed and prototyped. System components include programmable routers/switches, resolution services for object-based lookup and forwarding, and integrated end-hosts.The center of people's "digital lives" today are online services -- not the networks or computers on which they run. The research ultimately explores what abstractions and mechanisms that will make the future network a powerful, flexible hosting platform for wide-area services (the so-called ``cloud''). In doing so, SCAFFOLD would lower the barrier to deploying networked services that are scalable, reliable, secure, energy-efficient, and easy to manage. The project includes a summer-camp outreach activity with schools serving under-represented groups to build services on top of SCAFFOLD, new special course development, and technology transfer with industry.