Integrated Future Internet Architecture

一体化的未来互联网架构

• 批准号: 1219557
• 负责人: David Clark
• 金额: $ 48.31万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1219557&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrated; Future; Internet; Architecture

This research is intended to build on, complement, and enhance the NSF future Internet architecture programs through cross-cutting and integrative comparative analysis of architectural proposals. Over the last 6 years, the National Science Foundation has created a series of programs focused on new Internet architecture and the embedding of networking into the larger social context: these include the Future Internet Design (FIND) program, the Network Science and Engineering (NetSE) program, and Future Internet Architecture (FIA) solicitation. This sequence of programs address a bold objective?to look into the future and challenge the research community to design the global network that the world will need fifteen years from now. In the current stage of the overall program, a number of teams have been funded to develop integrated proposals for the design of a future Internet. Each of these projects can be expected to produce a coherent justification for one or another approach to the architecture of a future network, but the overall outcome of the project should be much more than that: it should also result in overarching insights into design preferences and alternative approaches, general lessons about network system design, and a more systematic rationale for designing networks and concluding that one response to requirements is preferable to another. The FIA project should push the frontiers of principled network design, and this phase of the programs has laid the foundation for this exciting step.This award addresses these larger project goals through a program of research that is complementary to the current awards, by looking across the projects (and other relevant architectural work) to seek more integrative and overarching conclusions. The challenge is difficult, given the diversity of goals and requirements that might be posed for a system as complex as the Internet, as well as the diversity of design approaches. In contrast to much of computer science research, this agenda is focused on comparative analysis, not engineering design. As appropriate, the research will be done in collaboration with the individual projects through cross-project studies on specific topics related to network design. The investigator will seek to involve others in the broader community who have given thought to high-level issues in network architecture, and will carry out his own research into principals and methods for network design. The investigator will also participate in the FIA PI meetings, since those meetings will explore specific topics in a cross-project way. Intellectual merit: This NSF program should contribute to the long-rang goal of making network architecture design more methodical and systematic, and less an art; this research sets that goal as its highest-level objective. This research has the goal of discovering and articulating fundamental insights and conclusions with respect to issues in network design, results that arise from looking across the various different projects with their different approaches. Topics will include core network functions such as addressing and forwarding, dealing with important requirements such as security and availability, new areas of architectural study such as information-centric networks, and the relation between architectural design choices and larger social, economic and contextual requirements. Broader impact: This research will provide a structure and direction for future research in network design, and provide a new and more principled way of teaching about networks. Most courses in networking today deal with the subject by teaching large numbers of facts: the formats of headers, operation of protocols, and so on, with less emphasis on the ?why? of design. Prior working papers of the investigator have been used in at least one advanced course on network architecture, and one ambition of this research is to develop materials suitable to the teaching of network architecture. The outcomes of this research can also help with the transfer of results from the FIA program into the commercial world. The investigator will also continue to provide support to the community toward the program goals.

这项研究的目的是建立在，补充和增强NSF未来的互联网架构计划，通过交叉和综合比较分析的架构建议。在过去的6年中，美国国家科学基金会创建了一系列项目，重点关注新的互联网架构和将网络嵌入到更大的社会背景中：这些项目包括未来互联网设计（FIND）计划，网络科学与工程（NetSE）计划和未来互联网架构（FIA）征集。这一系列的计划是为了实现一个大胆的目标吗？展望未来，挑战研究界，设计一个十五年后世界需要的全球网络。在整个计划的现阶段，一些小组已获得资助，为未来互联网的设计提出综合建议。可以预期，这些项目中的每一个都将为未来网络架构的一种或另一种方法提供一致的理由，但项目的总体成果应远不止于此：它还应该导致对设计偏好和替代方法的总体见解，关于网络系统设计的一般经验教训，以及设计网络和得出一种对需求的反应优于另一种反应的结论的更系统的理由。FIA项目应该推动原则性网络设计的前沿，而这一阶段的项目已经为这一激动人心的步骤奠定了基础。该奖项通过对现有奖项进行补充的研究项目来实现这些更大的项目目标，通过审视项目（和其他相关架构工作）来寻求更综合和全面的结论。鉴于对因特网这样复杂的系统可能提出的目标和要求的多样性以及设计方法的多样性，这一挑战是困难的。与大多数计算机科学研究相反，这个议程侧重于比较分析，而不是工程设计。研究将酌情与个别项目合作进行，就与网络设计有关的具体专题进行跨项目研究。调查员将寻求让更广泛社区中的其他人参与，这些人已经考虑了网络架构中的高级问题，并将对网络设计的原理和方法进行自己的研究。研究者还将参加FIA PI会议，因为这些会议将以跨项目的方式探讨特定主题。智力优点：这个NSF计划应该有助于使网络体系结构设计更有条理和系统化，而不是一门艺术的长期目标;本研究将这一目标作为其最高目标。这项研究的目标是发现和阐明关于网络设计问题的基本见解和结论，这些结果是通过不同的方法来看待各种不同的项目而产生的。主题将包括核心网络功能，如寻址和转发，处理重要的要求，如安全性和可用性，建筑研究的新领域，如以信息为中心的网络，以及建筑设计选择与更大的社会，经济和环境要求之间的关系。更广泛的影响：本研究将为网络设计的未来研究提供一个框架和方向，并为网络教学提供一种新的、更有原则的方法。今天的大多数网络课程都是通过教授大量的事实来处理这个问题的：报头的格式、协议的操作等等，而不太强调？为什麽？设计。以前的工作文件的调查已被用于至少一个先进的网络架构课程，本研究的目标之一是开发适合于教学的网络架构的材料。这项研究的成果也有助于将FIA项目的成果转移到商业领域。调查员还将继续为社区提供支持，以实现计划目标。