CI-ADDO-NEW: PhantomNet: An End-to-End Mobile Network Testbed

移动设备和支持它们的移动网络的重要性怎么强调都不为过。尽管无线技术和移动设备取得了惊人的进步，但当前的移动网络体系结构虽然基于分组，但绝大多数与它们的电路交换前身相似。为了使移动网络超越最先进的水平所需的基础研究和创新，将开发一种名为PhantomNet的新设施，并将其与犹他大学的Emulab试验台相结合。PhantomNet将是一种完全可编程的端到端移动试验床，具有独特的功能，以促进移动网络、云计算和软件定义网络交叉领域的研究工作。PhantomNet将以一种今天根本不存在的方式实现移动网络技术的动手教学。此外，该设施将实现前瞻性研究，重新考虑移动网络、软件定义网络和云技术之间相互作用所涉及的技术和经济因素。物理设施的可用性将帮助研究人员将新的移动网络设计从理论转化为实践。鉴于世界上很大一部分人口已经是这种网络的用户，而且这一比例还在增长，由这种基础设施实现的研究将有可能产生真正的变革影响。

The importance of mobile devices and the mobile networks that support themcan hardly be overemphasized. Despite fantastic advances in wirelesstechnologies and mobile devices, current mobile network architectures,while packet based, overwhelmingly resemble their circuit-switched forebears.To enable the fundamental research and innovation demanded to advancemobile networking beyond the state-of-the-art, a new facility called PhantomNet,will be developed and coupled with the Emulab testbed at the University of Utah.PhantomNet will be a fully programmable end-to-end mobile testbed withunique features to facilitate research efforts at the intersectionof mobile networking, cloud computing and software defined networking.PhantomNet will enable hands-on teaching in mobile networkingtechnology in a manner that simply does not exist today. Further,the facility will enable forward-thinking research that re-considersthe technical and economic factors involved with the interplaybetween mobile networks, software defined networks and cloud technologies.The availability of a physical facility will help researchers totransition new mobile network designs from theory into practice.Given that a large fraction of the world's population are alreadyusers of such networks, and that fraction is growing, the researchenabled by this infrastructure will have the potential to have trulytransformative impact.