Workshop: Spring 2013 Future Internet Architecture investigator meeting

该奖项支持2013年3月举行的未来互联网架构(FIA)首席研究员(PI)会议。PIS将讨论两个主题；第一个主题是可能的环境，每个NSF资助的项目都可能在其中部署和演示。这些受资助的项目预计将产生一个运行的原型，在这些想法付诸实践时，可以用来获得操作经验。这次会议将汇集来自不同项目的调查人员和代表各种可能的示范环境的专家。研讨会的第二个主题是对提议的架构进行评估的挑战。会议将围绕体系结构评估的不同方面进行一系列讨论，因为项目将自己定位以评估其设计。智力优势：演示环境的讨论将把外部专家和项目领导层聚集在一起，这将有助于对不同用户社区在将网络技术纳入其领域时面临的问题和问题有共同的理解。对评估的讨论将为如何评估建筑方案的问题的系统研究奠定基础，并论证一个或另一个设计“更好”，或更适合于目的。今天的计算机科学领域还没有达成一致的方法或途径来评估复杂的、多维的需求空间中的设计方案。广泛的影响：NSF FIA工作的更广泛的目标是提高NSF资助的网络研究的相关性和影响力，丰富网络研究界的智力，以及新概念和思想领导对互联网未来的贡献。FIA的努力，特别是研讨会，是培训一批学术网络研究人员实践长期建筑思维的一种手段。该计划有可能为未来的互联网做出贡献，未来的互联网在物质上比今天的互联网更安全、更强大、更经济可行，更适合社会需求。这次研讨会的结果将公布在国际汽联的网站上供公众传播，将为这一更广泛的目标做出贡献。

This award supports a Future Internet Architecture (FIA) principal investigator (PI) meeting in March 2013. The PIs will discuss two topics; the first is of possible environments in which each of the NSF-funded projects might be deployed and demonstrated. The funded projects are expected to produce a running prototype that can be used to gain operational experience with the ideas as they are reduced to practice. This meeting will bring together the investigators from the various projects and experts representing various possible demonstration environments. The second topic of the workshop is the challenge of evaluation of proposed architectures. The meeting will include a series of discussions around different aspects of architecture evaluation, as the projects position themselves to evaluate their designs.Intellectual Merit:The discussions of demonstration environments, which will bring together outside experts and project leadership, will contribute to a shared understanding of the problems and issues that various user communities face as they incorporate networking technology into their domains. The discussions of evaluation will lay the groundwork for a methodical study of the question as to how to evaluate architectural proposals and argue that one or another design is 'better', or more fit for purpose. The field of computer science today has no agreed method or approach to the evaluation of design proposals in a complex, multi-dimensional requirement space.Broader Impacts:The broader goal of the NSF FIA effort is enhancing the relevance and impact of the NSF-funded network research, intellectual enrichment of the network research community, and the contribution of new concepts and thought leadership to the future of the Internet. The FIA effort, and the workshops in particular, are a means to train a cohort of academic network researchers in the practice of long-range architectural thinking. The program has the potential to contribute to a future Internet that is materially more secure, robust, economically viable, and fit for the needs of society than the Internet of today. The results of this workshop, which will be posted on the FIA website for public dissemination, will be a contribution to this broader goal.