FIA-NP: Collaborative Research: The Next-Phase MobilityFirst Project - From Architecture and Protocol Design to Advanced Services and Trial Deployments

下一阶段移动性优先（MF）项目旨在通过重新架构来满足新兴移动的平台和应用程序的需求，从而对未来互联网的架构产生重大影响。采用这一项目产生的技术可望提高效率、安全性和可靠性，使网络运营商和互联网最终用户都受益。该项目最初是由NSF Future Internet Architecture（FIA）计划（2010-13）资助的一项合作研究工作，MF架构是在过去3年中设计的，该项目集中在一个新的基于名称的服务层，该服务层作为协议的窄腰;该基于名称的服务层使得能够以灵活的方式构建高级的以移动性为中心的服务，同时还提高了安全性和隐私属性。该架构采用了新的存储感知路由技术，提供了显着的改善移动的网络的容量和功能。MobilityFirst项目的下一阶段旨在从早期架构和原型设计过渡到先进的现实服务和试验网络部署。研究和实验性试验议程旨在验证和完善MF架构的核心名称服务、路由、安全和管理组件，同时也响应网络技术和服务的新兴趋势，如蜂窝移动的数据爆炸、内容增长、云计算的出现和软件定义网络（SDN）技术。智力优势：该项目包括几个研究重点，旨在将MobilityFirst架构过渡到高级服务和现场部署技术。其中包括：（1）先进的基于名称的网络服务和增强的全球名称服务（GNS）技术的开发;（2）网络安全和隐私设计和增强;（3）先进内容服务的设计;（4）MobilityFirst协议在下一代移动的云计算中的应用;（5）先进的上下文感知服务的设计;（6）蜂窝-互联网融合的技术和经济研究;（7）软件定义网络（SDN）就绪协议设计;以及（8）技术平台、路由器实施和部署策略。这些研究重点将由三个不同的现实世界的网络环境试验：一个“移动的数据服务”试验与无线ISP（5 Nines）在麦迪逊，威斯康星州;一个“内容制作和交付网络”试验涉及几个公共广播电台在宾夕法尼亚州连接的格林菲尔德光网络称为PennREN;和“环境感知公共服务”气象紧急通知系统（CASA），终端用户在达拉斯/沃斯堡地区。这些网络环境试验是拟议项目的核心，预计将为MobilityFirst协议栈的验证及其在开发高级移动的、内容、上下文和云应用程序方面的实用性提供坚实的基础，同时还将该技术推进到现场部署阶段。该项目的预期成果包括安全、隐私、内容/上下文/云服务和SDN的研究成果; MobilityFirst协议栈软件修订;路由器技术实现;该技术的多个真实世界试验部署;以及实验支持的架构评估。该项目是一项合作项目，涉及罗格斯大学、马萨诸塞大学、麻省理工学院、杜克大学、密歇根大学、威斯康星州大学和内布拉斯加大学，并有多个工业研究和网络环境试验合作伙伴参与。MobilityFirst项目将作为未来互联网的新方法产生影响，通过设计解决移动性和移动的平台，以及作为具有社会价值的新的移动的因特网应用（例如，情境感知紧急通知服务）的使能者。开放源代码协议软件的发布可能有助于促进整个网络界对未来互联网结构的进一步实验研究。该项目还促进了互联网和移动的网络技术关键领域的教育和培训。

The Next-Phase MobilityFirst (MF) project aims to have a major impact on the architecture of the future Internet by re-architecting it to address the needs of emerging mobile platforms and applications. Adoption of technologies arising from this project may be expected to provide improved efficiency, security and robustness that would benefit both network operators and end-users of the Internet. This project, originally funded as a collaborative research effort under the NSF Future Internet Architecture (FIA) program (2010-13) in which the MF architecture was designed over the past 3 years, is centered on a new name-based service layer which serves as the narrow-waist of the protocol; this name-based services layer makes it possible to build advanced mobility-centric services in a flexible manner while also improving security and privacy properties. The architecture incorporates novel storage-aware routing techniques which provide significant improvements in mobile network capacity and functionality. The next phase of the MobilityFirst project is aimed at making the transition from early-stage architecture and prototyping to advanced real-world services and trial network deployments. The research and experimental trials agenda is aimed at validating and refining the core name service, routing, security and management components of the MF architecture, while also responding to emerging trends in network technology and services such as the cellular mobile data explosion, the growth of content, the emergence of cloud computing, and software-defined network (SDN) technology. Intellectual Merit: This project includes several research thrusts aimed at transitioning the MobilityFirst architecture to advanced services and field deployable technology. These include: (1) advanced name-based network services and development of enhanced global name service (GNS) technology; (2) network security and privacy designs and enhancements; (3) design of advanced content services; (4) application of MobilityFirst protocols to next-generation mobile cloud computing; (5) design of advanced context-aware services; (6) technical and economic study of cellular-Internet convergence; (7) software-defined network (SDN) ready protocol design; and (8) technology platforms, router implementation and deployment strategies. These research thrusts will be informed by three distinct real-world network environment trials: a "mobile data services" trial with a wireless ISP (5Nines) in Madison; WI; a "content production and delivery network" trial involving several public broadcasting stations in Pennsylvania connected by a greenfield optical network called PennREN; and a "context-aware public service" weather emergency notification system (CASA) with end-users in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. These network environment trials are the centerpiece of the proposed project, and are expected to provide a firm basis for validation of the MobilityFirst protocol stack and its usefulness for developing advanced mobile, content, context and cloud applications, while also advancing the technology to the field-deployment stage. Expected outcomes from the project include research results on security, privacy, content/context/cloud services and SDN; MobilityFirst protocol stack software revisions; router technology implementations; multiple real-world trial deployments of the technology; and experimentally supported evaluations of the architecture. This project is a collaborative effort involving Rutgers, UMass, MIT, Duke, U Michigan, U Wisconsin, and U Nebraska with the participation of several industrial research and network environment trial partners.Broader Impacts: The MobilityFirst project will have impact as a new approach to a future Internet that by design addresses mobility and mobile platforms, and as an enabler of new mobile Internet applications of social value such as context-aware emergency notification services. The release of open source protocol software may be expected to help to stimulate further experimental research on future Internet architectures across the networking community. The project also contributes to education and training in the key areas of Internet and mobile network technology.