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

下一阶段的MobilityFirst(MF)项目旨在通过重新架构未来互联网的架构来满足新兴移动平台和应用的需求，从而对其产生重大影响。采用这一项目产生的技术可望提供更高的效率、安全性和稳健性，从而使网络运营商和互联网的最终用户都受益。该项目最初是作为NSF未来互联网架构(FIA)计划(2010-2013)下的合作研究工作资助的，在过去3年中，MF架构是在该计划中设计的，该项目以新的基于名称的服务层为中心，作为协议的细腰部分；该基于名称的服务层使以灵活的方式构建以移动为中心的高级服务成为可能，同时还可以改善安全和隐私特性。该架构结合了新颖的存储感知路由技术，可显著提高移动网络的容量和功能。MobilityFirst项目的下一阶段旨在从早期的架构和原型过渡到高级的真实服务和试验网络部署。研究和实验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趋势，如蜂窝移动数据爆炸、内容增长、云计算的出现和软件定义网络(SDN)技术。智力优势：该项目包括几个旨在将MobilityFirst架构过渡到高级服务和现场可部署技术的研究项目。这些内容包括：(1)基于名称的高级网络服务和增强型全球名称服务(GNS)技术的开发；(2)网络安全和隐私设计和增强；(3)高级内容服务的设计；(4)MobilityFirst协议在下一代移动云计算中的应用；(5)高级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)就绪的协议设计；以及(8)技术平台、路由器实施和部署策略。这些研究将从三个不同的真实网络环境试验中获得信息：与麦迪逊的无线互联网服务提供商(5Nines)在威斯康星州的“移动数据服务”试验；宾夕法尼亚州的几个公共广播电台通过称为PennREN的绿地光纤网络连接的“内容生产和交付网络”试验；以及达拉斯/沃斯堡地区的终端用户的“背景感知公共服务”天气紧急情况通知系统(CASA)。这些网络环境试验是拟议项目的核心，预计将为验证MobilityFirst协议栈及其对开发高级移动、内容、环境和云应用的有用性提供坚实的基础，同时还将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/环境/云服务和SDN的研究结果；MobilityFirst协议栈软件修订；路由器技术实施；该技术的多次真实世界试验部署；以及实验支持的架构评估。该项目是罗格斯大学、马萨诸塞州大学、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州大学共同参与的合作项目，有多个工业研究和网络环境试验合作伙伴参与。广泛影响：MobilityFirst项目将作为未来互联网的一种新方法产生影响，该方法旨在解决移动性和移动平台问题，并支持具有社会价值的新移动互联网应用程序，如情景感知紧急通知服务。开放源码协议软件的发布有望有助于促进整个网络社区对未来互联网体系结构的进一步实验研究。该项目还有助于互联网和移动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.