EAGER: SwitchOn - Exploring and Strengthening US-Brazil Collaborations in Future Internet Research

该项目资助美国方面探索美国和巴西在未来互联网架构和GENI项目上的潜在合作。SwitchOn项目将通过短期访问和研讨会上的面对面会议，让美国研究生、早期职业教师和研究科学家与巴西同行在创新和变革性研究项目上密切合作，加强美国和巴西在未来互联网研究和发展方面的国际合作。该项目将利用美国正在进行的GENI项目和巴西的各种努力，如fiber（巴西和欧洲之间的未来互联网测试平台/实验），探索新的研究合作的可能性。特别是对于GENI，两国合作进一步建立全球GENI存在，能够通过完全联合的基础设施在国际范围内连接研究人员、最终用户和所有感兴趣的利益相关者，这将具有显著的优势。巴西研究人员也有兴趣合作研究全球SDN网络，这是美国非常感兴趣的话题。该项目的具体活动将包括：1)两个重点研讨会，汇集在美国和巴西进行高影响力的未来互联网研究以及类似geni系统的研究的合作研究人员；2)国际研究经验，这将允许美国研究人员对其巴西合作伙伴进行短期访问，以加强他们的研究合作。联合研究小组的结果将被收集和综合，作为支持美国和巴西之间未来大规模研究合作的具体证据和实用指南。

This project funds the U.S. side of an exploration of potential collaborations between the U.S. and Brazil on Future Internet Architectures and the GENI project. By having US grad students, early career faculty, and research scientists working closely on innovative and transformative research projects with Brazilian counterparts through short-termvisits and face-to-face meetings at workshops the SwitchOn project will enhance international collaborations on Future Internet research and development between US and Brazil. The project will leverage the ongoing GENI project in the US and various Brazilian efforts such as FIBRE (Future Internet testbeds/experimentation between BRazil and Europe) to explore possibilities for new research collaborations. Especially for GENI, there is significant advantage in having both countries collaborate to further establish a global GENI presence capable of connecting researchers, end-users, and all interested stakeholders at international scale through a fully federated infrastructure. Brazilian researchers are also interested in collaborating in research into global SDN networks, a topic of significant interest to the US.The project's specific activities will include: 1) two focused workshops, bringing together collaborative researchers conducting high-impact Future Internet research as well as research in GENI-like systems in the US and Brazil, and 2) international research experiences, which will allow US researchers to have short-term visits to their Brazilian partners in order to strengthen their research collaboration. Results from the joint research teams will be gathered and synthesized as concrete evidence supporting, and practical guidelines for, future large-scale research collaborations between US and Brazil.