US Ignite: Collaborative Research: Focus Area 2: Rethinking Home Networking for the Ultrabroadband Era

有了超宽带住宅网络提供的能力，我们有机会将我们的数字生活重新集中在我们的住宅上。这种重组带来了社会规模的好处。我们不会将我们的数字生活分散到互联网上的无数服务和提供商中，我们将使个人能够保持对其资源的控制，同时根据需要和按需与朋友和值得信赖的服务共享。超宽带住宅网络的出现促进了这一变化，因为个人现在将拥有以他们认为合适的方式服务自己的数据的资源，而不是受制于大型服务提供商提供所需的资源。该项目开发了这项技术，以有效地利用超宽带住宅网络的原始容量，将住宅用户的数字集线器转移到他或她的住所。该项目围绕两个主题展开。第一个主题是围绕家庭中的一种设备--家庭入网点--为家中的用户提供各种服务，而无论他们的物理位置在哪里，从而连接到网络。基层服务是一个“数据阁楼”，也就是用户存储所有信息的单一位置，使他们能够直接控制数据的使用。我们推出了无基础设施的内容分发网络，旨在利用具有超宽带连接的家庭，使我们从从大型服务提供商交付内容转向最终更便宜、更快的大规模分布式交付。我们的第二个主题涉及监控运营案例连接区超宽带光纤到户网络，以更好地了解如何扩展协议和应用程序以在此类高速住宅环境中更好地工作。

With the capacity ultra-broadband residential networks provide we have the opportunity to re-center our digital lives around our residence. This re-structuring offers societal-scale benefits. Rather than spreading our digital lives across myriad services and providers across the Internet, we will enable individuals to retain control of their resources while at the same time sharing them with friends and trusted services, as needed and on demand. The advent of ultrabroadband residential networks facilitates this change, as individuals will now have the resources to serve their own data in a way they see fit, rather than being beholden to large service providers for the required resources.This project develops the technology to fruitfully leverage the raw capacity of ultra-broadband residential networks to shift a residential user's digital hub to his or her residence. The project focuses on two themes. The first theme is centered around an appliance in homes -- a home point of presence -- that provides a variety of services to the users in the house regardless of where they are physically located and hence connected to the network. A base-level service is a 'data attic', or a single place for users to store all their information that leaves them in direct control over the use of their data. We introduce infrastructureless Content Distribution Networks that aim to leverage homes with ultra-broadband connectivity to move us away from delivering content from large service providers and towards massively distributed delivery that is ultimately cheaper and faster. Our second theme involves monitoring the operational Case Connection Zone ultra-broadband fiber-to-the-home network to better understand how protocols and applications can be extended to work better in such high-speed residential settings.