EAGER: Collaborative Research: Lighting a Dark Fiber Experimental Research Network in Harlem

该项目追求一种新的、变革性的实验平台，该平台在纽约哈莱姆区部署的研究网络中结合了智能和开放的“白盒”功能，涵盖了光、无线和数据网络。因此，它将先进的网络研究带到了人口最密集的城市地区之一。这个研究网络将与最近部署的LinkNYC网络并行存在，以便可以灵活地引入研究要素，并独立或一起研究。使用可编程无线、数据和光接口组合的两个不同实验将调查该平台在智能城市网络研究中的性能。该项目将使在最需要智能城市网络的密集城市环境中进行智能城市网络的研究成为可能。此外，通过将网络放置在哈莱姆区，该项目将朝着弥合数字鸿沟迈出一步。先进的网络技术将包括在哈莱姆千兆中心安装集线器，这是一个社区资源和创新中心。通过与Silicon Harlem合作，该项目将使Harlem社区参与该网络的开发，并为新的千兆中心、地区学校和教育组织提供教育机会。该项目的学术价值包括在面向智能社区和物联网的城域网络研究方面取得了变革性的进展。该项目将发现实施和评估现场网络的新方法，包括基于光纤、数据或无线网络的多种软件定义技术。将在城域网络规模上实时研究波长交换的使用，并响应应用和网络需求。涉及多节点组播、无线和灾难响应光纤重新配置的应用将使用本项目中开发的多层白盒网络进行评估。更广泛的影响包括(I)开发一种新的试验台方法来调查智能城市和白盒网络应用程序的网络，(Ii)通过在哈莱姆区部署先进的网络技术来支持弥合数字鸿沟，(Iii)哈莱姆区社区参与这一网络，以及(Iv)为多个学生群体提供丰富的教育经验。

This project pursues a new and transformative experimental platform that combines intelligent and open, 'white box' capabilities spanning optical, wireless, and data networking in a research network deployed in Harlem, New York. Thereby, it brings advanced network research into one of the most dense urban areas. This research network will exist in parallel with the recently deployed LinkNYC network such that research elements can be flexibly introduced and studied independently or together. Two different experiments using combinations of programmable wireless, data, and optical interfaces will investigate the performance of this platform for use in smart city network research. This project will enable research on smart city networks in a dense urban environment, where they are most needed. Furthermore, by placing the network in Harlem, the project will take a step toward bridging the digital divide. The advanced networking technologies will include a hub installation in the Harlem Gigabit Center, which is a community resource and innovation center. By partnering with Silicon Harlem, this project will engage the Harlem community in the development of this network and provide educational opportunities for the new Gigabit Center, area schools, and education organizations.The intellectual merits of this project include transformative advances in the study of metropolitan networks for smart communities and the Internet of Things. The project will uncover new ways to implement and evaluate networks in the field that include multiple software defined technologies based on optical, data, or wireless networking. The use of wavelength switching will be studied in real time on a metro network scale and in response to application and network requirements. Applications that involve multi-node multicast wireless and disaster response fiber reconfiguration will be evaluated using the multilayer white box network developed in this project. The broader impacts include (i) development of a new testbed approach to investigating networks for smart cities and white box networking applications, (ii) support of bridging the digital divide by placing advanced network technologies in Harlem, (iii) engagement of the Harlem community in this network, and (iv) enriched educational experiences for multiple student populations.