CCRI:New:An Instrumented Multi-Platform Overlay for Networked Systems Research

CCRI：新：用于网络系统研究的仪表化多平台叠加

• 批准号: 2213672
• 负责人: Patrick Crowley
• 金额: $ 161.61万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2213672&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCRI; New; Instrumented; Multi; Platform

This project will create practical software infrastructure to enable researchers to develop networked systems innovations by developing, evaluating, and distributing networking software that operates over smartphones, laptops, servers, and routers. Many networking and distributed systems research projects are envisioned to improve how users, devices, and servers connect and communicate. However, smartphones represent the predominant user platform, while most academic systems researchers can only justify prototype development and evaluation in Linux, due to the complexity and engineering effort associated with other types of systems. The infrastructure developed in this project – software able to operate over multiple device types while providing built-in experimental data capture – will dramatically simplify the steps needed for researchers to prototype & evaluate their work in modern device contexts. Just as it is easier to search for keys under a streetlight, it is easier to design research projects within the comfortable limits of available research platforms; the goal of this project is to dramatically broaden those limits.The benefits of using a modern research platform extend beyond more relevant academic research evaluations. First, commercialization and real-word adoption are more likely. Research activities that target modern platforms simplify the pathway between research innovation and translation into real-world use through open-source projects and commercialization. Second, by targeting platforms like smartphones, research products can be more readily used by people for both research evaluation and, when relevant, actual usage by non-researchers. It is difficult to generate “killer apps” for a networked system innovation if the research products cannot be used by people. Third, graduate research assistants, in the course of their training in research projects, will benefit from the use of the tools and techniques needed to develop and evaluate on modern platforms. Students graduating into research positions will begin with a modern systems foundation, while students graduating into industry will have desirable knowledge and practical skills. Fourth, the intrinsic experimental data and telemetry gathered through this infrastructure will enable energy-oriented experimentation, which can aid researchers in pursuing research agendas in sustainability.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将创建实用的软件基础设施，使研究人员能够通过开发，评估和分发在智能手机，笔记本电脑，服务器和路由器上运行的网络软件来开发网络系统创新。许多网络和分布式系统研究项目都被设想用于改善用户、设备和服务器的连接和通信方式。然而，智能手机代表了主要的用户平台，而大多数学术系统研究人员只能证明原型开发和评估Linux，由于与其他类型的系统相关的复杂性和工程工作。该项目开发的基础设施-能够在多种设备类型上运行的软件，同时提供内置的实验数据捕获-将大大简化研究人员在现代设备环境中原型评估其工作所需的步骤。就像在路灯下寻找钥匙更容易一样，在现有研究平台的舒适范围内设计研究项目也更容易;本项目的目标是大幅扩大这些限制。使用现代研究平台的好处不仅限于更相关的学术研究评估。首先，商业化和现实世界的采用更有可能。针对现代平台的研究活动通过开源项目和商业化简化了研究创新与转化为现实世界使用之间的途径。其次，通过针对智能手机等平台，人们可以更容易地使用研究产品进行研究评估，并在相关时，由非研究人员实际使用。如果研究产品不能被人们使用，那么很难为网络系统创新产生“杀手级应用程序”。第三，研究生研究助理在研究项目培训过程中，将受益于使用在现代平台上开发和评估所需的工具和技术。毕业进入研究岗位的学生将开始与现代系统的基础，而毕业进入行业的学生将有理想的知识和实践技能。第四，通过这一基础设施收集的内在实验数据和遥测技术将使面向能源的实验成为可能，这可以帮助研究人员在可持续性方面追求研究议程。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。