Conference: Community Workshop on Long-term Research Directions in Wired Networking

计算机网络是我们社会最重要的基础设施之一，基本上为我们日常生活的每个组成部分做出了贡献-通信，商业，安全关键服务，教育，甚至医疗实践。在过去的几十年里，我们的社区在识别和解决重要的研究问题方面做了大量工作，在许多情况下，将研究成果转化为实践。其结果是一个强大、可靠和高效的互联网基础设施。然而，计算机网络基础设施在过去十年中已经发展，部分地适应了在此期间出现的平台和应用所引入的新挑战（例如，云计算、分布式数据分析等）。下一个十年可能会带来类似的（如果不是更重要的）挑战;其中一些挑战已经很明显：新的应用程序正在迅速出现，云提供商正在整合新的硬件和软件基础设施来响应新的应用程序要求，互联网结构已经在发展。该研讨会汇集了来自计算机网络，计算机体系结构，操作系统，分布式系统，计算机安全和理论的研究人员，讨论，确定和记录有线网络的“长期”研究方向。主要目标是让学术界和工业界的研究人员和从业人员开始合作讨论，以建立一个更可靠，更强大，更高效的下一代计算机网络基础设施。本次研讨会将产生广泛的影响，无论是在学术界的重点研究进展，以及通过行业参与的潜在影响。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This Computer networks form one of the most critical infrastructures for our society, contributing to essentially every component of our daily lives–communication, businesses, safety-critical services, education, and even medical practices. Over the past several decades, our community has done a tremendous job in identifying and resolving important research problems, and in many cases, translating research outcomes to practice. The result is a robust, reliable, and efficient Internet infrastructure. However, the computer network infrastructure has evolved over the last decade partly to accommodate the new challenges introduced by platforms and applications that have emerged over this period (e.g., cloud computing, distributed data analytics, etc.). The next decade is likely to bring similar—if not more significant—challenges; some of these challenges are already evident: new applications are emerging rapidly, cloud providers are incorporating new hardware and software infrastructure to respond to new application requirements, and the Internet structure is already evolving. This workshop brings together researchers from computer networking, computer architecture, operating systems, distributed systems, computer security, and theory to discuss, identify and document the “long-term” research directions in wired networks. The key goal is to have academic and industry researchers and practitioners begin a collaborative discussion so as to build a more reliable, robust, and efficient next-generation computer network infrastructure. This workshop will have a broad impact both in terms of focused research progress from the academic community, as well as potential impact via industry engagement.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.