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

这种计算机网络构成了我们社会最关键的基础设施之一，为我们日常生活的几乎每一个组成部分--通信、商业、安全关键服务、教育，甚至医疗实践--做出了贡献。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的工作，在许多情况下，还将研究成果转化为实践。其结果是一个强大、可靠、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有所发展，部分原因是为了适应在此期间出现的平台和应用程序(例如云计算、分布式数据分析等)带来的新挑战。未来十年可能会带来类似的--如果不是更重大的--挑战；其中一些挑战已经很明显：新的应用程序迅速涌现，云提供商正在整合新的硬件和软件基础设施以响应新的应用程序要求，而互联网结构已经在演变。这次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中的“长期”研究方向。关键目标是让学术和行业研究人员和实践者开始协作讨论，以构建更可靠、更强大和更高效的下一代计算机网络基础设施。这次研讨会将在学术界的重点研究进展以及通过行业参与的潜在影响方面产生广泛的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.