Control and Management for Next Generation Networks

下一代网络的控制和管理

• 批准号: 346203-2012
• 负责人: Ganjali, Yashar
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=572530
• 关键词: Control; Management; Next; Generation; Networks

The structure of today's Internet imposes several limitations: it cannot deliver the potential of emerging technologies such as wireless communications; it does not provide any guarantees on availability and reliability; it is intrinsically unsecure; identifying the root causes of problems is extremely difficult in the current Internet; economic incentives for peering are not easy to manage, and create; and in order to keep up with the growing demands, it needs more and more power, and becomes more costly over time. Recently, there has been a tremendous amount of interest in a clean slate design for the Internet to address these problems. One promising idea is to use Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) that has attracted a lot of attention both from academia and industry. Switching to software-defined networks poses several challenges and creates many opportunities. The existence of a centralized controller that has a global view of the entire network, and the simplicity of creating new applications and protocols are luxuries that we can use to provide new services, protocols, and functionalities that are prohibitively difficult in today's Internet. Globally optimized traffic engineering, congestion control, access control, and identity-based security are only a few of such possibilities. On the other hand, relying on a centralized control brings about various scalability, reliability, and potentially security challenges, that we need to address. This project aims at (i) design and implementation of new tools, and methods for a highly scalable and reliable control and management framework for next generation networks; (ii) design and development of a high level network management framework for home and enterprise software-defined networks; and (iii) creating globally optimized protocols that take advantage of the global network view available in software-defined networks.

今天的互联网结构施加了几个限制：它不能发挥无线通信等新兴技术的潜力；它没有对可用性和可靠性提供任何保证；它本质上是不安全的；在当前的互联网中，确定问题的根本原因极其困难；对等的经济激励不容易管理和创造；为了跟上日益增长的需求，它需要越来越多的电力，随着时间的推移，成本会变得越来越高。最近，人们对解决这些问题的互联网的全新设计产生了极大的兴趣。一个很有希望的想法是使用软件定义网络(SDN)，这引起了学术界和工业界的极大关注。 切换到软件定义的网络会带来几个挑战，并创造许多机会。拥有一个对整个网络具有全局视野的集中式控制器的存在，以及创建新应用程序和协议的简单性，都是我们可以用来提供新服务、协议和功能的奢侈品，而这些服务、协议和功能在当今的互联网中是极其困难的。全球优化的流量工程、拥塞控制、访问控制和基于身份的安全只是这些可能性中的一小部分。另一方面，依赖集中控制带来了各种可伸缩性、可靠性和潜在的安全挑战，我们需要解决这些挑战。 该项目旨在(I)设计和实施用于下一代网络的高度可扩展和可靠的控制和管理框架的新工具和方法；(Ii)设计和开发用于家庭和企业软件定义的网络的高级网络管理框架；以及(Iii)创建全局优化的协议，该协议利用软件定义的网络中可用的全局网络视图。