Collaborative Research: Infrastructure for Experimental Network Architecture Research

互联网是20世纪最伟大的技术成功故事之一，它使人们能够更多地获取信息，并为人们和组织之间提供了新的交流方式。不幸的是，互联网的成功正在为其核心的网络技术的创新制造障碍。为了将全球通信基础设施从停滞中解放出来，这个国家必须找到方法使其能够持续更新。该规划项目旨在为支持网络体系结构和分布式系统研究计划所需的全球实验基础设施创建蓝图。研究计划与实验基础设施相结合的目标是在面对现代应用要求和丰富、竞争激烈的商业环境时，大幅提高全球通信网络的功能能力、稳健性、灵活性和异构性。关键是重新架构或重新发明互联网，使其更具进化性--使研究界能够解决互联网面临的关键挑战，并在此过程中建立一个值得我们社会信任的互联网。重新构建互联网将需要大量的试验性基础设施。私人投资机构建议制定一份全面的计划来建设这一基础设施。该提案确定了应对互联网面临的挑战的主要架构举措，概述了社区将用于推动这些举措的实证研究过程，描述了支持这项研究所需的实验基础设施，并强调了为大型基础设施建立管理结构的过程。

The Internet is one of the great technology success stories of the twentieth century, enabling greater access to information and providing new modes of communication among people and organizations. Unfortunately, the Internet's very success is now creating obstacles to innovation in the networking technology that lies at its core. In order to free the global communications infrastructure from stagnation, the nation must find ways to enable its continuing renewal. This planning project is aimed at creating a blueprint for a global experimental infrastructure needed to support a research program in network architectures and distributed systems. The goal of the research program combined with experimental infrastructure is to greatly increase the functional capabilities, robustness, flexibility, and heterogeneity of the global communications network in the face of modern application requirements, and a rich, competitive commercial environment. The key is to re-architect or re-invent the Internet to be more evolvable-to enable the research community to address the key challenges facing the Internet, and in the process, to build an Internet that is worthy of our society's trust. Re-architecting the Internet would require substantial experimental infrastructure. The PIs propose to write a comprehensive plan to build this infrastructure. The proposal identifies the major architectural initiatives that address the challenges facing the Internet, outlines the empirical research process the community will use to pursue these initiatives, describes the experimental infrastructure needed to support this research, and highlights the process of putting in place a management structure for the large infrastructure.