NeTS-FIND: User Information Architecture

0627065莫里斯用户信息架构（UIA）项目正在设计和实现一个适合个人设备的网络架构。其核心思想是让每个用户定义一个个人名称空间，以避免使用户科普全球唯一性;同时，名称可以与朋友共享，安全地绑定到特定设备，并在全球网络中具有意义。 国际法学者协会作出以下主要贡献。首先，它引入了一个简单直观的模型，用于将移动的设备连接到个人组中，提供临时用户身份、个人名称和安全的远程访问，而无需用户显式管理密钥或证书。其次，UIA提出了一种新的八卦和复制协议来管理命名和组状态所需的用户模型，适应乐观的复制原则，以前开发的文件系统和数据库。最后，UIA利用社交网络创建可扩展的覆盖路由算法，可以在社交朋友和邻居之间提供强大的连接，而无需依赖中央基础设施。 UIA将通过提供一个连贯的连接架构来提高已经很常见的小型设备的实用性。更广泛的影响：UIA使个人设备成为全球网络中的一等公民，只需很少的配置就可以方便地共享信息。 该项目涉及研究生和本科生的研究，并包括一个关于在小型设备上编程UIA的课程，以涉及广泛的学生。

0627065 MorrisThe User Information Architecture (UIA) project is designing and implementing a network architecture suited to personal devices. The central idea is to let each user define a personal name-space, to avoid making the user cope with global uniqueness; at the same time, names can be shared with friends, are securely bound to specific devices, and have meaning in a global network. UIA makes the following primary contributions. First, it introduces a simple and intuitive model for connecting mobile devices into personal groups, providing ad hoc user identities, personal names, and secure remote access, without requiring the user to manage keys or certificates explicitly. Second, UIA presents a novel gossip and replication protocol to manage the naming and group state required by this user model, adapting optimistic replication principles previously developed for file systems and databases. Finally, UIA leverages social networking to create a scalable overlay routing algorithm that can provide robust connectivity among social friends and neighbors without relying on central infrastructure. UIA will increase the utility of already-common small devices by providing them with a coherent connectivity architecture.Broader Impact: UIA makes personal devices first-class citizens in a global network, allowing convenient sharing of information with little configuration. The project involves graduate and undergraduate students in the research, and includes a course about programming UIA on small devices in order to involve a broad range of students.