NECO: P4P: Provider Portal for (P2P) Network Applications

新型网络应用，特别是点对点(P2P)应用，越来越多地集成到互联网内容分发基础设施中，这对实现互联网网络资源的高效和公平利用提出了重大的新挑战。特别是，由于这些网络应用在很大程度上与网络无关，因此可能会在网络效率、互联网经济性和应用性能方面造成严重问题。本项目的目标是开发一种称为P4P的新型轻量级框架，它提供标准的模块化接口，允许互联网网络提供商和网络应用联合优化各自的性能。P4P接口通过严格的数学推导进行设计，以在大规模、异质网络中实现可扩展性、可伸缩性和效率。这些界面不仅考虑了网络提供商的隐私，还考虑了终端用户的隐私。这些接口不仅考虑了传统的性能指标，而且还考虑了越来越重要的经济和商业政策。该项目在促进不同互联网网络层和实体之间的交互方面取得了进展，并提出了一项变革性的研究，使其他人能够有效地将网络应用集成到网络管理中。项目中设计的接口将以开放的、标准的语言指定。这些参考实现将广泛提供，以促进与互联网基础设施的整合。将成立一个P4P研究小组，以最大限度地扩大开放研究，并在网络运营商和应用程序开发商中广泛传播成果。

The increasing integration of novel network applications, in particular, peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, into the Internet content distribution infrastructure is posing significant new challenges to achieving efficient and fair utilization of Internet network resources. In particular, by largely network oblivious, these network applications can cause substantial problems on network efficiency, Internet economics, and application performance.The objective of this project is to develop a novel, light-weight framework called P4P that provides standard, modular interfaces to allow Internet network providers and network applications to jointly optimize their respective performance.The P4P interfaces are designed through rigorous mathematical derivations to achieve extensibility, scalability and efficiency in large-scale, heterogeneous networks. The interfaces consider not only network provider privacy but also end-user privacy. The interfaces take into consideration not only traditional performance metrics but also increasingly important economic and business policies.This project advances the state of the art in facilitating the interactions across different Internet network layers and entities, and presents a transformative research that enables others to effectively integrate network applications into network management.The interfaces designed in the project will be specified in an open, standard language. The reference implementations will be made available broadly to facilitate integration into the Internet infrastructure. A P4P research group will be formed to maximize open research and disseminate results widely among network operators and application developers.