NEDG: Application Oriented Edge Routers

这个项目重新审视边缘路由器的作用，并开发新的架构，导致面向应用的边缘路由器的设计。路由器高度？聪明？并通过将分组移动到应用层来提供高级网络服务。这种应用（服务）的示例是安全和用户保护、定价、负载平衡、多媒体、对等（P2P）和VoIP。应用程序感知处理。 开发了多线程算法和多核调度技术，以便在保持应用程序的QoS要求的同时增加吞吐量并减少延迟。通过网络处理器实现。还探讨了通过可编程网络处理器（NP）的应用程序处理。新的NP划分，处理器分配和调度方案的开发，以满足各种服务的要求。服务分类。基于签名的数据包分类技术被扩展到区分所需的服务的基础上传入的流量。更广泛的影响： a.产业影响和技术转移：思科和英特尔的现有项目与项目具有互补效应和协同互动。 B.国际合作：刘斌教授的积极参与为UCR和清华大学带来了长期的合作。 C.教育影响：广泛传播基准应用和项目成果。该项目还产生高质量的博士学位。毕业生和涉及UCR的本科生。 D.少数民族拓展计划：30-40%的UCR本科生是少数民族学生。因此，该项目对难民署的外联活动产生了更大的直接影响。

This project revisits the role of the edge router, and develops novel architectures that lead to the design of an Application Oriented Edge Router. The router is highly ?intelligent? and provides advanced network services by moving packets to the application layer. Examples of such applications (services) are security and user protection, pricing, load balancing, multimedia, peer-to-peer (P2P) and VoIP.Novelty and Technical Merit: a. Application aware processing. Multithread algorithms and multi-core scheduling techniques are developed so as to increase throughput and reduce latency while preserving the QoS requirement of an application.b. Implementing through network processors. Application processing through programmable network processors (NPs) is also explored. New NP partitioning, processor allocation and scheduling schemes are developed to meet the requirements of various services.c. Service classification. The signature based packet classification techniques are extended to differentiate the incoming traffic based on required services. Broader impact: a. Industrial impact and technology transfer: The current projects from Cisco and Intel have complimentary effect and synergistic interaction with project. b. International collaboration: The active participation of Prof. Bin Liu in the project brings in long-term collaboration between UCR and Tsinghua University. c. Educational impact: Benchmark applications and results from the project are widely disseminated. The project also produces high quality Ph.D. graduates and involves Undergraduate students at UCR. d. Minority outreach plan: 30-40% of the UCR undergraduate body is minority students. As a result, this project has an amplified and direct impact on the outreach activities at UCR.