NeTS: Large: Collaborative Research: HyperFlow - A Hybrid IP/Optical Flow Network Architecture

该项目将创建并实验展示一种新型光网络架构“HyperFlow”的关键特性，这是一种混合未来互联网架构，包括硬件和算法的关键设计。该网络被设计为动态的（既灵活又自适应），并且在数据量和用户数量的未来增长方面具有显著的成本效益和能源效率。该体系结构依赖于一种新的光网络基础设施，包括新的传输机制和一种新的综合控制机制，包括物理硬件、算法和应用程序。在交换大量数据的地点之间——比如洛杉矶和纽约？HyperFlow的流量交换机制将在网络中建立一条专用路径。带宽的分配会不断变化。随着纽约和洛杉矶之间交通量的增加，新的专用波长将被招募来处理它；随着交通的减少，波长将被放弃。目标是开发能够在几分秒内执行新会话分配的网络管理协议。HyperFlow可以轻松地将光网络的数据速率提高100倍，该方案将解决新的网络管理方案，并相应降低每比特成本和功耗。智力优势：HyperFlow创建了一个完整的混合流/IP网络架构，跨越本地到广域，共享相同的统一控制平面。该网络既提供有保证的端到端多gbps流量服务，也提供传统的互联网分组服务，整个网络一直到个人用户。为了实现这一目标，HyperFlow采用了新颖的接入和长途核心网络技术，旨在支持端到端流量以及传统的IP网络服务。这种方法通过使用统一的控制平面提供端到端的两种服务，实现了对以前方法的突破。HyperFlow包括基于高效、敏捷和控制共享可调激光器和无源光学器件池、快速MAC、分区路由策略和流的新传输协议的主要创新。更广泛的影响:如果成功，HyperFlow技术将对未来互联网的设计和社会感知方式产生深远的影响，因为新的按需经济高效的千兆服务将使目前现有宽带接入难以支持或成本高昂的应用程序成为可能，例如即时可用的3D分布式虚拟现实系统、云计算和即时文件传输服务，包括远程医疗、教育、3D电影、音乐会、体育赛事。还有政府服务。新hyperlow开发的概念将在项目期间引入IETF/IRTF等行业论坛，以便利用行业中最优秀的人才来进行概念验证。

This project will create and demonstrate experimentally key features of a new optical network architecture, 'HyperFlow' which is a hybrid future Internet architecture that include key designs for both hardware and algorithms. The network is designed to be dynamic (both agile and adaptive), and significantly more cost effective and power efficient for future growth in data volumes and number of users. The architecture relies on a novel optical network infrastructure comprising new transport mechanisms and a new comprehensive control mechanism including the physical hardware, algorithms and applications. Between locations that exchange large volumes of data - say, Los Angeles and New York City ? the flow switching mechanism of HyperFlow would establish a dedicated path across the network. The allotment of bandwidth would change constantly. As traffic between New York and Los Angeles increased, new, dedicated wavelengths would be recruited to handle it; as the traffic tailed off, the wavelengths would be relinquished. The goal is to develop network management protocols that can perform new session allocations in a matter of sub-seconds. HyperFlow can easily increase the data rates of optical networks 100-fold with the new network management scheme to be addressed in this program, with corresponding decrease in cost per bit and power consumption as well.Intellectual Merit: HyperFlow creates a complete hybrid flow/IP network architecture spanning local to wide areas, sharing the same unified control plane. The network provides both guaranteed end-to-end multi-Gbps flow service and conventional Internet Packet services throughout the network down to individual users. To achieve that goal, HyperFlow includes novel access and long haul core network technologies designed to support end-to-end flows as well as conventional IP network services. This approach achieves a breakthrough with respect to previous approaches by providing both services end-to-end with a unified control plane. HyperFlow includes major innovations based on highly efficient, agile and control of pools of shared tunable lasers and passive optical devices, a fast MAC, partitioned routing strategy and a new transport protocol for flows. Broader impact: If successful the proposed HyperFlow technology will have a profound influence on the way the future Internet is designed and perceived by the society, as the new on-demand cost-effective gigabit service will enable applications that are hard or costly to support today with existing broadband access, such as instantly-available 3D distributed virtual-reality systems, cloud computing and instant file transfer services including telemedicine, education, 3D movies, concerts, sporting events, and government services. The concept of the new Hyperflow development will be brought into industry forums such as IETF/IRTF during the project, so that the best minds of the industry can be leveraged for conceptual validation.