MRI: Development of a Testbed for Overlay Network Research and Education

提案号：12-29553PI(s): Crowley, Patrick；特纳，乔纳森s机构：华盛顿大学职称：核磁共振/开发。提案：该项目旨在开发一种用于可控、高性能和实验性覆盖网络研究和教育的实验仪器，使研究人员能够对覆盖网络算法、协议（点对点、新型互联网架构）进行实验，并以安全的方式详细了解工作负载，包括来自路由器、交换机和服务器的成本。它建立在现有的互联网可访问社区资源——开放网络实验室（ONL, www.onl.wustl.edu）的基础上，增加了可配置和扩展的高性能组件，以支持广泛的可控和可重复的实验计算机网络项目。通过集成额外的交换机和服务器以及增加平台级服务器虚拟化，该仪器扩展了ONL的功能，将ONL中的可用物理资源扩展了两倍，并通过服务器虚拟化将有效虚拟资源扩展了大约八倍。支持的研究范围从未来的互联网架构、覆盖网络到点对点系统。更广泛的影响：提出的工具将极大地影响未来互联网的研究。该工具可能会对本科和研究生教育产生重大而广泛的影响，并有助于吸引更多的学生从事科学和工程职业，从而提高他们的参与度。

Proposal #: 12-29553PI(s): Crowley, Patrick; Turner, Jonathan SInstitution: Washington UniversityTitle: MRI/Dev.: A Testbed for Overlay Network Research and EducationProject Proposed:This project, developing an instrument for experiments used in a controllable, high-performance and experimental overlay network research and education, enables researchers to experiment with overlay network algorithms, protocols (peer-to-peer, novel Internet architectures) and understand workloads in great details including cost coming from routers, switches and servers in a safe manner. Building upon and leveraging an existing Internet-accessible community resource, the Open Network Lab (ONL, www.onl.wustl.edu), it adds high performance components that can be configured and extended to support a wide range of controlled and repeatable experimental computer networking projects. Through the integration of additional switches and servers and the addition of platform-level server virtualization, this instrument extends the function of ONL by expanding the available physical resources in ONL by a factor of two and, via server virtualization, expanding the effective virtual resources by a factor of approximately eight. The enabled research ranges from future Internet architectures, overlay networks, to peer-to-peer systems. Broader Impacts: The proposed instrument can greatly impact the research in future Internet. The instrument is likely to have significant broader impact on undergraduate and graduate education, as well as contribute in attracting more students to careers in science and engineering, thus increasing their participation.