CI-ADDO-NEW: PhantomNet: An End-to-End Mobile Network Testbed

移动的设备和支持它们的移动的网络的重要性怎么强调都不过分。尽管无线技术和移动的设备取得了惊人的进步，但当前的移动的网络架构虽然是基于分组的，但与它们的电路交换祖先极其相似。为了实现基础研究和创新，使网络技术超越最先进的水平，一种名为“移动网络”的新设施，将与犹他州大学的Emulab测试平台一起开发。EmultomNet将是一个完全可编程的端到端终端移动的测试平台，具有独特的功能，可促进移动的网络、云计算和软件定义网络交叉点的研究工作。EscatomNet将以一种目前根本不存在的方式，实现移动的网络技术的实践教学。此外，该设施将使前瞻性的研究，重新认识与移动的网络，软件定义的网络和云技术之间的相互作用所涉及的技术和经济因素。物理设施的可用性将有助于研究人员将新的移动的网络设计从理论转化为实践。鉴于世界上很大一部分人口已经是此类网络的用户，而且这一比例还在增长，这个基础设施所支持的研究将有可能产生真正的变革性影响。

The importance of mobile devices and the mobile networks that support themcan hardly be overemphasized. Despite fantastic advances in wirelesstechnologies and mobile devices, current mobile network architectures,while packet based, overwhelmingly resemble their circuit-switched forebears.To enable the fundamental research and innovation demanded to advancemobile networking beyond the state-of-the-art, a new facility called PhantomNet,will be developed and coupled with the Emulab testbed at the University of Utah.PhantomNet will be a fully programmable end-to-end mobile testbed withunique features to facilitate research efforts at the intersectionof mobile networking, cloud computing and software defined networking.PhantomNet will enable hands-on teaching in mobile networkingtechnology in a manner that simply does not exist today. Further,the facility will enable forward-thinking research that re-considersthe technical and economic factors involved with the interplaybetween mobile networks, software defined networks and cloud technologies.The availability of a physical facility will help researchers totransition new mobile network designs from theory into practice.Given that a large fraction of the world's population are alreadyusers of such networks, and that fraction is growing, the researchenabled by this infrastructure will have the potential to have trulytransformative impact.