Operations and Maintenance Support for Smart Applications and Virtual Infrastructure Testbed

该测试平台允许研究人员配置异构资源，以支持可以跨越多个层次的大规模实验，从单个电子板到城市中的多个边缘节点，甚至跨越北美的许多节点。在集成的管理系统下，测试床可以提供传统云计算资源（虚拟机，容器）以及虚拟化异构资源（FPGA，GPU，软件无线电模块，交换机，存储，接入点）的实验，并使用软件定义网络实现多千兆速度的网络互连。因此，研究人员可以访问这个非常大的共享资源池，并轻松配置大陆规模的实验。 该试验平台支持的研究将显示大规模信息和通信技术（ICT）如何为主要的社会经济问题（交通，空气质量，碳足迹，制造业）提供解决方案，同时为ICT增长中固有的根本挑战提供解决方案，即可扩展性，性能，能源效率和碳足迹。该研究为下一代通信提供了解决方案：无线5G网络的协作架构;视频信号的压缩和传输;无线通信的异构计算。该试验台将通过研究软件定义网络、网络功能虚拟化和虚拟资源管理，制定网络向软件控制过渡的战略;并研究增强硬件资源的虚拟化和可编程性，以提高数据中心以及物联网等其他云层次的能源效率和性能。该试验平台将导致方法，使大型分布式基础设施，以适应性地支持大规模的应用程序，因为需求在时间和空间上的变化。最后，该测试平台将使下一代应用程序能够利用这种多层云，例如，控制网络物理系统，如协作自动驾驶汽车，以及多式联运，智能电网和智能城市的管理系统。 申请人是一组杰出的加拿大研究人员，包括三名IEEE研究员和五名加拿大研究主席。测试平台对团队很重要。它使他们能够在引入新概念方面发挥领导作用，这些新概念可以通过实施得到证明。该团队的研究对加拿大ICT行业非常重要，包括服务提供商、设备供应商和系统集成商，他们已经通过赞助研究和雇用学生与该团队密切合作。该团队每年培训150名学生。该研究有助于加拿大创造就业机会，将其成果商业化，并提供交通、空气质量和碳足迹方面的解决方案。

This testbed allows researchers to configure heterogeneous resources in support of at-scale experiments that can span multiple tiers, from a single electronic board to multiple edge nodes in a city or even across its many nodes in North America. Under an integrated management system, the testbed can provide an experiment with conventional cloud computing resources (virtual machines, containers) as well as virtualized heterogeneous resources (FPGAs, GPUs, software radio modules, switches, storage, access points) and multi-gigabit speed network interconnectivity using software-defined networks. Researchers can thus access this very large pool of shared resources and configure continent-scale experiments with ease. The testbed supports research that will show how large-scale information and communications technology (ICT) can provide solutions to major socio-economic problems (transportation, air quality, carbon footprint, manufacturing) while at the same time offer solutions to fundamental challenges inherent in the growth of ICT, namely scalability, performance, energy efficiency, and carbon footprint. The research provides solutions to the next generation of communications: cooperative architectures for wireless 5G networks; compression and transmission of video signals; heterogeneous computing for wireless communications. The testbed will develop strategies for the transition of networks to software control through research in software-defined networks, network function virtualization, and management of virtual resources; and research to enhance the virtualization and programmability of hardware resources to improve energy efficiency and performance in datacenters as well in other tiers of the cloud such as the Internet of Things. The testbed will lead to methods to enable large distributed infrastructures to adaptively support large-scale applications as demand varies in time and space. Finally, the testbed will enable the next generation of applications that will leverage this multitier cloud, for example, control of cyber-physical systems such as collaborating autonomous vehicles, and management systems for multimodal transportation, smart grids, and smart cities. The applicants are a distinguished set of Canadian researchers including three Fellows of the IEEE and five Canada Research Chairs. The testbed is important to the team. It allows them to play a leadership role in introducing new concepts that can be proven through implementation. The team's research is important to the Canadian ICT industry, including service providers, equipment vendors, and system integrators, which already works closely with the team by sponsoring research as well as hiring students. The team trains 150 students per year. The research helps Canada create jobs to commercialize its outcomes and provides solutions in transportation, air quality, and carbon footprint.