EIN: Collaborative Proposal: Dynamic Resource Allocation via GMPLS Optical Networks (DRAGON)

EIN：协作提案：通过 GMPLS 光网络 (DRAGON) 进行动态资源分配

• 批准号: 0335230
• 负责人: Bijan Jabbari
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0335230&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EIN; Collaborative; Proposal; Dynamic; Resource

This purpose of the proposal is to create dynamic, deterministic, and manageable end-to-end network transport services for high-end e-Science applications. This service capability will build on the success and reach of the IP infrastructure, and will complement it with deterministic end-to-end multi-protocol services spanning multiple administrative domains and a variety of conventional campus network technologies. The project will create a Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching (GMPLS) capable optical core network. Optical transport and switching equipment acting as Label Switching Routers (LSRs) will provide deterministic network resources at the packet, wavelength, and fiber cross connect levels. The all-optical capabilities proposed for this core network will be based on connection and resource management mechanisms defined in GMPLS and will model many of the functions of an inter-regional, national, or even global wavelength based Research and Education (R&E) networks. Attached to the core infrastructure will be experimental campus networks carved out from collaborating institutional campus infrastructure. Network requirements will be driven by tight integration with application team members. An important part of the project will be the development of the necessary software components to address unresolved GMPLS-related issues as well as a host of practical end-to-end issues. The architecture describes a Network Aware Resource Broker (NARB) that will peer with Interior Gateway Protocol/Exterior Gateway Protocol (IGP/EGP) routing protocols to advertise inter-domain service capabilities, perform inter-domain path computation, resource allocation, scheduling, provisioning, proxy signaling services, and authorization/accounting for the requested network services. The architecture of the NARB function will integrate emerging advanced services from the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) program and Grid services, particularly for security and advanced scheduling. The project includes collaboration with specific e-Science applications support facilities that will be adapted to and directly benefit from the experimental infrastructure. The electronic-Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) project from MIT Haystack Observatory will utilize the experimental network to acquire and correlate radio-telescope data in real time as a pilot to demonstrate effective coordination of multiple remote instruments. USC/ISI East, University of Maryland Visualization and Presentation Lab, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will collaborate to use the resources as part of ongoing efforts to integrate streaming HDTV, Access Grid Nodes, and interactive remote 3D visualizations. The intellectual merit of this project includes greatly expanding the knowledge and technologies relating to intelligent management of dynamic optical transport networks. This will be necessary in order for the larger R&E community to realize maximum benefits from its current efforts to procure a national footprint of lambda and fiber resources. Broader impacts will be realized via the participation of regional universities that will directly enhance the research and education infrastructure and provide educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students as well as involve women and underrepresented minorities as interns in the activities.

该提案的目的是为高端电子科学应用程序创建动态、确定性和可管理的端到端网络传输服务。这种服务能力将建立在IP基础设施的成功和覆盖范围之上，并将通过跨越多个管理域的确定性端到端多协议服务和各种传统园区网络技术对其进行补充。该项目将创建一个支持通用多协议标签交换（GMPLS）的光纤核心网络。充当标签交换路由器 (LSR) 的光传输和交换设备将在数据包、波长和光纤交叉连接级别提供确定性网络资源。为该核心网络提出的全光功能将基于 GMPLS 中定义的连接和资源管理机制，并将对区域间、国家甚至全球基于波长的研究和教育 (R&E) 网络的许多功能进行建模。 附属于核心基础设施的实验性校园网络将由合作机构的校园基础设施打造而成。网络需求将由与应用程序团队成员的紧密集成来驱动。该项目的一个重要部分是开发必要的软件组件，以解决未解决的 GMPLS 相关问题以及许多实际的端到端问题。该架构描述了一个网络感知资源代理（NARB），它将与内部网关协议/外部网关协议（IGP/EGP）路由协议对等，以通告域间服务能力，执行域间路径计算、资源分配、调度、供应、代理信令服务以及对所请求的网络服务的授权/计费。 NARB 功能的架构将集成来自 NSF 中间件计划 (NMI) 计划的新兴高级服务和网格服务，特别是安全性和高级调度方面的服务。该项目包括与特定电子科学应用程序支持设施的合作，这些设施将适应实验基础设施并直接受益于实验基础设施。 麻省理工学院海斯塔克天文台的电子甚长基线干涉测量（e-VLBI）项目将利用实验网络实时获取和关联射电望远镜数据，作为试点，展示多个远程仪器的有效协调。 USC/ISI East、马里兰大学可视化和演示实验室以及 NASA 戈达德太空飞行中心将合作使用这些资源，作为集成流式高清电视、访问网格节点和交互式远程 3D 可视化持续努力的一部分。 该项目的智力优势包括极大地扩展了与动态光传输网络智能管理相关的知识和技术。为了让更大的 R&E 社区从目前采购全国范围内的 lambda 和光纤资源的努力中获得最大利益，这是必要的。 通过地区大学的参与将实现更广泛的影响，这些大学将直接加强研究和教育基础设施，为本科生和研究生提供教育机会，并让妇女和代表性不足的少数族裔作为实习生参与活动。