CAREER: An Economically Sustainable Internet: From Technology and Architecture to Contracting Models

职业：经济上可持续的互联网：从技术和架构到承包模式

• 批准号: 0644114
• 负责人: Ramesh Johari
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0644114&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Economically; Sustainable; Internet; Technology

Recent headlines about ``network neutrality'' speak to the deep uncertainty about the future regulatory infrastructure (if any) that should govern the Internet. Perhaps most surprising about this policy debate is that it has not been informed by technical considerations: i.e., the technology and architecture of the Internet. This CAREER project closes this gap, by ensuring that robust architectural design and economic sustainability are viewed as complementary features of a successful communications infrastructure. We study the influence of technology and architecture on contracting models for the Internet, to determine those which will lead to an economically sustainable network. Two high-level questions drive the majority of the research agenda: (1) What contracting models are "incentive compatible", i.e., align individual incentives with global network sustainability? (2) What contracting models ensure the network eventually converges "dynamically" to a sustainable operating point? We use these questions as the backdrop to first evaluate the shortcomings of the current Internet contracting system. We then evaluate how a sequence of technological or architectural changes enable more sophisticated contracting models, ultimately suggesting a "contracting protocol" that enables value transmission over multiple timescales between nodes of the Internet. A broad-based education and public outreach program complements the research endeavors.Broader Impacts:This project educates a new generation of leaders and the public at large about the role that technology and architecture play in the economic structure of the Internet. Successful completion of the project ensures that this coupling is a central theme in the national policy debate about the future of the Internet.

最近关于``网络中立性''的头条新闻说明了对未来的监管基础设施（如果有的话）的深刻不确定性。 这场政策辩论也许最令人惊讶的是，它没有以技术考虑因素告知：即互联网的技术和体系结构。 该职业项目通过确保强大的建筑设计和经济可持续性被视为成功通信基础设施的互补特征，从而缩小了这一差距。 我们研究技术和建筑对互联网合同模型的影响，以确定将导致经济可持续网络的影响。 两个高级问题推动了研究议程的大部分：（1）哪些合同模型是“激励兼容”，即使个人激励措施与全球网络可持续性保持一致？ （2）哪些合同模型确保网络最终将“动态”收敛到可持续工作点？ 我们将这些问题作为背景，首先评估当前互联网合同系统的缺点。 然后，我们评估一系列技术或架构变化如何实现更复杂的合同模型，最终提出了一种“承包协议”，该协议能够在Internet节点之间的多个时间尺度上进行价值传输。 一项基于广泛的教育和公共外展计划对研究的努力进行了补充。Broader的影响：该项目向新一代的领导者和公众提供了有关技术和建筑在互联网经济结构中所扮演的作用。 成功完成该项目可确保这种耦合是关于互联网未来的国家政策辩论中的一个核心主题。