SGER: Exploratory Research on End-User Opt-In and Broadening Research Engagement

SGER：关于最终用户选择加入和扩大研究参与的探索性研究

• 批准号: 0820944
• 负责人: Brig 'Chip' Elliott
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-02-15 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0820944&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Exploratory; Research; End; User

In this SGER, BBN is proposing to engage in preliminary work on two untested and novel ideas. The first idea focuses on the challenge of how to generate and support realistic traffic flow on experimental, network infrastructure. Other network infrastructure typically relies on artificial traffic generation methods or user communities that are composed of the experimenters themselves. But, in order to provide experimenters with real traffic at scale, novel approaches and mechanisms need to be developed. If such mechanisms can be developed and real traffic is carried on the infrastructure, many hard problems remain. For example, how many and what types of opt-in mechanisms are actually needed? Will the infrastructure have enough ?user pull? (e.g., applications, capabilities, etc.) to attract users? What kind of guarantees can be given to the users ? in terms of privacy, reliability, security, etc? These questions can not currently be answered as new interdisciplinary knowledge needs to be generated. This SGER will allow for the development of a series of white papers on this topic, including 1) strategies to encourage opt-in, 2) applications that could drive user opt-in, 3) legal, ethical, privacy and security implications of user opt-in, 4) prospective user communities and methods for accessing them, and 5) the potential benefits of user opt-in for the commercial sector. The authors of these papers will meet at the Engineering Conferences to discuss and share their findings and how they might be implemented in an experimental network infrastructure.The second novel idea revolves around broadening research engagement and interest in network infrastructure. It is essential that the widest range of scientists and engineers with research interests beyond networking and distributed systems be allowed to carry out their own experiments on novel, network infrastructure. Other disciplines that might be interested include the social sciences, economics, business, law, medicine, and alternative energy, for example. Such a broad purview helps to ensure that new network infrastructure will widely influence research and education. But it is essential that their requirements for experimental workflow, data access and measurement, for example, be generated now so that they can influence infrastructure design. If those requirements are not known early, some areas of science may be locked out from use of the infrastructure. It is critical that experts be engaged now to generate those requirements. This SGER will help to generate infrastructure requirements for network researchers in the social sciences, law, economics, and other disciplines interested in network science and engineering, which will allow for new network infrastructure to have the broadest possible impacts.

在这个SGER中，BBN提议就两个未经测试和新颖的想法进行初步工作。第一个想法的重点是如何在实验网络基础架构上生成和支持现实的流量流量的挑战。其他网络基础架构通常依赖于由实验者本身组成的人工流量生成方法或用户社区。但是，为了为实验者提供大规模的实际流量，需要开发新的方法和机制。如果可以开发此类机制并在基础设施上进行实际流量，则仍然存在许多严重问题。例如，实际需要多少种和哪种类型的选择机制？基础架构是否足够？ （例如，应用程序，功能等）吸引用户？可以给用户提供什么样的保证？在隐私，可靠性，安全性等方面？由于需要生成新的跨学科知识，因此目前无法回答这些问题。该SGER将允许开发有关该主题的一系列白皮书，包括1）鼓励选择加入的策略，2）可以推动用户选择加入的应用程序，3）3）法律，道德，隐私和安全含义，用户选择加入，4）预期用户社区和访问它们的方法，5）5）用户对商业部门的潜在收益。这些论文的作者将在工程会议上开会，以讨论和分享他们的发现以及如何在实验网络基础架构中实施它们。第二个新颖的想法围绕着扩大研究参与和对网络基础架构的兴趣的影响。至关重要的是，除了网络和分布式系统以外，具有研究兴趣的最广泛的科学家和工程师必须在新颖的网络基础架构上进行自己的实验。例如，其他可能感兴趣的学科包括社会科学，经济学，商业，法律，医学和替代能源。如此广泛的权限有助于确保新的网络基础架构将广泛影响研究和教育。但是，现在必须生成他们对实验工作流，数据访问和测量的要求，以便它们可以影响基础架构设计。如果这些要求早期不知道，那么一些科学领域可能会被锁定在基础设施的使用中。现在，专家现在要聘请专家来产生这些要求，这一点至关重要。该SGER将有助于为社会科学，法律，经济学和对网络科学和工程感兴趣的其他学科中的网络研究人员产生基础架构要求，这将使新的网络基础架构具有最大的可能影响。