NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: The Flexible Internetwork Stack (FINS) Framework

NeTS：小型：协作研究：灵活的互联网堆栈 (FINS) 框架

• 批准号: 0916283
• 负责人: Michael Thompson
• 金额: $ 15.05万
• 依托单位: Bucknell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0916283&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Small; Collaborative; Research; Flexible

Modern networks invalidate many of the assumptions of traditional networking. For example, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) invalidate the assumption that there will be stable routes in the network, throwing traditional routing techniques into disarray. Handheld computing devices further challenge assumptions about platform mobility. While the need for cross-layer design to meet these new challenges has become well known, no replacement for the traditional network stack has emerged yet. Implementing experimental cross-layer approaches on commodity hardware and software remains challenging. In this project we are building a framework for modular, extensible, experimental, network stack implementation, called the FINS (Flexible Internetwork Stack) Framework. The framework allows users to leverage existing protocols (such as TCP and IP) where needed, providing implementations that provide more real-time control and transparency than is available in existing implementations, while allowing users to replace or modify components as desired. Thus, the FINS Framework allows researchers ready access to the network stack in a manner previously possible only in simulation or by making painstaking operating system modifications. The FINS Framework facilitates ready implementation of new network technologies and context-aware applications thereby lowering the bar for participation in experimental networking research. The initial implementation of the framework is on handheld devices. The framework is being released via open source license, making it broadly available to the research community. A set of hands-on networking course modules utilizing the FINS Framework and handheld devices is being developed, and utilized for undergraduate research at a predominantly undergraduate institution.

现代网络使传统网络的许多假设无效。例如，移动临时网络（MANETS）使网络中会有稳定路线的假设无效，将传统的路由技术置于混乱中。手持计算设备进一步挑战了平台移动性的假设。尽管需要跨层设计来应对这些新挑战的需求已众所周知，但尚未替代传统网络堆栈。实施商品硬件和软件的实验跨层方法仍然具有挑战性。在这个项目中，我们正在为模块化，可扩展，实验性，网络堆栈实现建立一个框架，称为FINS（灵活的Internet Workwork堆栈）框架。该框架允许用户在需要的情况下利用现有协议（例如TCP和IP），提供与现有实现相比提供更多实时控制和透明度的实现，同时允许用户根据需要替换或修改组件。因此，FINS框架允许研究人员以先前仅在模拟或进行艰苦的操作系统修改方面可能以一种可能的方式访问网络堆栈。 FINS框架促进了现成的新网络技术和上下文感知应用程序的实施，从而降低了参与实验网络研究的标准。该框架的初始实现是在手持设备上。该框架是通过开源许可发布的，使研究界广泛使用。正在开发利用FINS框架和手持设备的一系列动手网络课程模块，并在主要的本科机构中用于本科研究。