CNS-NeTS:Medium: A Recursive Internet Architecture

CNS-NeTS:Medium：递归互联网架构

• 批准号: 0963974
• 负责人: Abraham Matta
• 金额: $ 55.94万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963974&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CNS; NeTS; Medium; Recursive; Internet

The current Internet architecture is built around layers of different functions, where the Network Layer provides a technology-independent abstraction on top of a large set of autonomous, heterogeneous networks. The Internet Protocol (IP) is one mechanism for achieving such an abstraction. By making the choice for a rudimentary "best-effort" service, the Internet has not been able to effectively respond to new requirements (security, manageability, wireless, mobility, and so forth.) The rigid structure of the current IP model has led to numerous ad hoc solutions that are either inefficient or incomplete.This project is aimed at developing a clean-slate Recursive Internet Architecture(RINA) that is based on the fundamental principle that networking is inter-process communication (IPC). In this model, application processes(APes) communicate via a distributed IPC facility. The IPC processes that make up this facility provide a protocol that implements an IPC mechanism, and a protocol for managing distributed IPC (routing, security and other management tasks). RINA views each IPC facility as a "private" network, thus it offers intrinsic security features. And it is recursive in that the IPC processes can themselves be APes requesting services from lower IPC facilities. This project will design and develop the repeating structures of RINA, along with various policies seen useful in support of security, multihoming, mobility, and manageability. The developed IPC mechanisms build upon recursive naming and addressing of IPC processes, separation of mechanism and policy, and isolating data transfer, control and management. The developed prototype will be tested on small and larger-scale testbeds.

当前的互联网架构是围绕不同功能层构建的，其中网络层在大量自治、异构网络之上提供了独立于技术的抽象。互联网协议（IP）是实现这种抽象的一种机制。通过选择基本的“尽力而为”服务，互联网无法有效地响应新的需求（安全性、可管理性、无线、移动性等）。当前IP模型的僵化结构导致了该项目旨在开发一种全新的递归互联网架构 (RINA)，该架构基于网络是进程间通信 (IPC) 的基本原则。在此模型中，应用程序进程 (AP) 通过分布式 IPC 设施进行通信。组成该设施的 IPC 进程提供了一个实现 IPC 机制的协议，以及一个用于管理分布式 IPC（路由、安全和其他管理任务）的协议。 RINA 将每个 IPC 设施视为“专用”网络，因此它提供了固有的安全功能。它是递归的，因为 IPC 进程本身可以是从较低 IPC 设施请求服务的 AP。该项目将设计和开发 RINA 的重复结构，以及有助于支持安全性、多宿主、移动性和可管理性的各种策略。开发的IPC机制建立在IPC进程的递归命名和寻址、机制和策略的分离以及隔离数据传输、控制和管理的基础上。开发的原型将在小型和大型试验台上进行测试。