NeTS: Small: The Design and Use of a Network Operating System

NeTS：小型：网络操作系统的设计和使用

• 批准号: 1015459
• 负责人: Scott Shenker
• 金额: $ 46万
• 依托单位: International Computer Science Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1015459&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NeTS; Small; Design; Use; Network

Despite all the progress made in other areas of networking over the past few decades, the management of production networks has remained primitive. However, over the past five years a radically new approach to network management has emerged. This new approach uses a ?network operating system? to hide all the complexity of networking details from management applications while providing powerful primitives for programmatically observing and controlling the network. This project is focusing on three main areas of investigation: Building a next-generation network operating system: sophisticated management requires a network operating system that is scalable, reliable, and secure while also providing network operators with the appropriate set of primitives for controlling their networks; Applying this network operating system to a wide variety of contexts and requirements: a network operating system should support management in enterprise networks, home networks, wide-area networks, and datacenter networks, and should address issues ranging from access control to traffic engineering; Leveraging this approach to gain deeper understanding of networks: network operating systems should support higher-level abstractions ? such as policy languages, event reconstructions, and logical networks ? that allow operators to focus on management goals not implementation details. Addressing these topics will enable the deployment of more secure, reliable, cost-effective, and scalable networks. Moreover, the software from this project will be open-sourced, allowing these benefits to be realized by all.

尽管过去几十年在网络的其他领域取得了所有进展，但生产网络的管理仍然很原始。然而，在过去五年中，出现了一种全新的网络管理方法。这种新方法使用“网络操作系统”对管理应用程序隐藏网络细节的所有复杂性，同时提供强大的原语以编程方式观察和控制网络。该项目重点关注三个主要研究领域： 构建下一代网络操作系统：复杂的管理需要可扩展、可靠且安全的网络操作系统，同时还为网络运营商提供适当的原语集来控制其网络;将此网络操作系统应用于各种环境和需求：网络操作系统应支持企业网络、家庭网络、广域网和数据中心网络的管理，并应解决从访问控制到流量工程的各种问题；利用这种方法来更深入地了解网络：网络操作系统应该支持更高级别的抽象？例如政策语言、事件重建和逻辑网络？使运营商能够专注于管理目标而不是实施细节。解决这些主题将有助于部署更安全、可靠、更具成本效益和可扩展的网络。此外，该项目的软件将开源，让所有人都能实现这些好处。